The Most HISTORIC Moment in Everquest History - MMOentous

In this episode of MMOentous, I take you back to the legendary event that shook the world of Norrath: the awakening of the Sleeper. This ancient dragon was supposed to sleep forever, guarded by four powerful warders. But some players decided to break the sacred MMO code and unleash him on the unsuspecting realms.
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Keywords:
#everquest #thesleeperawakens #eq

[mightyfp]

To be fair, waking the sleeper wasn't the impossible part, it was killing him once he awoke

[CeezeeDee]

I co-lead the raid that first awakened the Sleeper with Blood of the Spider guild on The Rathe server. Guildmaster was Mistabone, and co-raid leader was Emil a monk. We used the simple "duck" action by a stair step to partially dodge the final guardian dragon Ventani's AOE to kill her before her AOE finished us off as she had about 140 previous tries. Legit and legal. What was peculiar is the tactic was suggested by one of the youngest guildmates, a monk who I believe was called Kix or something? Can't quite recall. While we wiped over and over, he started ducking on the step during the AOEs only to rise and DPS in between them, and he was increasingly one of the last ones left alive. So he suggested we all try it and presto. Top guilds including Afterlife and Fires of Heaven suspected/accused us of cheating. Disappointing, but regardless, it was the #1 video game event of my lifetime no doubt.

[Lamiun]

They need to bring back things like this in MMOs.

[michaelwescott]

The outcome is known, Tunare is still around and the sleeper isn't.

[robpagliuca]

I wish I could go back and experience this game again for the first time. My friends and I spent a good 3 years obsessing about it. When we weren’t playing EQ, we were talking about it. Experiencing Crushbone for the first time was INSANE! Miss it soo much!

[hawianpunch]

He was supposed to be an un-killable mob, with something like 100 million HP. The first time they woke him, the devs despawned Kerafyrm before they killed him. Later, they let them kill him. Dropped nothing, since he wasn't supposed to be killed, he had no loot table.

[tasselhoff]

Actually we know this battle ended. After the 2 guilds joined forces and attacked the dragon, the battle took soo long that the dragon was de-spawned by a sony executive bc they believed there was cheating going on. This dragon and the despawn by the executive was the begining of the end for eq

[apefistdynamic]

Waking up the sleeper isn't impossible it happens on every server eventually. I'v never hard of Kerafyrm entering plane of growth to fight Tunare. It's supposed to be on a path to kill Yelinak and leave. Where did you find this story about Tunare v Sleeper?

[anthonnyaf]

I was there he would rampage from zone to zone killing anything and everything in his path. I was playing a character called dream shaman you can see in some footages. I was part of the red grip in reality. It was a server wide ride multiple raids multiple guilds to achieve one target.

[Iam]

FFXI had a similar battle with Absolute Virtue. First spawning of it no one knew how to kill it and because it takes months of materials to pop the guild didn't want it to depop. They fought it for over 19 hours with some members holding it while guildmates slept to try again in the morning. Some people got sick during this fight and the devs had to reduce the fight duration to only 2 hours and then the monster would force depop if not killed within the time. During that 19+ hour fight they only managed to get it to 99% HP due to it''s health regen.

[anthonnyaf]

It wasn’t impossible. There were sirens singing a song keeping him asleep. All you had to do was kill these but no one ever killed all of them. Due to once she killed all of them. They will never respawn again and the items that they dropped with the best in the game, so no one was dumb enough to kill them And awaken the sleeper causing the siren to never respond again

[Blakkrazor]

Love farming the weapons from there as they proc'd Avatar and were highly coveted at the time.

[djgrom]

Up there with Rainz assassinating Lord British 😂

[maximillian]

They did technically wake the sleeper. But every server did that. They killed the sleeper. Twice

[kerchunkkerplop]

"The developers had no way of stopping him" cripes dude like come on you understand how power buttons work right?

[fabianpalacio]

"Developers had no way of stopping him"

Why lie

[haroempyrion]

I was part of Darkwind guild on Solusek Ro back in those days. When Sleepers Tomb was implemented, we were asked to make a test run by the developers. So we conquerd the Tomb and killed all 4 Guardians.... the sleeper woke up and made havoc across the whole server. Satisfied that it works, the developers resetted him on Sol RO. Later Some other guilds tried to piss us off on some stuff. We had the opportunity to make a server move with the whole guild to Ayonae Ro, not without pissing back on those guilds with the release of the Sleeper on Sol Ro server. On Ayonae Ro we had some kind of monopole on Sleeper's Tomb until some other guilds joined up to this state of capability. We made an agreement with other guilds to take rotation on the 4 guardians... which meant that every guild hat a shot on 3 of the 4 guarding dragons, in order to keep the sleeper in his state. When one guild broke the agreement in the turn order we also released the Sleeper on Ayonae Ro.... at a time when all of us had at least 1 primal weapon. They were very usefull for the further content, while the other guilds only had a few of those weapons....

I think Darkwind was the only Guild to wake the Sleeper 3 times :)

[bitchtoy]

We killed him in 2006 asending dawn wudan Rallos Zek server

[Igorath]

this is the only thing i wish i could have participated in... that and the gnome mask.

[TheExyle]

IIRC it took like 500 players to kill the Sleeper, multiple full raids.