First time EQ stories

[jsriolo]

I was in middle school during the vanilla era and a cool high school kid convinced me to try it out. I leveled a human shadow knight up to the mid teens and saved enough to buy the materials for a steel breastplate. Unfortunately I had never done any other combines and did not understand the 'skill' aspect of it. POOF! You don't have enough skill!

"FUCK THIS GAME!" Hulk smash PC!

Several months (years?) later I got Kunark as a present and got some other kids my age to play. I rolled an Iksar necro and the rest is history.

[captnamazing]

My first EQ memories are scattered, because it was my brother's game, and I was barely allowed to play (mostly cause he needed the pixel fix). However, I got hopelessly addicted to the game simply by watching over his shoulder for many, many hours.

The first character was Aadirsen, a dark elf shadowknight. Starting stats were +CHA and +AGI, because that way things would be cheaper, and being agile is important, right?

He ran around Neriak for a while, considering ghouls and stuff. I was terrified by the "what would you like your tombstone to say" message when he looked at an ogre guard. I remember being disgusted by the appearance of ogres and trolls. I hated their kind.

Over the next days I watched as this shitty Dark Elf got his dick smacked my large beetles. It confused me that this stupid dark elf couldn't hit the GIANT FUCKING BEETLE he was fighting.

"Why does he keep missing?" I asked.

My brother switched camera views and pointed at the crude polygons and was like "that's why, idiot," as though this really explained anything.

He wandered into Lavastorm the next day day and got his throat ripped out by a fire drake.

[kaustik]

After kicking the dirt around in Nektulos and the Commons for a bit I started to get my bearings. Once I showed a little motivation, a friend gifted my little Shadowknight a full set of bronze and a Darkreaver. It was all so overwhelming back then. Now I can only laugh.

With my shiny new armor, I finally felt ready to go conquer this new and unknown world. Unsure of where I should travel, my friend's suggestion of Crushbone sounded great. Another continent? We have to ride a boat across the ocean? What could possibly go wrong? Sign me up.

The simple task of getting to the Freeport docks was an adventure's worth of paranoia, but uneventfully we made it to the docks. Patting ourselves on the back and celebrating our "cleverness" we waited for our oceanic chariot.

Now for those who don't remember, the boat that we use here, is not the same one I rode that day in the Kunark era. There was a stairwell and you could go down into the ships hold. I thought it was pretty interesting and began to mess around on the boat. Through some mischievous twist of fate I clipped through a wall in the stairwell.

What the heck? Why am I in the water behind this boat? I try to follow the ship. I remember, I can't swim for squat. To my dismay the boat leaves me in its wake without a second thought and slowly disappears. Figuring that keeping the same heading as the boat had will get me somewhere, I swim on and on.

The realization of how lost I really am comes upon me slowly, but it comes. It comes to me in the form of "You have been disconnected". Frantically I begin trying to reconnect. A hot minute passes and I'm finally able to log back in. I'm at the bottom of the ocean. I try to swim to the surface but drown in the process.

Those were the days... Oi

[Messie]

These are great. Keep it going!!

[Slayerofalot]

Me and a friend played on test server, he was a bard I was a warrior. We were in early teen levels killing dervs in WC getting bored about to quit the game. Then some high level came along and gave me some bronze armour and my friend two whips....

We played for the next 5 years

[Raije1000]

I remember being about 13 when I played pre kunark, was a druid wood elf on Veeshan. Some nice ranger or druid was getting me and some of my friends some Braided Ivy Cords from that prick Thistle Underfoot (ill never forget him). I stayed up all night until finally it was my turn for the cords when we got em. My mom came down and kicked me off the computer, i fucking cried i was sooooo sad.

[eqholmes]

I was 15 and rok just came out. My friend had been playing for about 3 weeks, him and his brother. I watched them play for two weekend nights and was hooked! Talked parents into buying a computer for school that was more powerful than what we had, just so I could play. Talking parents into second line was difficult and had to deal with many phone pick up disconnects. Which really pisses a person off but I couldn't go off on them and explain they just cost me two hours of game play. Oh ya asked friend what I should make, what's everyone want in a group. He says a cleric, make a dorf cleric and that sob had himself a heal bot! Friend was rather cleaver. Also didn't understand a clerics only purpose was to heal until about level 24, rather embarrassing battle cleric stories.

[Messie]

Level 18 dwarf warrior - loio at windmill. My RL 40 warrior friend (high level to me back then) gave me a yak sword. So excited, immediately went to vendor my extra loot and go back out and kill. Accidently sold the yak to the vendor while my friend was standing there waiting for me to equip it.

Never got a free item from him again in the two years we played together.