First EQ Memory

[Rararboker]

Humans were supposed to get the bonus, halflings got it by mistake and they never fixed it.

[blondeattk]

getting lost in akanon....thats one confusing zone to start in.

I kept trying to talk to the gnome lookin robots.....after an hour managed to talk to a pc, and follow them out of the city.

[Imago]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol. I seem to remember the guidebook being terrible. Didn't it say humans leveled the fastest?

Still have my guidebook from Prima, the OFFICIAL source for Everquest RoK info.

Some awesome little plot blurbs in here - one about some barbs duping a gnome for a map to Nagafen's lair, one about the Frog king's rousing speech for his army against the undead frogs of LGuk, one about some iksar thieves stumbling into Howling Stones, etc.

Lots of useless info about how much shit sells to a vendor for, and mob stats.

Anyways - first memory - making a female wood elf warrior at my friends house, rambling about to the kelethin tune, smacking bats and wondering why some dude was following me around. Til he finally hit me. Little did I know I had rolled on RZ. Have been Red ever since.

[phacemeltar]

watched my dad on a mayong raid, tons of people being slaughtered at the zl.
a week later i got my own account and made a woodie war, running around the noob lift scared to venture out too far into the forest for a few weeks. this was my first experience with online socializing too, meeting other level ones at the lift.. good times, i still love gfay

[Laugher]

Lol I was originally a half elf bard on live. One of the first memories I have of EQ was begging money off of people at the gates in West Freeport. Someone eventually walked up and handed me 1k, so after some wandering and visiting almost every merchant in West and North Freeport I ended up in East Freeport buying a set of plate armor off of a merchant and spending most (if not all) of the money on merchant-bought plate.

[Nuggie]

Bought the game in July '99. Didn't want it to mess with football season so I didn't install it until something like October. Found out you needed a subscription to play and had to beg my dad to use his. He was awful nervous putting his cc info on the Internet.

I couldn't believe how amazingly real this game looked compared to warcraft I on my sweet 16MB graphics card. I roll a dwarf paladin on brell. Ran around a bit. I meet up with this elf that talks me into going to crushbone. Through pitch black night with thieves trying to rob us on the way we journeyed on. Finally we get there. Seemed like forever.

We zone in, I follow him around, and I fall in the moat. No idea how to swim or climb ladders. I drown. He tells me to run back, from kaladim. I said naw and rerolled.

[Ravager]

I rolled a gnome wizard and my friend told me to run to GFay. He gave me a Water Crystal Staff and Skull of Jhen'tra, then I got lost and died and couldn't find my corpse. At the time, under level 5, the corpse rotted in 30 minutes. I felt terrible.

Then my sister saw me playing the game, I agreed to share the account with her (terrible idea), and she became addicted and I never got to play. On the rare occasion I did get to play, she'd stand over my shoulder and watch.

[Aviann]

When I started, my uncle first gave me a full set of bronze, and a few weps and an SBS to use alongside a necklace with some str. Back then, bronze was the shit, and having a full matching set was sweet.

Found another irl buddy that happened to have a lvl 9 druid, while I was a 13 paladin, so we decided to have a LAN sleepover and ended up trying to explore. We found ourselves in OOT, two lost noobs, following only the sound of excitement in our hearts. Unfortunately, we didn't fare long against the ancient cyclops who claimed the island we were on as their turf. He immediately got off so I wasn't able to recover the gear I let him use, but a nice druid helped me track down my body, I looted it, learned my hard lesson, and returned to Oasis where I spent 6 months leveling from 13 to 20, scared as shit to explore anywhere else until I found a more experienced paladin and longtime friend who brought me to new and bigger places.

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by Ravager [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I rolled a gnome wizard and my friend told me to run to GFay. He gave me a Water Crystal Staff and Skull of Jhen'tra, then I got lost and died and couldn't find my corpse. At the time, under level 5, the corpse rotted in 30 minutes. I felt terrible.

Then my sister saw me playing the game, I agreed to share the account with her (terrible idea), and she became addicted and I never got to play. On the rare occasion I did get to play, she'd stand over my shoulder and watch.

Ha I made the same mistake with my brother and my mom forced me to share my account with him until he got a computer. I then just gave him the account and rerolled on Torvon when it opened.

[Ahldagor]

half elf ranger was the first character i rolled. died in qhills to a bear and never found my body. rerolled a halfling rogue that died in kith and never found that body. that dial up connection starting...