Well after a pretty awful weekend (getting car impounded after returning
home from funeral), I spent yesterday after noon with my roomate (and
often EQ grouping partner) on a Real Life Quest. Being bored we staring
comparing getting my car out of impound to an EQ quest.

First we had to do the long camp/ rare spawn. The dreaded DMV camp.
This spawn only occurs from 9-4:30 on weekdays, spawn time is 1-2hours.
Pretty much a boring camp, but the lore no-drop "Registration Paid"
form is a common drop.

AFter stoping at a vendor to buy muffins and water (Or in this case
doritos and pepsi), we moved onto the common spawn, though conisderably
more dangerous, Haddon Heights Police Office. Fortunatly no one was
camping the office and the lowest lvl spawn (ie most helpful) officer
was on duty. After giving him all the quest components (liscence,
registration, insurance, DMV form) (Yes, thats 4 components!!!), he
gave me the much sought after, "Remove Car from impound form".

Ahh, the hard part is over, now all I need is someone with tracking (or
a map) to find Greenwood's Towing. I knew it was located in the
Runnemede zone, however all the direction I could get was "Near the
turnpike entrance". There were no Rangers in Runnemede when we got
there, but luckily, my roomate stumbled upon the spawn, while we were
wandering. Woohoo! I gave the form I got from the police station to
the Cashierasaurus, and amazingly the quest worked! He gave me the "Car
Key"!!!! My roomate had suggested making a rogue and pick pocketing him
(thus avoiding the 90 gold you have to habd in with the form), but I
wanted to play it safe.

Home free? Not quite apparantly we missed the warning about the
wandering agressive mob which spawns near my car. It was called
"Junkyard Dog". It chased me but fortuantly I managed to outrun and
zone with 2bubs left.

Whats my point? Well, in all this time we had going from zone to czone
and camping, we thought of designing our own online RPG. I think we'll
call it "Psychotics Online: The Real World". Essentially its a mud
type game, using a 3d graphic engine. It setting? Earth, year 2000.
The characters? Well originally designed for non-PVP, all chracters
would be chosen from a pool of various psychotic killers.

Newbie areas would include The Day Care Center, Retirment Home, and
Sesame Place.
Once you hit level 10 or so, you could move up to the grade school,
summer camp (watch out for rare wander agressive "Jason" there), and
suburban development.
Finally, the top level psychotics can start camping the police station,
the football stadium, or get together for a "government agency raid".
(if its catch on, we will make a high level expansion called "Texas")

We estimate we'll sell about 25,000 copies before lawsuits put our
company out of business...
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We now return to the non-stop rock.

Matt DeBarger