User blog comment:Trainsparency/2019 Spook and Sinister Hunting Thread/@comment-29825446-20191018020454


 * sigh* Ok...



Take a good long look at that spookling. It seems perfectly normal, and it should've been an easy one to take home. It was literally in the first server I joined today. I did eventually get it home, but it turned out to be one of the most intense experiences of my entire LT2 career.

I reloaded my base to get off my trailer and started babysitting it. Then I told my friend I'd found my 4th spook of the year. She joined about 10 minutes later.

She wanted to see the spook, so I told her it was in the tropics. She had to wait for the boat, and wanted to know how much time was left, so I went to the boat to check. And apparently there was no time left at all. I had glitched the boat and it was now stuck in the tropics, as well as me and the spook.

About 20 minutes later, she showed up at the tropics after using the log glitch to get across the land bridge. We admired the spook for a while, and then a person by the name of imacutebabychubby123 showed up. Nothing suspicious happened at first, but after I told him where the spook was and how I'd glitched the ferry, he seemed to think he could reach the tropics with no log glitch. He showed up, claiming to have done the trailer glitch... but there was no trailer. And I hadn't seen him reload.

My friend went to get some blue wood to put around the spook. She got to the cavern... and said there was no blue wood to be found other than a laughably tiny sapling. imacutebabychubby123 admitted to hacking the blue trees over to the Main Biome, though he tried to cover it up by saying he glitched them. We started interrogating him and he started getting mad. Eventually, I felt threatened enough that I decided it was time to take down the spook and head home.



Since the ferry was glitched, I had to shove the entire spook through the safari hole to get it home. It was too dark in the maze to see anything, so I had a few close calls with falling into the hole myself, but I got the whole tree through while imacutebabychubby123 decided he'd use his hacks to regrow the spook tree from the dead stump I'd left behind.

All this time, I had no idea if my stuff had been flung- hackers have been known to do such things recently. Being trapped in a server with a hacker for half an hour really makes you nervous, especially if you've got as much spook built up over the years as I do. I blacklisted everyone, but I've heard that doesn't do anything.

The remnants of the spook were all returned safely to my base at the end. Still, that was the most intense 2 hours of my life.