What was your first day in EFU like?

[VanillaPudding]

I think my first day was somewhere in the "alpha" or beta stages of EFU. I know that I effectively was on a prelude that worked our way to sewertown after some light skirmishes with oozes and bugs. I played -very- briefly for a year or so before I was able to understand that a +1 weapon was not commonplace, domains mattered based upon faith, and that the world was highly dangerous. Luckily, even that mild event was enough to lure me back here to a place far superior to others I had been playing at.

Also I remember Moloch was involved, and then I remember that Moloch played a character called Evol Cyric, and so I feel better about being mutually educated on role-play and quality settings ;)

[AKMatt]

My first character was a halfling barbarian named Reginald Fleetfoot, based on a PC from a friend's PnP campaign.  I didn't bother to read any of the OOC info, got lost instead of finding Sanctuary, and rage quit.

Then I made another dude called Dantian Hall who was an engineering-oriented wizard/rogue with with 8 constitution.  I found my way into Sanctuary this time and was promptly shuffled up to by the honorable Reverend Doctor Dragon, Esquire, who conversed with me for about 10 minutes and gave me a proper introduction to the server, including educating me on the fact that tells existed and it was better than just going "//how do you do that?"

Afterwards, I talked to some dude named Karlston Brass, I think, and later to a Spellguard PC whose name I forget.  I was recruited into the Spellguard Associates (not auxiliary in those darks) and enjoyed the faction immensely.

[Tala]

Oooh! Such a nice thread!

Well, my first day was after I tried to go through all the rules/background/mechanics at the forum for two days. I made Jarik Blake (Go go name generator), couldn't find Ibrandul's domain on the start area so went with Grumbar.

I went through the prologue, trying really hard to find another way instead of stepping into a magical unknown portal. Gave up in the end and went through. Jarik received his ring and put it on. The first people he met were a gnome couple (I want to say Disco and Plum, but I'm not sure), who thought he was a guy named "Jack", later leaving saying "all humans look the same, have a good one, Jack". I listened briefly to a lecture a mage was giving at the square then started to explore Upper.

I sort of messed up with the whole starter quests, receiving a sending stone without doing the quest at the start. Then I went to the clerk to do the "Go to Serena Tower" thing and took the quest. There was a DM shout about a reset incoming and if people need a delay, and being the noob that I was, I didn't say anything, thinking I'll finish that quest after reset. I came back after the reset to find out the quest wasn't on the journal, tried to take it again, but it said I reached the max time a PC can take it. Jarik Blake never received his orange safety cloak or Spellguard mint. A month later I found out why so many people wear those ugly looking things and where people get them.

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On the first week, Disco took me with his gnome to explore, explaining to me both IC and OOC about the server and a bit of the history (When the server was made, how many previous chapter, etc.). We then found ourselves seeing boat with a gold on it, as was told to us by Lialh, so we jumped down to the lake, nearly drowning, then getting "saved" by Murderbandits.

They wanted to enslave us and we kept telling them the other one will be a much better slave and turning against each other (like true comrades), they told us they'll let us go and in exchange we have to bring them elves as slaves (I mean, there was a deeper meaning why Jarik hung with elves so much at the start). They agreed, with Jarik drinking an invisibility potion to flee.

Not knowing the server at all I just ran around the area with Murderbandits chasing after me, until the spell wear off, so they got me. I was lucky they just decided to rob then let us both go. Disco had to leave, leaving me to find my way back. I thanked Lialh for the interaction, saying I'm a new player and was glad Jarik didn't end up dead. They welcomed me to the server.

Then I got lost, a Minotaur thug brought me to negative, I stabilized, ran away and somehow managed to get back to Upper.

