Elden Ring player spends hours hiding in a bush to hose an AFK farmer

pcgamer.com:

I am easily irritated and occasionally petty, and I think I have a new hero: An Elden Ring player who spent literally hours hiding in a bush just to mess with an AFK farmer who pissed him off.

AFK farming in Elden Ring works like this: Players use Torrent the horse-goat to get to places that can't be reached on foot, then use the Taunter's Tongue item to summon other players into their game, purportedly for PvP combat. But because Torrent isn't available in multiplayer, the invited combatants can't reach the farmer. When they eventually give up and disconnect, the farmer gets some runes for the «victory,» even if they're alt-tabbed out of the game, or out of the room entirely.

Some players are able to reverse-farm the AFK farmers, but Teasnarker took it a step further. After invading an AFK farmer «five fucking times in a row,» as they put it, they decided that something needed to be done to halt the shenanigans. The farmer was out of reach and couldn't be dealt with directly, so Teasnarker took a different approach. 

«After four pointless invasions I'd had enough,» they wrote on Reddit. «I decided that this host wouldn't get a single rune more from me. So when hunters showed up, I ran away and put on the mimic's veil in a bush. And I hid there. The bush enfolded and protected me.»

And then they refused to leave. 

The Mimic's Veil in Elden Ring is a multiplayer item that enables players to mimic nearby objects, not unlike the Typhon Mimics in Prey. It's an important piece of the puzzle here, because it means that invaders (in this particular case, Teasnarker) can much more effectively hide from hunters—other Elden RIng players who are summoned to help the «victim» during an invasion. AFK farmers get nothing when hunters