When you go to type something out or are talking in IM, have you ever found yourself using a backslash?
I do it alot!
I also the other day I was giving my youngest a hard time when I asked her to go down and get something from the kitchen for me and she told me it was just “toooooo far to goooooo mom, and all those staaaairrrs Mom”.
I told her that if she brought me some bat wings I could lev her and I could give her a SoW so she could make it back faster.
The look on her face told me she didn’t find it as funny as I did. 
Oh yeah, all the time before I kicked my addiction.
My friend and I were hiking the other day, and I pointed out it would go a lot faster if we had SoW.
I use to do that alot when I did play EQ. Other things I’ve done:
-Saw a sign outside a restaraunt that said: Res Only. Immediately thought to myself, Who died?
-If a friend asked me to repeat myself, I’d sigh and say, “Scroll Up!”
-One time I actually did say the acronym “LOL” to something funny I heard.
That’s all I can remember.
Several years ago, I used to be well known on Terris Thule as the “Queen of Mistells”. No one was immune. My guild even gave me a crown. Occasionally, I’d try to pass the crown on, but it wouldn’t be allowed - no one could quite match the amount of mistakes I’d made.
A couple of the “famous” ones:
I was in a group, and we were talking about the frogs in Guk, and I was talking about how I’d been “traumatised” as a young bard, sitting with a high level group and waiting in the ass/sup room to get the Mask of Deception. The group had lost control of the situation and we were quickly overrun with frogs. So I was making little jokes to my group about the past incident. And out of the blue, my guild received this line: “No, Kermit, I don’t find frogs attractive. And put your clothes back on.”
Other one liners my whole guild got, taken out of context:
“I like rhinos because they’re horny.”
“Who was your father, monkeyboy?”
“I’d like to see that Troll drop his pants again.”
“If I see you naked one more time, I’m going to kill myself.”
“I feel bad for you, big fella. I mean, you had to hear it from an orc.” (My guild speculated on this one endlessly… most thought I was talking about the size of a guildmate’s manhood. They were way off, of course, but that’s most of the fun).
“I hug trees with plastic explosives, and care for animals with my 6mm!” (this is not true, of course, but I rebel at being called a “hippy”).
“I killed a shark with my bare arms, then I ATE HIM”
“I have a large array of whips. Bend over.”
“(whatever mob %t) is on the cleric! Get it off, get it off, get it off!” (hotkey was set to guild instead of group).
They may sound pretty tame, but as I said, out of context - and imagine if you’re just casually chatting with your guild buddies, and out of nowhere, one of those lines shows up. I had a terrible time with /g and /gu.
I’ve had some interesting mistells… my favourite was one of my “best EQ” friends (not a real friend, but an EQ brand friend). She had met a bunch of our guildmembers in person that weekend (we all lived on the east coast - I was the only one who never went to meet everyone). I received this tell from her:
“I want to play with you naked.”
Me: “Well, sweetie, I’m flattered, but… I don’t swing that way!”
Friend: “OMG OMG OMG”
Me: “Hey, it’s alright, a lot of women misunderstand my signals.” (I knew it was a mistell, but I like to have a little fun).
She went on to tell me how she’d met some of our guildies, and apparently had clicked pretty well with one of them. Gee, I couldn’t tell. :rolleyes: Oh, well, I guess it was a big “secret”, because she had a boyfriend already, and with that mistell, she ended up confessing to me that she had cheated on her man, etc, etc. I felt kind of bad at first, for the guy, I mean, but a couple of months later, they both came clean with each other, thought that maybe sleeping with other people would strengthen their relationship, and her boyfriend “carefully selected” ( :eek: ) me to have a threesome with them. Yes, I declined!! :eek:
Mistells are fun.
I ramble. I actually meant to contribute something relevent to the OP, but as you can see…
I meant to add in there: I often flub up and use / in IM… and on message boards, I sometimes will write things like /agree, or /cheer.
I had weird dreams that I was a bard, running through Greater Fay, and finding corpses for my real-life co-workers, who would come to me in their underwear, then pay me to find their corpse.
I often refer to a snobby group of people as having their own “guild”.
My brother (also an EQ addict) and I once watched swamplights at night, and he said “So those are willowisps?”
And I replied “Yeah… I can tell which ones would drop Greater Lightstones.”
One time I was driving home and saw something shiny on the side of the road. A little less impulse control and I’d have veered off the road, because my first thought was ‘Pixie Trickster corpse!’ and I wanted to loot it.
/sigh
This isn’t about Ellery Queen, then?
These are some pretty funny stories! Good lord! Keep em comming!
We have one guy in our guild who is the king of mistells and we have come to call them Muss tells.
His toons names is Mussosarnannasd;fkshf or something like that.
I will let him come and spell the name for you if he wants to fess up. He is a fellow doper.
And since I have been graced with a mods attention I have a question.
I would like to know how many dopers are EQer’s and what their servers are, but I am not sure if I should start another thread asking for this info so it would be better seen, or ask in this thread and hope that it is seen?
I would hate to start a similar but different thread and get in trouble.
