Your worst corpse run

[Tallenn]

The one time I thought I might lose everything was my second time ever in Fear. It was my guild's first real raid, and for most of them, the very first time they had been there. Me and a couple of others had been invited as guests of another guild's raid a couple of weeks before.

Of course, the inevitable happened (how many guilds haven't wiped on their very first attempt to break Fear?). We tried for about 5 hours, trying different methods to get in and get our corpses back, but nothing worked. Finally, after an 8 hour raid that hadn't even managed to kill a single mob, another guild came to our rescue- the same one that a few of us had gotten to raid with earlier, in fact.

They went in and broke the camp, dragged all of our corpses to the west wall and rezzed them. The people who had logged off(it was like 3 AM at this point) had to get help later, as they couldn't give consent for drags.

We learned our lessons well though. Our next Fear raid went perfectly, and we never wiped there again.

[President]

I couldn't think of my worst CR story until thie above was posted. I was never really guilded until Luclin era but used to lead pick-up Hate/Naggy raids on my server. Just sent out tells until I got 30+ people together and port up or head to naggy. You can guess they went about as well as a 15 year old leading raids with random people in places hed never been, but we did decently well. <2 hours to start killing stuff in Hate and didn't wipe too often to naggy. It almost started to get a little popular with the non-raid guilded people, and one day we decided pick-up fear raid! yay! Of course I had no clue what the fuck I was doing but I was leading the raid, getting some help from others who had been there before. I think it was around 10 hours of attempting before we finally got enough people in the corner to kill mobs/CR everyone, at which time I had to log and probably handed over the raid leader reigns to someone much more qualified.

[Lazortag]

I've never died in Everquest, ever, so I've never had a bad corpse run. What's dying like?

[Mournblade]

My worst (out of many) CR was on my way to a Tormax raid with my guild. I got turned around in Kael and ended up dead inside Iceshard Keep. My guild dropped everything and came to rescue me. I felt like crap and happy to have such good friends at the same time.

/salute Band of the Broken Bow

[Reiker]

a) Plane of Fear, don't need to say much more. Multiple hours spent on corpse recoveries without killing a single mob, a lot of us have been there.

b) During PoP they revamped the Droga zone and added higher level mobs / better drops. Two items in particular were extremely valuable, so I used to camp them on my shaman a LOT. My shaman was ntov/luclin raid geared. Well, one day something went wrong and I died. No big deal, I ran back over to where I died, only I couldn't find my corpse. I typed /corpse and it said I didn't have a corpse in the zone. This is where I started panicking, somehow my corpse had auto-poofed right when I died. It took me a long time of petition escalations to finally talk to the #2 GM on the server. He said the only person who had any power to look into the issue and possibly reimburse my gear was the server's GM Admin. Unfortunately, he just happened to be on vacation for a week. It was even longer than that before I was able to get in touch with him, and his response was basically I was screwed because "I waited too long."

This is when I quit EQ.

[AstyTZ]

The only CR that really sticks out in my mind was on Tallon Zek. I was just strolling through SRo on my level 30-something shaman and I spot the AC. I pull him and dot him up, and I'm so nervous fighting him that I'm visibly shaking... I was 13 at the time, couldn't control my excitement, what can I say. I knew that if I got that ring, I could MQ it and be "rich" (MQs were selling for a lot back then). Anyway, I've got him at about 40%, and two druids show up and start snaring/dotting/nuking me. They were both a little lower, and I turned around for a moment and tried to fight... but I'm thinking no, I've got to get the AC down before they kill me and take it.

In desperation, I start spam-nuking the AC, and I drop him when I'm at about 5%. I know that his prized drop is the ring that everyone wants MQ'ed all the time, so I quickly right click the body, and there it is. The ring. First thing that caught my eye... he had a FS weapon and something else too that I really didn't get a chance to look at. So I right click the ring and die immediately after.

--You have looted a Silver Ring.--

You have got to be kidding me. I'm bound in Grobb, so I am busting my ass back to SRo to get to the body before it unlocks. I get there, and one of the halflings is looting the body. I'm pleading with them to not take the ring, then the halfling gets off the body, and it sparkles away. I was so upset, and so mad at myself that for not knowing that the "ring" actually looks more like a belt.

[Qaedain]

Soloing in Hate during the Ykesha-era revamp. As I was working deeper into the zone from the new port-in, I flubbed a Magi P`Tasa pull and got clobbered.

As you might begin to imagine, it's rather difficult to recruit a Wizard, a Cleric and a Necro to pull your sorry ass out of a zone nobody on the server is actively raiding, or has raided in years.

Took me a good 2 days to convince all the right people.

[Aeolwind]

Any run involved in whole or in part with Siren's Grotto or Western Wastes.

-Didn't have a Pegasus Cloak then.
-Gnomes couldn't tinker lev items yet.
-Did have an invis item.

Even though I wasn't KOS to dragons, it -never- failed that a wolf, worm or that stupid ROS dragon out there would track me down from 12000 miles away and turn me into a Rorschach test in the snow.

[Gaaaaavin]

I still remember one particular corpse run in Seb. Now this was the first time I had ever been inside, my friends and I had just gotten keyed and we were very excited! We pulled frogs at the entrance and were doing so well we decided to go further in... where we promptly died a gruesome death.

Now, to understand the true pain of this, you need to know that I played on the Test Server, which had a population similar to that of P99, and Seb was not heavily camped and full of players. In fact, we had been the only ones in the zone at the time of our untimely deaths. But we make it back and, being a rogue, I stealthed in to drag our bodies to the front. Unfortunately, parked in my path is a frog who SEES ME. Still I figure I can sneak past. Wrong. Now I have two corpses in Sebilis. So thanks to this see invis frog, we're screwed. It's creeping into the early hours of the morning and I died once more trying to sneak past the damn thing. Three dead Gaavins now line the halls of Sebilis.

This was somewhat upsetting.

Then, luckily for us, a group came along that was far more capable of handling the mobs. They cleared out a few, including that see invis bastard, and their rogue (who was a good friend of mine at the time) stealthed in and drug us out where their cleric rezed us. I had been in tears (yes I'm a girl and I cried over a video game) before they came along and their kindness was really overwhelming.

It took a long time before I was brave enough to enter Sebilis again after that trauma.

[Kornaki]

My dad once died in a bugged pool of blood in crushbone back on live with a low level ranger... think he was blinded by a shaman mob or something, I don't really remember how he got in there. Anyway, he jumps back into the pool to loot the corpse, and when he tries to get out he fails. Not only can he not get out of the pool, he can't even get to fresh air and drowns to death 30 seconds later. He figures he'll figure it out later and leaves for work. A week later he remembers that his ranger died in crushbone, and he logs on to discover he lost all the gear.

How do you forget that your ranger died? Shouldn't that be default? Oh, let me log onto everquest to corpse run my ranger... huh, he didn't die last session