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#1
08-25-2011, 10:29 AM
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Mine is a tale of then and now.
In 2000 I played a low level paladin, and I mainly fought in Oasis. At 9 years old, I remember the game being very difficult for me.. especially when it came to a specific mob that wandered those deserts. Everyone has those game messages that really make their asshole pucker up immediately.. you know what i'm talking about. You see them and you know you will promptly die. My list goes something like this: 1) You feel yourself starting to appear. 2) "FROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAK!!!" 3) "Damn my eyes.. you're just another mirage!" This story regards #3. Desert madmen were the bane of my existence. It seemed like I was always being killed by them. You see, I was instructed to only attack things that were blue to me. The madmen were blue to me but they were a major undercon because you never knew what class you would get (those nuking/rooting wizards and druids always wrecked my shit). And i was too young to understand this. Enter Project 1999. I've been playing here on and off for about a year (it's awesome), and I've come to understand that this game is nowhere near as difficult as I remembered it being (its a lot easier at 19 than 9). I've leveled up 3 characters in oasis with no problems whatsoever. The desert madmen and sand giants did not pose the deadly threats they once did, not even a little. It was simple to avoid them. And this is the way its been for me here. I'm almost cocky in playstyle compared to my restricted in-game actions as a child. And so a few days ago, I was duoing my 19 paladin with my RL best friend (18 mage) on the shoreline in oasis killing deepwaters. I went further into the desert to tag a wandering orc warrior that conned blue. As I was pulling it back to shore, I saw that unmistakable message.. "Damn my eyes.. You're just another mirage!" For a second I felt the slightest twinge of fear, a long forgotten memory of my childhood. Then I laughed.. how pathetic. The desert madman conned green, so I didn't pay him any mind and kept running back. I understand this game now, and through logical thinking this mob can no longer intimidate me. But Everquest has a way of humbling us all. And then... A desert madman begins to cast a spell. Your feet adhere to the ground. (a wandering SG paths near the madman, who is nuking from afar. He decides to help..) A sand giant hits YOU for 71 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 71 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 64 points of damage. A sand giant kicks YOU for 21 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 55 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 67 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 57 points of damage. A sand giant hits YOU for 72 points of damage. etc.. LOADING, PLEASE WAIT... I was stunned (both virtually and mentally). But later I couldn't help but smile. This is why I love this game, and what makes it so unique. There will never be another quite like it. Touché, desert madman. Touché.. | ||
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#2
08-24-2011, 06:42 PM
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My best friend in high school, we will call him Dr. Knight, met a girl that lives in Reunion Island. That is a tiny french colony off the coast of Madigascar in the Indian Ocean.
He became very enthralled with her and he wanted to talk with her IRL, but alas, Skype had not been invented yet. So he came up with a plan. Our job in high school was telemarketing. We worked at a pretty large firm that ONLY called long distance customers. That place racked up phone bills into the tens of thousands every month. So he began to call his lady love every evening while we worked from the phone in our server room, hiding his identity, you know, doing big things. At the same time, he signed up for a credit card and couldn't resist the prefix option, becoming a Discover card Doctor in one easy click. A few months pass, we ruin about 300 college kids lives as we dish out high interest rate credit cards like they are hot cakes, pull in over $7 an hour, you know, move our Donald Trump $hit. One day the owner of the company walks in and asks to talk with my friend. No biggie, we're the cream of the telemarketing crop. After a short meeting, my friend walks with his head high out the office, and out the front door. I later find out that they sat him down and asked him if he had ever heard of Reunion Island. He said it sounded like the name of an amusement park for old people. They said it cost $8.00 a minute to call Reunion Island, and someone owed them around $10,000.00 for calls made there. He said he didn't know what they were talking about, stood up, walked out, never to be seen again. A month later I got a call to our telemarketing firm looking for Dr. Knight. He apparently owed them some money. I told them he was in surgery. Thanks Everquest. | ||
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#4
08-24-2011, 07:06 PM
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Solo Kiting Tantor with a 65 SK
Really wanted a tusk and read he couldn't summon.
