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[Tarathiel]

So here's my story... A couple nights ago I got invited to join a crypt group in seb.. So I make my way out there and all is well until half the group decides its time to log... Nothing to unexpected as its already pushing 1am pst or so.. Well anyways this leave me( a 53 rogue a 60 monk and a 58 shaman pondering what to do next, we decide to wait for one more spawn cycle to see if we get lucky with a named spawn. After a couple of minutes of me checking all the rooms Prime Heirophant Grekal spawns and guess what... Heks not holding a sword!!! We quickly decide that its worth a shot and rush the room. The first 5 min of the fight were tough but things were looking good. By this point our shaman is oom and the monk is at around 20% health but grekal is about dead... Here's where it gets interesting lol grekal decides its time to run, and boy does he run fast. He turns tail and hits the door at full speed and we pick up chase. Too bad for us he runs right past an imperial crypt golem. the golem proceeds to wipe the floor with our shaman who is desperately trying to get root to stick. His next target is the monk who is already near death... 2 seconds later monk down. By this point I'm in the hall that lead to the emporer room furiously trying to finish off grekal who is at 1% and still running. The golem finds me and starts to pummel the crap out of me. Grekal falls and I instantsly click too loot, lo and behold I see a pretty white cloak in the inventory screen I click on it just as I see the dreaded " entering firiona vie" message appear on my screen.... The next 30 seconds are the longest of my eq life.... But it was worth it I read the text "you have looted a hierophants cloak" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] anyways to make a long story short we get rezzed back, roll the dice, and our shaman gets a pretty new cloak!

....Edit... Wow I just realized how long that was lol sorry about the horrible punctuation and lack of paragraphs I typed all this on my phone lol

[Sickle]

This story took place sometime in mid to late 1999 as I was lv 44 when it occurred. Me and a few other guild members went to camp Shadow men in Nek Forest for fun and help someone get a rapier for Jboots. As it was already very late I was dozing in and out of consciousness. I Was so tired that I happen to actually pass out at the keyboard in my computer chair.(Wasn't the first or last time this occurred)

I wake up a few hours later, wipe the drool from my mouth and keyboard, to see that I am not in Nek forest anymore but Upper Guk/Lower Guk zoneline. (My bind spot at the time) What had happened was my guildies noticed I was afk/unresponsive and tried to guard me as long as possible before they all had to log for the night. I was killed by a shadow man and then proceeded to be killed over and over again at the zone line due to trains/etc. If I can recall I ended up waking up to lv 39, When I was well into lv 44 going to sleep. I ended up heading back to my original corpse, looting it and immediately doing a /quit. I took maybe a day or two off and then came back and grinded all those levels including hell level 40 all over again.

The best part was a guild Leader saw my corpse at shadow men in the morning, Did a /who "my toons name" and rushed to Lguk. He ended up guarding my toon for an hour or so before I woke up. A few ended up coining a nick name/term after me for someone who would go AFK for a while during a raid. They would constantly joke that maybe they fell asleep at the keyboard as I had.

[Koa Bosk]

I don't know if this is funny, and I'm sure it has happened to other people.

I play a Elf Ranger, so a friend of mine took me to Sol A to find a heart from one of the Goblin inferno for a quest. Well it took a few hours, but we finally got one. I was so excited that I was this much closer to completing the quest, and congratulating myself for not dying at all this entire time that when leaving, I guess I was not paying attention to my footing and fell into the lava just a few feet from the exit.

What made it even more embarrassing was that just a second before I fell, my friend had warned me to be careful. Not to mention my girlfriend was sitting next to me, witnessed the whole thing, laughing at my blunder.

[toddfx]

I suppose I'll go ahead and share mine. I was 13 years old playing EQ on live. I was goofing off in Halas when I stumbled upon a barbarian couple sitting together in some out of the way hut. I decided to cause a little trouble and emote something silly. I targeted the lady barbarian and emoted ":kisses %t long and hard."

She was not happy, and proceeded to call me out on cyber rape and said I'd be hearing from her lawyer! Believe it or not, my stupid 13 year old self believed her and was so scared I logged immediately and did not log back in for several days. Needless to say, that was the end of my dirty emote fun...

[rabienrose90]

Hmmm, one of my favorite times in everquest was when my father and I wanted to go out and fish but because of the weather, we couldn't. So Instead we ended up on EQ in Kaladim and we decided to have a fishing contest lol

We took off all our gear and emptied our bags so it would be fair, we only had a fishing pole, a few stacks of beer and a few stacks of bait.

I forget where it was but I want to say by some Iron mill and there was a small dock with a little pond. We ended up falling off that little dock a good twenty times from being so drunk(in game, I was like 12 or so at the time)

It was a while until we realized we were eating the fish we were catching lol We were laughing so hard at how drunk we were in game, and that the random message of "you spill your beer" lol it was really fun = )

He did end up winning though = / I might have to have a rematch with him soon lol

[mala]

really not trying to hate here... but that short novel matalus wrote is completely devoid of anything even relatively funny

[Excellio]

Here's my other entry:

So, one day I went to log into P99, and suddenly, more than 300 players were suspended for hacking and using prohibited 3rd party software. I must say that in all of my years of playing EverQuest, I had never encountered such a phenomenon. It seemed so unlikely that so many people on one server would all choose to do stuff that was explicitly against the rules, all simultaneously. I also wondered what they did with all that plat that got removed... I figured it was probably on a mob somewhere, like a fire beetle or something, and some newb is gonna kill that fire beetle because he needs a fire beetle eye, and then he won't be able to walk because he'll be all crazy encumbered. And there probably won't even be a fire beetle eye on that particular fire beetle corpse.

