What are YOUR Favorite EverQuest Stories?

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  1. Roshen Brand Manager

    I'd love to hear YOUR favorite stories from Norrath!
    • Do you have an interesting story to tell from when you started in EverQuest?
    • What is the most interesting thing that has happened to you and your friends in game?
    • What is your EQ Story?
    We’ll be reading some of these stories during the Year of EverQuest stream at SOE Live! More information on this stream will be available soon.
  2. jeskola pheerie

    I started in Everquest in May 1999 as a Barbarian Warrior. A few days in, I dared to venture into Blackburrow. I seemed to be holding my own when I fell through a Trap Door in a hollowed-out tree. Upon landing, I was quickly torn apart by powerful, highly-aggressive Gnolls.

    I ventured all the way back there numerous times from Halas to try and retrieve my goods, only to be stopped each time by the hordes of Gnolls within.

    Finally, a good-natured soul by the name of Baelish took pity upon me. He informed me that he had found my corpse, and if I gave him consent, he could loot all the items from my corpse and bring them back to me in Everfrost.

    I was ready to start over and had nothing to lose, so I trusted this man, and sure enough, minutes later he was in Everfrost, handing me all my worldly possessions.
  3. Mardy Augur

    My friends got me into Everquest initially. We were having a LAN party and we all decided to play Everquest together (good 'ol days). That was when I created my first character, a dwarf warrior named Mardy. The 3 of them went to escort me to Kelethin, they said I really should see the tree city. I followed them, we dodged monsters and scary critters along the way. Finally when we reached Kelethin, I was in awe.

    They told me to follow them up the lift, as they were going to take me to the bank and such. As we ran along, I remembered hearing them say:

    Friend_01: Hey where's Mardy?
    Friend_02: I don't know he was following me a second ago.
    Friend_03: Um guys, I think he fell...
    (laughter throughout the house)

    There I was, poor lil dwarf warrior, laying dead on the ground. I fell because I was sightseeing and wasn't paying attention when running through the roped bridge. That was the first memory I had of Everquest, one that'll never forget :)
  4. Kanu New Member

    I know most players really won't get the full joke here, but hopefully enough are familiar with Bill Engvall to where a decent amount of people get it.

    Years ago, when my main was one of the relatively few wizards in our guild, we used to raid The temple of Veeshan a lot, and I was always asked to go port the late comers and ferry them across Sirens Grotto to the Western Wastes. Well, one time one of our Warriors logged on a little late and I went to port him. When we got to Western Wastes, he asked me to levitate him. Unfortunately, because we were late, I neglected to refresh my own Levitation. Which, of course, ran out while we were crossing over one of the canyons. So my guildie looks on his screen and sees that I'm at 0 health (or maybe he actually saw my then-two dimensional corpse, I'm not sure) and he asks "Did you fall?"
    And I replied "Nope, apparently I've been killing here so often that I'm KoS to the ground. Here's your sign!"
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  5. Sharrale New Member

    My first character was a wood elf druidess. After falling off the swinging bridges in Kelethin way too many times, I made my son create a bard to locate all my bodies. He then had to show me how to "drive" my character around so I wouldn't fall.:oops: My son then yelled "Don't Swerve!" and I promptly fell again.

    So, tired of falling, I made a wood elf rangerette and went exploring. At the tender age of 4, she got lost and found her way into Lesser Faydark. Oh my! Many deaths later I begged for help in getting my first corpse and thus my gear back. A very nice lvl 50 named Darkminds asked why I was dead in Lesser Fay and laughed when I said I was new and got lost. With the help of his wife, a cleric, they were able to get all more corpses. That was shortly after Kunark came out. :p

    Yet another time, by now my druidess was about lvl 45 or so, we were camping the King in Sol A and she would port out, then gate back. One time I forgot to change my bind point and got caught in a death loop. I have no idea how many corpses littered Sol A as I tried to make it out of there alive but I remember losing about 10 levels before the people I was with were able to compose themselves enough to tell the newbie to close her game down. When I logged back in, I was able to port out quickly and a nice cleric rezzed as many corpses of me as he could find, there were quite a few people dragging corpses from all over the zone to the priest. :)
  6. Dorain New Member

    My friend and enjoyed playing FPS games like Duke Nukem 3D and whatnot, and back in the day we would use a Null modem cable to connect to one another. So when I got into EQ I had brought my computer over to his house like I normally did for network games. He had two phone lines, so we were both able to get onto EQ. Anyway I had a Erudite Wizard, and my friend made a Human Wizard from Qeynos, so we grouped up together and started doing quests in the Qeynos hills, I remember him seeing his first bear, and in the hills, bears ate you, at the time we did not know this. So he had aggro'd the bear, and it was red to us, so I told him to run into that house over there and we can close the door, maybe it would just wander away at that time, however this house we ran into was where there were a couple of vendors and players were inside.

    To our shagrin, the bear clipped through the wall, aggro'd onto many of the players buying/selling/afk. We ran out of the house, seeing only a bear claw every now and then and people yelling about someone training a bear into that place. At the time we just laughed, didn't mean to train the bear, just didn't know NPCs could just go through walls if you had aggro on them.
  7. Eslake New Member

    I was still with Ultima Online while EverQuest was in Beta, but as the days passed, became more and more interested.

    The stores around our area were slow to get new games, so I ended up waiting another week after release - but I found out when the game would hit the shelf, and left for work two hours early that day.

    Work... didn't happen that night, but the manual was read cover-to-cover so many times I could almost quote it.

    When I arrived home, I decided I could wait to eat, or use the restroom, or Breath, until I had started the game installing.

