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[atropo]

Well, I had an inkie cleric that I started on TZ. While I was lvling up in Lavastorm I ran into a necro and we quickly became a duo. Went spent hours every day killing everything in sight. This was before MANY of the necro nerfs at the time, and this necro and I used to take out some serious mobs that we should not have been able to kill.
After a while the necro nerfs started coming out. Lifetap no longer being able to hit a target of any level.. etc. I saw no correlation at the time, but continued to have fun with my friend.

After a while I decided to switch to a newer server, one where I could start fresh and do better. Time passed and I had no contact with my old necro friend until I was well into my epic camp in Naggy's lair. A GM named Abashi appeared and began messing with my friends who were hanging out with me. Monks were being morphed into Highelves, all sorts of tomfoolery followed.

As it turns out that necro that I grouped with for such a long time was Abashi's alt, and I am sad to say it but we were probably responsible for a lot of those necro nerfs (sorry necros). Either way it was quite a shock to me to have known him for so long and not known of his real identity. That was probably the most memorable night of my EQ career.

I'm not sure how well this compares to the rest of your stories, but I thought I would share it regardless. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cheers to EQ folks, and all of those great memories.

[Gomrog]

A friend of mine made me play EQ after he already did for a few days. So I made my first char, Arthemis DE wiz on Vallon Zek. I knew from my friend that there is PvP and all non dark races are our enemies. Best spot to do your first levels was the newbie log in Nektulos Forest. I was always looking out for humans, elves or shorties... as a possible threat.
Little that I knew about EQ I ran from every Enchanter pet as I thought they were invisible humans trying to find an easy victim at the newbie log.


Years later (Velious expansion) my friend and I made new chars (barb war Marina and barb shm Stear) to join Ancient Orden, a raid guild some of our friends were in. When we hit lev57 we were allowed to join the raids but we didn't get a guild invite yet. It was one of those let's try King Tranix days...
When King Tranix was pretty low the MT and the 2nd MT died. As Tranix was so low and I was the only warrior left the raid leader shouted "Heal Marina!". So I put my SoD in mainhand, got some lucky procs, got aggro and poped my disci immediately - otherwise it would have been a matter of second(s). As I never tanked a raid mob before I had no chat filters in place. I just saw lines of text flying by with Tranix hitting me and everyone casting on me. This made my EQ client lag and finally freeze.

When my client recovered King Tranix was dead, we got a guild invite and it was the server first^^
Being a meat shield is so easy! =P

[Stickyfingers]

Early in my Everquest Career (I was around 10 years old at this time, 2000) me and an IRL buddy would always play human or half-elf characters up to level 10, then quit and start new humans or half-elf, the only prerequisite was we had to be able to start in Freeport, since we were dumb asses at that time and all of the evil cities were too difficult to navigate in the dark on shitty CRT Monitors.

Anywho, one time me and my buddy decide to go to Rivervale randomly at level 6. So we beg this guy to give us SoW and show us through the forest, he complies, however when we get to Kithicor it is already night out and I am human as fuck with no vision in the dark, plus I didn't realize you could auto follow at that time. So I get lost in the forest, can't see shit. My buddy is ahead and still following, but stops to come back and find me. I start to wander in Kithicor blindly and stumble in an apparently massive nest of bixies and start to fight one when like 10 other bixies roll up on me. So I am fighting these renegade bixies and it's a struggle, I also forgot to turn on auto attack for a minute. So I kill like 8 of them and end up going down. Friend actually finds me and I am surrounded by bixie corpses. Then he got absolutely wrecked by a Skeleton Trooper. That was the last time we tried to go to Rivervale.

[Ambrosie]

First of all sorry, my English is not my native language. Will try to keep it clear ;-)

It was around 2001/2002 and the whole story is about raid competition between guilds.

I was in a guild where we were the opposite of a zerg type guild. Our goal was to advance in Velious content with the minimum required people and so our raid force was mainly bellow 20 / 25 players. On the other hand, the concurrent guild was a zerg type of guild (no offence, everyone pick the way it prefers playing) and they never engage a target without being 50+ player in the zone.

The whole story happened in ToV zone and it was an unbelievable night which lead us to guild disband (which made me sad when it happened, but its great memory now).

So, like any raid night, our rangers were running over Velious content in order to check / track mob availability. This night, we found out that making NToV could be a great plan. My leader went to ToV and started to call for camp check. Our concurrent guild was already in ToV and because we had only 15 people of our guild logged at this time, they called WToV then NToV (considering that they will have time to finish WToV and move to NToV and kill Aaryonar).
As a side note: The "gentleman agreement" on my server was that the guild killing Aaryonar win the NToV camp.

My guild leader ordered that we all move to ToV in order to make NToV. He was pretty sure and confident in the fact that we could kill Aaryonar before our concurrent guild may think of it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] He also told the other guild that they should move to NToV now if they don't want to lose the camp arguing that they could not pretend to call both WToV and NToV. They chose to stay in WToV because they didn't think we could gather our raid forces and kill Aaryonar in less than 1.30 / 2 hours.

The fact was that we were ready at ToV entrance in less than 15 min with the minimum required forces (according to my leader) to take NToV!! Problems started at this point with a hell of fu**** /shout and /ooc about camp stealth ;-). Both guilds were pissed at each other and we all had valuable arguments.

