[Anecdote] Put away the Gameboy and no one gets hurt.

Y'know how sometimes you get someone in your group that seems really
distracted? Usually it's for a good reason--kids are sick, dogs and cats
wreaking havoc, roommate making noise, whatever. Every now and then though,
you get someone who can't juggle EQ and watching TV, and you catch 'em at
it. No biggie.

I was in a group with a couple of guys that knew each other a while back.
One of them kept missing fights, forgetting to turn on attack, stuff like
that. We were doing okay so we weren't real worried, but he clearly wasn't
there. Finally his buddy said, "John, put down the damn Gameboy and play
EQ."

He was on the ball after that.

Another time, waaaaaaaay back in the early days of EQ before you could even
get a port around Norrath--a 29 or higher Druid was a rarity, and a Wizard
that high was almost unheard of--I was setting out on my then-greatest EQ
adventure with my leveling buddies. We were a warrior and two shamans,
12-14, and making our first cross-Norrath run, scared witless. (We'd heard
that people would donate a plat for a sow in Greater Faydark. A whole
plat!!) We left Everfrost, cut through BB and Qeynos Hills, and figured,
"Well, we hear there's BANDITS on the shoreline, so let's take the zone wall
instead. It should be safe."

Halfway across the zone--which was still 20 minutes or more into our long
journey--our other Shaman suddenly died. The warrior and I stopped and
tried to get his attention in group to no avail. A few minutes later we
hear, "What happened?" from him.

"You died."

"Oh. How?"

"You fell off the wall."

"Oh. BRT. Heh sorry, I was on autofollow and was watching a movie on my
handheld DVD player."

We both smacked him. (And went on to remain friends, acquire many levels
together, with both Shaman eventually becoming DE Warriors--but that's
another story.)

>"Well, we hear there's BANDITS on the shoreline, so let's

I haven't even read any further and I'm giggling. But...
I'm laughing with you, not at you.

Tracey

"Tracey" <rbrancher2@aol.com> wrote in message
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Laugh with or at, I'll take either in good stride.

I think we were also worried about sharks. Oh, Naivety, thy name is n00b.

Tracey <rbrancher2@aol.com> wrote in news:3FB9645B.7000602@aol.com:


Running the zone wall in WK, Goonda is far from the worst of your worries.
There's a really nasty crowd that hangs out on the north zone wall of WK.

--
On Erollisi Marr in <Sanctuary of Marr>
Elder Graeme Faelban, Barbarian Prophet of 65 seasons
Tainniel Fleabane, Halfling Warrior of 31 seasons
Giluven, Wood Elf Druid of 26 seasons
Graeniel, High Elf Enchanter of 25 seasons

"Graeme Faelban" <RichardRapier@netscape.net> wrote in message
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I don't know if they were even in the game at the time. The only mobs we
ran into were that named Treant and--aha!--a stray bandit! Ran into them a
year or two later, though. OUCH, I say, OUCH.

"Breathe" <breathe@nospamcatlore.com> wrote in
news:mjqub.77614$p9.53344@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:


Could be, I don't have any idea when they were put in, but, very very
nasty at much higher levels than you were at the time.

--
On Erollisi Marr in <Sanctuary of Marr>
Elder Graeme Faelban, Barbarian Prophet of 65 seasons
Tainniel Fleabane, Halfling Warrior of 31 seasons
Giluven, Wood Elf Druid of 26 seasons
Graeniel, High Elf Enchanter of 25 seasons

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:14:11 GMT, Tracey <rbrancher2@aol.com> caused an exception C0000006H in module <We Don't Want You To Know>:

heh. i got my necro's skill from swimming in the Qeynos sewer to and from the guilds.

Those are the ne'er-do-wells I was speaking of, I
think. Forget their names but it's a group of five
or six NPCs or more and most of them have pets of
some kinds. Nasty folks, they are.

Tracey