Today I called Mark Lane, you best know him as Nitrain or Quesay, or Wascal. Well, I didn't get him, I got his mother. Mark lived in OK with her after moving back home from the Houston area.

His mother informed me that Mark passed away on June 20th due to a heart attack.

He will be missed by a great many people.....

/salute Nitrain, rest in peace.

/sigh Very sorry to hear this.
My condolences to his family and friends.

Oh my god... :(

Mark aka Nitrain was a great guy. I met him when I first joined Vallis Scortor when I was in my mid 20s. My wife and I met him for drinks one time and I spoke with him over the phone many times. He would always be there for you if you had a problem. He was known to get burnt out from time to time and disappear for a month or so. When I heard the news today, I was shocked and saddened. I will miss him very much.

Man, this is like getting hit with a ton of bricks. Until today I never realized how much the friends you make in game really mean to you... yet another lesson you taught me, old friend...

The first time I met Nitrain was when he and Sorack were talking about absorbing Emerald Circle into Vallis Scortor. It was the night I got my Sebilis key, early on in Kunark... I was a barely 51st level druid and he was already 54 and complaining about the hell level... Nitrain was rather fond of complaining, but not in a mean or hurtful way... he would jokingly try to make you feel like everything was a tremendous hassle for him, yet he'd drop anything he was doing to help any of his guildmates or friends... And I mean, he REALLY would spend nights running around and doing nothing but favors for people... too much, I told him a dozen times... play the game for you, I said... Of course he missed me saying that in the constant /tell spam he got... Nitrain was the only char I ever had to log in and immediately put up an AFK message to avoid telling 10 people I wasn't him...

The time I spent in Vallis Scortor were some of the best in EQ and a ton of that was thanks to Nitrain. The guy knew everyone - and called pretty much all of them sluts :) I can't count the nights we spent in Sebilis, Chardok, Howling Stones, God forbid Karnors - Nitrain, Sorack, Festus (before he went all loony), Larlaana, Artallen, Sharookan, Escaja... back in the days when the dungeons were dungeons, and when you wiped deep it was really a hassle...

And then there was the time we spent a week getting our complete set of HS keys, which I kept on a corpse at the zone... and prompty after looting them one night I camped out to clear aggro at the zone.... oops... he ripped into me for 20 minutes in groupchat with everyone else all the while sending me tells about how funny he thought it was...

... you see, we both had a penchant for drinking a little (too much) when we played, although I preferred beer over his whisky.... how many weekend afternoons would Nitrain log on and say, "I will never drink again"?

When we started moving on towards raiding, Nitrain made sure the guild kept our heads level and payed attention, while at the same time making sure people were still having fun. While clearing Fear one time another guild moved in on us (was it Looking Glass?) before we got a shot at CT (v1.0). After arguing and petitioning, he got us our shot first... and then made sure we had 40 friends just to make sure we won :) I think that was the night Arty got the Shissar Wraith? Maybe Lyrik? Man so many times he fought the battle for his guildmates to prosper...

When we switched servers and started raiding Velious, he wasn't as interested in it... hours of HoT clearing bored him and I don't blame him... There were plenty of times that Nitrain, Sorack and I argued about what the guild should be doing, and when... we didn't always agree - heck we rarely agreed - but I always had to respect his opinion, and always felt like I could kick back and joke around with him afterwards. He was seen as a father figure in the guild, and took that role to heart... he couldn't see why we wanted to raise the level limits for entry: "if I meet a hot chick at the bar and get her to play, she's joining my guild and I don't care what you say!"

When I left Vallis, he was still there for me... how many times did he work with me to get through trials? And the guy couldn't ever just say hi...

Nitrain tells you, "slut"

Yeah, I rambled but so what... anyone that was in Vallis with me has seen longer posts. And I know all you guys that were in QSA have about a billion MORE stories than I do.... but it's just so hard to believe... Sorack and I had always said "ya know, I'd love to go out and have a beer with the guy", but there's always time... until there isn't any more...

