chronic depression, overmedication, EQ, and you (well, me)

[xeffo]

Hi there. On Monday afternoon I picked up my SSRIs/other meds/adderall and logged into p99 around 4pm PST. Decided to level up my 2nd and only other toon, a level 30 delf rogue. Well. I went to HHK, after vehemently and stubbornly refusing to level in a tiny overpacked zone. So what happened? Well, ignorance lost out, and I realized how ridiculous the ZEM bonus and respawn times here were. (ps 99% sure neither of those were classic at least not to the degree here, but hey, green isn't classic either despite your fantasies...)

24-26 hours later, I hadn't slept or eaten yet, and was level 43. 13 levels overnight/day, SOLO, in a zone with bonuses like centrally located, nearly every vendor need, and a bank. Amazing what a zero-danger XP grind zone this little butthole of Norrath is - very surprised I never checked it out at all on Live back in 00-01. The only little thing saving this place from being nerfed is that there just aren't enough mobs to share with everybody and due to the multiple-story linear nature of the building, some AMAZING trains can happen.

That's not even starting on some ambitious ideas HH Pass uses in regards to the attacking orcs and gnolls --- if you kill off the guards at the post, both will run rampant all over until sufficient respawns. Picked up two DA idols today completely by accident cos those orcs ran all the way thru to the mini castle. Pretty cool stuff; some WoW ideas before WoW came, I guess.

What was this post about?

Anybody wanna be my girlfriend?

Anyway, long story short, even after 20 years, it's still so easy for me to fall into a goal-chain of items/quests/things and trade 6 hours for 6 new levels... really kinda frustrating. defeating. depressing. MAKE ME BELIEVE I CAN LET LOOSE THESE CHIPPED BONE BRACELET SHACKLES



P P S what % of raiding guilds on p99 do you think use stimulants to avoid sleep? 10% 20? 50? just me? thx buds