    With the patch and a server downtime, I didn't actually get to play until the next day.

    Coming from UO, I had a bias toward Archers - so my first character was a Wood Elf Ranger.
    I made all of the choices, played with features, and finally, logged him in... and was dead in about 5 seconds.
    Wood Elves at that time, were just as blind at night as Humans, and it was the middle of the night.

    I decided to try another place to see if it was easier to see, and created Another Ranger, Half Elf, and arrived at Surefall.
    I CAN SEE!

    The little square window on the game screen was filled with amazing things! Trees, water - with Fish in it - NPCs shooting arrows at a butte, and bears roaming around back behind it all.

    I was content to explore the open space there and the building for a good fifteen minutes, then decided it was time to see the World, so I found the tunnel leading out, and headed in.

    But again, thanks to being utterly blind in the dark, I couldn't see which way I was going in the tunnel, and there was a point where it turned back on itself, so I kept ending up back in Surefall.

    Eventually, I did make it out... and the world was there, before my eyes, in stunning glory... as I was slaughtered in a single hit by a 20' tall skeleton.

    I seems there was a GM event going on.

    After a couple of weeks, I had sort of "settled" into playing my Gnome character - and had reached the point that almost nothing in Steamfont (other than the mines) was any kind of threat.
    I had saved up over a platinium, and was planning to venture out into the next area - when I saw something strange.

    There was a Blue lady with a skeleton killing the guards.
    I hadn't even realized the guards could Be killed... and here she was letting a Pet do it for her - with a significant bit of help from her of course, but the pet was the one being pounded on for it.

    She explained what a Necromancer was, and roughly how she had already reached such a high level (30something) and allowed me to loot the weapons to sell. I was Rich in minutes!

    But I knew what I wanted to be.. and by the end of the day, I was a Dark Elf Necromancer, finished Nektulos, ventured into Westfall, braved my way across Kith, and bandaged my way into the favor of the Halflings..

    At that point, the game opened up for me. I could go anywhere, do anything, and my pet would take the fall if things turned bad.

    The game holds a place in my memories that it will never lose.. regardless of my displeasure with SOE - and some of the friends I met in the game those years ago, are still in touch today.

    I have tried returning several times in recent years, but I just can't find the game that was.
    It is easier to compare some games completely Unrelated to Sony to the EverQuest I remember, than it is to compare it to the EverQuest that is today.
    Some of the Places are still laid out the same, some of the NPCs have the same names, and there are a few Quests that have not changed much.
    But everything else has been drastically, Fundamentally transformed.

    I suppose it is necessary to draw new players into the game, but for me.. it has lost something in the transition.
  8. Nacht New Member

    When I was like lvl 20 or 30 as an SK, some people invited me to come to old school cazic thule while they killed everything, maybe Id get a drop. It was three of them and it was my first time there, it was scary! We went all the way down to a room with a water globe which we had to swim down through. Suddenly, the warrior started fighting a lot of mobs, and I noticed his health was going down fast?

    "Can he tank all that?" I asked the cleric, amazed at how much he must have been able to tank, but was quickly and rudely awakened from my stupor from the cleric who responded with one word;

    "Nope!"

    Just then, the warrior went down, and all the mobs started killing the cleric, and I freakin booked it to the exit that I barely remembered! I just remember this loooooooong hall way that had doors along the way for mobs to agro through and get me. I ran for what seemed like hours down that hallway, turning only for a brief moment at the turn I remembered went towards the exit, to look back and see if there was anything chasing me.

    I gasped in horror at a hallway full of lvl 50 lizards chasing after me.

    After a minor heart attack I turned and ran out into the courtyard just before the hallway to the exit. Escape, just within sight! But first I had to run through a bunch of respawns and through the door. I hopped as fast as I could to the first door and through it, only to see messages of agro! I jump and I jump and am one jump from the zone when suddenly... Stunned!

    Oh god, I felt that horrible crunching sound of a train hitting me in the back, in my soul. Please gods, dont let me die inches from the zone! Crunch! CRUNCH!!

    And I was free of the stun, leaping into the zone line for the save! That had to be the most epic and heartpounding moment in my several years of playing EQ.
  9. Dhdcf New Member

    One time...at band camp...

    Ok, two times. I have two very strong memories of two events that took place 14-15 years ago on Emarr, where I still reside today as Soulbane. Back in the day (1999) my wife and I played a Clr/War combo - Bindress/Darkbindress. We were hunting Aviaks in, um, oh boy, forget zone name - South Karana? Anyway, I wanted to buy a staff from someone, I *think* it was a cracked staff? Worth a whopping 4PP lol. The guy comes to the zone and we 'make the trade'...or so I thought. I coughed up my 4 PP but didn't get the staff in return! I then proceed to tell the zone that I was just ripped off and the ENTIRE zone starts to go off on this guy. Everyone is calling him out and telling me to petition; this was serious stuff! And so I did. Five minutes later (yes, only 5), a Guide appears in the zone (physically - this was the norm back then). The zone is telling him how we got ripped off and he gives me tell asking what happen. I lay it all out and he immediately replies with "The staff is in your bag, you must have overlooked it". Oh boy...it was indeed. I felt awful and fessed up to the zone and to the poor innocent soul who took a bashing, and all for a 4 PP staff. I wish I knew who that person was or if they were still around - I'd apologize again because he took a good verbal beating.

