I never played any video games before until I got a job at a Cyber Cafe in the summer of 2000. Ruins of Kunark was already out and what everyone talked about. One of the perks of the job is we could play for free. The top tech qeek introduced me to EQ the first day. He claimed EQ would be like heroin and I would get hooked. I sneered, video games were for boys. That won't happen to me. Well I got sucked in and this was my life. I worked and played around the clock and barely went home to sleep. Everyday was a LAN party for the guys because they raided together. I mainly puttered around Kelethin as a ranger and only got my main character to level 32. I wanted to play a druid, but everyone convinced me that the spells cost too much and it would be better to play a ranger. This lasted about a year until we got a new store owner who didn't appreciate all of us hanging out and stinking up the place. We all left voluntarily and I got a retail job. My pc at home couldn't handle the graphics and I had to stop playing around the time Planes of Power came out. I can finally pursuit my EQ dream of being a druid and sowing and healing everyone for free.
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