When I found out just how long it would take to run from Qeynos to Freeport.
Coming from UO where you could run from Yew to Trinsic in a fairly short amount of time, the prospect of taking an hour or two to make it from Q to FP was exciting to me.
My first character was a human wizard and the only person I knew playing the game played a dwarf warrior. At this stage in the game's release level 15s were uber so, at level 8, I decided to try and make the trek from Q to FP to meet up with my friend; no SoW, no port, just hoofin it. After a brief (lost) stop at the WK barb village (I had no idea the zones were giant rectangles so the concept of following the zone wall had no impact on me) I decided to keep heading onward and just follow the river. I zone into NK and eventually see a huge white bridge and tower...I run in there and am told I must be lost by an 18 shaman. He SoWd me after I explained where I was going and he gave me advice on how to get there. Off I went, keeping the river on my right until, there in the distance, a giant-chained bridge loomed. It was getting dark and my human eyesight just wasn't doing the job but I pressed on to EK. Yea, lioness matriarch + lvl 8 wizard = loading, please wait...
Never did get that corpse back but Verant/Sony got my money for a number of years thereafter.
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