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I rolled my warrior, Loredena, on the Tribunal on 9/1/99. A coworker had convinced me to play EQ by telling me ‘it’s D&D online!’. Despite a confusing UI, corpse-runs, blind Barbarian in Halas and everything else that went with a new online game, I was immediately enthralled. While Lore was my much-loved main, played most days, I rolled up other avatars to play with friends. With Traveller (my coworker) and his friend Nine, I played a dwarven cleric named Serenya on Sunday afternoons, eventually joined by Sisca with his wizard.With Traveller, Nine’s sister Bobaloo, and their friend Hammey, I rolled a different dwarven cleric named Velma (on Fennin Ro) to play one night a week as part of the Scooby group (we had Daphyne, HE enchanter; Scrapy, dwarf warrior; Scooby, WE druid; Shaggey, barb shaman; and Phreadd, human paladin)

By the time we stopped playing six years later, Serenya was 65, Loredena was 55, and Velma was 52 – we had moved Scooby group to the Trib, and I switched to playing Serenya with them. While Lore wasn’t played as much, those two once-a-week groups were still going strong, right up until the end.

In the years since, I would occasionally log in just to look around, but I never tried to play. Until this spring.I have been reading the blogs of Tipa and Stargrace for awhile, and they began writing about EQ Nostalgia.From their posts and the ensuing wave of nostalgia a new guild was born, Nostalgia on the Luclin server, and Sisca and I decided we wanted to be a part of that.

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