Extraordinary Gaming Moments

My housemate is an avid player of the MMORPG World of Warcraft, a fee paying dungeons and dragons style game with a massive amount of players. Recently a friend of his who also plays advised him to login to the game: something strange was happening...
A well respected character who had been playing for a long time and was something of a celebrity, named 'Buffed,' had leapt from the tower in the center of town and landed splat in the middle of town. It was not however, the character's normal user. It was his best friend, who had got the password to the man's character from the man's wife, and come on to tell the World of Warcraft community that the man behind the character had actually died. The friend had chosen to tell the community by killing his friends character in a spectacle of suicide. Around the body of 'buffed' a number of players gathered, sharing stories of escapades with 'buffed,' such as hunting goblins in the forrest. It was, in a way, a real virtual funeral, and I would argue that in many ways this was a very real experience. Certainly it is interesting to wonder what the man's friend felt as he leapt from the tower in his friends avatar. Two worlds are merging... (see Sammyjo's virtual mortality post).