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[Matalus]

*Sorry about spelling, long story, and lazy*

Very disappointed in what has been said so far. I will post my memory of EQ, not of just a simplee story of the first person waken sleeper on my server, not of the many fantastic pvp battles, or trains, but perhaps more-so a journal entry of my life in EQ. Why am I doing this? We'll it's because I am drunk and I am current|y camping a 5 hour spawn mob.

The first any kind of online game I was introduced to was Infantry, it's a soe game, simple yet complcated(still playable at this day) for a first time game at such a young age. I made a name for my self, I even made my first original sig, still used to this day after all these years, and stolen by many...

Matalus
Matalus
so good he signs it twice

reaching the top of the games, my fav, being Ambush which is no longer an option on Infantry, a lot talked about Everquest, so I looked into it..

Come to find out I had two friends(who soon become my best friends even to this day) played Everquest. Not knowing what it was really about and having a mothers credit card who never noticed $15 a month I was soon about to join into the world of MMO gaming.

So there it started, 5 hours of downloading, dial up connections later and I made my first character on Everquest. Now this was a time to start a new. Now lets give some background on this. I played on Tallon Zek. This was my first server, my only server, thus everquest has been out for a while, the Zek servers were not introduced until after some time from what I believe. From the start I was hounded, I was trained, I was hunted from the moment I hit lvl 1 someone had me on a |ist. But GUESS WHAT I HAD TWO Rl FRIENDS....

....no, I had two Rl friends, one of which that knew just as much about EQ as me, and one who was in the top guild on the server that started from that start, as I'm sure who anyone knows about Zek history (pandemonium).
What did he do for me? lol, newb, what are you doing? Stop playing? lolzlo|l, everything I heard....

Now my first character I made....Exzero..DE necro, I got to lvl 15, again remember I have no clue what I'm doing, I knew nothing of factions, race or any of such. I witnessed another necro of a different race killing guards at lavastorm entrance, watched for a couple days, saw him gain lvl quickly....so what do I do? The same thing...of course.

Ruining my faction, not being able to buy spells now that I can't zone into my home town, I am completely lost again, asking my rl friends what to do, they just lol at me new. I decided to make a new character....Matalus

Again as I create this I am loled at by friends, saying to just stop and not even try to invest as I would not be able to even get past 25. I ignore and continue to try to prove them wrong

Now at this time there is a lot of twinking, and I mean a ot. I am a lvl 10 mage not even knowing how to do the basic newbie gear quest and I am checking behind my back every 2 seconds for someone to come hit me twice and take my 30pp that I have worked so hard for by selling bonechips. (Tallon Zek was money only loot on death in pvp btw if you did not know)

I come to find out that there is an extreme|y twinked bard. When I say twink, he spent over $1k of money ir| to buy pp, buy items at this time. (this person is now someone I know irl and ta|k to often). Who was he? I was my soon to be bestfriends irl cousin....

He hounded me, went everywhere I went, corpsed camped me to an extreme. Why? I have no idea. I never met the guy irl I never said one word to him irl, I was only introduced to him thru EQ because my school friend was his cousin.

When I said hounded, I mean hounded, from the time I was lvling in lavastorms, all the way to the time I came to Overthere, soloing as a lonely mage, who still did not even have enough p|at to obtain a stein of mogguk.

By the time I entered Warslick Woods, I surpassed this soon to be rl friend's bard in lvls, he tried to hound me, but sadly for him, no matter how much rl money he spent on gear, he cou|d not kill a mage that has learn the pvp spells such a dispell + earth pet and nukes, so ends that epic tell.

Thus starts another another tell darkie vs lightys. I have finally entered thie midlvl pvp war. Darks vs lights...

They had the clear advantage, bards, rangers, pallys, druids...we were out numbered, and at the time everyone wanted to be the GOOD class thus it was being a lighty. But we stood our ground, with our less numbers, we had the better races such as iskars, tho harder from the start, we had the advantage in the long run.

Many epic battle's continued, and describing even one would make this post into another 10 page paragraph.

We are going to skip a few stages, I was in the top guilded dark only guild on the server, PDM(pandemonium) had made there name, Sedition(discordia soon to be name) right behind them, and many other guild's to form another 3 guild (indignation) also and a euro guild that no one cared about(lol euros).

I have finallyy made it high end, I have made many friends, despite the dark vs light deal, I have made many lighty friends and even had our own private channel...this channel is ....../uberness...

