This Conversation Seems Like A Dream

Descending into madness.

So, over the Memorial Day weekend, I bought and started playing Everquest. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, I really really do.

However, unsurprisingly, I'm having the same problems with it now that I did during my brief, one-week stint a few years ago--it's awfully boring. Run this way, kill this thing, kill that thing, nearly get killed by this other thing, run, run, runrunrun, I look good when I run, whee, thud.

Amusingly, I haven't had anyone hit on me because I'm playing a female character yet, but give it time.

And yeah, as frustrating and irritating as it is, I'll probably keep playing for awhile...see, my enchanter was given this quest to make a full set of armor, and arg. It's pissing me off. I'm kicking myself for ever selling spiderling silks when I first started. I'm annoyed at the game gods because there's this monster that rarely ever spawns that I need something from. Strike that, I need *three* somethings from. So, basically, I need three of these monsters...except that not only are the monsters themselves rare, but the item they drop is *also* rare, so...grah.

Now I'm just in stubborn mode, you know? I want to finish that fucking set of armor comma dammit. I don't want to start over again because I've already got four or five of the seven or eight pieces that I need, and the thought of starting all over again with the enchanter at level 1 just does not fill me with glee. But arg!

So...yeah. Definitely a descent into madness.

I have to admit, though, there are some pretty cool people around there. One guy I ran into just blithely passed off 300 platinum pieces to me, and apologizes because he didn't have more. It's also not uncommon to have higher level characters just randomly cast buffs on you if they happen to pass you by. Not bad.

Anyway, if any of you play EQ, and you happen to be on the Mithaniel Marr server, and you ever see Imrielsa online...say hello. I'll probably still be stuck in Greater Faydark hell.

Or, if you have a compelling pitch to get me to start over on another server, well, maybe I'll listen. Maybe. :)

Posted by Liz at June 7, 2004 07:31 AM