My EQ Screenshots

The following images were salvaged from backup floppy disks circa 2002! 23 years later the floppy disks are still readable and very few were corrupted. This is like stumbling on an old photo album not seen for decades. I had hundreds of in-game screenshots on an old computer that I still possess and haven't turned on in 20 years. I'll be attempting to recover these in the near future and upload anything else I find on this page.

My necromancer Volmort (left) and best bud Syndor (right)

My screenshot of some kind of event in Rathe Mountains. My necro Volmort Plaguebearer from Arcane Order guild can be seen on bottom left in the purple robes. I'm wearing the Shiny Metallic Robe (SMR) that drops in Lower Guk I believe? Gosh, the acronyms and memories are dormant but not gone.

Somebody captured me with the updated Shadows of Luclin character models applied. I never opted in for this update so I guess someone sent me these images.

Not sure if this is mine or shared by somebody else from Arcane Order. I suspect it's me because a guildmember saying not to take a screenshot and me doing so was very much my humor back then. Vaelelil, Vikki, Meier, Relicate all referenced in the text. That must be Vikki sitting there too.

My halfling rogue. I don't even remember if (Itoo) was a legit guild or what. It's definitely derived from an in-joke guild reference from Arcane Order on the Xegony server. One player, Kibano, popularized a way of speaking in which we added "itooo" to player names as a gesture of friendship. It caught on and everybody in the guild used it affectionately, but it was a reference known only to guild members. It was like our version of "Ba ba booey" or "all your base are belong to us."

A real screenshot taken by me. Wow! I selected it for some reason to preserve on a floppy disk.

Another real screenshot saved in low jpg quality unfortunately. This is my from my dark elf warrior, Deadfall on Xegony.

A couple screenshots taken by my friend Vaelelil Darkheart on Xegony. Apart from Vaelelilitoo fighting a giant bipedal lizard, I see a few familiar names in the guild chat: Ripon and Snoopy. Also Leadar.

I believe this is Vaelelil's alt, Sallar Norezforu (ha).

Meagey's screenshot. He was a great friend of mine on Xegony and we talked a lot. He was actually a friend of a real-life friend of my childhood. Never met him in person but got to know him a great deal in EQ. In the top 5 of best friends. We had so much fun and he was one of those buddies I loved to send random tells and talk shit or make him laugh with silly quips.

Another screenshot of Meagey. Not sure who Thorne is, so Meagey must have been sent the screenshot and he forwarded it to me. The text log is humorous. Sgs = Sand giants.

Website banner I made for a small guild I created before joining Arcane Order: Har'oloth's Keepers.

Beautiful Locations

These screen grabs were taken by me at some point in 2001. There's nothing particularly unique about the screenshots themselves, as many have captured them before, but the locales chosen meant the most to me. And the fact that I found these on a 25-year-old floppy disk is enough for me to preserve them here.