Being in the top dark ony guild I fet great, we were clearing hate, pof, with ease, top guild's were preoccupied, pvping each other and claiming higher end bosses. The guild had a recruitment, WE NEED Several NEW OFFICERS. I applied for the job much like a Rl job interview. I was overseen, I took offense to this, I was 1 of the only two main mages in the guild (us two on|y had CoH) I gave access to previous guild officers so I can be camped where-ever they needed me to be in-case I was not playing that night, so they can CoH the guild. Yet when I applied for the position they said no.

Now I have a clique of light friends, who are are appliing to Discordia(arguablly 2nd best guild of server at this time). So with rage and a|so wanting to move ahead in this game and also loling at my rl friends who said I would even obtain a stein of mogguk in this game, I decided join them. After so, I posted on the (dark only) guild fourms that I was leaving to pursue higher lvling raiding. less that 2 hours after posting and /guquiting I was confronted by my dark on|y gui|d leader (who i soon found out used to be an officer in the top guild on the server but quit to p|ay lesshardcore) asked me to come back and apoligized for overlooking what I did. I told him no. For most part even irl I give peop|e one shot, and that it with that, and I decided to make a new.

So now I'm an applcatant of one of the top 3 guilds on the the server. Could have I applied to the the top one(pandemonium?) Yes. Why didn't i? Always root for the underdog, it's not fun without a challenege afterall. It took me 3 weeks, 3 weeks of being in an app gui|d, casually raiding(only if that had a spot) to even get invited into the guild and start my probation perioud.

*Now don't take this shortly I could easily ta|k about epic pvp battle there was on this server. How Discordia and Ignation joined forces together for a littarly a 48hr batt|e over emp ssra vs pandemioum. Where the zoned crashed while emp was at 1% hp, and how GM's interfered and kicked everyone out of the zone, the GM's that p|ayed fav's such as Conan(i think memory is fuzzy), and if I took the time I could prob find some old screenshots of everything but I feel this discption is enough...just know you are only getting half of this story even with as much that is being said.*

So 3 weeks pass...and guess what...there is on|y one main mage in the gui|d.... ONE, FUCKING ONE. HOW THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THREE WEEKS TO INVITE ME IF THERE IS ON|Y ONE MAGE IN THE GUIlD, FUCK YOU ARE CAMPING VEX THAl, WHICH IS A MUST NEED TO COH PEOPlE AND YOU ONlY HAVE ON MAGE IN THE GUI|D.

So yes, they invite me, and as guessed, I become the coh bitch, quickly giving info to officers to be able to log on and camp me at places for the guild, which I did not mine at the time; whatever put me in the fast lane of gearing was ok with me.

As 3 weeks pass my probation is finished, of course I am entered as a full member of the guild, and as so happens, the same week I am entered, there one and only main mage (besides me now) quits....(name is Wreakkin btw). Thus boom, I am only the main mage in the arguablly 2nd best gui|d on the server. When I mean on|y mage.....I mean only. For at |east 1-2 years (real time) I was the only mage....the only one, maybe there was one or two others, but they were never |ogged on, never at any raids....

I was flying high, hell I'm the only mage in the guild they are fucked if I left (knowing this was untrue as if they really needed they could just ebay a mage and camp him where they needed for coh) but at the same time it fe|t good to be needed from a gui|d.

Coming to an end....tired of typing and the 5 hour spawn has spawned and it was PH thus it will be another 5 hours before the next spawn and I need a nap.

People made they names from o|dschool pvp, they made there ground, I was late in the game....way late. I was overlooked by a lot. I quit at the top(imo) of Tallon Zek. According to EQMaglo and other sites, at the time I quit I was in the top 5 geared casters on the server, tho as most know PVPing with a mage after PoK was pretty much pointless, thus I was never a major threat that late in the game.

This is a short story(lol), I cou|d go on forever and describe many things, but this is a short insight to my Everquesting.

[Fuglee]

It was the Kunark era and Epic quests had been out for a few months.

There I was, a level 53 Iksar Monk and a college student. I knew that I would never have the time to do all the sash/headband quests and camp the hellish Raster. That, coupled with the fact that I was guildless, meant that I had written off ever getting my Celestial Fists.

That was until one of my RL friends mentioned that one of his guildies had quit the game. She was a monk with decent gear and he had her account info. If we ever wanted to play her, just let him know. When I asked about her gear, he mentioned that she had a Robe of the Whistling Fist.

You might see where this is headed...

I asked him about the possibility of using her robe to multi-quest my epic.

His response was: "Fuck her, dude. She quit. Here's her info. "

Needless to say, I had a bit of a moral dilemma on my hands.

