First EQ Memory

[Halius]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

half elf ranger was the first character i rolled. died in qhills to a bear and never found my body. rerolled a halfling rogue that died in kith and never found that body. that dial up connection starting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

[Caldwin]

I started maybe a few months before Kunark. I made a High Elf Wizard. I loved the 1st person view.

I looked around Flewithe, found my trainer, and turned in the note. Then I started exploring more, when it started raining... and lightning. I rushed into a building because I thought I might get struck by lightning.

Then I started down the tunnel to the gfay zone line. I wasn't in full screen mode, so I was looking through the smaller window. That, along with my video settings making the tunnel dark, set the stage for what happenned next.

I rounded the turn in the tunnel just before the zone line and it was dark. I saw two sets of eyes down the tunnel and that was it. I thought they may have been some type of creature. Then, all of a sudden, the eyes moved toward me and I started to run away. But, it turned out to be a couple of other players that just zoned into Felwithe.

Eventually, I made it to the noobie area fought stuff, died a few times, then eventually made it to the Wood Elf noobie area. Made it to lvl 4, found a group who fought orcs just down the path from the orc lift. Then at some point, I was in a group at orc hill, and eventually Crushbone. I was addicted.

After some leveling, I found myself at the path near the orc lift, when a train went by. It turns out that the guards were elsewhere. So, I decided help by rooting one of the orcs. When the root landed, the orc was on the lift. I LMAO watching that orc going up & down on the lift. But, eventually the lift came down without the orc. I don't know what happened to it, but it probably was taken out by a guard or something. I wish I had taken screen shots of that.

I eventually rolled a High Elf magician, which became my main.

[Tasslehofp99]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol. I seem to remember the guidebook being terrible. Didn't it say humans leveled the fastest?

It also says dexterity increases melee accuracy, lol

[r00t]

I used to sit on a little blue chair and watch my dad for months until the summer of '99 hit, when he bought me an account since I was out of school until going to 5th grade in the fall. He'd let me do stuff like pottery combines on his enchanter when he had to go run errands, but never much more than that. But watching him I was able to pick up most of the mechanics.

My first character was a half-elven ranger, a copy of my dad's main character except he worshipped Karana and started in Surefall and I worshipped Tunare and started in Kelethin. One of my earliest memories on my own character was getting lost in Greater Faydark and running into a bandit camp. I thought my corpse was gone forever, I literally ran all over that entire zone looking for it, discovering cool stuff like the wizard spires in my journey. Eventually a friendly bard sang the locate song.

I became obsessed with EverQuest, and got my best friend into the game. He made a barbarian warrior and I helped him get settled in with some loots. I remember one time we were in an arena and I kept beating him, and him getting #mad. We were /duel'd, and my mom called me for dinner. Oh the betrayal when he killed me AFK. But it was from that experience I remember that we found our calling in professional EQ PvP, and a desire to try the red servers.

Though I played daily, I never made it past level 25 that first year.

[sox7d]

>5th grade, 2000
>half the kids in my grade play EQ and talk about it constantly (rich ass school)
>finally convince parents to buy it for me
>make wood elf warrior
>dunno how to play
>put sword on cursor and wave mouse over "a bat"
>find out you press "a"
>kill wolf
>dad says "you just walk around and kill animals? yeah, you're not playing this piece of shit"
>uninstall
>cry
>play at friends houses/cyber cafe
>2014
>P1999
>kill every wolf i see


3 months after that he took me on a tour at some game company in his office building, turned out to be Verant. Dad says, "oh you guys make everquest? sean loved that game but i thought he was a little young to be walking around killing animals." i made eye contact with one of the coders with a look that said "god help me" and i could tell he empathized completely.

[Randy]

Running the gorge with some higher level guy who was helping, getting blinded and not knowing what happened.

[Champion_Standing]

Getting mad at the orcs and saying "fucking orcs" when i respawned near PoD lift in gfay. Got about 15 tells telling me it was a family game and to stop swearing then about 2 minutes later a GM was giving me a warning.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Millburn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had a buddy have a similar experience happen to him in Neriak. He got lost in there for HOURS, I mean pure frustration lost. He would take little breaks to log off and call me on the phone. He eventually got out and as soon as he did he ran to the left coming out and fell into the river. Died to a piranha or something while he was in the process of drowning. He immediately logged off and never played again. Poor guy really missed out haha

EQ really does try its best to make you quit from day 1.

Maybe we should just take the hint? lol

[cyno]

Wood Elf Ranger was my first character on Karana server. Has visions on killing everything with a bow before they even got close to me! Boy was I mistaken. Luckily I paired up with a cleric who kept me alive most of the time unless I ran off the top of Kelethin! Then, a friend gave me an Ebony Bladed Sword and I thought "this is the most amazing weapon I will EVER get in this game"! I kept at it until hitting level 65.

[sox7d]

Originally Posted by Champion_Standing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Getting mad at the orcs and saying "fucking orcs" when i respawned near PoD lift in gfay. Got about 15 tells telling me it was a family game and to stop swearing then about 2 minutes later a GM was giving me a warning.

lol