First time EQ stories [Archive]

bled12345

07-22-2015, 03:15 PM

Thought this could be fun :) I remember being around 14 years old, I played halflife, and a TON of tribes, a friend I played tribes with lots told me this game called everquest was awesome. I only played first person shooters on PC, and my exposure to RPG's was ff7 and console games.

I didn't know anything about EQ, the box kinda looked cool. I figured it was like most shooters, it being first person and all, but set in a fantasy genre.

So I login, decide to make a dwarf paladin because it looked pretty cool. Clumsily discover that I have an inventory, and that I can get a sword. The music is kind of cool... So I start running around the city.

I figure its like any other game and you basically just kill shit. So after exploring for 3 minutes or so, I see a guard and figure "fuck him" and decide to kill him and see what the gameplay is all about. I instantly die, after a 2 minute loading screen I appear in a new place, and I don't have my sword anymore. So I run around a bit, then something started attacking me and I died again, and it goes back to 2 minutes of loading. At this point, I have no idea what the fuck is going on, where I am, why I don't have my sword anymore, and why I can't kill anything.

I just quit and thought the game was complete and utter shit compared to tribes. It wasn't until about 2 weeks later out of boredom I made a woodelf, and started to understand that EQ was actually a giant world, and things are persistent, and that everything pwns the living shit out of you at level 1 lol. I started talking to other people in the game, I used to use napster chatrooms back in the day haha, once I realized EQ was pretty much a giant chat room with pixels and shit to do, and people to run around with and explore new and wonderful zones with, I was hooked...

Honestly, there was like 0 hand holding with EQ when you logged in for the first time. Most games even back then kind of had an introduction, and eased you into it. That and the fact this was the first ever true 3D MMO, none of us really had any clue wtf a game like this was about. It, 100% pioneered a genre for decades to come.

Anyways another thread made me remember this, and I am sure there are lots of amusing stories lol.

Tecmos Deception

07-22-2015, 03:18 PM

Aww, I miss Tribes 2. Loved that game.

I actually didn't want to play EQ initially. A buddy told me how great it was, but I thought it sounded less fun than roleplaying in AOL chat rooms (which I did, and thought was fun). He showed me at his house one day though, then I took over his computer until he kicked me out.

When I convinced my parents to let me play a game on our phoneline that they had to pay a monthly fee for, somehow, I remember meeting an enchanter at the noobie log in Nek and thinking that his pet was a player in his party that had invis cast on him so that all I could see were his weapon and shield.

Miller

07-22-2015, 03:21 PM

I liked this alot. I watched a friend play before I actually played and I remember the first time I thought it was interesting is when he was grouped and he was playing a female human monk and he was grouped with an ogre shaman... I was so confused why he was up punching the goblin and the ogre was sitting down... Then he explained a bit and I thought it was neat and bought the game

TarukShmaruk

07-22-2015, 03:25 PM

I have several..

1.) First night I bought the game, make an Ogre Shaman on Rallos Zek, see another newbie and try to PK him and an Armadillo kills me. They assisted players apparently, like spiders would.

2.) Travelled to Neriak for the first time at level 9. We went from Feerrot -> Innothule - > S. Ro -> Oasis -> North Ro. -> Commons -> Nektulos. We swam the entire way through Oasis because the light races would PK us, as was custom at the time.

Got to Neriak and went exploring until a fucking level 50 Shadowknight Troll guildmaster killed me. Any Ogre Shaman (Rallos Zek deity) will get killed by this fucker if you get too nosy there.

Had to run all the way back because I hadn't found a bind yet.

3.) GM gave me the last piece for my Wizard epic. Had been bound in PoFear for over a month checking every day w/ Eye of Zomm and the broken golem was never up. Turns out they busted the faction and he was getting insta gibbed by the rest of the zone. GM felt bad and handed me the final piece and said "a month is long enough"

4.) Naked PKs became a problem - usually Wizards - they just stalked the major classic dungeons (Sol B and L Guk) and 9/10 times they got killed or got nothing, but once a while they got some doofuses FBSS or found someone low health.

I figured out how to XP loss them with my pet once I found their bind - attack them, get them low, hit my own pet and zone - pet became NPC and they were still on hatelist.

I took a PK I found from 50 to 48 doing this and a GM showed up. I tried to play dumb and he said "look, he was 49 when he petitioned, he's 48 now". I just explained that these guys were a cancer and I was trying to get them back the only way I knew how since they never wore any droppable equip ...he said "ok, cut it out, and if he asks tell him I gave you a warning"

<3 GM Viik

5.) Enchanters could charm and type /pet get lost and you would slash yourself for 32k and take XP loss. It was rough but not that many were abusing this.