Dang man, I gonna miss you. Was looking forward to LDoN, hoping the old crowd would get back together... now there will be a gaping hole in my group window...

I'll be sure to get nice and drunk in your memory, man. And the next morning I'll log in and say, "I will never drink again".

Farewell Mark/Nitrain, and God Bless.

My condolences. Even though I had a short stay in VS, I was still victimized by Nitrain's kindness and humor.

Goddamn it. I'm going to miss you.

Cleric or Cheap Liquor?

Mark Steven Lane

Graveside services for Semi-
nole County resident, Mark Ste-
ven Lane are scheduled for Mon-
day at 10 a.m. at the Vamoosa
Cemetery in Konawa under the
direction of Pickard-Swearingen
Funeral Home .
He died June 20, 2003, at the
age of 49 at his home in Konawa.
He was born on Aug. 28, 1953,
in San Diego, Calif. to Gerald
Lane and Shirley (Morrow) Rad-
ford.
He was a longtime resident of
Bay City, Texas before moving to
Konawa.
He was a computer tech for
WPS, Inc. in Ada.
He graduated from East Cen-
tral University in Ada with a de-
gree in business.
He also attended Pontotoc
County Vo-Tech in Ada.
He is survived by his mother,
Shirley Radford of Konawa; fa-
ther and stepmother, Gerald and
Faye Lane of Baton Rouge, La.;
grandmother, Gladys Morrow of
Konawa; three brothers, David
Lane of West Lake Village,
Calif., Curtis Radford of Konawa
and Eric Lane of Baton Rouge,
La.; and two sisters, Laura Glas-
gow of Fort Worth, Texas and
Saundra Lane Garrett of Baton
Rouge, La.
Services will be officiated by
Richard Winters.


Mark aka Nitrain was my best friend in this silly game we all play and he had to be the most generous and self sacrificing person I have ever met, in EQ and out. He would always drop what ever he was doing to give someone a rez or help them out on a quest and he never asked for anything in return. We had so many good times and adventures from back in the old Quake 2 clan QSA to EQ to him forming Vallis.

Mark we will miss you.

Jesus this is a shock and a half :(

Back when I was Corpseus Nitrain took me under his wing when I joined Vallis, he was an outstanding guy and a true friend to everyone who knew him.

God, this is just...wow...I think for the first time ever I'm speechless.

Please, give his family my condolences.

Suckage, he was a good fellow.

Very sad indeed,Nitrain was one of the nicest people I have ever met.

Heh I remember Quesay, he plved me 2 levels in CC when Velious came out, that was nice, especially coming from a stranger :(

omg! /cry /mourn

He will be missed a great deal!

I send my prayers out to his family.

*bows her head in a moment of silence*

Way back when I was still playing a ranger, he went out of his way to help me as a noob, simply because he knew my son was a guildmate in VS. He showed class, and I know my son was always talking to me about what he learned from him about tactics and strategies and the best places to go for such and such.....

There are only so many who enter this game and have an impact on so many, and he was obviously one of those.

My condolences to his family, and to all his many friends.

Bylimet Spiritwalker - Hierophant
Bytesum Spiritwalker - Assassin
Lost Fires

one of the few guys that ever left a good impression on me, very saddening =(

:( probably one of the nicest most fair people in EQ .

Miss you Train Bofumbi. :(

Nitrain(MammaQ) was one of the best. Two of the brightest stars in Norrath have been snuffed out...the sky will never be as bright there for me again. I hope heaven has all the best loots for you my friend.

judge a man by the quality of his friends, and their respect for him, and you would know that The Train was truly a special shining light.

Nitrain was a man that would mount a rescue CR in plane of hate with nothing more than DA and ivu. i have never met anyone in EQ that had friends who so enjoyed his company, and so badly wanted to protect him from his own generosity and kindness.

/friend nitrain
/friend quesay
/friend wascal

goodbye my friend

I'm deeply griefed at the news of train's death :( my heart-felt condolences and prayers to him and his family.

I did not know Nitrain very well, but we did have our share amount of time together.
We hunted together, we raided together, he was even tagged for the Legend for a few, but more as guest. He helped us and took care of many things.

