True Veeshanites Roll Call

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » August 4, 2006, 4:16 am

Ok, so I just realized that 7 years ago I started playing a video game... I havent played one since(to that extent) and that I actually met people across the world that I played that game with. Whoa /neo

So, All us originals... post up.. whos still here (yea fuck you, I know Ive got a good idea....)

Um,

Me, Ransure, started March 16th 1999 (only cause it was crashing too much on the 12th)

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » August 4, 2006, 4:33 am

Still here as in still play EQ or still on this board talking about it?

Winnow's born on date was March 17,1999 due to the same crashing servers but played in beta phase 3 and 4 before that! (back when beta's were more like...betas!)

365 RL days logged on Winnow alone before I called it quits. Don't want to think about the total with alts!

As for logging that much time ever again in an online game..no fucking way...I don't think SL tracks time played so I think I can safely say that!

Not sure this thread is necessary but wanted to grab the second spot...post whore that I am.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » August 4, 2006, 4:45 am

250 sumtin days on Ransure... 114 on Taulmariel... that was 2 years ago..

Wow, how much of my life did video games take?

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » August 4, 2006, 4:46 am

Heh, found out the other day that my account is still active.. one of my friends friends is paying now...

Traz-KOE · Post by **Traz-KOE** » August 4, 2006, 4:54 am

Traz Blackwolfe, June 16th 1999.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » August 4, 2006, 6:11 am

My original character was born in mid-July 1999. But EQ wasn't released outside the US at that time so we all had to import it. Heh when I first started playing 3 of us shared a 33k dialup modem

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » August 4, 2006, 8:06 am

I jumped characters quite a bit from April to August before I found what I liked. Rask Tyker was born something like Aug 11th 1999. (My account still exists and Rask/Animalor were still there as of a few months ago when SOE gave everyone a free month.)

Trek · Post by **Trek** » August 4, 2006, 8:25 am

Nulien was on the 12th
Trek was about a month later to start with a friend
Komodo was Kunark

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » August 4, 2006, 9:07 am

Zaelath was a SoL baby.

I played EQ for about an hour at work at release, 1/2 of which was trying to get out of a watery ditch in some newb zone in the dark, then didn't touch it again until a mate at work bought me an account..

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » August 4, 2006, 9:33 am

Account purchased on the 12th I guess? First day of sales. Messed around on a random server for a month and a half before I headed to Norway to work for the summer. Started on Veeshan in August 1999 as Andvari.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » August 4, 2006, 10:33 am

Yeah EQ was great back in the day.

Brought so many different people together.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » August 4, 2006, 10:46 am

Played a ranger through beta, quit from release until May 2000 when I made an enchanter at a couple douchbag co-workers suggestion. Played him until PooP came out and quit in disgust.

I quit completely in late 2004 I think.

Burke · Post by **Burke** » August 4, 2006, 11:21 am

Burke Highbinder
Born sometime in June of 99.
Can't remember when I finally camped for the last time, '04 maybe.

Canoe · Post by **Canoe** » August 4, 2006, 11:26 am

Canoe Rollover - October , 1999. Had a few chars before that, really started in June / July 1999.

Stopped playing sometime in 2004, but have logged on a few times since then, last time logged I believe was November 2005.

Post by **Sylvus** » August 4, 2006, 11:36 am

I think I started Sylvus in April of 99, after school was finished for the semester. When I stopped playing him and let others use him, I think I was at around 160ish days.

I can hardly even remember EQ anymore, and I have no idea when I quit playing. There were several 6 months+ breaks, I think I quit for good soon after the expansion after PoP came out.

Syenye · Post by **Syenye** » August 4, 2006, 11:49 am

Syenye Squirrellyelf started december 2000. i stopped looking at /played and convinced myself it was all merchant time in the bazaar. eq free as of last fall.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » August 4, 2006, 11:50 am

Started on release day and forgot what server I was on. Forgot about 3 more times before I chose Veeshan since it was an easier name to remember. I have taken multiple breaks, but I always left when I was enjoying myself rather than getting "fed up" with the game.

XunilTlatoani · Post by **XunilTlatoani** » August 4, 2006, 12:02 pm

Started a half-elf ranger on Veeshan in December '99. Created Xunil around March '00 and retired for good sometime in '04.

Abelard · Post by **Abelard** » August 4, 2006, 12:08 pm

Started a high elf Paladin in March of 99 I think. Then started Abe November 20th of that yr?

I had way to much time logged onto Abe alone when I quit. Like over a yr I think. I quit when Luclin came out, it totally lamed the game up.

Anyway yeah, rl is great.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » August 4, 2006, 12:23 pm

Chid was born on May 16 1999. I had about 40 days played on him. Started up Bordan my shammy because I wanted to get into pickup groups more easily if it was a light guild night. He also ended up with around 40 days played. The last character and the one I eventually settled on was my warrior Gorjah who was born in Dec '99. I had a little less than 70 days played on him before I quit.

