10kpp Giveaway, all welcome to participate

[Hagglebaron]

This time it's just a funny eq story competition, any good memories you have from p99 or live are fair game!

The best story shared by this weekend will be notified to pick up their prize Sunday evening or anytime afterwards.

[Hagglebaron]

Post here for others to enjoy as well mate

[Knuckle]

Oh man if only I could find the elven love story fan fiction i made on the everlore site when I was like 10 years old such fail on so many levels. I'll give 2kpp to whoever finds a way to fully navigate everlores website with the wayback machine. All I've been able to view is extremely limited information on the site.

[JenJen]

knuckle, i must read this

[Tiggles]

A friend of mine drove from Philadelphia to Colorado to meet a girl he met online in the EQ guild we where in. The problem is she was married to another player in the guild at the time.

They took off in the middle of the night and drove from colorado back to philly to live his parents house with the 7 animals she had brought with her.

My guild leader who was furious that he lost one of his mainhealers(the girl) and his main tank(the husband) because of some scrubby SK (my friend) found out my friends address and gave it to the angry husband.

The husband flew over to philly and tried to kill my friend on his front lawn. The cops where called and the husband was forced to flee back to Colorado.

My friend who did not make much money (worked nights as security on campus) was foced to slowly sell off his belongings to support her and she quickly grew fedup with his current situation and after 3 months she left him to get back with her husband.

This left him pennyless guildless and womanless but his epic EQ fail will be an amusing story to tell people for years to come.

And the moral of the story is Nothing good comes out of Colorado.

[JenJen]

one of my guilds back in classic also had a rl affair that came out and everything got lulzy

actually i must admit in my mid-teens i kind of told some fibs and broke up a couple in another guild. ahh to be young and carefree again

[vageta31]

A friend of mine drove from Philadelphia to Colorado to meet a girl he met online in the EQ guild we where in. The problem is she was married to another player in the guild at the time.

They took off in the middle of the night and drove from colorado back to philly to live his parents house with the 7 animals she had brought with her.

My guild leader who was furious that he lost one of his mainhealers(the girl) and his main tank(the husband) because of some scrubby SK (my friend) found out my friends address and gave it to the angry husband.

The husband flew over to philly and tried to kill my friend on his front lawn. The cops where called and the husband was forced to flee back to Colorado.

My friend who did not make much money (worked nights as security on campus) was foced to slowly sell off his belongings to support her and she quickly grew fedup with his current situation and after 3 months she left him to get back with her husband.

This left him pennyless guildless and womanless but his epic EQ fail will be an amusing story to tell people for years to come.

And the moral of the story is Nothing good comes out of Colorado.

I thought the moral was going to be nothing good ever comes out of a cheating woman? Especially one that whores herself through EQ hehe.

[Tiggles]

I thought the moral was going to be nothing good ever comes out of a cheating woman? Especially one that whores herself through EQ hehe.

Nah I like my moral better. Colorado Sucks

[Tewaz]

My best friend in high school, we will call him Dr. Knight, met a girl that lives in Reunion Island. That is a tiny french colony off the coast of Madigascar in the Indian Ocean.

He became very enthralled with her and he wanted to talk with her IRL, but alas, Skype had not been invented yet. So he came up with a plan.

Our job in high school was telemarketing. We worked at a pretty large firm that ONLY called long distance customers. That place racked up phone bills into the tens of thousands every month.

So he began to call his lady love every evening while we worked from the phone in our server room, hiding his identity, you know, doing big things.

At the same time, he signed up for a credit card and couldn't resist the prefix option, becoming a Discover card Doctor in one easy click.

A few months pass, we ruin about 300 college kids lives as we dish out high interest rate credit cards like they are hot cakes, pull in over $7 an hour, you know, move our Donald Trump $hit.

One day the owner of the company walks in and asks to talk with my friend. No biggie, we're the cream of the telemarketing crop.

After a short meeting, my friend walks with his head high out the office, and out the front door.

I later find out that they sat him down and asked him if he had ever heard of Reunion Island. He said it sounded like the name of an amusement park for old people. They said it cost $8.00 a minute to call Reunion Island, and someone owed them around $10,000.00 for calls made there.

He said he didn't know what they were talking about, stood up, walked out, never to be seen again.

A month later I got a call to our telemarketing firm looking for Dr. Knight. He apparently owed them some money. I told them he was in surgery.

Thanks Everquest.

[Slathar]

On a level 50 wizard on Rallos Zek, pre-Kunark. So, I zone into Greater Faydark and see this Dark Elf Shadowknight moving very, very slowly. He had full Umbral and the Soul Leech weapon. He saw me zone in and I had a very bad reputation as someone who liked to one-shot people with Ice Comet. He immediately starts sending me tells.

Shadowknight tells you, "dude please I know what you're thinking but I'll make it worth your while if you just let me go."

I begin casting Ice Comet. Shadowknight begins to slowly walk toward Lesser Faydark zone.

Shadowknight tells you, "COME ON I CANT DIE RIGHT NOW"

First Ice Comet drops him to about 40%. I begin casting the second Ice Comet.

Shadowknight tells you, "fuck you cocksucker you fucking queer, you'll never see the planes"

Second Ice Comet lands slaying the shadowknight. I loot him quickly and here the cha-ching. You have looted 11,400 platinum. He also didn't bag his Hooded Black Cloak.

[baub]

i only hope mav shows up and claims his 10k by sharing bobmu stories.

tholuxe will never forget you bobmu! the level 60 korean cleric who went afk in sebilis to get a soda and never came back

[mokfarg]

My friends and I would joke with each other as all young adults do. One of the jokes was a catch phrase from a Deliverance "You got a purty mouth". Of course it was just among us. We would occasionally sent a tell to each other with comments such as this.

My friend would also sometimes play a female friend's account and I thought it would be funny when he was on to pretend I was saying this to her. Well .... it so happens he logged off and now she was logged in when I decided to share this information.

I was almost reported before I could explain the joke to her. She wasn't happy and I believe never talked to me again. Maybe that wasn't funny ... :)

[Snaggles]

Really wanted a tusk and read he couldn't summon.

Went over to Western Wastes on my invisible AA horse (:p) and found him conning blue. He's somewhere 63-66 so I guess I got lucky. Proceeded to dot kite him with boiling blood and Festering Darkness (like 1600hp over time if standing still).

At one point snare broke and he charged me knock-back'ing me off the cliff in WW into the water. Resnared and continued to run with Bobbing Corpse on until I could find a place to get back up. By this time I had at least 2 of those damn blue wolves on me which were unsnared. I eventually feared them off until I could FD off the aggro.

Back on Tantor I used Boiling Blood and Darkness and ran him all over WW. It honestly took 2 cold sweaty hours of gameplay to wear him down. I got knocked in the water TWICE and was fending off those damn wolves the entire time.

The tusk didn't drop. :cool:

[Silentone]

So my brother and I made 2 wizards back in 1999 and we started in Gfay. It was our first MMO that we every played and we were sucked in instantly, I think it took us 1 month to get to lvl 10 in orc hill. Then we proceded to travel to Crushbone and spent a good month there until we felt it was time to travel. So we poked around the map a bit until we found this zone called Lesser Faydark...welll being that we were in Greater Fay and we had no problems we decided to travel through. So on that dreadful day we went into Lessery Fay as two level 16 wizards, we were now 2 month vets of eq and knew that when traveling into a new zone...you have to stick to the zone wall. Unfortunately for us, on this day in Lessery Fay there was a nasty little brownie who instantly attacked us and dispatched us in a mater of seconds. After we respawned my brother sitting next to me got up and said "im done" not playing anymore. I was confused because death and CR's had become a norm in our daily eq lives. So I asked him "why are you so upset" and he answered "the brownie stole a level from me, how am I going to get it back" ......thats the day we found out ...you actually lose exp when you die =P

[Marglar]

back on Tallon Zek when I started back in 2000, I was struggling as a new player. I didn't really have any friends to play with or any equipment to get started (Barbarian Warrior). Eventually I caught a lucky break - some a$$hole ran an ice giant train on me and killed me. That doesn't sound very lucky, but the guy that did it felt really bad, and he went into permafrost and got me some large bronze pieces.

he told me about a place called Gfay - where the newb wood elfs start out, and mentioned it was the auction zone and constantly had hundreds of people in it bartering at all times. I wasn't happy with the bronze armor alone, the game was still really tough to solo in. I made my way to gfay to do some buying and selling.

I sold all of my bronze armor - 2pp per AC. while I did that, I kept an eye on low end items from people in a hurry to make a sale, or just in general what the items were going for. I bought and resold a couple of items I was comfortable taking the gamble on. the big money maker was the stein of moggok, easy to sell and people were churning out the quest to sell them. eventually I did enough buying/reselling to acquire a full set of crafted armor and a blade of xalgoz.

anyways, after I had geared up some and leveled up some in the area, I happened to be by a GM that was resolving an issue for a player near the kelethin bank. he went linkdead - I hadn't ever seen a GM go linkdead before.. being a PvP server, for shits and giggles, I decided to see if it would allow me to attack him.. sure enough, it let me attack him, and he wasn't hitting me back for any damage.

I pk'ed a GM in the middle of all the usual traders and people hanging out in Gfay .. started telling everyone about the armor and weapons he was wearing and what kind of stats/effects they had on em .. it was utterly hilarious. I don't think I ever saw someone else PK a GM on EQ live. I became extremely paranoid that I'd be banned and went into hiding.. he confronted me when he logged back in. all was good, though, he thought it was kind of funny himself, and he wasn't very upset about the #zone corpse run.

TL:DR, pk'ed a linkdead GM on live. not all that hilarious, but one of my fondest.

[Asher]

A friend of mine drove from Philadelphia to Colorado to meet a girl he met online in the EQ guild we where in. The problem is she was married to another player in the guild at the time.

They took off in the middle of the night and drove from colorado back to philly to live his parents house with the 7 animals she had brought with her.

My guild leader who was furious that he lost one of his mainhealers(the girl) and his main tank(the husband) because of some scrubby SK (my friend) found out my friends address and gave it to the angry husband.

The husband flew over to philly and tried to kill my friend on his front lawn. The cops where called and the husband was forced to flee back to Colorado.

My friend who did not make much money (worked nights as security on campus) was foced to slowly sell off his belongings to support her and she quickly grew fedup with his current situation and after 3 months she left him to get back with her husband.

This left him pennyless guildless and womanless but his epic EQ fail will be an amusing story to tell people for years to come.

And the moral of the story is Nothing good comes out of Colorado.

You will get my vote if you can quote the local news story on this. :)

Asher

[arsenalpow]

There once was a man on the Sullon Zek server named Sam Deathwalker...

[Grahm]

My true eq story ;)

ok, so like im in the commons east last night and im having
some ice craem and getting my determination up to go crazyman
and finish level 5.
so i see this skeleton and he runs over to me and hits me and
then laughs at me. so like theres no way im gonna put up with
that, so im attack him.

well im standing there fighting, and this monk named siegert
walks up to me and hes like 'what are you doing?'

and im like 'wtf dude im killing this dumb skele dont KS me'

i don't even know what KS means, but everyone tells me to stop
doing it alot so i think it has something to do with
roleplaying

so he's like 'why aren't you attacking it?'

WTF?!?

so im like 'dude, i am attacking it, look at this sweet ninja
kicking action, are you blind'

so im clicking kick as fast as i can so this stupid monk will
see that i can fite good and leeve me alone.

so then he's like 'skaterr, press the A key'

so i say 'A'

and hes like 'no, don't say it, just press it'

so I tell siegert 'A'

and hes like 'your kinda retarded arent you? just press the A
key'

so im like 'ok dude but this is the last favor i ever do for
you'

so i press A

well all of the sudden i start swinging with my fists and
punch the skele and it dies reely fast!

and im like 'OMG DUDE YOU ARE SO RULE!!'

and hes like 'how is it possible that you've gotten to level 5
without knowing about auto attack?'

and im like 'whats autoattack???'

and hes like 'its what you were just doing when you pressed A'

and im like 'ohh is it an exploit, cause i wont tell on you if
you dont tell on me'

and he stops for a second and hes looking at me and hes
like 'your amazing'

and im like 'ya i know im almost level 6'

and hes like 'lucky for you i came along'

and im like 'ya dude you are the rulest'

so he leaves and im all excited, so i give j-mo a call on the
phone.

and he like 'hello'

and im like 'dude i just got sooooo lucky!'

and hes like 'sweet bro!! with who?'

and im like 'this guy named siegert'

and hes like 'WTF?!?!'

and im like 'ya this monk guys showed me how to exploit the
game with autoattack'

and j-mo's like 'oooooooh, i thought... nevermind'

and im like 'ya dude it rules i can kill pretty much anything
in the game now'

and hes like 'umm, wait a sec dude, you're telling me you
didn't ever know about auto attack?? how the hell did you ever
get to level 5?'

and im like 'DUDE WTF WHY DO PPL KEEP ASKING ME THAT, IM A
MONK!!!'

and hes like 'ya how could i forget, the sweet ninja kicking
action right?'

and im like 'thats right'

so i hang up and then i start wondering why the hell my
brother never told me about the autoattack exploit.

so i go running over to his room, and im banging on the door
and im like 'MIKE!'

and he opens the door a crak and sticks his head out and hes
whispers 'SSsssshhh! dude shut-up! i cant talk right now im
getting lucky!'

so then i realized that that he must be learning about
autoattack right now too, so theres no way he could have told
me about it.

i celebrated with some ice cream.

[Ektar]

totally lost interest in this last post on the second line >.<

[Amirite]

My true eq story ;)
.....
bunchofplagarism.....

i celebrated with some ice cream.



wasn't this from sk8rgnome or sk8erboy

[Fate]

I remember back when kunark was released I had a 60 necro and just got arch lich/emissary of thule and I celebrated by going into oasis during prime time and running around with all the spectres (making sure not to train anyone mind you) while my friend from my guild was yelling in /ooc that the GM's spawned a special event. Had a good laugh for 2 hours or so as there was probably 100 or so people in the zone trying to follow me around.

[Knuckle]

Try looking here http://web.archive.org/web/20030402131925/http://everlore.com/stories/default.asp

not bad i can actually pull up some stories haha, ill have ZERO chance of finding any of mine, I cant search by author name =( like a needle in a haystack


ooo heres a news update:



Alan VanCouvering on the EQ naming policy
Catalyst [12/3/2000-5:37:46 PM] Comments[68]

Name Nazi's Out of Control on P99
Well it worked. The name police turned out in force. So now, that I know of, 2 level 60's on our server have decided to quit playing because their name got changed. They've had the names for over a year, they were not offensive in any way, but the name nazis decided it's never too late to annoy the customers.

For example, one of the players was named "Knuckle". That's been his identity. Here's someone who's a well known high level, who's helped kill Trakanon several times, and now his name has been changed for no good reason. (Those who know me from P99 know I'm no fan of Knuckle or his guild, but seeing someone quit the game because CUSTOMER SERVICE (lol) decided it was time to screw them over for something as stupid as a name is just ludicrous.

If you want to discuss our name policies, I'm all for it. But not with the kind of language and name calling that has been used in this thread.

Alan

[Tiggles]

back on Tallon Zek when I started back in 2000, I was struggling as a new player. I didn't really have any friends to play with or any equipment to get started (Barbarian Warrior). Eventually I caught a lucky break - some a$$hole ran an ice giant train on me and killed me. That doesn't sound very lucky, but the guy that did it felt really bad, and he went into permafrost and got me some large bronze pieces.

he told me about a place called Gfay - where the newb wood elfs start out, and mentioned it was the auction zone and constantly had hundreds of people in it bartering at all times. I wasn't happy with the bronze armor alone, the game was still really tough to solo in. I made my way to gfay to do some buying and selling.

I sold all of my bronze armor - 2pp per AC. while I did that, I kept an eye on low end items from people in a hurry to make a sale, or just in general what the items were going for. I bought and resold a couple of items I was comfortable taking the gamble on. the big money maker was the stein of moggok, easy to sell and people were churning out the quest to sell them. eventually I did enough buying/reselling to acquire a full set of crafted armor and a blade of xalgoz.

anyways, after I had geared up some and leveled up some in the area, I happened to be by a GM that was resolving an issue for a player near the kelethin bank. he went linkdead - I hadn't ever seen a GM go linkdead before.. being a PvP server, for shits and giggles, I decided to see if it would allow me to attack him.. sure enough, it let me attack him, and he wasn't hitting me back for any damage.

I pk'ed a GM in the middle of all the usual traders and people hanging out in Gfay .. started telling everyone about the armor and weapons he was wearing and what kind of stats/effects they had on em .. it was utterly hilarious. I don't think I ever saw someone else PK a GM on EQ live. I became extremely paranoid that I'd be banned and went into hiding.. he confronted me when he logged back in. all was good, though, he thought it was kind of funny himself, and he wasn't very upset about the #zone corpse run.

TL:DR, pk'ed a linkdead GM on live. not all that hilarious, but one of my fondest.


Hate killed the head GM on Sullon in Ntov when he got Dragon feared and went LD.

[GiavannaSK]

Heres my 2cp

Back when i Played on live i would hold the kelethin high jump contests and offer people upto 500pp if they could survive a jump off of some of the platforms in kelethin (asshole move i know) So i would shout to the zone to come to the Gfay bank and meet me there to lead people up the ramp by the bank(if not higher) to jump off to see if they could survive the landing for PP and or items. For some people i would invite them to a group and split upto 1000 copper..... oh man great times, lots of deaths and funny times.

[Demetrium]

When I started playing EQ I was like 13-14 and had no sense of morals. After griefing tons of people with /consent scams and crap the GMs had the last straw after several people reported me shouting racial profanities about sand giants in Oasis.

I was chilling out in Kelethin by my bro poopy pants Banker Willaen in full rubicite like a hot shit when GM Tunso decided the party was over. He started telling me that he was going to suspend my account and I did the most logical thing --- I started to run and try to jump off the side of Kelethin. He rooted me and said "where do you think you're going?" and then I saw "you have been disconnected". Then I had two weeks to think about how my actions were a personal affront to all he stood for.

Pic related.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2up91cy.jpg

[Marglar]

Hate killed the head GM on Sullon in Ntov when he got Dragon feared and went LD.

Oh I bet it happened many times - I am just saying I hadn't seen it happen at another time personally.

[Grahm]

lol, i did it as a joke hence the ;)

yeah its sk8er gnome or whatever and its really funny if you read it

[citizen1080]

So...

Back when they implemented the feature where you could spawn as a mob and run around and attack people I had a low lvl wizard that for whatever reason was in Gfay at the time.

Being bored out of my skull, as wizard usually led me to be, I decided to try and have some fun with this new feature.

I started shouting in zone "The Wood Elves have repressed us for too long my minions! Come to me at the druid stones and we shall assault them in force and the trees shall be stained red with their blood!"

After 30mins or so of this shouting I had gathered a group of 40 or so Players who had spawned as orc's and other assorted mobs.

I proceeded to tell them how the plan is to run around and slay any noobies we can find.

We gathered on a hill above one of the lifts.

"Do not charge till you see the whites of their eyes my minions!!" I shouted

A lift started to descend and the mob of minions started to inch forward in anticipation of the slaughter.







Right before the lift hit the ground I cast my PBAOE and one shotted them all.



True Story

[Hivolt]

OMG Grahm that is so funny! That story rocks. My first dude was a monk back in 1999 and it took me a while to figure that out too, not quite as dramatic but killer story, thanks!

[Trelaboon]

I'll never forget the day I was introduced to EverQuest, I was spending the night at a friends house when he insisted I had to see this new game he had just bought. After watching him play for what seemed like an eternity, I decided to give this interesting new game a shot. I rolled a Human Warrior and soon set off on my journey into this new, unexplored and terrifying land. After nearly 4 hours of playing, I had finally reached the heroic level 3 and was prepared to move into the East Commonlands with my newbie sword, tunic and random cloth pieces to terrorize orcs, wolves and whatever else I may find. Another several hours and numerous deaths later, I was finally level 6; I felt like a true hero, nothing could touch me, I could do as I pleased, the creatures surrounding me were all cowering in my sight and I had my way with them whenever I pleased, that was, until......I decided to camp.

