Heartfelt thanks to TMO, and my friend Bleach of Divinity

[Calidore]

Just a little background... I'm an old player from Solusek Ro, played from April 1999 to November 2004 (sigh warcraft). I was a human shadow knight, got the 4th SK epic in 2000 on the server but only because Farnham (a superior human SK MQ'ed for me). A year or so later I became a human monk, Kurukami.

Anyway, some homies directed me back here because of p99 and what it is. Man I love it! And I am a human monk again hehe. I started late February 2013.

So here it is, the end of May 2013, and I am just a humble, insignificant monk again, just trying to level (slowly because I wander a lot haha)... Anyway I discovered a couple of OLD friends from wayyyy back in the day. Kingore and Bleach. Both are in different guilds, but I certainly do recall that both were always willing to go above and beyond back in the day, as all guildies did back then.

Well, this evening I was running through ol South Karana... Really I was on my way from Temple of Cazic Thule (WHY DOESN'T ANYONE KILL HERE ANYMORE?!?!?!?!) to Qeynos to make more silly javelins. When all of the sudden I am alerted to the presence of Brother Qwinn. The Monk NPC for that first Monk uber Robe from back in the day. So just for sh*ts and giggles, I send a tell to Kingore saying, "Hail Brother Qwinn! hehe" he then tells me he can gather some troops and we can kill him. I just laugh it off, because WHO am I? Some newbie monk who know one really knows, so why on Norrath would anyone care about me? So I just kinda play along, not expecting anything... "Err ok! Let me pull him to the NK zone and wait! haha" but his next couple responses tell me that he's actually being serious!

So my heart starts to race a little bit... and I am shaking a little bit... Uhhhh, what do I do?! Kingore = The Mystical Order = TOP guild on the server (in my eyes, from what I've seen on these exact boards)! Then all of the sudden my friend Bleach of Divinity sends me a tell saying "OMW!" I replied with a "Huh? for what?" and he said that he was coming to help with Qwinn!

My MIND was BLOWN!! I really do consider myself pretty insignificant, and I really do look up to my friends, Kingore and Bleach, but here THEY are, gathering people to help ME! Man, I cannot explain how good that makes me feel! But it really does show me what I have actually been discovering quite a bit lately... People on our server really do care. People help each other, not expecting anything in return, and it really makes our server feel like an actual Community. Sure there are arguments and some ugly things that happen. And that's sad :( But, the majority of the time, from the majority of our player base, we're all a close knit community because WE are all old school. WE all came from OLD EQ. WE all bothered to try to figure out how to play this emulated server haha! Which I will say the destructions (directions) are excellent.

Anyway... Within 15 minutes, I have TWO GROUPS of people I have never met before, ALL from TMO (except Bleach), showing up and ready to kill Brother Qwinn in South Karana! My mouth literally dropped open because these high level peeps took the time to actually come ALL the way to South Karana to help some little lvl 36 monk :P.

Well, we engaged Brother Qwinn. We had ONE death, and that was Kingore, I think because he's an Iksar and not a Human Monk (hehehahahoho), but Brother Qwinn died after about 3 mins and I was awarded with a nice yummy Robe of the Lost Circle!!! Saving me HOURS of camping time!

So at this time, I would LOVE to thank the following people for taking time to help me with an inconvenient fight in an inconvenient zone:

Kingore - The Mystical Order
Bleach - Divinity
Luchino - The Mystical Order
Irisa - The Mystical Order
Obrae - The Mystical Order
Xarzzardorn - The Mystical Order
Slayde - The Mystical Order
Halfelf - The Mystical Order
Portchu - The Mystical Order
Gnomebert - The Mystical Order

I greatly apologize if I forgot to mention anyone. But please know that I am greatly honored for the HUGE help you gave to me. That wasn't an easy fight in my eyes...

Some screenshots:

[Tecmos Deception]

I'd be happy for you, except you're using luclin models :p

That little casting animation that halfelf is doing. Good God. So horrible :(


But yeah seriously, grats! Lots of good people on the server, and it's a great place and time to be leveling up from scratch imo. It's just the few negative nancies on the forums who can't stop whining about every little thing, meanwhile cool stuff like this goes down in the game every night.

[alaessa]

That's pretty awesome! Congrats on your robe. =)

[India]

That was a great read :) Congrats!!!

And ya, TMO rock!

[India]

Get help Harrison, you've gone over the edge

[Tecmos Deception]

Speaking of negative nancies!

