I was playing Sierra's The Realm in like 97-98 when I heard from a few people I played with about a beta they were in for a game called EverQuest. I ended up looking it up and spent an entire night reading all about the game on Casters Realm or EverLore or whatever one the first big EQ site was back during beta. There was an announcement on the site about how there was going to be some big meet up in IRC with the EQ devs to talk about the game. The chat was packed and Brad McQuaid himself was there talking about all the features the team wanted to implement.
During the conversation they had us either msg a bot or do a chat command to get put on a list and then X amount of people were chosen at random to get into Phase 4 of the beta. I won one of the spots and couldn't believe it. Unfortunately though I had to pay for S&H for the CD and I was only like 14 at the time and didn't have a CC or a debit card. I was asking in chat if there was someway I could get the CD sent to me if I sent them a $5 bill in the mail when I got a message from a total stranger. He was some some random dude living in Germany and he offered to pay the $5 USD shipping for me with his card and wanted nothing in return. A few weeks or a month after that the CD came in the mail and Phase 4 started. I faked being sick so I could take a few days off from school and ran around Everfrost getting lost in the maze while hunting wolves, spiders, and goblins as a Barb War.
I still have the CD but have no idea who the person that paid for my S&H was. Never talked to them again after that initial conversation. It was a real bro moment though that I have never forgotten, and over the years I've since done similar things to help people out online as a way to repay the universe.
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11-06-2022, 01:29 AM
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