    Uno mas...I was running through Feerott along one of the walls and I noticed this glowing purple cone laying on the ground. I stopped and picked it up and couldn't believe my eyes - it was a Manastone! This was a PRE-NERF Manastone and hands-down the most powerful item in the game - so powerful in fact that it was nerfed and sadly just two weeks after I found it (it could no longer be used in Hate or Fear). I cannot explain the joy I felt when I found it...I literally fell out of my chair and was yelling for Darkbindress to "get in here"! Lots of questions started to swirl through my mind: Did someone DROP this?? NO way someone could drop a Manastone! Did someone place it on the ground in a spot they thought was safe enough so that they can load another one of their toons to pick it up? (boxing was unheard of then and that's how you made "safe" trades to your other toons) Did a GM/Guide leave it there? It was rumored they use to do that - drop random items on the ground. It was a crazy, blood rushing, euphoric moment - one I'll never forget. The Manastone was THE item of items - the SUPREME of the supreme. An item that could be considered one of the all time most powerful items. I still have the Manastone. Useless? Yes. Priceless? Yes!

    There ya have it.

    Peace and hair grease.

    SB
  10. crash n'burn Journeyman

    One of my best memories of eq was back in 2000. My friend from work and me used to play diablo on battlenet. We had finished it with one of our other friends and after that I was playing I think Civ 2. I hadn't talked to him in a while as we were working on different projects at work. We ended up working together again and he started telling me about eq. It sounded great so I went and bought it. Installed it that night and called him. He asked what my character's name was and what I chose and what city I was in. I had chose a high elf wizard and was in Felwithe. He told me he would be right there. He was a half elf ranger lvl 40 I think. He found me in Gfay outside the city killing the little critters out there. I was with other low levels in our tunics with daggers. He came up and /waved at me and I remember being so impressed with how his character looked with armor and 2 swords. He gave me I think 5 plat and I thought wow I'm rich lol. He then invited me to his guild and told me to use the money for spells and a robe.
    On a side note I kinda feel bad for new ppl starting out because they do the tutorial and get dumped in cresent reach. They will never experience starting in their true race home cities like we did. Starting out in Felwithe the only other race I saw was half elfs. Didn't even see any dwarfs even though they were in the next zone over. Also race ment a lot more back then for traveling to other cities. Anyways back to my tale.
    The days that followed I kept killing the little critters and started leveling and buying new spells. In guild chat ppl were talking about all these other zones and I decieded I wanted to see some of these other places. I headed over towards butcherblock conning everything along the way. Zoned over and carefully made my way thru BB conning everything and keeping my distance. I finally made it to the docks and got on a boat. I thought that was the coolest thing that I was on a boat heading to the unknown. I arrived in Freeport and started exploring this new city. In the chat box I saw all this /ooc of with things to sell and others with things they were looking to buy. I think it was called the Jade Dragon where this took place on my server Mithanial Marr. Of course all the stuff they were selling was out of my price range so I kept exploring and finally made it to the city gate. Outside I saw all the low lvls like me killing the little stuff but in the distance I saw trees and decieded I'd head there and check it out. I ran over and zoned into commonlands. I started exploring this new zone and saw ppl in /ooc lfm 1 spot orc 1. I had no idea what they were talking about but I was taking this all in. Then I started getting hit I spun around and this big beetle thing was eating me. I started to run but I in a second I was dead.
    I respawned back in Felwith naked. I thought oh no my corpse is so far away crap I gonna loose everything. At that time iirc I think we had 30 min. to get your corpse and loot or you would loose everything. I was like level 5 or 6 I think. Immediately I took off running Zoned into BB just running thru the zone not conning anything. All that was on my mind was getting to my corpse. Then bam I run right into one of them mobs that wandered around crossroads and splat. Spawned back in Felwithe and thought maybe I should ask in /gu for help. I was new and didn't want bother them with something stupid that I got myself into, so I made my 2nd attempt. Running thru BB again made it past crossroads and heading to the docks and dead again. Back in felwithe I looked and my time was running out finally I had no choice I had to ask for help. Sheepishly I asked in /gu for help getting my corpse. I told them what happened and although they all get a laugh out of it to my surprise offers to help started filling my guild chat. I had like 5 min on my corpse and group of guildies came. they invited me to their group and the druid ported us to (think was west commonlands?) anyways they sow and invis'd and we went and found my corpse. I was so glad for the help and was able to get all my gear back. Which of course was crap but to me was important. My guildies knew this too but they understood from when they were newbs starting out.:)
  11. Codeman New Member

    Started playing EQ just before Velious came out. A friend had been playing before me and turned me onto the game. My friend really wanted to play PvP so we started characters on Zek. He started a Dark Elf Warrior and I started a High Elf Cleric. After lots of deaths under my belt I had finally felt good about my skills as a Cleric.
    One day I logged on and my friend wanted to level at this new place he discovered. So we bought invis potions and got SOWs and he took me to the Rygorr Fort in Velious. Told me we had to invis and run to get to the zone inside the fort. I cast my invis potion and start following him. 5 seconds later my invis starts fading and i try to hurry to the zone but get crushed by the train of Rygorrs hitting me in the back. Same thing happened when I got back to try again. Third time I finally make it. Friend teased me all the time saying my character was cursed when it came to using invisibility.
    Now that we finally arrived at Crystal Caverns(haven't been there in ages so hope I remember the zone name correctly) we proceed to start killing spiders working our way further in. Everything is going fine until 2 wandering add gets on us. I use most of my mana keeping my friend alive with heals. Then 2 more respawn and agro me while I'm trying to med. So I use my trusty root necklace and continue to root mobs then med.I had to quickly mem a smaller heal and proceeded to use it to keep the warrior alive. I was out of mana and couldn't afford to med long enough to use my big heal. Warrior went down and was bleeding to death 4 times in the fight and i always managed to get a heal in to save him. Towards the end of the fight I was finally able to med long enough to get off a big heal and that changed the whole fight in our favor.
    Still to this day I don't know how we managed to survive that fight but we did. It was my first exciting fight that had me on the edge of my seat the whole time and when it was over I felt like Superman. Lol. Still to this day whenever I talk to that old friend that battle still comes up in our conversations. :)
  12. Toac New Member