Caught up in this mystical world, I was finally broken from my trance as I heard my friends dad venture down into the basement. By this time, I had neglected my friend for nearly 7 hours, a teenage boy of only 15 had left the boring planet earth to join Norrath, and for the time, only that mattered. Furious that I had been on his computer, at his house, for nearly 7 hours, he insisted that I log off immediately, "Close down that game now and come upstairs, for the love of God!". Maybe he was right, perhaps it was time to log and try my hand at reality once more, so I did as I was instructed 7 hours earlier, entered the inn, clicked camp, and waited for the timer to tick down as I watched my character sway gently in his indian style seated position. "Orc stom, Orc kill, Orc weapons your blood will spill!" I WAS BEING ATTACKED...I had to stand up and defend myself, I couldn't camp with something on me, I knew that by now! After killing the Orc, I tried camping again, 15 seconds into the process, I heard the loud barking of a wolf and the cracking of my very bones, I WAS BEING ATTACKED....I had to stand up and defend myself, I couldn't camp with something on me, I knew that by now!

My friends father entered the computer room again, furious that I had denied his request for me to log and instead, heard me slaying Orcs and wolves. I tried defending my position, letting him know that you can't camp while being attacked, but alas, his foolish earthly understanding had no clue; still, I complied and agreed to camp. I clicked 'sit, camp' again, and waited patiently as the timer began to tick once again. 5 seconds left, my journey was coming to an end when I heard the familiar cackle of a skeleton who had seen his flesh covered victim, it was so real, I nearly felt his bony fist hit my skull! I WAS BEING ATTACKED...I had to stand up and defend myself, I couldn't camp with something on me, I knew that by now! So I stood back to my feet and began the battle with the familiar decaying skeleton that had been my enemy many times before.

By this time, if you hadn't guessed, my friends father was irate, he had no idea, the seriousness of this situation! This was war! Literally! A WAR! AND HE HAD NO CONCERN FOR MY LIVELY-HOOD! I angrily insisted there was NO WAY to camp while being attacked and tried to camp in front of him, of course, this process failed as yet another Orc stormed the doorway of the Inn and proceeded to make mincemeat of me. My friends dad was furious, even with him standing over my shoulder, I had appeared to disregard his wish and stood again to fight the devilish green beast. At this time, he reached to the computer, angrily hit the power button and stormed off....and at that very moment, my war in Norrath ended, just as quickly as it had started. The next time I logged on, I simply couldn't find that inn again, it might as well have been a 1000 mile forest with only one house in it, I swear, it didn't exist anymore, and I eventually determined that the things I once wore were no more. Looking back on it now, I realize the inn I was in, seems to be practically in plain sight, and that the middle of EC wasn't the best place to camp. I'll never forget the day my friends dad wanted to kill me over a game, or how terrible of a friend I was to my buddy for that whole day. 12 years later, and we're still friends, exploring the same world together as we did in 1999, thanks to a server, created by people who had a love for the game the same way we did.

Whether I win any of the plat matters not, i'm glad I get to read other peoples first experiences into EQ and will never forget my own! Happy hunting!!

Borion Winces
35 Shaman

[San]

I had a roomate that talked me into playing in 99 and loved the game instantly. Went to work that night on an overnight stock crew and talked about the game to some of the guys I worked with and some of them said they were going to go out and buy it when they got off. I gave them the server name and what zone I was playing in so they could maybe come kill some orcs with me on orc hill. Was playing later that day on orc hill and some dipstick named Kozzi was running around the hill yelling for help left and right and died. Tried to help him a few times and got into an arguement with him about what he was doing wrong and if he wanted help to come to us or take it to the guards. On the way back to Kelethin later I saw like 10 Kozzi corpses.
When I got back to work that night I was telling some of them more about the game as a few of them got copies and made some noobs. Got into the story about Kozzi and his corpses when another employee got to work. He told us he got the game and it was awesome. And his characters name was Kozzi. We all laughed so damn hard cuz it was just the perfect timing.

[RazaelsTree]

I had many characters on Fennin Ro. Suedadar was my drunk paladin. I leveled him to about 15, and then decided I didnt want to play him anymore for leveling. But then I decided I could still use him for something. So when i was bored in the game I'd log him in and always made him a raging alcoholic. He would only hang out in Gfay, Drink, propose to wood elf female players using the cheap engagement ring(which he carried most of his inventory).

One day the GMs decided to have an event in Gfay and I think around 4-5 GMs came into zone playing NPC named fairies. They were mostly harmless trickster types, made it snow in the zone(weather only, no change to the landscape obviously).

Suedadar in a drunken stupor stumbles his way to the orc hill hearing there are many fairies there. Seeing them do pranks like cast blinding spells on the new players fighting orcs on the hill, he cheers them on(the fairies). Seeing they know good fun, he then starts giving some of his alcohol to the fairies and telling them to drink up, downing about 5 himself. This evolved into his womanizing antics and so he starts proposing to the fairies by trading rings to them(in a give window like quest turn-in). After 3 or so gives one of the fairies blushes and a give window popped up without my doing anything. In the window in the top slot was a paw of opolla. He asks if it is for him, the fairy nods. The only option was "give" as it was NPC trade window. But seeing as I didnt own a paw of opolla on this character I decided to hit it even though they were trickster fairies and I figured it was a joke.

Sure enough after I hit that there was a paw of opolla in my inventory. And it never disappeared. I later sold it for some plat, but after that day Suedadar always spoke of the fairy maiden he was betrothed to(he assumed the paw gift was her acceptance).

Hope you enjoyed the story.

[beentheredonethat]

For better or worse here is a fun story to share.

[Preamble]
When I first started EQ that was years ago I started playing a monk, and I chose Rallos Zek, seemed like that would be fun. I was so new that I loaded up on leather armor without realizing there was weight penalty. And soon I realized that people wanted to kill me for it because RZ had item loot and griefing. And I used to get killed a lot at that time, often by the same people who just stayed in low level brackets for pvp.

[The Real Story]
So few month go by and I started playing an enchanter instead and eventually make it to Oasis leveling on crocs. And I get attacked by this wizard who used to kill my monk back in the days. There were a lot of usual pk's who simply leveled to 24 and stopped so they could pk in oasis. This was the same wizard. Well, this time he attacked me too late and I actually was finished with the npc fight by the time his root got me. Being an enchanter, half life, about half mana I had to do the only thing I could do. Charm him to pause him for a minute. There was this named giant locally that reminded me of Saddam Hussein. So I suddenly got an idea, and sent my new found pet to go punch the giant, while I ran for the zone when roots worn off.

I come back to the zone after zoneout, and that wizard cusses me out in /tells and threatens me. And lucky enough I run into him again a few minutes later. And the same story happened again, we went to have a talk with another giant.

Never had a problem with the same wizard again. I think that was the most rewarding pvp encounters ever for me. Since most were rather heartbreaking and painful.

So for anyone who ever got harrassed and killed out there on rallos, just remember it isn't always that bad. Bad guys get theirs eventually too.

[beentheredonethat]

I had a roomate that talked me into playing in 99 and loved the game instantly. Went to work that night on an overnight stock crew and talked about the game to some of the guys I worked with and some of them said they were going to go out and buy it when they got off. I gave them the server name and what zone I was playing in so they could maybe come kill some orcs with me on orc hill. Was playing later that day on orc hill and some dipstick named Kozzi was running around the hill yelling for help left and right and died. Tried to help him a few times and got into an arguement with him about what he was doing wrong and if he wanted help to come to us or take it to the guards. On the way back to Kelethin later I saw like 10 Kozzi corpses.
When I got back to work that night I was telling some of them more about the game as a few of them got copies and made some noobs. Got into the story about Kozzi and his corpses when another employee got to work. He told us he got the game and it was awesome. And his characters name was Kozzi. We all laughed so damn hard cuz it was just the perfect timing.

haha oh poor kozzi, i can relate.

[San]

Several months later when my co-workers and I were higher in level we would get off work early in the morning and group up. We would usually have between 4-6 of us so it was really convenient. We were talking at the store right after work one day and were saying how we would all meet up in the Rathe Mountains to do some hunting. My grocery manager asked me where the Rathe Mountains were and what we were hunting. Well, the look on her face when I tried to explain what we were doing was a combination of confusion, disappointment, and then sympathy. Those were fun times. I always pittied the player that would join us to make 6. They were always in for some harrassment.

[Cfred0-]

http://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm
my story

[Supaskillz]

So when I was in 8th grade a few months after EQ came out me and a few of my friends got into the game. Once we were up around lvl 20 my friend and I came across a necro soloing guards. Naturally my friend and I were amazed that someone was able to kill the almighty guards to whom I would run when fearing death was imminent. We talked with him and he was friendly and patient with our ignorance. After a few weeks this guy actually let us use his account while he was out of town. In our limited knowledge of the game SSoY was about the best thing that one can have in EQ and worth an enormous EQ fortune! So friday night when we were able to use this guys necro my 3 friends and I all went to one of my friends house for a "ykesha party" where we were determined to not sleep and get a Ykesha. We discovered that in order to get into a group to get one of these we had to get on a list. Done. Several hours later it was our turn! ok, well we are noobs and anything past qeynos hills is scary so... please person who invited us to the group give me detailed instructions on how to get there. Well we made it, can almost taste that ykesha! Well one of my friends had a lvl 16 necro so naturally we knew all the ins and outs of how to play a necro, and despite this extensive knowledge we managed to not kill the group. However morning rolled around and we had no ykeshas, in fact no one in our group all night ever got one. Two of my friends fell asleep. Ykesha party fail. Back to saving my rat teeth for that stien of moggok I saw for sale in west karana.

[visage]

Ok my personal funny story that happened in game was.

2 weeks after the boats were implemented. I hopped on the boat from freeport. I arrived in Ocean of tears. I got off the boat to wait for another boat or to do some selling at the INN there can't remember. Anyway upon returning to the dock I casted invis. Otherwise that stupid female woodelf would've jacked me around. I was like 18 at the time. When I arrived (still invis) I caught a conversation going on. The people talking included a Erudite and two humans all male. They were gracefully sitting at the dock. When in /say the erudite then says " But, why do I have to be black you guys". One of the human characters then replied back , " Because man its the best race for your class". The second human than replies " Dude its okay everyone plays a black character at some point". The Erudite obviously still frustrated with his race than says, " But you guys are white and i'm black can't we switch!". At this point the boat arrives. Just before they get on the boat I uninvis my character. I than hail the Erudite to get his attention. He turns to me and says Yes? I than ask him " So (soandso) why are you black?".

I found this story halarious and I was cracking up. Clearly these were noobies comming back into EQ showing a friend how to play. They suckered him into a black character which he didn't feel was his own.

[Nordenwatch]

Anal beads

[Rainflush]

I played a shaman on EQ live to about level 50, though I tarried in the lower levels for some time due to the fact I disliked most players so I was seldom able to accomplish much as I was most always by myself. Back then I was friends with a kid who had a level 53 Iksar monk, and my character being only level 26 or so at the time I decided to sign in as my friend's monk and have a look at some of higher-end zones in Velious. I had no experience playing a monk, though I knew they could Feign Death, which I assumed to mean that monks could freely travel wherever they pleased and just flop on the ground whenever something endangered them. I eventually made my way to Velketor's Labyrinth and began moving steadily upward, shaking my attackers by playing dead. After I'd climbed a considerable ways in and feign-flopped past any number of enemies, I of course encountered something which called me on my bluff. I was immediately swarmed with golems and gargoyles, my hit points had dropped to half within a few seconds, and I suddenly realized the folly of my solitary dungeon reconnaisance. Stricken with panic, I bolted for the nearest ledge and flung myself off, hoping that my corpse would land in a more accessible area as to facilitate it's recovery. I fell quite a ways, though surprisingly enough I survived the fall, landing on an outcropping of a lower platform. It was then I remembered that monks have Safe Fall, and my grim resignation was replaced by a glimmer of hope, all I had to do was hop down from platform to platform till my Feign Death ability refreshed. Thus I plummeted in a desperate bid for survival, reaching the bottom of the dungeon (or the level on which the entrance is situated) with about 3% of my hit points remaining. I Feigned Death again, tensely awaiting the deathblow I so rightly deserved. To my surprise nothing came to finish me off, I had indeed managed to avoid what seemed like certain death. A few moments later I'm binding my wounds when the text window comes alive with angry /shouts in all capitals. Apparently the little stunt I pulled caused a train which took out about a third of the players in the dungeon. I promptly signed out.

[nafgan]

I was playing on live, PoP era. At this time I was in college and just logged on to do whatever. In PoK I'm sitting around and I see a tell, something along the lines of "Sondria says out of character 'can anyone help me get my corpse out of the greater divide?'" I think about it and figure what the heck I'm not doing much. so I send a tell "whereabouts did you die in GD?"

I almost immediately get a reply like Sondria says "I take your **** in my mouth and gently massage your ***sack, I feel you growing bigger and warmer in my mouth. I can't wait to take it all"

I lol'd at this point. She(he?) then sends another "oops mt!" and that was about the end of that.

Later on I finally saw the character sitting around chatting (as well as being flirty with emotes and all that) with a monk. She informs the monk in tells that her daddy is out buying her a new computer chair because she broke the old one...

I never did help her get her corpse back.

[visage]

one of my guilds back in classic also had a rl affair that came out and everything got lulzy

actually i must admit in my mid-teens i kind of told some fibs and broke up a couple in another guild. ahh to be young and carefree again

Come visit my house , where you can be young and carefree in my bed

[Bubbles]

If rainflush doesn't win, i'll put together a 2nd place prize for him, because that was pretty epic and made me laugh pretty hard.

[Brandonian10]

Mine is a tale of then and now.

In 2000 I played a low level paladin, and I mainly fought in Oasis. At 9 years old, I remember the game being very difficult for me.. especially when it came to a specific mob that wandered those deserts. Everyone has those game messages that really make their asshole pucker up immediately.. you know what i'm talking about. You see them and you know you will promptly die. My list goes something like this:

1) You feel yourself starting to appear.
2) "FROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAK!!!"
3) "Damn my eyes.. you're just another mirage!"

This story regards #3.

Desert madmen were the bane of my existence. It seemed like I was always being killed by them. You see, I was instructed to only attack things that were blue to me. The madmen were blue to me but they were a major undercon because you never knew what class you would get (those nuking/rooting wizards and druids always wrecked my shit). And i was too young to understand this.

Enter Project 1999. I've been playing here on and off for about a year (it's awesome), and I've come to understand that this game is nowhere near as difficult as I remembered it being (its a lot easier at 19 than 9). I've leveled up 3 characters in oasis with no problems whatsoever. The desert madmen and sand giants did not pose the deadly threats they once did, not even a little. It was simple to avoid them.
And this is the way its been for me here. I'm almost cocky in playstyle compared to my restricted in-game actions as a child.

And so a few days ago, I was duoing my 19 paladin with my RL best friend (18 mage) on the shoreline in oasis killing deepwaters. I went further into the desert to tag a wandering orc warrior that conned blue. As I was pulling it back to shore, I saw that unmistakable message..

"Damn my eyes.. You're just another mirage!"

For a second I felt the slightest twinge of fear, a long forgotten memory of my childhood. Then I laughed.. how pathetic. The desert madman conned green, so I didn't pay him any mind and kept running back. I understand this game now, and through logical thinking this mob can no longer intimidate me.

But Everquest has a way of humbling us all.
And then...

A desert madman begins to cast a spell.
Your feet adhere to the ground.

(a wandering SG paths near the madman, who is nuking from afar. He decides to help..)

A sand giant hits YOU for 71 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 71 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 64 points of damage.
A sand giant kicks YOU for 21 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 55 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 67 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 57 points of damage.
A sand giant hits YOU for 72 points of damage.

etc..

LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

I was stunned (both virtually and mentally). But later I couldn't help but smile. This is why I love this game, and what makes it so unique. There will never be another quite like it.

Touché, desert madman. Touché..

[Baa]

Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there
I'll tell you how I lost my corpse in Kithicor
In West Freeport born and raised
In the Commonlands where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all nuking some orcs outside of the inn
When a couple of friends said "Lets cut through Kithicor"
When an undead cleric started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my frienda got scared
And said "We are gating the hell outta here"

I whistled for a SoW and a druid came near the
Wood Elf said "Fresh" and had a flowers in his hair
If anything I could say that this druid was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo CR in Kithicor
I pulled up to the forest about seven or eight
And I yelled to the druid "Yo, here smell you later"
Found my corpse I was finally there
To loot my corpse then off to...

You have been struck down by wrath
You have been slain by an Undead Cleric
LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

[Atmas]

Some good stories.

My friends and I had had mischievous habbits of messing with each other while we played EQ back in our youth.

At one point my friend who was a ranger (fail) in his teens decieded to take a boat ride to find better xp. Naturally as he was passing near by an island with extremly red cyclopses we thought it would be a good time to have one of us restrain him while the other jumped his character off the boat.

Another incident involved us changing our friends Hotkey for shouting "Train!" while he was in the restroom. He was leveling in Unrest with a group and kept looking over his shoulder wondering why we were giggling in the background. Sure enough eventually his group gets overwhelmed and he is huffing it to the zoneline spaming his hotkey which has him shout (mind you we were less politically correct in those days)"I'm a big flamer and love to get d***s in the a**"). We were laughing hysterically as he recieved responses in OOC such as "Um thats great dude..."

[Atmas]

Marglar,

I remember hearing about a GM even and running over to the zone it was in to see what it was about. When I got there I heard the event had been canceled because the GM who was running the event as some custom character for the plot of the event had been manaburned by a Pande wiz.

I also remember a screenshot of a GM looting his corpse after he had accidentally autoattacked a Nexus Scion at the NK spire.

Which reminds me of a trick people used to pull. They would attack the scions which were rooted non summoning mobs then ask people who came later on to the spire for simple buffs. The people who gave small buffs like SoW and Lev wouldn't realize they had scion agro until they walked up for a stone and would get hit in the face for like 2k lol.

[CrotchCricket]

Well, since we're all busting out the when i was in eigth grade playing EQ stories, i have a pretty good one.

Well i had to be about 14, me and my friends were all playing EQ, and we figured out that people who play EQ are dumb(of course we all know this now). Anyways we would convince people to give us good items such as Yak, Mith 2handers, FBSS, GEBS, etc on our "traders" aka some newb we made in freeport about 10 mins ago. Tell people we would log right back with our main chars give them some phony name and run off with the goods. Well after about 3 months of doing this and have tons of rubicite and other great stuff. I was helping a friend lvl up in South Karana near the aviak city. I was playing a cleric and healing him (warrior). we're chopping the darters and all of a sudden i get summoned up to the very top of the penthouse. Not in the Penthouse...on the ROOF! Above Krak's head, standing on his house! I'm like wtf is going on. Suddenly a GM sends me a tell. He explains the situation that ya know someone has logs and the deleted newb char names keep coming back to my account. I deny, deny, deny. But of course I have some stolen goods in my inventory. Meanwhile my warrior friend was spamming in /shout for the GM's to let me go. They silenced his ability to talk, all of a sudden i get ported. Where? To the Qeynos Aquaducts.

Now, im in a little 12 x 12 room, with no ability to talk to anyone but the GM. The GM informed me that what i did was very very serious. And i was gunna be suspended blah blah blah. Well i got pissed, told the GM his mom was getting banged by ex felons in her trailer at that very moment and then i camped assuming my ass was suspended. Well i tried logging in a few minutes later and sure enough my account was suspended. So i called them lame fucks up at Sony (reliving this is getting me all fired up again) they confirmed i was suspended for a week.

Well one week later, i log into my character, and im sitting the Qeynos Aquaducts in my little 12 x 12 room. I couldnt gate, i could cast any spells, or talk to anyone in any channels. So i figured that i had to wait for a GM, that was the only channel that would work. After a couple of hours, I found a guide that had logged in. Sent her a tell, explaining to her I was trapped per the GM. Well long story short, she had no idea the 12 x 12 room existed in Qeynos Aquaducts, i gave her the loc coords, and she ported to me. She said that she had contacted her superior and had confirmed that I was ok to be "released". She also said that her boss had told her "Hatebreedian is the most malignant evil seed ever presented to the Everquest community." Well she ported me out and I was on my way....