DarthMartigan

07-22-2015, 03:55 PM

A friend gave me a bunch of gear to help me level right before he went on vacation for a month... I fell off Kelethin with it, didn't realize people could help me find the corpse, and eventually gave up on finding it. By the time he got back I was an almost naked level 10. He told me he was going to power level me on his druid, but didn't want to waste his time after how crappy I was at the game... He was definitely right.

curtischoy

07-22-2015, 04:06 PM

I heard about EQ from my brother. He told me that we could level characters together and that once you got high enough level you could sell them for real money. Being only 14 at the time I found the idea of playing video games and getting money for it to be a more than worthwhile venture. (ZOMG RMT!) So I bought the game and it wouldn't work on my shitty computer, it had some processor I can't remember the name of.

A few months later I got enough cash together from selling anime (mostly DBZ) on VHS tapes over the internet to buy my own computer. I researched computers and EQ enough to get a good one and finally be able to play. Later my brother and I realized that leveling up in this game took forever and that RMT was not a viable money making solution for kids in high school. Plus we made a ton of money selling anime, but that eventually ended (damn you Funamation!).

My brother stopped playing after about a month which was great for me because I was totally hooked. The first character I made was a high elf magician. I got him to level 3 and then made a dwarf paladin named Curtischoy. I went on to play that paladin for 10 years.

godbox

07-22-2015, 04:31 PM

A friend of mine showed me his lvl 35 halfling druid on EQ when I was 14 or 15 I think velious was newly released. I was obsessed with fantasy RPG stuff and couldn't get the game out of my head. So shortly after that I got my dad to buy the original three pack with vanilla/kunark/velious. I remember the install/registration process being super long and I had the original guidebook to tide me over while I watched the install. My dad was super skeptical about the whole subscription thing and it took a bunch of convincing to get him to put his credit card in so I could play.
So bam install completed like 2 days later on my shitty computer. I made a troll shadowknight and proceded to get lost in innothule swamp for hours on end. Some passer buy dropped mithril armor and that 2hander sword that did strength tap proc. Everytime I zoned the game would crash and I would have to restart so I started exploring out into the world very slowly. As I was wandering around oasis at like level 6 or 7 (because someone told me to go to EC and I had no idea how to get there) A sand giant caught me and killed me and the game crashed on the loading screen. Then my dad came home and grounded me for something or other and I couldn't get on the computer for a week. Well I knew that the corpse with all my newly gotten gear on it would expire before then so I spent the next few days begging him to let me play for like 30 mins for a CR.
That was my first EQ experience. loved it.

SniGlas

07-22-2015, 04:35 PM

Made a human sk, took the boat towards bb, died on sister island, rerolled.

Itap

07-22-2015, 04:35 PM

I was poor as a kid and I didnt have a computer. I used to go to my buddys house and watch him play (for like 8 hours a day). He had a bard named Cask on CT. After a few months of begging my parents for a computer, they purchased me an E-machines desktop for like $250. I rolled a DE SK named Divian and mained him for about a year or so.

I'm glad i didn't have that unknown feeling when I first rolled a character since I watched my friend play for months

Sorn

07-22-2015, 04:38 PM

Picked up the Kunark expansion because I thought the Iksar was like a dragon (dragons are my favorite and yet I have STILL NEVER SEEN ONE IN PERSON IN GAME >:( ), my mom saw the comment about never expecting to see your loved one again on the back and just sighed and bid me farewell. I was almost thirteen at the time.

I made a high elf magician, I think, and got lost after zoning into southern Felwithe and drowned myself under the caster guild to escape (think I fell into the water and couldn't get out, noticed the air timer, and realized I could die like that). Frustrated, I made a cleric to start again and managed to get places without getting lost. Never did get that first corpse back, now that I think about it. One thing I like to do still is climb stuff in game. Levitate is one of my favorite spells. :)

I also had various interesting and strange encounters as a female char, but those didn't occur until later.

TarukShmaruk

07-22-2015, 05:16 PM

Sorn

07-22-2015, 06:08 PM

Late 90s and early 00s voice chat wasn't really a thing.

Chicks with dicks was a real problem and the population wasn't savvy enough to be guarded. I don't think that's a real thing anymore, but back then it sure was.