I got to know him as an outstanding person, very caring and nice. Helpful and trustworthy. I am very very sorry to read he passed away. Its always the good ones that have to go first.

My condolences to his family and friends.

You'll be missed Nitrain.
*kneel*

Basically all of the other VS people have summed up what I would have to say. :(

/salute Nitrain, rest in peace.

Santerre and Larlaana have said all there is to say. The guild in question was: Midnight, Santerre. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Midnight wanted to steal our attempt at the original Cazic Thule (I believe our first attempt). It looked like they would, but ole Nitrain called in Blood of Ro, and a few friends. Needless to say Plane of Fear was packed so full, the likes of which had not seen on Solusek Ro Server since the early days of the nasty runs for corpses. And why? Because of one man. But, Nitrain (Mark) was not just "one man" he was the friendliest person who has ever or will ever play Everquest. Period. No other person I have ever met in this game had given such self sacrifice, and so willingly. He joked, and made a good time of things, even when they weren't. Not just a cleric, but a true friend to any who were blessed to know him. He even forced Heruu to tag me when I got back into Everquest, because as most Vallis Scortor understand, we were more then just a guild, we are family, in our own sense of it. Well Nitrain (Mark), I am proud to call you family, even if not blood family. There is a special bond between us Vallis Scortor. Bless you Mark, I hope you have as many fudge explosion cakes, cases of whiskey, and lines of women waiting for you, because you deserve it.

Farewell Mark


Christopher J. Leonard (AKA: Orun "vile pally" Dreamstalker)

Thoughts to Marks family,
Rest in peace Mark Steven Lane.

Sigh...

I also remember Nitrain since early ARo days :/ Great, great guy.

I miss him already :(

You know, with all the foul-mouthed, arrogant, rude, self-serving bastards out there why in HELL did HE have to go? Nitrain was one of the kindest players I have ever met. This was a genuinely good guy. If there is a Heaven, then surely you are there right now, laughing at us.

Dfrac

this was a total shock to me,he was one of the nicest guys ive met in EQ.
i had only chatted with him a few weeks back after runnin into him at the single banker in PoK,where we seem to always run into each other at.to the point where we accuse each other of stalkin.
he always found a way to make me laugh,in his grumpy cleric way.teasin me with his fruit pies,while i was tryin to skill up and make em.
i sat in POJ with him and lyrik,makin them spam languages to me, while campin the tormented souls for the HoH key quest.til he couldnt take it no more. :)
or that trakanon raid he dragged me to,kickin and screamin.cause he needed a tank.most anyone else id have said hell no to.but nit just has a way of makin ya want to help him.
we wiped like 3 or 4 times til it died,all the while he was havin a blast, for some crazy reason.

i had grown quite fond of him ever since i met him from the vision vallis merger.i got to meet a lot of cool people id have probally never met before as a result of it.and nit was one of those im so glad i got to meet.

ill certainly miss you,your name is permanently on my friends list.even though ill never see the name nitrain in game again.

farewell and rest in peace my friend,

There is a special bond between us Vallis Scortor.
Orun calls it like it is, there IS a bond between us, a bond that originated with Nitrain and was time and again reinforced by Nitrain.

I will never again have some of the experiences i most coveted in EQ, but I will always try to play as he did, he set an example for many people that upholds what i like to think as some of the best character traits of humanity. Honor, Compassion, Dignity, Pride, thoughtfullness, and an overall respect for life's situations, EVEN if he did not understand them.

I will forever rejoice the day we met, and mourne the day you left us. May you live forever in the hearts and memories of those you touched.
/salute

I never had the pleasure of meeting Nitrain, but based on everyone's comments, he was obviously a really good guy.

My condolences to all of his friends and family for the loss of Mark.

/salute

Well.. I cant say I liked Nitrain/Quesay too much.. the feeling was kind of mutual, but.. he was a good and kind person, for that I respect him.

