Your Favorite Named NPC

[skarlorn]

Who is your favorite, for whatever reason? It could be nostalgia, a camp you farmed for many long hours, or because you got super lucky,,, you tell us!

(extra DKP: put a photo and share a story)

My personal fan favorite is Groi Gutblade

http://i.imgur.com/IfxXVkK.jpg

Years ago, this guy was my mealticket on Filbus. He's relatively easy to solo, so that an ungeared main warrior could do it in his 30s. And his items were super useful and quite valuable.

Groi put about 15k in my pocket, which afforded me some Jboots and a full set of Enchanted Dwarven Plate armor, which got me through a lot of battles!

[Caiu]

necrious

[Izmael]

a frenzied ghoul. Went from 30ish to 52 on my main (rogue) in Lguk on live back then.

NBG was actually a thing in essentially all pickup groups, can you believe it?

[Lhancelot]

Pyzjn

I like this name because the letters are in an order that makes no sense to my brain. :)

[Shawnleroy27]

http://i.imgur.com/Bxt3ERZ.png

Watchman Dreeb. To me, no name is more iconic to EQ. It all started with my first main character, a Gnome Necromancer who's name is long lost to the dust-heaps of time. I've played lots of Gnomes, and if you're a gnome, this is the guy you run to when it's time to GTFO from levels 1-5. Sometimes Dreeb can be a Dweeb and he steals kills. I don't think reporting him does any good, though.
Interesting news that you can lose: In Tekkit Minecraft a friend and I had downloaded a "Create your own NPC" program and I made a Guard NPC for my Town named Watchman Dreeb. He was my favorite Guard. Ah, good times.

[Darkatar]

Guard Regis
Guard Philbin

[skarlorn]

http://i.imgur.com/Bxt3ERZ.png

Watchman Dreeb. To me, no name is more iconic to EQ. It all started with my first main character, a Gnome Necromancer who's name is long lost to the dust-heaps of time. I've played lots of Gnomes, and if you're a gnome, this is the guy you run to when it's time to GTFO from levels 1-5. Sometimes Dreeb can be a Dweeb and he steals kills. I don't think reporting him does any good, though.
Interesting news that you can lose: In Tekkit Minecraft a friend and I had downloaded a "Create your own NPC" program and I made a Guard NPC for my Town named Watchman Dreeb. He was my favorite Guard. Ah, good times.

Fun Fact: Dreeb is the first Gnome I slew outside of Sol A

DREEB IS A DWEEB :p

[Crookstinger]

Crookstinger. Not really sure I can explain my fascination with him, probably the hours and hours I spent camping him back in 1999. I always thought the hornet models were cool and he's the king of them.

[alexnoshinku]

https://wiki.project1999.com/images/Npc_neh%60ashiir.png

Ornate Rune Shield was the first real gear i farmed for myself and was so proud because i managed this on my 50 Enchanter at the time. Only died 3 times trying to break into 3rd floor of CoM.

[Caiu]

And how did you manage that?

[gildor]

Bait Masterson

[alexnoshinku]

And how did you manage that?

a lot of trail and error....

[Sonark]

Venril Sathir

Love his design

[Cen]

Misty Storyswapper got me banned on live on my first account as a kid. I stood on her house and blasted her ass for many levels

[Baler]

Any one of sirken's staff npcs for sure. Or his secret bear.
I've said too much..

[Dookky]

Guard Dykalin

[GinnasP99]

http://i.imgur.com/WOpX4QR.jpg

[SyanideGas]

Dinner in PoM

[Vallanor]

Mister Fizzle (https://wiki.project1999.com/Mister_Fizzle)...

Ridiculous name, serves no discernible purpose, and gives a bunch of attitude when you hail him.

[Telin]

Telin Darkforest of course

[Crede]

Ambassador dvinn.

