Ellery Jones - A Magical Player - He could cast ’smile’ and it was never resisted.

April 23, 2009 by Morninglark

All I can say is, if we had more people like Ellery, games would be more fun!

I met Ellery, back in 1999 in Everquest. He was still a high school student, and very silly. It’s now 10 years later, and he is still very silly, which is why I wanted to highlight him.

When Everquest first began, players were not very concerned about leveling to end-game. (which was a good thing, since I don’t think most of the end-game content was actually finished yet) Most of us wandered around aimlessly. It was not unusual to find us all in ‘the tunnel’ of the Commonlands. We would be shouting to sell our bronze swords, dueling, teaching languages, dancing, and drinking. That’s where Ellery comes in. He had a character named Twyl.

He was the guild leader of a band of nuts! The guild name was “Drunkards of Norrath”, and they were dedicated to having fun, and passing out Ale to every person they met. I belonged to an all dark elf guild. (We didn’t care that we would not have all the classes needed to raid. That didn’t even occur to us!) Our guild spent time protecting Nektulos Forest. It was before the ‘play-nice’ policy, and we would train guards to any goodie human who stepped into the zone to hunt.

Twyl was always around the forest. He could be found passing out ale, weapons, or just joking around. He was always willing to pass the time of day.

Fast forward a few years….

Now all of us have leveled. We have taken down Naggy and Vox. We have visited the planes of Fear and Hate. No one is in Nek forest anymore. No one is in the tunnel. We are all out trying to level, and get more AA’s. Along comes Twyl.

What is he is dropping on the sand near my feet?

Pick it up..oh of course..its ALE!! (drink the ale - watch Twyl strip and do a dance - watch Twyl run off to give someone else a beer)

He never lost that desire to have fun. He would go from zone to zone, camp to camp, just dropping booze for everyone. Don’t get me wrong. He leveled, he raided, he did all the things players do. (He was honestly one of the best enchanters I ever met.) The difference is, he never forgot to have fun.

He never let leveling get in the way of a party. He would show up for any roleplay wedding, or dueling in the Arena.

Fast forward again…

Twyl finished high-school and college. He went on to be a quest designer for Everquest 2. He has since left SOE, and joined a new company.

I recently ran into him on Facebook. And I found a pleasant surprise…Twyl has not changed ONE BIT, and I hope he never does.

Twyl has his own blog.

If you want to see how truly silly he is…in real life, then check out his haircut here!

I only have one more thing to say, “Hey Ellery, is it true what they say about dark elves?”