"She quit. She won't come back." That's what I kept repeating to myself as I logged her character in the next evening. After having dreams of my epic all night long, I couldn't resist. I logged in to find out that she was the guild's Nagafen checker. I slapped on /anon and /afk and started out towards the way off oasis in Timorous Deep.

The fire giants to the oasis in Timorous Deep is one hell of a run/swim. My nerves were wrecked the entire time as I was reading their guild chat, absolutely paranoid that they would notice her character online and start asking questions. I envisioned myself being banned for stealing an account; I almost turned around and abandoned the mission quite a few times. I finally made it to the spot without dying or being found out. I then had to get my monk to the same spot as he happened to be in Sol B as well.

I only had one computer and this was before the days of multi-boxing, so I logged her in, turned in her robe that she'd worked so hard for, then logged her out. I came back on and finished the turn-in with my character and received the quest piece.

I then ran her back to the fire giants and logged her out in the exact spot that I'd found her. I think the entire journey with both characters took about 3 hours.

After I had that part of the quest finished (which is, by far, the longest part) it only took me about 2 weeks to join a guild, fight 4 easy bosses, and be "awarded" with my Celestial Fists. Things were great for about 3 weeks until I got a call from my friend.

"Dude, she came back", he said.

"What?! You said she quit!", I said.

"Well, she's back. And she's fucking pissed! They're contacting the GMs right now because she thinks her robe just poofed."

"You're not going to tell her what happened, are you?", I said.

"Nah. Don't worry about it. Even the GMs probably can't track down what happened. "

Needless to say, the next few days were extremely nerve-wracking.

The clamor in his guild eventually died down and no one ever contacted me about the theft. Things went back to normal and I was thoroughly enjoying my epic. My guilt subsided.

It came crashing back a few weeks later however because I somehow ended up in her group in Karnor's. She did not have her epic or a Whistling Fist robe, obviously, and was using an Imbued Fighters Staff. We were grouped together for about 2 hours and it was the most awkward group I've ever been in. I felt like I had raped her toon and she had no idea.

...And that's how I stole an epic.

I felt way worse than the time I stole the Ancient Cyclops kill from a necro. All 30 people in the Ocean of Tears were spamming me with hate tells so I set my AFK message to: "Wallibus begins to walk faster."


Wow. I was kinda a dick back then...

[Secrets]

Well, I guess I can share this one.

Me and my friends were in East Commonlands, and were fed up with that griffon chasing newbies. We decided to track the griffon down. I logged on my druid, and we went on the hunt.

After about 15 minutes, we spotted the damn thing. The griffon put up a good fight and my mom got scared and said, 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air!'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day.. But she packed my suitcase and send me on my way. She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket, I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.
First class, yo this is bad! Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? Hm, this might be alright.

But wait I hear there're prissy, bourgeois and all that, Is this the type of place that they should send this cool cat? I don't think so, I'll see when I get there, I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air.
Well, the plane landed and when I came out there was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out! I ain't trying to get arrested yet I just got here. I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared...
I whistled for a cab and when it came near, The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I can say that this cab was rare, but, I thought 'Nah forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air!'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8, and I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

[Matalus]

one time i p|ayed a vz/tz server hosted by someone and that someone bai|ed without warning

[Secrets]

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

one time i p|ayed a vz/tz server hosted by someone and that someone bai|ed without warning

Yeah, Voidd is *such* a jerk for doing that.

[Baa]

Secrets, there is only enough room for one fresh prince rip off in this thread... and it is mine!

[Darksole03]

Not original but you never said original.

"A TURN FOR THE WORSE, by Skater Gnome

August 6, 2002

ok like camp is reely cool and whatever but yesterday it got
reely suc
ok so like im standing on the dock at the lake cause im next
in line to ride the water weenie

so im standing there and all of the suddin i get shoved in the
back and go flying off the dock and into the water

WTF??!?!!

so like my swiming is suck so im doing doggie paddel back to
dock and i heer lots of laffing coming from everyone on the
dock and im getting reely angrey!

so im clikmbing back up the dock and im like 'omg dude ur so
dead' but when i get up to the top i see the freakin huge kid
there scowling at me ready to attack

and im like 'omg dude i thought this camp was for 13 to 15 not
30yr olds'

and hes like 'u wanna peace of me???'

