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<b>Message ID:</b> 5405 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Fri Aug 20 17:34:42 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> randy@xxxxxx.xxx <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> a Bards rant on getting thru hell level part one (lvl 30) -long txt <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1723645611">-4am, woke up to nagging alarm. Stumbled to the pc, logging in to eq, eyes
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still can&#39;t focus quite right as I start taking out aviaks in south karana,
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but I have two bubbles to go, &quot;shouldn&#39;t be that tough&quot; I say to myself.
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-7am, servers go down for maintenance, actually manage to get a few things
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done around the appt
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-9am, servers supposed to be up, but aren&#39;t.  I constantly pound on the &#39;let
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me in&#39; key untill a little after 10am when it finally works
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-kill aviaks over and over and over.. eventually get one charm, so I can
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quest, hey, I have a little less than a bub to go, whohoo!
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-4pm, see an auction from a friend on a well ballanced scim, that my druid
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would love.  She transports me to gfay, (bonus, now I can give shield and
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scim to my druid)
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-now I realize that I&#39;m in gfay, and need to get exp, I shudder at the
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thought of going to mistmoore, but my guild meet is there tonight anyhow,
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so I decided to brave the ubber-trains and try for some exp (still have just
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about a bub to go)
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-Mistmoore: not bad, kinda camped, which is good, less trains. solo a bit,
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get a little exp, but slow going.  I manage to avoid a few of those
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ubber-trains, and made it thru alive all night (rare). I realize its getting
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late (now 9pm) and I still have more than half a bub to go. I&#39;m determined
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to level before I log, and get out of &quot;hell level&quot;. So I dig in.  I
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join a group (so I don&#39;t have to KS from them) and slowly get exp.  Around
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11pm a train comes thru taking out half the zone, most of the group decides
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thats enough, and calls it quits.  I grp with a guild member who was there,
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and in my dazed state (now having been up for 20 hrs) procede to take on
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every single mob that was there, even green, just in case it gave me exp.
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-Midnight, finally, I get lvl 31! I scribe, and learn my new song, group
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leviate (fun) and force my guild to congratulate me :) I zone, camp, then go
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to bed.. wake up 4 hrs later to come to work (yawn)
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I now understand why so many ppl stop playing thier char&#39;s at lvl 30.  I get
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 track at lvl 35, and am hoping that it will help to soften the blow of
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&#39;hell level&#39; part two.
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Coalin Minnesinger
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Sterling Order of Knights
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Bard of the 31st Song
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Fennin Ro</div>