[Thulack]

I'd be happy for you, except you're using luclin models :p

That little casting animation that halfelf is doing. Good God. So horrible :(


But yeah seriously, grats! Lots of good people on the server, and it's a great place and time to be leveling up from scratch imo. It's just the few negative nancies on the forums who can't stop whining about every little thing, meanwhile cool stuff like this goes down in the game every night.

He looks better as a skeleton anyway. But grats on your robe. There are plenty of cool people all over this server and in many guilds. Its the few that seem to be loud and play forumquest way more then they need to that ruins the immersion for some.

[enr4ged]

Good thing you aren't a bard or ranger. Else you'd have to pay them 500k to get your epic.

[Calidore]

thanks for the history of p99

Hmm... Well that's not me :P I did notice that the name Calidore is in use on p99 blue, which makes me sad. But I guess if you think that was me, then as Doctor Octagon once said, "You can call 1-800-Peepee-5-1-Doodoo." That's really all I can say about that *drool*

[Alawen]

This was a great read. Congrats on your robe!

[Calidore]

I'd be happy for you, except you're using luclin models :p

That little casting animation that halfelf is doing. Good God. So horrible :(


But yeah seriously, grats! Lots of good people on the server, and it's a great place and time to be leveling up from scratch imo. It's just the few negative nancies on the forums who can't stop whining about every little thing, meanwhile cool stuff like this goes down in the game every night.

Sorry, I think the female (ogres and trolls included) models are hotties ;) hehe

[Tasslehofp99]

Congrats on your robe! Now all you need is the 2 pipes for the haste robe, which is excellent.

[Shocore]

I don't understand. I thought that TMO players spent every hour of every day camping high-value raid targets, kept awake and eternally youthful via imbibing unholy tonics distilled from the blood of orphans and the tears of kicked puppies?

I'm getting mixed messages, p99 forums.

[Rhambuk]

Congratulations on the robe!

Can always count on bleach(even if the anime does suck) :p

[Splorf22]

Bleach is awesome (both player and anime, although like all of them it went on to long). And for gods sake fix those Luclin models (run the eqsetup or whatnot and disable all of the fancy graphics).

[Fael]

half elf bards are even queerer in luclin models than classic. I did not think that possible!!!

Dolic

[Halfelfbard]

Thanks for the mention man, not really needed A friend of kingore is a friend of mine. Sorry i hammed up ur pics with all the songs and my weird looking casting!

Let us know when its time for ur ill omen fight.

[Shocore]

This is routine TMO spin. The people who make these post pretend to be relatable to the average player here (read the guy's story) then play up what TMO does for them. It is very likely TMO paid him plat to make this story and post it to the forums.

Guilds stay in power by managing public perception as to attract new recruits to do the bitch work for the higher ups.

Further proof that the vast Illuminati conspiracy has penetrated to the deepest levels of our private MMORPG servers.

Was that helpful Cleric who rezzed you last week just being polite? Or was he profiling you to determine which labour classification you will receive in the FEMA concentration camps?

Wake up, sheeple.

[Nune]

This is routine TMO spin. The people who make these post pretend to be relatable to the average player here (read the guy's story) then play up what TMO does for them. It is very likely TMO paid him plat to make this story and post it to the forums.

Guilds stay in power by managing public perception as to attract new recruits to do the bitch work for the higher ups.

90% of the TMO you will run into while playing P99 are cool, down to earth people. The other 10% are the forum all-stars, unlikely you'd be doing anything with them anyways. Was not surprised to see TMO helpin out, they're just led by fucks.

EDIT: I was not paid to make this post, but I gladly will take plat for posting it. Thank you in advance.

[Kingore]

This is routine TMO spin. The people who make these post pretend to be relatable to the average player here (read the guy's story) then play up what TMO does for them. It is very likely TMO paid him plat to make this story and post it to the forums.

Guilds stay in power by managing public perception as to attract new recruits to do the bitch work for the higher ups.

Or TMO people came and helped out when I asked them for help for a friend.

Gratz Kuru! I even have a KC pipe for you if someone would be kind enough to find you a chardok pipe.

[Clark]

Congrats on your robe! Now all you need is the 2 pipes for the haste robe, which is excellent.

This is routine TMO spin. The people who make these post pretend to be relatable to the average player here (read the guy's story) then play up what TMO does for them. It is very likely TMO paid him plat to make this story and post it to the forums.

Guilds stay in power by managing public perception as to attract new recruits to do the bitch work for the higher ups.

http://s21.postimg.org/n9j0lvetj/goodjob14.jpg

[webrunner5]

http://s21.postimg.org/n9j0lvetj/goodjob14.jpg

Not that is a funny Pic that fits his response to a tee. Thanks for the laugh, no pun intended.:D

[India]

I didn't post in this thread. It was a copycat trying to make me look bad.

