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Return to Norath Day 2
By flisk | March 13, 2009
March 13th, 2009. Day 2.
After 3 days they (Sony) finally restored my character because the previous server I was on (Stormhammer) no longer existed. I called them and at first they were wanting to charge me $50.00 a character to transfer. I argued that there was no way I was going to pay 200 bucks (I had 4 characters I wanted back) to play a game that I left several years ago. I further went on to argue that it was not my fault their business was so poorly run that they had to shut down the server I was on, and furthermore that if they did charge me, I’d simply cancel the account and move on again.
I told the guy, Eric was who I spoke with, that I was excited to return, but after shelling out $40.00 to play, there was no way in hell I was going to spend another dime.
He forwarded everything to a GM and 2 hours later all of my characters were restored. To that end I must applaude Sony for doing the right thing.
Okay, so here I am in the world again. Seems I’ve got some items to claim. Among them is a book that can teleport me to the Plane of Knowledge. Evidently tjis area is new, I can teleport here then teleport anywhere else. That’s pretty cool.
Okay, so I start off running after a pig-wark or bulwark, or something like that. Looked like an anteater on really tall legs.. I cannot kill it so I run. Of course I create a train behind me because I cannot find a town. I inadvertantly press the ‘M’ key and bring up a map. Ah! Nice! I see the town!
I decide to head towards it, I can remember from long ago that the guards would kill whatever was after you.
They failed to move from their posts so I had to keep running until I zoned. Ahh Zones. Yes, this game makes you wait as you cross from one zone to another.
Okay, so now I’m in a town. I’ve got 143 Platinum on me, and no clue what I need to buy. I keep finding merchants that want to sell me plans to blacksmith or sew. I don’t give a crap about any of that, I want weapons! I want armor!
I find none.
I then find a swimming pool. Jump in, I soon find that I cannot get out!
Holy crap, I remember this bug now. So many areas in the game that if you were too small, you were stuck.
I tried my book, “you cannot cast while swimming!”
Crap.
I tried the looking up and jumping technique. No luck.
Looks like I’d have to drown just so I could rez. I went online to see what other solutions there may be.
I found nothing.
20 minutes goes by, I’m just wasting time at this point, trying everything I can to get out of this stupid water.
Then I remember about the book. I teleport to the Planes of Knowledge, find a portal to Freeport, head over to the commonlands, head north into a valley (going through 2 more zones), and come fact to face with a zombie!
I swing! He casts a spell (zombies can cast spells???) and does 201 damage to me. Hold up, what?? Zombies can cast some badass spells??? Next thing I know the zombie has 5 skeleton pets and some kind of dinosaur on me.
I die.
I resurrect, but lose some experience while doing so.
All in all, I’m not happy with my first official day of returning to Everquest and playing.
I’ll give it a little more time tho.
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