I remember when the newbie tour gave 1000 gold to start with

Yea, and I remember the insane amount of newbs going through the Paladin Guild abusing that I tried to find some way to report.

god i loved the good old days

I remember the trips to water plane on like the second day when a massive team of level 7s or so led by Dumi would try to get about 8 power essences

I remember scrambling with the rest of Celest trying to bring the power from the pool to above 0 and I remember Shiri the Aquamancer and following him to my death at some point.

BECAUSE RAFAEL IS BITCHING AT ME

Message #1 Sent by: Veonira
10/08 05:00 "How do you find a gate?"

Message #3 Sent by: Daevos
10/08 21:27 "Where is Acknor?"

Message #30 Sent by: Fain
10/09 03:56 "Would you like to be one of the founding leaders of Magnagora?"

Message #77 Sent by: Murphy
10/09 16:19 "Any chance of getting a little power? I'd love to be able to get a
bit of nihilism going and a pact with a few demonlords. It'd help having
another one of us able to defend the city."

Message #88 Sent by: Murphy
10/09 18:53 "How do i get out of this astral plane? i'm getting damaged from
it."

Message #105 Sent by: Chade
10/09 19:55 "God damnit where the hell are the council chambers?"

Message #179 Sent by: Silvanus
10/10 22:17 "Damn.. who'd guess eagles could fly."

Message #209 Sent by: Valek
10/11 04:19 "Lucky win.. only reason you both didnt die was because of
crotamine."

Message #210 Sent by: Murphy
10/11 04:20 "GO, aajen has 2k health, vallon 1k and skyla 660."

Message #314 Sent by: Richter
10/14 06:05 "Can I have your permission to explore the earth plane? I have two
cronies trying to kill me for being here."

Message #330 Sent by: Rafael
10/16 04:33 "Good fight, by the way. I'll try to give you more of a battle next
time."

Message #616 Sent by: (system)
10/23 15:04 "You have sold 10 credit(s) at 1500 per credit, for a total of
15000 gold, and it has been placed in your inventory."

Message #781 Sent by: (system)
10/30 11:06 "A transplanar cubix has decayed to dust in your absence."



Message #948 Sent by: Rexali
11/05 20:02 "... Daganev got a minister position. I can't wait to leave to
Hallifax."

Message #1025 Sent by: Morslade
11/15 05:13 "Dude, those credits at 1950 are never gonna sell."

I remember when Visaeris was a big figure in the first days. Someone was arguing with him over CT so he just came and killed him in one move. And I was just standing there, totally clueless. (I hope my memory still serves me well and it -was- Visaeris).
*sigh
Last one is funny as hell but somehow a bit sad too.

Artifacts decay? .

Or was it some item you could find at the time?

I was given a cubix for winning the first FFA.. It lasted 7 RL days.

Message #191 Sent by: Lyth
11/06 00:24 "I do not think Onyx's should be 1000 that is way to much. 700-750
is good enough."

Message #262 Sent by: Sharok
11/11 07:04 "Richter tells you, "Good thing I own the Black Market, and a cartel
then, eh? Just have to wait for one of my jewlers I suppose.""

--Oh Ya! I was a jeweler once, thrying to ban gem cutting was hard work!--


Message #304 Sent by: (system)
11/16 08:43 "Congratulations for sticking with us through the open beta period.
Please accept these 75 credits as a personal thank you from the Lusternia
Staff."


Message #478 Sent by: Acar
12/08 22:29 "I would like 5 credits please, i have deposited 5000 gold."
Message #536 Sent by: Kithe
12/13 02:36 "I have deposited 1000 gold with wich to purchase a credit, i hope
to come up with enough for a few more, but that does not seem likely."

Umm... horrendous necro?