Just had a weird 20 years late epiphany
 

Soandso, the character you play in the original Everquest tutorial is named that because he is 'So And So'.

so-and-so
/ˈsō ən ˌsō/
noun
a person or thing whose name the speaker does not need to specify or does not know or remember.

Huh. Am I an idiot for never realizing this? :D

Duh?

How are you still playing the tutorial 20 years later? I didn't think it even worked on P99/Titanium client.

I haven't played it recently. But it's a seperate .exe file so I am sure it's out there on the internet somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ErchwGqR8

Well, i remember Scorpious2k server used to have the tutorial in, it was the zone/quest/Trainer hub and i loved it.... I miss it :(

It doesn't. However, the tutorial *does* work if installed from the Trilogy disks (or possibly other old disks). Some folks, including myself, still have those laying around.

Danth

Haha. It's not inconceivable that some people don't notice Soandso is so-and-so. I believe "so-and-so" is more common than "soandso;" and it's almost never capitalized. Perhaps the absence of the hyphens combined with the capital S and the fantasy setting prevented you from interpreting the word as a combination of English words. Something like that.

Best and only thing to do during numerous server downtimes :(

Lol TIL soandso is not sowAN'dzo

That's how I've been pronouncing it all this time.:p