EQ: The End
I had an EQ dream this weekend. I haven’t played EQ in about a year, so it was a bit of a surprise. I was playing solo, I don’t know where, and working inside a maze kind of building. I entered a room where I had to complete some tasks. My reward was a thing that turned out to be a crank that fit a wheel in the next room. I turned the crank and a garage door opened. When I walked out, I found I was outside in the real world. I had reached the end of EQ.
I ran into a co-worker, Bruce, who used to play EQ as well. I offered to show him the end of EQ, but he wanted to bring all his characters, so we re-entered the end of EQ with his five characters. All of them looked exactly the same and I couldn’t figure out what was the point of having five characters that were all the same. We climbed on a walkway and saw a group of real people passing down a cross hallway including two policemen. It seems something had happened down the hall. I never found out what as I decided to exit the end of EQ about then.
When we entered the room, with the garage door, we found a street person sleeping on the floor of the room, oh great. Plus, the door was now mostly closed. The crank seemed not to be working properly and I could only get the garage door open a little. It looked like we could crawl out, but I woke up.
I’ve tried to figure out what it all means, but have decided it doesn’t matter. I don’t play EQ anymore. Dreams about games you don’t play don’t count do they? Even if they do, I’m not counting it.