R.I.P. Nitrain

What can I say what has not been said yet? Though Sharookan and I left VS a while ago we never lost contact to Nitrain and we always been very very close. We called each other from Germany to America and vice versa and had plans to visit each other. I still refuse to believe that he is not among us anymore.

Thanks to Larlaana, Santerre and Orun for your words. There is nothing I could add and honestly I am too shocked right now to find the right words. And thanks to Silvermaine for informing me and Sharookan via our guildboard.

Heck Nitrain! Never again you will call me SLUT or TINKA STINKA or TWINK? This can't be true!

Escaja Windsong

Coercer of Turul Legion

This one hit me pretty hard...I have been playing online games with Nitrain for about six years now. I left Q2CTF almost right after he did to start playing EQ one month after it went public. He'd been playing since the day it went public. He is one of the nicest, fairest guys you will ever meet in this game and outside of the game from talking to everyone who actually had met him IRL (one of my biggest regrets right now was not meeting him face to face). It's funny to realize how much someone you only see when you play a game can mean to you when they are gone (I know...I know...the social interactions in this game make it more than just a game which is why EQ is sooooo damn evil =). I saw this man do so much for folks in EQ...he'd be your advocate when someone said something disparaging about you when you weren't around. In addition to being an awesome guy, he was someone you could rely on in this game with your back. If he was my cleric...I knew I was taken care of. If I died...I'm sure it was my own damn fault =).

Anyway, Train...I'll see you on that great respawn pad in the sky when my time comes and I finally get to see you in person...well...sort of =).

Anyway...I went searching for some snippets about Nitrain on the net...
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Heh...not one of Nitrain's better scores...man...that ping is atrocious!:

<img border=0 src="http://tejaz.camalott.com/battles/1999/qsa/tjz-qsa-02-061799.jpg" />
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Demo of Essobie and Nitrain (Heh...have to have Q2CTF and the maps...possibly I'll work on consolidating this so everything needed to view the demo is easily accessable...I was able to get a copy of Q2 files off IRC channels a couple of days ago...my legal copy having been destroyed in my house fire a couple of years ago):

<a href="http://www.planetquake.com/ra2io/files.shtm" target="_new">Rocket Arena 2 demo</a>
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I have no words for how I'm feeling right now.

I joined Vallis Scortor when I was lvl 2 and was there with them for 2 years. People come and go but there was one constant and that was Nitrain. He was always there. He would even come rez you even when you told him not to come. "don't argue with me slut" is what he said to me on many occasions.

Not quite sure why he started calling me "goober toes" but it stuck and I would always wiggle my toes at him after that.

He had a way of making you smile when you didn't want to. He would spend hours talking to me and telling me not to take the game so seriously. He taught me everything I knew about being a cleric. If had a question I knew I could always ask him and when I made a mistake he was the first to laugh at me.

One time in Fear, we were just about done setting up and he was playing Quesay for ports, he said no messing around and he had to go get one more peson so he gated...so he though...he ported his whole group out. I laughed so hard about that. I think everyone teased him about it.

Nitrain I will never forget you my friend. Thank you for everything you did for me, our friends and most of all for the game.

Rest in Peace

Nutty aka Goober Toes

*wigglers her toes at Nitrain*

I cannot tell you all how unbelievably sad I am (wiping tears from my eyes currently while I write this).

I received a /tell from Gazamel on Sol Ro and an email from Samita at my work about this. I did not initially believe this (remember I was an officer in the days of Vallis Scortor on Sol Ro with Anna... nuf said there). After talking to Utar it has now hit me that this is true unfortuneately 8(

My wife (Kalela) is at work and does not currently know... she will likely call (we talked to Mark often via phone as well) to express our condolences. I even tried to get Mark a job working for me (he made the interview.. but I never got to see his face) a few years back.

Nitrain and Luiltin have known eachother for almost 4yrs now. I met him when Melinka was around like lvl 10 in West Commons beating up on Orcs (Melinka was always a nutcase eh Silvermaine?).

Nitrain had only thought of creating his own guild (Vallis Scortor) valley of the sluts back then.... I was in the Knights of Justice with Gazamel and Samita at the time. We used to hang out together all the time... Evil Eyes in the Gorge used to be a favorite hang out of ours... It was always fun to get charmed and beat eachothers brains out.

