User blog comment:Raylan13/EverQuest 15th Anniversary Sweepstakes/@comment-24701761-20140318091910

I started playing a few days after The Ruins of Kunark expansion release, I believe it was in May of 2000. I started a Half Elf Paladin, named Benamin. I will never forget my first few months playing my first MMO, it was (and still is at times) magical. Benamin started out in Qeynos, and was affraid to go too far away, as death was around every corner. But, little by little, I started exploring Qeynos Hills, Blackburrow, Everfrost, and I even took the boat from Qeynos to Erud's Crossing to go to Wisp Island to get greater lighstones to make 1pp per.

But it was when I first zoned into West Karana, that I started to understand the sheer scope of what I was playing. Then, my friend asked me to make the trip to Freeport. That trip will always be in memory as one of the most epic things I had ever done in an MMO. I had some awesome friends in EQ; Dozer, Starkad, Synthus, and Jynn Oceanrunner (and many more). I think of them often, and wonder how they are. Those were truly some awesome days.

Eventually, I joined Silence of the Dead, and met my wife. Now we have a daughter who plays Everquest. I see in her, the magic, that I felt fourteen years ago. So I would like the wish a good friend of mine a  happy anniversary. Thanks for all the wonderful times I have had over the years. In game, and out.