What was your first day in EFU like?

[Vlaid]

Just had some nostalgia going around in IRC about some of us old crusty longtime players recanting our first day on EFU. Share your first EFU day stories. Even the bad ones can be amusing!

My first day I rolled up a Banite fighter. A guy asked me to come to the arena in Sanctuary (EFU1) to spar. Ended up hitting me with choking powder, mugging me and then offering me a job to earn back my gold. Great introduction to EFU if I do say so!

[xXCrystal_Rose]

Thomas brought me to efu in efu:a. We got onto the ziggurat, rp'd a little, Thomas abandoned me for RL shit and then VP's alchemy balor attack killed everyone on the server, then their alts, and then their other alts and every npc in Nebezzdos. What few survivors were quarantined to the top of the ziggurat protected by our hero Nduru while every level of the pyramid was littered with bodies. #EFU-lyfe.

[tinfoilhat]

Memories from my first day on EFU:

+ Putting on the ring and breaking the illusion for the first time. Note that I didn't really read much of anything about the setting other than post-apocalypse FR and seeing Sanctuary for the first time was as awe inspiring to me as a player as it was for my PC.

+ Wandering around the wilderness wondering where all the spawns were to get experience. Had no idea about scripted quest areas as someone broke the abandoned house quest in the prelude and I missed it at the time.

+ PCs like Thessaly and Tydides coming up and talking to me out of the blue. It was pretty nice to get involved/introduced without having to force my pc into people's conversations and it left such a good impression I came back to play efu the following day.

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While it wasn't exactly my first day, my first DM quest happened like a day or two after. It was BOM's Kobold Trap Hell quest and it was so absurd. It also introduced me to how death works on EFU. Prior to EFU I was pretty used to little to no death penalty, and when someone told me it was safe to respawn I had no idea what they were talking about. I just sort of sat in the fugue waiting for BOM to res me or something (haha).

Eventually I get the picture and respawned, grumbling all the while but committed to seeing the event through. I also shot a purple crystal cluster for like five rounds thinking it would weaken the boss monster and I remember people calling Melanie an idiot and to TOUCH them. I died two more times there and I remember being furious!

We march our way back to Sanctuary to open the box and see our rewards, and it turns out we all got a piece of personalized loot! I was so happy to have gotten a ring made just for my character that I felt pretty silly about being mad about the deaths. While kobold trap hell was silly by design, it got me comfortable with what I consider one of the fundamentals of EFU. The world is harsh but if you're tenacious, have GRIT, and show a bit of cleverness you can reap some pretty awesome rewards.

[VanillaPudding]

Thomas brought me to efu in efu:a. We got onto the ziggurat, rp'd a little, Thomas abandoned me for RL shit and then VP's alchemy balor attack killed everyone on the server, then their alts, and then their other alts and every npc in Nebezzdos. What few survivors were quarantined to the top of the ziggurat protected by our hero Nduru while every level of the pyramid was littered with bodies. #EFU-lyfe.

lmao

[granny]

Well... I don't remember quite right, but I remember of myself running through the forums and checking the screenies, that's when I found the screenie of Venom, an AMB Talonite to whom I fell in love with. Back then I didn't know who Talona was or what Faerun was much about. Honestly I didn't even know where Toril was (heheh). I got to read more stuff on the most awesome goddess ever and checked the screenie a bit further going then to the perks section. Because of sorcerer perks being so awesome and because I got to know you could summon more than one creature per time in EFU, I gone all mad about this server and placed this all together into a sorcerer cultist called Viveca, my first EFU hag and inspiration for all the others.

I remember little of the play time, but I can say that I got this awesome player that told me that I should app for snake form, explaining me about how apps worked and the like. I also remember of thomas' PC calling her a thing... and a little after of him being dragged dead in the Sanitorium (justice!). Also, there was this feast where people placed food on the ground, which I gone invisible and added poisoned food to it. I remember of Viveca being abandoned in the Witherwoods by a band of running people (first moment of granny's anger!) without myself knowing a thing about the server or of how to survive here. I also remember of some plot with a woman of the Conclave, who I plotted about sacrificing with the help of this fire sorcerer, which managed to trick me into being sacrificed myself... TO THE DAMN OOZE CULT (die, ooze cultists and diz-e :P)!

Heh... this all in a week.

