Crimson Eternity

There was a discussion on Mastodon yesterday (thanks, Nimgimli!) about the stories we tell about our MMO characters. Here’s five EverQuest stories about mine.

Welcome to Blaugust! Every year, Belghast tries to revive those halcyon days when blogs were relevant to the world of games. It’s all video and podcasts now. The thing about video is that it isn’t really very searchable – same with podcasts. If you want a bit of info, you’re not going to find it in a video. If you just want to skim something, you’re not going to find it in video. ...

Another Friday, another entirely new zone, and we still are ages from seeing more than a fraction of the game. Last week, we started doing the faction quests that open up the main mission arc of the Dragons of Norrath expansion. The first brought us to Stillmoon Temple, deep inside the Broodlands. Last night, though, we stayed a little closer to home, and headed into Lavaspinner’s Lair. A Lavaspinner is a particular kind of spider formed of cooling lava and sent forth by their queen, Volkara, one of DoN’s earlier raid targets, to entrap unwary explorers in their burning webs to use as food for her young. ...

The plan was to help everyone get to level 60 so we can start doing some of the two group raids in Kunark, Velious and Luclin – things like Velketor the Sorcerer, Trakanon, Venril Sathir and such. What better way, than through the hot zones? The hot zone for our level was (was) Riwwi in Gates of Discord. Not the best place in the world, but we made plans to go. ...