#verant

I played EQ from 2000 to around 2002 or so(Kunark-Planes of Power, Dadaph on the Luclin server), and I still occasionally pop into both p1999 green and the latest tlp server Yelinak for some casual lvling.

I love the game, story and atmosphere and memories.

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I'll go first.  After resisting for months, I finally relented and joined my friend in EQ.  I chose to make a High Elf Wizard.  Starting off in Felwithe, I somehow made my way to the front gate.  After learning how to /tell my friend, she told me to just wait there and try and kill some rats while she made her way over from God knows where (a high level druid--basically God for a new player... SoW and Skin Like Nature!). 

I started out with rats, using my little dagger, and nearly died a few times.  Once, I journeyed out just beyond the light cast from the torches at the gate and saw the most terrifying thing I'd ever seen in a game (I was 22 years old, btw) -- a skeleton!  It had glowing eyes!  I freaked out and ran back to the guards.  They said something like "Not in my town! and proceeded to obliterate the level 2 skeleton.  The guards went back to their station and I thanked them.

Really.  I thanked them.

I thought they were actual players that had volunteered to perform guard duty and protect the newbies.  I asked them how long they'd been playing and where they were from.  My friend thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard.  I never lived it down.

I later learned to use this to my advantage and pretend to talk to NPCs at the druid circle for a port.  Higher level druids would take pity on me and do it for free.