15 Years Ago Today...

[Weekapaug]

...I purchased the game and made my first toon in EverQuest. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Started as a human pally in Qeynos with some friends who had started the week before. One in beta. They wanted to start over with all of us together on one of the "new" servers that got added as the game gained steam population-wise. We started on Bertoxxulous on about the 3rd day the server was live. Walked out into the newbie area and saw people smacking bats and snakes with clubs and thought "This is the stupidest shit I've ever seen." LOL

Back then, you played a game for a month and went on to the next thing. Maybe 6 or 8 weeks if something was really good....Longer if moddable into something you would rather be playing...Or pretend to. There were a couple of turn based strategy games from the early 90s we played for a couple years off and on, but those were the hall of famers. A month for most games was the norm. If you told me on April 11, 1999 that I would still be playing this game in 15 years I would have thought you were insane.

Started the pally and got to level 8. Took a week or two. Fished for days on end for the money to buy a full set of storebought leather, an imported Minotaur Axe and a Greater Lightstone from a player. My friends heard of this land of milk and honey called Freeport. With orcs and dervs and aligators and exp that flowed like wine. So we spent a day or two researching the run across Antonica and went for it. Took a wrong turn in Highpass and I was the one that ate the gnoll train...Human night blindness was a major factor in that incident.

Corpse rotted because my friends couldn't find it. We didn't know, then, that you could just make a level 1 halfling rogue and hide/sneak around to drag. Took a break from the game for a few weeks due to RL. Came back made a mage that I played into the teens...Didnt care for it. Then made my first real main...A gnome wizzy. Played EQ like crazy that first year. Had, literally, 90 days /played when he hit his first birthday.

But as time went on, I missed that first toon. Kunark was annoying for playing the wiz. So around the first anniversary, I rerolled the pally as a SK...Reborn evil to reap revenge on those who abandoned him in highpass!....this is the extent of any roleplay I've ever done in any game, btw. lol Was my first twink. Full set of darkforge. Mithral 2 hander. Simply badass!

Eventually became a blacksmith during when the first cultural armor went in....Was the first character gamewide to make Bertoxxulous Plate Armor, as far as was known on EQ traders at the time. I used to keep a bag of the imbue spell scroll in the bank in the event I found a cleric that could scribe it. And would search high and low for Black Sapphires for sale, and players to imbue them...I think I located 2 actual bertoxx clerics on my server to help me. Failed several attempts before making the first piece...A collar. The stats were completely screwed up for the classes that could use it and they had to fix it in a patch. But I was ALL ABOUT this at the time. Being a dark knight of Bertoxx, and on the Bertoxx server, I was really proud of being the first.

Played as my main for years 'till about mid PoP when I switched to a rogue. I still play this toon live when I go back and play my box crew once a year or so.

/salute EQ! I'm 44 years old and have been gaming since I was 7 or 8. In a lifetime of gaming, I've loved a lot of games. Truly loved. But EverQuest is the one.

Rerolling that SK again today on p99 just to commemorate the day. Melyodas D'Illuria....Named after one of the heroes from one of the strategy games I played for years.

/salute P99! It's not said enough, but sincerest thanks to the folks who make this project happen. Thanks for indulging my nostalgia. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

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Good post! ...and I particularly like the evil turn with that story [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Scikala]

My first time in EQ was after Christmas at a friends house. My family didn't have a computer yet, so I made a human SK in Qeynos. This was after weeks of studying races/classes/gods on their webpage.

I also have to add...that every account name he tried to make got rejected, so he ended up slamming a bunch of random keys into the keyboard/enter and it took it. We had no idea how to log in after, and given the holiday customer service was closed. Was a very frustrating weekend.

I remember being blind at night and confused as fuck about everything going on.

[Swish]

My golden noob moment was at the West Freeport gates after installing, and having to ask a fellow player whether I should move around during combat (to dodge attacks etc) or to keep still [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Weekapaug]

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

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Good post! ...and I particularly like the evil turn with that story [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks, Swish.

While I'm reminiscing, I thought of some other nostalgia, speaking of evil..... lol

One day that first year a buddy of mine came to visit. Had been telling him all about this game EverQuest for months. Even though he's not a gamer, he wanted to check it out.

So I loaded it up, showed him how to make a character and then my GF and I ran out to do some errands for a couple of hours.

I was all excited to see how he liked the game and what he had gotten into. Get home and there sits my fat, bald, sweaty friend, James, playing a hottie female wood elf. Except he's not playing. He's still level 1, hasn't killed a thing, sitting on the ramp in G Fay cybering some random dude. Had been the whole time since we left.

Perv lol

[Weekapaug]

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

My first time in EQ was after Christmas at a friends house. My family didn't have a computer yet, so I made a human SK in Qeynos. This was after weeks of studying races/classes/gods on their webpage.

I also have to add...that every account name he tried to make got rejected, so he ended up slamming a bunch of random keys into the keyboard/enter and it took it. We had no idea how to log in after, and given the holiday customer service was closed. Was a very frustrating weekend.

I remember being blind at night and confused as fuck about everything going on.

I was super duper patriotic about Qeynos being my hometown in EQ. Still am, kind of. lol Felt like I earned it, or something. Always wished we could get full helms that covered your face like the Qeynos guards.

Yeah that night blindness was insane. Like, couldn't find the EF zone in BB....or around BB for that matter....without jacking the gamma up, but that washed out the whole game and where's the fun in that? Still couldn't see shit.

We were truly geniuses, weren't we? Rolling human hybrids back then. LOL

[Pringles]

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

My golden noob moment was at the West Freeport gates after installing, and having to ask a fellow player whether I should move around during combat (to dodge attacks etc) or to keep still [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I used to also juke left and right. I was convinced it helped me take less damage, until my buddy told me otherwise.

[Scikala]

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

I was super duper patriotic about Qeynos being my hometown in EQ. Still am, kind of. lol Felt like I earned it, or something. Always wished we could get full helms that covered your face like the Qeynos guards.

Yeah that night blindness was insane. Like, couldn't find the EF zone in BB....or around BB for that matter....without jacking the gamma up, but that washed out the whole game and where's the fun in that? Still couldn't see shit.

We were truly geniuses, weren't we? Rolling human hybrids back then. LOL

When my family finally got a Pentium 2 computer...(BIG STYLIN) I bought my own account and F'd around with other stuff since I had already been on his account. RoK came out and I made an Iksar...SK

Now that's true genius....especially since I got it to 60 before the hybrid penalty drop.

[Kika Maslyaka]

too many memories...

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[Whirled]

When did the Plague of Bertoxxulous start up in W Karana? Them beetles would just drop from the sky and people would run for their lives... ahh good times