Everquest Confessions

and yes there were safe spots and warp spots all over when the game went live. some safespots are still around because nobody reported them . nobody wants to get their exp spot taken down. Highkeep is a bug ridden zone the most famous warp spot was the one in West Karanas. if you ran along the beach there is a spot where you went from near the edge of the North Karanas zoneline, to near the Qeynos Hills zoneline. it would save you several minutes of SoW or no SoW runtime.

Voyce said:

I pieced together how to trigger the Ancient Cyclops to spawn in South Ro, based on a couple of different snippets of info.

No one believed me when I explained it, so I stopped trying to pass the knowledge on.

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How? I thought it was random, there were so many theories all over for that back in the day.

CaughtCross said:

How? I thought it was random, there were so many theories all over for that back in the day.

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I’m sure someone has it but Prathun eventually years later just posted the AC script in SK. It’s something like a 10% spawn chance and iirc the PH is usually a desert madman and I think it can only spawn the AC in certain hour ranges. Someone probably has a copy of the script that Prathun posted.

CaughtCross said:

How? I thought it was random, there were so many theories all over for that back in the day.

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there was one roamer PH .
you were better off in OOT. i spawned the AC many times just clearing the seafuries.

the dickhead part was getting Hasten to spawn . if the monk popped , you were pretty hosed back in the day.

It’s 2002 and I’m in a group with some guildies and an untagged ranger and the ranger is just being a relentlessly annoying little prick. He keeps messaging me, asking me questions, and begging for plat and loots. I tell him fuck off and after a few mins I’m removed from guild. Turns out his mom and dad were in the group and were officers in the guild. I tried to talk to them but they were obtuse, not seeing any issue with their child and I was the one being aggressive and harassing him.

Sooo, the next day I decide to use my high school computer apps class to back door into the guild website and post tons of dicks all over their guild site. I buried them everywhere. Took weeks I heard for them to uncover and delete all of them. I don’t know if they ever found out it was me, but I got my revenge on <Isengard> of Saryrn!

Got some more fun stories as well, this was just the tip as it were.

1) When the game first started I was an enchanter, as such you could cat illusion. This was a very buggy spell as it would allow you to turn into ANYTHING you were close to... this included cities. I often would stand outside Felwithe and turn into the city itself and spin around drawing crowds of onlookers. Good times!

2) years later, I applied for and got the position of a Guide for Sony (was offered a GM job and a move to California too, but i turned it down). Either way, as a long standing player, I knew of many places where you could safely kill enemies that could not hit you back for free easy exp. One such place was Unrest, you could get on the roof and cast spells on mobs and cause trains and kill things from up there with no danger to the player. Well, as a guide, I would turn invisible, hide from the players and go to these spots. If I saw a small group up there doing this, I would summon the mobs they aggroed up next to them to see them panic and die (it was so much fun). Then i'd get a ticket in the queue from them about their corpses being bugged and I would basically tell them that the roofs are not always so safe and trying to exploit mobs from up there is a bannable offense. It was so much fun being a Guide lol

Terial said:

1) When the game first started I was an enchanter, as such you could cat illusion. This was a very buggy spell as it would allow you to turn into ANYTHING you were close to... this included cities. I often would stand outside Felwithe and turn into the city itself and spin around drawing crowds of onlookers. Good times!

2) years later, I applied for and got the position of a Guide for Sony (was offered a GM job and a move to California too, but i turned it down). Either way, as a long standing player, I knew of many places where you could safely kill enemies that could not hit you back for free easy exp. One such place was Unrest, you could get on the roof and cast spells on mobs and cause trains and kill things from up there with no danger to the player. Well, as a guide, I would turn invisible, hide from the players and go to these spots. If I saw a small group up there doing this, I would summon the mobs they aggroed up next to them to see them panic and die (it was so much fun). Then i'd get a ticket in the queue from them about their corpses being bugged and I would basically tell them that the roofs are not always so safe and trying to exploit mobs from up there is a bannable offense. It was so much fun being a Guide lol

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on Emarr, we had that one famous incident where a guide was summoning people , noobs like lv 40 into Veeshan Peaks and getting instakilled by the dragons. i had a guildie who told me on the downlow that he was also a guide and when the chitchat in general came in that players were being summoned into VP everyone started freaking out. i messaged my friend and told him what was happening. he said he would get back to me. 20 minutes later he said that there was nothing that could be done because it wasnt a bug and that according to the rules guides werent allowed to interfere in VP and that what was happening was considered a "feature" because VP is a dangerous place. at the time nobody on our server was even in VP. it wasnt like we could send people in there to summon corpses. eventually this made its way gamewide and Brad or the GMs had to step in and get everyone out of there. it was a big mess. still no idea why the guide summoned all those randos in there. boredom probably.