We leveled up together for some time...

Vallis was established and the Knights had fallen apart (Festus was a around then! eeeeek!). Mark asked me to come join his gang and do the famliy type guild vs power guilds so I decided to join him. He made me an officer with the likes of such savory characters as Larlanna, Festus, Rive, Thaddus/Alde, Sorack, and many more started to pile in (Sorry my head is screwed a bit so names are slipping away from me atm).

Nitrain was the BEST negotiator hands down in disputes. I was there during the Midnight fight in PoF over CT. He was part Cherokee Indian and used that to his advantage to get people to agree. He was the most dedicated person to helping others without helping himself that it was just crazy. Many guilds/players/n00bs were blessed with an experience with him and his way of play. I know he was loved by all and many will come and tell their stories which I hope help you all to remember him the way he should be.

When the server split occurred I was unable to bring myself to move (due to others staying) so we parted ways at that time. I remained on Sol Ro in various guilds TGK, Blood of Ro, and our own.

We came to VA and this server when a situation occurred with my wife Kalela. We joined you all to continue to move VA towards your end-game goals and enjoyed the progression/grouping/family very much.

We ended up not being able to play at the level due to numerous issues (even now we are not on very much due to RL/summer break).

Mark was always warm to Kalela and I and we talked often though we were not within VA any longer. We've grouped in HoH and various other places kicking back and doing it VA-style.

It is hard for us all to see someone so young to be taken from us sooooo soon, but appreciate the time we had together. I'm proud to have known Mark and share a little of ourselves with eachother. He will leave an indellible mark on my soul for having known him in this life.

If you guys do a ceremony or ever need us please let us know and we will do everything in our power to be there!

You can contact me or Kalela directly at our domain email address

Luiltin aka Robbie: robbie@thebaileyfam.com
Kalela aka Claire: claire@thebaileyfam.com


/Salute Nitrain/Mark/Quesay/my friend... my virtual brother!

I shall drink a toast to you and your memory for alas that is all I have now my friend to remember you by.....

Peace be with you my brother..... to you and your family both here as well as in life......

Bobbib request that I post this for him:

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

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I got the message.

This breaks my heart.

Nitrain was one of a kind in EQ, both for his helpful side and for the way he played the game, he didn't play for loot but for fun and to be together with his virtual friends. Maybe he was among the first to shout ding lvl 60 I think so atleast but that was just because it was one of his own goals.

I remember so many times when he dropped what he was doing to help others out instead of finishing what he was curently doing, just because that was his nature.

I have known him for 3+ years and has counted him among my online friends for all this time, he was also one of the few I kept contact with after I quit EQ.

SALUT NITRAIN
_________________

Bobbib
Fatty of Landslide
Ayonae Ro

I am shocked at this news. I had thought that perhaps he had just gone away from EQ for a bit, like he's done before. I never thought losing somebody that I've never talked to besides in a game would hurt so much. I'll miss talking to Train very much.

What a shock. Nitrain was one of the first friends I made in Everquest. While he was a skilled player, more importantly, he was a very special person. He always had a kind word and never turned down any request. Even though we were not in the same guilds, Nitrain was always someone you could count upon if you ever needed anything. I remember the CT incident that Orun mentioned as if it was yesterday. The moment I received the tell from Nitrain it took no time to get our guild into Fear to help him--he had earned the respect of everyone in our guild and on the server.

Moments like this make you step back and take stock of what is truly important in our lives and, on a smaller level, what happens in Everquest. There is always a person behind the toon and too often we lose sight of that. My condolences to Mark's family on their tragic loss.

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Crusader & GM for Blood of Ro-Solusek Ro (http://www.bloodofro.com)
Magelo Profile (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=4724)

Words cannot describe the type of person Train was. He was kind, fair, good. Unfortunately those words don't do justice to him at all. One of the best people to ever play this stupid game, he will be missed sorely. My deepest sympathys to Mark's family, if I'm taking this as hard as I am, how hard must it be for those who had the privilage of living with him?