    My favorite story is when I logged out in the morning to go to work and came home and managed to log back in with no problems..... Oh, wait.... that was a dream!! Never mind! :mad:
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  13. zer0h0ur0 New Member

    My second EQ character was a human enchanter circa 2001. Having labored long and hard to get her to 14 seasons (I was a RPer back then on the old Karana server) I finally was able to buy the spell Illusion:Troll. As we know trolls have increased regen, so being very excited, I memed the spell into ye old spell book and loaded it up and cast in front of my Qeynos enchanter guild master. Of course the next thing I see, is 'Loading, please wait' and I'm of course dead and at my bind point in Highpass. Was an easy corpse run but then I had to get my level back.
    Another thing I have fond memories of from back then was a GM event called a Naked Gnome Run. We made a level 1 gnome any class and handed in the book to the Priest of Discord so we'd all be PKers (and couldn't be buffed except by another PKer, so no SOW). We then ran from Ak'Anon to Halas (pre-SoL so no spires). The deaths were glorious and finally one of us eventually made it to Halas. I forget what the winner received but we all got a stack of Fizzlepop and ale. Still brings a smile when I think about it.
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  14. Grove Augur

    Kelethin, July 1999

    Enter Pinetree, Bard

    Not knowing about page down to look down, before long Pinetree misjudged where the rope bridge was and fell to his death. Believing that the respawned character was a lesser weakened version of himself, and unable to find the corpse, the creator deleted Pinetree. Being unable to choose the same name the creator spawned Aspentree, Bard.



    Enter Paloverde, Druid

    Having come from the single player games of Wizardry, Paloverde carefully explored many/all of the buildings in the tree town expecting to find monsters. Food and water supply grew increasingly low.There were no monsters. Seeing a pattern, Paloverde descended the elevator to enter the nearby forest. There were monsters, there were guards for protection. Ah the security! But, oh, now the problem. DARKNESS! A little way into the trees and he could no longer see the guards, and the monsters were still there. Use sense heading. “You think you are headed North.” But the creator is thinking maybe not. Check that cloth map that was included in the initial Everquest box. Try to execute a path back to the guards but end in the vicinity of Crushbone. This is not where I want to be! Keep using the map and sense heading and find that since the printing of that map and the execution of the game, there were changes.THE MAP IS WRONG! Moving an inch at a time through the darkness, scared, bumping into some trees, Paloverde eventually made his way back to guards and safety.
  15. OldBarbarianWoman New Member

    I spent many, many years playing PS and Nintendo RPGs and just could not get into an online RPG right away. I thought the game was stupid when I first saw my roommate playing it. And I would have to purchase a game card to play? That was a killer from the start. About three months after the game had launched, I found myself purchasing a game card.
    I finally buckled and made my first toon, a Barbarian Shaman. I wanted a healing/melee class and none of the other races attracted me for the shaman class. I spent the next year exploring around Antonica, but mostly in Halas, as I was blind as a bat and could barely make it through that tunnel to BB until The Tribunal blessed me with serpent sight. After I'd made it to Qeynos, I found out what run-by buffing was and as a shaman I was happy to continue the duty the older I got. BP = Before Portals, I know you young people cannot remember that far back, players had to run across Antonica and it was nerve wracking as heck. Especially through Kith at night. But it was the only way to explore Norrath. I, like many, went on many a many of corpse retrievals and have lost all my gear a couple of times as a result. I remember thinking, 'Oooh, a hole' just before I jumped over the ledge and found myself 'under Norrath.'
    After a while, I tried out several other classes, but Shaman was my true calling.
    I agree that the gameplay has changed drastically. The addition of the Heroic Toons changed the game into being much much less challenging. Part of the journey as a high level toon is the experience, which is what many of the new 85 characters do not have. It's like letting a Level 5 newb loose on an experienced raid. In my opinion, Lv 60 would have been just as good. Players could hit the planes running through experience. Sony, while you are granting game wishes for whiney players, it would be nice for veterans over ten years to get a nice free experience potion once a quarter or something. Or when new expansions come out, we could pick a new mount per account.
  16. Stephen Journeyman

    My EQ experience started one morning when my copy of PC Gamer arrived on my doorstep.

    I opened the magazine and a strange cardboard sleeve fell out, on it was a sexy looking drawing of a woman and the words Everquest printed on it. Reading the sleeve, it was a free 30 day taster of a MMORPG ( in those days i had no idea what that was ), so i installed it and used the code on the back, i was in.

    I was amazed by the game, graphics and the way you could interact with other players around the world.
    I played EQ for approx. 9 years, buying all expansions and loving it. I left EQ in 2009 and tried another MMORPG ( i wont name it ) but found it lacking in depth and longevity.

    Then last year i stumbled on EQ again, saw it was FTP and thought i'd try it again.......BIG MISTAKE.

    I rapidly got the EQ monkey on my back, went gold and havent regretted it since.

    In short, my EQ experience is.......many games try to copy EQ, but only fail......EQ is original and the best out there
  17. Ardyth New Member

    I was a magician on Povar named Ardyth, here is my tale of trying to get the Journeyman's Boots.

