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What's the first thing you think of when you think High Elf? Snooty, better than thou attitude veiling a true desire to see good prevail.
What's the first thing you think of when you think Paladin? Snooty, better than thou attitude veiling a true desire to see good prevail.
Why not both?

Having never gotten to truly play Everquest back when it first came out, it was a joy to see P99 start up. Live doesn't cut it for me; Shards of Dalaya was nice....kind of but there was something missing.

Finally I found the free time to get everything set up for P99. I stuck with my plan for a High Elf Paladin, though the world would surely ridicule me. And if I could make it to the top all the more reason to be snooty - though I don't much RP actually happens here.

Still started the character up. Greater Faydark. Faeries zipping past getting their faerie dust in my eyes. Bats flying around randomly. Skeletons ambling through trees. It was glorious. I managed to survive to level two with no deaths. Great!

I found a quest from the druid guild to bring back rusty weapons. Silly elves....not carrying the weapons I needed.....silly skeletons not carrying the weapons i needed...guess I'll take a boat.

On the boat to freeport. Things are going good. get to freeport, pick up said weapons and back on boat.

Crap. Need to log out. Life intervened with the sweet addiction. There was just one problem. I didn't realize that logging off on a boat was a bad idea.

Logged back in and I'm in the Ocean, praying a shark don't eat my skinny elf bottom.
After several questions asked and answered via /ooc and a repeated use of /loc I managed to swim myself to an island. My swimming is up to 24 by the way. Yah.....that felt like a wasted evening. No XP. No sights. No nothing but swimming...when I got to the island I had to wait for the boat which never seem to come at the few brief times I could log on. So to keep fro getting board I got a fishing pole. And some bait. My fishing skill is up to 8. Well, I've got that going for me, which is nice.

And I loved it. Looking back it was wonderful and ridiculous, yah several nights that could have been spent leveling were spent swimming or standing on a dock waving at the NPC's but it was fun because I could laugh at myself and the snooty-tooty grin that is creeping across this bound and determined High Elves bony face.

Yah....I may suck at this game, but I'm having a blast. So here's to you Ocean of Tears. The time spent there was great. I loved. I cried. I spilled some coke on my desk. Ocean of Tears, you are aptly named.

p.s. I eventually logged on in time to nab a boat and am happily back in Gfay and at level three. It's pathetic after two weeks, but it's glorious.

High Elf Paladin, Fiyerro. Look out. He's coming like a snail through molasses to bring down Tunare's justice on all that bad asses.