Yesterday in the Arena I started attacking a Gladiator that appeared to be unoccupied. The attack starts normally, then suddenly I see a message that I must be grouped with \'Wengull\', but, I don\'t see anybody around, nor do I see the Gladiator doing anything. No messages in the chat window saying it\'s being attacked or somebody else started an attack. The whole time I don\'t see anyone else there.
So I try again and the Gladiator is dead, again no messages in the chat window indicating this. Now when the Gladiator re-spawns I try again, same sequence as above. I try sending Wengull a tell but it gives me the \'no such player\' type message. I try local chat but get no response. Next re-spawn I try again, all the same except I see an emote in the chat window saying \"Wengull frowns\". At this point I was thinking maybe a bored GM was having some fun or something and decided to move on.
I move to another Gladiator in the same hall and after killing it a few times I notice Wengull training on the other Gladiator. I\'m guessing s/he was there the whole time, though maybe the server weirdness made it such I couldn\'t see Wengull before. About this time the Gladiator I\'m training on disappears right after I start an attack. I decide that maybe it\'s a good idea to get away but only get a few steps and then a message saying I\'m dead (no being attacked messages or a death message in the chat window). From DR I still couldn\'t send a tell to Wengull so obviously something wacky was going on. The issue never re-appeared, as far as I know anyway, so not sure if this was a client or server or both type issue.
So anyway my apologies to Wengull, I had no intentions of being unfriendly. Hope you understand. :] :]
Nibor Dawolffe