[Teensy Weensy]

FRAT!

[Cujoy]

My newb story, I started a Rogue on VZ when it first came live, I think it was June or something. I was a halfelf rogue in Kelethin and I thought I knew all there was to know about role playing games because I beat FF7 with no walkthrough and both the optional bosses (Emerald and Ruby weapons). I got to level 5 killing trash at newb lift and then I stopped leveling, I killed and killed and killed and I couldn't level, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the con system so I didn't know that killing greens and greys was basically getting me nowhere. I played for about 6 weeks and got so frustrated at being level 5 I quit. I deleted that damn rogue and uninstalled EQ.
It was some time in 2000 that I finally started playing again, Kunark had just been released. I decided to make a ranger this time. A ranger with charisma so I could make better deals with the merchants... This time I read about the game a little and figured out I need to con mobs to make sure I get exp. I leveled through Gfay, to BB, and finally off to the Commonlands and I decide to swim to Freeport. I didn't know you couldn't swim across zone lines, so I swam and swam and swam, finally I started tracking the boat, thinking maybe I just wasn't taking the right path (my sense heading was shit at the time). I caught up with the boat and got hung up on the geometry of it somehow, my character zoned with the boat. So at this point I think I can still swim zone lines, I eventually make it to Freeport and decide since I'm on a roll I'll swim to the new land of Kunark. So I turn around from Freeport, head back to tracking the boat and get restuck on the boat zone and keep going, I did this all the way to OOT. Finally I get sick of swimming about 4 hours later and caught the boat to TD. I got stuck on this boat too, no idea how I kept managing it. After a long journey I decided to check out that passage in FV at the bottom of one of the docks, I can't even remember where it was but I ended up drowning in it and went all the way back Kelethin.

My only other newb story is that when I started that ranger I joined a roleplaying guild. But I didn't know they were roleplaying other than they said weird old English shit like ye and thee. I basically knew nothing of guilds, they made me the "Baroness of West Commonlands", I went to WC, our guild policy was to help people in 'your' land, so I ran around helping people who were having problems in WC telling them I was the Baroness of WC. Everyone thought I was crazy because they asked if I was RPing and I said no, I'm the actual baroness. I thought I had real power... it's kind of sad now that I think about it, especially since this went on for almost a week.

[Hagglebaron]

Originally Posted by Cujoy

My newb story, I started a Rogue on VZ when it first came live, I think it was June or something. I was a halfelf rogue in Kelethin and I thought I knew all there was to know about role playing games because I beat FF7 with no walkthrough and both the optional bosses (Emerald and Ruby weapons). I got to level 5 killing trash at newb lift and then I stopped leveling, I killed and killed and killed and I couldn't level, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the con system so I didn't know that killing greens and greys was basically getting me nowhere. I played for about 6 weeks and got so frustrated at being level 5 I quit. I deleted that damn rogue and uninstalled EQ.
It was some time in 2000 that I finally started playing again, Kunark had just been released. I decided to make a ranger this time. A ranger with charisma so I could make better deals with the merchants... This time I read about the game a little and figured out I need to con mobs to make sure I get exp. I leveled through Gfay, to BB, and finally off to the Commonlands and I decide to swim to Freeport. I didn't know you couldn't swim across zone lines, so I swam and swam and swam, finally I started tracking the boat, thinking maybe I just wasn't taking the right path (my sense heading was shit at the time). I caught up with the boat and got hung up on the geometry of it somehow, my character zoned with the boat. So at this point I think I can still swim zone lines, I eventually make it to Freeport and decide since I'm on a roll I'll swim to the new land of Kunark. So I turn around from Freeport, head back to tracking the boat and get restuck on the boat zone and keep going, I did this all the way to OOT. Finally I get sick of swimming about 4 hours later and caught the boat to TD. I got stuck on this boat too, no idea how I kept managing it. After a long journey I decided to check out that passage in FV at the bottom of one of the docks, I can't even remember where it was but I ended up drowning in it and went all the way back Kelethin.

My only other newb story is that when I started that ranger I joined a roleplaying guild. But I didn't know they were roleplaying other than they said weird old English shit like ye and thee. I basically knew nothing of guilds, they made me the "Baroness of West Commonlands", I went to WC, our guild policy was to help people in 'your' land, so I ran around helping people who were having problems in WC telling them I was the Baroness of WC. Everyone thought I was crazy because they asked if I was RPing and I said no, I'm the actual baroness. I thought I had real power... it's kind of sad now that I think about it, especially since this went on for almost a week.

LOL

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