Probably one of the biggest undercons in the game and if you had the pleasure of leveling in crushbone on classic and p99 he would come out and wreck newbs when overly courageous people would inevitably pull him and emperor Crush out of the tower.

[jackd104]

Lord Begurgle. And Alizewsaur

[Endorra]

I was always partial to Innoruuk. He's got his own pocket plane, it's all creepy and dark, he's got the Maestro playing his little hateful showtunes or whatever. He gravity fluxes newbs around his giant, enclosed hate palace. This guy's got it together.

[Radikus]

Kizdean Gix.

This little shit chased my first ever character (a Human Paladin) every single time I ran across West Commonlands. As soon as I was powerful enough I would always come through and smack him around just to get some petty vengeance.

[Cylock]

My favorite named NPC is Cylock the Brute because he is the most handsome, and cool! See I have proof!

http://i.imgur.com/Qwa8jSz.png

I may be slightly bias though

[skarlorn]

What is Cyclock the Bruce's function?

[Aalderon Crystafire]

http://i.imgur.com/6X4krBf.png?1

Frankel.

He's still missing from P99 despite having appeared during Velious. Frankel the Pirate was a level 35 super undercon that had the damage of a level 55 mob with triple attacks, massive backstabs and magic resistance. He routinely spanked players in the 50-60 range.

[Cen]

Mister Fizzle (https://wiki.project1999.com/Mister_Fizzle)...

Ridiculous name, serves no discernible purpose, and gives a bunch of attitude when you hail him.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!

:)

[skarlorn]

http://i.imgur.com/7r4bocN.png

this guy is probably my #2

no purpose other than to add a bit of sleaze to rivervale

[Jimjam]

http://i.imgur.com/7r4bocN.png

this guy is probably my #2

no purpose other than to add a bit of sleaze to rivervale

Also, by implication, shows that all the other halflings in zone are not shady.

[originalman]

tubal weaverberg

[Tankdan]

The Great Oowamp

he was so scary as a mage if he landed Scourge on me.. those memories on live.

[alexnoshinku]

My favorite named NPC is Cylock the Brute because he is the most handsome, and cool! See I have proof!

http://i.imgur.com/Qwa8jSz.png

I may be slightly bias though

[Yoink1986]

Retlon Brenclog. Most menacing gnome mage all of Norrath has seen. Messed up many adventurers days in CB along side Dvinn when pulled.

[Kesselring]

The squatnot giant. Dude always skips leg day. Hes part of the 4th Coldain ring quest?

[Rivera]

Shadowpincer or Lesser Blade Fiend, both from Unrest. Rare mobs and I had a deep fascination with Unrest when I was younger.

[Toomuch]

Quillmane.

Back in the day on Sullon Zek (the no rules PVP server), I was a good team Ranger around level 30. Good team had an insufferably hard time leveling up/gearing up, due to being only ~15% of the population of the server, and being confined to very few "safe" zones.

Me and a druid friend went to go hunt some bad guys/exp, and stumbled upon a group in South Karana that was just about to kill this flying white pegasus thing I had never seen or heard of before. Truth be told, I think it was maybe my second time in South Karana ever. We jumped the group and killed them (tbh Quillmane did most of the work, the group was struggling), then finished off Quillmane. This weird cloak thing dropped, so we rolled, and I happened to win. I had no idea what I had just won, but soon figured it out after I started getting all kinds of rage /tells from the group we had killed.

This was still pretty early on in the days of Sullon Zek, pre-Luclin, and word actually spread quickly that I had gotten a (server first?) Pegasus Feather Cloak. A day or 2 after I got the cloak, I got a /tell from a mage named Lodran in the Evil guild <Ruin>, who at the time were the baddest of the bad (Every Ruin player was like a raid boss to 99% of the Good Team, at the time). He gave me something like 10k, an Argent Protector, AND power-leveled me to 46 so that he could get the server-first Mage Epic, which I believe he did.

