The Overlord Lucan D’Lere showed up at the EverQuest II Birthday Bash last night. Awestruck? You can say that. This is the man who saved us from the Rallosian Hordes and the Green Mist. This is the man who singlehandedly defeated the Avatar of War on Lucan’s Mount in the Commonlands. This is the man who drove the orcs to their doom in Wailing Caves and sealed them there forever.
This is the man whose example and leadership convinced me to betray Qeynos and take on the long journey to Freeport, a journey that took me several days (the road was treacherous for a level 14 character in the first couple weeks EQ2 was live).
Here’s a song to our beloved immortal dictator:
The wind of freedom’s in the air
Where Lucan rules us, cruel but fair
With fearsome strength and steely glare
(his spies are watching everywhere)
Pour the wine and serve the meat!
Our enemies run in full retreat
‘Fore the force of Lucan’s heat
(jackboots stomping up the street)
Raise cups to Freeport! She’s the best!
We shall conquer all the rest
Lucan, put us to your test!
(or drag us off to vile arrest)
Polish maces, sharpen knives
Sheep will sleep where rebels thrive
For freedom’s bliss, forever strive
(Fight, my friends! Fight for your lives!)
That wasn’t actually the song I sang at the birthday bash, but since I didn’t write it down, there’s this one instead. I’d actually written a birthday song while Stargrace and Kasul and I were relaxing in the stately Nostalgia guild hall before the party, but I hadn’t written it down. Too bad I didn’t write down the second one, though. That was a lot better.
Dragons? Yeah, there were dragons. Here I am, making this one angry enough that it soon fled. You know, Halfling power. You don’t want to get in the way of Halfling power. It’s the power of PIE.
They had LOTS of pie there. And many kinds of beers, and a cool sobriety drink that I wish I could have taken home from the party. Pillows for pillow fights, ice cream you could eat and ice cream cones to cause great fun with everyone else in your raid when you attack the dread beast Drazzleflurg with them instead of your epic.
Happy 4th Birthday, EQ2!
Stargrace to the rescue! Here’s the song I sang at the birthday bash:
Happy Birthday Norrath!
The world that we adore,
the epic quests are all the best,
we love the lore galore,
dungeons, crafts, and leaky rafts,
and orcs forevermore,
for four years you’ve had our cheers,
sign me up for many more!
I had a lot of fun, and it was completely worth it to hear your songs! I have the first one kicking around my logs some where, I’ll dig them out in a minute or two.
*zombie walks over to the tea kettle*
Happy Birthday Norrath, the game that we adore
The dungeons quests and epic loot and all that wild lore
We wish you happy birthday now and on for many more
Qeynos And freeport both will sing when EQ2 turns four
Both were great!
Heh it definitely benefited from the rewrite 🙂 Thanks!
Holy smokes – 4 years, are you for real? It is hard to believe EQ2 has been around that long. I completley missed the events because I was so wrapped up in finishing my epic. While your song is well written, I have to say I don’t quite agree with the words! As a paladin, my memories of Lucan are not quite as fair! He will not rule all as long as Qeynos and the followers of Marr stand!
lol… it’s an anti-Lucan song >< The whole post is anti-Lucan. Lucan took credit for a lot of things he didn't actually do; he took advantage of a battlefield alliance between Quellious and Bertoxullous against Rallos Zek which happened to take place in the Commonlands to take credit for things the avatars of Quellious and (IIRC) Karana did. The song is meant to incite the people of Freeport against Lucan without drawing the attention of the guards. Also, Lucan shut a legion of Freeport Militia in with the orcs in Wailing Caves. All of whom had questionable loyalties. He knows how to deal with paladins 🙂 He was one himself, once.