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Life, Friends, and stumbling blindly.

# Dec 20 2013 at 4:52 PM Rating: Good

Scholar

28 posts

I, like so many many others, began with a wood elf ranger - who fell to his death so many times that I ended up deleting him before ever fighting anything.
Next was the Half-Elf ranger, who after 15 minutes of roaming blindly - found his way out of Surefall, and died instantly to a GM-Event undead giant.

I tried a few others briefly, until one day I was playing a Gnome and came across a blue lady with a pet skeleton who was actually Killing the Guards!
I was stunned that it was even possible, and when she allowed me to loot some of them I decided immediately that I was going to be Rich once I made my own necromancer and started selling all of those fine steel weapons.

In my early days, I became fascinated with factions, and met my first close game-friend in Rivervale, A Halfling Druid named Lipan. Shorty after, I made another friend of a Troll Shaman named Smiley.
The day I ventured into West Commons to hunt a giant - and found the two of them already grouped and hunting there - I started to feel "at Home" in EverQuest.
I have long since lost contact with both of them, but the memories remain.

I can't count the number of times I have heard people say "It's only a game." - but for some of us, who can't go out into the world at large for whatever reason, it is real enough.
The friends we make are real people - even if we never see them face to face, and the experiences we have in the game are no less important or valuable than sitting with someone to watch a movie or have a conversation.

It is all experience, and in the end, that is all life is - a collection of experiences.

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Hello. My name is Looniper, and I'm a questaholic.

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Life, Friends, and stumbling blindly.

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# Dec 21 2013 at 6:23 AM Rating: Decent

QuinTunare

11 posts

As my guild leader said while us occifers were discussing something "We're family. We're always family. We'll love and care and mourn and fight like family. We're just the family that has never met face to face yet." A not so subtle hint to go to Live, me thinks.

The first 6 months of EQ, for me, were chatting with friends IRL about this wonderful new game (back in 99). Then I joined one of them in a guild, which disbanded. Then I joined a guild that would run from 2001? to . . . the board is still on yuku and a few of us still post there and on FB or G+. The next guild I had was a raiding crew, a few close people but not many. And then the last 5 years have been spent with this family. Every bad pun, dirty joke, or RL crisis; we've even called each other. No, really, picked up the phone or skype and called or texted or anything else. Some of us are on first name basis; others aren't; all is still good.

If it had been a "pick the moment that exemplifies what EQ means to you," it's all the families I've had. There is nothing that makes it a family more than knowing that no matter the time, the phone might ring or someone is on the other end available to talk to even if no one is logged in at the moment.

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