Everquest Confessions

Zapan · Aug 1, 2022

Rajaah said:
This reads like a creepypasta where you're the villain.

I've never jacked anyone's AIM logs or known how to, but I did get access to the officer board of a guild I was in once. Officers + clique members had access, but not us peasants. They had an entire thread dedicated to talking shit about me because I never shut up about my epic fights (this was Velious era). Some of the officers were in there defending me, like "leave the guy alone, he's trying to improve his DPS and you guys are doing nothing for him".

The raid leader in particular got really pissed about the whole thing. At one point the officers/clique were complaining about me coming back and bidding on a random mob raid drop that happened right after I'd left the raid. Of course, in game, no one said a peep, but on the thread devoted to me on the officer board, they were SEETHING that I had the gall to come back and bid. The raid leader absolutely flipped out on them, like "he was here farming with us for HOURS and an item finally dropped that he could use, literally one minute after he left the raid, what the fuck is the problem"

Once I saw all this shit I was ready to tell everyone off and bail. However the raid leader beat me to it, and started a new guild. Most of the officers and clique stayed in the old one, all the quality players went to the new one, raid leader said I was more than welcome. We immediately passed up the old guild when we were able to kill Klandicar and they couldn't anymore. Unfortunately the new guild broke up after a couple months because we just didn't have the numbers to move past the tier we were on, the EToV/Zland/Kland type tier. I finally got my epic done in the new guild at least, took us all of 20 minutes to down the couple targets I'd been needing for weeks.

From that point on I was a lot less trusting of guild leaderships and cliques, but I also learned that whining and bitching about gear and epic fights doesn't win you fans. I was 17, to be fair.

Rajaah , this is gold. You've convinced me.

Here's my story:

I separate my gaming life and personal life pretty well. Friends know my business but don't know the extent. My professional network has no clue. That said, I do have one instance where EQ bled into RL.

It's April 11, 2003 (I know the exact date for a specific reason later). I'm 15, playing EQ in California. I meet a girl in game, Stephanie Taylor, who is also 15. She and I hit it off. We spent all of our time in the game together. Flirting turned into "love" and "love" turned into dirty talk (this is over the course of about 2 months). She would email me dirty pictures of herself (I'm 15, she's 15), tell me all the things she wanted me to do to her, etc.

We find out that we live 2 hours from each other. She convinced her mom to bring her to meet me and my dad. More dirty talk (both of us were virgins). Shit we'd only ever seen/heard in whatever porn we had access to in 2003 as 15 year olds.

She shows up, my dad can't believe it. She's super cute. Her mom looked like she was out of the Hills Have Eyes.

Stephanie asks me what I want to do. I had planned nothing. We go to the movies and expect her mom to leave us there so we can get frisky in the theatre. We get to the movie theatre and it's about 2:30pm. The only movie playing is a matinee of Rob Zombie's, House of 1000 Corpses. If you've never heard of this movie, see trailer here:

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It was release day for that movie on April 11, 2003, and they had it in the smallest movie theatre with about 20 seats. In order for us to go in, they required her mom attend. Spoilers: You don't want to watch this fucking movie, especially if you're trying to break nerves and get "into the mood".

So, Stephanie and I are sitting in the front row of a horror movie at 15 with clowns chopping off the heads of tourists on film, while her mom is 5 rows back, and we are the only 3 people in the theatre. Mind you, I had pictures of her fisting her own ass, but I was so nervous (and frightened by the movie) that I couldn't even hold her hand.

Movie ends, she goes back to Fresno, we all 3 probably had nightmares that night, never saw each other again. Played EQ together a bit longer but she quit etc. I have a letter from her that is in the garage that I'll pull out and screenshot if I come across it. It's hilarious.

I have tried to find her over the years because this has to be a story she has told and how fucking strange it was. No luck.

Ambiturner · Aug 1, 2022

Zapan said:
Rajaah , this is gold. You've convinced me.

Here's my story:

I separate my gaming life and personal life pretty well. Friends know my business but don't know the extent. My professional network has no clue. That said, I do have one instance where EQ bled into RL.

It's April 11, 2003 (I know the exact date for a specific reason later). I'm 15, playing EQ in California. I meet a girl in game, Stephanie Taylor, who is also 15. She and I hit it off. We spent all of our time in the game together. Flirting turned into "love" and "love" turned into dirty talk (this is over the course of about 2 months). She would email me dirty pictures of herself (I'm 15, she's 15), tell me all the things she wanted me to do to her, etc.

We find out that we live 2 hours from each other. She convinced her mom to bring her to meet me and my dad. More dirty talk (both of us were virgins). Shit we'd only ever seen/heard in whatever porn we had access to in 2003 as 15 year olds.