    So there I was in the Ocean of Tears, heard about the Journeyman's Boots and what I needed to do to spawn the Ancient Cyclops. So, I proceeded to kill everything in the area that would get him to spawn first hour nothing, second hour nothing and by the fourteenth hour I see him as I head to him, I see another player out of the corner of my eye, it was a bard(don't remember his name it has been roughly ten plus years) I see him kill the Ancient Cyclops. At this point I was furiously upset, because he didn't do a camp check and I was there for over fourteen hours straight.

    So what did I do? What any player would have done, I sent him a tell and gave him a piece of my mind for about twenty minutes and he decided to put me on ignore and I went back to killing place holders to get him to spawn again.

    A few minutes later I could a tell from a game master asking if I have time to talk to him/her about a problem a player had with me, unsure what it was about, I said sure. The game master showed me the things I said to the player and asked why I said those things to the person and I told him/her I was upset and I was there for over fourteen hours when I got the Ancient Cyclops to spawn and he killed him without asking for a camp check, the game master told me I was wrong and as soon as he/she said this I got upset once more and decided to use language that is not suitable in a normal conversation, he/she proceeded to tell me to calm down, use different language and that this point I was so angry I didn't care any more, so the game master had enough and told me to stop or I would be suspended from the game for a week and after that comment I used some more choice words and a week later I was killing place holders again to get the Ancient Cyclops to spawn.

    To this day I talk about to all my old EQ buddies about and we get a good laugh about it and also I never trusted a bard again.
  18. Jordis Augur

    My first characters were Barbarians on Morrell Thule. My main was a shaman but my favorite EQ story was from the time I was playing a Barbarian rogue alt. They were both members of Avatar Elite which held its guild meetings in Halas. This was, of course, long before the guild lobby or even PoK appeared.

    Very few people knew who played the rogue, most knew my main and my enchanter so one day I logged the rogue in during a meeting to do a little role playing in the Halas Bank. I had set up a bunch of emotes that indicated that my rogue was pickpocketing various amounts from a target. Freydis was wandering about the bank pickpocketing the banker, the merchant, the bard looking for messengers, and players. Some of the brand new rogues wanted to know what level you had to be to pickpocket the merchant. Freydis told them that it wasn't the level, it was how good you were. So five or six lower level rogues began to pickpocket the various NPCs standing around in the bank, with predictable results.

    There were a few new people in the guild so Freydis wandered up to a new guild Paladin and "pickpocketed" a couple of plat from him. She then apologized saying that she didn't know that he was now a member of the guild, so here was his plat back, and gave him a couple of plat. One of the other players in the bank saw this exchange and said that he wanted his five plat back. Freydis grinned evilly at him and told him she was under no obligation to return plat to non-guild members. So the guy started messaging everyone with an AE tag asking them to tell me to give his plat back. One of them asked flat out if he had actually had the five plat to start with. He didn't remember, but at the time it was probably a pretty good bet that he hadn't since this was during the period where you flat out started with nothing. The guy kept getting madder and madder as the various players in the bank started laughing at him.

    So he threatened to petition Freydis. She told him to go ahead, and demonstrated again for a couple of young rogues how to pickpocket the banker. Surprisingly, a very few minutes later a GM showed up in the bank. The guy made a big deal about making his complaints in say instead of tells to the GM. That just increased the jokes and laughter in the bank.. The GM sent Freydis a tell and asked what was going on. She explained that she was roleplaying and pickpocketing non-guild members and demonstrated.

    The GM said that the petition had been so wild that he just had to come see what the guy was talking about.. He turned around a bit taking in the increasing piles of naked rogue corpses as newbie rogues continued to try and actually pickpocket the banker (who of course had deep pockets where you could get more plat), the merchant and other npcs; people arguing over the pickpocketing and trying to explain "emotes" to people. He sent a line of LOLs and the suggestion that Freydis dial back the role-playing a bit, and gave her four or five very nice gemstones for what he said was the funniest petition he'd ever had to deal with. Freydis thanked him in tell, then /em sighs., and handed the guy that had complained five plat and said, "Okay, here's your plat back, but get the hell out of Halas. Next time there might not be a GM to recover it for you." The guy saluted the GM and took off running.
  19. Tweelis Augur

    The SoW story

    So there I was.....minding my own business in The Overthere, when all of a sudden I see the message: "d00d sow plz".

    Of course, my natural instinct was not to answer, since I thought the clueless newb (hereafter referred to politely as "the petitioner") must have been poorly informed at best.

    Boy was I ever wrong.

    I switch out of 1st person into an external camera, and what did my wandering eyes behold? Only myself and the petitioner.

    So I says to myself...."Self? You need to edumacate this fella!"

    (Keep in mind what the overall setting looked like: There I was, in skeleton form, carrying a scythe, FLOATING IN MIDAIR IN A MEDITATING POSITION, with a LARGE dark-brown skeleton named "Gibober" standing behind me. Ummm....No, skippy, I'm not a druid or a shaman.)

    I say "Wish I could, bro, but I don't have SoW. I'm a Necromancer."

    The Petitioner says, "$#*&@#$ ****, sow me already! it's for a cr"

    Feeling as if my feathers had been ruffled a bit, I do a "/who all " (um..pardon..I meant "/who all petitioner")

    This is where I discovered the "/who all" bug. Certainly it must have been a bug, right? There's NO WAY IN CREATION the dumbas...err...petitioner could have been a level 31 Dark Elf Wizard, right???? RIGHT????? /em begins to cry like a little girl.

