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Mega_Mana posted...

Somehow a shot of pure nostalgia despite the song playing, iirc, only when running near the southern coast of the zone when 99% of the time I'd be sneaking around much higher up and exploring the mountainous and bandit-fileld north. Holy Rainkeeper, I do miss my days in Karana's lands from Surefall Glade to Highpass. I spent so many hours and days in His regions. Qeynos was the home city of the majority of my longest-played characters, and I spent much time trying to jump up into places we weren't supposed to go (done again a lot later in LOTRO's Bree, playing The Moon with other Board 8ers from random rooftops). Toiling away for hours and hours hunting giant field rats for their rare whiskers to complete my Ranger (Druid?) armor set. Slaying nearly as many Gnolls in Blackburrow as I did running away from Elite Gnoll Trains to Zone entrance!!! Finding level-appropriate places to hide in West Karana on my first server, which was PvP, since too many assholes roamed Qeynos Hills and started tracking me down in the Qeynos Aqueducts. Spending far more time in Western Karana than was level-appropriate because the Giants and Griffins in North Karana terrified me.

This list is inducing old itches and scars I want to scratch at and return to, and yet the past remains the past. Pre-Luclin servers exist with Everquest '99, and yet there are people who know the ins and outs of everything for about twenty-five years now and it's such an intimidation. I would love to go back to when everything was fresh for everyone else and play in those busy, chaotic times again. So many quick friends and lost companions. Such a wonderful experience.

This brings back memories. I started with a human druid from Surefall.