[kaustik]

After kicking the dirt around in Nektulos and the Commons for a bit I started to get my bearings. Once I showed a little motivation, a friend gifted my little Shadowknight a full set of bronze and a Darkreaver. It was all so overwhelming back then. Now I can only laugh.

With my shiny new armor, I finally felt ready to go conquer this new and unknown world. Unsure of where I should travel, my friend's suggestion of Crushbone sounded great. Another continent? We have to ride a boat across the ocean? What could possibly go wrong? Sign me up.

The simple task of getting to the Freeport docks was an adventure's worth of paranoia, but uneventfully we made it to the docks. Patting ourselves on the back and celebrating our "cleverness" we waited for our oceanic chariot.

Now for those who don't remember, the boat that we use here, is not the same one I rode that day in the Kunark era. There was a stairwell and you could go down into the ships hold. I thought it was pretty interesting and began to mess around on the boat. Through some mischievous twist of fate I clipped through a wall in the stairwell.

What the heck? Why am I in the water behind this boat? I try to follow the ship. I remember, I can't swim for squat. To my dismay the boat leaves me in its wake without a second thought and slowly disappears. Figuring that keeping the same heading as the boat had will get me somewhere, I swim on and on.

The realization of how lost I really am comes upon me slowly, but it comes. It comes to me in the form of "You have been disconnected". Frantically I begin trying to reconnect. A hot minute passes and I'm finally able to log back in. I'm at the bottom of the ocean. I try to swim to the surface but drown in the process.

Those were the days... Oi