Hi Greynth! I was wondering where you disappeared to. School is important, we'll be around whenever your schedule opens back up.
Heavydrop, if I'm not mistaken we already have some folks from Unintended Consequences and Intended Consequences in guild. As to your patching issues, Sony is trying to test out a change right now. Test has been up and down a few times as a result. This might be why you had troubles patching.
Dredge, to install all you need to do is download the EQ Launchpad and run it. When you run it for the first time, it'll patch everything in. The website to download Launchpad is
https://launch.soe.com/everquest/
To find old characters (assuming you have the account info), all you need to do is remember the name of the server they were on. The merged servers now go by both names, so if you were on Veeshan server that was merged with Luclin, the server list will now show a Luclin-Veeshan server.
With Rallos Zek taking a fall, The Faceless Order has now opening all Elemental Planes but Fire. Our attention has turned to Sol Ro, as gearing up continues for Rathe Council and beyond.