Probably some final act of vindictiveness towards the people that oversaw the guide program, as they were pretty harsh towards guides at times. One minor screw-up and you might well be booted out. Threads on the guide forum that questioned or complained about this didn't stay up, any "I'm being kicked out" threads vanished quickly too. It was very much ruled with an iron fist.

As a guide, I tried to stick to the rules as much as I could, but I did skirt them a few times. One time, I get a petition about a lost corpse in Hate. Go there, warp to the corpse, it's not actually out of bounds, it's just in some out of the way building. Rules very clearly said not to do anything in such a case, I say as much in tells. After this, I catch their puller's attention by facing him and backpedalling a few steps, motioning for him to follow. He catches on and I lead him halfway across the zone to the corpse, while saying nothing that would show up in a chat log. Guess that's my guide confession.

Summer of 2003, graduated high school, and spent a ton of time playing EQ. While hosting a pickup raid I got to talking to this girl in game and we discovered we both lived in the same town which is bananas because it’s a pretty small suburb. Anyway, we get to talking and she seems into me, and we decide to meet. She sends me a pic and is a total smokeshow. After some flirting back and forth she invites me to her house that weekend.

The weekend arrives and I drive to her house (a gigantic packet of condoms in my pocket). I knock on her door and when the door opens I am greeted by ….a toddler. I hear a grizzled voice yell “come on in!” and I enter a veritable fever dream. Cigarette smoke hits my nostrils, a kids show is blaring on the TV with two small children watching, and a 30 something year old man on the couch eyeing me up. “Take a seat, I’ll be right down!”. At this point I’m confused but think “ok, she has a roommate right? this can’t be her family, right? she’s been flirting with me, she invited me to her house to fuck…”.

Finally she comes down and….she’s a mess. I instantly realize the photo she sent looks nothing like this person I see in front of me. She’s overweight, reaks of cigarettes, and has a poorly homemade korn tattoo on her arm. I am seconds from bolting, but she sits down next to me and starts a conversation. She introduces me to her KIDS and her HUSBAND. Worst yet, she’s still flirting with me in front of her husband. She gets up to go get a drink and the husband says to me “I know why you’re here, and I don’t care if you guys have sex, just don’t take her from me… I couldn’t live if she left me.” I have never been more uncomfortable in my entire life. As soon as she comes back I say I’m not feeling well and run as fast as I can to my car and drive away….

Vanessa said:

We kept a lid on it very very well and to this day I'm kinda somewhat keeping a lid on it because they're still "out there" and EQ is a shrinking community so... I'm honestly not trying to do the whole "hey look at me, attention whore" thing but my story is 100% true. I feel awful about it but I gotta say... I've lived a charmed life and have receipts to back up my words.

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Nobody cares about which guild or who was involved, but whether you were banging the husband or the wife and if you were a tranny at the time is all vital information before we know how to feel about it

did they turn you tranny? that's a thing right?

Ryoz said:

Summer of 2003, graduated high school, and spent a ton of time playing EQ. While hosting a pickup raid I got to talking to this girl in game and we discovered we both lived in the same town which is bananas because it’s a pretty small suburb. Anyway, we get to talking and she seems into me, and we decide to meet. She sends me a pic and is a total smokeshow. After some flirting back and forth she invites me to her house that weekend.

The weekend arrives and I drive to her house (a gigantic packet of condoms in my pocket). I knock on her door and when the door opens I am greeted by ….a toddler. I hear a grizzled voice yell “come on in!” and I enter a veritable fever dream. Cigarette smoke hits my nostrils, a kids show is blaring on the TV with two small children watching, and a 30 something year old man on the couch eyeing me up. “Take a seat, I’ll be right down!”. At this point I’m confused but think “ok, she has a roommate right? this can’t be her family, right? she’s been flirting with me, she invited me to her house to fuck…”.

