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  • #16
    Oh gosh... kind of a tie between Everfrost Peaks and Nektulos forest.

    Nek forest is where all my dark elves levelled up to 8 or 10, and then went to Lavastorm. I *still* love that zone. And Neriak is just gorgeous, despite the zone geometry problem in Neriak Commons.

    Everfrost is where I take all my light races to level up. There's great experience to be had, and wonderful quests. And it's beautiful. Simply beautiful.
    Doomspark DeathfireAristophanesAziron XeosBristlethorpe Fizzlebane
    Cariadoc FrostvenomCorsyr GlanmilwrEmberarto Tailchaser Fivefingered Discount
    Grimhand BarehandedHushfoot GwynblaiddMadrel MagiusRaum Ravenwalk
    Stainless BannerTarkas JeddakTandaar AshkevronTickles Fishery
    Tinder FlashfireTristaar ValmontVithaar AshkevronWanderblade Axegrinder
    Yesterday Timebender Zendaar Tir'Astoroph Wguren Wolfbane

    ... all on The Rathe

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    • #17
      It's Gfay for me.

      I still remember someone trying to help me and show me where to buy something or other and falling off a bridge. I was embarrassed and felt bad they had to take more time out to help me find where my body was so I could get my stuff.

      I remember heading for the PoD lift and finding someone floating. I ooh'ed and aah'ed and moments later I was floating too. I promptly got lost in the forest and almost died to some brownies while exploring my new-found power.

      I remember following some people towards orc hill and marvelling at the orc killing going on there. A nice dwarf cleric was healing and buffing everyone. But she briefly went afk and the hill was overrun. I died. She was nice enough to try and help me with getting my corpse back (I had no idea where orc hill was or even that where I had just died was called orc hill). It took 3 tries of dying before I finally got my corpse(s) back upon which I thanked her profusely. I even learned how to group that night. (Hit the accept button)

      I don't visit often but when I do, I still get a kick out of maneuvering the trees to find the bank and vendors I'm looking for. I hang out on orc hill and buff and heal some of the folks fighting there. It's still home

      Baking (250), Brewing (189), Fishing (151), Smithing (129), Pottery (123), Tailoring (101)

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      • #18
        Hmm, this is a toughie.

        (thinks)

        (thinks some more)

        Surefall definately. It's where my first character was made, where I first died, where I got all my spells for awhile, where I always trained, and where I spent a good deal of time with my real life sweetie back when we were nothing more than eq friends.
        http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=344207Sikle Bellamorte, 56 Defilerhttp://pub238.ezboard.com/bthepowderroom77512The Powder Room-Real Women DO Play Everquest

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        • #19
          Qeynos Hills. Absolutely. I spent too much time dying there to forget it.

          --Inyidd
          Inyidd Bullneck - Dorf Waryer - Morell-Thule

          I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every last second of it!

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          • #20
            Ah, the sewers of Qeynos. So quiet, so peaceful, so filthy. Starting grounds for my main Mysophilia, and her sisters Pestilia and Septica (Necromancer, Shadow Knight, and Cleric respectively). Those pathetic passageways under Freeport can't hold a candle to the magisty of home.

            That said, when I was first starting out, I spent several levels in Erud's Crossing. Two years later, when I was starting up another character, I went there for experience and greater lightstones. Hearing the faux calypso gave me the weirdest sense of nostalgia, to the point of analysing it to my roommate. "So, can you feel nostalgia for a place that doesn't exist?..." His analysis was that I was nuts.

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            • #21
              I'm definitely another Rivervale boy. I do a lot of tradeskilling in PoK these days, but when I mak MTP's for myself, I make them in Rivervale.

              I was a little disappointed, though, at the lack of newbies. I've only been playing for a few months, and I had visions fo buffing all the newbies when I went home. It rarely happens that way.
              http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=623761

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Inyidd
                Qeynos Hills. Absolutely. I spent too much time dying there to forget it.

                --Inyidd
                Lilosh himself, the retired level 20 ranger, salutes you, Sir.


                -Lilosh
                Venerable Noishpa Taltos , Planar Druid, Educated Halfling, and GM Baker.
                President and Founder of the Loudmouthed Sarcastic Halflings Society
                Also, Smalltim

                So take the fact of having a dirty mind as proof that you are world-savvy; it's not a flaw, it's an asset, if nothing else, it's a defense - Sanna

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                • #23
                  My first character was created on a Terris Thule over 2 years ago and his home was east commons. The first day I walked (didn't know about the auto run button) from the dessert outside of Freeport into the trees of EC, there was an ogre's corpse lying across the path which stayed there for the rest of the week and became a sort of landmark.

                  I remember the horror when I discovered that wolves could come through the walls of the huts; and making daring all-or-nothing runs up to the second inn.

                  Ahhh.... I still miss that ogres corpse :?
                  Grolber - Cavalier of Brell on Venril Sathir
                  Malathos Thriceborn - Wizard of Venril Sathir

                  "This isn't life in the fast lane - this is life in oncoming traffic !" Terry Pratchett

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                  • #24
                    Butcherblock and East Commons. It may be way nostalgic of me, but I miss the EC tunnel auctions and the crowds in BB waiting for their crack at the Aqua Goblins for quick kills and great loot.