Xyphir · Post by **Xyphir** » August 4, 2006, 12:31 pm

I began playing EQ in December '99 on Veeshan as a Druid (Silencio Porfavor). A college friend of mine began playing at release and was on the server. He quit shortly after I started playing and gave me all his druid junk. It was uber at the time. I started a monk when I got bored of the druid (Xyphir). I quit playing in about March '04.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » August 4, 2006, 12:38 pm

Think it was July 99.. might have been September, who knows.

Keiblrusar, Sinda, Bunkie, Banri, Klayla, Tristan, Katria, Siji, Xiki, Xiri, Velana, Sarkom, etc, etc, etc.. too many alts to remember. Every class except beastlord or berserker. Wankers.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » August 4, 2006, 1:03 pm

Sometime in mid 99, we also got it imported (thanks to Cotto for that one!)

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » August 4, 2006, 1:18 pm

Same time as the boyo above me, went to Yankie land and thought "hey...theres a dwarf an ogre AND a skeleton on the back of this..how cool would that be". My life has been non existent since.

Splatter · Post by **Splatter** » August 4, 2006, 1:28 pm

Started my wizard Aendain in March of 99, switched to Splatter around 2002. Still play durning the fall and winter.

noel · Post by **noel** » August 4, 2006, 1:29 pm

Aranuil -- March 18th, 1999.

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » August 4, 2006, 1:34 pm

I rolled Adex July 99 for EQ1

I still play EQ2 some.

Since my career is so chaotic, I find it easier to play non online games like Oblivion where I can PAUSE the game and not spend my treasured hour a night LFG or such.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » August 4, 2006, 1:43 pm

Im still here.
Started Jaans in i think it was 10th january 2001, and Hesten in march 2001.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » August 4, 2006, 1:44 pm

Marbus was born in late June of 1999, wasn't really that hardcore until my Dad died that October and EQ became my place of refuge... played him primarily until Aug of 2000 and got disgusted at how much Paladin's sucked so I started a DE Warrior named Marben. Played him primarily though Luclin with a few 3 month breaks in between, quit for good about the time Planes of Power came out as well...

Played some DoAC with friends and some VV people, played WoW in Ixtlan for about 8 or 9 months then have been playing EQ2 for a year as of Aug 2nd and still enjoying it a great deal. Our small guild is almost all old Veeshan people and actually 1 Veeshan person's Mom. We don't raid but are one of the highest level guilds on LucanDLere, are as perverted as ever help each other with TS, Quests and just having fun.

I don't get a ton of time to play with 2 young kids but sometimes we even play together. My 3 year old (4 in Nov) has a level 14 Paladin that he has leveled himself with my help. While I was under the impression he really didn't know how to play I have been amazed at recent developments. A few weeks ago he joined a group in Blackburrow and tanked for them for about 30 minutes, they all assumed he didn't speak English since he really didn't say much and when he did it was gibberish (LOL) they couldn't believe it when I told them a 3 year old had been tanking for them. Then while cooking dinner the other night he came and told me he had finished my kelp quest in Zek for me on my 33 Monk.... great I thought, I'm probably dead and have lost a bunch of exp... while he did eventually get killed he indeed had pulled the kelp mobs out of the ocean and finished the quest before getting killed (9 MOBs). His only mistake was swimming over to turn it in...

That's whats fun now for me, Monk at 33 is my highest charcater but the account is maxed and the lowest is level 12 so we have fun and it's a good distraction from Barney, Elmo, The Justice League or Batman Beyond

My EQ memories are the friends I have in here and in EQ2, and I often feel very blessed (heh, I'm sure some of you guys are laughing at that) to have a place where old friends with greatly different views can get together and share them.

Marb

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » August 4, 2006, 1:59 pm

Lynks - fall of '99

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » August 4, 2006, 2:01 pm

august of 99

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » August 4, 2006, 2:09 pm

started one month after release...I never intended to either. Guildies from UO went over, and I got curious. Then I was hooked.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » August 4, 2006, 2:20 pm

No clue when I started. I know it was during a 4 month TAD trip to Texas and it was about a week after Velious released.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » August 4, 2006, 2:20 pm

started July 3rd 2000 and fooled around with different classes until I settled on cleric Pente in August which gave me best chances for groups

then started Ennia the druid on second account that I got myself for Christmas that year and she soon became my fave char

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » August 4, 2006, 2:21 pm

Not really "original" since my first go at EQ wasn't on Veeshan, but I tried it out in late 99 / early 2000 and didn't really get into it (I blame the original interface hehe). Not long after Velious came out, some guys I worked with at the time convinced me to give it another try, and I've been playing on Veeshan since then.

