Not much time to play. Play anyway. Log on, feeling strong, level 8. Try to solo even con skelly via undead nuke. Get wrecked. Cloth armor not so good. Dead. Good thing no pve ratio on red. Lose level. Bad start. Remembered I vowed never to solo.
Tail between legs. See that friends are on, send tell. They higher than me now but still in grouping range. Friends getting griefed in CB. Laughed. Ask them just how bad it is. "Fungi twinks, epic'd rogues." Ok pretty bad. More experienced than me but still going to Top 5 pvp hotzone and wondering why dead. Blamed healer too. Laughed again. Never their own fault for going to CB.
Convince them to come to Steamfont, we steamroll harpies and minotaurs. Exp flying again in group, lots of gems and coins. Get level 9 and some. I'm happy again. Can finally root again and new hp buff. Pve isn't so bad. Group gets bored, not enough to kill. Thinking about new spots. Can't do CB. Can't do unrest. Unless want epic'd and fungi twinks. Don't want that. Scratching head - never not leveled there. Thinking outside box now. Like whole new game. Even antisocial griefers serve valuable purpose in ecosystem. Take wolves out and all of a sudden server no longer red.
Head to lfay bandits and Nybrights. Only done these once before, in 1999 as wood elf druid. Lots of memories. Don't remember zone well but finally get there. Start killing, tons of exp and bronze weapons. Loot so much i can barely move. Looking at inventory. Begrudging choice of gnome, must have been drunk creating character many years ago. Low wis, low str, low sta. No jump roll. Now know why never seen a gnome cleric. But can see through walls and harder to target in mass pvp!
Someone messages me, met in other game ForumQuest. Says he will help. Tell him where we are, ogre named Bird shows up. Funny only met evil races so far out here. Antonica may really be dead. Getting some buffs. Ogre says, "stand and receive". About to get something awesome. But life never easy on red. Out of nowhere barbarian rogue Fapster shows up, doesn't say anything, only laying serious waste to new friend, backstabbing for hundreds, friend forced to flee. Hope he's ok. No time to meet again but appreciate the buffs. Have to go soon.
Make it to level 10, bid farewell to group. Gate back to noob lift, slowly crawl to bank. Selling my bags of weapons to merchant so can move faster. Paranoia that someone lying in wait for me to finish then kill me and take my coins. I would be if I could. Maybe. Never experienced this on blue. Make it to bank. 20 plat now. Riches beyond belief. New spells within grasp. Still no pvp but seen enough firsthand. No rush to experience it now. Sure it will be soon. Inevitably.
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09-18-2014, 09:38 AM
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