I knew a guy on Rallos Zek - Mirmyran/Inura for anyone who played there - who took it pretty far. Had several EQ-lationships with guys and cybered and all that.

I guess that's one way some people got their kicks. I was somewhat insulated from some of the nastier gender politics that went on, usually by the older players in my guild. We were an all-female guild so that occasionally made us something of a target. I remember someone mentioning having an argument about it at some point in game, and lots of other players suspected we were all men playing women. It's really interesting that there were only a few men playing on female toons in the guild. The only one I knew for sure played a troll, naturally. :)

gortimer

07-22-2015, 07:21 PM

I rolled a barbarian. Fell in the water and couldnt get out. Thought the game was so stupid that I didn't play it for a month. Then rerolled a human necromancer and put all my starting points into strength so I could beat up stuff while controlling the undead. At lvl 12 I could only cast my life tap 4 times. Got that guy to lvl 30. Haha.

Sancta

07-22-2015, 07:22 PM

I guess that's one way some people got their kicks. I was somewhat insulated from some of the nastier gender politics that went on, usually by the older players in my guild. We were an all-female guild so that occasionally made us something of a target. I remember someone mentioning having an argument about it at some point in game, and lots of other players suspected we were all men playing women. It's really interesting that there were only a few men playing on female toons in the guild. The only one I knew for sure played a troll, naturally. :)

I had a friend who played a female high-elf cleric back in 1999. He was the first one out of my friends to hit lvl 50 and get epic. We were all 15 years old at the time. And to say he was the first, I really mean the only. Not only did he surpass us by a long shot (he was 50+ while me and my other friends were high 20s). He also was "good" enough to convince other older males to pay for his Everquest subscription at the time. Had the whole thing down with the "<3", "lulz", "teehee", and "OMGz".

Sorn

07-22-2015, 07:34 PM

I had a friend who played a female high-elf cleric back in 1999. He was the first one out of my friends to hit lvl 50 and get epic. We were all 15 years old at the time. And to say he was the first, I really mean the only. Not only did he surpass us by a long shot (he was 50+ while me and my other friends were high 20s). He also was "good" enough to convince other older males to pay for his Everquest subscription at the time. Had the whole thing down with the "<3", "lulz", "teehee", and "OMGz".

Lesson learned: Fifteen year old boys are gold diggers.

Iniamyen

07-22-2015, 07:46 PM

Best lowbie memory: Running from Qeynos to Freeport as a lvl 8 Erudite, at night. The NK bridge was epic but I couldn't appreciate it at the time because I was practically crapping my pants in fear.

Best raid memory: Wiping to Vox and then having to fight our way back in to get corpses. Again, scary as crap, but also memorable.

On a separate note: I'm a dude and I roll female characters on pretty much every game that I play, only because I'd rather look at a female body for hours on end than a male one; not because I'm trying to fake anybody out. Is this frowned upon still?? C'mon, it's 2015!

godbox

07-23-2015, 12:16 AM

Be real though who hasn't acted like they may be a real lady bard for free gear?

Charlievox

07-23-2015, 10:45 AM

My wife played D&D with her college friends for years, until she married me and moved to my home state(we met in an AOL chat room in 1995. Married in '97)
About five years after we were married, she went home to visit her best friend and found out her D&D buddies had all stopped playing D&D and were now playing this online game called Everquest.
So she bought me a copy of the game so I would have something to do on Tuesday nights while she was out at her Curling league. Yes, Curling! My wife throws 42lb stones around for fun.
Anyway, my first character was a Human Warrior in Freeport. I was out in the newbie yard when her friend found me. She took me to the Bazzaar, gave me a full suit of chain mail, a Fine Steel long sword and a Shiny Brass Shield and 50 plat, said, "have fun!" And ran off. I had no idea how to get back to Freeport. Got disgusted and logged off. Two weeks later I decided to start again and made a Human Enchanter, again in Freeport. I had a lot of fun with him until one day I was out in EC at level 8 and someone asked me why, since I was an Enchanter, was i meleeing all my mobs with that cracked staff and where was my pet? I had gotten that enchanter to level 8 with a 1HB weapon, wearing only the cloth armor the Freeport skellies and orc pawns were kind enough to donate, and no spells besides the ones I had at the start!