    Well, needless to say, I couldn't have been any more shocked than if my pet began dancing an Irish Jig. I quickly begin the arduous task of maintaining my composure, while deciding how best to deal with this tricky situation.

    I say, "Necromancer's can't cast SoW".

    Petitioner says, "Bull@#$%! you cast a spell while you were running and you sped up! i couldn't catch you until you sat down! if you're not going to sow me just say so you dont have to be a **** about it a$$hole"

    Yes I know....he didn't use any punctuation in that last sentence.

    I say, "I have JBoots."

    He says, "what are they"

    Before I have a chance to pick my chin up off the floor....

    Petitioner asks, "can you buff my hps my hp sux"

    I say, "I can't buff you, dude. I'm a necromancer. I only have one buff that you would probably want."

    He says, "yeah the one you won't give me ****"

    Ok. Time to have fun with the hopelessly clueless.

    I say, "Why do you need a sow?"

    He says, "i need to get to burned woods to hunt. sumbody said its perfect for my level"

    Yep. That's what he said......"burned woods".

    I say, "man are you ever in the wrong place."

    He says, "?"

    Apparently he found the "question mark" key conveniently located nearby other various and sundry communication facilitators.

    I didn't answer him.

    He repeats, "??"

    Found it twice...good for him.

    He repeats, "???"

    Having an IQ greater than plantlife, I sensed a pattern forming.

    I say, "You are NO WHERE near Burned Woods."

    He says, "my friend told me it was in kunark"

    I say, "Yeah, the operative word there is 'WAS'. There was a major patch a couple of months ago after a bunch of complaints were filed about 'static content'."

    He says, "?"

    I say, "!"

    He says, "?"

    I say, ","

    He says, "***"

    I say, "no, already have some."

    He says, "????"

    I don't respond.

    He says, "so where the @#$% is burned woods"

    He lost the question mark button again. Probably popped off when he was sniffing his feet.

    I say, "Well, THIS week it's south of Freeport. It changes with every patch, since they began randomizing zone locations."

    My guild is hysterical at this point. And I haven't even told them the ENTIRE story yet. Just snippets.

    He says, "@#$% i just got off the boat"

    I say, "You don't need the boat."

    He says "why"

    I say, "You're a wizard!"

    He says, "how you know that"

    I say, "I did a /wh...nevermind....the important thing is you have teleportation spells."

    He says, "oh yeah the green ones"

    I nod.

    I say, "Yep. The 'green ones'. Pretty nice how you have them grouped by color."

    He says, "thx"

    I say, "How'd you think about doing it that way?"

    He says, "they were all @#$%## up when i got this char"

    I say, "Sit down and mem the spell 'Fay Gate'."

    He says, "why"

    Question mark key is on the ground in front of your chair, guy. Mixed in with your collection of boogers.

    I say, "It's going to put you within spitting distance of Burned Woods."

    He says, "how do you know"

    I say, "All patch messages come with a zone connection map."

    He says, "oh"

    I say, "Ok. You have it memmed now?"

    He had just stood up after what I assumed was meditating/looking at his spell book.

    He says, "yeah"

    I say, "Ok. Cast the spell and let me know when you get there."

    Dumba...errr....Petitioner begins to cast a spell.

    A LONG time goes by.....ok, maybe 5 minutes
    I still haven't heard from him.

    Getting curious:

    I tell petitioner, "Are you there yet?"

    No reply. No reply at all. [Yes, I'm a Genesis fan... ]

    Obviously he's there, or my tell wouldn't have gone through.

    I tell petitioner, "Hit the 'r' key to reply to me."

    He replies, "i'm here now where do i go."

    Right idea....wrong punctuation mark. Oh well. "C" for effort.

    I tell petitioner, "Ok, do you see a hotkey on the screen that says 'Sense Heading'?"

    He replies, "no"

    I reply, "Hit the arrow buttons one by one until you see one."

    It was a guess, but an educated one.

    He replies, "found it"

    I reply, "Click on it."

    He replies, "north"

    I reply, "Ok, you need to head east along the path. Keep going until the path turns north. When it forks to the right, take the right fork."

    He replies, "ok"

    Who knows, maybe the guy who sold his account on Ebay worked his Felwithe faction up.

    He replies, "sumbody told me i shouldnt be here cause i'm a dark elf"

    I reply, "They were roleplaying."

    He replies, "oh hehe @#$%@#$ morons ;P"

    Priceless. Utterly priceless, I tell you.

    I reply, "Where are you?"

    He replies, "i see something now. looks like a castle"

    I reply, "Run into the castle as fast as you can. The guards might give you some trouble, just keep running."

    Yeah...damned conscience started kicking in.

    A fairly long period of time passes. Not sure how long, but longer than I was expecting.

    I tell petitioner, "What happened?"

    As if I didn't know....

    He replies, "my spells are gone!"

    I reply, "What happened?"

    He replies, "i died why"

    I reply, "Oh man! Did I tell you to run east or west?"

    He replies, "east ***???"

    I reply, "Yikes. My bad. You should have run west."

    He replies, "?"

    I reply, "So where are you now?"

    He replies, "how can i tell"

    I reply, "Look right after you see 'Loading please wait'. It should tell you 'You have entered [zone]'."

    He replies "it doesnt say [zone] there."

    After smacking my head against my monitor....

    I reply, "What does it say in place of [zone]?".

    Get this....

    He replies, "Burning Woods"

    I nearly fell out of my chair! I couldn't have PLANNED it that way!

    He replies, "is that the same as burned woods"

    I reply, "No, but you're close. Start running south so you can get your corpse back."