Stop being retarded just because you're in TMO.

He can't make you look any worse then you already do

Stop being retarded, I'm not in TMO

[feanan]

This is a news story? An old friend who happens to be in the top guild gets other guildies (who were most likely bored and not doing anything) to port to NK and make the HUGE run to SK (which is what, a 2 min run from port in?)

Had you been joe everyman, most likely TMO would have ignored any /tells requesting help. Or they would have charged you 100k

Guess I'll get on my monk later and send TMO random tell asking for help, see how many groups show up. I'm betting it'll be zero

[Seltius]

Grats on your robe! The robes and epic imo are one of the high points for us monks as far as gear still love mine over a decade since the first time I got one.

Feanan send me a tell if im not busy trying to level to 60 ill be happy to help you. So at least that's 1 TMO volunteering to help you after the comment there.

Barring coming to the forums and seeing the negativity that pops up. I think this server has been a lot of fun and its great reconnecting with friends I hadn't spoken with in a long long time.

[mak10z]

Grats on the robe!

I'm Glad I could help a bit with a port out of the OT :p

and this is why i really dig this server. its big enough that there's Always something going on, but small enough that its still a pretty tight knit community.

[Halfelfbard]

This is a news story? An old friend who happens to be in the top guild gets other guildies (who were most likely bored and not doing anything) to port to NK and make the HUGE run to SK (which is what, a 2 min run from port in?)

Had you been joe everyman, most likely TMO would have ignored any /tells requesting help. Or they would have charged you 100k

Guess I'll get on my monk later and send TMO random tell asking for help, see how many groups show up. I'm betting it'll be zero

Dude...remember that shaman saying we helped em out in CoM for his epic? He told me that was the best random tell he ever sent to someone (me) Perfect timing is all.

[Aaron]

Bleach also helped me with my epic in CoM. We needed a rogue. I offered to pay him and he declined the money.

And Kingore helped another shaman (IkkyIkky) with his epic by bringing some people to CoM and running the entire fight.

I don't know either of those dudes outside those encounters with them, so they both appear to be pretty stand-up bro's from my perspective.

[Cippofra]

Bleach also helped me with my epic in CoM. We needed a rogue. I offered to pay him and he declined the money.

And Kingore helped another shaman (IkkyIkky) with his epic by bringing some people to CoM and running the entire fight.

I don't know either of those dudes outside those encounters with them, so they both appear to be pretty stand-up bro's from my perspective.

You and OP both trolls. TMO spends all their time making sure NOONE in the game can ever get Emporer Crush or Lockjaw loot. And when they're not in game destroying your life they're at wal mart going through the express lanes with more than 20 items over and over all day. Facts backed up by wikipedia. Stop trolling the forums.

[Stinkum]

Congrats on your RoTLC! And ignore the resident butthurt troll above.

[Yardcore]

Great story, gratz :;

[Frieza_Prexus]

TMO helping someone kill something does not negate the sheer staggering amount of faggotry they pull daily.

I don't know why you would think it does.

Probably for the same reason you think your crusade does anything productive.

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-lBaaNg88

[Calidore]

Thank you everyone for the Congrats. We have a pretty kick ass server population! I knew there would be Roadragers and Shit talkers on the forums, but I still wanted to point out what I consider a very good deed.

And no :P they didn't pay me to say any of it. I should be so lucky! har! :rolleyes:

[Nune]

Hating on TMO for chokeholding the server's end-game raiding : understandable

Hating TMO for letting retards represent them loudly on the forums : justifiable

Hating TMO for taking time out of their night to get someone a big piece of their classes BiS : faggot status

[Cippofra]

Hating on TMO for chokeholding the server's end-game raiding : understandable

Hating TMO for letting retards represent them loudly on the forums : justifiable

Hating TMO for taking time out of their night to get someone a big piece of their classes BiS : faggot status

People crying and bitching about this reminds of me when I see stories in the news about kids on sport teams that had to be removed because they were too good. Punishing one group of people because that group's challengers suck is just morally wrong. Now if someone finds evidence of guild condoned cheating (evidence means evidence, not multiple threads of bitching about decaying skeletons not dropping epics), that's a different story. Again, the issue here is that no one feels like challenging the top guild. Maybe if people spent half as much effort challenging them instead of crying every time a decaying skeleton doesnt drop their epic, the supposedly broken raid scene could be fixed.