Memories from 2005

Time's Up, Quarm
 10/31/2005
Having moved thru Phase 5 of Time (where Inny decided to be a jerk about the whole "killing you" thing), the Legion of Scales decided to Explore Phase 6; Home of Old Quarm Himself.

And 20 minutes later, Quarm's 4 heads joined the various other trophies on the Wall of LoS's Guild Hall! The Legion of Scales has conquered the Plane Of Time!

With Time Backflags about finished, and Time Farming in Full Swing, LoS looks to it's next Target; Anguish.

Excellent work, members of LoS. Who says a Family Guild can't beat Time? 

Memories from 2005

 The Wrath of Rathe; And Legion Of Scales, A TIME Guild Located on the 7th Hammer.

 9/25/2005
This one only took 5 tries. And each time, we got closer. And Closer. And Closer.

The final time, with seconds left on the clock, 2 Mobs gated back. Throwing Caution, and probably Common Sense, to the 4 winds, LoS rushed the Rathe Council's Podium and finished off the last Mob.

And then, right in the middle of the Raid, the Avatar Of Earth showed his face. By this time, LoS had had quite enough, thank you very much, and jumped on the Avatar full bore. And Won.

Thus, Legion Of Scales now joins the ranks of 7th Hammer's Time Guilds.

Many, Many thanks to everyone that made this possible. Now on to Anguish.  

Vet Forum Memories.

I've gotten 2 duped corpses in my time.

One was in Chardok in 2001 when I was like level 57. The server was lagging and cashing all day. We were raiding in Chardok and the server crashed and I must have died. When the servers came back up, there was a pretty heavy rollback and I was back at the Chardok zone in, alive and well. Raids were over so I left. I got a tell from another guild's leader asking for consent to drag and he'd bring my body to the zone in. I was confused because I didn't die. So I go there and there was a body that looks naked. He was the one who realized the body probably had a full boat of gear and stuff on it, so he made me check and no doubt, it was packed with all the fixins a level 57 warrior has. He was all over me to plunder the body and hook him up with some duplicate items; Cobalt Greaves, Amulet of Necropotence, etc... but being the honest Joe that I am, I didn't take anything, I petitioned it and the GM came and took it away. I was rewarded for my honesty though!

Back then, when you made a surname, that was set in stone; no changing it, no removing it. I didn't like my first selection of my surname that I had for 30 levels and I figured this was a good opportunity to get it changed all proper. So I asked the GM to change it up in light of my boy scout deed here and after thinking about it for a while he changed it from Zired to Xired. Happy day.

Pretty much the same exact scenario happened again only this time on my cleric in MPG during OoW. Running through, server crashed, she died, rollback, duped body, petitioned it and again for my boy scoutiness I asked the GM to change her unfortunate and horrible name from Galadriiel to Keylala and he did.

Crime doesn't pay!

Qxx

Memories from the Vet Forums. March 2023

 Once upon a time a certain ranger on Stromm had figured out a serverside cache glitch involving alts in zone with the same 6 characters in their first name and a bad resolution upon a player's death in zone.

The crash was caused by killing a lowbie (with a modrod) and because serverside couldn't name resolve the death past 6 characters.

He was griefing the server by crashing the guild lobby during raid times, etc. I actually called San Diego and got a senior executive on the phone while he was on with me while a dev account was ingame banning his characters. The dude just kept reappearing on alt after alt, then.... silence... it never happened again and we never saw the player again, Hid old name is banned on the name list.

Joules_Bianchi-March 2023

Memories from the Vet Forums. March 2023

 Many years ago I used to use a retired friend's account to run a bazaar trader. One day I saw the trader standing in the Plane of Knowledge, no longer level 1, but now level 20. I knew what was going on: level 20 is the minimum level to server transfer, and my trader had >15 million plat + dozens of items worth a few million more.

It's a scammer who somehow got my friend's account and is trying to steal my stuff.

I kicked the account offline and after I log in I see a pending character transfer window. Immediately kick requests started popping up, (I keep auto-kick turned off, but apparently they hadn't), but I denied them and transferred all of my plat and items off the trader. A few minutes later, the account is kicked offline by a GM (I found out later the scammer sent in a petition to get me kicked off).

I see the trader log back in, and I send them a tell demanding to know who they are and wtf they think they're doing. (I knew it wasn't my friend and I had already texted them to get them to change their password).

