lol my memories are way diff. i didnt know what eq was. had a group of like 12 friends who all played starcraft and tribes together. i was closest with one friend and he wasnt at school for literally a week.
since we were bff it was common for me to spend the night at his house. go over expecting to play starcraft like we always do. but instead hes killing tadpoles in a game called everquest. turns out he had laid out of school all week to do this. game was so lame.
at first i was like okay neat. but after you kill like 30 tadpoles in a row, like we get it bro, you can kill a tad pole? lame af. dude ends up passing out hella early because he hadnt slept in days (keep in mind we're like 14).
so i move over from my laptop to his desktop and im like let me try this. go to the char creation screen. am blown away by all the different races. none of this is mainstream back then btw. i had never heard of a dark elf or a troll. i had no clue what the hell a shaman or druid was. i ended up making a monk expecting it to be some catholic dude who went around praying all the time.
long story short i got hooked badly. within a year almost a dozen kids from my neighborhood were also hooked. some shared accounts, some literally got part time jobs to buy a pc to be able to play this game. always felt more like an irl game more than an internet game at first.
but then i eventually made close friends. my longest lasting friendship was a girl i met on everquest ngl. a few years ago she went completely MIA. I didn't notice at first because it wasnt uncommon for us to get mad and stop talking to each other for a couple of months here and there.
could just tell something was wrong. had no way to figure out what was going on. then i remembered her brothers name and her last name, and looked him up on facebook and saw all the obituary stuff. apparently she took her life. to this day idk how she died and would never ask her family.
that being said, its always been interesting to me that dalnir is this weird obscure zone no one uses? for me dalnir was SUPER popping because it was a hot zone and I remember her and me doing a lot of dalnir and talking about how it felt like we're in a cardboard box maze with hamster chips all over the place. didnt realize most eq players dont remember the zone as fondly or view it as meta because it was 100% meta for us at that time. golden memories.
crazy at the time because i didnt realize this would be such a narrow moment lost in time.
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