1990s Dungeons & Dragons Geeks Become Real-Life Rivals Due to a Girl, Then Nerdiest Yet Most Devastating Revenge Ensues

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 21, 2023 8:00 PM EST

Have you heard that revenge is best served cold? What does that even mean?… According to these nerds from the late '90s, it would appear revenge is best served through imaginary scorched earth and complete genocide of an entire planet of people. IMAGINARY, yet utterly devastating. 

Some geeky Dungeons and Dragons gamers in the late 90s got into a rivalry due to a girl. You're probably thinking, "okay, this sounds dumb. Who cares about a bunch of nerds?" LISTEN. This story is epic even if you don't know one thing about D&D, because the revenge also gets taken into IRL. It's pretty brutal. Skipping over all the D&D jargon, the Redditor posted that his rival ruined his character in the game because he and girl that the rival liked were talking. So, as revenge in the game, he didn't only ruin his rival's character, he completely erased him and everything he added to the story. The IRL revenge is so harsh, you'll just have to read it to believe it. 

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    Nerdieset real-life rivalry ensues...
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    Posted by u/MillerT4373 16 hours ago Gamer Geek Jealousy Leads To Epic, Brutal Revenge Gamer Geek Jealousy Leads To Epic, Brutal Revenge
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    I used to be in a gaming group (traditional: books, dice, & miniatures) with a guy we'll call Stench, because no matter how many showers he took, he STUNK! Anyway, Stench was a serious geek, and Catholic, which made his gaming way problematic for him (he was in his 20s, a virgin, living with his parents, completely under their control.) He also had several small circles of friends (99% online) which were absolutely NEVER allowed to intersect.
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    Well, I stopped by one day to borrow a book. He was on the phone with a girl from one of those other groups. She heard me, liked my voice, and browbeat him into giving me the phone. We hit it off, talking frequently,
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    then every night, eventually doing over the phone roleplay (not even close to sexual). As things usually happen, she "slipped" and told Stench what we'd been doing. He lost his She informed me that he had contacted our weekly game master (my then-best friend) who approved that anything Stench did was canon (official) in our weekly game. This meant that any retribution I chose to inflict was also canon, in game.
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    He did this KNOWING full well what a vindictive, very imaginative, complete sonofabitch I am. Oh. . (Our DM was a malicious :) Stench had cursed the character I was using, one I'd been using for a long time, whom I'd put a LOT of work into, with some utterly disgusting and horrific diseases, utterly incurable.
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    So, I contacted a very old friend, and "hired" his character that he'd been running since the late '70s (this was '97-ish) to do a hit job. See, Stench would ONLY play a special race of Lawful Good winged elves called Avareals. In our campaign universe, he had protected them by having them develop on their own world, which was then deposited into a pocket dimension which only Avareals could access. The plan played
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    out thus: My hired Elven Wizard has a Spelljammer ship. He uses a Time Travel spell to go back to the dawn of the Avareal race, before they crawled out of the muck. Before their planet was in its pocket dimension. He takes the ship in very close to the system's primary (ie, their sun) and cast a compound spell (Enlarge, Haste, Age To Destruction; aka, Supernova) on the Star, then time travel reversed back to when he'd left.
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    I then called up the lady and told her what I'd done, with a message to pass along to Stench: "I wiped out the Avareals so completely, not even their gods are around to mourn their passing." He called me up the next day, screaming and crying, saying he was going to come to my house,
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    kick the door down, and burn it down. I reminded him that he's seen me shoot (I'm ex-Army Infantry), and that I thought Catholics frowned on suicide, then I hung up. I called up our DM, told him what I'd done (he was even impressed with my brutality), and verified that it was canon. It was. This deleted not only Stench's characters, but EVERY ACTION THEY'D EVER COMMITTED! Let's just say
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    several favorite characters who died due to Stench's blunders came back, among other effects. He was also forbidden to use that race ever again, as they were wiped from existence, and only my character remembered them, and there was no way I was going to wish them back into existence! Stench rage quit the group and never spoke to any of us ever again.
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    Unfortunately, his buddy in another state, who was supposed to be reloading my rifle ammo, instead sold my brass, so, as revenge for THAT, I took some gay. VHS tapes my mom's then-BF had salvaged from his job as maintenance at and apartment complex, boxed them up with a
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    bow, drove down to where Stench's buddy lived, and mailed the box to Stench, c/o his hyper-Catholic parents, with a note that said "We had a little tiff and broke up, so I thought Stench would want these back". Yes, I'm an
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    huffuspuffus 16 hr. ago I don't even understand half of what happened with the game but good for you!
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    MillerT4373 OP. 16 hr. ago Please, let me know what I can enlighten you about. 31 huffuspuffus 16 hr. ago Reply Share No thanks lol. I get enough to understand you got revenge!
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    50 Casmas 11 hr. ago I think the phrase f around and find out applied to his actions and threats.
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    Now Champi_Feuille · 16 hr. ago You know you're a freakin nerd when you understood everything Imao. Slow clap for what you did. That was brutal. I'm impressed and scared at the same time lol.
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    MillerT4373 OP. 13 hr. ago What's a little preemptive genocide among former friends? LOL 16 Reply Share Some_Anxiety. 2 hr. ago That has to be the pettiest, most bad, ruthless revenge I've ever read here. slow claps
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    MjolnirsBrokenHandle 14 hr. ago So what happened with the girl? 8 Reply Share MillerT4373 OP. 14 hr. ago I lost touch with her. A perfect storm of BS in my life led to me moving, losing my contacts notebook, and the computer getting fried by a ball lightning strike (it took out 2 TVs, 3 cordless phones, and the microwave too.) I've been trying to find her again.
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    No luck. I'm not going across country to look for her either. This was close to 30 years ago. She's most likely married with kids now.
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