An EverQuest poem, by me.

[Terethian]

It started like a dream one day.
Our friends all gathered round.
We cooked up a new game to play.
The concept firm and sound.

We'd travel through the lands,
Making friends along the way.
Fighting vile fiends together,
Keeping Crushbone orcs at bay.
(p.s. That are sort of a bluish color mind you)

Then a strange thing happened.
Things weren't as fun as yesterday.
All my friends are missing.
Nobody with to play.

I'll fix this thing!
Said some dumb schmuck.
I'll get those players back!
A little this...
A little that...
I'll give this game a /smack!

The voices left cried out with dread,
Just bring the old ways back!
When finding corpses was a thing,
And bone chips were 20 in a stack!

But they're cries they went unheeded,
And with a maniacal glee,
They added more and more on top.
From sea to Darkened sea.

Terethian the High Elf cleric sighed and went back home.
Plenty of better things to do,
Like sit and study with my tome.

I must adieu, and say farwell with sadness I shall bow,
I could have made things better...

But you're in they're world now.

- Written by, Mitchell Leigh Shelton, An Old EverQuest fan.