Becoming Apocalypse, Guild members speak out Options

[Henge]

i thought this would be a fun topic where all AT members could disclose how they became a part of our Grand organization. while also being insightful and imformative to the many new users on the forums.

So tribesmen/women, lets hear your personal story on how you became part of the

my story is easy - the Apocalypse Tribe originated with yours truely. AT has gone from a set of ideals in my mind to a wonderous nexus of the coolest people i have ever met.

[HC82]

Back in ver1, I don't remeber when exactly. There were many peroids of who I played with in ver1.

HC PSO memoirs

My beginings
At first I was with gamefaqs for the first 2 or 3 weeks(day 1 of PSO). This was before it became a PSO shit hole. After codes began to come out, I was close to level 100 with Dyne, maybe 98 or so. One person who I played with had to literally WATCH me hit 100, I don't see the big deal, hitting 100 in ver1 was a synch(forces were pretty rare though).

Anywho, after I hit 100 I was like...NOW what? PSO was free, I hadn't maxed base stats when magless(although they were maxed with a mag) and I still needed a few dozen HP mats to fully complete my character. I said, what the hell, I might as well max out Dyne. Through that time, the dupes began to flow through heavily, but it was before the spread needle epidemic. In fact all I had ever seen was my own spread needle, which I found in viridia ruins, any other rare was a total mystery to me. One of my orginal friends, the guy who saw me hit 100 invited me in a game. He busted out a magical peice, I was like OMFG, WHAT'S THAT!!! He gave me a copy of that and a cadeus, I was pretty happy(pyscho wand wasn't even out yet). I was totally oblivious to duping.

I didn't really know much about there being mass dupings, but this kinda tipped me in that direction. At this point, I had a mess load of Hunter rares in my bank, but no second memory card to play a hunter with and I also began to realize how horribly unbalanced the game was. I began to use melee alot more with my FO at this time and then stumbled upon a the second saga of my PSO gaming years.

The hacks

At this time PSO was becoming a bit stale. The gameplay itself was over played and the unbalanced nature was pissing me off. This is before the hacked Hp units came out and was around the time when people were in a frenzy to collect all the rares. No Percentage mods where out at this time and coincidentally, it is also when I began hanging out with different people. The person who I hung out with was none other then DEL, the "duper/cheater" who was infamous on ver2. At that time, his character name was Yellow, a Hunewearl with blonde hair in a white outfit. He didn't know anything about how to use hexidecimal hacks at the time(codebreaker). The other teammate was named Gren, green hair and a blue/light blue outfit. The other was deathstrike, really cool guy, I still have his email address, but I haven't talked to him in 2 years, he was AT material. We play alot, despite being lvl 100. The true nature of PSO came out at this time.

This is where the community social aspect of PSO really kicked in, the game itself was played to death, but we really enjoyed playing with each other in PSO. We both had a common goal, FIND OUT ABOUT THE NEW RARES!!! Everything was a mystery and only the dupe code/money code was around. He would do alot of trading and he also had a gameshark at the time. He would dupe me whatever he got. I created Adol around this time, my Hunter. It was refreshing to play a Hunter, it brought new life into the game. I was also surprised how easy HUmars were. Anyway, I think PK came out and percentage mod codes were slowly coming out. I remeber when we first figured out that Pan Arm blades were force useable, quite the discovery. Anywho, we had a blast playing with each other, getting absorbed in the dupes and hacks. Despite the hacks I always like to keep my own weapons that I found, I hate running around with spread needle, no fun at all.

After awhile, Yellow changed his character name to DEL(Pk was rapant now). I had played with IVI(claymore) at this time. I know for a fact that scrubby FOs were the norm and it was even pissing me off. I think the fact that I was a force who actually knew how to play made an impression on him. Anywho, DEL started introducing me to all these "dubious" folk, all of them PKers. He played alot less now, but almost always with me and deathstrike. Gren was the first to fall out of the circle, let's just say that when someone plays a female character, it doesn't mean they are female. He knew I was a guy, but when it came to Yellow....anyway, moving on. He left PSO and was fairly sad afterward(poor guy).

Enter the AT
At his time I still played with DEL alot, but after gren left, it wasn't quite as fun to play anymore(like we were missing a part of the team). Gren lives in NYC, same place I live, yet he seemed very distant after he thought Yellow was a girl. I had met IVI before this peroid in time, but I was currently grouped with another guild. It all just kinda clicked when I played with the AT, even though I was still playing with Yellow and Gren, but I turned down IVI joining of the guild because I was already in a guild. The guild its self was falling apart and the leader got into a car accident. Everyone in the guild kinda scattered, yet I still hung around in the guild. Eventually I somehow stumbled upon IVI again, we played a heck of alot, crush, zero rubius, probably some other folk who I don't remeber. I decided to just drop my old guild(it was really going nowhere) and I joined AT. We all had a blast playing with each other, kinda like when I met up with Yellow and Gren, but there were alot more people and we all just had a good time playing. Even now I was also playing with AT alot, I was also doing so with and Yellow/Del, me and Del really played all the way into the end of Ver2. Around the time when people said DEL died, he kinda faded off and never used to reply back to my mails. He was alive, had a heart problem or something, either way he distants himself from me after that. He got really caught up in hacking the game and I was focused in actually playing it. I have no idea where he is now, we used to chat via email as well.

PSO ver1-2 Aftermath
Kinda funny, I visited a park near the place where Kaz lives. Out of the blue I see Kaz in the Park. I'm like "HI (insert Kaz's real name here)." First thing I say, "Do you play PSO?" I knew he had a DC from past gaming sessions. He says "Yea, we should play." From then on I played PSO alot more with kaz, someone else who a few of you know as Lucinda Park on GC PSO, snd the AT. They told me to go to PSOW. I had totally forgotten about PSOW, but I had signed up with them around the first week of PSOs release, so if you check out my account date there, you'll see it is very old. I think Dyne corrupted at this time(I really didn't care, to me it was a fresh start). I was more legit and rumors of ver2 were of the horizon. Zero Rubius had to quit PSO(bummer) and AT had gone through about 2 or 3 forums. CrazyFX was the webmaster at the time. He made a recent reapperance in gc PSO, but I think he was just on at the wrong times, most of us were late nighters. I know he was into FFXI as well, it would be great if he could play with us, ill have to check the members list.

Anyway, after I hit 200 in ver2 I stopped playing. I was just TOTALLY burnt out on PSO, considering it took about 10-19 more Million exp to hit 200 in ver2 then it did in gc PSO. AT forum was a state of flux, very difficult time for the AT. After ver2, we kinda got lost in the mix, nothing new on the horizon. We still knew where each of us where, but were more focused with the people who we chatted with the most(ie.Crushinator-Alisha-Oneida). I met up with IVI again on a forum called FFZONE, we wondered about the prospect of FFXI in relation to the AT. We decided to go and dig through old forums and had people get into contact with other people. It took awhile, but as a result we got together again. The new forum was an EZ board forum, very difficult to chat on. Dive hooked us up with this forum and everything went smooth from that point on. So, we been through 5 forums or so? Lol, I still have some of the old URLs on my EZ board account.

That's that.

This post has been edited by HC82: Nov 13 2003, 05:40 PM