[Othniel626]

Bear in mind I'm 23 now, but when my 8-10 year old self was playing this game back around 2000 I was a lot more naive.

It started with Saturday morning getting up early to get some play time in on the one computer in the house before my dad booted me off.

Ran into a very nice Bard in EC on my low level Human Warrior (there's my first mistake). He proceeded to have me follow him back to the forge in EFP and make me a full set of banded, which I was ecstatic about.

Well he also tossed some brandy in the trade window as well (for kicks, I guess), and sent me on my way. I couldn't believe what had just happened and was super excited to destroy anything in my way back in EC.

Unfortunately, I also had never experienced imbibing alcohol in the game (I thought I'd get in trouble if I made my character drink because I couldn't drink in RL). But I thought I would try it out before my parents got up, 'cause no one would ever know.

Needless to say, I started flipping out the second I right-clicked 4 or so of them because the screen warped. I thought I had broken the screen, or had done something irreversible to the UI and was eternally screwed. After debating with myself for a few minutes on how I needed to approach this dire situation, I tried talking to the guy who hooked me up with the banded armor, unaware, of course, that I was thoroughly inebriated and unintelligible to him.

So I broke down and woke my dad up to confess my sins, and both my parents got a good laugh out of it. Of course, when I went downstairs to show him the effects were pretty much gone. I'll never forget that morning.