First problem was to go to Aaryonar fight spot. There is 2 main solutions: You clean the way to it or you log your mage for CoTH. Both were not the solution for us (no Mage and not enough time to clean before the concurrent guild set up all its players to the fight spot with their CoTH mages). So the plan was to let our main puller aggro everything from first part of NToV and bring the shit of it in EToV. I don't know how it did it (really), but it did and that was an amazing pull / train. Once everything was aggroed, we moved all our raid forces at Aaryonar fighting spot, the monk FD and "voila !” In less than 5 minutes all our raid force was ready to fight (we buffed the whole raid before moving in). 20 min laters we claimed the death of Aaryonar which according to gentleman agreement allowed us to have the full of NToV camp.

The concurrent guild was quite upset about it as this was breaking their night plan. So they decided to move to NToV and put all their players at entrance of NToV cave (the zone just after the aaryonar corridor). They were at the spot just waiting us wipping... This led us to be a bit nervous as we were still learning stuff in NToV.

The mess happened during our first named pull. The named was around 20% and we got trained by one of their monk... We tried to log cleric / save our ass... but the whole raid force wiped without any backup plan. I pass on the 2 hours crying / drama we have in NToV /ooc and /shout channel (both leader making petition ... etc). At some point, we called it a day and let NToV to them.
But one of our members told in GU "Guys, what I will do tonight is my own shit. I am quitting the guild because I don't want to put shame on all of us".

The guy quitted the guild and went back to NToV by itself and activated the "trigger" that starts the last event of NToV. During more than 4 hours he did everything he could to screw the other guild and make sure they could not kill any named.

Well, let's say that the diplomacy was nonexistent and it pissed everyone in our guild. Members were so pissed, that the drama hit our personal organization and leadership. A part of the member base was not proud of this night and it led us to mass guild disband.

On a very personal part, I did a fucking miss tell during this night! At the very beginning of the night, while we were moving to ToV, I send a tell to my guildleader saying that its call to NToV is great and that we should not worry about the other guild. I told something like this "/tell OppositeGuildLeader is a morron. he does not want to raid something without being 60+ players in the zone. He has no ball". Well you got it, the tell went directly to concurrent guild Leader instead of my own guild leader.
I don't know how much my misstell did have an impact on the whole story, but I am pretty sure that it did not help. And if he reads this story today: Sorry bud, I was young and stupid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Langrisser]

fuck it lets do this

[Taiku]

My first character on live was a wood elf druid before Velious was out, I was pretty hardcore in the sense that I played alllllllll the time, more than was good for my grades in middle school.

I finally had gotten high enough level to start peeking my head into lavastorm and the cave zones off of that, sol a-b? I'm not sure, anyway this was quite a while after I had started playing, and I had bought this THICK prima guide to the game filled with all kinds of cool info and pictures, I read through that when I wasn't playing the game, so I knew about the dragon under lavastorm, Nagafen.

I was actually pretty intimidated about the prospect of being in the same zone as a dragon, I didn't know about spawn timers and all of that so I just figured he was somewhere down there ready for me to make a mistake and fall through a pit into his lair or something like that, I never ventured far from the entrance of the zone.

One day I was there killing kobolds when a friend of mine said he was going to be dropping group with me to join his friends on a raid on Nagafen, I was really impressed and I wanted to see it first hand but again, I was afraid of the zone and didn't want to go too deep. So eventually the raid of people came through the entrance, my group mate on his main messaged me and asked me if I wanted to come watch, so of course I followed this huge mass of people through the unknown zone.

I got down pretty far into it and realized I was in an empty room, people were still running past me but I thought it a good idea to bind there so that if I did die, I would still have a chance to see the dragon for the first time, the one I had been reading so much about.

So I bound there and soon after, died, when I respawned I was in a room full of very red con and very unfriendly beetles, who proceeded to kill me about 20 times before I pulled the plug on my internet and forced myself offline, I was in a state of panic, all that work, all my gear, my chance at seeing the dragon, all gone.

I got on an alt after I composed myself a bit and petitioned for help, within 30 minutes I got a response from a guide who said he could help me, but only if I sent him a tell, from my druid, my thinking was that he didn't want to teleport someone who wasn't me by accident or something like that, the bad part was his name was VERY random and long, I remember it being at least 10 characters long and the same composure of a pet's name, just kind of random and hard to spell right the first time.

I was very young at the time and I didn't know about copy/paste at all, Ctrl+C Ctrl+V could of saved me here, I tried in vain at least 10 times to type the name out before the beetles killed me, but I must have broken some kind of typing record with how fast I typed his name out eventually, and got teleported up to him instantly. Sadly he said he couldn't refund my XP, because it really was my mistake. I was just glad I got my body back, even if I was at least 3 levels lower than what I was when I woke up that morning.

So that was my sad story of my first dragon encounter, I couldn't even get past the beetles! I never saw a dragon in that game even after playing from Kunark all the way to the LDoN expansion. So much time was invested into the game, thousands of hours with a goal of being able to kill a dragon, or a god, and I never made it. Which is why I'm here on this server to hopefully see one finally and fulfill that long standing goal of mine!

[Langrisser]

oh do go on that 10kpp is waiting!!

[xc5000]

When EQ first came out, all of my friends, (3), got the game and were rolling through exploring the world. I was unable to play because my 56k connection sucked and would never stay connected longer than 30 seconds. I would go to my friends houses and sit and watch them play and go home and dream about the game. So for a good 6 months while I didn't have an internet connection, I would boot up the EQ demo I believe it was called. It was the short training session to introduce you to EQ. I must have played that damn thing 300+ times. Between playing the demo and watching the introduction movie I was living large! Finally after 6 months, I convinced my parents to upgrade the internet so I could live my long filled destiny on Rodcet Nife. Nerd Hard!

[Langrisser]

oh do go on dont stop now you could win!!!1

[Langrisser]

^^ experiment in human nature