Two weeks later, I was banned wearing a full suit of rubicite and 2 yaks and a FBSS on my lil dorf warrior. I had to be the coolest looking person to ever be banned. Not to mention all those yaks and m2h's that were stolen helped me purchase my first car! Thank ya paypal!

Madprops (Hatebreedian)
P.S. - If I ganked you, no i will not reimburse you!

[EnderWiggin]

I probably shouldn't tell this story, but I'm only level 8 and it's worth the risk for 10kpp.

A friend and I, being veterans of EQ since 1999, and bored with POP that had just come out, we ventured out to start hacking EQ.

We found that it (was) possible to prevent the EQ client from consuming the ammo when thrown/shot etc. So, we made a berserker, and got one of those thrown weapons that has 0 delay. (I forget the name of the item, but it is really rare or lore or something, so they're not overpowered in live)

Since we had 0 delay, we could throw as rapidly as we could send packets to the server.

We programmed our own /throw command with a parameter for how many times we wanted to throw. We made it so that we could queue it up, too by targeting mobs one at a time and executing the command. Kiting 20 mobs at once in Plane of Nightmare? No sweat.

So, the story is: We could solo just about anything that couldn't kill us in two hits. It didn't matter if it summoned. See screenshots in the link below. Terris Thule was our biggest accomplishment in cheating, but we also solo'd Yelinak, Overking, WW dragons, Zlandicar, etc. Note: On the Terris-Thule screenshot, you don't see the killing blow because we had to camp out to drop aggro from the approaching gargoyles.

Screenshots (http://www.finitesite.com/ancien/screenies.htm)

Disclaimer: The exploit was fixed (unintentionally) by a separate patch. I don't have contact with him anymore and I personally don't do any sort of hacking as I don't have time (work full time programming). So, developers/moderators: don't suspect me of cheating in p99. I'm clean. :) Also, he gets almost all of the credit as the programmer at that time. I was just an idea generator.

[EnderWiggin]

CrotchCricket, your story makes me want to come kill you repeatedly at your bind point.

[nagarpoe]

I have a few stories:

1) I was a female monk on live, and while I never leveled into uberness, there were these three other female monks I used to hunt with on a regular basis before i quit playing.

Two of them were supposed to be twin sisters and another was just another female. We would hunt and talk into the wee hours about ALL the intricate female secrets; guys, blowjobs, menstrual cycles, love, hate, body parts, etc. I was a 21 year old so I was naive as well.

As you may have guessed already, after I quit, i still frequented the server forums and one day, i came across the real life thread and saw that those three ladies were not ladies at all. The twins were one fat ugy bald guy and the other lady was a skinny little kid.I never went back to that server after that!


2) This one happened to someone else and will be faithfully re-told by me;

He got a Lamentation during his first week of EQ Live. He said "WTF, I'm a caster! I can't use this shit!" and promptly sold it to a vendor! Later on, he found out that they go for huge amounts of plat, especially at that time, and remembers it to this day to tell me about it the other day.



3) On my first day of EQ (first week that EQ came out), I created a wood elf druid and started "talking" to NPCs.. thinking they were real people since this was the first MMORPG i've been exposed to and thought that everyone was a player. I got way too pissed off that people are not nice and logged off, canceled the subscription, and not coming back for at least another six months when my bf at the time explained to me how MMORPGs worked. Then, came back, created a Barbarian shaman, then promptly falling into the well at Halas within a minute of character creation.

Hope I win!!!!

[Rainflush]

If rainflush doesn't win, i'll put together a 2nd place prize for him, because that was pretty epic and made me laugh pretty hard.

:D

Thank you, I'm glad you liked my story!

[Acillatem]

On Live, I played a WIZ on Tallon Zek in the guild Knights of the White Rose. We were pretty casual ala Vesica Dei on P99. Occasionally we stepped up our game, but for the most part we played for fun and friends etc.

The only bad thing about that was that only a handful of people in the guild were avid PvPers......but I was one of them. I usually went solo, and as a WIZ, built up a solid reputation. I regularly killed all the big names on the server up till about PoP, but never talked shit or posted on the Server Forums so kept myself under the radar. People knew me, but it wasn't like I had any fame or anything cuz like I said - I was pretty cordial about the PvP (shit, I would kill people in LGuk then go pick them up and port them back to SRo to help with CR). People tend to remember the loudmouths more, regardless of skill.

The proudest moments for me all came when I consistently beat the #1 WIZ on the server, Lightadam. Him being L60, and myself being L54.
T
he absolute best PvP battle was against Lightadam and a L54 CLR Synnovea (think Tralina with bigger tits). I was in Skyfire at the BW zoneline and saw they had just zoned in (on Zek servers you CONSTANTLY would /who the zone for updates on who is in zone).....which meant they were prolly comin from the WIZ port in. So I caught them halfway and went for Synn first. After dropping a Lure I dropped a Rain spell (rains were effective against healers if they had bad resists becuz it would allow you to do another Lure in the time it was still doing damage). So Lure/Rain/Lure and she was dead. Meanwhile, true to form, Lightadam tossed out a pair of Sunstrikes. The first one hit me pretty hard, but I resisted the 2nd one. After Synn was dead I popped a charge on my Soulfire (yes I did the Soulfire quest as a WIZ for the CH in PvP), then proceeded to Lure him down for the kill.

I sent him a /tell "nice fight", to which he simply replied "fuck you". I loved killing him more than anyone else lol.

Altho Darkoan was fun too heh (any TZers will know he would rage on you if you beat him lol).

[beentheredonethat]

I probably shouldn't tell this story, but I'm only level 8 and it's worth the risk for 10kpp.

A friend and I, being veterans of EQ since 1999, and bored with POP that had just come out, we ventured out to start hacking EQ.

We found that it (was) possible to prevent the EQ client from consuming the ammo when thrown/shot etc. So, we made a berserker, and got one of those thrown weapons that has 0 delay. (I forget the name of the item, but it is really rare or lore or something, so they're not overpowered in live)

Since we had 0 delay, we could throw as rapidly as we could send packets to the server.

We programmed our own /throw command with a parameter for how many times we wanted to throw. We made it so that we could queue it up, too by targeting mobs one at a time and executing the command. Kiting 20 mobs at once in Plane of Nightmare? No sweat.

So, the story is: We could solo just about anything that couldn't kill us in two hits. It didn't matter if it summoned. See screenshots in the link below. Terris Thule was our biggest accomplishment in cheating, but we also solo'd Yelinak, Overking, WW dragons, Zlandicar, etc. Note: On the Terris-Thule screenshot, you don't see the killing blow because we had to camp out to drop aggro from the approaching gargoyles.

Screenshots (http://www.finitesite.com/ancien/screenies.htm)

Disclaimer: The exploit was fixed (unintentionally) by a separate patch. I don't have contact with him anymore and I personally don't do any sort of hacking as I don't have time (work full time programming). So, developers/moderators: don't suspect me of cheating in p99. I'm clean. :) Also, he gets almost all of the credit as the programmer at that time. I was just an idea generator.

remember when in velious there was some orb that had no cast time. All monks for a while were using it to spam 6 dmg or whatever it did. Was of course fixed the next day or two. It was fun while it lasted.

[Vernar]

On Live, I played a WIZ on Tallon Zek in the guild Knights of the White Rose. We were pretty casual ala Vesica Dei on P99. Occasionally we stepped up our game, but for the most part we played for fun and friends etc.

The only bad thing about that was that only a handful of people in the guild were avid PvPers......but I was one of them. I usually went solo, and as a WIZ, built up a solid reputation. I regularly killed all the big names on the server up till about PoP, but never talked shit or posted on the Server Forums so kept myself under the radar. People knew me, but it wasn't like I had any fame or anything cuz like I said - I was pretty cordial about the PvP (shit, I would kill people in LGuk then go pick them up and port them back to SRo to help with CR). People tend to remember the loudmouths more, regardless of skill.

The proudest moments for me all came when I consistently beat the #1 WIZ on the server, Lightadam. Him being L60, and myself being L54.
T
he absolute best PvP battle was against Lightadam and a L54 CLR Synnovea (think Tralina with bigger tits). I was in Skyfire at the BW zoneline and saw they had just zoned in (on Zek servers you CONSTANTLY would /who the zone for updates on who is in zone).....which meant they were prolly comin from the WIZ port in. So I caught them halfway and went for Synn first. After dropping a Lure I dropped a Rain spell (rains were effective against healers if they had bad resists becuz it would allow you to do another Lure in the time it was still doing damage). So Lure/Rain/Lure and she was dead. Meanwhile, true to form, Lightadam tossed out a pair of Sunstrikes. The first one hit me pretty hard, but I resisted the 2nd one. After Synn was dead I popped a charge on my Soulfire (yes I did the Soulfire quest as a WIZ for the CH in PvP), then proceeded to Lure him down for the kill.

I sent him a /tell "nice fight", to which he simply replied "fuck you". I loved killing him more than anyone else lol.

Altho Darkoan was fun too heh (any TZers will know he would rage on you if you beat him lol).

Lol I totally remember that day Ace!

I as well was on Tallon Zek. I played a High Elf Paladin also in Knights. Many great PvP moments.

One of the greatest kills(well I would have one) was Telen. Human SK who would rock entire groups. Using my trusty Earthshaker, in the entrance of VL shortly after they made it so you couldn't cast through the walls me and him were going at it one-on-one.

Being a Paladin(52ish) vs SK(60) its always a debate on when to use LH/HT...well I won that one, manage to keep enough HP to survive HT then hit LH myself. I had him just about down to 10% with me being nearly full when some stupid dorf came strolling along. The guy just stood there attacking Telen head on getting Lifetapped, 30seconds later Telen was full HP =(

However afterwards me and him talked and he said that was one of the better fights he had in a long time, coming from him that was pretty good praise for a lowly Paladin

One of my other great moments was being leader of Knights lower guild, Squires of the White Rose. Because we took pretty much anyone on the light side my initiation was pretty simple. Get your character drunk off his arse and run to Nek forest zoneline and beat the crap out of darkies...or more than likely die but have fun doing it =P

Vernar

[Kobias]

My favorite AC in OOT Story from Live =)

I was camping the AC in OOT @ level 58 or so on a Bard on EQLive probably 6 or so years ago. Had been there for quite a few hours now.

Then, a couple minutes before my next spawn a higher level Wizard logged in and just sat there staring at my camp without responding to tells. (Don't you love when people do that, even here? -.-). I guess they figure if they pretend your invisible, your not really there. Whatever.

So obviously, I knew that if it spawned, there is no way a bard was going to out damaging a wizard by any means. I needed a plan. I equipped up my singing steel boots for a longer levitate right before the spawn, just in case it spawned this round. Surprise! It did.

Of course, the "AFK" wizard immediately sprung to life a few seconds after I had agro'd it and started following it. He started nuking it, as expected. But, I was prepared. I charmed it as a last ditch way of stopping it from dying. One nuke took it down to 65% already! I ran with it, trying to out of range him if at all possible. Bard charm doesn't last long, and the wizard was still following me adamantly. So, I decided to drag the AC into the ocean. This was part of my genius plan as you'll see.

By doing this, unfortunately I wouldn't be able to damage it either since I was levitated above the water, but neither would he. He kept trying to nuke it which was funny to watch. I ran out to sea quite a long ways with it, with the wizard still in tow. I asked him in tells a few more times to get lost, I've been here all day, etc. No response. It was time to bring out my trump card.

I ran a little farther, and memorized my trump card song. I made a mad dash into the water, and so did he moments later as he realized I done so. I always imagined that the wizard must have thought: "Finally! He stopped, I'll be able to root/snare & nuke it now and KS it np, he wont be able to run with it anymore! Haha! Damn I'm awesome."

Oh how he couldn't be more wrong. Even though I had stopped dragging it further out to sea, we both went into the water. Being the first one into the water gave me a slight edge before he had much time to react. As expected, he immediately snared it. Blowing any hopes I had of out of ranging the wizard overboard. It didn't matter though. Hit my 5th spell gem, my trump card as soon as it was in range underwater shortly after his snare hit. Song of Highsun. Thank EQDevs, for this awesome song. If you're unaware of how it works, it basically "gates" a mob back to it's spawn point. But it doesn't reset agro! Useful in a lot of other things, but I digress.

There it read in chat: "Ancient Cyclops has cast Gate!" (or something like that). The monster was gone from sight, leaving a very bewildered wizard. I quickly rose to the surface, and let my levitate carry me a few inches above the water. Selos, Selos, Selos!. I felt like being a dick and did a /thanks /bye as I ran past him on the way back. I made a mad dash back in the direction of the AC Island, praying that somebody else wasn't there, or that the wizard wasn't smart enough to Abscond and try to run from Erollisi Isle over.

When I had arrived, the AC charged at me the moment I entered visibility range. Thank God, it was still there! And the wizard wasn't either. I knew the isle probably wasn't safe, since the wizard might stumble back here. So, into the ocean again! This time, the opposite direction. It took me several minutes of twisting my chants to kill the thing out at sea, but I felt safe. When it died, I was soo happy. My plan was successful. Looted up my fancy new ring for my alt.

Of course, the only thing left to do at this point was to do the nice thing for everyone else in the zone:

/ooc AC camp open, if any wizards or other people need to camp it.

A few minutes later he left the zone, as did I with my new loot, and a awesome story to tell.

Thanks for reading =D

[Feachie]

Well, since we're all busting out the when i was in eigth grade playing EQ stories, i have a pretty good one.

Well i had to be about 14, me and my friends were all playing EQ, and we figured out that people who play EQ are dumb(of course we all know this now). Anyways we would convince people to give us good items such as Yak, Mith 2handers, FBSS, GEBS, etc on our "traders" aka some newb we made in freeport about 10 mins ago. Tell people we would log right back with our main chars give them some phony name and run off with the goods. Well after about 3 months of doing this and have tons of rubicite and other great stuff. I was helping a friend lvl up in South Karana near the aviak city. I was playing a cleric and healing him (warrior). we're chopping the darters and all of a sudden i get summoned up to the very top of the penthouse. Not in the Penthouse...on the ROOF! Above Krak's head, standing on his house! I'm like wtf is going on. Suddenly a GM sends me a tell. He explains the situation that ya know someone has logs and the deleted newb char names keep coming back to my account. I deny, deny, deny. But of course I have some stolen goods in my inventory. Meanwhile my warrior friend was spamming in /shout for the GM's to let me go. They silenced his ability to talk, all of a sudden i get ported. Where? To the Qeynos Aquaducts.

Now, im in a little 12 x 12 room, with no ability to talk to anyone but the GM. The GM informed me that what i did was very very serious. And i was gunna be suspended blah blah blah. Well i got pissed, told the GM his mom was getting banged by ex felons in her trailer at that very moment and then i camped assuming my ass was suspended. Well i tried logging in a few minutes later and sure enough my account was suspended. So i called them lame fucks up at Sony (reliving this is getting me all fired up again) they confirmed i was suspended for a week.

Well one week later, i log into my character, and im sitting the Qeynos Aquaducts in my little 12 x 12 room. I couldnt gate, i could cast any spells, or talk to anyone in any channels. So i figured that i had to wait for a GM, that was the only channel that would work. After a couple of hours, I found a guide that had logged in. Sent her a tell, explaining to her I was trapped per the GM. Well long story short, she had no idea the 12 x 12 room existed in Qeynos Aquaducts, i gave her the loc coords, and she ported to me. She said that she had contacted her superior and had confirmed that I was ok to be "released". She also said that her boss had told her "Hatebreedian is the most malignant evil seed ever presented to the Everquest community." Well she ported me out and I was on my way....

Two weeks later, I was banned wearing a full suit of rubicite and 2 yaks and a FBSS on my lil dorf warrior. I had to be the coolest looking person to ever be banned. Not to mention all those yaks and m2h's that were stolen helped me purchase my first car! Thank ya paypal!

Madprops (Hatebreedian)
P.S. - If I ganked you, no i will not reimburse you!

i remember on drinal there was a sk named vaft that escaped the evil clutches of the gm's from their gulag in the qeynos catacombs. he was pretty hax though so i'm sure it was involved.

[Lady_Omelia]

I still recall the toughest fight I ever survived, at a mere level 6 (I think.)

Horsing around in East Freeport led me to the small area with that surly female Dark Elf, and in the water, a shark.

Having never encountered such a beast, and knowing very little about EQ I waded in and began to fight. I was a rogue, so it, (as any) was a very difficult fight, but I was sure I had the upper hand until I saw the dreaded message "YOU are drowning!"

I had done very little swimming and wasn't at all familiar with how to angle myself upward, so by the time I had I was almost dead. I broke the surface and filled my lungs with air, only to be immediately chomped into unconsciousness, and began to slowly sink back into the deep.

By a stroke of fortune, the shark missed my prone body again and again until I regained my wits and managed to finish it off and swam to shore as fast as I could with, 3 hit points remaining.

[jballe3]

Well this just happened recently...... and it all revolves around 2 things, sergio flores and an ogre warrior.

I decided to take a trip with a few people to Runnyeye. I left with my friend (I'll refer to him as Kan-do from here on out) and we crossed treacherous landscape, dodging zombies and undead captains!!!! (glad I had my supersoaker 5000 handy). Once we crossed through the dreaded Kithicor forest, Kan-do had started belting out his invis song, so we could pass safely through the land of the tiny people and into Misty Thicket. Upon arrival at our destination (which would be runnyeye), I found myself unable to move forward!

You see, the goblins put up a relatively easy, yet clever defense against the mighty and powerful Zuxum!!! (it may just be me being conceited, but I could have sworn they planned to use this particular defense strategy against me in my future endeavors). SO as Kan-do is laughing uncontrollably, this is what was going through my head: "Oh man, what is an ogre to do if one needs to depart in a hurried fashion!!!! This can't be good....."

So, I crouch and move forward to an area where I can finally move freely, with no restraints from said Zuxum goblin defense. We wind and whirl through many a tunnels until we arrive to our group. (Keep in mind, I'm completely and totally lost, my horrible sense of direction combined with the dark thoughts of my muscular physique not being able to move freely about Runnyeye plagues my mind, and this most certainly did not help my cause)

We start hacking and slashing! Man it was a relief to get rid of all of that pent up frustration. We kill one goblin, then 2 goblins, then! OH EM GEE! A monstrous pull! I debate whether to peel off a mob one by one from the cleric, and the cleric goes, TANK EM! So I grab one, and then another, and then all of a sudden, they totally ignore my leet tank skillz and b-line right to our cleric. At this point, I'm starting to sense that the force would not be with us at this very particular moment of need! BIAM! ZUXUM IS BLINDED! I'm like ZOMG ZOMG I IS BLINDED! (enter que for closed curtains and a very powerful spot light).

I wake up in freeport....... sad as a panda. As I drown in my own sorrow from the death of such a beautiful and exquisite being, such as myself, over the horizon I hear a distant, yet vaguely familiar tune. (aka music playing behind my client of this evercrack). As it becomes more familiar, i lose control of my puckerers and the soft words roll off my tongue, like sweat off a fat woman's back breasts, "i'm never gonna dance again.... got this feeling, got... no rhythm". As I uttered these incantations, I instantly felt a wave of relief! Just at that moment, the cleric told me, INC REZ!

It was like black magic! Right when it seemed all hope was lost, hope found me, Zuxum the Ogre!!!! I hit accept, and BIAM, I'm back in Runnyeye.

Now, it was time for Zuxum to take a nap, for fear of wife aggro in the world of the real, so I decided to pitch a tent and call it a night just outside of Runnyeye in the Gorge of King Xorbb. Figured that, well, since we're on the first level, all of the goblins are young, they can't touch this!!! Feeling secure, I went to sleep.

Fast-forward to this morning...... I wake up, feeling great I might add (although I'm still plagued with resurrection sickness at this point, and 23% health) I figured it was time to pass through the young goblins and head back to Misty Thicket, so I could find my way home. As I bravely re-enter Runnyeye, I scan quickly across the goblins to make sure there weren't any tough guys in the crowd to pester and bother me as I crossed through their clubhouse. COAST WAS CLEAR, I SWEAR IT!

