What was your first day in EFU like?

[Pigadig]

All these people with cool stories.

I got told by Ook one day that there was this interesting NWN server with neat mechanics that he'd been told by someone and it was called "Escape from Undeath". So together with Frenzied we joined up and did some lowbie quests together and... not much at all happened except for that. The server didn't really reach out and grab me, as I was playing a fighter and had no idea about the best way to play one on EFU. The setting was cool, but I had recently been burnt on fun settings for PWs that got turned to junk due to wacky DM ideas, so that wasn't enough for me.

Then I read the forums and decided that I really wanted to learn about the custom summoning mechanics and the alchemy system. So I made a wizard and the rest is history.

[Reylathi]

That was years and years ago, back on Chap 1. I don't remember a lot, but I do remember that I made a cleric, then learned your domains have to match your god. Made another cleric, then realized your alignment has to match perfectly. Spent an hour on google till I found a good deity with domains that supported summoning and healing, and made Celuril Fein, priest of Lurue. Spent some time wandering around talking to all the NPCs and wondering how much work had to go into this server before I went outside and promptly got my ass killed. Respawned at my corpse, died again, respawned at the mortuary, ran into somebody who gave me some clothes and gold, and I forget from there.

Oh, and I was -running everywhere- of course. :p

I've actually thought about apping to play him again, since he never did successfully escape from the underdark, but he'd just be another mourning elf whose god is sitting in Dendar's belly slowly digesting. Maybe a little on the crazy side from years of solitude or somesuch, but I can't really think of enough to make him fun and worth filling out an app.

Odd thing though, of all my old chars who I still look at from time to time just to enjoy the sense of nostalgia, (I don't like pvp a lot so very few of my guys ever perma die, they all just retire at the end of each chapter and remain locked away forever like little wax statues) Cel is the only one that doesn't spawn in the DM retirement area. He used to, but now he spawns in the illusion where ppl emerge from the portal. Just in case that's a bug or somethin. :p

[tspawn35]

My first day was in EFU:A I rolled up a paly and the next thing I knew I was walking around the ziggarart. I did all the solo quests and ended up running into a char named Mich I believe. I just ended up RPing with them and they became a good ic friend of mine.

[Nuclear Catastrophe]

A+ thread.

All I remember of my first day playing an online server was going up to a guard, talking to him, and then finding out he was actually playing as a guard.

Like, roleplaying.  He was a real guard.   That got me -hooked-.

I was later killed by beetles who I expect ingested my corpse, after I played a moronic dwarf called 'Pickle' (based on Pikel from Drizz't.  I know.  Lame).  To this day I am always pleased when I see dead newbie adventurers next to one or more beetles.

[SERIOUSDaddyIssues]

You two + Moonlighter were part of that wave of new players we had last year who were extremely good roleplayers with absolutely zero ability to stay alive for more than five minutes.

I didn't die that often. Just like, three times in Bilby's!

Okay, maybe it was a lot...

[Moonlighter]

You two + Moonlighter were part of that wave of new players we had last year who were extremely good roleplayers with absolutely zero ability to stay alive for more than five minutes.

I didn't die that often. Just like, three times in Bilby's!

Okay, maybe it was a lot...

[Kinslayer988]

I got beat up by DrD for playing a shitty elf

[Colin609]

I start out on mistlocke three years ago and immediately died by a leapord attack as soon as I walked out onto the cross roads

[Adhesive]

I made my first PC (my very first time playing NWN ever) about a year into EFU:M with Ryan and a friend of ours who did not end up playing with us. I died twice on Granary and made friends with a Footman of the Numinous Order and an evil Sharran sorceress.

It was the the variety of the quests, the exquisite attention to detail of the world, the depth of lore of each of the unique factions, and the great amount of potential for each PC to carve out their own legacy that got me hooked.

[Kinslayer988]

My first day of EFU was when I was thirteen and it was still UD. Really young to be playing EFU but it sure taught me good lessons! My first memory was playing a spiny elf in Lower that insulted a DrD PC and I was promptly beat down. The many creatures of Lower averting their gaze and many hushed voices telling of the thug.

It sent a chill down my spine and let me know the game was hardcore and that conflict could happen at a few flicks of the tongue. The conflict leaving ripples that had an effect on other players.

It has been more than half a decade since then (and a few alt accounts) and I still believe this is by far the best NwN server out there.

[OuterSanctum]

I don't remember my first day on EfU.  It was 8 or so years ago when I was in high school so...I'm going to give my best friend's story.

This was in the original EfU.  My friend logs in as a fighter and we do some lowbie quests.  I can hardly remember them now but I'm pretty sure there were zombies in a warehouse?  Anyway I go to my friend and I'm like, hey how much coin you got?  He's new to roleplaying so he says "360...hmm...maybe they'll name a weird machine thing after that number someday."  I laugh.  He runs off.  Gets killed by a Flying Chosen Mage.  He says "WTF did I just die to a flying rat?", I say yes, and he never played NWN again.

[The Beggar]

Earliest memory of EfU was mapping the underdark in a horribly gimped Halfling ranger and chatting with Howland as I tried to stay alive. Derran was hands down my favorite character to date on any server, or in any game.

It's the quality of the role play and server that keep people here, and draw people back to it time and time again. (and yes, I am downloading from GoG ATM - so hopefully will roll a character this weekend. I was sucked into the world of EVE Online and then competitive MWO play)

[I love cats]

I remember playing some idiotic fighter with 8 Charisma....:I then challenged some lady with a scimitar to a fight. Magic eaters showed up and I was killed. A Dm was fortunate enough to notice me and raise me.

My character got up to a lot shenanigans including accidently joining a devil cult.

[Spiffy Has]

I don't remember my first day on EfU.  It was 8 or so years ago when I was in high school so...I'm going to give my best friend's story.

This was in the original EfU.  My friend logs in as a fighter and we do some lowbie quests.  I can hardly remember them now but I'm pretty sure there were zombies in a warehouse?  Anyway I go to my friend and I'm like, hey how much coin you got?  He's new to roleplaying so he says "360...hmm...maybe they'll name a weird machine thing after that number someday."  I laugh.  He runs off.  Gets killed by a Flying Chosen Mage.  He says "WTF did I just die to a flying rat?", I say yes, and he never played NWN again.

Merchant BOGGS

I loved those motivational boards.

[TeufelHunden]

KreShar introduced me to the server when he was on Wesley Fynolds. I was a Half-Orc and I got brutally killed by DrD.