bubur

07-23-2015, 12:17 PM

human paladin full charisma

memories

Vdub

07-23-2015, 12:40 PM

A buddy of mine convinced me to try it and I remember trying to get my dad to pay the subscription which he didn't really want to do. C'mon dad you can trust Sony. My computer at the time was utter shit and would overheat and turn off after playing for 10 minutes. My only solution was to have a fan blasting into the case the entire time. I think my graphics card was shit too because I could only see shit with races that had at least infravision. I remember making a halfling druid and I asked, okay what am I supposed to do now? Buddy says go kill shit the monsters just fall out of the sky and there's bad ass players everywhere. Okay.. I didn't like it at all but started slowly giving it more chances until I was 100% life ruiningly addicted.

absol

07-23-2015, 02:33 PM

So I was kinda interested in trying an MMORPG and had narrowed it down to two - Ultima Online or Everquest. But that's as far as I took it - just mulling it over. Then a magazine in the UK, PC Zone, had a free trial of EQ on its cover disk, so that decided that.

The guide in the mag said that the Druid was a good class for newbies so that sounded just the ticket. Looking at the list of servers, I didn't want to try one of the 'PVP' servers because I'd probably get slaughtered, and just randomly picked Bristlebane because it sounded kinda cool.

Back then, new characters spawned somewhere on the G Fay platforms, nowhere near the GM. I started to look at my spell book and inventory, trying to make sense of it all when all of a sudden I saw sparkly magic effects surround me. Looking around there was another player who seemed to be casting - casting on ME. Weird symbols appeared on my screen and one of the spells that hit did damage (I didn't realise at the time that HP buffs do make it seem your HP bar is reducing, even though thats not actually whats happening). Ok, this guy is obviously trying to kill me - I must have picked one of the PVP servers by mistake.

I typed "dnoT kil mee im new" as I panicked, and ran behind the trunk of the tree to buy me some time.

"Hold on, I'm buffing you" said my assailant.

Now, my years playing Quake had clued me in on some leet speak, specifically "owning". I'm betting "buffing" was another term for "owning". It made sense in my mind anyway.

More spells hit me, and now one of them was making me float. What kind of messed up $*^& is this? So I started to run. Anywhere. It didn't matter, I just had to get away from this jackass. I ran forward, and off the platform. Into the Faydark night. After about 10 seconds I tried clicking on the spells he cast on me. One of them came off! Haha, this is easy then, I can just click off all the nasty spells he put on me. Including the floaty one. I'm gonna have the last laugh here!

LOADING PLEASE WAIT

When I respawned on the ground I was trying to get my bearings again, and I saw him running up. Screw this game I thought, I'm gonna hit the power button on my pc before he starts with the buffing crap again. If everyone is like this I don't want no part in it.

"Hold on, I'm just trying to help you friend. You're new, right?".

And for some reason I paused.

For the next hour he showed me the GFay lifts, how they work. He showed me where the guards were and to run to them when you get in trouble. Took me to the Druid Guild Master, told me what spells to use, etc etc. Pretty much got me up and running.

I came sooo close to making the biggest mistake I've ever made playing video games. I could write a book on all the memories I have and all the people I met playing EQ over the years (but I guess we all could). I have no clue of the dudes name, I didn't ever see him again after that. If you're out there, and you're reading this (extremely unlikely) you know who you are. Thanks man.

Eredhel

07-23-2015, 03:17 PM

I was in my mid to late 20s when EQ was released. I remember my roommate at the time showing me a magazine add for it and we both decided to give it a try. I had been playing online MUDs and MUSHES for a few years and was hesitant about graphics.

I started some class in Faydwer and went up to the first NPC I came across and used my all-to-familiar text syntax to talk to him/her by typing, "ask NPC NAME about WHATEVER".

It was pretty cool clicking on a graphic mob for a change. But unfortunately all I got out was the "a" in ask. Because by default that was attack. I died immediately and went back to playing a MUD. Fortunately my roommate convinced me to start a character in Qeynos where he was already level 3 or 4. Good times were to be had.

Muggens

07-23-2015, 07:59 PM

Check out my EQ story:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203317

It's for those folks who like a cup of tea and something nice to read along with it.

Caldwin

07-23-2015, 10:24 PM

I started playing on live not too long before Kunark came out, maybe 2 or 3 months before. I created a high elf wizard.

Shortly after spawning in the starting area, I started checking out N. Felwithe. I went across the bridge, into a tunnel. I made a right, then a left. Due to monitor settings and not in full screen, it was dark down the tunnel. I saw two pairs of eyes and that was it. I was nervous at what they might be. All over a sudden, they came towards me. I started running, thinking they were going to get me. But it turns out, it was just two players zoning in. I knew nothing about zones at that point.