As I started running, Left, Left and another Left would get me to Misty Thicket safely! That dreaded second left.............. oh that second left...... I still cannot get it out! It's too fresh!

In the corner, was a Wizard! He must have been AT LEAST a 4th year student fresh off the train from Hogwarts! He blindsides me with a 39 hp blast of something! Tunare only knows what it was, because it hurt! I panicked! I turned and head straight for Misty Thicket when all of a sudden.... dunnn dunnn DUUUUUUN! The ceiling drops outta nowhere and cracks my dome like a Chuck Norris round house kick to the forehead! OUUUUCH! Now I have Chuck the Ceiling taunting me from above, and Hermoine crackin me from behind! DAMN THIS INFERNAL GOBLIN DEFENSE! I couldn't move forward!!!!! I crouch..... and I just pray and pray and pray that I keep moving forward. 20%....... 15%...... 10%...... thud! WHACK! CRACK! Fat ogre moving at his fastest crouched, while a wizard is hitting him from behind isn't the prettiest thing anyone has ever seen, but could be the most hilarious thing any man or woman could lay eyes on!

BIAM 5%! At this point, my life flashes before my very eyes! Will I ever be able to have a little Arnold of my own?? (Not counting that Maid back in my cave, she doesn't count). Will I ever be able to make a living again?!? Then all of a sudden..... I turn a corner, I get hit with a root, but with all my willpower and hope, I resisted!!!! 2% HEALTH! I CAN SEE THE LIGHT! And as I dodge and block as I'm backing up, I back past one corpse, back past another, and BIAM! "Loading Misty Thicket...... Please Wait"

I MADE IT! I had let the goblin defense slip my mind. I could have very well easily turned around and run back out to the Gorge of King Xorbb.... but when panic sets in, you don't think right!

So moral of this story....... Always bring a Ranger sacrifice with you wherever you go.

/RAWR!

PS: Check out Sexy Sax Man.... that's the 2nd part of my story, Mr. Sergio Flores himself, Above the Law, Above it All

[eastadam55]

lol wut?

[Matalus]

*Sorry about spelling, long story, and lazy*

Very disappointed in what has been said so far. I will post my memory of EQ, not of just a simplee story of the first person waken sleeper on my server, not of the many fantastic pvp battles, or trains, but perhaps more-so a journal entry of my life in EQ. Why am I doing this? We'll it's because I am drunk and I am current|y camping a 5 hour spawn mob.

The first any kind of online game I was introduced to was Infantry, it's a soe game, simple yet complcated(still playable at this day) for a first time game at such a young age. I made a name for my self, I even made my first original sig, still used to this day after all these years, and stolen by many...

Matalus
Matalus
so good he signs it twice

reaching the top of the games, my fav, being Ambush which is no longer an option on Infantry, a lot talked about Everquest, so I looked into it..

Come to find out I had two friends(who soon become my best friends even to this day) played Everquest. Not knowing what it was really about and having a mothers credit card who never noticed $15 a month I was soon about to join into the world of MMO gaming.

So there it started, 5 hours of downloading, dial up connections later and I made my first character on Everquest. Now this was a time to start a new. Now lets give some background on this. I played on Tallon Zek. This was my first server, my only server, thus everquest has been out for a while, the Zek servers were not introduced until after some time from what I believe. From the start I was hounded, I was trained, I was hunted from the moment I hit lvl 1 someone had me on a |ist. But GUESS WHAT I HAD TWO Rl FRIENDS....

....no, I had two Rl friends, one of which that knew just as much about EQ as me, and one who was in the top guild on the server that started from that start, as I'm sure who anyone knows about Zek history (pandemonium).
What did he do for me? lol, newb, what are you doing? Stop playing? lolzlo|l, everything I heard....

Now my first character I made....Exzero..DE necro, I got to lvl 15, again remember I have no clue what I'm doing, I knew nothing of factions, race or any of such. I witnessed another necro of a different race killing guards at lavastorm entrance, watched for a couple days, saw him gain lvl quickly....so what do I do? The same thing...of course.

Ruining my faction, not being able to buy spells now that I can't zone into my home town, I am completely lost again, asking my rl friends what to do, they just lol at me new. I decided to make a new character....Matalus

Again as I create this I am loled at by friends, saying to just stop and not even try to invest as I would not be able to even get past 25. I ignore and continue to try to prove them wrong

Now at this time there is a lot of twinking, and I mean a ot. I am a lvl 10 mage not even knowing how to do the basic newbie gear quest and I am checking behind my back every 2 seconds for someone to come hit me twice and take my 30pp that I have worked so hard for by selling bonechips. (Tallon Zek was money only loot on death in pvp btw if you did not know)

I come to find out that there is an extreme|y twinked bard. When I say twink, he spent over $1k of money ir| to buy pp, buy items at this time. (this person is now someone I know irl and ta|k to often). Who was he? I was my soon to be bestfriends irl cousin....

He hounded me, went everywhere I went, corpsed camped me to an extreme. Why? I have no idea. I never met the guy irl I never said one word to him irl, I was only introduced to him thru EQ because my school friend was his cousin.

When I said hounded, I mean hounded, from the time I was lvling in lavastorms, all the way to the time I came to Overthere, soloing as a lonely mage, who still did not even have enough p|at to obtain a stein of mogguk.

By the time I entered Warslick Woods, I surpassed this soon to be rl friend's bard in lvls, he tried to hound me, but sadly for him, no matter how much rl money he spent on gear, he cou|d not kill a mage that has learn the pvp spells such a dispell + earth pet and nukes, so ends that epic tell.

Thus starts another another tell darkie vs lightys. I have finally entered thie midlvl pvp war. Darks vs lights...

They had the clear advantage, bards, rangers, pallys, druids...we were out numbered, and at the time everyone wanted to be the GOOD class thus it was being a lighty. But we stood our ground, with our less numbers, we had the better races such as iskars, tho harder from the start, we had the advantage in the long run.

Many epic battle's continued, and describing even one would make this post into another 10 page paragraph.

We are going to skip a few stages, I was in the top guilded dark only guild on the server, PDM(pandemonium) had made there name, Sedition(discordia soon to be name) right behind them, and many other guild's to form another 3 guild (indignation) also and a euro guild that no one cared about(lol euros).

I have finallyy made it high end, I have made many friends, despite the dark vs light deal, I have made many lighty friends and even had our own private channel...this channel is ....../uberness...

Being in the top dark ony guild I fet great, we were clearing hate, pof, with ease, top guild's were preoccupied, pvping each other and claiming higher end bosses. The guild had a recruitment, WE NEED Several NEW OFFICERS. I applied for the job much like a Rl job interview. I was overseen, I took offense to this, I was 1 of the only two main mages in the guild (us two on|y had CoH) I gave access to previous guild officers so I can be camped where-ever they needed me to be in-case I was not playing that night, so they can CoH the guild. Yet when I applied for the position they said no.

Now I have a clique of light friends, who are are appliing to Discordia(arguablly 2nd best guild of server at this time). So with rage and a|so wanting to move ahead in this game and also loling at my rl friends who said I would even obtain a stein of mogguk in this game, I decided join them. After so, I posted on the (dark only) guild fourms that I was leaving to pursue higher lvling raiding. less that 2 hours after posting and /guquiting I was confronted by my dark on|y gui|d leader (who i soon found out used to be an officer in the top guild on the server but quit to p|ay lesshardcore) asked me to come back and apoligized for overlooking what I did. I told him no. For most part even irl I give peop|e one shot, and that it with that, and I decided to make a new.

So now I'm an applcatant of one of the top 3 guilds on the the server. Could have I applied to the the top one(pandemonium?) Yes. Why didn't i? Always root for the underdog, it's not fun without a challenege afterall. It took me 3 weeks, 3 weeks of being in an app gui|d, casually raiding(only if that had a spot) to even get invited into the guild and start my probation perioud.

*Now don't take this shortly I could easily ta|k about epic pvp battle there was on this server. How Discordia and Ignation joined forces together for a littarly a 48hr batt|e over emp ssra vs pandemioum. Where the zoned crashed while emp was at 1% hp, and how GM's interfered and kicked everyone out of the zone, the GM's that p|ayed fav's such as Conan(i think memory is fuzzy), and if I took the time I could prob find some old screenshots of everything but I feel this discption is enough...just know you are only getting half of this story even with as much that is being said.*

So 3 weeks pass...and guess what...there is on|y one main mage in the gui|d.... ONE, FUCKING ONE. HOW THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THREE WEEKS TO INVITE ME IF THERE IS ON|Y ONE MAGE IN THE GUIlD, FUCK YOU ARE CAMPING VEX THAl, WHICH IS A MUST NEED TO COH PEOPlE AND YOU ONlY HAVE ON MAGE IN THE GUI|D.

So yes, they invite me, and as guessed, I become the coh bitch, quickly giving info to officers to be able to log on and camp me at places for the guild, which I did not mine at the time; whatever put me in the fast lane of gearing was ok with me.

As 3 weeks pass my probation is finished, of course I am entered as a full member of the guild, and as so happens, the same week I am entered, there one and only main mage (besides me now) quits....(name is Wreakkin btw). Thus boom, I am only the main mage in the arguablly 2nd best gui|d on the server. When I mean on|y mage.....I mean only. For at |east 1-2 years (real time) I was the only mage....the only one, maybe there was one or two others, but they were never |ogged on, never at any raids....

I was flying high, hell I'm the only mage in the guild they are fucked if I left (knowing this was untrue as if they really needed they could just ebay a mage and camp him where they needed for coh) but at the same time it fe|t good to be needed from a gui|d.

Coming to an end....tired of typing and the 5 hour spawn has spawned and it was PH thus it will be another 5 hours before the next spawn and I need a nap.

People made they names from o|dschool pvp, they made there ground, I was late in the game....way late. I was overlooked by a lot. I quit at the top(imo) of Tallon Zek. According to EQMaglo and other sites, at the time I quit I was in the top 5 geared casters on the server, tho as most know PVPing with a mage after PoK was pretty much pointless, thus I was never a major threat that late in the game.

This is a short story(lol), I cou|d go on forever and describe many things, but this is a short insight to my Everquesting.

[Fuglee]

It was the Kunark era and Epic quests had been out for a few months.

There I was, a level 53 Iksar Monk and a college student. I knew that I would never have the time to do all the sash/headband quests and camp the hellish Raster. That, coupled with the fact that I was guildless, meant that I had written off ever getting my Celestial Fists.

That was until one of my RL friends mentioned that one of his guildies had quit the game. She was a monk with decent gear and he had her account info. If we ever wanted to play her, just let him know. When I asked about her gear, he mentioned that she had a Robe of the Whistling Fist.

You might see where this is headed...

I asked him about the possibility of using her robe to multi-quest my epic.

His response was: "Fuck her, dude. She quit. Here's her info. "

Needless to say, I had a bit of a moral dilemma on my hands.

"She quit. She won't come back." That's what I kept repeating to myself as I logged her character in the next evening. After having dreams of my epic all night long, I couldn't resist. I logged in to find out that she was the guild's Nagafen checker. I slapped on /anon and /afk and started out towards the way off oasis in Timorous Deep.

The fire giants to the oasis in Timorous Deep is one hell of a run/swim. My nerves were wrecked the entire time as I was reading their guild chat, absolutely paranoid that they would notice her character online and start asking questions. I envisioned myself being banned for stealing an account; I almost turned around and abandoned the mission quite a few times. I finally made it to the spot without dying or being found out. I then had to get my monk to the same spot as he happened to be in Sol B as well.

I only had one computer and this was before the days of multi-boxing, so I logged her in, turned in her robe that she'd worked so hard for, then logged her out. I came back on and finished the turn-in with my character and received the quest piece.

I then ran her back to the fire giants and logged her out in the exact spot that I'd found her. I think the entire journey with both characters took about 3 hours.

After I had that part of the quest finished (which is, by far, the longest part) it only took me about 2 weeks to join a guild, fight 4 easy bosses, and be "awarded" with my Celestial Fists. Things were great for about 3 weeks until I got a call from my friend.

"Dude, she came back", he said.

"What?! You said she quit!", I said.

"Well, she's back. And she's fucking pissed! They're contacting the GMs right now because she thinks her robe just poofed."

"You're not going to tell her what happened, are you?", I said.

"Nah. Don't worry about it. Even the GMs probably can't track down what happened. "

Needless to say, the next few days were extremely nerve-wracking.

The clamor in his guild eventually died down and no one ever contacted me about the theft. Things went back to normal and I was thoroughly enjoying my epic. My guilt subsided.

It came crashing back a few weeks later however because I somehow ended up in her group in Karnor's. She did not have her epic or a Whistling Fist robe, obviously, and was using an Imbued Fighters Staff. We were grouped together for about 2 hours and it was the most awkward group I've ever been in. I felt like I had raped her toon and she had no idea.

...And that's how I stole an epic.

I felt way worse than the time I stole the Ancient Cyclops kill from a necro. All 30 people in the Ocean of Tears were spamming me with hate tells so I set my AFK message to: "Wallibus begins to walk faster."


Wow. I was kinda a dick back then...

[Secrets]

Well, I guess I can share this one.

Me and my friends were in East Commonlands, and were fed up with that griffon chasing newbies. We decided to track the griffon down. I logged on my druid, and we went on the hunt.

After about 15 minutes, we spotted the damn thing. The griffon put up a good fight and my mom got scared and said, 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air!'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day.. But she packed my suitcase and send me on my way. She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket, I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.
First class, yo this is bad! Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? Hm, this might be alright.

But wait I hear there're prissy, bourgeois and all that, Is this the type of place that they should send this cool cat? I don't think so, I'll see when I get there, I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air.
Well, the plane landed and when I came out there was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out! I ain't trying to get arrested yet I just got here. I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared...
I whistled for a cab and when it came near, The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I can say that this cab was rare, but, I thought 'Nah forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air!'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8, and I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

[Matalus]

one time i p|ayed a vz/tz server hosted by someone and that someone bai|ed without warning

[Secrets]

one time i p|ayed a vz/tz server hosted by someone and that someone bai|ed without warning

Yeah, Voidd is *such* a jerk for doing that.

[Baa]

Secrets, there is only enough room for one fresh prince rip off in this thread... and it is mine!

[Darksole03]

Not original but you never said original.

"A TURN FOR THE WORSE, by Skater Gnome

August 6, 2002

ok like camp is reely cool and whatever but yesterday it got
reely suc
ok so like im standing on the dock at the lake cause im next
in line to ride the water weenie

so im standing there and all of the suddin i get shoved in the
back and go flying off the dock and into the water

WTF??!?!!

so like my swiming is suck so im doing doggie paddel back to
dock and i heer lots of laffing coming from everyone on the
dock and im getting reely angrey!

so im clikmbing back up the dock and im like 'omg dude ur so
dead' but when i get up to the top i see the freakin huge kid
there scowling at me ready to attack

and im like 'omg dude i thought this camp was for 13 to 15 not
30yr olds'

and hes like 'u wanna peace of me???'

and im thinking 'hell no' but i say 'oh ya i want the who
enchallada'

i dont even liek enchaladas

so im getting a little scared now and im looking around for
the zone line out of instinct or whatever but the only
safespot i can see is up the hill at the cafe where the
couseliers are but thats a long way away

so im thinking about trying feign death but we all know how
that turned out last tiem

so its just him and me at the end of the docks and hes like
lumbering toward me with his swimming flippers and facemask on
holding a snorkel in his hand liek hes gonna hit me with it
and everyone is watchin

so im standing there wondering what it will feel like to be
killed with a snorkel when i see j-mo pushing through the crowd

and hes got something in his hands and he rolls it toard me
through giganto-kids legs and its my skaterboard

and j-mos like 'two hand blunt'

and he give me the thumbs up

so i pick up my board and im gettin all fired up and breathing
hard and im scream 'feel the power of quellious b1tch'

and j-mos like 'yaulp 2! good one!'

so i charge and im swinging my board with sweet ninja action
but mammoth-boy just knocks it out of my hands and grabs me
and picks me up

and im like 'omg dude wtf put me down ur so gay'

and so he walks to the edge of the dock and starts to throw me
in again (dammit)

so im starting to fall and i reach out for anything i can grab
on to and i gget a hold on his mask

well i could only hold on to it for about the first two feet
of my fall and then i had to let go before i went splash

well i guess the face mask went flying right back into his
nose or something cause buy the tiem i doggie paddeled back to
the dock he was lying on his back with a bloody nose and the
nurse was stunding over him saying 'jonny can you heer me'

and j-mos like 'dude sweet kill!'

and im like 'ya im the rulest' and i never told anyone that i
didnt do it on purpose

so i was thinkin about looting the body but i decided that
prolly not appropriate

so anyway i got in alot of trouble and they punished me by
making me stay in the cabin for the rest of the day

i never did get to ride the water weenie but i guess thats ok

it sounds kinda gay anyway"

[Excellio]

So, it was the week before Christmas, 1999, and my brother and I received our Christmas present early. We got a copy of EverQuest. After installing and waiting for the patching to finish, we were finally playing. Well, after waiting forever at the loadscreen (http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i478/acastor618/loadscreen.jpg), we began playing.

Except that I was the younger brother, so I really didn't get to play for a good long while.

Finally, after several days, my brother let me create a character, and he and his friend stood over my shoulder as I did. I had chosen to be a Human Rogue, primarily because I knew nothing about the game at that time. When I got to the part when I was supposed to allocate my points, I didn't really know what I should do. My brother and his friend informed that CHA is the stat that gets you really good deals at vendors in the game, and it also makes vendors pay you a lot for items that you sell to them. For this reason, I allocated every one of my points to CHA on my brand new Human Rogue.

After being lost in East Freeport (because the map from the booklet (http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i478/acastor618/EQmap.jpg) wasn't very helpful for me) , I remember seeing several messages from other players in the zone, shouting and ooc'ing messages celebrating the New Year. That's when I realized it was now December 31, 1999. Y2K was upon us, and here I was wandering around the outskirts of East Freeport (http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i478/acastor618/leavemealone.jpg) on my charismatic Human Rogue.

I was still getting accustomed to playing the game, and I eventually wandered into North Ro. I didn't know much at the time, but I recall accidentally auto-attacking an NPC in North Ro named "Puntar Sandfisher" (http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i478/acastor618/learningfrompuntarsmall.jpg). So, Puntar Sandfisher killed me pretty quickly since I was only level 1, and I don't know if I even equipped anything. After I respawned in East FP, I asked my brother how to send a private message. I wanted to apologize to Puntar for accidentally attacking him, so I wrote "/tell Puntar Hey, I'm sorry about attacking you. I'm really new", but no matter how many times I wrote this, my message didn't go through.

For you see, Puntar was not online at that time.

EDIT: Oh, if anyone wants to see a scanned copy of any of the original city maps, I can totally hook that up.

[Excellio]

Dude. Could I get a copy?:)

Here you go! (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?p=375843#post375843)

[Extunarian]

This story isn't much but it is what sticks out most in my head -- funny how so many of these are the total newb stories.

I found EQ on my own and didn't know anyone who played it, so I had to learn everything the hard way.

My first character was an Erudite Magician, and after probably 2 weeks of trying to level in Toxx I finally hit level 4 and bought my pet spell. I tried to cast it but it said I needed Malachite, so I looked up where to buy it.

I have no clue what site I was on but I somehow fell under the impression that malachite was only sold in Ak'anon. I'm fairly certain it took me over a week of off and on playing to make it from Erudin to ak'anon, and probably several hours to find the malachite vendor in the gnome city.

I bought 2 malachites since it was what I could afford, went outside, cast pet, and had a great time plowing over things for awhile. Until I got in over my head and died. And respawned in Erudin.

I deleted the mage and made a chanter which I mained until I quit around OOW.

[Shiftin]

That's awesome.

I deleted my first character a few weeks after release because at level 5 I had completely run out of food and water, wouldn't regen mana or health and spent every copper I had on cloth armor. I was too proud to ask someone for food / drink so I just started a new character.

[Nazran]

Not really a personal story but a funny story someone else wrote...

