The moment you knew...

[ukaking]

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

Your co-workers played too? That'd be badass [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, actually we had one guy already playing original content, then he came to work with the new Kunark expansion and was reading the booklets at lunch. When I saw the Iksar and found out there were "servers where you can kill other people" myself and four other guys from work went and got the game. We all formed an all iksar guild with people we had met on the game over the first few weeks and we quickly realized that the game was hard enough and PvP was only scratching the surface.
Still play to this day with one of my workmates and former officer of the guild AND my top officer that I met in game back then right here on P99!
It truly is amazing that I developed such a bond with my guildmates that it lasts even today, 7 years after the guild was gone.

[Shirley Rose]

I grew up playing this game, so it's kind of hard wired into my brain, but I can't think of any particular moment that latched me on for good. It was all the adventures I got to go on as a 10 year old having only the most basic grasp of gameplay. Falling off boats and being terrified of losing all the statless armor I had collected then finally finding land only to be immediately killed by sirens, which I never actually saw. Running aimlessly in Gfay unable to see anything and getting lost. I was killed by an orc centurion, neither of which were words I was familiar with(I think at the time I thought it was some kind of centaur...)... When I found the sewers in Freeport I thought I was the only one who knew about them(I didn't think anyone else would spend time running into walls to see if you could go through any of them), until I found a few backpacks that held a fungi tunic and several other wonderful things... My mom said someone was killing themselves somewhere right now, but I, on the other hand had a few shiny new toys to go get killed with. Fun times. I am very far from 10 years old now, but I still do the exact same thing in classic eq. I refuse to fight in a zone that doesn't slightly terrify me.

[hedbonker]

One of the things I always liked was that I could never predict what would happen when I logged on. Might get a terrible group and die a lot or I might get a great group and have a great adventure...