Well, I’ll post mine here. Obviously, I’m an Evercrack addict… man. I’ve been playing since the game came out, about what, four or five years, now? I can’t stop. I began on Bertox, but then the server split, and I moved to Terris Thule. I spent many happy years on TT… then my fiance and I split, and he had played on that server, and I didn’t want to speak to him anymore - so I moved to Stormhammer… didn’t find it to be that great for the extra money I was paying, so I went to Zebuxoruk… I didn’t like it there that much, as it was empty and seemed to be full of children players (I have nothing against the kids, but I felt overwhelmed! It 5uxx0r’D after a while).
And finally… I now play on Morden Rasp. My characters are all lowbies, since I just moved there a couple weeks ago. I don’t feel like paying to move my highest characters on over… I’ll just start from scratch and feel like a newbie again. Whee! I don’t want to move, now, because the server is just busy enough so I don’t feel lonely, and there seems to be a good mix of players, old and new.
I have a halfling rogue named Cattails, and a high elf cleric named Lumine. There are others, but those are my two “mains” right now. (I played a dark elf rogue for years, and I loved her to death, but I don’t feel like starting her all over again, or paying to move her).
I used to play Khiadra (female, HE, cleric) and Rhion (male, DE, mage), and my husband played Neraad (male, Iksar, beastlord) and Hamileb (male, human, ranger), on Bertoxxulous initially, and later on Innoruuk.
Hamileb got to level 64, Khiadra to 55, Rhion to 57 and Neraad to 57. We had a sundry collection of lowbie chars, too.
Hubby and I transferred our characters from Bertox to Inny when a friend changed to that server.
We were in League of Friends and later Triune Alliance on Bertox, and Blue Moon on Innoruuk.
We both quit EQ after deciding we preferred City of Heroes since we couldn’t afford to each have 2 subscription games.
Both of us have pre-ordered EQ2 though, and will cancel our CoH subscriptions once EQ2 is stable enough for us to play regularly. We’re not expecting too much when it first launches though…
That’s our EQ lives in a nutshell 
Main - aruvqan, 56 cleric. Palledine, 65 pally. Lthaar, 62 cleric. Solusek ro
assorted alts, generally aruvqan as well…test, antonius bayle, fironia vie, rallos zek, assorted levels
guide on mith marr, anonymous and soon to be retiring to play eq2 instead of guiding=0
I know there is a way to chat across the servers but I just don’t know how.
I have a guildmate who has toons on Rasp.
I have three newbie toons on Zebuxoruk, but when Tunare went down on a glitch the other day I realise that server doesn’t seem like home.
My mains are Naeyeni a 47 cleric, and Vinadrea a 35 DE SK whom I have come to adore!
I am also loving the voice macros! funny as heck.
One guy I played with sounded like Duncan McCloud and my Vinny (the DE) sounds soooooo evil!
If you ever grab a newbie toon on Tunare send me a tell. Unless you know how to do it from server to server.
And you know as I look at this post I remember when I first started EQ and watched people talking and thought “good lord I will never figure any of what they are saying out!”
Still have to ask people to simplify and repeat, but getting much better.
As for finding my way around the game, I am the Goddess of the forever lost in my guild.
I’m on The Nameless.
Khazul, dwarf pally 10
Khorrs, barb beastlord 9
Ghariel, wood elf druid 6
I haven’t grouped at all, yet. I’m so used to solo playing on regular old single-player RPGs that I’m kind of shy about accepting invites or inviting other people. I HAVE been chatting during play more, though, mostly answering newbie questions.
jayjay, since your toons are so low on that server would you like to jump over to mine?
I have stuff for a druid and I know my guild has stuff for any other toons you would start out.
I know it’s probably not an EverQuest-y outlook, but I have a thing about being twinked or carried. I actually have some real-life friends on Nameless, but I’m kind of avoiding them because they’re lvl 30 and I don’t want to be picked up and carried along to the end-game. They’ve already offered to twink me and lvl me. But I don’t want to be lvled. I want to be the one lvling.
Yeah, I’m weird.
Was on Terris-Thule for my entire run. Had a 46 gnome sk, 56 human ranger, and a 60 assling cleric.
jayjay, I wasn’t offering to twink or level you hon, just help you.
I took from your post that you sounded unsure of things.
As for items that guild and I might/would have for you, they wouldn’t be anything spectacular as we really don’t do the whole uber toon power level thing.
My sister in law actually left my guild because she found one that would hand her everything.
When she reached higher levels she found her skills lacking cause they were doing it for her and she has now had to really work to get her skills to match her level. PLing is not always good.
No offense taken or intended, Kricket. I just see so much begging and piggy-backing going on in-game that it kind of irks me.
I’ve more or less been deliberately choosing solo-capable classes so far. That may change in the future as I lean toward wanting to try out grouping. But considering that my future plans already include trialing a shah vir beastmaster and an elven wizard, that’ll probably be a while.
Oh, and my druid just dinged 8 last night. Then promptly got beat down when I pulled an orc oracle in what apparently was the very crossroads of centurion wandering in GFay. :smack:
I play DAoC now, and am having to learn all their abbreviations. I feel like such a moron when I ask what PoC is.
Somebody in my group said “OOP.” I said what’d you do?
OOP = Out Of Power. I’m used to OOM.
But I remember all these EQ abbreviations. I especially remember all the vulgar remarks I’d make when somebody would answer “ass/sup” to an LGuk camp check.