Raze our contest winner from 200, speaks on his story of Meridian 59, a game that is dear to our hearts


I am Raze of server 200, one of the hunters and at one time, a ranger of the Blue Dragons guild.

M59 was so much more than a game to me. It was more like a family away from home. On server 200, there was no pking or looting. Everyone, and I mean everyone knew each other. It was like a online version of "Cheers". As soon as the other people found out you logged in, everyone was sending you messages and the chit chat began immediately. My guild was more like a collection of long lost brothers and sisters. I still
keep in touch with most if not all of them, although we haven't played together in quite some time.

I loved helping out newbies, taking them on the tour of the nodes,seeing how hyped they got when they finally made that jump for the node
near the platform to Brax. Playing around to get the vale node was awesome, a collection of people coming together for the same goal. It was so awesome to freak out people in Tos by casting feign death and moving around as a corpse. I was the first and only player on server 200 to be
pk'ed... I found out that if you cast feign death in an area, and someone else casts earthquake rght after, they can damage and even kill you. =) Of course the other guildmate and I reported it to the guardians immediately =)

I carried around the first letter of any help I got in the game for 2 years. It was a list of wandering npcs given to me by a friend, who
would eventually become the leader of the Blue Dragons. I actually think I saved that file on a disk somewhere.

I remember helping to host weddings in our guild hall, Wryn's Keep and remember all the invasions GuardianKana unleashed on Tos. =) I
remember there being 3 invis Yetis and I got my arse handed to me. I remember the ice creature that wouldn't die for anything. We must've
spent a good 4 hours trying to kill that damn thing. I remember being the first one to stumble onto the added area of groundworm queens in the
badlands and taking people there and watching them freak out. =) I also remember helping to lure a dragonfly queen from the island, through the
caves, all the way to Jasper, to our guild hall. That was a mission. =)

None of the other games, not EQ, AC, UO...none of them had the sense of community like M59. I was closer with the other players than I am with a lot of people in r/l. I really miss them, I miss the fun we had and all te insane stuff to go with it. Most of all, I really miss my old guild. =( Sure I'm in touch with most of them..but its not the same as being with all of them at the same time.

I was really upset when I talked to some of the programming guys back in June of 98. I told them that they should start taking advantage of the capabilities of the new video technology, but they didnt listen. I'm hoping that someone will buy the liscence from them someday and make a 3d enhanced version, make the map bigger, and maybe even add a few races other than human in for players. M59 was perfect in all other aspects.

Source: Raze - distant2nd@asan.com