    He replies, "i have to get my corpse back?????"

    /ignore petitioner


    Moral of the story: EBay...Just Say No!

    Out of sheer curiosity, I took him off ignore later to find out what happened.

    I tell petitioner, "How's it going?"

    He replies, "***? where you been"

    I reply, "been afk, sorry."

    He replies, "got my corpse back. some dude rezzed me."

    My conscience somewhat eased...

    I reply, "Really? Cool! Where are you now?"

    He replies, "iceclad ocean"

    I scratch my head a few times.

    I reply, "Why Velious?"

    He replies, "the guy that rezzed me told me burned woods was in western wastes this week"

    I don't recall exactly how long it took me to stop laughing. I stopped breathing shortly before my dog dialed 911.

    He replied, "@#$%&* wouldnt sow me either. what is that sh#$ gold?"

    That's what finally killed me. I'm writing this from the afterlife.

    Mujahid Mukhtaar
    Questmaster of the Enchanted Ci




















    Here's the other half told by the cleric in GFay.

    Here comes some idiot Dark Elf running past me, running straight down the road that is going to lead him to Felwithe. I scratch my head, and being the nosey sort of Dwarf that I am...I send him a tell.

    I tell the DE, "Wait"

    DE tells me, "?"

    I sigh into my ale as I take another longt draught off of it before
    running up to him and saying, "Ye really don't wanna go messin around over there with them High Elves' They look like pansies, but they aint."

    The DE stands there with a vacant look on his face for a few minutes before just running away. Do a /who on the DE and find out he's 31st level. Ok, so maybe he knows what he's doing. I've seen Ogres in North Freeport, after all. I go back to drinking my ale.

    Out of curiosity, I send him another tell a few minutes later.

    I tell the DE, "Not gettin' into any trouble over there are ye?"

    DE tells me, "**** !@#$% roleplayer"

    I sigh into my ale again, finishing it off. Ah, tis the season of the
    twit. I stand up and head towards Felwithe to resupply my ale.

    Just as I get to the gates of the ugliest city on Norrath, what do I
    find but a dead dark elf and a pair of guards snickering and cleaning their weapons. Now this is priceless.

    I do a /who on the poor soul and see he is in Burning Woods. Being the sucker that I am, I feel compelled to rez the twit...after all, I am a !@#$% roleplayer and I roleplay a !@#$% cleric...albeit a !@#$% grumpy one.

    I sit down to mem Reviviscene and while I am waiting for it to refresh I send the DE a tell.

    I tell the DE, "Would ye like a rez?"

    DE tells me, "no i want a !@#$% sow dumbas i have to run south to get my corpse back so dont be a **** and just sow me plz"

    I look around for an ale but unfortunatly Brell hates me at this moment in time, so I simply reply. "If I rez ya, ye wont need to run south to yer body. You will appear at yer body. I am not standing near you, I am standing near yer corpse."

    DE tells me, "d00d rez plz"

    As I sigh I look at my Holy Symbol of Brell and sigh "I'm gonna get a stout named after me right?" and I tell the DE "Consent me so I can rez ya" but I get no reply. No reply at all. So I say it again "Consent me so I can rez ya"

    DE tells me, "ok you can rez me"

    I sit down again at this point. I have no ale and this is gonna take awhile. I tell the DE, "Type /consent and my name" Being a smart dwarf I tell the DE, "/consent Cleric_01" and say again "Just like that" before he can make my head hurt more.

    Sure enough, I recieve consent to drag his corpse. So I stand up and get ready to drag the corpse when suddenly I am denied permission to drag his corpse. I begin to think like him and I think "***?" So I tell the DE, "No...just type it once. One more time. That's it. Dont type it again" thinking that as soon as I get this over with, I can go buy more ale and my head will stop hurting.

    I recieve consent and I quickly drag it towards the zone since this is the direction the guy was going anyway. I get the body by the zone and cast Rez on it, comforted by the fact that I am one heal away from being done with this guy.

    The naked DE appears in front of me and I stand up to cast my final spell of this exchange when he says to me "your that !@#%% roleplayer" and then a moment later, almost as an afterthought "thx"

    Compelled at this point, I ask "Why were you running into Felwithe when you are KoS?"

    DE says, "I was going to burned woods"

    I say, "Burning Woods?"

    DE says, "no i go there when i die i want to hunt burned woods"

    I say, "Who told you to go hunting in Burned Woods, inside Felwithe?"

    DE says, "some **** who wouldnt sow me" and then "will you sow me plz, its for a CR"

    I stand there drooling on myself for a moment, trying to catch up. I havent had an ale in a good 20 minutes at this point, so I am starting to see spots.

    DE says, "dont be a **** just sow me before they move the zone again"

    I stare at the lad and ask "Move Burned Woods? Again?"

    DE says, "yea"

    I finally snap and say, "They aren't going to move it again. Once they moved it to Western Wastes, with all the snow, it stopped burning."

    DE says, "i saw a burning tree"

    I say, "Exactly my point. Now if they would only move Burning Woods there it would stop too and people wouldn't go there when they die."

    DE says, "can you sow me, its for CR"

    I say, "sow doesnt work in IC until you get past EW and then it will work for CR's only until you get to WW, then ask the first person you see for sow there." I add as an afterthought "Sometimes they look like flying blue things but they can sow"

    DE says, "***???"

