Roleplaying games

Some people are nuts. Really.

I was one of them, but only for one night, some years ago. I had agreed to go out with some friends of mine. I knew there would have been also a nice-looking girl I met last weekend. Of course is easy to say that now, but I think that she was interested in me at the time….

So what happened, and why I’m talking about this in a roleplay blog? Because at those times, the hype of the moment was Everquest 1. Yes, the first incarnation, with that horrible 3d graphic (that at those time looked fantastic though). I was wandering with my level 6 female monk in the east commons, and got killed by a giant spider in a far away zone. Man, how good was the MMORPG at those times!!!

No gold sellers, no raids, no uber-players, no powerleveling… it was like a virgin territory to explore.

So, as I said I was killed and had the famous trouble of retrieving my corpse with all my precious valuables (that were really ridiculous, but I was just an EQ newbie at those times!). I had tried but there were too many monsters. And the time was running fast… until I realized that was already 8pm and I should have met with other REAL LIFE friends at 8.15!!! impossible of course since I was living 50km away, and had yet to prepare myself.

Guess what I did? I called a friend of mine telling him, with lot of embarassement, that I couldn’t come because of… that game! because I had to retrieve that damn corpse! my friend thought I was joking with him, but when he realized I was serious, he just said “are you nuts? fuck off!” and hanged the phone.

That night I was up until 2am playing EQ, until finally I got back the corpse with the help of one of the very few high levels character that was on the server. The morning after thought I realized how stupid I was. I got news that the sexy girl was there, and another friend of mine kissed her (and probably did a lot more than I know).

I said to myself “this will never happen anymore”. And luckily it didn’t. I kept playing EQ, but never started to play it if I knew that I had to do something important, in my real life, not the fictional life of MMORPG!