So here I was in the Training zone of everquest – If any of you are not familiar with it, it’s basically a big set of caves that goblins and orc’s have taken over. There’s pretty much everything that has to do with eq set out – complete with a tutorial on how to use said features. After that it’s a quick trip through the caves – You can do some missions from the guards and accumulate some nice stuff along the way (Well. Nice to a new player, some of the well, well outfitted twinks I saw in there could make my higher level toons drool)

I think I need to explain a few things here – Just so we’re all on the same page. Again, those of you who are familiar with MMo’s can just ignore this little section… A Twink – is a secondary character for someone, often with premium equipment that the character would not be able to get on their on for considerable time. I have no ideal where the slang of “twink” came from however – It’s been around for years…

A Toon, or Alt – refers to another character usually all on one account (though with some hard core players there may be many characters spread over several accounts) There’s probably as many names for them as there are characters

Back to the Reality of my jaunt – I’d finished the tutorial, ran through some beginning missions and managed to get my self to a fearsome level 4. My second play session saw me again running missions for the guards – Mainly Kill a really big spider (the queen) her spider tamer (a cranky orc) and do a few other little tasks. My reward for this was practically nothing (Really. The loot sucked) The group that I was in to kill the queen (1 twinked paladin and I think a twinked cleric) helped me kill the queen, and then pretty much disbanded, however the cleric hung around long enough to loot the two venom sacks in the queens chest before leaving (like I said the loot sucked).

Onward Ho! The guards were suitably impressed with me, I gained another couple of levels – Woot 6. Now I can loose experience when I die.. and assigned me some more interesting tasks – Basically go kill more goblins and get back to us later… There was however an ogre guard who gave me a lantern bomb and told me to go blow up some kobold fort…. Yeah. I’ve seen the guards; guarding that sucker. Fat chance buddy…

Having looked at the fort, I decided to call it a night and leave the exploration (read, running for my life) for another day.

Tbiggs (Temu – Lvl 7 Warrior)