At another time, it started to rain. I then ducked into a building, thinking I might be struck by lightning. Hey, I didn't know lightning had no affect. Can you imagine if you could take damage from lightning.

After a few levels, somewhere around lvl 10, give or take, I was on the trail that leads away from the orc lift towards orc hill. I saw someone run by with a train of orcs. I decided to root one. By the time root landed, the orc was on the lift. I didn't see any guards around. I LMAO seeing the rooted orc going up and down the lift 2 or 3 times. After that, when the lift came back down, the orc was gone. I don't know if a player got it, or an NPC.

I eventually quit playing the wizard and created a high elf mage, which became my main.

gummab

07-23-2015, 10:44 PM

When I started i made a wood elf druid,fell of ramp within a few min,looked around for corpse to no avail so thought screw this and made a half-elf druid.

A few days in while chilling outside BB,I started chatting to a guy there every time I said something he would come out with dude I don't speak Elvish,this carried on for like 15min and this guy started to get a bit irate at me,so i just thought fuck you then and went out killing mobs,was not until later I realised I had changed my language and that he really could not understand me,I felt so noob..

iruinedyourday

07-23-2015, 11:27 PM

Short and sweet, on Rallos Zek this halfling druid tried to PK me.. I got the upper hand and he started running.

My roomate was looking over my shoulder, we were silent as I made chase.

I started jumping and noticed the ground seemed to move quicker, so I kept jumping.. jump. Jump. Jump! JUMP!

my roomate mutters, 'are you... are you jumping.. to catch up with him?!"

CLOSER AND CLOSER I GOT

"yaaa" was all I could mutter

CLOSER!

I HIT HIM, I KILLED HIM!!!!!!!!

rejoice.

we drank much ale and ate many pizza pockets that night, i can assure you.

Yasi

07-24-2015, 02:47 AM

Played a Dark Elf Cleric. Brother somehow got me one of theses sweety shiny Bronze Breastplates + a Fine Steel Hammer (both from a vendor for probably 200pp, wich was like a fortune at that time and lvl 10). Went to lavastorm, died, couldnt find my corpse. Had to log out because we had dinner with family, but i wasnt hungry and cried 2h (i was eleven years old), because i was afraid my Bronze BP+FS Weapon got lost.

gcobb

07-24-2015, 05:22 AM

Obtain vanilla game as 11-year-old in first flower of life's nerdiness. Disk comes packaged in one of those massive 90s-era retail boxes I used to love so dearly. Install and log in after requisite persuading of parental pocketbook, in those days when trusting a web company with CC info still terrified most adults.

Choose server at random, roll dwarf paladin, put all points into DEX for reasons lost to history. Spend one hour turning in note and escaping Kaladim. Approach a bat, begin mashing buttons, figure out that 'a' is somehow associated with combat. Spam 'a' for a solid two minutes trying to attack, despite message in chat box clearly stating, "Auto-attack on." Certain portions of the 11-year-old noodle not yet online. Eventually triumph over bat. Usual newb stuff for another hour or two, time for dinner. Cannot figure out how to exit game. Mash many buttons in many different orders. Click SIT then CAMP but exclaim that I don't want to prepare a camp, I want to EXIT, darn it. Become totally pissed and distraught at this game that won't let me log out, even as my parents call from downstairs what the heck is taking so long. Spam more buttons until, in one last moment of defiance, I decide fuck it, if you want me to CAMP I'll CAMP. Escape.

Next day, realize I have no clue what server I'd rolled on, choose Drinal at total random. From this point on, memory little more than a kaleidoscope of pixels ground and twisted to the MIDI lyres of the Faydark.

criddopher

07-24-2015, 11:51 AM

I had my mom buy me EQ:Kunark after looking at the box at the game store.

My very first character was a dark elf something. I had called my brother in to check out this game that sounded so cool. As soon as I zoned in with my new character I couldn't see anything, ran out a window into some water and drowned. My brother said "yeah, great game" and walked away. (He later got just as hooked as anyone else)

Second character I made was a High elf paladin. At around level 10 I thought I was decked out with my chainmail armour and fine steel sword, I wandered around gfay for a long time, zoned into Lfay and got killed, I freaked out saying I'll never find my corpse I had no idea where I was and had been walking for hours! I didnt know at the the time there were places like eqatlas online. Never did get that corpse....

curtischoy

07-24-2015, 12:19 PM

From this point on, memory little more than a kaleidoscope of pixels ground and twisted to the MIDI lyres of the Faydark.

