The Sleeper... A questionable storyFollow

Ive never played EQ before but i have a question on a story an old friend who played religiously once told me. Bear in mind that this conversation happened roughly 4 years ago, so ill try and recount it as best i can. Im looking to see how much of what he told me was true and how much was BS. The reason i ask now is because i was telling a friend the story the other day while we were discussing MMO's and he said that it couldnt be true

My friends characters name was Goyle Kisser, on Zuberuk server (hope i spelled that right) and he was a halfling druid. He was in a very high level guild, and even claimed that on a raid once he soloed a dragon and was allowed to take all the loot off of it for himself for doing so, earning him an epic helmet of some kind, but anyway thats not the story.

The story went like this. He had this item that supposedly would wake The Sleeper, so he was running around this cave looking for the room it was in. He was running from some mobs when suddenly he ran straight through a wall and ended up in The Sleepers chamber. He wasnt sure what to do so he contacted his buddy and told him what had happened. His friend made his way there and entered the room with him. Both of them were shocked, and Goyle decided to leave the room for something. As soon as he left, his friend messeged him saying that he had been killed by the sleeper the moment Goyle left the room. They figuered the only reason they hadnt been killed before was because of this item Goyle was carrying. Goyle contacted someone in their guild who could rez and had her come to them and rez his friend. Now all three of them were standing in this room wondering what to do. Suddenly there was another person in the room with them. The guy said he was a GM and that he wanted to warn them of what they were about to do. He said that even the GM's didnt know what would happen in game if The Sleeper was awoken, but that he couldnt stop them from doing it. So they did, dunno how, they used the item and woke him up.

At this point I believe they ran back out of the mountain to see the sky filled with dragons flying out of the top of the mountain going in all directions. Shortly afterwards, Goyle's father, who also played but was in another guild, contacted him saying "What did you do?!!!" He told him what had happened and asked him what was going on.

His dad answered, "A dragon just landed right outside the entrance to Freeport!"

Goyle responded, "Really? Cool! Did anyone die?"

His dad's response: "YES!! Everybody died!!!"

Goyle and his friends had apparantly begun what was called the Dragon Wars. But a few days later, the GM's had to reset the server because this had caused a number of bugs and glitches in the game.



So thats it. Anybody been playing that long that can tell me how much of his story is true and how much is lies?

Czae's short answers, as always

Mind to share more info? What was in your opinion the part that was no BS?

A legend...probably like most, based on some truths and embellished or discombobulated over time.

I'd like to see a swarm...flock...bevy...of dragons descend on PoK sometime.


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The Sleeper went from his tomb to Skyshrine, killing folks on the way as I recall. If you weren't in one of the zones of carnage though, you were safe. He didn't go tromping around the Commonlands or anything.

Total BS.

Example - there was no item to wake the Sleeper. It was done by killing all four Warders. Killing a Warder took a raid force.

I don't think much of it is so. But I am no expert. I have a friend that told me several years ago on Solusek Ro server a guild woke the Sleeper and from that day forward any time a guildie from that guild logged in the sleeper killed it no matter where it was in game. Rumor was the guild had to be disbanded and the guildies had to form a new guild. Finally several guilds got together and killed it. I don't have a clue if any of it is so, but my friend certainly wasn't saying he or even his guild killed it, he just said he was playing on SR when it happened.

Seamy

Edited, Dec 8th 2006 1:54am by Rodth

Nothing like Norrathian urban legend!

Seamy

The Sleeper was definately killed on Rallos Zek. Here's the thread on it from when it happened.

Actually, he summoned and killed everything, I never saw a harm or death touch, and as I was able to safely gate while he was munching on the shadowknight from my group, I can attest to the lack of a zonewide version of either ability. I recall seeing hits for 1700+, which at the time this happened (Velious era), was insane. He also had a say or shout that he used (mostly caps, as I recall) each time he summoned a PC/NPC, but for the life of me I can't recall the exact message. He did say/shout the person's name once or twice though.