CHAPTER 1
Hunting Rabbits, Picking Flowers
I poofed into Eternal Lands (EL) as MrMind178, a 16-year-old high school student, with two of my younger brothers, j_wag17, who was 14, and robo2917, only 12, sometime in the summer of 2004. We landed in Isla Prima (IP), the small “newbie island” where players are introduced to the game. The game did not have any guides that were easy to follow, and it did not explain what we were supposed to do. It didn’t even tell us how to ask for help. The best we could do was explore the area and try to figure it out on our own.
After a few hours of walking around, occasionally chasing down the small animals that lived on the island, we eventually went inside a village tavern. Inside the tavern was a tavern keeper. ...
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