Druid: /shout WOOT!! YOU HAVE ENTERED VEESHAN'S PEAK!!!
Rogue: Hey, we didn't die zoning in, it already beats the crap out of
those Howling Stones...
Magician begins to cast a spell
Necromancer begins to cast a spell
Wizard: /shout Level 57 wizzie lookin for a group
Jenkins says "Guarding you master"
Jeeves says "Guarding with my life, oh great one"
Monk: /auction Selling Tailor made items at reasonable prices
Warrior: /auction Same here
Paladin: /auction Same
Enchanter: /auction Selling Platinum Ruby Veil for 9.5k
Druid: That's insane
Enchanter looks around for some competition, and shrugs
Cleric: So who wants to group with me?
Magician: Me
Necromancer: Me
Rogue: Me
Warrior: Me
Paladin: Me
Shadow Knight: Me
Wizard: Me
Monk: Me
Bard: Me
Druid: Me
Enchanter: Me
Ranger: Me
Shaman: Me
Cleric: Okay, Warrior, Necromancer, Bard, Enchanter, Shaman, you're with
me
All others: <Various swearing>
Wizard: So who wants to group with me?
Rogue: Yeah, and I'm starting a group, who wants to group with me?
<Sound of wind whistling>
Paladin: So maybe we should do some scouting...
Druid begins to cast a spell
Wizard begins to cast an UselessUpgradedSpell spell
Rogue disappears
Druid dons a mask of the hunter
Wizard creates an "Invisible to Mobs under 35 when it's a level 55
spell" eye
Druid, Wizard, and Rogue: I'll scout
Wizard: /shout Level 57 wizzie looking for a group
Enchanter begins to cast a spell
Necromancer: Hey buddy can I get some Swords of Runes?
Magician feels his summons are useful for a change
Magician: Sure
Magician begins to cast a spell
Magician begins to cast a spell
A cool breeze slips thru Enchanter's party
Jeeves says "Thank you master"
Jeeves says "Thank you master"
Necromancer disbands
Necromancer: Well I don't need you guys anymore
Necromancer chuckles
Wizard: /shout %&^(( They saw my invisible eye, we got two dragons inc
Druid: /ooc <sigh>
Rogue: /ooc <sigh>
A Sky Blue Dragon begins to cast a spell
A Sky Blue Dragon begins to cast a spell
Monk: GETEM!
Ranger, Monk, Warrior, Rogue, Paladin, and Shadow Knight attack A Sky
Blue Dragon
Necromancer, Magician, Enchanter, Druid, Wizard begins to cast a spell
Necromancer has feared A Sky Blue Dragon
Jeeves says "Attacking master"
Necromancer: I got this one
Jenkins says "Attacking master"
Ranger slashes A Sky Blue Dragon for 49 damage
Monk kicks A Sky Blue Dragon for 200 damage
Warrior taunts A Sky Blue Dragon
Rogue backstabs A Sky Blue Dragon for 400 damage
Shadow Knight Harmtouches A Sky Blue Dragon for 800 damage
Magician hits A Sky Blue Dragon for non-melee for 850 damage
Druid hits A Sky Blue Dragon for non-melee for 1020 damage
Bard twists mana and hp recovery songs
Wizard's spell has been resisted
Wizard: %*&^
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
Ranger yells for help behind you and to the left
Cleric begins to frantically cast a spell
Necromancer reclines and yawns
Warrior taunts A Sky Blue Dragon
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 50 damage
Warrior taunts A Sky Blue Dragon
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 126 damage
Warrior: Oh come on
Cleric has cast a spell
Ranger has regained 900 hp
Cleric begins to cast a spell
Warrior taunts A Sky Blue Dragon
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 300 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 193 damage
Ranger yells for help behind you and to the left
Cleric: Quick casting my $*%
Wizard begins to cast a spell
Wizard's spell has been resisted
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Wizard for 800 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Wizard for 800 damage
Wizard has been slain by A Sky Blue Dragon
Necromancer puts on sunglasses
Warrior: Well there's a taunt at least
Bard summons water from his boots
Cleric has cast a spell
Ranger has regained 900 hp
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
Ranger: WTF? I stopped attacking 20 secs ago
Cleric begins to cast a spell
Ranger is completely healed
Cleric: There we go
Magician begins to cast a spell
Ranger is enveloped in fire
Shaman: Well at least he's useful now
Necromancer strikes up a conversation with Jimi Hendrix
Necromancer lights a cigar
Monk kicks A Sky Blue Dragon for 450 damage
Warrior kicks A Sky Blue Dragon for 3 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon is stunned
Warrior: Woo hoo
Druid begins to cast a spell
Monk uber-punches A Sky Blue Dragon for 800 damage
Warrior kicks A Sky Blue Dragon for 10 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon is stunned
Warrior: Twice in a row!
Warrior sticks his tongue out at Monk
Druid hits A Sky Blue Dragon for non-melee for 1020 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Druid for 500 damage
Necromancer begins to debate the philosophy of "The Matrix"
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Druid for 500 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Druid for 500 damage
Cleric begins to cast a spell
Paladin begins to cast a spell
Druid feels a healing touch
Cleric: %*^
Paladin: Sorry
Cleric's casting has been interrupted
You must be standing to cast a spell
Bard summons water from his boots
Druid: You mind?
Bard summons food from his pants
Bard: What? Can't you see I'm using my armor's special abilities
Rogue backstabs A Sky Blue Dragon for 400 damage
Jenkins backstabs A Sky Blue Dragon for 500 damage
Jenkins laughs an elemental laugh at Rogue
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Jenkins for 800 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Jenkins for 800 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Jenkins for 800 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Jenkins for 800 damage
Jenkins has been slain by A Sky Blue Dragon
Rogue laughs heartily at Jenkins
Magician begins to cast a spell
Enchanter wanders blindly, waiting for a crowd to control
Magician: I'll try an air this time
Butler says "Attacking master"
Necromancer chuckles
Magician: What?
Necromancer points at Jeeves
A Sky Blue Dragon tries to hit Jeeves, but is parried
A Sky Blue Dragon tries to hit Jeeves, but Jeeves dodges
A Sky Blue Dragon tries to hit Jeeves, but Jeeves ripostes
Jeeves hits A Sky Blue Dragon for 60 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon tries to hit Jeeves, but is parried
Magician: So?
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Butler for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Butler for 600 damage
Butler has been slain by A Sky Blue Dragon
Necromancer laughs
Necromancer begins to cast a spell
Magician begins to cast a spell
Necromancer lifetaps A Sky Blue Dragon
Necromancer experiences a 2000 point swing in life totals
Magician sighs, wanting to be second best at direct damage
Druid sighs, wanting to be second best at direct damage
Revived Wizard sighs, wanting to be best at direct damage
Magician: Okay, this one is fire
Shaman: Just do earth, everyone knows the others suck anyway
Lil'Flamey says "Attacking master"
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
Lil'Flamey's spell has been resisted
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
Lil'Flamey's spell has been resisted
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
Lil'Flamey's spell has been resisted
Revived Wizard feels some sympathy
Bard yawns, still twisting his mana/hp regen songs
Necromancer yawns, still sitting on his can
Shaman: Okay let's end this
Shaman begins to cast a spell
Warrior feels like an avatar
Warrior: Woohoo, you're the best!
Cleric: Oh come on
Cleric tries to strike A Sky Blue Dragon, but misses
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Cleric for disproportionately high damage
Cleric sighs about her armor
Cleric has been slain by A Sky Blue Dragon
Necromancer takes pity on Cleric
Druid begins to cast a spell
Necromancer begins to cast a spell
Paladin tries to cast a spell, but quest hasn't been implemented yet
Necromancer casts a spell
Cleric is revived with 93% exp regain
Necromancer: A newbie gave his life for that
Revived Cleric sighs
Buffed Warrior hits A Sky Blue Dragon for tons of damage
Ranger blows wind at A Sky Blue Dragon
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Ranger for 600 damage
Ranger sighs
Shaman looks around mildly, waiting to buff someone
Druid: Any ideas?
Shadow Knight tries to make a point, but there aren't enough of him to
be listened to
Lightbulb appears over Enchanter's head
Enchanter begins to cast a spell
A Sky Blue Dragon is showered with gold
Monk: What'd you do?
Enchanter: Gave him some pocket change
A Sky Blue Dragon is heavily encumbered
Paladin slashes A Sky Blue Dragon with FIERY AVENGER for massive damage
Warrior slashes A Sky Blue Dragon with RANDOM WEAPON FROM KARNOR'S for
massive damage + 1
Paladin sighs
Jeeves says "Guarding you master"
Necromancer: You should see the loot on my dragon...
All others: SHUT UP!!
Monk B!tCh-Sl@Ps A Sky Blue Dragon for massive damage
Magician, Druid, Enchanter, Wizard, and Shaman begin to cast spells
A Sky Blue Dragon is hit for miniscule fraction of total life in
non-melee damage
Casters sigh
Magician smiles
Magician: I still have my pet
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
Lil'Flamey's spell has been resisted
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
A Sky Blue Dragon is hit by non-melee for 178 damage
Shaman: You know your Earth quad hits for....
Magician: Shut up!
Necromancer: ...less than mine does
Magician sighs at Lil'Flamey
A Sky Blue Dragon hits Lil'Flamey for 600 damage
Necromancer begins to cast a spell
Wizard begins to cast a spell
Necromancer DOTs A Sky Blue Dragon for Trakanon-like damage
Wizard casts CrappyRainSpell
A Sky Blue Dragon is hit by non-melee for 600 damage
A Sky Blue Dragon resisted CrappyRainSpell
Jeeves is unaffected by CrappyRainSpell
Lil'Flamey is unaffected by CrappyRainSpell
Wizard: Woo hoo, and that only cost 400 mana
A Sky Blue Dragon staggers, looking for somewhere to die
Druid, Ranger, Magician, Wizard, Cleric, Shaman, Enchanter, Necromancer,
Shadowknight, and Bard begin to cast
spells
Warrior beats on A Sky Blue Dragon
Paladin whallops on A Sky Blue Dragon
Monk decimates A Sky Blue Dragon
Rogue kinda wounds A Sky Blue Dragon
A Sky Blue Dragon is hit by a ton of non-melee
A Sky Blue Dragon says "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!"
A Sky Blue Dragon swipes Lil'Flamey for massive damage
A Sky Blue Dragon has been slain by Necromancer's DOT
A Sky Blue Dragon has left no corpse
GroupOf13 look at Necromancer
Necromancer lowers head, then wanders off to solo dragons
Lil'Flamey begins to cast a spell
Lil'Flamey casts ReallyStupidYonderSpell
Lil'Flamey disappears
A Sky Blue Dragon begins to cast a spell
A Really Huge Dragon begins to cast a spell
A Red As Blood Dragon begins to cast a spell
A Makes Veeshan Look Like A Worm Dragon begins to cast a spell
SadMage sighs, knowing what's coming
SadMage is burned with the fires of Hades
SadMage has been slain like you wouldn't believe
PanickedWarrior: Here they come
Necromancer feigns death
Shadowknight feigns death
Monk feigns death
Druid gates away
Ranger sits down and waits to die
Wizard evacs
Cleric wishes she had picked wizard for her group
Bard has been slain before he knew what hit him
Enchanter begins to cast a spell
Warrior has been slain like paper before the Whitewater investigation
Enchanter has cast a spell
CrowdODragons has been mezzed
Enchanter gates away
Casters gate away
PeopleWithoutGate sigh
PeopleWithoutGate are slain, roasted, and served with a white wine
CrowdODragons disperses
Necromancer stands and gates
Shadowknight can no longer play dead
Shadowknight is roasted by dragonfire
Shadowknight has been slain
Monk sighs

[Extunarian]

I like all the individual stories from the p99 players...but kind of annoyed that I have to scroll past a bunch of really old and really long stories that have been copied to death....let's keep it original.

[Demetrium]

For you see, Puntar was not online at that time.


Puntar Sandfisher whispers, "I HOPE YOU LIKE PAIN!"

[Excellio]

Puntar Sandfisher whispers, "I HOPE YOU LIKE PAIN!"

LOL, indeed.

[Hagglebaron]

Personal stories are ideal ladies and gents, some awesome ones thus far!

[Xanthias]

So I hear about this game from friends at work and we are all going to play, so I buy the game get it installed and load it up.
Then I find out there are servers here, so I just pick the one on top (this was when new servers were put up there to draw people).
I make a ranger because well rangers were awesome in D&D they should rule in a game like this right? (insert laughter from fellow rangers here)

Hmmm stats... stamina is always good right, hit points yeah that makes sense, and oh agility is seems like a good stat as well.

Finally I log into gfay and am amazed... this place is HUGE... turn in my scroll at the guild leader and I'm told to go hunt pixies & orcs. Cool I can do this.

Start hunting and I hear the most wonderful sound in the world... DING! Ok cool now what do I do.
Random person: "go to your guild leader"
I'm thinking ok... thats easy enough he was just up the lift right... so I spend 30 minutes looking around kelethin trying to find guild leader and say screw it.

Though I did manage to put a bunch of copper in the bank.
So I keep leveling and getting copper and am eccstatic when I loot a cracked staff I finally have 1P in my bank I feel so cool.

A week goes by...

I'm watching auctions and want to buy something they are selling for 5pp. Now this saddens me (granted I'm level 6 right now and still haven't found my guild since I first logged into the game). So I send the guy a tell asking if he'll take copper for the item.

He then explains to me how to change money at the bank and I"m thinking wow... I had amassed about 20pp in copper and silver during my time hunting.

So I bought the bronze armor... and then ended up selling it to a merchant when I found out I couldn't wear it.

Finally at level 7 I found my guild and all was good in the world.
Never did re-roll those stats either.

[Tarathiel]

So here's my story... A couple nights ago I got invited to join a crypt group in seb.. So I make my way out there and all is well until half the group decides its time to log... Nothing to unexpected as its already pushing 1am pst or so.. Well anyways this leave me( a 53 rogue a 60 monk and a 58 shaman pondering what to do next, we decide to wait for one more spawn cycle to see if we get lucky with a named spawn. After a couple of minutes of me checking all the rooms Prime Heirophant Grekal spawns and guess what... Heks not holding a sword!!! We quickly decide that its worth a shot and rush the room. The first 5 min of the fight were tough but things were looking good. By this point our shaman is oom and the monk is at around 20% health but grekal is about dead... Here's where it gets interesting lol grekal decides its time to run, and boy does he run fast. He turns tail and hits the door at full speed and we pick up chase. Too bad for us he runs right past an imperial crypt golem. the golem proceeds to wipe the floor with our shaman who is desperately trying to get root to stick. His next target is the monk who is already near death... 2 seconds later monk down. By this point I'm in the hall that lead to the emporer room furiously trying to finish off grekal who is at 1% and still running. The golem finds me and starts to pummel the crap out of me. Grekal falls and I instantsly click too loot, lo and behold I see a pretty white cloak in the inventory screen I click on it just as I see the dreaded " entering firiona vie" message appear on my screen.... The next 30 seconds are the longest of my eq life.... But it was worth it I read the text "you have looted a hierophants cloak" :D anyways to make a long story short we get rezzed back, roll the dice, and our shaman gets a pretty new cloak!

....Edit... Wow I just realized how long that was lol sorry about the horrible punctuation and lack of paragraphs I typed all this on my phone lol

[Sickle]

This story took place sometime in mid to late 1999 as I was lv 44 when it occurred. Me and a few other guild members went to camp Shadow men in Nek Forest for fun and help someone get a rapier for Jboots. As it was already very late I was dozing in and out of consciousness. I Was so tired that I happen to actually pass out at the keyboard in my computer chair.(Wasn't the first or last time this occurred)

I wake up a few hours later, wipe the drool from my mouth and keyboard, to see that I am not in Nek forest anymore but Upper Guk/Lower Guk zoneline. (My bind spot at the time) What had happened was my guildies noticed I was afk/unresponsive and tried to guard me as long as possible before they all had to log for the night. I was killed by a shadow man and then proceeded to be killed over and over again at the zone line due to trains/etc. If I can recall I ended up waking up to lv 39, When I was well into lv 44 going to sleep. I ended up heading back to my original corpse, looting it and immediately doing a /quit. I took maybe a day or two off and then came back and grinded all those levels including hell level 40 all over again.

The best part was a guild Leader saw my corpse at shadow men in the morning, Did a /who "my toons name" and rushed to Lguk. He ended up guarding my toon for an hour or so before I woke up. A few ended up coining a nick name/term after me for someone who would go AFK for a while during a raid. They would constantly joke that maybe they fell asleep at the keyboard as I had.

[BlewHedgehog]

I doubt this will elicit tons of laughs, but this is one of my favorite times of EQ past.

I was a human... paladin maybe... a newbie (as usual, I think levels 1-20 were my favorite. Never made it to any high-end content) wandering around outside of Blackburrow and whooping on some gnolls, when my sister comes over along with her son who must have been 4 at the time. He's always been fascinated by watching me play games, but was a really shy kid and never wanted to play himself. No biggie, he seemed to get enough enjoyment out of just watching. Whatever.

The problem arises because my sister was a tremendously overbearing parent. She takes ESRB at their word and never fudges on movie ratings or anything like that, so we have to keep it strictly non-violent (or at least something cartoony like Super Mario Bros). However, as I'm sure you've all experienced, I was addicted and wasn't about to camp out. As a good friend of mine once said, "It's not like you can level up at the movies or anything." The gnoll slaying continued as my nephew quietly spectates for a good while.

I'm not sure if it was the innocent justice often found in children or just naivete, but eventually the obvious questions start to come out.

"What are those? Are they bad guys?"

I ponder this for a second. "Yeah," I say. "Well, no. They're trying to steal our land, I think. Cuz we took it from them first. They're like Indians, I guess."

"So you have to kill them?"

My own character is being challenged here, as for a moment or two I'm actually considering the consequences of my hostility toward these animals. I imagine Mrs. Darkpaw raising her children alone whilst fielding an incessant query of phone calls notifying her that her husband has been killed... again.

Soon enough I come back to my senses, though to be entirely honest I don't disagree with his mother's concern. This kid's at a malleable stage right now and doesn't necessarily need to think that his uncle says killing natives is not only okay, but a pleasant way to spend your weeknights. Basically, I'm glad that Squirtle only faints or gets knocked out and so on. Death is a heavy topic for a youngster to have to deal with. I decide to take inspiration from his Pokemon interest.

"Well, see, I'm not killing them. I'm like... the sandman or something. I have to go around putting these guys to sleep with my, um... sleep stick!" Not terribly clever, sure. Except for the fact that they're dogs and I'm putting them to sleep. See? It's a half truth. I play on. "Hey there, puppy! Night night!" *whack*

He seemed to have bought it, to which I must say 4 year-olds are idiots. We wasted the next 3 hours scavenging the Hills for harmless animals to bring sweet dreams to and all the while, he was cheering me on, yelling, "Go to sleep!" at every mob I encountered. Bonding. Man, what a good time.

[Tarathiel]

I doubt this will elicit tons of laughs, but this is one of my favorite times of EQ past.

I was a human... paladin maybe... a newbie (as usual, I think levels 1-20 were my favorite. Never made it to any high-end content) wandering around outside of Blackburrow and whooping on some gnolls, when my sister comes over along with her son who must have been 4 at the time. He's always been fascinated by watching me play games, but was a really shy kid and never wanted to play himself. No biggie, he seemed to get enough enjoyment out of just watching. Whatever.

The problem arises because my sister was a tremendously overbearing parent. She takes ESRB at their word and never fudges on movie ratings or anything like that, so we have to keep it strictly non-violent (or at least something cartoony like Super Mario Bros). However, as I'm sure you've all experienced, I was addicted and wasn't about to camp out. As a good friend of mine once said, "It's not like you can level up at the movies or anything." The gnoll slaying continued as my nephew quietly spectates for a good while.

I'm not sure if it was the innocent justice often found in children or just naivete, but eventually the obvious questions start to come out.

"What are those? Are they bad guys?"

I ponder this for a second. "Yeah," I say. "Well, no. They're trying to steal our land, I think. Cuz we took it from them first. They're like Indians, I guess."

"So you have to kill them?"

My own character is being challenged here, as for a moment or two I'm actually considering the consequences of my hostility toward these animals. I imagine Mrs. Darkpaw raising her children alone whilst fielding an incessant query of phone calls notifying her that her husband has been killed... again.

