Knots
01-23-2015, 03:08 PM
So when I was younger there was this gaming cafe in my town where all the kids would hang out and play counter-strike/EQ/quake/etc. The guy who owned the place was always there and when he wasn't dealing with people he was virtually always playing games on his personal computer. As EQ started to become more popular in the cafe he started to show us his character and tell us stories. He played a dwarf warrior named Louie that had insane gear at the time (I think it was Velious era). He would show us his guild and raids and high level stuff that we never got to see since we were all kids and none of us even had max level characters. He even told us that he was the best warrior in the world, he tanked everything for his guild, and that his guild was so good that he even got to test out stuff for Sony. We were little kids so we ate that stuff up and thought he was awesome, but I never really knew if it was true or not. The thing that I remember the most though was that he said early in Kunark (maybe it was even in a beta server) he wanted to test out Sarnak rep so he spent dozens of hours farming to get his reputation up. He eventually became maxed out with the Sarnaks and started hanging out in Chardok laughing at other people who had to fight there. As a tribute to him Sony created an item called Louie's Thick 'n Hearty (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=20631) that you can only buy from vendors in Chardok. I like to tell people this story but I have no idea if it is true, and any time I look up a dwarf warrior named Louie in classic EQ I can't find anything. The internet sucked back then though so maybe there just aren't good records. I figure with the people here, though, someone might have heard of him if he was actually famous. So here's the question: anyone remember an uber dwarf warrior named Louie in classic/kunark/velious?