First time EQ stories

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A friend of mine showed me his lvl 35 halfling druid on EQ when I was 14 or 15 I think velious was newly released. I was obsessed with fantasy RPG stuff and couldn't get the game out of my head. So shortly after that I got my dad to buy the original three pack with vanilla/kunark/velious. I remember the install/registration process being super long and I had the original guidebook to tide me over while I watched the install. My dad was super skeptical about the whole subscription thing and it took a bunch of convincing to get him to put his credit card in so I could play.
So bam install completed like 2 days later on my shitty computer. I made a troll shadowknight and proceded to get lost in innothule swamp for hours on end. Some passer buy dropped mithril armor and that 2hander sword that did strength tap proc. Everytime I zoned the game would crash and I would have to restart so I started exploring out into the world very slowly. As I was wandering around oasis at like level 6 or 7 (because someone told me to go to EC and I had no idea how to get there) A sand giant caught me and killed me and the game crashed on the loading screen. Then my dad came home and grounded me for something or other and I couldn't get on the computer for a week. Well I knew that the corpse with all my newly gotten gear on it would expire before then so I spent the next few days begging him to let me play for like 30 mins for a CR.
That was my first EQ experience. loved it.