This is just a great sentence.

jsriolo

07-24-2015, 02:01 PM

I was in middle school during the vanilla era and a cool high school kid convinced me to try it out. I leveled a human shadow knight up to the mid teens and saved enough to buy the materials for a steel breastplate. Unfortunately I had never done any other combines and did not understand the 'skill' aspect of it. POOF! You don't have enough skill!

"FUCK THIS GAME!" Hulk smash PC!

Several months (years?) later I got Kunark as a present and got some other kids my age to play. I rolled an Iksar necro and the rest is history.

captnamazing

07-24-2015, 04:09 PM

My first EQ memories are scattered, because it was my brother's game, and I was barely allowed to play (mostly cause he needed the pixel fix). However, I got hopelessly addicted to the game simply by watching over his shoulder for many, many hours.

The first character was Aadirsen, a dark elf shadowknight. Starting stats were +CHA and +AGI, because that way things would be cheaper, and being agile is important, right?

He ran around Neriak for a while, considering ghouls and stuff. I was terrified by the "what would you like your tombstone to say" message when he looked at an ogre guard. I remember being disgusted by the appearance of ogres and trolls. I hated their kind.

Over the next days I watched as this shitty Dark Elf got his dick smacked my large beetles. It confused me that this stupid dark elf couldn't hit the GIANT FUCKING BEETLE he was fighting.

"Why does he keep missing?" I asked.

My brother switched camera views and pointed at the crude polygons and was like "that's why, idiot," as though this really explained anything.

He wandered into Lavastorm the next day day and got his throat ripped out by a fire drake.

kaustik

07-24-2015, 11:42 PM

After kicking the dirt around in Nektulos and the Commons for a bit I started to get my bearings. Once I showed a little motivation, a friend gifted my little Shadowknight a full set of bronze and a Darkreaver. It was all so overwhelming back then. Now I can only laugh.

With my shiny new armor, I finally felt ready to go conquer this new and unknown world. Unsure of where I should travel, my friend's suggestion of Crushbone sounded great. Another continent? We have to ride a boat across the ocean? What could possibly go wrong? Sign me up.

The simple task of getting to the Freeport docks was an adventure's worth of paranoia, but uneventfully we made it to the docks. Patting ourselves on the back and celebrating our "cleverness" we waited for our oceanic chariot.

Now for those who don't remember, the boat that we use here, is not the same one I rode that day in the Kunark era. There was a stairwell and you could go down into the ships hold. I thought it was pretty interesting and began to mess around on the boat. Through some mischievous twist of fate I clipped through a wall in the stairwell.

What the heck? Why am I in the water behind this boat? I try to follow the ship. I remember, I can't swim for squat. To my dismay the boat leaves me in its wake without a second thought and slowly disappears. Figuring that keeping the same heading as the boat had will get me somewhere, I swim on and on.

The realization of how lost I really am comes upon me slowly, but it comes. It comes to me in the form of "You have been disconnected". Frantically I begin trying to reconnect. A hot minute passes and I'm finally able to log back in. I'm at the bottom of the ocean. I try to swim to the surface but drown in the process.

Those were the days... Oi

Messie

07-25-2015, 04:23 AM

These are great. Keep it going!!

Slayerofalot

07-25-2015, 09:53 AM

Me and a friend played on test server, he was a bard I was a warrior. We were in early teen levels killing dervs in WC getting bored about to quit the game. Then some high level came along and gave me some bronze armour and my friend two whips....

We played for the next 5 years

Raije1000

07-25-2015, 05:10 PM

I remember being about 13 when I played pre kunark, was a druid wood elf on Veeshan. Some nice ranger or druid was getting me and some of my friends some Braided Ivy Cords from that prick Thistle Underfoot (ill never forget him). I stayed up all night until finally it was my turn for the cords when we got em. My mom came down and kicked me off the computer, i fucking cried i was sooooo sad.

eqholmes

07-25-2015, 05:23 PM

I was 15 and rok just came out. My friend had been playing for about 3 weeks, him and his brother. I watched them play for two weekend nights and was hooked! Talked parents into buying a computer for school that was more powerful than what we had, just so I could play. Talking parents into second line was difficult and had to deal with many phone pick up disconnects. Which really pisses a person off but I couldn't go off on them and explain they just cost me two hours of game play. Oh ya asked friend what I should make, what's everyone want in a group. He says a cleric, make a dorf cleric and that sob had himself a heal bot! Friend was rather cleaver. Also didn't understand a clerics only purpose was to heal until about level 24, rather embarrassing battle cleric stories.