She shows up, my dad can't believe it. She's super cute. Her mom looked like she was out of the Hills Have Eyes.

Stephanie asks me what I want to do. I had planned nothing. We go to the movies and expect her mom to leave us there so we can get frisky in the theatre. We get to the movie theatre and it's about 2:30pm. The only movie playing is a matinee of Rob Zombie's, House of 1000 Corpses. If you've never heard of this movie, see trailer here:

.

It was release day for that movie on April 11, 2003, and they had it in the smallest movie theatre with about 20 seats. In order for us to go in, they required her mom attend. Spoilers: You don't want to watch this fucking movie, especially if you're trying to break nerves and get "into the mood".

So, Stephanie and I are sitting in the front row of a horror movie at 15 with clowns chopping off the heads of tourists on film, while her mom is 5 rows back, and we are the only 3 people in the theatre. Mind you, I had pictures of her fisting her own ass, but I was so nervous (and frightened by the movie) that I couldn't even hold her hand.

Movie ends, she goes back to Fresno, we all 3 probably had nightmares that night, never saw each other again. Played EQ together a bit longer but she quit etc. I have a letter from her that is in the garage that I'll pull out and screenshot if I come across it. It's hilarious.

I have tried to find her over the years because this has to be a story she has told and how fucking strange it was. No luck.

Going to movies in first dates has never made sense to me.

Trying to get to know someone while doing something that requires not talking for 2 hours and most of how the date goes is based on how good/shitty the movie is

Zapan · Aug 1, 2022

Ambiturner said:
Going to movies in first dates has never made sense to me.

Trying to get to know someone while doing something that requires not talking for 2 hours and most of how the date goes is based on how good/shitty the movie is

100% agree.

Rajaah · Aug 1, 2022

Ambiturner said:
Going to movies in first dates has never made sense to me.

Trying to get to know someone while doing something that requires not talking for 2 hours and most of how the date goes is based on how good/shitty the movie is

I have never had any kind of relationship start off of a first date to a movie, with one exception. The one exception was my first serious girlfriend, because technically our first date was to a movie. However, nothing happened after the movie, and we didn't actually start going out for real until months later after a bunch of other dates where we got to know each other. She was a homeschooled girl with ultra-strict parents and suffice to say I had to pass a whole litany of tests before she started taking me seriously as boyfriend material.

So the one relationship I've had that had a first date at a movie...barely counts because the first date was months removed from the relationship being consummated.

I went on a bunch of dates in college that were movie dates. Zero success with a single one of them, though one at least led to a hookup and then she ghosted me which isn't exactly a success, it was just weird.

The dates that did work out were dinner dates or going out to a club type dates. Taking someone out dancing can actually hide a ton of your flaws if you don't have a lot going on in life, cause the physical chemistry (which is easy to generate in that setting) supercedes everything else. A dinner date means you have to talk about your job, and how bland everything is, unless she's a nerd and you can talk nerd shop of course. However I made dinner dates work by picking good places.

Furious · Aug 1, 2022

LOL I just saw this thread!

I was on Rallos Zek in like 1999-2000 ish but I figured out about deleveling and keeping my stats.

I had a level 30 toon so I twinked myself out and leveled up to 10? and deleveled to 5 where I could kill level 1s where they spawned into the game.

I had a bow that could 1 shot (max hit 20) lvl 1s and I camped the steamfont gnome spawn ground. I stole everyone's shoes and had a collection of 1000's

I was the original griefer and people that played RZ as a gnome in those days would remember me. I camped the zone for months!

I cost verant 1000's of subs

Furious · Aug 1, 2022

Furious said:
LOL I just saw this thread!

I was on Rallos Zek in like 1999-2000 ish but I figured out about deleveling and keeping my stats.

I had a level 30 toon so I twinked myself out and leveled up to 10? and deleveled to 5 where I could kill level 1s where they spawned into the game.

I had a bow that could 1 shot (max hit 20) lvl 1s and I camped the steamfont gnome spawn ground. I stole everyone's shoes and had a collection of 1000's

I was the original griefer and people that played RZ as a gnome in those days would remember me. I camped the zone for months!

I cost verant 1000's of subs

I was a huge POS

Rajaah · Aug 1, 2022

Furious said:
LOL I just saw this thread!

I was on Rallos Zek in like 1999-2000 ish but I figured out about deleveling and keeping my stats.

I had a level 30 toon so I twinked myself out and leveled up to 10? and deleveled to 5 where I could kill level 1s where they spawned into the game.

I had a bow that could 1 shot (max hit 20) lvl 1s and I camped the steamfont gnome spawn ground. I stole everyone's shoes and had a collection of 1000's

I was the original griefer and people that played RZ as a gnome in those days would remember me. I camped the zone for months!