                    Of course, they nerfed the Aqua Goblin loot exchange rate, and the bazaar is, I suppose, a better place to marketeer. But it made Freeport a ghost town and I get weepy jogging through the silent, lonely EC tunnel where once many voices were lifted in "/auc Selling 3 bags of stuff at torch 1!" excitement.

                    Drat the memories and the brain they're stored in! And blast the Bazaar for being the Wal-Mart that kills the downtown shopping area!
                    Cyrnan Bloodwood
                    Druid of Tunare, 27th Turning of the Leaves
                    Morell-Thule

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                    • #25
                      High Hold pass here. I never had a character above 17 before I wen there. All of a sudden I was 20 and could pick a suranme and was more than **** happy. Note that even now, 34 levels later, I still have no surname. But Ohh teh orcs were fun

                      Silound
                      Minstrel of Prexus

                      PS -- Anyone remember the days of EC/GFay auctions before abzaar? Or days of Buff/bind/and sow for donations?

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                      • #26
                        My first *ever* view of EQ was on a friends computer, as they were camping at the top of the ramp in Everfrost. It looked so gray and lifeless to me at the time, I wasn't overly enthusiastic about playing the game.

                        But then I created Fal, barbarian shaman, and discovered the wonder of the snowy canyons past the guards. I remember my first levels, fighting these terrible bear cubs and wooly spiderlings, and running for my life when the Vengefuls came a-calling. I remember learning the tricks of the canyons - follow the wandering animals! - and my RL wife watching as I navigated from the Halas ramp to the Blackburrow ramp with no backtracking or pause. And I remember wandering out past Bandl, looking out over the gullys and hills, listening to the wind and realizing that this was Falmorn's home, this wild place of ice and wind and rock.

                        Even now, when I stop by to hunt or just look around, there's a sense of homecoming. A warmth in the heart (which you need because we're only wearing kilts) and a smile on the face. There are other places Fal has gone which have left impressions on me. But nothing like that first taste of wind and snow.
                        The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

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                        • #27
                          Tox Forest

                          When I'm having a rough day (which recently is most days when the server is PL'n all to hell and I can't xp or raid really w/o massive deaths because of it), I love to travel back to Butcherblock Mountains and help out fellow dwarves with HoV or any spare equipment and/or information that I can offer to them. I even did the Kaladim cleric newbie armor quests just so I could have an entire gold set of armor (this was before LoY and dyes) which I would don and ride around on my horse with. Oh how fun it is to watch a true newbie run in fear when they see someone galloping up on them on a horse! Muahaha. However, when it comes to my home, I will always call Tox Forest my home. My first character was an Erudite Wizard by the name Ninjagaiden. I can still remember the first time I triumphally conquered a fire beetle, stole his eye, and was *finally* able to see a little during the night-time. I still can remember seeing another Erudite fishing on the docks and going over to say hello, only to have them kill me! I can still remember finding the bridge for the first time and trying to cross it, when all of a sudden my screen went black and I could *hear* I was getting wailed on but couldn't see my attacker. I started to run but fell into the water and died. I was so angry that I had no idea where my body was and had lost the cloth cape and fine steel great staff I had worked so hard to get. I actually started my cleric because I couldn't seem to get around with my wizard not being able to see and not being able to fight very well against anything. The ability to heal myself sounded like such a great idea! Well, I still return to Tox Forest from time to time with my 65 cleric and seek out the Erudite Fisherman and the nasty troll on the bridge that casts blindness to exact my revenge. Who's looting who now! I swore revenge would be mine! The day of reckoning in nye!

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                          • #28
                            Theres a troll on the bridge in Toxx? Ive never seen him...odd
                            Xynn: Cleric of Innoruuk 240 Baker 187 Brewer drinking and eating.... /burp!
                            Farnyr Shrubhugger: Druid of Karana 182 tailoring and crying....
                            Vazaelle

                            Professore: Rogue of Agnostic 125 Make Poison and stabbin... All Hail Agnostic!
                            Tarew Marr

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                            • #29
                              re.

                              crystal caves is home for me

                              i started playing a couple of months after kunark came out, and spent about three minutes in Loio before deciding that it was full of idiots and rude people.. pretty much ignored the continent for a good year after that

                              when velious came out i was level 24 with Leksander my main charecter, i first went to crystal caves at level 25, ended up pulling a bards corpse from the broken bridge room to zonein (i'm a rogue) it took about 45 minutes, wandering through hoardes of orcs at sneak speed, marvelling at the beautiful colours of the rock and ice walls, hearing the crystals echo, getting hopelessley lost..

                              Leks levelled from 25 to 36 there and i learnt the zone from top to bottom, now at level 58 i can solo my way from top to bottom and i do so every now and then to get some velium, do the spiders for silks for thurg gate pots..

                              i've now got two of my alts, 35 warrior and a 33 cleric on my bazaarmule account, duoing there, i still love the place

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                              • #30
                                Tymbra: The platforms in Kelethin. It's where I grew up from lvl 1-19.

                                Kritta: *twitch, twitch* The 3rd windmill in Steamfont.
                                51 WAR: Kritta Didymus, GM Tinker - 250 of tinkering.org lore
                                Also: Bake'n 200, Fletch'n 200, Smith'n 200, Fish'n 200, Brew'n 200, Jewel'n 200
                                Last played years ago. Feel free to email if you wish.

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