/salute Nitrain

/mourn


Leafy
:( :( :(

I have been checking and reading this thread ever since Silver posted it, but i never really could find the right words to say. Each time i have checked back and saw all my old friends sharing the same guilt and dispare i felt when first hearing the news has made me finally have what post how i feel.

Nitrain was perhaps the nicest person i have ever met in EQ. He was the kind of guy who would go out of his way to help you or resolve a problem no matter how trivial or how big of a problem it was. He would just always be there for you, making a joke to cheer you up when you werent doing so good or by going out of his way to do something for you. He always thought of you, and put himself second.

Thank you for all your help Nitrain, you will be missed.

didnt know you man but,

rest in peace bro

The first time I met him was in North Karana back on the Solusek Ro server. I was level 33 and had the plan to go to Permafrost to get some quest piece for the blue bard armor, but didnt know the way so I asked in /ooc. He was sitting at the spires with Quesay and immediately sent me a tell he would bring me to Permafrost. After running there he decided that a 33 Chanter wouldn't make it alone there and joined me to help.

After that I was camping the AC in OOT for days and he kept asking me if I wanted to stay in OOT for my lifetime. So after 3 days he just took the boat, zoned to OOT and invited me to Vallis Scortor. Some days later he made me an officer just because he wanted it. From that day on we leveled together, there was no Nitrain without Escaja and no Escaja without Nitrain. He has always been some levels ahead of me but after Kunark came out and I made level 52 he conned blue to me the first time ever. When I told him "hey, you con blue to me" he got pretty upset and from that day on he practically "lived" in Sebilis until he had level 60. Oh yeah, that was him :((

Most of the old VS members know that it is not always easy to get along with me but Nitrain had the most possible patience with me. We did crazy things together and everytime Quesay and Escaja grouped somewhere it was program that his beloved Druid died. He then always been pretty annoyed, but some minutes later he was happy again.

Sharookan and I gave him the name Miffy and whenever we been in the same zone /ooc MIFFY! He then immediately replied /ooc TWINK! followed with a /tell Clarity!! And powerlevel me! He saved some old screenshots when we camped Efreeti and I used Ogre illusion and did the naked Ogre spawn dance. He had a blast to auction "Selling naked pictures of Escaja" and asked me several times if I would like a copy of them. He never sent them to me :(

One thing I remember at most was when I had some RL problems and he wanted to keep from doing a mistake. He "threatened" me to come to Germany and I would have to dance with him to Country Music :)

Hey Miffy, you often said "I love ya" and want to reply one last time and tell you that I love you too. I know we will finally meet that day when I also pass the rainbow bridge into the land where there is no illness, no pain and no sorrows. Until then you will always be in my heart, farewell Miffy.

Your babe

Escaja Windsong

Coercer of Turul Legion

I'll miss him a lot. He was one of the most outgoing people I know. Always ready to help and even though he couldn't grapple worth a shit, we had so much fun together in the QSA. Naw, I wasn't part of the clan, started off in Chemwar as Titanium|CW| then in the Gib Zombies as |GZ|Mortis.

Fond and fine memories.

http://www.bloodtide.com/images/nite1.jpg

I am so very sorry to hear this. I first met Nitrain through Orun years ago, when I was still a half elf paladin named Galana. Nitrain was always very friendly and kind to me and I am certain that he will be missed and fondly remembered by many.

/Salute Nitrain


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very sad day indeed, though I haven't talked to Nitrain much since our Sol Ro server days in Plane of Hate, I will miss this fella. He was always a great guy to me and I don't remember hearing a bad word about the guy. My condolences to his guildies in Vallis Aspectus as well, I'm sure this is hitting you all very deeply.

I think the moment I knew Nitrain was a true leader was on a Kael Drakkal raid that was going horribly wrong in every possible way. There were people running all over, mobs following them and I think that we only had three clerics and Nitrain was the highest by about 5-10 levels.