Soon enough I come back to my senses, though to be entirely honest I don't disagree with his mother's concern. This kid's at a malleable stage right now and doesn't necessarily need to think that his uncle says killing natives is not only okay, but a pleasant way to spend your weeknights. Basically, I'm glad that Squirtle only faints or gets knocked out and so on. Death is a heavy topic for a youngster to have to deal with. I decide to take inspiration from his Pokemon interest.

"Well, see, I'm not killing them. I'm like... the sandman or something. I have to go around putting these guys to sleep with my, um... sleep stick!" Not terribly clever, sure. Except for the fact that they're dogs and I'm putting them to sleep. See? It's a half truth. I play on. "Hey there, puppy! Night night!" *whack*

He seemed to have bought it, to which I must say 4 year-olds are idiots. We wasted the next 3 hours scavenging the Hills for harmless animals to bring sweet dreams to and all the while, he was cheering me on, yelling, "Go to sleep!" at every mob I encountered. Bonding. Man, what a good time.

Hahah I have a 4 y/o so I totally know where you are coming from, I have a similiar story but it involves medal of honor and calling his friends at school nazi's lol

[Koa Bosk]

I don't know if this is funny, and I'm sure it has happened to other people.

I play a Elf Ranger, so a friend of mine took me to Sol A to find a heart from one of the Goblin inferno for a quest. Well it took a few hours, but we finally got one. I was so excited that I was this much closer to completing the quest, and congratulating myself for not dying at all this entire time that when leaving, I guess I was not paying attention to my footing and fell into the lava just a few feet from the exit.

What made it even more embarrassing was that just a second before I fell, my friend had warned me to be careful. Not to mention my girlfriend was sitting next to me, witnessed the whole thing, laughing at my blunder.

[toddfx]

I suppose I'll go ahead and share mine. I was 13 years old playing EQ on live. I was goofing off in Halas when I stumbled upon a barbarian couple sitting together in some out of the way hut. I decided to cause a little trouble and emote something silly. I targeted the lady barbarian and emoted ":kisses %t long and hard."

She was not happy, and proceeded to call me out on cyber rape and said I'd be hearing from her lawyer! Believe it or not, my stupid 13 year old self believed her and was so scared I logged immediately and did not log back in for several days. Needless to say, that was the end of my dirty emote fun...

[rabienrose90]

Hmmm, one of my favorite times in everquest was when my father and I wanted to go out and fish but because of the weather, we couldn't. So Instead we ended up on EQ in Kaladim and we decided to have a fishing contest lol

We took off all our gear and emptied our bags so it would be fair, we only had a fishing pole, a few stacks of beer and a few stacks of bait.

I forget where it was but I want to say by some Iron mill and there was a small dock with a little pond. We ended up falling off that little dock a good twenty times from being so drunk(in game, I was like 12 or so at the time)

It was a while until we realized we were eating the fish we were catching lol We were laughing so hard at how drunk we were in game, and that the random message of "you spill your beer" lol it was really fun = )

He did end up winning though = / I might have to have a rematch with him soon lol

[mala]

really not trying to hate here... but that short novel matalus wrote is completely devoid of anything even relatively funny

[Excellio]

Here's my other entry:

So, one day I went to log into P99, and suddenly, more than 300 players were suspended for hacking and using prohibited 3rd party software. I must say that in all of my years of playing EverQuest, I had never encountered such a phenomenon. It seemed so unlikely that so many people on one server would all choose to do stuff that was explicitly against the rules, all simultaneously. I also wondered what they did with all that plat that got removed... I figured it was probably on a mob somewhere, like a fire beetle or something, and some newb is gonna kill that fire beetle because he needs a fire beetle eye, and then he won't be able to walk because he'll be all crazy encumbered. And there probably won't even be a fire beetle eye on that particular fire beetle corpse.

[Teensy Weensy]

FRAT!

[Cujoy]

My newb story, I started a Rogue on VZ when it first came live, I think it was June or something. I was a halfelf rogue in Kelethin and I thought I knew all there was to know about role playing games because I beat FF7 with no walkthrough and both the optional bosses (Emerald and Ruby weapons). I got to level 5 killing trash at newb lift and then I stopped leveling, I killed and killed and killed and I couldn't level, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the con system so I didn't know that killing greens and greys was basically getting me nowhere. I played for about 6 weeks and got so frustrated at being level 5 I quit. I deleted that damn rogue and uninstalled EQ.
It was some time in 2000 that I finally started playing again, Kunark had just been released. I decided to make a ranger this time. A ranger with charisma so I could make better deals with the merchants... This time I read about the game a little and figured out I need to con mobs to make sure I get exp. I leveled through Gfay, to BB, and finally off to the Commonlands and I decide to swim to Freeport. I didn't know you couldn't swim across zone lines, so I swam and swam and swam, finally I started tracking the boat, thinking maybe I just wasn't taking the right path (my sense heading was shit at the time). I caught up with the boat and got hung up on the geometry of it somehow, my character zoned with the boat. So at this point I think I can still swim zone lines, I eventually make it to Freeport and decide since I'm on a roll I'll swim to the new land of Kunark. So I turn around from Freeport, head back to tracking the boat and get restuck on the boat zone and keep going, I did this all the way to OOT. Finally I get sick of swimming about 4 hours later and caught the boat to TD. I got stuck on this boat too, no idea how I kept managing it. After a long journey I decided to check out that passage in FV at the bottom of one of the docks, I can't even remember where it was but I ended up drowning in it and went all the way back Kelethin.

My only other newb story is that when I started that ranger I joined a roleplaying guild. But I didn't know they were roleplaying other than they said weird old English shit like ye and thee. I basically knew nothing of guilds, they made me the "Baroness of West Commonlands", I went to WC, our guild policy was to help people in 'your' land, so I ran around helping people who were having problems in WC telling them I was the Baroness of WC. Everyone thought I was crazy because they asked if I was RPing and I said no, I'm the actual baroness. I thought I had real power... it's kind of sad now that I think about it, especially since this went on for almost a week.

[Hagglebaron]

My newb story, I started a Rogue on VZ when it first came live, I think it was June or something. I was a halfelf rogue in Kelethin and I thought I knew all there was to know about role playing games because I beat FF7 with no walkthrough and both the optional bosses (Emerald and Ruby weapons). I got to level 5 killing trash at newb lift and then I stopped leveling, I killed and killed and killed and I couldn't level, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the con system so I didn't know that killing greens and greys was basically getting me nowhere. I played for about 6 weeks and got so frustrated at being level 5 I quit. I deleted that damn rogue and uninstalled EQ.
It was some time in 2000 that I finally started playing again, Kunark had just been released. I decided to make a ranger this time. A ranger with charisma so I could make better deals with the merchants... This time I read about the game a little and figured out I need to con mobs to make sure I get exp. I leveled through Gfay, to BB, and finally off to the Commonlands and I decide to swim to Freeport. I didn't know you couldn't swim across zone lines, so I swam and swam and swam, finally I started tracking the boat, thinking maybe I just wasn't taking the right path (my sense heading was shit at the time). I caught up with the boat and got hung up on the geometry of it somehow, my character zoned with the boat. So at this point I think I can still swim zone lines, I eventually make it to Freeport and decide since I'm on a roll I'll swim to the new land of Kunark. So I turn around from Freeport, head back to tracking the boat and get restuck on the boat zone and keep going, I did this all the way to OOT. Finally I get sick of swimming about 4 hours later and caught the boat to TD. I got stuck on this boat too, no idea how I kept managing it. After a long journey I decided to check out that passage in FV at the bottom of one of the docks, I can't even remember where it was but I ended up drowning in it and went all the way back Kelethin.

My only other newb story is that when I started that ranger I joined a roleplaying guild. But I didn't know they were roleplaying other than they said weird old English shit like ye and thee. I basically knew nothing of guilds, they made me the "Baroness of West Commonlands", I went to WC, our guild policy was to help people in 'your' land, so I ran around helping people who were having problems in WC telling them I was the Baroness of WC. Everyone thought I was crazy because they asked if I was RPing and I said no, I'm the actual baroness. I thought I had real power... it's kind of sad now that I think about it, especially since this went on for almost a week.

LOL

Close contender for the prize right here

[joppykid]

Although I don't condone the actions of my friend in this story, its pretty funny.

My friend who was a Barbarian Warrior would go around looking for corpses and sending tells to people saying he would loot and bring their gear to them ( this was when you could loot others with /consent. So basically he would loot their corpses and take their gear and was notorious on the server. He had a full set of crafted at lvl 10. He also had an inappropriate name at one point that was changed by the GMs to Roseblossom lol

[Herky]

Everquest was the first MMO I actually convinced my bible thumpin' parents to let me play. UO was too wizardy/occultic and I just barely convinced Dad to give a pass on EQ by promising I'd play a Paladin. (This is the same Dad featured in Trelaboon's story, btw) So in the summer of 1999 I began playing the game and extolling its virtues to all of my friends.

Within two years, I began dating a nice cutie who was into "geeky" stuff, and I convinced her to play EQ with me. She rolls a character and first logs in, when a mutual RL friend whispers her: "We're sooo going to twink your ass!"

She immediately got up and walked away from the computer, and it took extensive convincing before she believed my explanation of what that meant. To this day she doesn't like that guy, figuring he's a "creep" lol.

So fast forward to project 1999's beginning. I was living in Japan at the time, making a living as an English teacher while exploring the world... I was dating a very beautiful bilingual Japanese girl and had convinced her to try playing as well. She wasn't as keen, unfortunately, but I got her to at least give it a shot. (And let me explain that she was the full package, as far as I was concerned.. I very much wanted to marry her.)

So Sunday morning, we wake up in my apartment bedroom and I boot up the PC and log in, then have her sit in the computer chair and start guiding her through the ropes of making a new character.

Meanwhile, I'm standing behind her and to the left a bit, offering advice... I feel a massive morning fart bubbling in my guts, and figure I'll try for a squeaker but wasn't too concerned since I've let some nasty sounding ones rip in front of her before. (The Japanese are pretty cool about "normal bodily functions")

I sort of bend the knees a bit, a vaguely squatting motion, and let it rip... surprisingly, not a sound escapes.

Likewise surprisingly, I feel a significant amount of something escape.

At this point, time enters into slow motion. My face immediately burns with the shame of what just happened, oh god oh god please no, and I look down to see the confirmation of a cowpie (shaman pie?) directly below me.

It completely bypassed my (loose) boxers and landed in a gelatinous circle between my feet.

This cannot be happening, oh no, no no no, did she notice?? I look back up at her and she is intent on the character creation screen. "Hrmm, I don't like gnomes... they're too short!"

I mutter an agreeable response while the majority of my brain is in full fledged panic; what do I do?! This is beyond the worst nightmare I've ever imagined.

So I do what any reasonable panicky Everquester in this situation would do; I start fake sneezing.

"Oh man, allergies", I whisper lamely. "Could you hand me the tissues?"

She hands me the box, thank god for small miracles, and I begin pulling a few and really unconvincingly begin "blowing my nose", then furtively try to sop up last night's now-soupy sushi.

"What stat is good for wizards?"
"Strength and stamina", I answer automatically.

I continue this sneezing act while halfheartedly guiding her through the minutiae of creating a character, (to this day I don't honestly remember a single detail of what she ended up with), while amassing a significant pile of nasty wet brown tissues in my trash can. (Thank goodness for plastic bag liners!)

This whole time I'm debating in my mind as to whether she is just being a really good sport about the whole thing or if somehow angels have kept her attention away from the utter disaster occurring slightly behind her and to the left.

"Yep", I think to myself, "that's a pretty tell-tale stain on the carpet." I move the trashcan onto the stain, dreading how incredibly suspicious it looks in its new, very inconvenient, totally in the way location. "I'm going to.. I'm going to go take a shower", I tell her with what I hoped was nonchalance.

"OK honey," she replies sweetly.

She must really not have any clue. I say a prayer of thanks to Erollisi and start padding towards the shower.

I immediately feel a squishy wet sensation on my right foot, look down, and barely restrain my curses...

Yep, in my panic, I have now stepped in my own feces. My sock was soaked, and had left a pretty obvious trail away from Ground Zero. I urgently look at her, but Lo: Miracle of Miracles, she's still riveted by the character creation process.

I slip off my sock and disappear down the hallway.

To this day, I'm thoroughly convinced she never noticed it (through no small effort of distraction on my part; as soon as she quit playing EQ I whisked her out of the apartment on some pretense or other) and although we did eventually end up breaking up, it wasn't because she saw me poop myself, fake-sneeze my way to a trashcan full of brown tissues, and then step in it while making my escape to the shower.

Thankfully, even a decade after its release, Project 1999 proved EQ to be as immersive and captivating to new players as it was when I first began playing.

This is my story, shame and all.

[Atmas]

So like others have pointed out many of the most memorable experiences come with playing EQ with real life friends.

I always enjoy playing games with my rl friends so I spent sometime convincing my friend to play EQ back in the day on TZ. He rolls up a Paladin and gives it an asenine name, Schionatulander (I think some guy in some book).

My character was already in the 50s so I could impart the basics as well as spare him a few hundred plat. I make certain to inform him that he should never buy any armor off the vendor as it is ludicriously overpriced. Had we been in a sitcom there would have been a screen wipe and text that read "3 minutes later..." when I received a tell "check out these awesome pants!!"

So the tales of Schionatulander began. Most of the early experiences revolved around PvP against a character named Gnomwed who would chase him around and killl him then send him a message telling him "you've been Gnowmed." This continued until one day he blinded Gnomwed in Kelethin who then promptly fell to his death. He and Gnowmed laughed it over and Schionatulander came to the realization that he could be a dominant PvP force with against players who could not see him. The fighting from then on went well, with the exception of the occasional high MR twink or player who argued that they had only been beaten due a graphics card malfunction.

After not seeing Schionatulander on for a few weeks I asked my friend where he had been. He told me about his adventuring in Mistmoore. That while partying in the GY his group had felled a mob that dropped the highly coveted Crested Helm. He looted the helm and and the party rolls were away! As the other members of the group congratulated the winner he watched as his camp timer ticked down. Schionatulander was not to bee seen in Norath for 3 moons.

Schionatulander's adventures continued taking him across the continents. I would occasionally recieve word of the insights he gained as he traveled. "WTF man, this Puma was attacking me in the Commonlands and I managed to run into the Inn but it came through the wall and still ate my ass!"

Eventually another period of time came where I couldn't recall having seen Schionatulander on in recent memory. When I asked him if he had ninjaed another item he told me "I lost my corpse, so I quit." I suppose this happens to many people, just not that often at level 42.

The Return of Schionatulander on P99:
So once again the draw of EQ pulled me back. I convinced a few of my friends who had played on live to come try P99. Schionatulander was less than enthusiastic about playing a hardcore MMO again. After a few minutes of talking with him on the phone, informing him some of our other mutual friends were playing, and him calling these friends to confirm I wasn't just trying to perform a ruse he rolled up another paladin, Schionatulander. My wiz was already 12 and I heard numerous complaints from him every step of the way as he progressed to level 3.

Everyone agreed to meet up by Felwithe since we were all in Gfay. I arrived first followed by two of our friends. They formed a group and went off to kill some bats just a little walk away in the Gfay woods. Schionatulander shows up and talks a little bit about being tired.

As I run forward into the woods to show him where our other friends went I launch into a tirade about the glory day of MMOs. I give a motivational talk on level with the President's speech in the film Independence Day. I deliver lines worthy of a coach's prep talk in the final seconds of a historically significant sporting event. After which Schionatulander gives me a resounding "Yeah!"

He charges boldy into the woods to join the fray and runs right past or other friends fighting mobs... I watch him run for a little bit and out of sight and send him a tell:

"Um you ran past them..."
Schionatulander is not online at this time.

Momments later my phone buzzes from a text message. "Im not playing anymore"

And so ends the heralding tale of Schionatulander.

I guess it wasn't too surprising, of my other 3 friends playing none of them made it past level 5. The first to go was a guy who had only played WoW and rolled up a Ranger... The direct quote for the reason he quit was "A lack of instant gratification."

[jadefoot]

Herky's story nearly had me in tears, I don't think I can hold a candle to him (not sure I would want to if he had that kind of gas again lol) but I'll throw my story in too.

I had been playing for a couple of years on live and had leveled up a druid to about 53 or so, I would stop in from time to time and get the Pyzjn cycle going to make some extra pp. While doing this I would usually pick up on tracking whoever was waiting for Hadden to spawn, an idea started to form that I couldn't resist.

I camped out and went to create a new barbarian named: Haden (it wouldn't let me do Hadden), I ran him down to Blackburrow and somehow managed to get him through by the skin of his lvl 1 teeth to Qeynos Hills. You can already see where this is going, I run over to the exact spot where Hadden spawns and stand there for a few minutes. While I'm waiting I make a hotkey that says something along the lines of: "Fool! Time to die Soandso!" I had even picked up a fishing pole so I really looked the part.

Sure enough this halfling druid pops up right across that pond and I see him firing up a spell at me. . . boom! He starts casting like crazy at me and doesn't let up, he tries every spell at his disposal to take me down, over and over until he finally sits down unsure of what to do. I hit /camp and right before I vanish I say: "You'll never get my earring!"

I log back onto my druid that I had parked nearby and run over to the guy and ask him: "Hey I just had Hadden on track! Did you kill him? Did he drop the earring?"

The poor guy tells me: "Man I couldn't touch him! I threw everything I had at him and he just wouldn't go down!" I remember saying something like: "Aww bummer, he must be bugged or something."

Whenever I was bored I would pop in as Hadden and see who would fall for it, more than half the people waiting for him to pop would try in desperation to get that elusive earring :D

[scourge42]

This is the story of how Mildarg the Enchanter trolled the town of freeport in back in 1999. It all started with a level one spell called minor illusion and and sinister yet genius plan. Mildarg lvl 40 at the time parked himself int he middle of the freeport arena. He took off one of his many back packs and threw it onto the ground and cast minor illusion on himself to become a copy of the backpack. The trap has now been set. Mildarg Screams to the low level citizens of freeport. "Come one, come all! A free bag of gear to who ever can reach the arena first" A young new blod human monk walks into the arena seeing only the bag infront of him he thinks "jackpot!" the young monk rushes to the back. Click Click Click the monk wondered why can't i pick this bag up? Then while letting out a tremendous laugh Mildarg transformed back into his true form. Before the monk could even turn around he was already mesmerized by the beautiful high elf enchanter looking him dead in the eye. Mildarg casted root to hold him in place then decided to sit and meditate on the situation for a few minutes. Once Mildarg was at full mana he decided to have funw ith his new friend and casted tornado and laughed as the monk spun in circles. He then blinded the monk with a powerful spell giving him time to slip into a corner and cast invisibility on himself. Soon the monk was alone with root starting to fade he thought maybe he was free. When root broke he ran for the door But WAIT! Mildarg casts mesmerize and freezes him only inches away from freedom. Frustrated and annoyed the young monk decided his only option was to camp and wait till later, little did he know Mildarg would be waiting there for his return.

I must of caught 4-5 different people that day I never killed any of them I just tortured them with spells and mockery.

[Koa Bosk]

To: Jadefoot, HAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHA. Oh my eyes so full of tears laughing so hard.

Everquest, $20
Project 1999, $0
A set of Twinked gear, a few thousand plat
Playing EQ with friends and swapping stories, priceless.

[NGHpnotiq]

When my roommate got into EQ, He had to upgrade his graphics card to play the game. Well at the time being a very young lad he wasn't very computer suave and didn't install the card correctly.

So he made a Dwarf to start with and because of the botched installation He Couldn't Zone out of Kaladim. So he spent almost a week killing rats in Kaladim, I think he got to level 6 or 7 off those rats. During this time he even had a letter he needed to turn in, and not understanding how the game worked He tried asking everyone who came into the city to go turn in this letter for him as he couldn't leave the city! Eventually after many frustrated hours not understanding why He wasn't getting experience anymore and why NOBODY would help him finish this quest he finally figured out his graphics card wasn't done properly! And thus lives the tale of Zonshadoo.

