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- WildHare alleged Moon Rabbits was taken and sold to sin
WildHare accused arachnophobia of taking Moon Rabbits through faction mechanics. The account followed the raid, two buyers and the forum's doubts that the affair needed two threads.
Nov–Dec 2020 · Faction drama
- An RMT call-out that pointed back at its opener
An April 2020 call-out asked for punishment over alleged RMT. Commenters replied that the opener appeared to be offering real money or encouraging a rules breach.
Apr 2020 · Cheaters
- celexace accused Muaz of a cancelled trade and mugging
celexace alleged that Muaz cancelled a stock trade and mugged close to 35mill. The replies brought precautions, abuse and a claim that bounties had been placed.
Aug 2020 · Muggings
- A “heyy” pitch for Samdalion's login details
Samdalion posted an exchange in which an account claimed to be a faction leader and requested login details. Torn staff (Admin) bogie described a repeated account-theft operation.
Oct 2022 · Scams and cons
- Mobb-Deep raises a script suspicion after reporting a post-trade mug
Mobb-Deep reported a mug seconds after a private trade and suspected bug exploitation. Replies offered trade-stat monitoring, buyer cooperation and coincidence as explanations.
Feb 2019 · Muggings
- The 31-day cooldown argument over guest fighters
D3vl proposed a 31-day faction rejoin cooldown to curb guest fighters and proxy factions. The objections soon became a second argument: whether the proposal was sensible at all.
Jul–Oct 2019 · Wars
- Hermit calls time on UGK's war with Rockstar
Hermit said UGK's war with Rockstar had practically ended. Jammy_Git said they had used UGK as filler while at Rockstar, then returned from MnC with some people.
Apr 2015 · Wars
- An Open Letter to Fed Meets an Access Problem
KarmaCop [365532] invited people in Fed to describe the experience. Jammed [1531835] pointed out that those players could not access the forum to answer.
Nov 2020 · Funny incidents
- A proposed scammer watch list meets 'check the trade'
Psilocybin said Aklas used a copied payment line to take 10 stripograms. The proposed watch list drew repeated advice to check every trade instead.
Jun 2020 · Scams and cons
- Arcy accused oraN over an API key, then called the post bait
Arcy alleged oraN had published Arcy's active API key, then described the post as bait. Replies included disappointment, a spelling correction and fruit jokes.
Aug 2022 · Scandals
- The mugging figures behind the one-second-delay argument
CRLF compared mugging averages around the one-second delay. The thread then became an argument over short windows, selection bias and what the figures could actually prove.
2021–2024 · Muggings
- Port Royal and Cyber Warfare meet in an October ranked war
Pinguux opened betting on a no-terms ranked war between Port Royal and Cyber Warfare. During the GG posts, they said Port Royal had passed 1m total faction respect.
Oct 2025 · Wars
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- Established
- The record shows it directly: a post and its date, staff's own words, a thread's figures or TornLife data.
- Participant claim
- What someone involved said about their own actions or experience. Their account, not verified.
- Allegation
- An accusation a player made, attributed to them. Never TornLife's finding.
- Community speculation
- Guesses, theories and rumours from players.
- Joke
- Banter or trolling, presented as such.
- Torn roleplay
- In-character play, presented as such.
Stories are generated by TornLife from the forum archive (June 2014 onward) and checked automatically before they appear. They report what players said, attributed to them; they never state why an account was federally jailed and never include anyone's real-world details. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.