Happy silver anniversary Realms of Despair!<\/p>\n
25 years is an amazing amount of time, especially to those of us not yet resigned to our actual ages. I was in my early 20’s when I started playing … and now I’m not, can you relate? No? Go to bed you whippersnapper!<\/p>\n
I can remember this game in an era where I had just graduated from predominantly single line, turn based, multiplayer games on BBSes.\u00a0 Coming online and seeing 300-500 characters online was amazing.\u00a0 Today the numbers are a long way down, and there’s probably more people bidding on some of the auctions we look at in those last crucial 10 seconds, but the game is still alive and well.\u00a0 By and large it’s stable and people continue to contribute to it regularly.<\/p>\n
One of those contributions was the Silver Anniversary Quest hosted by Zistrosk that concluded with the end of August.\u00a0 This post has been on the back burner for a while, but his gentle nudging has finally got me typing it tonight.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed the quest.\u00a0 Unlike Oktoberquest 2018 there was no sniping at one another.\u00a0 There were definitely groups working together, groups that kept their lists quiet, but that’s normal competition.\u00a0 I enjoyed working with the people I did both in and out of the Order of Ringbearers.\u00a0 Lots of people were definitely hustling to do everything they could, Myrr, Joe, Incdeni and many others were spotted running around the Realms in the great hustle.\u00a0 My very slow prestige leveling paid off when I was able to retrieve some items from Ezard’s Fields, Sentinel, Gauntlet, and elsewhere.\u00a0 Aside from killing some mobs I’d never killed before I made a new character of each class and finally made a list of the Sunless Sea area items, explored every hometown, visited every single deity I could, no Grishnakh or Tempus upgraded sigils though and mapped my way though the Badlands getting my first gryphon lantern, a neat item that gets even cooler when you wear it on pk character.<\/p>\n