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It's possible that this was done entirely through chat. Ie/ Rumor types " Snatches Hat " in chat. As long as both players agree that what's typed in chat is what happened, it doesn't matter if the game actually has an animation to support it.

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I used to MUD back in the day and there were role players who were very much into the character, and if you typed "snatches hat", it doesn't matter if the game didn't have support for it, that's what happened.

Given that this wasn't rare, it seems likely that that's what happened.

Yup. WoW has special servers marked for roleplaying (as opposed to the more achievement-oriented "normal" servers), and it sounds like they were playing on one of those.

Oh, I didn't know that, thanks. Yeah, that must be what happened then.

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