Way back when Cecily was a little rogue, lv 14 I think, I died in Unrest one night. I was bound in Freeport, dumb, so I rode the boat to Butcher Block and ran back to Dagnor's Cauldron, one of my most hated zones for a good reason. I decided that sneaking around the circle would take too long as a rogue so I tried swimming straight to Unrest. That didn't work out well and something red quickly caught me in the water. I left another corpse in the lake and woke up in Freeport again.
That second death freaked me out because my corpse was surely at the bottom of a very deep body of water that I'd probably drown getting to. So I thought about it for a moment and using my best low level player logic I decided I'd max swimming to help with the CR. So I swam in circles for a lengthy period of time in Freeport before taking my second boat ride to Faydwer.
I finally got back to the Cauldron, absolutely frazzled and angry. Waiting there was a high level rogue I had been chatting with during the CR(s). Much to my suprise, he passed me a backpack filled with a complete set of visible Ravenscale armor. Ravager has always been my rogue hero since then. Finally, at that point it dawned on me that the corpse in the lake was naked and I didn't have to CR it at all. I had spent 45 mins training swimming for nothing. I got my stuff from Unrest, and I managed to die once more at the tents near BB thinking they were a safe spot. I distinctly remember having Ravager drag one of my bodies to the zoneline.
Three boat rides from Freeport. That was a pretty horrible EQ day. You made it so much better, Ravager. Thanks again.
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