People were cris-crossing all over the shop, Nitrain was slinging heals left right and centre and trying to maintain some order and eventually when we got our groove on and got it all going right, Nitrain turned as the last mob died and said "Contrary to popular belief, I dont have unlimited mana!"

Personally it's that sort of characteristic that brings out the best in people. Anyone else would have probably bellowed "Stop moving you freaking noobs and fight" or scream "Omg, learn some skills" but not the Train. We all laughed so hard that night, we wiped a fair bit too and throughout the night Nitrain didn't once complain. THAT is the friend I remember, the comrade in arms who rescued my Necromancer from almost quitting because of being overwhelmed by the game and not finding it to be a pleasant place.

Nitrain invited me to Vallis when I was a mere tinkler of a Dark Elf Necromancer at a measly level 20 and if it wasnt for him and the good people of Vallis Scortor I wouldnt have played EQ for anywhere nearly as long as I did.

Nitrain, it chokes me up every time I realise that you're gone, but if/when I get into Heaven, I'm expecting an eternity of happyness simply by being your comrade in arms again.

/salute

I'm so sorry to hear of this!

Was looking through old emails from the VS crowd, and found this... found a 3 year old (~9/15/2000) guild roster for Vallis Scortor... thought some people may get a kick out of it...

59 CLE Nitrain
57 SHM Larlaana
57 RNG Sorack
56 DRU Santerre
56 MAG Thaddus
55 ENC Escaja
55 WAR Festus
55 MAG Fyrun
55 WIZ Galuda
54 WIZ Oolong
53 MAG Fallawen
52 PAL Graygore
52 CLE Alde
51 PAL Orun
51 WIZ Neoblade
51 RNG Egrim
51 SHD Abasher
51 ENC Ganza
50 SHM Pearl
50 DRU Luiltin
50 RNG Qintay
49 CLE Rive
48 ENC Liliy
48 CLE Zipsil
48 RNG Deidlet
42 ROG Yoyo
42 MAG Marken
40 MNK Kryonis
40 RNG Darksome
37 WIZ Kahli
36 ENC Lyrik
36 DRU Veggie
35 ENC Pancake
35 CLE Fullbelly
35 DRU Maritn
35 DRU Tuggo
30 SHM Karel
30 PAL Rodsteel
29 CLE Caterina
20 DRU Caliendra
20 DRU Seamair
15 NEC Pedeninious
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When I found out about this last week I was physically shaken.
So many times together, so many memories. I couldn’t even get my mind together to write, so now I will try to put some thoughts down about what Nitrain meant to me and to so many. I apologize now for the disorganization of these thoughts, but like I said, I still cant even think clearly because of this terrible loss.

Whenever someone leaves us in life, people always say “he/she was so good, etc” and they pour out this praise once they are gone, how great they were, how much they did for us, how much we enjoyed their company. Mark on the other hand, was the type of person you felt openly that way about, while he was still with us. He was one of the few people who gave people that feeling while he was with us, and it didn’t take him being gone for us to pour out these feelings. We had that care and love for him openly while he was with us. Everything everyone is writing here, is openly how they felt about him over the years with him.

It’s tough to put words to this loss. He was someone I personally spent almost 4 years with for 4-10 hours a day hunting, planning and building our guild.
I was co-leader of Vallis for about 3 years and Nitrain and I came from two opposite sides when it came to leadership. He was open, happy, giving. I was course, strict and authoritative when it came to raiding. I think overall, we complemented each other well, and kept each other in check to not only help the guild advance and do some great mind-blowing difficult things, but also, to keep that tight knit family feeling which was so important to Mark.

Mark was so good to anyone, it was almost scary. He would help a complete stranger, travel 5 zones to rez a level 15 newbie. I, to some extent wanted to protect Nitrain from being taken advantage of. But once he put his mind to it, it was impossible to stop him from helping anyone and everyone he met. Such an admirable trait. Stubborn bastard. Why him? He was the kindest person I have ever met.

I am in the process of putting together a huge collage of screenshots of Nitrain and friends. I have to dig up my older hard drive and install it to get the shots off. I’ll add it here once its done. I think so many of his close friends will have many memories come back to them when the see it all.