Went over to Western Wastes on my invisible AA horse ([You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) and found him conning blue. He's somewhere 63-66 so I guess I got lucky. Proceeded to dot kite him with boiling blood and Festering Darkness (like 1600hp over time if standing still). At one point snare broke and he charged me knock-back'ing me off the cliff in WW into the water. Resnared and continued to run with Bobbing Corpse on until I could find a place to get back up. By this time I had at least 2 of those damn blue wolves on me which were unsnared. I eventually feared them off until I could FD off the aggro. Back on Tantor I used Boiling Blood and Darkness and ran him all over WW. It honestly took 2 cold sweaty hours of gameplay to wear him down. I got knocked in the water TWICE and was fending off those damn wolves the entire time. The tusk didn't drop. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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#5
08-24-2011, 06:55 PM
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My friends and I would joke with each other as all young adults do. One of the jokes was a catch phrase from a Deliverance "You got a purty mouth". Of course it was just among us. We would occasionally sent a tell to each other with comments such as this.
My friend would also sometimes play a female friend's account and I thought it would be funny when he was on to pretend I was saying this to her. Well .... it so happens he logged off and now she was logged in when I decided to share this information. I was almost reported before I could explain the joke to her. She wasn't happy and I believe never talked to me again. Maybe that wasn't funny ... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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#6
08-24-2011, 07:12 PM
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So my brother and I made 2 wizards back in 1999 and we started in Gfay. It was our first MMO that we every played and we were sucked in instantly, I think it took us 1 month to get to lvl 10 in orc hill. Then we proceded to travel to Crushbone and spent a good month there until we felt it was time to travel. So we poked around the map a bit until we found this zone called Lesser Faydark...welll being that we were in Greater Fay and we had no problems we decided to travel through. So on that dreadful day we went into Lessery Fay as two level 16 wizards, we were now 2 month vets of eq and knew that when traveling into a new zone...you have to stick to the zone wall. Unfortunately for us, on this day in Lessery Fay there was a nasty little brownie who instantly attacked us and dispatched us in a mater of seconds. After we respawned my brother sitting next to me got up and said "im done" not playing anymore. I was confused because death and CR's had become a norm in our daily eq lives. So I asked him "why are you so upset" and he answered "the brownie stole a level from me, how am I going to get it back" ......thats the day we found out ...you actually lose exp when you die =P
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#7
08-24-2011, 07:19 PM
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back on Tallon Zek when I started back in 2000, I was struggling as a new player. I didn't really have any friends to play with or any equipment to get started (Barbarian Warrior). Eventually I caught a lucky break - some a$$hole ran an ice giant train on me and killed me. That doesn't sound very lucky, but the guy that did it felt really bad, and he went into permafrost and got me some large bronze pieces.
he told me about a place called Gfay - where the newb wood elfs start out, and mentioned it was the auction zone and constantly had hundreds of people in it bartering at all times. I wasn't happy with the bronze armor alone, the game was still really tough to solo in. I made my way to gfay to do some buying and selling. I sold all of my bronze armor - 2pp per AC. while I did that, I kept an eye on low end items from people in a hurry to make a sale, or just in general what the items were going for. I bought and resold a couple of items I was comfortable taking the gamble on. the big money maker was the stein of moggok, easy to sell and people were churning out the quest to sell them. eventually I did enough buying/reselling to acquire a full set of crafted armor and a blade of xalgoz. anyways, after I had geared up some and leveled up some in the area, I happened to be by a GM that was resolving an issue for a player near the kelethin bank. he went linkdead - I hadn't ever seen a GM go linkdead before.. being a PvP server, for shits and giggles, I decided to see if it would allow me to attack him.. sure enough, it let me attack him, and he wasn't hitting me back for any damage. I pk'ed a GM in the middle of all the usual traders and people hanging out in Gfay .. started telling everyone about the armor and weapons he was wearing and what kind of stats/effects they had on em .. it was utterly hilarious. I don't think I ever saw someone else PK a GM on EQ live. I became extremely paranoid that I'd be banned and went into hiding.. he confronted me when he logged back in. all was good, though, he thought it was kind of funny himself, and he wasn't very upset about the #zone corpse run. TL[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]R, pk'ed a linkdead GM on live. not all that hilarious, but one of my fondest. | ||
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08-24-2011, 10:14 PM
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08-24-2011, 11:41 PM
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