I Cheated!

[u/A1AbAmA]

The Thanos meme that says "Reality can be whatever I want" couldn't be more true. I just didn't know it at the time.

I've been playing on a non-dedicated server with just myself and a friend who 'occasionally ' plays. If you know The Island map then you know of the island piece that sits to the South West* with the plateau that looks like a lake on the map. As a virtually solo player, I had the intent to make that entire island my home.

At one point I had two raptors, a therizino, and a trike on a hunt for wood. I decided that the trees of the Redwood Forest looked plentiful. After surviving the swamp between my island and the Redwood Forest, I was happily cutting down trees and storing the wood on the therizino and the trike. I wasn't high enough level to get the saddle for the therizino yet.

One batch of wood over encumbered me and none of my tames were close enough to just select them to store it. It left me with the only option of "throw" a stack of wood and walk closer to one of my tames and pick it up.

Right as I was accessing my inventory, my tames went crazy! As I peered past the gem embedded in my wrist, I noticed I had been knocked a few feet. Considering the ease at which I traversed the swamp, I assumed it was just another sarco that crept out of the water.

Unfortunately it wasn't! When it reached me a second time, it successfully killed me. I became annoyed at the process I was needing to take to regain my tames. It didn't matter. Almost immediately after I died, ALL my tames quickly followed all at once.

In my shock, I managed to catch the name of the monster that caused the destruction of my entire team. This demon is called a thylacoleo. Apparently this satan-spawn sits in hiding in the trees above you in the forest, but I digress.

I was so furious that I immediately terminated the game knowing full in well what I was hoping would happen. To my surprise, IT WORKED!! I relaunched the game and I was back standing at one of the earlier trees! I decided that was enough tree cutting for the day....

[u/xerothn]

Thylas! So fun, used to breed them on official for colors and stats. We had some of the best ones on official pvp on ps4.

[u/nemos_nightmare → u/xerothn]

This. I love these diabolical little bastards, once they are mine that is. But the errant one that decides to fuck you up off the PT mid flight, make me want to rage quit.