and im thinking 'hell no' but i say 'oh ya i want the who
enchallada'

i dont even liek enchaladas

so im getting a little scared now and im looking around for
the zone line out of instinct or whatever but the only
safespot i can see is up the hill at the cafe where the
couseliers are but thats a long way away

so im thinking about trying feign death but we all know how
that turned out last tiem

so its just him and me at the end of the docks and hes like
lumbering toward me with his swimming flippers and facemask on
holding a snorkel in his hand liek hes gonna hit me with it
and everyone is watchin

so im standing there wondering what it will feel like to be
killed with a snorkel when i see j-mo pushing through the crowd

and hes got something in his hands and he rolls it toard me
through giganto-kids legs and its my skaterboard

and j-mos like 'two hand blunt'

and he give me the thumbs up

so i pick up my board and im gettin all fired up and breathing
hard and im scream 'feel the power of quellious b1tch'

and j-mos like 'yaulp 2! good one!'

so i charge and im swinging my board with sweet ninja action
but mammoth-boy just knocks it out of my hands and grabs me
and picks me up

and im like 'omg dude wtf put me down ur so gay'

and so he walks to the edge of the dock and starts to throw me
in again (dammit)

so im starting to fall and i reach out for anything i can grab
on to and i gget a hold on his mask

well i could only hold on to it for about the first two feet
of my fall and then i had to let go before i went splash

well i guess the face mask went flying right back into his
nose or something cause buy the tiem i doggie paddeled back to
the dock he was lying on his back with a bloody nose and the
nurse was stunding over him saying 'jonny can you heer me'

and j-mos like 'dude sweet kill!'

and im like 'ya im the rulest' and i never told anyone that i
didnt do it on purpose

so i was thinkin about looting the body but i decided that
prolly not appropriate

so anyway i got in alot of trouble and they punished me by
making me stay in the cabin for the rest of the day

i never did get to ride the water weenie but i guess thats ok

it sounds kinda gay anyway"

[Excellio]

So, it was the week before Christmas, 1999, and my brother and I received our Christmas present early. We got a copy of EverQuest. After installing and waiting for the patching to finish, we were finally playing. Well, after waiting forever at the loadscreen, we began playing.

Except that I was the younger brother, so I really didn't get to play for a good long while.

Finally, after several days, my brother let me create a character, and he and his friend stood over my shoulder as I did. I had chosen to be a Human Rogue, primarily because I knew nothing about the game at that time. When I got to the part when I was supposed to allocate my points, I didn't really know what I should do. My brother and his friend informed that CHA is the stat that gets you really good deals at vendors in the game, and it also makes vendors pay you a lot for items that you sell to them. For this reason, I allocated every one of my points to CHA on my brand new Human Rogue.

After being lost in East Freeport (because the map from the booklet wasn't very helpful for me) , I remember seeing several messages from other players in the zone, shouting and ooc'ing messages celebrating the New Year. That's when I realized it was now December 31, 1999. Y2K was upon us, and here I was wandering around the outskirts of East Freeport on my charismatic Human Rogue.

I was still getting accustomed to playing the game, and I eventually wandered into North Ro. I didn't know much at the time, but I recall accidentally auto-attacking an NPC in North Ro named "Puntar Sandfisher". So, Puntar Sandfisher killed me pretty quickly since I was only level 1, and I don't know if I even equipped anything. After I respawned in East FP, I asked my brother how to send a private message. I wanted to apologize to Puntar for accidentally attacking him, so I wrote "/tell Puntar Hey, I'm sorry about attacking you. I'm really new", but no matter how many times I wrote this, my message didn't go through.

For you see, Puntar was not online at that time.

EDIT: Oh, if anyone wants to see a scanned copy of any of the original city maps, I can totally hook that up.

[Excellio]

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

Dude. Could I get a copy?[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here you go!

[Extunarian]

This story isn't much but it is what sticks out most in my head -- funny how so many of these are the total newb stories.

I found EQ on my own and didn't know anyone who played it, so I had to learn everything the hard way.

My first character was an Erudite Magician, and after probably 2 weeks of trying to level in Toxx I finally hit level 4 and bought my pet spell. I tried to cast it but it said I needed Malachite, so I looked up where to buy it.

I have no clue what site I was on but I somehow fell under the impression that malachite was only sold in Ak'anon. I'm fairly certain it took me over a week of off and on playing to make it from Erudin to ak'anon, and probably several hours to find the malachite vendor in the gnome city.

I bought 2 malachites since it was what I could afford, went outside, cast pet, and had a great time plowing over things for awhile. Until I got in over my head and died. And respawned in Erudin.

I deleted the mage and made a chanter which I mained until I quit around OOW.