Remembering EverQuest - Ten Years of Memories - Page 8

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Posted Thu, Mar 12, 2009 by Cody Bye

My first EQ moment didn't come 10 years ago. It came two years ago when a bunch of my EQ2 group decided that we'd try out the Progression servers they were launching. I had Station Access for my EQ2 acct and decided I should see what the origin of all these "Oh man, remember in EQ1..." stories came from, so I bought the Platinum Edition and joined in.

It was a few weeks in, AFTER I got lost in the sewers, AFTER I couldn't get to my 10 corpses in the waterway, AFTER I couldn't figure out how to get a trade skill, AFTER I had learned that this wasn't your mother's Blackburrow, and AFTER I figured out why people in EQ2 hated Holly Windstalker so much.

Now, at this point you should know that none of my friends had told me much about the differences between EQ and EQ2.

I was playing a Shadow Knight, had just gotten my "summon undead" spell at level 8, and decided that I was going to explore Karana. It was a brilliant idea and I was gaining experience pretty quick, and I was across the zone when I triggered some heavy duty aggro. Leaving my pet to fight the monster, I high tailed it out of there. I ran until I couldn't see the monster anymore, then I decided to be safe and ran to the zone line. That was all the way across the zone, easily more than enough for me to lose aggro, so I should be safe enough to do some chatting (just like in EQ2).

I turned around in time to see the monster I left behind almost 3 minutes ago come running down the valley to the Qeynos Hills zone in point. ".... Oh no way. No *&^%ing way!!" Before I could turn around to zone, he was beating on me and I couldn't click fast enough I was in such a panic. I wound up missing the zone and clicking on everything else right before I died.

/tell Savanja: I think the fraggin' game is bugged! I just died from something that followed me across almost the entire zone!

/Savanja: oh yeah. Aggro will follow you across the entire zone here. I thought you knew that? lol.

/tell Savanja: ....

- Brock “Brokain” Ferguson