[morva]

Made my Banite named Morva. I went down to Lower and was all like Praise Bane fools. I got subdued outside the crone by some Montezzi guy. Then they brought me before the Montezzi folks. I was totally defiant and like yo the black hand will smack you like a bitch. They let me go knowing that I was a noob. I ran away back to Upper.

[Moonlighter]

I joined and rolled up Irith. I had a friend tell me a bit about the server, but he otherwise just kind of set me loose. I had played a good bit of NWN SP, but this was my first PW experience. The Workmill was shut down, so I couldn't finish the starter quests. I just wound up wandering into the Square when some stuff was going down with a worker getting pelted with fruit and got involved, then I wound up accidentally getting flogged into negatives until Sara Rift of all people noticed and healed me.

Then I think I did Umberhulks with Halcron and Kindle and pissed them off because I blasted them with a Wand of Fireball, and Sara Rift fell on a horizontal climb and wound up all the way in the Scarmander.

That was a good day.

[petey512]

I don't remember much of my first day. Let alone my first few weeks. I remember  only the realization that I could do whatever I pleased, and promptly going mad with imaginary power.

My earliest memory is attacking npcs with no DM, emoting attacking NPCs with no DM, throwing rotten fruit at sherriff (azzam?) also an NPC. And again, with no DM. Smart players began to avoid me like the plague, as I would often do these things in front of them. How could they know how to respond?

[Mortui]

I made a PC at Petey's request, Punisher Barbarian, was RPing to myself while destroying worms in the worm pits.

Meldread gave me 250 xp and welcomed me to the server.

[NecronomiconV]

I don't remember my first pc ever in efu back in chapter 2, but i'd say when i first returned to efu after a long long break in chapter 3, that first pc in a while was hilarious. I made a alchemist mage who was used as a pawn by a conclavist that gave him a specific set of ingredients to perform a alchemical recipe for him so he wouldn't have to risk it, and it ended up summoning a slaadi planar devourer on the outskirts of mistlocke, that slaad summoned two more slaad, who summoned two more slaad, ect. ect. until an army of slaad was rampaging around slaughtering half the town and even the big bad gaurd dude in the front back in ol efu3 got killed and it took the DM team to clean up the mess. The pc was executed for the action and overall he lived 1 hour total.

[Garem]

Killed rats in the sewers. Ran into ten different people, all hunting rats. The story doesn't do justice to how much fun it was just... surviving. Killing RATS.

It was so desperate. We'd go out and hunt rothe in big groups. Speed potions were godmode (if you think that sounds awesome, it was about as cool as the Great Depression). Maybe we'd do a quest, but we were scared and so bad at the game... great days, mostly. [throws on his rose tinted hater blockers]

[Archontes]

Talked to every NPC in Sanctuary, learning a bit about the lore and history of the server. Loved the detail that went into it, I'm a fanatic for detail. Got picked up by Watcher Careswell within the first hour, and the lot has kept me busy since. I thought it'd be a little challenging to integrate myself at first, but it's been pretty fine so far.

[Pool]

I went through the portal as Jorgah Biack, a Half-Orc fighter. I didn't know anything about D&D, NWN, nor RPing stats or anything.

I ended up in Mistlocke, walked about and thought 'boy, that's pretty'. Then a few Dwarfs showed up, started talking about how he was filth and it was a good ten or so minutes of back and forth of arguing. Then I got pulled away for the Well quest, where it was spiced by Jaydemoon and Talir.

I died 8 times, I had my pack stolen while I was dead and I was running around in bad chainmail with a hatchet. Then I met a few characters from the Wyrm Watchers, the first one being Kojach. He went on to meet the rest of the Watchers and made good acquaintances.

Around day two or three, every character apart of the faction was executed by the Conclave, leaving me to wander about the server aimlessly. I found my way though.

[CollegeDropout]

I got FDed for 300 gold

[Knight Of Pentacles]

Me and some dudes on Ravenloft were waiting in the ooc starting area after a reset when we decided it'd be "hilarious" to troll EFU.  Rumor had it this was a degenerate server filled with the worst sort of players (no doubt rumors propagated by butthurt refugees).  So me and about 10 other people come through the ziggurat all at once and just walk about in a large group.  We eventually came across Decimate_The_Weak's cleric of Targus near the Gobsquat  who then summarily converts us all to Garagos. We then march to the Temple District screaming at the top of our lungs "GARAGOS!!!" and participate in blood sacrifice within the shrine.

 Myself and  some others realized how wrong the rumors were after that and ended up playing on and off until we started playing EFU full time.