I cost verant 1000's of subs

RobXIII · Oct 6, 2022

Found my old EQ1 screenshots from 2 decades ago. I somehow won the mage best of the best, mostly because my friend and better mage fucked up and was summoning food for spectators before the match, and he forgot to swap that spell out with the summon earth pet one. Oops! Shame that modern MMOs lack unique GM run events.

fred sanford · Oct 6, 2022

I remember attending one of those events back in the day. I got kicked out of it and banned from the event because I was casting buffs on spectators before a match started. A GM summoned me to another zone and told me I couldn’t come back because casting wasn’t allowed except for the combatants.

Blitz · Oct 6, 2022

RobXIII said:
Found my old EQ1 screenshots from 2 decades ago. I somehow won the mage best of the best, mostly because my friend and better mage fucked up and was summoning food for spectators before the match, and he forgot to swap that spell out with the summon earth pet one. Oops! Shame that modern MMOs lack unique GM run events.

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Holy shit, I think I was in Moonlight Crusaders at some point, maybe '02-03-ish? Or I just recall the guild on Quellious.

Animosity · Oct 6, 2022

RobXIII said:
Found my old EQ1 screenshots from 2 decades ago. I somehow won the mage best of the best, mostly because my friend and better mage fucked up and was summoning food for spectators before the match, and he forgot to swap that spell out with the summon earth pet one. Oops! Shame that modern MMOs lack unique GM run events.

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damn thats beautiful

RobXIII · Oct 6, 2022

Blitz said:
Holy shit, I think I was in Moonlight Crusaders at some point, maybe '02-03-ish? Or I just recall the guild on Quellious.

Niiice, who were you at the time?

Narac01 · Oct 8, 2022

I remember joining the Necro best of the best on my server. I was 59 or 60 but I didn't have the specter pet regardless. But I figured out that if you cast charm pet on their specter it nuke their specter dead and most of the opponents weren't expecting that. They also weren't expecting me to show up without a pet which kind of threw them off too

Blitz · Oct 8, 2022

RobXIII said:
Niiice, who were you at the time?

I legitimately don't remember. I remember my original warrior's name, but I think when I played with MC it was with a different class and I cannot for the life of me remember the character's name. I'll have to hunt down my EQ screenshots folder, if I even still have those HDDs.

Trollocaust · Oct 8, 2022

Pre-Kunark. RL friend was a notable trader in the EC tunnel, dude wasn't even 50 but was one of the richest guys on the server already, buying low selling high.

One day he decided fuck this I'm quitting so I got all his stuff. My twink war was running around dual wielding SSoY's with a FBSS and all. Month later he decides he's coming back and he wants all the plat/items back so I give em back to him. /petition that someone hacked my account and the lead GM at the time actually believed my side of the story.

My friend got to keep everything AND they restored all the stuff he had given me. We effectively got a GM to dupe everything. Good times.

That and I used radar/speed hack, somehow never got caught even though I would be crossing SRo in like 8 seconds.

Lambourne · Oct 10, 2022

I was a guide during the BoB fights. Spectators were supposed to stay off the raised platform where the fighting was going on. My contribution was to list the names of anyone who didn't in the GM channel, so a GM could summon them to Tox. I was like a hall monitor with divine powers, a snap of my fingers and people went poof. Most fun I had that day, the actual fights were hard to follow with all the lag and whatnot.

RobXIII · Oct 10, 2022

Lambourne said:
I was a guide during the BoB fights. Spectators were supposed to stay off the raised platform where the fighting was going on. My contribution was to list the names of anyone who didn't in the GM channel, so a GM could summon them to Tox. I was like a hall monitor with divine powers, a snap of my fingers and people went poof. Most fun I had that day, the actual fights were hard to follow with all the lag and whatnot.

These MMOs would be a much better place to be if they all had 1999 EQ's Guide program. I guess there's legal issues with volunteers, but damn if the guides didn't make it better 99% of the time.

That 1% was the 'special' guide who tried to get us in trouble for killing dwarves on the rooftops of Kaladim. I still don't know what they were on about (no it wasn't pathing issues, dorfs were up there with us beating away)

Talenvor · Oct 13, 2022

I was a guide starting near the end of vanilla. I was a poor college student so free EQ monthly subscription in exchange for a few hours a week of guide work was awesome. One day I got a package unannounced and it was the Kunark expansion direct from SOE or Verant whoever they were at the time. Nice surprise freebie for guides back then. I remember installing it and warping to the new zones on my guide character just by typing zone names. I figured what the heck and I tried on my real play server by riding some raft to travel to Kunark zones before it actually was live for the public. Not sure how it worked, but I guess back then the zones would go live early, but no one had physical copies yet so it wasnt accessible or I had some kind of account flag. It worked though and I messed around in the dreadlands or something a day or so before anyone else could get there. Got all sorts of /tells asking how I was in the new zones early. It was fun.