[TheShadow]

I spent a few months over at COA, ( my first pw) learning the basics and getting to like it, then after an awesome plot / event dropped off the face of the earth. around 7-8 months later i got a nostalgia fest, and joined up for v5. when that went down hill my brother persuaded me to try out EFU, and i spent about 30 minutes creating a character and jumped in game, as Mali Stalwart... about six or seven minutes after getting into upper, i ran into thesseley long/lost?guard who immediatly iniated pvp with a elf for having his blade out, which was something i had never really experienced, ( the closest to Pvp i had ever got was fighting a Werewolf in coa, getting crushed by a potion-spammer, and one exilerating fight that lasted about 2 seconds.) and needlessly to say, in the face of my previous pvp experience, it was amazing. i think i logged off not long after that, but that was that. ( at least thats my memory, might've got mixed up somewhere along the way)

[Zango_Unchained]

My first day feels like it was a lifetime ago. My father and I played NWN together he hosted a server and we did the main campaign together. I loved it, but didn't understand a thing I was doing. He would then not play the game further after we finished the campaign saying he didn't have time, so I explored its various options including its multi-player aspect. I would then amble through the list of servers, going to various ones and then to EFU, in which I would make a rogue/sorc elf, and run into the tavern(Wanton Wastrel) in which I must have said the wrong thing and was thrown out. I being a offended child took great offense that my spectacular rp was being shut down by the less enlightened, and tried to fight my way back in. Within an hour I was FD'd, and my heart grew three times that day. And I would be slaughtered on my next five or six pcs. It was hilarious looking back on it.

[AllMYBudgies]

Having tucked away Neverwinter Nights for a while after buying it when it was released, I randomly happened across it one day while tidying out a few old things. I installed it, loaded it up and came across EFU in the server list.

I created a Beshaban Cleric and started to explore. Within perhaps an hour or so I bumped into a Kobold and a few other unsavoury sorts and went on my first quest - Trog Cave in the Docks - during which my Cleric killed her first victim and converted her first Beshaban after some timely DM-curse-intervention.

Suffice it to say I was hooked :)

[OITF]

chultan mamluke fucked my shit up during the comital invasion

[Divine Intervention]

Having no experience of NwN, RP or anythign vaguely relevant, I rolled a terrible 11 charisma sorcerer and promptly died to the very first quest I did (That one with the ooze blob in EFU:U), before rage quitting only to return the next day with an equally ridiculously bad character.  I like to think things have gone uphill from there...

[MaimedGod]

Thomas blocked my escape as a tram ran into me and I died.

[Ironside]

I got swept into a VP quest train and ended up in the tower of whatever being slaughtered by timeless netherese.  It was a fun first day.

[Ryan]

Thomas blocked my escape as a tram ran into me and I died.

We've all been there.

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I hadn't been in any serious roleplaying settings for close to a year, but I heard about EFU through my twin brother (Ostheim/Erwin) and decided I needed something to help me take my mind off a recent break up. So I rolled up a character on NWN (which I'd never played before,) along with a few of my online friends. Made a rather generic fighter whose only real trait was that he was illiterate - we fucked around in the post-apocalyptic Ziggurat for a bit before heading on to Mistlocke.

I distinctly remember coming at EFU with a breezy, flippant attitude and acted rather OOCly in dialogue a few times, which I'd soon learn was utterly wrong for the setting.

Anyway, we crushed a few quests, as I remember, but it was a fairly unremarkable beginning overall. Character later got executed by the Conclave and made way for a slightly better one.

[A Mystery Clock]

I remember going through the prologue with a certain sense of thrill, then all of a sudden, past stepping through the portal leading to the illusion, while I was taking my time and wandering around, trying to unlock some of the doors... something popped out of sneaking and pretty much one-shotted me. I remember thinking "whoa, spawns really -are- hardcore here" only to find out I had been killed by Zhunool. The poor guy had absolutely no clue I was such a low level character and invented a phony reason to let my character go, accidentally "dropping" a purple crystal in the process.

Fun times.

[granny]

It's funny how thomas was present in so many first day impressions...

[wundyweiss]

i played a kossuthian cleric named Barston Nefzen (random name gen ho) and i remember enjoying the mist prelude in efu:m. then i wandered around the town talking to people about fire and kossuth, then i got a tour from some person i can't remember and that was it.

[Corrigo]

I was doing the hermit dwarf quest taking this thing to Ivysaur the Seeker. Having no idea where to go after reaching Sanctuary, I asked for directions, expecting the happy go lucky attitude most PWs exude everywhere.

The guy tried to charge me for the directions. I was utterly flabberghasted by such a cold welcome to a new server.

Welcome to EFU.