Who is it? What have you done in RL to show your appreciation for this game and community? I'm curious. Tattoos, stickers, clothes, cosplay. anything - show us!
I have spent an inordinate and ridiculous amount of my real life time either playing Everquest or Forum quest for close to 18 years. In addition to what I would guess as around $3000 or so of my income to support this habit.
When I got out of the Navy I took a year off from work to do nothing but play EQ. When I was in the navy when I took vacation I used it to play EQ. One of my fondest memories is in plane of fear learning the spawn cycles. The wife and I took a 4 day weekend and never left plane of fear staying awake practically the entire time waiting on golems to spawn for epic 1.0's. I used to love going to the fan fares and the SOE block parties. I met my wife playing this game and have been happily married for 11 years, and now have 3 kids. Sadly we haven't been able to convince them to play everquest consistantly yet, but I have faith they will. We did have to leave the game for a while thou do to real life, kids, etc. However; we are back now and we always missed it when we were gone. The reason I love everquest is the money that one can save. When I do other things I spend money like it is water. When I play everquest; I don't spend money on anything else. Am I EQ's biggest fan? No. Do I love EQ? Yes I don't have a tattoo, if I had anything it would be a family portrat of my wife and kids. I would not have them if it wasn't for this game.
I think I'm well into the 5 digits on $ spent on EQ, I still have a bit of a chip on my shoulder re: not being able to participate in special events/LoN tournaments due to being a non US citizen. I'm already partway done construction on my child slave pi- er, happy fun time room, for my future progeny to play EQ in
The fake Facebook account I made to play poker on my phone uses a pic of my halfling druid. My phone plays the skelly laugh when my RL friend that plays a necro calls me. Um. That's all I got.