...A deep drum sounds slowly in the background...

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Calanctus, destined to bear the Staff of the Serpent, strode across a troubled land. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure...

My first experience with Scarab came through introductions made by my good friend (in real life) Selgus back in the days of Everquest I. I believe that was about 4-5 months after EQ had gone live.

Hawke and Ldyhawke ran the guild in those days and my contemporaries (in no particular order) included Cloudy, Boann and Abira, Kyliar, Gwern, Kelagry, Dinadin, Yoldie, Senaby, Glolfandil, Ravenn and Shadowbane. If you recognize all these names, you are indeed an elder member.

I played as a wizard by profession and went by the name Saderion. It was enjoyable, but as time and tide changes, so did my interests. I tried several classes, and eventually settled with playing an enchanter, and so Calanctus was born. I stayed with Calanctus til the venerable level of 65 before finally taking a boat into the far west (Tolkien style) to other lands and greater adventures.

Those were interesting times to say the least. There was plenty of rat/snake/orc-slaying. There was camping days on end out in OOT for a single drop to get a pair of Jboots. There was corpse looting and corpse dragging. There was DeLeveling. There was Powerleveling 15 levels in 10 minutes Tumpy Tonics Style. There were unintentional 15 frog trains in Lower Guk. There were *intentional* 30 frog trains in Lower Guk for AE stun/nuking carnage. There were naked iron gnome races. And of course, there was plenty of "Drama" to fill the off times.

Calanctus