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[Matalus]

*Sorry about spelling, long story, and lazy*

Very disappointed in what has been said so far. I will post my memory of EQ, not of just a simplee story of the first person waken sleeper on my server, not of the many fantastic pvp battles, or trains, but perhaps more-so a journal entry of my life in EQ. Why am I doing this? We'll it's because I am drunk and I am current|y camping a 5 hour spawn mob.

The first any kind of online game I was introduced to was Infantry, it's a soe game, simple yet complcated(still playable at this day) for a first time game at such a young age. I made a name for my self, I even made my first original sig, still used to this day after all these years, and stolen by many...

Matalus
Matalus
so good he signs it twice

reaching the top of the games, my fav, being Ambush which is no longer an option on Infantry, a lot talked about Everquest, so I looked into it..

Come to find out I had two friends(who soon become my best friends even to this day) played Everquest. Not knowing what it was really about and having a mothers credit card who never noticed $15 a month I was soon about to join into the world of MMO gaming.

So there it started, 5 hours of downloading, dial up connections later and I made my first character on Everquest. Now this was a time to start a new. Now lets give some background on this. I played on Tallon Zek. This was my first server, my only server, thus everquest has been out for a while, the Zek servers were not introduced until after some time from what I believe. From the start I was hounded, I was trained, I was hunted from the moment I hit lvl 1 someone had me on a |ist. But GUESS WHAT I HAD TWO Rl FRIENDS....

....no, I had two Rl friends, one of which that knew just as much about EQ as me, and one who was in the top guild on the server that started from that start, as I'm sure who anyone knows about Zek history (pandemonium).
What did he do for me? lol, newb, what are you doing? Stop playing? lolzlo|l, everything I heard....

Now my first character I made....Exzero..DE necro, I got to lvl 15, again remember I have no clue what I'm doing, I knew nothing of factions, race or any of such. I witnessed another necro of a different race killing guards at lavastorm entrance, watched for a couple days, saw him gain lvl quickly....so what do I do? The same thing...of course.

Ruining my faction, not being able to buy spells now that I can't zone into my home town, I am completely lost again, asking my rl friends what to do, they just lol at me new. I decided to make a new character....Matalus

Again as I create this I am loled at by friends, saying to just stop and not even try to invest as I would not be able to even get past 25. I ignore and continue to try to prove them wrong

Now at this time there is a lot of twinking, and I mean a ot. I am a lvl 10 mage not even knowing how to do the basic newbie gear quest and I am checking behind my back every 2 seconds for someone to come hit me twice and take my 30pp that I have worked so hard for by selling bonechips. (Tallon Zek was money only loot on death in pvp btw if you did not know)

I come to find out that there is an extreme|y twinked bard. When I say twink, he spent over $1k of money ir| to buy pp, buy items at this time. (this person is now someone I know irl and ta|k to often). Who was he? I was my soon to be bestfriends irl cousin....

He hounded me, went everywhere I went, corpsed camped me to an extreme. Why? I have no idea. I never met the guy irl I never said one word to him irl, I was only introduced to him thru EQ because my school friend was his cousin.

When I said hounded, I mean hounded, from the time I was lvling in lavastorms, all the way to the time I came to Overthere, soloing as a lonely mage, who still did not even have enough p|at to obtain a stein of mogguk.

By the time I entered Warslick Woods, I surpassed this soon to be rl friend's bard in lvls, he tried to hound me, but sadly for him, no matter how much rl money he spent on gear, he cou|d not kill a mage that has learn the pvp spells such a dispell + earth pet and nukes, so ends that epic tell.

Thus starts another another tell darkie vs lightys. I have finally entered thie midlvl pvp war. Darks vs lights...

They had the clear advantage, bards, rangers, pallys, druids...we were out numbered, and at the time everyone wanted to be the GOOD class thus it was being a lighty. But we stood our ground, with our less numbers, we had the better races such as iskars, tho harder from the start, we had the advantage in the long run.

Many epic battle's continued, and describing even one would make this post into another 10 page paragraph.

We are going to skip a few stages, I was in the top guilded dark only guild on the server, PDM(pandemonium) had made there name, Sedition(discordia soon to be name) right behind them, and many other guild's to form another 3 guild (indignation) also and a euro guild that no one cared about(lol euros).

