12 Days of Gaming: Seven Memories of Norrath

New memories are forged every day and those made in Norrath burn brightest of all.

#4: Bristlebane’s Party Machine

The community of Allakhazam came together to figure out the many deity tasks introduced in EverQuest’s 10th anniversary celebration, a month before I started working for ZAM in 2009. One of the most challenging of these tasks was finding everywhere Bristlebane’s Party Machine went. Much celebration occurred game-wide as the community extended a hand and helped everyone complete the mission!

#3: A Marriage in Katta Castellum

Once upon a time, I in-game married my real-life husband’s best friend. Yes, that’s as confusing as it sounds! My husband officiated the wedding in the chapel of Katta Castellum with his role-play only dwarf, Zelgar. After many “oo oi” and “nutter boom zing bangs!” (Zelgar-speak at its best), my monk Phantie and our friend’s shaman, Wulfborn, were married.

A couple years ago while I was at Fan Faire, those two plotted a surprise for me in our guild hall on EverQuest II. I came home and tried to find the crafting writ agent, but she was missing. Assuming she had sunk under the world via some strange bug, I reset her position at the door and placed her back. I completed a writ, went to turn it in, and she was missing again. As I ran to the guild hall door my husband turned to me and said “we didn’t know you could reset them... just check the basement!” I ran down figuring they decided to place 500 dividers just to annoy me but was shocked to see that they re-created the Katta Castellum chapel room we were married in, including using the guild hall NPCs as stand-ins!

#2: The Void and the Plane of Time

There are so many places in EverQuest I love. The beaches in Cobalt Scar. Siren’s Grotto. Eastern Wastes. The spider section of Crystal Caverns. The waterfall in front of Thurgadin. I liked Velious quite a bit, can you tell? Apart from Velious, there were some other places that definitely had that wow factor to me. The first two that spring to mind are The Void and the Plane of Time.

When I originally did Planes of Power progression I never got through all of it before bigger and better things came along, so Plane of Time happened years after the PoP era for me. It still was a fantastic and original experience as we unlocked our way through the zone.

The Void was the hub of the last expansion where I played EverQuest with dedicated fervor. As you progressed through the missions you changed the Void, starting with Void A and ending with Void G. The furthest I ever got was Void E. The image below was the first one I took after stepping into the zone on launch day. Seeing Veeshan frozen in a shattered realm was amazing.


There’s one more memory to go, and it’s one that’s had such an impact that it needed its own page…

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ronaneb
# Jul 26 2016 at 11:25 PM Rating: Decent
Just posting because I'm being nostalgic -
Ronaneb was never the same person. I'm not the real Ronaneb but the real one would ALWAYS let people use his account so he could keep his place on camps. I personally camped the FBSS for Ronaneb back in the day. Of course, I was like 13 years old playing and ended up losing him a level and a half when he was level 53...

Karma caught up to him - his stuff got stolen many times. And by people I know.
I loved Veeshan
# Dec 31 2013 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
Ah, the Void. Seeing Veeshan floating in the air like that was really amazing. I never played back in the days, but visited sometimes with a 57 necro. The graphics and animations are outdated now, but EQ is still a great game.
changing history
# Dec 29 2013 at 10:39 AM Rating: Default
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I was there and was in on the debacle we called Unnamed.Yes EQ was fun but lets not forget the crazy that came with all that.It was a different time and no doubt we all all grew up a bit but PLEASE don't forget history or it just repeats itself even out of game lol
Great article
# Dec 29 2013 at 9:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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I wasn't smart enough to take screenshots and mine would mostly have involved my dead enchanter corpse anyways.

your trip down memory lane was a great read. You've done higher/harder things in era than I ever got to, but are bang-on that it's the friends you did whatever you did with that made (make) EQ amazing.
The Everquest Annual tradition called "Nillipus' Slaying"
# Dec 27 2013 at 2:48 PM Rating: Excellent
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This story goes way back to 1999 when my guild mates the "Bone Thug Clan" and I travelled to Rivervale in search of quest items for the almighty travelers bag. A 4 slot bag that reduced weight by 10%. We needed something called Jumjum stalk which was on Nillipus the Brownie in Rivervale. Being new to the game at the time we were not prepared for the slaughter that ensued. At the end of the quest we were supposed to kill Nillipuss and loot his corpse. What happened is almost to graphic to describe but I'll try. We had a full group of 6, all around lvl 7 to 8. Two Warriors, one Cleric and Rogue, a Magi and one Ranger. The Warrior went up to Nillipuss being confident and tough, "taunted" and went down in a heap of armor and blood, next was the Cleric who was trying to heal, then chaos ensued. The rest of us doing our best, "RUN! for the zone". He tracked use down one by one and killed us all.
This is were the tradition began. Now every year at Christmas (Frostfell) we log in and try to be the first one to "Slay Nillipuss" and take a screen shot with his warm corpse. Then share photo with the group. Here is what the victim looks like in his glory.
http://zam.zamimg.com/images/i/d/id4237.png
The Everquest Annual tradition called "Nillipus' Slaying"
# Dec 27 2013 at 3:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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Awesome! Nilipuss is one of those mobs that deserves it, anyway. :D
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The Everquest Annual tradition called "Nillipus' Slaying"
# Jan 27 2014 at 7:05 PM Rating: Good
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Cyliena wrote:
Awesome! Nilipuss is one of those mobs that deserves it, anyway. :D


I, Baeddon, am running for Mayor of Rivervale. I've spoken to a great number of her citizens and they have all expressed their concern of this nuisance. If elected, one of my first actions as mayor will be to once and for all end Nillipus's crime spree and terror. The current administration has sat idly by for far too long. We need a halfling who loves Rivervale as much as her citizens and will not tolerate this lawlessness, let alone from a brownie. Please vote Baeggus this season and thank you for your time.
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