I'll go first. After resisting for months, I finally relented and joined my friend in EQ. I chose to make a High Elf Wizard. Starting off in Felwithe, I somehow made my way to the front gate. After learning how to /tell my friend, she told me to just wait there and try and kill some rats while she made her way over from God knows where (a high level druid--basically God for a new player... SoW and Skin Like Nature!).
I started out with rats, using my little dagger, and nearly died a few times. Once, I journeyed out just beyond the light cast from the torches at the gate and saw the most terrifying thing I'd ever seen in a game (I was 22 years old, btw) -- a skeleton! It had glowing eyes! I freaked out and ran back to the guards. They said something like "Not in my town! and proceeded to obliterate the level 2 skeleton. The guards went back to their station and I thanked them.
I thought they were actual players that had volunteered to perform guard duty and protect the newbies. I asked them how long they'd been playing and where they were from. My friend thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. I never lived it down.
I later learned to use this to my advantage and pretend to talk to NPCs at the druid circle for a port. Higher level druids would take pity on me and do it for free.
Hey, why are you looking at me like that?!
