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** In the beta for ''[[Ultima Online]]'', Lord British came onto the server himself to talk to players about a recent crash. Unbeknown to him, the crash had turned off his "Invincible" tag. Some player spontaneously decided to cast a fire spell on him as a joke. So spontaneously, in fact, that he had to steal the scroll from someone watching the speech. He wound up assassinating Lord British in full view of everyone. Note that the guy that did this had ''no clue'' that LB had lost his invulnerability.

*** As bizarre as it may sound for what would now be considered a simple act of PVP on a dev who didn't realize his power was turned off, at the time this was a BIG HUGE DEAL. There were articles about this event in mainstream PC gamer magazines, interviews with the perp in question ('Aquaman') and more - it turned into a huge debate over PK-ing, the act of 'Player Killing', whether or not it was fair and what could be done about it. The article in PC Gamer magazine itself treated PKing as a threat to the average gamer and something that could turn people away from this relatively new genre of game. Re-reading these old articles is exactly as quaint as you'd imagine, proto-MMO'ers 'discussing' (read: arguing bitterly over) what could be done about what would eventually become one of the largest draws to the MMO market, PVP.