What has it cost you? The Pixel fixation.

[Sixpence]

I imagine we're all here for our love of Norrath in One guise or another.
My heartbeat still speeds up when I hear the loading music.

I stumbled across a copy of Everquest while out shopping in London with an old girlfriend back in early 2000. Our regular tabletop gaming group had split up, moved away etc so this seemed like the ideal way to keep in touch & still get together in a Fantasy realm. The rest, as they say, is history...

I stumbled about for awhile as many of us do, finding 'my class' as it were, shortly followed by finding my guild, One I stayed with throughout my Live years.

I was working for B.T (British Telecom as an engineer) back then, they have a great system where you can go sick for 6 months with full pay & somehow I managed to blag it & get signed off with 'stress'.
Looking back I'm not 100% convinced that my priorities were the full ticket back then, (no shit) and so I stayed up most nights as my guild was on EST (Being a Brit, this would have been an issue to a 'normal' person).
The girlfriend soon became an Ex & I barely noticed. I moved in with another guildmate who had his own place & lived on a diet of Marlboro & Cake for months....

I came through it, but realise that not everyone does. Addictive Personality & all that.
I'm happy to say that I'm now happily married & still working for B.T, always got twitchy at the thought of EQ & am playing as & when I can now, with this thing called willpower.


*Apologies if this thread has been done to death previously, I did a search but came up with Nada.