Gnomies · Post by **Gnomies** » August 4, 2006, 2:40 pm

december 99'

rolled gnomies early-mid 2000

320+ days played, retired after the expansion after PoP

now playing wow, on bloodhoof

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » August 4, 2006, 3:11 pm

Adelrune was born in EQ release on April 2, 1999. Before that, I was too busy on Tarew Marr dealing with all the petitions. I was a generation 9 guide and guided on both Test Server in Beta and then Tarew Marr at release.

I started my EQ career way back in the earliest beta due to my friendships with many of the developers. The oldest character I had was Faergus, a Barbarian Warrior in the pre updated Everfrost. Then I had Caanais, one of the first 4 bards in EQ. I was a bard pre-songs.

It has been a long time and it all runs together of late.

Coatlicue [KoE] · Post by **Coatlicue [KoE]** » August 4, 2006, 4:18 pm

Coatlicue was born in June 2000 on Xunil's account, then I rerolled her on my own new account less than a week later

"officially" retired sometime in 2004. I did take a mini-break for about 3 months during the "wedding" season in 03.

For the life of me, I had a really hard time remembering some of the alts I had. I think they were Cohenya, Tyllani and something else. Ahh, the good ole days!

I don't play EQ anymore, but I do play WoW. Xunil and I also tried some of the other games that were released a few years ago, like Anarchy Online, DAoC, City of Heroes, SWG, etc. The name Sinnahmynh was born in CoH and I liked that name so much that I use it in WoW now

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » August 4, 2006, 5:11 pm

Keverian was born in April of 1999. Don't remember the exact date though. Stopped playing after the PoP expansion. There were several months during Kunark when Galin had control of my account.

Wulfran · Post by **Wulfran** » August 4, 2006, 5:23 pm

Wulfran was born in mid May '99 and kicked Nulien's butt the first time a day later (OK maybe a week later but thats it). Camped for the last time at the dock in Halas in mid December '04.

I now punt gnomes in WoW on Lightbringer.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » August 4, 2006, 5:26 pm

Adelrune Argenti wrote:Before that, I was too busy on Tarew Marr dealing with all the petitions. I was a generation 9 guide and guided on both Test Server in Beta and then Tarew Marr at release.

Guiding sucked.. senior guiding was more fun, except for all the paperwork and organizing/scheduling of the guides which sucked even more than guiding. The commands and powers you had available to you as a senior were rather entertaining. Think I started on The Rathe (Zelorexa? pita female GM) then moved to the original Luclin to open that server when it started.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 4, 2006, 5:35 pm

Got into beta a few months before release then joined not long after that. Don't remember my first character though but I think it was Fror. I nuked his ass when I lost 5 levels in one night trying to make it through Kithicor at night.

My more well known characters were Dohrum, Kvahda, and Chub Underbush.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » August 4, 2006, 6:15 pm

Started Belfrain in April 1999 and Kilmoll in June 1999. Kilm lives on in EQ 2....albeit as a dorf on the Guk server.

Abelard · Post by **Abelard** » August 4, 2006, 6:19 pm

I remember seeing Dohrum corpses all over sol b.

Dexail · Post by **Dexail** » August 4, 2006, 6:26 pm

Started with a paladin in January, 2000. Created Dexail the rogue a few months later and he eventually became my main.

I was with Mawafu, Xunil and Coatie in The Elite Force, and then joined KoE with them about 4 years ago. I've been guildmates at one time or the other of about half the people that have posted

I'm more or less retired from all gaming at the moment.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » August 4, 2006, 6:26 pm

Masteen, assling druid born in January 2000.

Played until the end of Luclin. The only reason I didn't quit sooner was that I had discovered the joy of PLing twinks in Guk.

Same bastard coworker that Aabi mentioned got me into EQ as well. FUCK YOU SMOOTHIE!

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » August 4, 2006, 6:32 pm

Started a little bit before kunark released. Friend got me into it, I still remember trying to play that damn game on free dialup

cid · Post by **cid** » August 4, 2006, 6:39 pm

Sept of 99 Cidor was created. Then after Kunark came out I got rid of him and quit.

Then 6 months later started Cidman got bored of him and rolled my fav of all Cidvicious my Troll Warr. Quit 2 years ago and havent looked back!!

VariaVespasa · Post by **VariaVespasa** » August 4, 2006, 7:02 pm

I started about a month and a half before Kunark came out, whenever that was. Spent the first 5 days of kunark finishing up 45-50 on Oggok bouncers before investigating the new expansion.

*Hugs*
Varia

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » August 4, 2006, 7:41 pm

Started playing on the 17th or 18th of March, '99 I believe, but I didn't end up sticking with a character until Drinsic's creation on June 10th, '99.