I pointed a RL friend towards p99 a month or 2 ago. Completely new to EQ. Helped him install the files. He insisted on being an Erudite necromancer. I did help move him to WFP to be around other people and gave him like 50 plat. I did show him how to get to his guild area for spells but he mostly was set loose on Norrath. I told him the game was brutal compared to modern games. He very much wanted to try it on his own and see how it went.
For a few weeks, periodically at work he would tell me epic tales of his deeds in the scary wilderness of the east commonlands …
Blind at night. Losing more xp to death than to killls. Getting lost. Being jumped by pumas … and mummies … and lions. Picking a fight with a snake and barely winning only to die to poison. Spending 3 hours trying to find his corpse.
3 weeks in he was still level 5, mostly naked, and having epic adventures.
I don’t think he ever even found the tunnel before work/life got busy and he stopped logging in.
Took me right back to late 1999 and early 2000.
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