Loved my time as a guide, but two things that really stuck out to me was using my guide character and scouting out places. Back before maps were everywhere I could warp to a zone, run in and find a named spawn spot then swap to my main characters server and already have a general idea how to get there without getting lost. It was Especially helpful for Veeshan’s Peak before anyone could get there legit at Kunark’s release. Shortly thereafter we were forbidden from going in there as guides, but I had already mapped it out and written down named spawn stuff. Another time we did some RP event and our head GM buffed me with something, I don’t recall what, that made me super strong and near unkillable. It wasn’t a click item or the /kill command, it was something else. Anyways, the buffs persisted on that character after the RP event ended and even after I stopped being a guide. I could log into my guide server and run around face tanking pretty much anything I wanted even months after I was no longer in the guide program. I guess I could have exploited that and sold loot or whatever, but I was so addicted to playing my main on another sever that I hardly ever took advantage of that god character on my guide server. A shame really.

Onoes · Oct 14, 2022

Lambourne said:
I was a guide during the BoB fights. Spectators were supposed to stay off the raised platform where the fighting was going on. My contribution was to list the names of anyone who didn't in the GM channel, so a GM could summon them to Tox. I was like a hall monitor with divine powers, a snap of my fingers and people went poof. Most fun I had that day, the actual fights were hard to follow with all the lag and whatnot.

Holy shit! That is like one of my most fucked EQ memories, almost made me quit the game. I had been playing for a few weeks tops, and I was exploring places I shouldn't be, I was just so amazed by everything and wanted to see the world. I was running for my life to zone lines constantly. Anyway, there are some announcements that there's some big tournament, and I have no idea how to get to the place they are saying, but someone in the zone shouts out to go south. I follow a bunch of other players and zone in. I walk in and there are tons of people, super laggy, but I'm walking around trying to figure out what's going on exactly. I get a message from a GM telling me to sit down, this will be my only warning... so I sit down and try to message him back but it acts like that player doesn't exist. To this day I don't know if I was sitting on the stage or what, but all of the sudden I get a loading screen. I appear in Tox, though I had never been there and had no clue where I was. Got a text from a GM saying something like "You have been judged guilty of interfering with a GM event, this is your punishment" and nothing else. Messaged back and got the same "A player with that name doesn't exist" or something. So, I get killed pretty quick, reappear naked in Qeynos, I was so fucked up about it. Pretty sure I cried, I genuinely wasn't trying to cause problems and didn't do anything intentional and I was just basically in shock that I had 0 chance of getting my stuff back and weeks of playing every free minute were just yanked away. I can't even remember the process, but I know I basically put in a ticket explaining the situation and got no help.

After a couple of days of not having a chance of getting my stuff back, not getting help from GM's, and not having luck finding another player to help, I gave up. Eventually my anger/frustration was replaced with still REALLY wanting to play the game, and I decided I would just make a new character and try a different class/starting area. Really could have ended my EQ experience though! Insane to hear it from the GM view 20 years later... and maybe fuck you? haha

Behemoth · Oct 14, 2022

RobXIII said:
Found my old EQ1 screenshots from 2 decades ago. I somehow won the mage best of the best, mostly because my friend and better mage fucked up and was summoning food for spectators before the match, and he forgot to swap that spell out with the summon earth pet one. Oops! Shame that modern MMOs lack unique GM run events.

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I lost the warrior BoTB on Cazic to Rellikcam who I had never lost a duel to prior or ever again. It wrecked me that I didn't get to go to the test server for the finals. Just one of those random upsets due to RNG. He used a Felhammer and hit an absurdly lucky streak of like 13+ smite procs for 60 dmg each and then proceeded to lose to the first person he faced on test.

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Everquest Confessions

Zapan

Lord Nagafen Raider

Ambiturner

Ssraeszha Raider

Zapan

Lord Nagafen Raider

Rajaah

Honorable Member

Furious

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

Furious

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

Rajaah

Honorable Member

RobXIII

Urinal Cake Consumption King

fred sanford

Blitz

Animosity

Bronze Baronet of the Realm

RobXIII

Urinal Cake Consumption King

Narac01

Trakanon Raider

Blitz

Trollocaust

Lord Nagafen Raider

Lambourne

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

RobXIII

Urinal Cake Consumption King

Talenvor

Lord Nagafen Raider

Onoes

Trakanon Raider

Behemoth

Trakanon Raider