Man do I miss Brell

[Ddrak]

I could imagine Dwarf Fortress based dreams would be frighteningly odd.

Occasionally had dreams in the context of various RPGs, but never text based.

Dd

[Arathena]

The dream was exactly like a MUD.

Dorf dreams have been a no. Thank goodness.

[calleagh]

not sure if this qualifies as text based but i've had dreams similar to what singollo described in that it was real world but EQ and you had to to type all communications to others. it was a pita!!

[anshar]

WOW!! I never would have dreamed that so many old friends still hang around this place. I knew Dd and Kulahoops but not the others.

I tried Star wars and hated it. I am back to EQ again but on the Progression server as a lvl 26 SK. It isn't the same but I do enjoy it, but I miss what we all had.

[Xican]

It still amazes me how so long after EQ, I still remember certain things. Like forgetting to rebind after a Vox raid and losing several levels to that damn Giant just outside her chamber, until finally I managed to kill it while naked (not easy for a druid!) and then had to have Ickhor corpse summon for like an hour to get my gear back. Or the first time, I encountered the swarm in the Karanas. Or the level 34 Druid whom took me under his wing when I was only level 11 and turned me into a wolf, which I thought was 'SO COOL!~'.

Ah, EQ... Makes me wanna fire it up again. Of course, Xican is long gone. Back then, the community was something different. Something unique. I doubt any of us will ever find another one like it.

[Taxious]

It's odd how magical that game was. Level 6, Orc Hill, baby! I remember it getting dark for the first time and seeing glowing orc eyes all over the place. Or being level 10-ish in Kelethan when some Wizard gated in, would use his epic, then mana stone, over and over again. "FUCKING COOL!!" Riding a ship in game for the first time. Exploring (aka dying, getting lost, dying) Guk. Sigh...

I even got a much greater feeling of accomplishment from completing my mage epic quest than I have from graduating college, getting a job, buying a car, etc.

[Harlowe]

Ah, EQ... Makes me wanna fire it up again. Of course, Xican is long gone. Back then, the community was something different. Something unique. I doubt any of us will ever find another one like it.

That ol' nostalgia thing keeps urging me to hop back into it too, at least the P99 version again, I have a few characters on there (nothing higher than teens though), but without the community it's kind of hard to stay interested for long. It's fun to pick up and play around though.

EQ sucked us in more than (and probably longer than) any other game will. I kind of feel sorry for people just coming into MMORPG's at the WoW point, because they'll never experience anything like the old EQ communities. Not a solid community that sticks around for years and years anyway.

[Kulaf]

I remember my first trip to South Karana and an inmpromtu group forms which I swear to God had me and Alu in it if my memory recalls correctly. We fought this super tough MOB near this tree and we were all so happy that we beat it and then we started hearing......."Ok who killed the vendor bird guy!".

[Freecare Spiritwise]

Another funny thing is that I look back and remember being just as scared running through Kithcor forest at night as having a handgun pointed at me when I worked graveyard shift at a gas station when I was kid. Maybe even a little more scared since the undead can't be reasoned with. Seriously, some interesting memories. I don't even really talk about those times to the non-gamers in my life.

[Alluveal]

I remember falling through the floor in some weird zone off lavastorm mountains... and there was this high elf prisoner in there and she was beating my ass. So, my friend who played a high elf nuked her and lost her faction in Qeynos forever. She had to kill that Klix dude in Easter Commons (however you spelled his name).

For some reason, that zone ALWAYS freaked me out afterwards. When I got to be like 65 or 70, I went to Qeynos and killed high elf guards over and over, but it still didn't take the fear away.

[Alluveal]

It still amazes me how so long after EQ, I still remember certain things. Like forgetting to rebind after a Vox raid......

DEATH LOOP! Thank God for Oribi.

Though one time Khoren saved me because I started running around like a fuggin' nut and he was down below killing polar bears. I fell through the floor there too.

Maybe there's something to that. Floors are bad!

[Ddrak]

I dunno - falling through the floor was useful if you wanted to get to the Rathe Council in a hurry...

Dd

[Fallakin Kuvari]

I dunno - falling through the floor was useful if you wanted to get to the Rathe Council in a hurry...

Dd

+1

[Harlowe]

I loved that zone Allu, that was Najena. In the really old days you could get Jboots off of Drelzna.

[Taxious]

I loved that zone Allu, that was Najena.

FUCK THAT ZONE! The hanging dwarfs on meat hooks were kinda cool but it was such a maze and I spent about two weeks camping those mobs that drop pages for the mage epic.

being just as scared running through Kithcor forest at night as having a handgun pointed at me
...
I don't even really talk about those times to the non-gamers in my life.

Ahaha... Yeah hard to explain stuff like this to non-EQ'ers.

I really took to the froglok dungeons. Guk, lower guk, and my all-time favorite zone: Sebilis!

My first raid (although I didn't really know WTF was going on at the time) was Phinny. I loved Kedge Keep once I got to know my way around there.

[Harlowe]

We lived in Kedge Keep for a pretty long time, it was so quiet in there. The only time people came in was to kill Phinny.

[Alluveal]

I dunno - falling through the floor was useful if you wanted to get to the Rathe Council in a hurry...

Dd

Dude, that's not even Everquest anymore. That's just POP assholery programming.

Core game through Velious is about as far as I care to go with the "old times." Everything after is bleh....

[Alluveal]

We lived in Kedge Keep for a pretty long time, it was so quiet in there. The only time people came in was to kill Phinny.

I loved kedge keep...

That's another really fun zone.

Another zone that was super funky was the Plane of Sky. Those goddamned birds.

[Ddrak]

Best part about Kedge was "/pet kill Phinegal Autropos" and having him come to zone in, if he didn't get lost in his own dungeon.

And yeah - getting my Mage epic was one of the highlights of my EQ career.

Personally I thought PoP was awesome for the most part with the notable exceptions of Rathe Council and Avatar of Dust ring (both of which seemed to be used for the entire Gates of Discord expansion). Hell, I never minded Luclin that much either. Most of that comes from loving the raiding game and I only really started full-on raiding with the very end of Velious.

First raid - Plane of Hate with Minute on a sign-up and having to gate out (after massive apologies) because my 33.6 modem just couldn't keep up. I was damn near in tears from the disappointment after being so freaking excited to get there. Luckily Comcast put cable through not long after and I could raid properly with Elysian.

Fun memory for today: http://www.chase.net.au/images/fire.swf (loved dual wielding those books)

Dd

[Harlowe]

I'm with you Lulu, I just enjoyed it up to Velious, then it became more of a raid-grind, than a group-grind and I liked the grouping better than raiding - other than Minute's and Poison Arrow's raids.