Seeing the value of Quillmane and his cloak, I made it a regular habit to try and camp him, and ended up getting like 2 or 3 more in my time on the server. I even took justice into my own hands one time, when some neuts were exploiting some zone-crashing glitch to get him to spawn (I think it was: you could duel, then when almost dead, you'd zone and pull the plug at the same time, and the zone would often crash). I "stood guard" and logged back in ASAP, tracked down Quillmane (their tricked worked), killed him (no cloak), he RE-SPAWNED, tracked him down and killed him (destroyed my cloak, looted the new one), they crashed it again, no spawn, etc. A couple days later there were some patch notes about fixing an exploit about crashing zones to get mobs to spawn.

I really felt like I was doing my little part to help the "good guys" win in those days :D. I was doing something that GM's couldn't/wouldn't do, because they despised Sullon Zek and it's drama-fest, and either dismissed most petitions, or took AGES to get to them. Think P99Red drama, but with 2000+ active players (at the time). I took it upon myself to be South Karana's policeman, a "Walker Texas" Ranger, if you will ;).

Honestly, really great memories, all revolving around Quillmane and that first chance encounter PKing bad gusy when I was in <Flowers of Happiness>. GO GO GOOD GUSY!!

[skarlorn]

tracked down Quillmane (their tricked worked), killed him (no cloak), he RE-SPAWNED, tracked him down and killed him (destroyed my cloak, looted the new one),

this is some hardcore shit, well played

[Amyas]

Quillmane.

Back in the day on Sullon Zek (the no rules PVP server), I was a good team Ranger around level 30. Good team had an insufferably hard time leveling up/gearing up, due to being only ~15% of the population of the server, and being confined to very few "safe" zones.

Me and a druid friend went to go hunt some bad guys/exp, and stumbled upon a group in South Karana that was just about to kill this flying white pegasus thing I had never seen or heard of before. Truth be told, I think it was maybe my second time in South Karana ever. We jumped the group and killed them (tbh Quillmane did most of the work, the group was struggling), then finished off Quillmane. This weird cloak thing dropped, so we rolled, and I happened to win. I had no idea what I had just won, but soon figured it out after I started getting all kinds of rage /tells from the group we had killed.

This was still pretty early on in the days of Sullon Zek, pre-Luclin, and word actually spread quickly that I had gotten a (server first?) Pegasus Feather Cloak. A day or 2 after I got the cloak, I got a /tell from a mage named Lodran in the Evil guild <Ruin>, who at the time were the baddest of the bad (Every Ruin player was like a raid boss to 99% of the Good Team, at the time). He gave me something like 10k, an Argent Protector, AND power-leveled me to 46 so that he could get the server-first Mage Epic, which I believe he did.

Seeing the value of Quillmane and his cloak, I made it a regular habit to try and camp him, and ended up getting like 2 or 3 more in my time on the server. I even took justice into my own hands one time, when some neuts were exploiting some zone-crashing glitch to get him to spawn (I think it was: you could duel, then when almost dead, you'd zone and pull the plug at the same time, and the zone would often crash). I "stood guard" and logged back in ASAP, tracked down Quillmane (their tricked worked), killed him (no cloak), he RE-SPAWNED, tracked him down and killed him (destroyed my cloak, looted the new one), they crashed it again, no spawn, etc. A couple days later there were some patch notes about fixing an exploit about crashing zones to get mobs to spawn.

I really felt like I was doing my little part to help the "good guys" win in those days :D. I was doing something that GM's couldn't/wouldn't do, because they despised Sullon Zek and it's drama-fest, and either dismissed most petitions, or took AGES to get to them. Think P99Red drama, but with 2000+ active players (at the time). I took it upon myself to be South Karana's policeman, a "Walker Texas" Ranger, if you will ;).

Honestly, really great memories, all revolving around Quillmane and that first chance encounter PKing bad gusy when I was in <Flowers of Happiness>. GO GO GOOD GUSY!!