[Civeal]

Once i was with a group of elves in Mistmoore, i was the only dwarf there, they were all my guildmates. A twinked elf druid came by, and started attacking me, while we were fighting, my group/guildmates were encouraging him, and saying how good he was, so i started hitting them instead of him, and he proceded to stop attacking me, healed and buffed me, at first they didn't get it until i killed one of ours. they then ported out and asking me what the fuck i was up to.

Started chating with the guy, we had a great laugh at those people, eventually called them names as i used be 15 years old at that time, he liked it. Found out he was the alt of one of the most hated guild on the server, The Twelves Prophets, on Vallon Zek, a guild supposed to be composed with one member of each race.

I joined another guild who was for short people only, but i became a secret spy for that guy, and a rezzer when it was hard for them to get rezzed by anyone outside their guild, my informations were limited as i was alot lower, but while leveling i gave him a couple good informations that served the purpouse of wiping a couple of raids.

I ended up joining a serious guild and never betrayed them, but basically, it was fun leveling with the "feeling" of doing something special.

[Billatoras]

Hello folks ,

I used to play EQ on the Rathe server and this story i am going to share happened in my first steps when i was a newbie.

My little Ranger was going to join a party in Crushbone , his first group experience. We all gathered at entrance and we started the hunting after a while. After couple pulls i was seeing some of the rest party members calling some 'numbers' in party chat.

Partymember1 says : 60

Partymember2 says : 75

and so on ...

In the beginning i didnt pay much attention to it , i was so excited with the fighting.

Although it kept happening again and again . I was wondering myself ...

What were those numbers?! Do they have a meaning? It was a mystery to me and i wanted to solve it!

Do i have to call a number in party chat also?

And again ...

Partymember1 says : 35

Partymember2 says : 45

It was driving me crazy! I was about to start typing random numbers in party chat.

There was only one way to find out , i had to ask!
I had to learn the purpose of this!


And as you all know , it was just their mana report.

The response i got dissapointed me a bit to be honest :)

[cobykoby]

My first ever character was a human paladin, I soon found out that night time vision was not one of my strong points after I ventured past west freeport and into EC after following a wood elf...I was mauled by many a bear until I learned that nighttime travel was indeed to be avoided....however..

I continued to level up until eventually It was time for me and my pensioner vision to attempt a trip to Kunark, I followed guildies advice and took a shuttle boat from butcherblock, awaiting patiently on the platform, I was finally going places! I dreamt up images of the kunark ruins, the beauty of the seaside town Firiona Vie and my eventual ascendence to godhood with a fiery sword.

But my eyes had other ideas.

I zoned out of butcherblock on the shuttle which I was told would take me to a much larger boat, which I would then proceed to climb upon and begin my adventure. It was night time and my poorly human eyes struggled to adjust to the night time enviroment, I was essentially blind and proceeded to make mole like facial expressions, wincing at the screen. I then assumed perhaps I was already on the boat and maybe it would light up, So I edged my way around and heard a splash.
It appeared I had fallen in the bloody water and panic set in.

At this time light begins to come around and I do indeed see the larger ship, but it's buggering off in a different direction and I am currently in a vast amount of water, of which I never been in or near before and I immediatly announce my problem to fellow guildmates who then proceed to tell me a bloody dragon also lives in the same water.

"Bollocks"

I decide I can't just sit floating there so I best try and go back or find some landmass, I forget which way I need to go 'back' but I do however find a rather large island with a hill, "Thank fuck for that I think" and swim towards it hastily, hoping the dragon (which i later find out is more like a fish and for the druid epic) isn't about to eat me. Now, being a paladin I don't have gate, this is also my first character so I'm rather ill equipped to deal with most situations bar running around undead camps.

I proceed to make my way up onto the island when I find it is inhabited by nothing less than undead iksars, again I say bollocks multiple times and decide it's better to be on this island than in the water with the dragon, I make my way up the hill and try to make a new plan of action.

Sadly no plan of action actually materialised and I ended up sobbing like a child with my dodgy eyes until thankfully a druid, out of bloody nowhere finds me up the hill looking down at the undead and takes pity, porting me back home where I can one day again attempt my voyage into the unknown.
:edit: I was actually sobbing for around 3 hours
I didn't attempt the to man the shuttles for weeks, thanks a lot human eyes.

[Sniperfire]

right before they ended sullon zek i decided to quit eq so i sat in the bazaar and sold my account over and over to noobs for 5-7 million plat a pop then gave them fake infos.
i did this 30 or 40 times at the end of it i would have 3 or 4 people standing around me saying "dont give him any plat hes a scammer" and still the noobs bought plat to fill my coffers. i sold my account along with 60 million plat for 5k dollars paypal.

savra so you know who did it son

[Hagglebaron]

This is gonna take awhile to get through lmao, im cutting the stories off at this post so please don't add more unless you are just doing so to share :p

Will decide on the winner within a few days, soon as i finish the reading through the thread. Already have an idea on who wins though

[Pudge]

On a level 50 wizard on Rallos Zek, pre-Kunark. So, I zone into Greater Faydark and see this Dark Elf Shadowknight moving very, very slowly. He had full Umbral and the Soul Leech weapon. He saw me zone in and I had a very bad reputation as someone who liked to one-shot people with Ice Comet. He immediately starts sending me tells.

Shadowknight tells you, "dude please I know what you're thinking but I'll make it worth your while if you just let me go."

I begin casting Ice Comet. Shadowknight begins to slowly walk toward Lesser Faydark zone.

Shadowknight tells you, "COME ON I CANT DIE RIGHT NOW"

First Ice Comet drops him to about 40%. I begin casting the second Ice Comet.

Shadowknight tells you, "fuck you cocksucker you fucking queer, you'll never see the planes"

Second Ice Comet lands slaying the shadowknight. I loot him quickly and here the cha-ching. You have looted 11,400 platinum. He also didn't bag his Hooded Black Cloak.

LOL

[Excellio]

This is gonna take awhile to get through lmao, im cutting the stories off at this post so please don't add more unless you are just doing so to share :p

Will decide on the winner within a few days, soon as i finish the reading through the thread. Already have an idea on who wins though

I think the most difficult part is going to be when you have to tell everyone other than me about how they didn't win. It's gonna be awkward, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[sacrilegium]

right before they ended sullon zek i decided to quit eq so i sat in the bazaar and sold my account over and over to noobs for 5-7 million plat a pop then gave them fake infos.
i did this 30 or 40 times at the end of it i would have 3 or 4 people standing around me saying "dont give him any plat hes a scammer" and still the noobs bought plat to fill my coffers. i sold my account along with 60 million plat for 5k dollars paypal.

savra so you know who did it son

A new player gets 5,000,000 platinum where?

[cobykoby]

I think the most difficult part is going to be when you have to tell everyone other than me about how they didn't win. It's gonna be awkward, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Oh no you don't!

[Lagaidh]

Some of the Ancient Cyclops stories made me want to tell mine. I have always been a DWF PAL as any of you knows if you've read my dreck here. I used to say I played the first character I ever created, but I remember I played the 2nd. I had named myself Lugaidh first. Lagaidh is better; same stats thought, base 61 CHA /rolleyes.

My wife started a few toons to try and find a fit. First a shaman, then a druid... AH cleric! This seemed right. Before knowing how to make decent money, I would camp the derv camps in SRO for gems and bronze weapons. I was very comfortable with the zone layout and the close merchant. It's al relatively safe for a 3rd string hybrid (I'd get better).

Anyway, I remember being L40 with not great gear. Kunark was just a week or two old. I was helping power level my wife's L15 or so cleric and then we saw something way tall that was NOT a sand giant.

Is that the AC? *Wipes eyes* I've only ever seen screenshots. Welp. Die or not I'm trying!

I was self buffed and this knockdown drag out fight ensues. Back and forth, root heal, root med, fight a little... My wife (or would be a year later) was in the room yelling and cheering.

I got that thing to about 54% and a Wizard runs up. I thought "Oh no!" On the Rathe server, at that time, Wizards had a horrible reputation for binding near popular camps, popping in when a timer went off. I never did remember his name. He cast a nuke or two while I kept swinging away with whatever 2h weapon it was I had, 18/39 thing (ACG?)

Welp. I kept agro, used my LoH and the AC dropped before me. I right clicked the corpse. It was mine. That wizard said "You are one lucky dwarf" and ported. I never could tell if he was trying to get it, or help. I always liked to think he had been rooting for me.

Not a gripping story, but I was always proud, that as a L40 paladin I had been able to get jboots all for myself. I had missed camping for them (and for rubicite) by a few days of their respective patches and so it was incredibly gratifying to have gotten something that usually only the DPSers got without help.

[visage]

One time I was playing this really great server called project 1999. One day I awoke to 365 cheaters... True story

[beentheredonethat]

Anyone remembers that really old joke about putting your character level on your resume because it was quite an accomplishment to get to certain levels?

[Matalus]

Who was the winner of this great prize?

[nymphloa]

Got up...said my prayers to the GREAT STRING BALL! AAAAAAH BED TIME!

[mangos756]

Thank You.

[visage]

Something tells me haggle was cheatin...

[Swish]

So there was this horrible gnome wizard (no offence Haggle) in Ocean of Tears at the named sisters when I was levelling my necro. I'd split the 2 in the hut, and was comfortably semi-afk between pulls.

This gnome shows up as I pull the next respawn and nukes the crap out of her, loots up, and runs back up the hill some of the way and sits down.

So I send a tell asking if there's a problem, no reply. Next respawn, same deal...a necro just isn't out dps'ing a wizard. I was regretting splitting the camp, because he had the mana every time to keep nuking them.

Made a petition, and to cut a long story short... Amelinda gets back to me about 8 hours later asking if he's still there. I had logged in the meanwhile so she didn't have the chance to reply while I was offline. The little bastard got away with it. I don't know if he still plays, but if he does... I hate him, and hope he drowns in the sea.

The End


...I think that's the best story in a while, can anyone top it? Licking my lips at the 10k plat for sure :)

[pharmakos]

that story about everyone getting trolled by that old AON/COF giveaway thread getting necro bumped is pretty funny

[Grahm]

So there was this horrible gnome wizard (no offence Haggle) in Ocean of Tears at the named sisters when I was levelling my necro. I'd split the 2 in the hut, and was comfortably semi-afk between pulls.

This gnome shows up as I pull the next respawn and nukes the crap out of her, loots up, and runs back up the hill some of the way and sits down.

So I send a tell asking if there's a problem, no reply. Next respawn, same deal...a necro just isn't out dps'ing a wizard. I was regretting splitting the camp, because he had the mana every time to keep nuking them.

Made a petition, and to cut a long story short... Amelinda gets back to me about 8 hours later asking if he's still there. I had logged in the meanwhile so she didn't have the chance to reply while I was offline. The little bastard got away with it. I don't know if he still plays, but if he does... I hate him, and hope he drowns in the sea.

The End


...I think that's the best story in a while, can anyone top it? Licking my lips at the 10k plat for sure :)

Didnt read whole thread but reminds me of the dude who got bind-camped while AFK leveling and had 100000 corpses on island. Anyone got that link to thread?

[Mithas]

So at original launch of EQ back in 99 my friend Jeff was the first to buy the game. Since the rest of my friends and I were poor college students we would play on his account whenever he wasn't home. Our friend Donnie had decided to start a Monk. Jeff would sometimes get mad at us for being on his computer all of the time. He would say "come on I have a project to work" or "Dammit I want to play log your character off." We would of course do this as soon as we could camp at safe spot, except Donnie. Donnie always had an excuse to not get off right away, one time Jeff waited over an hour for him to get off. Jeff would even wake to the clicking of his keyboard and look and see Donnie playing. Finally Jeff had enough of this and decided to do something about it. So Donnie left for class one day and Jeff, with me watching, logged on to Donnie's monk. He swan it out to the middle of Lake Rathetear and let him drown then logged back out of his character. Needless to say Donnie was only about level 6 so his swimming skill was horrible. When Donnie tried to log in when he got home he found his monk naked. Asking Jeff if he knew what happened Jeff replied "yeah I drowned that bitch and good luck getting your corpse back." Jeff told Donnie where it was and needless to say Donnie could not recover his corpse because he would drown before he could get all the way down, loot and get back up. After multiple tries and dropping all the way down to level 5 again Donnie gave up. Thus ends the tale of Donnie's Monk.

PS We all eventually got our own accounts, even Donnie, and played the game for many years.

[Tecmos Deception]

Ok here goes.

I started my very first toon on live. Menadwen, I still use the name to this day. I was a shaman barb. In cold town of Halas, there is a well. I jumped in to see is anyone droped money in it. Thinking i'll buy my spells with wishing well money. That was the day, I drowned 8 (yes 8) times before I learned that PageUp lets you swim up.

So greed plus noob = death.

Haha... that's a pretty awesome story already for just the 4th post in the thread!

[SirAlvarex]

We just gotta keep necro'ing old giveaway threads, don't we...

[Meeper]

We just gotta keep necro'ing old giveaway threads, don't we...

I'm glad someone did, or I would have missed this gem: Post 96 (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=378396&postcount=96)

[pharmakos]

I'm glad someone did, or I would have missed this gem: Post 96 (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=378396&postcount=96)

rofl thank you

[Essedge]

was down in OS pre-velious with a group, paladin was pulling (dont recall why) and either he ran into a train or pulled way to many mobs.. shouted for us to evac as he took one for the team.

before he went down he channeled William Wallace, Mel Gibson style, and shouted "FREEDOM!!" as he was torn to bits.

good times

[cearobinson]

Oh man... here's going way back.

So I was about 10 or 12 when I first started playing. I made a Wood Elf Ranger of which I put all of my points into strength and stamina, don't judge me I wanted him to be durable. So, I made a friend in the game and his name was Iinen. So, I could never figure out how to send him a tell because everytime I would type /Linen (Yeah, I was dumb. Some how I didn't figure out it was a capital I not a lowercase L). So when I wanted to talk to him I would shout out in the zone, "linen! Send me a tell!" until he finally did. He eventually corrected me and I figured out how to send him a tell.

Then, as I was running around Gfay I would hear people alllllllll day shouting about how they would pay for a SoW or they are looking for a SoW. Now, I had never experienced my clothes ripping in the game before but I figured it must be a common thing since so many people really need this SoW. So, I went up the lift one day, clothes still in tact, and bought a sewing kit. I came down and sat at PoD lift and starting shouting, "SoWing at PoD lift! Donations accepted." Mirroring messages I had heard before. I figured I'd be rolling in the plat in no time! So my first customer walks up and hails me. I put the sewing kit in trade and wait for the money to show up. He cancels the trade and sends me a tell laughing at me, doesn't tell me why just merely laughs and walks off. So now I'm confused and don't know if I'm doing this SoWing thing right or not. The next guy walks up and the other guy is standing right next to him. He hails me, I put the sewing kit in trade and he too cancels and laughs at me. I'm now seriously doubting my tailoring ability. So, the next customer walks up, hails me and I give him the kit. He cancels the trade and sends me a tell explaining the difference between SoW and sew. I now feel stupid and I made a Necromancer.

/fin

[Calabee]

jesus, fucking, holy, christ

[sKrible760]

Cearobinson that was a Damn funny story. Made me lol the whole way through the second paragraph. Good stuff man!

[LordSterben]

I might have been down there for sixty days or sixty weeks. It's easy to lose touch with time in an underground North Korean dungeon. Each time an officer took one of my fingers, or an ear, I felt my sanity drain out in equal parts with my lifeblood. I was slowly losing sight of reality. But I never lost sight of the mission...or of her...

My unit had been running yellow ops in NK when we were taken. We had gone over the wall with the task of determining if Lil' Kim Jong's new ICBM platforms were constructed of red-blooded American Lego bricks or the half-assed Chinese equivalent, Mega-Blox. The former would mean treachery by the beloved toy company, and the swift retalitory invasion of Legoland.

We didn't make it to the LZ for pickup. We were overrun enroute and after the bloodbath I woke up in this brick and steel coffin. Buried, but not dead.

"Arise, brave knight," the woman's voice was like a song.

My vision blurred, but through the haze I could make out the soft elven features and flowing hair. It was Firiona (not Fiona) Vie crooning me back to the living world. Her face reminded me of simpler days...playing EQ before my enlistment. A carefree time when hearing "Man down! Man down!" only meant that there was a ranger in the group and the only man in a turban I'd ever killed was Cazel. When the memories flooded in, I knew that I'd make it through.

Shortly after waking, the torture began. A Korean officer would work me over with his bloody tools and ask questions in broken English. My answer was always the same:

"Fuck you, you plat-farming bastard!"

As the days grew long and it seemed like I would forget my own name under the stress, I wrote my EQ username and password on my own severed ear and hid it deep in my ass. They could take my memories and my humanity, but they wouldn't take my level 19 druid.

Through the hardship and torment to come, thoughts of Norrath and Firiona's sweet words kept me alive. After the North Koreans released me in exchance for a few Happy Meals, and after a painful and unorthydox password recovery, I returned to Norrath.

And now I play from this field hospital in Laos. The dank smells of that cell still come back to me every time I zone into KC and I hear the cackle of laughing Koreans every time I strike a decaying skeleton.

[Gaikan]

So I joined EQ shortly after the release of Velious, after much prodding from a friend of mine. He played a ranger and was early 30ish lvl when I created my first toon. I first created a human monk and that didn't last long since they are so GD blind (should be race specifically named Blind Ass Human Monk). Before I had abandoned the monk I was bitten by the EQ bug and was enthralled with the game.

My re-roll that I intended to be absolutely committed to was an Ogre Warrior. Of course I discussed this with my friend first. Initially I really liked the look of the Barbarian but, again, I was coerced into creating an ogre since they have much higher HP and stun immunity. So I ventured off into the world of Norrath and began my conquest to be the biggest baddest mo. fu. of a warrior I could be. I even ended up playing like a crack addict and eventually caught up in level with my friend before he reached 60. Getting that ugly, fat, tall, wide ogre to 60 was actually very much fun. But you could almost just look at that poor bastard and smell him he was so ugly.

In my blind fury of the race to catch my friend in level I ended up being broke all the time. Passing over dungeon running, I was almost always lacking in gear and times were hard. But that's what made it such a challenge. Not even having the cash for shrink potions or any gear with shrink made joining a group interesting as some times I'd be asked to go somewhere I'd not been before and when I finally got there for the first time I realized my fat ugly ass couldn't fit through the corridors and hallways. Frustration none the less sat in; and I decided what I needed was an item to fix this.

So being a dutiful tank for my friend any time he needed a tank. He was rather un-happy to hear that I'd be going on hiatus for approx. 3 weeks to farm the wood elf helm. I explained to him my only salvation for this fat, ugly, stinky, shittyness they call ogre tanking was to kill frogs till my eyes bleed (ykesha expansion). He finally agreed that it would help and he would even drop in and help from time to time. I was delighted at this news since I had no heals, no pots, no clicky gear, or anything to ease the pain of soloing as a warrior.

So I logged out and mentally prepared my self for what I expected to be quite an adventure. Again I was about to head somewhere I'd never gone. I went to allakhazams and did my research. I printed out maps and made notes. And by the time I logged in to start this trek I was fully prepared! At least that's what I thought.

So as I began to load up to the character selection screen, after entering my user name and password, I noticed something strange. My first thought was that I had created an oddly similar user name and password as someone else and had mistakenly typed it in error. So I quickly logged out and re-loaded the game just to be safe. Upon re-entry I carefully typed my user and pwd again making sure I made no miss-clicks this time. When I finally loaded up the screen for character selection again my heart fluttered. Then it began to pound in my chest. I blinked, things got kinda white and my skin felt prickly like when your feet fall asleep. I even started sweating, palms clammy and cold with my hands shaking I hit enter and began to load into the world.

This was the longest load into the world! It seemed like it took 15 minutes to load. With my heart racing and adrenaline pumping, my tunnel vision focused on a the most ugly ogre even I had ever seen. And I had to stare at my ogres ugly fat ass for months prior! But what my eyes were looking at I could not, at first, comprehend. He was pink...

I moved and hoped it was a glitch. I unequipped my gear hoping it was a glitch. I went to buy some cheap armor, cloth even .. anything to equip hoping it was a glitch. But alas there was another problem. I could NOT buy anything. Apparently even my platinum had disappeared.