So, the scammer messages me back, pissed, demanding I either give them back my platinum/items, or send them $25 for the transfer token they'd bought and if I don't they threaten to delete all the characters on the account.

I told them to go ahead, I'm not worried, (because by this point my friend had changed the account password so if the scammer logged the trader off to try to delete other characters, we could kick them off and they wouldn't be able to log back in again).

At that point they started spamming the general channel with "wts krono paypal" etc. to try and get the account banned for RMT.

Eventually, they were kicked off by a GM after my friend sent in a petition explaining what was happening.


Don't ever share your account info.     

Beimeith- 2023

Memories from the vet forums.March 2023

 

            As a raiding healer, perhaps the time Tide tried Tris Wallow in DPoB the first time and experimented with Echoing Madness for the adds. I was one of the more active healers, so I was at the top of heal aggro on all of the mezzed mobs. One of our Necros had put a DoT on a wurine add. There was a bug at the time, where every viral pulse of Echoing madness would also spread every other debuff on that mob. The necro DoT was spread to every add, did damage, woke them up, I was summoned about 12 times instantly, died and went LD from the game not knowing how to process being summoned in so many places at once.

Another thing in DPoB is when I had aggro on enough orc manservants during a trash clear, they all KB punched me at once and I was punted out of bounds which then lead to a lot of the zone aggroing onto the raid. I'm sure I still have a pic of that somewhere.

As a raid leader, perhaps the time Tide beat King Odeen as second serverwide and Absor was secretly watching us. That event was incredibly buggy on live resetting in all manner of ways. We persisted and eventually beat it, and the guild thought that in order to get the flag from Odeen that you had to hail him like you would in PoP. Every single hail spawned a chest, and as we realised this we told the guild to stop hailing him. Not only that, but the chests could also be aggroed and some where chasing and hitting people to death. I couldn't stop laughing, it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen in game with what must have been 20 chests with most sliding around attacking people. When we killed those chests and opened the others, we had loot from each. Absor said we could keep the loot as a reward for the insanity we went through in live testing that encounter. The gear mostly rotted as most were not upgrades, but some went to a few apps and mains.

As a player in the community? Having a spell line I worked hard on named after me. That meant a lot. Thank you Prathun.

I'm sure I could mention more interesting things but those are a few that come immediately to mind.     

Lluianae-March 2023 

Memories from the Vet Forms. 2023

 

            1st story: Last day of beta I was wandering around Neriak looking at stuff and I found the library. In that library was another player who was flagged. His name was Innoruuk. I was like "omg good thing its last day of beta cause he would never be allowed to keep that name". About an hour later we got word there was a closing event in Nektulos. So I head out there. Lag city. And as Im waiting Innoruuk comes out and transforms into his real form. Aaargh. If Id thought to attack in the library I might have been the first to kill Innoruuk - at level 9. Well I dont know if Id have won, but you never know.

2nd story: Just joined a guild! First night we have raid to the original plane of Hate. So we manage to break in, which in those days was not a given. Killed some stuff, found a ramp to the 2nd level. We were so weak we were pulling and killing right on the top of the ramp. I notice that the tank had a little push and it was getting closer to the drop off edge. Im thinking should I say something? But being my first day and never raiding before I figure they must know what they are doing so I dont say anything. Down falls the mob, then back up he comes with a dozen friends. Wipe. Now I know to say something. Sometimes I say too much but thats better than not saying anything.     

Svann2-March 2023 

Memories from the Vet Forums. March 2023

 

            As a young warrior in Blackburrow, I made friends with a kindly high-elf cleric named Windeye. This was back in high school circa 2001(ish); a time of endless raiding, farming, and grinding with a close circle of friends. Windeye and I got to know each other and would group up when we were both on. Eventually we lost touch, but I would think back fondly as I moved on. Later on, in life, after school/marriage/kids I rerolled on the Corinav server (I played on each TLP for classic and Kunark nostalgia then would promptly quit). As I was running around in the Commonlands looking for some orcish foes, I came across a high-elf Cleric by the name of Windeye, This could not have been a coincidence, so I sent a tell and to my surprise it was him after almost 18 years! This was remarkable to the both of us, and we chatted for quite a bit to see how much our lives have changed!   

 Alarya EQ Vet forums-March 23