Fuck it I'm gonna just blog here
This one time in EverQuest: I had a nice item that I used but I really needed the money and someone offered to buy it. I travelled to meet them by the bank and we sat face to face and arranged the price. I then clicked it on him to trade and the trade window appeared, but he cancelled the trade, and because my bags were full (And it didn't auto re-equip), the item dropped to the floor! And then a second later vanished. And the guy mysteriously disappeared. So obviously, he just pinched it. For the first time I went on to the games forums and I think just asked if they could check the logs and see what happened to it or whatever. I don't think SOE even replied. But anyway, a few days later I was hunting and this high level guy shows up and hands me the same type of item and just gives it me for free. He said he saw my post and felt bad for me and he had farmed a few of them in the past, so just gave it to me. Again... you don't see shit like that any more.
This other time in EQ, I made my way to a good exp camp. There was another guy there before me but he was having a hard time so we paired up and it was smooth sailing. After a while, this little fuckwit guy shows up who was 4 levels higher than us. We asked if he would like to join but he was a baddy. He was extremely rude to us for no reason, and he had a spell that did the most damage so every time we would fight a mob, he would just nuke the mob and kill steal it. He did it on every mob so we were no longer getting any exp. We tried for ages but he was winning every mob so his luls ruined that afternoon for both me and that other guy I was grouped with. In the end we just gave up, asshole won. But like 2 YEARS later... I see the same guy! He was in EC asking in chat for someone to rez his corpse in Warsliks Wood which is miles from nowhere. Nobody was replying and I was on my Cleric, so, time for some payback. He barely made 5 levels in those 2 years so obviously hasn't played much, but I remembered him clearly, little dick needed some comeuppance. I started by asking him to come to me and kept giving him vague directions to where I was. He would run somewhere and say, "I cant c u" and I would say, "No not there, I'm by the big curly tree". Eventually he found me and I asked him for a port to Kunark, he was a Necro. I could tell he was getting pissed off but he was still trying hard to be nice because I was his only chance at a rez. So I used my hammer to port myself to OT and I asked him to meet me in OT to help direct me to the corpse. He really didn't want to but eventually got a port and ran all the way to OT. I gave him the same thing, "come and meet me i am by some kind of weird bush". He obviously didn't know how the /loc thing worked because he kept asking me to describe the bush. Eventually he found me and we set off together to Warsliks Wood, only... WTF why u moving so slow?! I set myself to walk and told him I was encumbered with fine steel weapons. So we walked slooowly for like 15 minutes to the zone line. Then in to WW, we had to wander through the forest for him to hopefully remember the way back to his corpse, and we kept getting attacked. I kept asking him, "wot button is to uze heal magiks?!" and he was freaking the fuck out trying to get me to heal him but while desperately trying to remain nice. I kept just doing little quick heals when he was on about 1hp. He must have had about 5 heart attacks. After ages we finally found his corpse and I told him I didn't know what spell would rez the corpse. I kept casting different stuff on his corpse like nukes and invis and buffs and stuff. He was sending tells to people to ask them what the name of the spell was and I was being super dopey trying to find it in my book. I reckon I probably wasted about 2 hours of his time. And then I said, "ahh I found it! Resurrection" and he seemed so relieved. Then I reminded him of the time he KS'ed me and that other guy like 2 years earlier, and then I hit /q. Fuck him.
This other time in EQ: I was in a group and died. They were going to rez me after the cleric had medded up and stuff, so in the meantime I was just wandering around naked in the forest. And then out steps... Firiona Vie. She came over to me and started chatting to me, full roleplay. I was super baked at the time and had never really roleplayed, but I chatted to her as best as I could, called her Milady and stuff. She was really nice and comforted me for my death etc.. Very sweet and surreal. As I was about to get rezzed she waved to me and headed towards Felwithe.
I also some some real GM events but that one wasn't even an event. When I got back to my group I told them and none of them believed me.
This one time, in Everquest: I once joined a guild and it was a really good 'family' style guild which you just don't get anymore. The guild leaders was a husband and wife who met in EQ and later got married. They were both Dutch or czech or polish or something..., and both of them barely knew a word of English when they started playing EQ in 1999. But within a year or so, they had learned English almost entirely from playing the game. The guy in particular, his English was really good, you could barely even tell it wasn't his first language. They also went with SK and Cleric so they were the tank and healer for anything that needed doing, making it easy to get groups together. They recruited people and we built up really organically and eventually started raiding and uber people from other guilds would even come along with us just to help us! They didn't see us as competition or anything, they just liked to play through the older raid content and help us progress. It was really fun times. There was also an american girl in the guild who I had the hots for. She was actually a 30 something year old woman with 1 kid who was divorced and she sounded hot from her description
She was also very sweet. But it was such a fun time and we all chatted as much as we actually played. I just don't see that anymore in games and guilds.
