Sometimes, the best strategy to win a fight is to become the biggest toughest badass you can find that is in the room. However, there are instances when it is better to remain calm and stay out of the way. A single Elden Ring Runes player did just that, claiming to play the role of an NPC, when their game was invaded by a different player. And eventually, their crazy strategy worked.
Similar to previous FromSoftware RPGs like the newly released open-world in Elden Ring allows players to play in the worlds of other players. After you've gotten into someone else's game , you are able to follow them to the end and take them down. Simple enough, but things get more complicated if somebody decides to dress as an enemy and pretend to be the NPC.
After having donned an armor suit of the NPC the target, they set to a particular spot in which the person they were portraying walked. After that, xdc_lis was careful to kill the enemy so as to cover the body in a nearby bush. They then opened their game to invasions through other players. This was when the trap was set.
When someone intrudes, xdc_lis does a magnificent job as an NPC, even when the invader gets extremely near to the invader. As the intruder scurries through the area, desperate to find xdc_lis. They just keep walking back and forth and over. At some point, the other party gives up and leaves.
By tricking the player xdc_lis is awarded a good amount of runes. This is due to the fact that buy Elden Ring Items considers someone leaving as winning. In this instance, I'm inclined to agree. If there's no explicit rule against tricking and trolling other players who invade you I don't believe that xdc_lis did anything wrong. If anything, based on my understanding of the FromSoftware RPGs it seems like the kind of thing that developers encourage folks to do.