Thursday, May 16, 2002

EverQuest - One night in Karnor's Castle

8:30pm - login, get into a group, work our way back to "hand" room and begin killing

9:20pm - Venril Sathir kills our puller, apparently VS is out wandering the castle instead of staying in his room

10:00pm - puller has been pulling continously despite my being at 20 mana or less after rezzing the puller, bad pull, MA gets killed, hand room pops, hallway adds into the fray, everyone gates or runs to zone line where they find out that VS is camping the zone line

10:20pm - making our way back to the "hand" room

10:30pm - VS pops on top of us again on the way to hand room, I use up Divine Aura, jump in the moat and swim to the zone line

11:00pm - we zone back in, making our way back to the "hand" room again

11:35pm - hand room pops, multiple adds from the hallway, group has to run to the zone line again

11:45pm - group calls it a night

And somehow, during all of that I made 2 or 3 blues of experience and only lost 2 people all night.



posted by Wuphon's Reach at 8:48 AM

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Ode to EQ

(no clue where this is from, and too lazy to search for a source)

It was scary whacking rats and bats
and I had fun chasing spiders and and a black bear
It was cool to see my first full-maned cats
It was thrilling to die, as then I did not care.
Oh my, ORC II looking for more
A WISP A WISP! Whoops, can't hide behind this door.
My Lord, what was that?
Death from above, Death from afar?
Too big for a leathery bat....
And too early in time to be a car...
A Griffon a Griffon, with yellow eyes of hate....
I scurry, I flee, but alas I ran too late....
Can anyone help me find my corpse, I died I know not where
Now I have things chasing me, I am weaponless and bare...
Then I saw my first giant, out there hunting in the sticks...
But as I was distracted, along came an Elf named GIX...
I was dead faster than I could ever have thought...
but now that that was a lesson I wish I had been taught.
I became we, in a team of two...
then we added more, as there was much to do....
the four became 5, then 5 took on six....
In a short time, I was the one killing Gix.
Money started to build, and armor I would buy
bank accounts filling, silk swatches stacking high....
The power in me grew - and solo...
with a hacking babs, and a mighty bellow....
The Mammoths feel, and giants soon died too
I was killing things, in huts and out of an Igloo....
I travelled far, and wide, underwater and up a mountainside...
The Dings were rapid, they were fun and fierce...
Hell, I even had time to work on a skill called Pierce...
I would wake up, stretch my arms and legs...
Kill a ghoul, and seafury, and in town hide from the begs...
Then things started to slow - and come to a crawl....
I started needing teammates, that would populate a mall
Buff Circles, Zone keys, and corpse runs galore...
Little did I know for me what was in store....
In the days of old, I would find a team and explore,
now it took 2 hours before we were even allowed to open a door.
I wanted to team with Fred, and gave him a tell from the ramp.
Sorry my friend, I am in the middle of a 12 hour camp....
I did a who all guild and who all friends in zone...
They were all on 50 member raids, and I was in town all alone
Then I get a tell, a happy shout from a friend I missed!
Guess what she shouts, I just moved to #123 on the RAGEFIRE LIST!

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 3:14 PM

Monday, May 13, 2002

What is Morris Dancing?

Listening to my favorite old-time radio show "The Goon Show", one of the characters speaks of going on tour in Africa post-WW2 teaching Morris Dancing to the natives. Well, off I go to use Google to find out what the heck Morris Dancing is.

What is Morris Dancing?
Mainly Morris Dancing

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 4:21 PM