Cool

[mickmoranis]

I like the mayor of river vale

[skarlorn]

are u just saying that because i'm cute?

[mickmoranis]

maybee

[skarlorn]

well it worked /blush

[Nathaniel]

1. Horasug
2. Tarskuk

[Triiz]

Brunar Rankin. Unfortunately can't find a good pic of him.

He robs that stupid human that's always fishing in at the FP docks, flees the scene of the crime, then loiters like 20 feet away. Doesn't get much more ballsy than ol' Brunar.

[Gozuk]

1) Froggy. Because his name is Froggy
2) Grandmaster Gloxx for having the coolest name in the game
3) The Great Oowomp. Fond memories... This dude used to destroy me and my cousins when we were first lead to his camp by a friend. Always talked about this guy and made a point to pay him several visits on this server.

Cloke

[Sonark]

Oooo Glox is a good one.

And lore-wise, he has the ruling Necromancers and even the Shadow Knights stay away and be respectful of the power of the Monk guild

[Menden]

Bait Masterson

^^^

[skarlorn]

For you Bait Masterson lovers,,, Freeport - or Qeynos version?

[Woolworth]

I've always liked the name Oobnopterbevny Biddilets. He's a gnome necromancer wandering in West Karana.

[xtraball]

http://i.imgur.com/Bxt3ERZ.png

I've played lots of Gnomes, and if you're a gnome, this is the guy you run to when it's time to GTFO from levels 1-5.

Amen !!

[Foxplay]

https://wiki.project1999.com/images/Npc_pendle_dashinger.png

The little bard that could. PENDLE DASHINGER!

I have a soft spot NPC's that are undercon's or are beyond stupid for their level. This little charm pet comes to mind every-time... a level 30 "bard" that has more health than dragons.

[xtraball]

Fippy Darkpaw.

That's the Will E Coyote of EQ.

[scifo76]

1. Boomba The Big
2. Rolandal (beautiful dragon)

[kjs86z]

http://wiki.project1999.com/images/Npc_emperor_chottal.png

[starfox]

i saw (or heard) an npc casting in the qeynos underground area by the necros named "shatblack"

[skarlorn]

Brunar Rankin. Unfortunately can't find a good pic of him.

He robs that stupid human that's always fishing in at the FP docks, flees the scene of the crime, then loiters like 20 feet away. Doesn't get much more ballsy than ol' Brunar.
thanks to this poster, I just noticed Brunar as he snuck up on Olunea Miltin to steal her fishing pole!

what a USELESS event, pras be to the eq devs

[Telin]

thanks to this poster, I just noticed Brunar as he snuck up on Olunea Miltin to steal her fishing pole!

what a USELESS event, pras be to the eq devs

I wouldn't say it's useless... It adds some life and personality to the game. I quite enjoy it! It also hints at an available quest.

[Muggens]

Grachnist the Destroyer - the name alone sounds just like some norwegian black metal'ist

Grandmaster Gloxx - cool dude hanging out in the temple of pain knocking out noobs

Tundra Jack and Iceberg - a madman running wild with his bear companion, gotta keep the warmth going

Sand Giant Husam - Friend of mine since 99, personal sheik of sand giants

So many great nameds, Dain Frostreaver IV, Frenzied Ghoul, Guano Harvester, Myconid Spore King, Tolapumj etc

[Skinned]

Soblohg

[Mortiis]

Great stories all!
1. Lockjaw on Tallon Zek.. Bards would run through, pull the specs, train everyone, lockjaw was always there to clean up the remaining darky survivors. Good times.

2. Grizzleknot. I still to this day haven't seen a better treant model in any other game. Took forever to complete my Totemic set because of him.


Great thread

[Mortiis]

Best store/merchant: Shinie Tings
Bar: The Maiden's Fancy
Points of interest: Brownie Compound, Faerie Village in LFAY
Best Town: Grobb. Because: Trolls