[Twochain]

Right before EverQuest came out, my father and I played a game called underlight. I loved that game, which made me hate EQ at first because we were no longer playing Underlight together. 9 year old me was a great dueler in underlight, so I guess I was afraid to learn a whole new game. I made a character on his account, a high elf mage named Nuedaen. Played til like level 3, and gave up.

Two weeks later, as I only played computer games and saw my dad once every other weekend, my dad told me he moved my character to a better location (EC) and to give it another chance. I dinged level 4, got my new pet spells from freeport.. and headed over to inn 2. I had just got done killing a large spider, when suddenly, rain starts pouring from the sky! I thought that was the coolest, and I vividly remember how awesome the eq rain/thunder sounded to me through our shitty computer speakers. But! My pet! I didn't want him to get wet! So i took him to the empty hut next to inn 2, and waited out the storm.

Maybe anti climatic, but sitting in that abandoned hut listening to the rain pour outside was the first time I realized I truly loved this game.