Token Female Gamer

A dear friend and geek pal of mine recently moved away. Like all true hardcore geek friends, we met online. We used to play EverQuest together (back in the day when role-playing was still cool).

Eventually it was discovered that we lived in the same general area. Not close enough to hang out all the time, but close enough to play some decent D&D every month or so.

And then he up and moved (and I haven’t played D&D since!!!! Damn j00!) Something about job relocation and buying a house, you know, extremely mature reasons. Of course I am supremely happy for him about all the positive stuff, but I’m sad I lost a geek friend. They are hard to come by, for me anyway, and for him apparently also.

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EverQuest was my first love. Oh I dabbled before that and spent time with the likes of Ulitma Online, Meridian 59, and various MUDs, but EQ was my first drop down drag out devoted commitment.

It was far from love at first site. In fact the first time met we could barley understand each other. It was in beta and I was clueless. My first character ran around town for five minutes, pressed “a” before hitting enter and was promptly killed by an NPC.
I was pretty sure that was a horrible way to make friends and logged off.

But EQ was young and at the urging of mutual friends I gave it another chance. They helped me understand the language of EverQuest, offering us a much smoother introduction. All that hand holding my friends did paid off. We got along famously.
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