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[farf]

hey, they eventually died, it just takes poison bolt and clinging darkness( a combined 18 damage a tick) a little while

[Urgon]

Hey all,

Yeah.. still playing 'Mesmur' my now 13th level Erudite Enchanter on the 'Sleepless' server. There must be something wrong with me. I know it's a leveling treadmill. I know that as soon as I get my 'Crookstinger' piercing weapon, I'll start to covet the 'Dragoon Dirk' or somesuch. I know this keening will not end with the next level...

yet.. I still play.


BUT, I did get a little sidetracked on recovering my long lost EQ love... a certain tool that makes the game much more fun. If you have not heard, this is a linux program that passively listens to the data stream coming from the EQ1 server, and just displays them in a pleasant way.

I had an old Pentium-2 400Mhz collecting dust in my garage, so I fired it up and set upon my quest to turn it into my tool box. I'm a real n00b at Linux, and I just had to rely on my old hacking & coding skills to get me going.

It took a few weeks of tinkering, but I was able to finally resurrect my PC and get 'theTool' running.... and only spending $6 on a new cpu fan, and $44 on a network hub to properly spam the packets to both machines. (yeah, wish I still had my cheapie hub from the late 90's.. but that hit the trashbin years ago..)

Downloaded Debian Linux for FREE (found the DVD iso images online). Download all the GPL libraries. Compiled them. Configured them. Spent a lot of time piecing together how this bloody system 'wants' to work, and finally got in running in 800x600 mode on Wed night. Last night, I finally found the source of my poor screen resolution, and have 1024x768 (good for my old Geforce card) running fine.

Now I can see every spawn by name, location on map, and hunt down those XP yeilding blues!! Weeeeee.....

But, I still have the fear. The fear of being banned if I utter 'theTools' name into cyberspace and the EQ1 spiders find me. That would be bad..

Anyways, hanging out in Lesser Faydark for the moment... May head to Lake of Ill Omen soon...

..will probably kill Mesmur in the morning...

[Urgon]

What is wrong with me?

Why do I continue?

Mesmur is now level 36. TheTool keeps getting threatened from the Sony coders, but it lives on.

Mesmur joined a guild. They are a progression guild, which made sense at the time for a progression server. Only, you see.... they even restrict their members to zones they have only explored. Even if the server has opened up to almost all the expansions.

I figured it would be good to get Mesmur into a few guild groups... although, now, they have all moved on. Level 50-60 ... raiding the planes of Fear & Hate. Little old me is still whacking skeletons outside the Crypt of Dalnir.

So, I sneaks off to some new land, with lots of dark blues that I can solo! (Gotta say, this Enchanter solos the pants off my old Ranger). A few nights there, was finally getting alittle experience. For some reason this one night, I actually went /anon ... just in case anyone would wonder why I was in this zone.... a zone I only recently realized was outside the 'progression timeline' they had setup.

Low and behold a tell comes that night.

"Hey there..."

Mesmur says "Howdy"

"Using /anon is strictly prohibited by the guild rules. May I ask what zone you are currently in?"

(** holy shit, you gotta be kid'n me... thinking fast on my feet.... **)

Mesmur memorizes GATE.
Mesmur casts GATE.
Mesmur runs to the nearest portal, any frick'n portal to a leveling zone in Antonica.
Mesmur ports to Feerot.

(** whew...that was only like 25 seconds..**)

Mesmur says, "I'm in the Feerot. Hunting lizards.."

"Ok. Don't use /anon .. we need to be able to see if you are in a legal zone or not"

Mesmur says, "Ok.... didn't know. Sorry."

"Its posted on the guild website, under progression rules."

Mesmur says, "Cool. Thanks!"

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I miss you guys....
~Urgon

[Lilae]

lol, well it sounds like you're having fun at least

[WUNBadassTHANE]

I am summoning lots of dead threads in the name of BOREDOM.