But Primordial Malice hit Guild Level 30 last night in EQ2! Foomby helped. (And Littlest, but I think Littlest wanted the bag too!)

That gives us access to new houses, a lot more guild bank space, and I think some new mounts. Guild leveling is tough in EQ2 - if you're not a very large, very active raiding guild, it can take quite some time to gain guild levels. And with PM's on again/off again style in the game, it's taken this long. But we got there, and I was very, very happy that my wife and I were a part of the GL30 ding! Not only that, I was on the character that originally created the guild back in November of '04 when the game opened - which I also find very cool.

It's amazing what stays with you when it comes to gaming. We were talking about it last night... There's a guy in West Freeport that gives quests, name of Averus; he's a real bastard. Pretends to care about his dad being executed, but in the end only cares about money. We still remember doing his quests, and it's been about 4 years. :) Back in our early EQ1 days, we randomly grouped, for maybe 3-4 days, with a couple of Dwarves named Drost and Groflen. They were super-cool players, but they vanished after those couple of days, but we still remember them. I still use their names for Dwarf characters I make in games. One day, probably back in 2002, we grouped with some random guy in the lower levels of Kurn's Tower, and he typoed "badgers" as "badfers" ... We still jokingly say "badfers" all the time. Hehe.

Turbine told me to go fly a kite on my banning issue. I thought I'd be ok with whatever happened; it was a "last ditch" thing anyway, but when I got the email it really, frankly, sucked, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I've been involved with LOTRO since "Friends and Family" Alpha stage, and actually I've been involved with Turbine as long as the company has existed - I was in Asheron's Call Beta ZERO. I know I should probably suck it up and keep going on my second account, but... I just don't know.

I'm playing EQ2 with my wife (and my guild of long, long-standing friends), and I'm also playing WoW, which is good for "get in quickly" fun (and I have a Dwarf hunter, which of course rocks). So I don't know. Anyway, EQ2 and WoW are a hell of a lot of fun.

I also have some other friends that want me to play AoC with them, for some quick-n-dirty PvP (PKing, really) trouble-making. Thinking about it. Haven't decided yet. :D