    I say, "Allow me to use smaller words. You do not need a sow yet. Do what I say and you'll get there right away." and then "Sit down and mem the spell Bind Affinity"

    DE is silent for a bit and finally says "its red" as he is standing up

    I say, "I am glad they covered Colors this week. Now target yourself and cast this spell. " He just stands there for a minute, so I add "it will r0ck" and he begins to cast the spell, binding himself behind the guards at Felwithe. I feel somewhat better already, maybe I dont need ale.

    DE says, "it said bound" and begins to giggle

    I say, "Now sit down and mem the spell Iceclad Gate. This will r0ck even more."

    DE says, "this one is green"

    I say, "You're **** good at those colors man"

    DE says, "thx"

    When the DE stands up I say "This is going to take you to Iceclad Ocean. It's an ocean so that's why they moved Burned Woods there....to put it out."

    DE says, "what about sow"

    I say, "Remember that sow wont work until you are on a CR in WW. In fact you actually run faster in snow if you set the RUN button to WALK. Do that now."

    DE says, "ok"

    I say, "Now cast Iceclad Gate....the Green one. Remember to run straight out of where you appear and dont stop swimming until you hit Burned Woods."

    DE begins to cast a spell and I zone in to get my ale....remembering that the Ignore list cures most headaches that ale cant and feeling somewhat better about going back to Sebilis.


    Part 3 is a little difficult to find, but I came across it a few months ago, I can't remember exactly where.

    Part 3:
    Re: d00d sow plz (it gets better)
    So.. There I am.. Sitting on Iceclad bridge enjoying the view and healing travelers as they pass by.
    Out of no where pops up this little Dark elf.
    DE: HEY can you guide me to WW Duuudee
    Being the generous sort I actually consider this.. I do a /who on De and to my surprise he's level 31!. WW is no place for a 31, heck its not even a place for a 51.. I sigh.
    I tell De: You really shouldn't be out here at 31. Why do you want to go to WW?
    DE: I need to go hunt there but i can't get sowed till I get to EW.
    I scratch my head at this since I am the nice shamenly type.
    I say: Ok. zone through I'll sow you on the other side.
    *zoning. please wait*
    I caste sow upon the totally hopeless DE and being the nice shamen I am I tell him: You really should invis yourself before you go running across EW. Something out there will kill you.
    DE: Wft is invis????
    I say: In your spell book, looks like an eye ball.
    DE: Oh...
    I Sow myself in the mean time, caste see invis and invis up so i can lead him to ww.
    DE: HEY!!! WHere did you go *((&*(&(&. Thought you were taking me to WW!!!
    *deep sigh*
    Caste See invis on DE. Caste invis on DE. Say : Follow...
    DE: HEY.. you stupid (&(*&(&(&* where did you go..
    *run back and fetch dumb DE*
    Say: OK. type /Follow this way you don't lose me.
    Off we run to Kael, and into Wakenlands..
    At this point I'm tired of his company and tell him he has to run to SS to CS to SG to WW...
    DE: ??
    I say: buy a map
    DE: ?
    He's getting better at that punctuation.
    I say: why you going to WW anyways??? just out of curiosity..
    DE: I have to go through WW to get to Burned woods before it gets moved again!..
    moved? Perplexed look.. hmmm
    I say: WW? Didn't they move that to Kunark yesterday?
    (of course I know ww is warsilk woods, not western waste but who was I to enlighten this DE)...
    I say: anyways.. Follow zone wall.. when you get to SS ask someone to show you the rest of the way to WW .. Here's Sow.. Bye bye.
    *gate*..
    Few seconds later
    DE: HEY ((*&$(& What the (&(*&(*& is WOoshi!.. It just killed me!!!
    DE: S#$#$#% Guards Just killed me...
    DE: WFT!!!!
    DE: Died again
    DE: HELP. THE guards keep killing me!!!!
    /ignore
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  20. Xaxony New Member

    I started playing in December 2000. My first character was a wood elf warrior named Jadesii. I played on dial-up on a laptop with all the effects turned so low that I was essentially wandering around in almost pitch black darkness through Gfay.

    My friend was the one who got me to play and when I made my toon, the guild he was an officer in called the Allied Fools was conducting a low level raid on Castle Mistmoore. He told me to follow the path to Lfay and zone through and he would zone out of Mistmoore and invite me. He kept adamantly telling me not to come out of the tunnel when I zoned into Lfay. He told me it was extremely dangerous for a little character like me.

    So I followed the path out of Kelethin (after falling to my death several times, I finally figured out how to use the lifts!) and headed to Lfay. When I zoned through to Lfay, I managed to get my guild invite before I suddenly was zoning from a death. I died so quickly I had absolutely no idea what killed me. When I finished zoning, it showed that I had been slain by Equestraille the Corrupted.

    My friend ended up dragging my corpse as close to the zoneline as he could and then rezzed me so I could zone back through to Gfay where I would be safe. I was so excited when he finally had time to meet up with my character because he had made me a full set of Banded armor which at the time was completely kick for a lowbie (before any of the lowbie armor quests were entered into the game).

    Jadesii is now 85 and my bazaar mule. I occasionally take her out and dust off her swords to go kill things and it even now brings back the memories of being a freshly made toon, back when you still had to do corpse runs for your gear, Velious was still new, and playing Everquest meant you had to play with your screen in "The Box". Before Luclin models, before newbie armor, before the Bazaar. When you had to run across multiple zones in order to travel, unless you were lucky enough to be friends with a druid or wizard who could port you.

    The Luclin models made the toons prettier. The PoP portals made travel easier. The Bazaar made making money easy. But the early days of EQ are still the glory days of EQ.

    I still love playing this game. No matter what MMO I drift to trying them all, I always come back to my original home. Like the slogan says, "Everyone always comes home."