I have finallyy made it high end, I have made many friends, despite the dark vs light deal, I have made many lighty friends and even had our own private channel...this channel is ....../uberness...

Being in the top dark ony guild I fet great, we were clearing hate, pof, with ease, top guild's were preoccupied, pvping each other and claiming higher end bosses. The guild had a recruitment, WE NEED Several NEW OFFICERS. I applied for the job much like a Rl job interview. I was overseen, I took offense to this, I was 1 of the only two main mages in the guild (us two on|y had CoH) I gave access to previous guild officers so I can be camped where-ever they needed me to be in-case I was not playing that night, so they can CoH the guild. Yet when I applied for the position they said no.

Now I have a clique of light friends, who are are appliing to Discordia(arguablly 2nd best guild of server at this time). So with rage and a|so wanting to move ahead in this game and also loling at my rl friends who said I would even obtain a stein of mogguk in this game, I decided join them. After so, I posted on the (dark only) guild fourms that I was leaving to pursue higher lvling raiding. less that 2 hours after posting and /guquiting I was confronted by my dark on|y gui|d leader (who i soon found out used to be an officer in the top guild on the server but quit to p|ay lesshardcore) asked me to come back and apoligized for overlooking what I did. I told him no. For most part even irl I give peop|e one shot, and that it with that, and I decided to make a new.

So now I'm an applcatant of one of the top 3 guilds on the the server. Could have I applied to the the top one(pandemonium?) Yes. Why didn't i? Always root for the underdog, it's not fun without a challenege afterall. It took me 3 weeks, 3 weeks of being in an app gui|d, casually raiding(only if that had a spot) to even get invited into the guild and start my probation perioud.

*Now don't take this shortly I could easily ta|k about epic pvp battle there was on this server. How Discordia and Ignation joined forces together for a littarly a 48hr batt|e over emp ssra vs pandemioum. Where the zoned crashed while emp was at 1% hp, and how GM's interfered and kicked everyone out of the zone, the GM's that p|ayed fav's such as Conan(i think memory is fuzzy), and if I took the time I could prob find some old screenshots of everything but I feel this discption is enough...just know you are only getting half of this story even with as much that is being said.*

So 3 weeks pass...and guess what...there is on|y one main mage in the gui|d.... ONE, FUCKING ONE. HOW THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THREE WEEKS TO INVITE ME IF THERE IS ON|Y ONE MAGE IN THE GUIlD, FUCK YOU ARE CAMPING VEX THAl, WHICH IS A MUST NEED TO COH PEOPlE AND YOU ONlY HAVE ON MAGE IN THE GUI|D.

So yes, they invite me, and as guessed, I become the coh bitch, quickly giving info to officers to be able to log on and camp me at places for the guild, which I did not mine at the time; whatever put me in the fast lane of gearing was ok with me.

As 3 weeks pass my probation is finished, of course I am entered as a full member of the guild, and as so happens, the same week I am entered, there one and only main mage (besides me now) quits....(name is Wreakkin btw). Thus boom, I am only the main mage in the arguablly 2nd best gui|d on the server. When I mean on|y mage.....I mean only. For at |east 1-2 years (real time) I was the only mage....the only one, maybe there was one or two others, but they were never |ogged on, never at any raids....

I was flying high, hell I'm the only mage in the guild they are fucked if I left (knowing this was untrue as if they really needed they could just ebay a mage and camp him where they needed for coh) but at the same time it fe|t good to be needed from a gui|d.

Coming to an end....tired of typing and the 5 hour spawn has spawned and it was PH thus it will be another 5 hours before the next spawn and I need a nap.

People made they names from o|dschool pvp, they made there ground, I was late in the game....way late. I was overlooked by a lot. I quit at the top(imo) of Tallon Zek. According to EQMaglo and other sites, at the time I quit I was in the top 5 geared casters on the server, tho as most know PVPing with a mage after PoK was pretty much pointless, thus I was never a major threat that late in the game.

This is a short story(lol), I cou|d go on forever and describe many things, but this is a short insight to my Everquesting.