I grew up playing this game, so it's kind of hard wired into my brain, but I can't think of any particular moment that latched me on for good. It was all the adventures I got to go on as a 10 year old having only the most basic grasp of gameplay. Falling off boats and being terrified of losing all the statless armor I had collected then finally finding land only to be immediately killed by sirens, which I never actually saw. Running aimlessly in Gfay unable to see anything and getting lost. I was killed by an orc centurion, neither of which were words I was familiar with(I think at the time I thought it was some kind of centaur...)... When I found the sewers in Freeport I thought I was the only one who knew about them(I didn't think anyone else would spend time running into walls to see if you could go through any of them), until I found a few backpacks that held a fungi tunic and several other wonderful things... My mom said someone was killing themselves somewhere right now, but I, on the other hand had a few shiny new toys to go get killed with. Fun times. I am very far from 10 years old now, but I still do the exact same thing in classic eq. I refuse to fight in a zone that doesn't slightly terrify me.
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