The MMO Report: Thursday, December 1st

Avock

I started off on Everquest. I was in my early teens, had never seen a game like this and somehow convinced my dad to pay the monthly, we also had great internet and a pretty solid computer because he worked in IT. I think he was living through my gaming vicariously.

I started off in some forest local I can't name now and wandered around until I found a wide open plane was awestruck by the sky and set off to find the ends of the world. That was my stated goal, to find the edge of everything. I found a giant walled city and decided that would be roughly in the middle (it made sense to me at the time) and ventured away from it. Some how I hadn't run into much of anything yet that wanted to fight me. Some guy ran by and buffed me with what to me seemed like crazy high level spells of awesome and I began to feel invincible so when I came upon a monster much higher level I though what the hell, and stabbed it. I was dinner almost immediately there after.

I thought to myself, well I died. Time to try a new character I guess. Off I went to make some Nordic warrior type. I honestly believed that character was dead forever and that the game was just starting a new character of the same time for me when I respawned.