Just posting because I'm being nostalgic -
Ronaneb was never the same person. I'm not the real Ronaneb but the real one would ALWAYS let people use his account so he could keep his place on camps. I personally camped the FBSS for Ronaneb back in the day. Of course, I was like 13 years old playing and ended up losing him a level and a half when he was level 53...
Karma caught up to him - his stuff got stolen many times. And by people I know.
12 Days of Gaming: Seven Memories of Norrath
New memories are forged every day and those made in Norrath burn brightest of all.
#4: Bristlebane’s Party Machine
The community of Allakhazam came together to figure out the many deity tasks introduced in EverQuest’s 10th anniversary celebration, a month before I started working for ZAM in 2009. One of the most challenging of these tasks was finding everywhere Bristlebane’s Party Machine went. Much celebration occurred game-wide as the community extended a hand and helped everyone complete the mission!
#3: A Marriage in Katta Castellum
Once upon a time, I in-game married my real-life husband’s best friend. Yes, that’s as confusing as it sounds! My husband officiated the wedding in the chapel of Katta Castellum with his role-play only dwarf, Zelgar. After many “oo oi” and “nutter boom zing bangs!” (Zelgar-speak at its best), my monk Phantie and our friend’s shaman, Wulfborn, were married.
A couple years ago while I was at Fan Faire, those two plotted a surprise for me in our guild hall on EverQuest II. I came home and tried to find the crafting writ agent, but she was missing. Assuming she had sunk under the world via some strange bug, I reset her position at the door and placed her back. I completed a writ, went to turn it in, and she was missing again. As I ran to the guild hall door my husband turned to me and said “we didn’t know you could reset them... just check the basement!” I ran down figuring they decided to place 500 dividers just to annoy me but was shocked to see that they re-created the Katta Castellum chapel room we were married in, including using the guild hall NPCs as stand-ins!
#2: The Void and the Plane of Time
There are so many places in EverQuest I love. The beaches in Cobalt Scar. Siren’s Grotto. Eastern Wastes. The spider section of Crystal Caverns. The waterfall in front of Thurgadin. I liked Velious quite a bit, can you tell? Apart from Velious, there were some other places that definitely had that wow factor to me. The first two that spring to mind are The Void and the Plane of Time.
When I originally did Planes of Power progression I never got through all of it before bigger and better things came along, so Plane of Time happened years after the PoP era for me. It still was a fantastic and original experience as we unlocked our way through the zone.
The Void was the hub of the last expansion where I played EverQuest with dedicated fervor. As you progressed through the missions you changed the Void, starting with Void A and ending with Void G. The furthest I ever got was Void E. The image below was the first one I took after stepping into the zone on launch day. Seeing Veeshan frozen in a shattered realm was amazing.
There’s one more memory to go, and it’s one that’s had such an impact that it needed its own page…