I was close to a bank so I ran in and checked. My bank was empty too. Not just the platinum I had on the ogre! I had none on the ogre. I had none in the bank. I had my inventory cleared out as well.

At this point my shirt was clinging to my chest from the sweat. And my mind was finally realizing that I had nothing I could do except play this ugly thing to try and earn enough cash to dye my armor back.

Two days go by and I finally hear from my friend who I had been trying to get a hold of and share the horrible news of what had happened. When I answer the call I immediately hear laughter. Puzzled I asked what he was doing. Not answering my question he asks if I had played much recently; that he had been busy and couldn't log on but he had hoped my trek for my illusion item had began well. Laughter in his voice the whole time in those first few sentences, I started to put two and two together!

After some of my screaming and his laughing uncontrollably he explained all is well and it was nothing more than a joke. He had kept it all safe while I had my heart attack. Looking back we still laugh about the ugly pink stinky ogre. But at the time it defiantly was not what I could call even slightly humorous.

I hope you guys enjoy this true EQ story.

[Sasquatchsquad]

I started playing EQ in 2000 on Rallos Zek as a 11 year old kid cause my older brothers told me, "those other servers are for the wussies." Well hey, I was no wussy! Many a tales to be had from my 11 year old self on Rallos; most involve me crying IRL because I lost my crafted leggings or something, and then my brothers proceeding to tell all of Mistmoore in /ooc about it =/.

But this story is more about a legacy. On Rallos, me and my brothers played a lot of Gnomes; because Gnomes were good solo classes and Steamfont was the shit. Well, if you played Rallos between 2000-20001 and you hunted in Steamfont, you knew the name Zekette. Zekette was a female Gnome warrior, and she was an un-stoppable force at the time. I'm talking about everyone knew of her, died to her prolly, and new to keep a look out if you were in the same zone as her. Looking back at it, I am pretty sure she just had full crafted/2 short sword yek/55hp rings, nothing TOO crazy, but at the time, that gear was reallllly good.

She was relentless, and me and my brothers would constantly die to her. I remember one day though, watching my brother play, and there was a Gnome force of probably 6-7 people chasing her down. I remember excitingly watching from over my brothers shoulders, seeing her HP slowly dwindle as more and more upset Gnomes joined in the fight! Just as she was getting low, and I'm screaming at my brother to get the last hit, she just dies. =/ No one can loot her corpse either; it's just a cluster fuk of 10 gnomes spam clicking the corpse to no avail =(. "WADA HACKING BITCH OMG SHE HACKS PEITITON THIS NOW!" Turn's out she was using the ole pull your 55hp ring trick, but of course us noobs knew nothing of that at the time; so she was deff hacking.

Well, fast forward to like 2011 or something. One of my friends, who was part of this 2000 Rallos playing back in the day with us, was actually playing P99 in the commons area at his college. Some random person saw this, and walked up to my friend and began talking to him. Turns out this guy played EQ aswell! Turns out he also played on Rallos back in 2000! Turns out this guy was Zekette!!!...=/

The bane of mannnnyyy people's life was nothing more then an 13 year old kid at the time~~

[Gaikan]

So I joined EQ shortly after the release of Velious, after much prodding from a friend of mine. He played a ranger and was early 30ish lvl when I created my first toon. I first created a human monk and that didn't last long since they are so GD blind (should be race specifically named Blind Ass Human Monk). Before I had abandoned the monk I was bitten by the EQ bug and was enthralled with the game.

My re-roll that I intended to be absolutely committed to was an Ogre Warrior. Of course I discussed this with my friend first. Initially I really liked the look of the Barbarian but, again, I was coerced into creating an ogre since they have much higher HP and stun immunity. So I ventured off into the world of Norrath and began my conquest to be the biggest baddest mo. fu. of a warrior I could be. I even ended up playing like a crack addict and eventually caught up in level with my friend before he reached 60. Getting that ugly, fat, tall, wide ogre to 60 was actually very much fun. But you could almost just look at that poor bastard and smell him he was so ugly.

In my blind fury of the race to catch my friend in level I ended up being broke all the time. Passing over dungeon running, I was almost always lacking in gear and times were hard. But that's what made it such a challenge. Not even having the cash for shrink potions or any gear with shrink made joining a group interesting as some times I'd be asked to go somewhere I'd not been before and when I finally got there for the first time I realized my fat ugly ass couldn't fit through the corridors and hallways. Frustration none the less sat in; and I decided what I needed was an item to fix this.

So being a dutiful tank for my friend any time he needed a tank. He was rather un-happy to hear that I'd be going on hiatus for approx. 3 weeks to farm the wood elf helm. I explained to him my only salvation for this fat, ugly, stinky, shittyness they call ogre tanking was to kill frogs till my eyes bleed (ykesha expansion). He finally agreed that it would help and he would even drop in and help from time to time. I was delighted at this news since I had no heals, no pots, no clicky gear, or anything to ease the pain of soloing as a warrior.

So I logged out and mentally prepared my self for what I expected to be quite an adventure. Again I was about to head somewhere I'd never gone. I went to allakhazams and did my research. I printed out maps and made notes. And by the time I logged in to start this trek I was fully prepared! At least that's what I thought.

So as I began to load up to the character selection screen, after entering my user name and password, I noticed something strange. My first thought was that I had created an oddly similar user name and password as someone else and had mistakenly typed it in error. So I quickly logged out and re-loaded the game just to be safe. Upon re-entry I carefully typed my user and pwd again making sure I made no miss-clicks this time. When I finally loaded up the screen for character selection again my heart fluttered. Then it began to pound in my chest. I blinked, things got kinda white and my skin felt prickly like when your feet fall asleep. I even started sweating, palms clammy and cold with my hands shaking I hit enter and began to load into the world.

This was the longest load into the world! It seemed like it took 15 minutes to load. With my heart racing and adrenaline pumping, my tunnel vision focused on a the most ugly ogre even I had ever seen. And I had to stare at my ogres ugly fat ass for months prior! But what my eyes were looking at I could not, at first, comprehend. He was pink...

I moved and hoped it was a glitch. I unequipped my gear hoping it was a glitch. I went to buy some cheap armor, cloth even .. anything to equip hoping it was a glitch. But alas there was another problem. I could NOT buy anything. Apparently even my platinum had disappeared.

I was close to a bank so I ran in and checked. My bank was empty too. Not just the platinum I had on the ogre! I had none on the ogre. I had none in the bank. I had my inventory cleared out as well.

At this point my shirt was clinging to my chest from the sweat. And my mind was finally realizing that I had nothing I could do except play this ugly thing to try and earn enough cash to dye my armor back.

Two days go by and I finally hear from my friend who I had been trying to get a hold of and share the horrible news of what had happened. When I answer the call I immediately hear laughter. Puzzled I asked what he was doing. Not answering my question he asks if I had played much recently; that he had been busy and couldn't log on but he had hoped my trek for my illusion item had began well. Laughter in his voice the whole time in those first few sentences, I started to put two and two together!

After some of my screaming and his laughing uncontrollably he explained all is well and it was nothing more than a joke. He had kept it all safe while I had my heart attack. Looking back we still laugh about the ugly pink stinky ogre. But at the time it defiantly was not what I could call even slightly humorous.

I hope you guys enjoy this true EQ story.

[t0lkien]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h162/t0lkien/original_zpsad29fa19.jpg

[Langrisser]

that story about everyone getting trolled by that old AON/COF giveaway thread getting necro bumped is pretty funny

thats nothing watch this

blame sKrible760 for todays resurrection after three months after two years.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1060254&postcount=130

and now blame those after this post who STILL dont realize.

[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. :)

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 :p 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 :p

[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

[Langrisser]

orly well if he did it was two years ago!

ORIGINAL POST DATE

08-24-2011, 02:36 PM
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Default 10kpp Giveaway, all welcome to participate
This time it's just a funny eq story competition, any good memories you have from p99 or live are fair game!

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more incoming stories from unaware stay tuned

[Spoonerism]

The year was 1999.

I was 14 years old, and I randomly found Everquest at "Electronics Boutique" in the mall by chance. Not knowing what a mmorpg was, I began playing on my families extra crappy computer with an extra crappy connection in which it takes me a minute to a minute and a half to load any zone, after of course I convinced my parents to pay for a sub and that it is safe to put their credit card info onto the game.

People were friendly for the most part, I made a dwarf warrior by the name Gimlis (because it was like Gimli from Lotr and I think that was taken, hey I was 14.) I eventually made my way to kelethin and fell off of kelethin then made my way to kelethin, then bound, then fell off kelethin, then fell off kelethin, then got drunk in game and fell off kelethin.

A friendly person helped show me the ropes, gave me a dwarven ringmail tunic, a little plat and answered questions. Told me about the fabled "Orc Belts/Pads", and the dragoon dirk that some particularly nasty dark elf sometimes kept in his possession.

So I continued on my merry way, leveling up, making my way into crushbone. I got to about level 13 and then I was told about this bazaar place called "East Commonland Tunnels" where I could buy some items and sell a few of my own. It was said that the masses congregated there in order to sling their wares. Also, gnomes danced naked for copper, which I luckily had plenty of.

Wondering where this magical place was, I shouted my lungs out "How do I get to EC?" "Can someone help me get to EC?". Sure I got the "Take The boat" line, but I had no idea where anything was, and I was fearful to die in an unknown place because I got lost enough just trying to get to crushbone.

At this point in the story it should be noted I had about 30 plat in the bank, I was wearing a dwarven ringmail tunic, all leather, maybe a battle bracer, SBS and had a fine steel sword. (basically I was a badass).
So about the port...a wizard messaged me and said he would port me near to it for 10plat. So I run happily to the wizard spires and he ports me. Meanwhile, dark forces are afoot, as I forgot my platinum in the bank.

We land in the wizard spot nearest EC and the wizard asks for his 10 plat. I then informed him that I will have to run to the bank first to get his money. Needless to say, the wizard was not happy with this.
I sat there waiting for him to say more, and I noticed he began casting a spell. All the sudden the screen began to load a new zone. After about a minute of loading (remember my awesome computer/internet) I find myself in what I think was the Temple of Veeshen?

I load in and see mobs. Without further notice, the wizard promptly disbands the group and ports himself out while I began to get bombarded by snake people. You know that OH SHIT moment? Yeah well, that came out my butt. Snakes biting me left and right, the venom eating away at my dwarven skull. I die...

So back in kelethin, naked, no guild, no friends online...i cry. Ok well, I didn't cry, but I definitely was not happy. I shout for help, message the wizard and eventually I get some attention from some people in Kelethin that help me out.
I was told to petition, and a GM got involved and I got my body back. The wizard apologized and ended up giving me 300plat for my 2 hour ordeal.

I did finally end up making it to EC. I hastily spent all my monies on random items I probably didn't need. Only to rush off and die again and again. That dwarf never did get past 29 in the 6 months I played him.

I learned my lesson that day: Make sure you have money to pay your port fee when you receive a port. Temple of veeshen=bad.
So I have returned after many years, older, slightly smarter; paying my port fees up front and hoping to maybe possibly find and kill those snakethings that killed me oh so long ago.

(Maybe they were dragons and not snakes, but they were definitely big. Maybe it wasn't temple of veeshen.)
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That that's my story. My initiation into the mmo world, and specifically Everquest.

A second story however was brewing on the Team pvp server, in which an innocent dwarf is told that in order to start getting a ghoulbane, he must first travel to Lava Storm and talk to the people in the Temple of Ro in which this particular dwarf undertook. (Trolls chasing me for days!)

(And I don't think this "giveaway" is still going on, but other's stories were funny so if igured I would share.)

[Absynthe2k5]

My best friend played a female necro when he started, he soon made friends with a guy who became his sugar daddy, Now he had never started out denying being a man he just never told the guy the difference. After a few months out of the blue the guy shows up to where we work looking for my buddy to take "her" on a surprise "date". Ya, after having to be the bad guy and run interference I finally told the guy "she" was really paranoid and shy about people in the real world and maybe they should try and take it slow.

So not only did he keep taking gifts from this guy but karma came along and hit him with the ol nerf bat. His fiancé at the time started playing EQ also and soon dumped him for a guy she had met in the game. What goes around comes around I guess. (10 some odd years later and his wife of 7 years divorces him to be with a guy they were friends with in WoW...talk about a kick in the nutz.)

[Absynthe2k5]

A long time ago on a ghetto server far away a Halfling was born, and shortly after dropped on his head. His parents knew not that the midwife had dropped this poor baby and she did well to hide it. It became apparent after only a short while that Marathe was not like the other halflings in Rivervale; Marathe was not like anyone at all...

Anyone who graced the lands of Sullon Zek would soon find an adversary quite different to the other players here. Marathe received training from the elder druids near Rivervale and they did not have the heart to tell him he was several sammiches short of a picnic and instead advanced him to graduation at an early time, surely he would not get into trouble and spend his days gardening or partaking of the spirits in the local tavern.

This was not the case! Marathe had the heart of a lion and believing he was a fully trained druid of the circle he ventured from Rivervale spreading the word of justice throughout the lands! He threw himself at orc and goblin alike, but alas his injury gave him a lack of power and he fell on the swords of his enemies over and over...

Folks from the neutral races tried to help gear him as best we could because we could not talk him out of fighting the evil that was rising in power on antonica. We tried to come to his aid on the battle field but he was in what some may call a berserker rage and charged headlong into battle no matter where it lie. The evil races soon learned of Marathe and his unshakable will to join battle at all times, some even avoided the poor soul not wanting to stain their blade with his blood for fear his disease might be contagious.

I think everyone who played Sullon Zek had seen Marather or his corpse because he had several in each zone. Many speculated he was mentally challenged in the real world, I like to think he was a young boy living out his everquest life as champion for justice. I have never heard him out of character as long as I played...ever. So whatever the case may be this character while extremely poorly played embodied everything we the player base wanted from a game...the chance to be a champion for some cause or another. To be that unwavering voice of justice, or evil whatever your desire but to be pure...

I tried to follow his code even when crazycloud used his xteaming alts to camp me because of a disagreement over a spawn. I always fought for my guild and for my team even several levels below and severely undergeared I showed up and played against Hate every day and I got kills...

Marathe no matter how annoying was the soul of gaming and the reason many of us strap on our gear day in, day out. Pure, like a child before they grow and their innocence fades...

Sincerely,

Kegstand McFarland
Loyal Servent of Kulu
Champion of "Urbanum Mortum"

[Absynthe2k5]

I don't care if there really is any money involved, Sullon Zek made so many memories for so many people it should be written somewhere! Maybe sometime ill tell the story of my first Pyzjin camp...it still gives me nightmares!

[rideponies]

On povar i was sitting in the bazaar arena killing people (ikky shaman with basically all my spells and plane gear it wasnt fair :P) anyways i had held the arena for a bit when apparently someone petitioned me for "camping" their corpse. What really had happened is they would drop in nuke me or such and then i would dot em up and torpor and watch them die. Not camping if they attack first ! Well anyways a guy pops up right beside me and before i saw he was a GM had landed my dots on him and his health was dropping like a rock. Then the dumby runs out side of the arena and starts sending me tells, he dies out side of the arena by Dots which means exp loss. He lost his level and starts yelling at me about how he cant put his GM gear back on. Well i figured at that point no GM gear = not a very useful GM so when he came back in the arena i dotted him again and he died again. Problem was he banned me then and there lol no GM gear needed for that i guess. My guild and I had to appeal the ban and when i logged back on mysteriously i had died ;). But my nickname afterwards for a while was donatelo the GM killer though the stingy GM's wouldnt give me the name officially :(

[billw134]

So my account was on the Torvonillous Server. When I was at work I had a roommate who also used my account on the Veeshan server.

I got a few of my buddies to buy the game and join me, as it was completely amazing. I bought a computer after I bought the game bc my roommate kicked me off of his for something called sleep. Whatever. Well my friends did not know what servers were, so they ended up spread over a few different ones before we finally decided on the server we ended up on, Torv.

After I had been playing for a while I applied & was accepted into the guide program. I remember using IRC to get cshome, go over what was expected of guides, and learn a few rules (don't go into Blackburrow!)

I was told to make a lvl 1 character on the Sarrin server maybe, so that I might be given my guide abilities. One thing, I was not to know anyone who played on that server. Well turns out one of my friends was on that server. So I let the powers that be know this, and was transferred to the Veeshaan server without my knowledge. Yep, the same said server where my roommate had ben playing.

When I got home from work he called me into my own room, and said something weird was going on. He could see invis without the spell. More fun tho, doing a quick /who all
we could see everyone's account name. Where they were if anonymous, and what guild et cetera.

The guide powers had been extended to all of my roommates characters on that server.

So I petition this, not knowing why this was happening, but not wanting to get in trouble either. I tell the guide who responds to my petition that I can see things I should not. He asks, "like what?" And I reply, "Well Sexycat69, things like that." (Not actually his account name, but whatever it was lit a fire under him, bc I was escalated to tells from the GM within about 25 seconds.

Probably not a 10k story, but it was a funny experience none-the-less!

Hope you enjoyed it!

[kahnedom]

Me and my neighbor had both started EQ, it was early 2000 and I made a DE enchanter. We were both young at the time like 14ish, I spent hours upon hours doing the Stein quest and finally got it!

My friend and I did a sleepover up all night play EQ till we drop. He told me about befallen a zone he went to on his paladin for "AWESOME EXPERIENCE!". I was level 12 at the time and he took me there. Well eventually I passed out and he was playing in befallen on my enchanter, exploring, killing, having a grand ole time....until he fell through the trap in the room and fell into the hole. I ended up losing my corpse, lost my stein and I made him go home in the middle of the night in a fit of rage.

Till this day, I bug him about it whenever I see him. Poor little Vilil, never saw it past level 12.

[lolondar]

... just point out this thread is from 2011...

[kahnedom]

... just point out this thread is from 2011...

Well I feel dumb!

[Porz]

A long time ago on a ghetto server far away a Halfling was born, and shortly after dropped on his head. His parents knew not that the midwife had dropped this poor baby and she did well to hide it. It became apparent after only a short while that Marathe was not like the other halflings in Rivervale; Marathe was not like anyone at all...

Anyone who graced the lands of Sullon Zek would soon find an adversary quite different to the other players here. Marathe received training from the elder druids near Rivervale and they did not have the heart to tell him he was several sammiches short of a picnic and instead advanced him to graduation at an early time, surely he would not get into trouble and spend his days gardening or partaking of the spirits in the local tavern.

This was not the case! Marathe had the heart of a lion and believing he was a fully trained druid of the circle he ventured from Rivervale spreading the word of justice throughout the lands! He threw himself at orc and goblin alike, but alas his injury gave him a lack of power and he fell on the swords of his enemies over and over...

Folks from the neutral races tried to help gear him as best we could because we could not talk him out of fighting the evil that was rising in power on antonica. We tried to come to his aid on the battle field but he was in what some may call a berserker rage and charged headlong into battle no matter where it lie. The evil races soon learned of Marathe and his unshakable will to join battle at all times, some even avoided the poor soul not wanting to stain their blade with his blood for fear his disease might be contagious.

I think everyone who played Sullon Zek had seen Marather or his corpse because he had several in each zone. Many speculated he was mentally challenged in the real world, I like to think he was a young boy living out his everquest life as champion for justice. I have never heard him out of character as long as I played...ever. So whatever the case may be this character while extremely poorly played embodied everything we the player base wanted from a game...the chance to be a champion for some cause or another. To be that unwavering voice of justice, or evil whatever your desire but to be pure...

I tried to follow his code even when crazycloud used his xteaming alts to camp me because of a disagreement over a spawn. I always fought for my guild and for my team even several levels below and severely undergeared I showed up and played against Hate every day and I got kills...

Marathe no matter how annoying was the soul of gaming and the reason many of us strap on our gear day in, day out. Pure, like a child before they grow and their innocence fades...

Sincerely,

Kegstand McFarland
Loyal Servent of Kulu
Champion of "Urbanum Mortum"

I have forgotten my character names, I will never forget marathe (Managed to kill him one time in OT when I caught him zoning in....That little bastard. I still now will hit the occasional /ooc MARATHE FOR PRESIDENT! <3 Miss you Sullon Zek!

[JayN]

I'm here for the 5'oclock free crack giveaway
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