Our 'First Time Playing Everquest' Stories

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So my first ever Everquest character back when I was like in middle school was an Ogre Shaman. I remember the first mob I ever tried to fight was a yellow con rat or something, I think it was inside Oggok already. I realized very quickly into the fight that I was going to lose. So I ran. I ran deep into Oggok, ducking down hallway after hallway. I remember thinking "well I am completely lost, but at least I ditched that rat. No way it will find me with all the turns I took". Then less than a minute later, there was the rat, attacking and killing me. I couldn't find my body, so I thought, well fuck that character!

I deleted it and made a human monk starting at queynos. I had more success with this character, and I remember after gaining a few levels I stumbled upon Blackburrow having no idea what it was. I went inside and very cautiously was fighting around near the entrance when I saw a massive gnoll train wiping everyone out. I remember I zoned out to stay alive, and 10 minutes later when I zoned back in all the gnolls were dead and there was just a halfling druid standing there. I didn't realize that he was high level, I just knew that he must have killed all the gnolls. I remember him saying to me "yeah that was a big train, but don't worry I tanked it". At that time, I had no idea what MMO terms were, so I thought that was his personal figure of speech. I remember thinking to myself "hah, tanked like a military tank. That's a cool way of phrasing that", not realizing there were all this MMO terms that I was unaware of

Later on I remember seeing another train at BB, and seeing a troll shadowknight holding it off at the bridge. I remember thinking man, that must be one of the most powerful characters on this entire server, what a boss. I decided I wanted to play one of the large races, stopped playing my monk, and made another ogre shaman

This char I got to much higher level, around 20-something, before switching to an enchanter which I took to around 40ish

Anyway, just some early EQ memories