Finally she comes down and….she’s a mess. I instantly realize the photo she sent looks nothing like this person I see in front of me. She’s overweight, reaks of cigarettes, and has a poorly homemade korn tattoo on her arm. I am seconds from bolting, but she sits down next to me and starts a conversation. She introduces me to her KIDS and her HUSBAND. Worst yet, she’s still flirting with me in front of her husband. She gets up to go get a drink and the husband says to me “I know why you’re here, and I don’t care if you guys have sex, just don’t take her from me… I couldn’t live if she left me.” I have never been more uncomfortable in my entire life. As soon as she comes back I say I’m not feeling well and run as fast as I can to my car and drive away….

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Every day I read FoH I feel better and better about my messed up life.

I played nights at work and I was 30. I only had to be there if something went wrong so I played EQ. Guy in our guild was about the same age and had a shipping business in Atlanta. We talked about business and such. He hooked up with a chick in our guild and then got a divorce and lost his business.

Ryoz said:

Summer of 2003, graduated high school, and spent a ton of time playing EQ. While hosting a pickup raid I got to talking to this girl in game and we discovered we both lived in the same town which is bananas because it’s a pretty small suburb. Anyway, we get to talking and she seems into me, and we decide to meet. She sends me a pic and is a total smokeshow. After some flirting back and forth she invites me to her house that weekend.

The weekend arrives and I drive to her house (a gigantic packet of condoms in my pocket). I knock on her door and when the door opens I am greeted by ….a toddler. I hear a grizzled voice yell “come on in!” and I enter a veritable fever dream. Cigarette smoke hits my nostrils, a kids show is blaring on the TV with two small children watching, and a 30 something year old man on the couch eyeing me up. “Take a seat, I’ll be right down!”. At this point I’m confused but think “ok, she has a roommate right? this can’t be her family, right? she’s been flirting with me, she invited me to her house to fuck…”.

Finally she comes down and….she’s a mess. I instantly realize the photo she sent looks nothing like this person I see in front of me. She’s overweight, reaks of cigarettes, and has a poorly homemade korn tattoo on her arm. I am seconds from bolting, but she sits down next to me and starts a conversation. She introduces me to her KIDS and her HUSBAND. Worst yet, she’s still flirting with me in front of her husband. She gets up to go get a drink and the husband says to me “I know why you’re here, and I don’t care if you guys have sex, just don’t take her from me… I couldn’t live if she left me.” I have never been more uncomfortable in my entire life. As soon as she comes back I say I’m not feeling well and run as fast as I can to my car and drive away….

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No

Alright, where should I begin..

I'm in 8th grade and I start telling a friend about how you can play a necromancer in Diablo 2 (and how cool is it of course). He tells me that you can play a necromancer in a game called EQ, and that him and his brother play it. After starting on fennin ro with them and screwing around on endless alts, he tells me his brother quit his 29 druid and their subscription will end in 2 weeks but hey here his is login/pw. Well what does my ball busting ass do? I go to EC on his brothers 29 halfling druid and sell ports. Instead of porting people to where they wanted to go (this was velious era at the time), I ported them to toxx and /q. Now, I had a shitty PC, so I would zone over to "???" or "hey wrong.." and bounce the F out of there and do the same thing a couple days later. Two weeks later and my terror came to an end. Now that I think of it, I never even collected the plat off that druid, I just let it sunset off in to a dusty forgotten account.

After that I left for Vallon Zek PVP-teams and had a few months of fun in GFAY battling iksar twinks with fungis on orc hill with hoards of elfs throwing themselves at a guy who was regening faster than we could dps.

Back to fennin ro after that - I make a rogue and spent my EQ glory days in a family guild and eventually moving up to a raiding guild. I do remember AIM being prevalent and everyone using it. Some girl in the family guild would send nudes to me and one of our tanks on AIM on a weekly basis, it was certainly cool at the time. Him and I would talk about it on the side, lol.

I then get serious about raiding and had an amazing experience of being part of a guild full of random server misfits that became #2 or #3 on the server. I find out later our main puller and an officer were using show eq to give us an edge on mob targets. Also found out on AIM chats afterwards that a necro in our guild would FD train and wipe the competitive guild on their PoWater Corinav attempts, allowing us to progress and them to stagnate. I guess I'm not surprised of the MQ/SEQ confessions in this thread, but in retrospect I'm glad I didn't know about it happening in my guild at the time. Possibly more to come, this thread really jostled my memory.

Breakdown said:

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Heh, I wish. Still haunts me. Gwenivere on Saryrn, ranger (wood elf I think).

Ryoz said:

Heh, I wish. Still haunts me. Gwenivere on Saryrn, ranger (wood elf I think).

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You never forget your first.