Hello!
Don’t let my join date fool you, highest I have on p99 blue is a 12 shaman. I have a 32 shaman on Red that ive given up on; and now commited to Blue. Shammy (like most classes) is pretty painful low-level with no equipment; but once I break the dreaded push to 24 and then 34; itll all be downhill (IMO). I mained a cleric on live kunark-LDoN-ish era; and always wanted to level a shaman to max. Found p99 a while ago, made my troll shaman, and got that OOOoooOOO nostalgia feeling when I finally made it to the tunnel, but ultimately never really got started. Got married last year and had been pretty busy IRL up until now; so in lieu of Velious being released (my favorite era) im picking the torch back up this week; and ive also convinced my best work buddy to give p99 a try. He’s currently borrowing my old CD’s. Currently trying to convince my brother to quit WoW and dig up his ole CD’s for a heavy dose of nostalgia with me.
Id love to win your contest, since a Fungi would equate to a lot of efficiency for my chosen class of course… but I realize this might be a lot to read, and the entries are quite numerous already. All the same, its Clearly worth a try! Fungi would help me grind up to that 24/34 range easily and thereafter, where Shaman starts to shine on its own… In the Spirit of classic EQ; I vow that if I win the Fungi, ill give it to another newbie once I grind 60 and torpor. Yea, that might take me awhile, but ill do it. I used to love stalking newbies on my old cleric; buff them up and give them a few off-hand plat and items to kick start them. Id do the same with the fungi. Personally, I probably wouldn’t play Forumquest to select my newbie. Id stalk him, question him; gauge his honor as best I could! If I believed he would make good use of it (or at LEAST know How to make use of it?) id trade it, and run. but that’s just me. I appreciate the chance to do so Here, because I cant bring myself to full on ‘beg’… id rather feel like I was chosen, or somehow earned it. That being said, ive already seem some old fashion generosity! A helpful soul gave me a suit of banded armor and 50pp to buy my initial spells =)
In case you feel the same notion; my Shaman is Oipi. Youll probably see me weekdays 6-9ish PST timezone, random times on weekends, if you want to contact (or stalk 8P ) me in-game.
My entry:
I was 16 years old, it was a Saturday. Parents leave to go to some barbeque day party thing; I stay home because I was scheming to invite the girl over from down the street that I was infatuated with. She tells me that she has to wait an hour or so for her mom to leave before she can sneak out and walk to my place. Half an hour goes by, and my excited and dumb 16 year-old brain decides to masturbate…. So, im sitting in front of the living room PC looking up porn pics (wasn’t all about videos back then..) with sword in hand; and the damn doorbell rings. I wasn’t paying attention to the time, its HER. I panic and clean up as quickly as I can… Answer the door with my heart beating out of my chest…. I did my best to play it cool, which probably wasn’t very cool at all….
The PC was still on, but the ole reliable Windows screensaver had taken effect. Maybe 10min goes by, and I accidentally bump the desk; which moved that old stupid roller mouse, which in turn dropped the screen saver; which then showed off the window I forgot to Minimize…. My heart SANK, right down into my bowels…. She Froze at first, with her jaw on the floor… after that awkward 5sec Pause which felt like 30min, she BURST into laughter, and immediately started getting ready to leave… of course, I did my best to explain myself, which was a whole bunch of incomplete sentences…. I got the whole “uhhhh. Yea. Bye.” On her way out the door, and proceeded to be MORTIFIED for the remainder of the weekend….
To make matter WORSE, I played hooky Monday. Convinced mom I was sick, which I wasn’t; because I didn’t want to face the music. Big mistake. High school boys smell B.S. from a mile away if its one of their own; and that Night I had all my friends calling my house phone with a W.T.F. Happened attitude…. She told EVERYBODY. Apparently, it was a big ordeal at school; and all of my friends instantly knew I ditched to Hide my face, which in their minds confirmed it…. It MUST be true… Well, because my friends blew up our house phone so much Monday night (this was before cell phones took over Everything) my mom caught wind that something was up, and Questioned my fake sickness…
Being mortified, I didn’t want to tell my mom that I got caught looking at porn by the girl I ‘liked’ on the living room PC that I wasn’t supposed to be on; let alone have had anyone over the house. So, I did what every 16 year old would do… I Lied… I said it was over a fight with a kid at school and blah blah…. I lied a little too hard…. Because she then wanted to talk to the principal the following morning….
Unwilling to swallow my pride, and tell Mom the truth; she takes me to school the following morning, marches right into the principal’s office (me sitting outside) full of fervor… only for the Principal to tell her the REAL reason I stayed home the following day…. Apparently, it was such a big ‘event’ that even the school STAFF found out… My Mom was actually kinda cool about it all; and luckily didn’t make me re-hash the issue much; because she say the struggle I already put myself through because of it…..
I was henceforth the jerk off kid at school…. Those next few weeks were pretty bad… we all remember how bad high school could be…. Not too long after living through it I joined a band at least; which improved my Faction with the Ladies from the aforementioned Threatening to roughly Dubious … so I survived. But ultimately it was NEVER lived down… even mentioned In a few yearbook autographs…
Memories….. looking back, might be why I played a whole lot of EQ back then….. Hrmph… Retrospect. 8P
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