Some memories in no particular order:

Vallis guild duel back 3 years ago in the Arena.
We color coded the teams normal and /roleplay and set teams on both sides. Naturally everyone on the enemy team jumps nitrain and nitrains team moves in to protect him. The next thing I see is an explosion of skulls as Nitrain casts an AoE fear and EVERY player scatters in every direction, both enemies and his own teammates. Smoke clears and there is nitrain standing alone as everyone is scattered to the far reaches of the arena. That gave him such a chuckle.

So many dungeon crawls through sebilis, howling stones in the old days. Raids deep to new areas for epic weapons. Nitrain always came out to help anyone who asked for it. And in the blink of an eye, if nitrain needed anything the entire server would come to his assistance, as they had on multiple occasions.

Poor Nitrain actually had to do his epic a couple times.
The first time he got up to the final part where you get the stone to trigger ragefire. Well, he wanted to do it that night, but we had scheduled a Plane of Fear raid. He came to help out and “Rez our stinking rotting corpses”. God I think he got such satisfaction by rezing my corpse all those 1,000+ times over the years. ( I was convinced he would start CH late just so he could rez me)
Well he ends up as primary looter (gems, etc) and his inventory starts filling up. (I still cant get over, all the times I had to log him in for heals or rezes. If you looked in his packs you couldn’t find ANYTHING, what a mess! And I wondered why he used to always ask for a str buff)
So…He decides to look through his packs to see what he can destroy to make room for more gems. Well he sees one of those Worry Wraith stones…..so he thought….it was his ragefire stone. Click. Confirm. Destroyed.
So….back to Lake Rathe to camp underwater. We sat with him for 2 days there alone. :) Then back to the King in chardok……We get to Ragefire some weeks later and trigger him. Ragefire gets stuck in the wall, kills the GM we call (Nitrain always loved that) Nitrain rezes the GM. The GM destroys Ragefire. Ack. Back to stage one again.
Well after a grueling week long camp, Nitrain finally got his epic.

I’ll never forget Vallis’ first trip to the Plane of Fear back in 2000. We cleared the zone and it was time to break the castle. I explained to nitrain that I needed him to run up to the castle, cast DA and agro about 20 mobs and pull them out. His reaction was so classic, but so determined because he knew he had to do it. “Vile Ranger, you just want to see me die”
I even have a screenshot of Nitrain running out of the firewall with a big ass train of amegeddon knights on his ass. Classic.

I remember many times when even nitrain would loose it when it came to people. Oh festus was like a constant nightmare to nitrain. Many others, including myself. “A certain Ranger” is how he used to call me when I wasn’t around. But nitrain was good to us all, no matter how much we put him through. And boy did the guild put him through a lot. I think he thrived on it though. It satisfied him to great levels to be able to help so many with so many things. And he did it all so selflessly. Even his level of loot was worse then some other clerics in the guild even though his level of contribution was far in excess of just about anyone in the guild.

Mark, we will miss you dearly. You were not only a great person to know and play EQ with, but to many you WERE EQ. The reason so many played. Memories like this are painful. Myself and several others were recently talking about getting ‘the old group’ back together to hunt LdoN when it comes out. I always figured there would be time to create more great memories, but that time is to late now.

The empty feeling of not having Mark around anymore won’t go away. But those who I spoke to already about this (you know who you are), we need to continue, and make more of those great memories. And live our lives with the pleasure of having known such a great person. Already, this has brought many closer together. And that is something that Nitrain would be so happy to know.

There is so much more to add. I cant even go on. But I will add a lot more once I have all the screen shots together.
We will miss you Mark, I personally will never forget you. You added something great to my, and many others lives.

Mark/Nitrain was simply the finest person I have ever encountered online. It was a privelege to play this game with him and I will never forget his many acts of selflessness and his sense of humor. I will always regret not having the chance to meet him in person.

I heard the sad news .. .very sad day. will miss you nitrain.

I remember our naked barb Halas to Freeport run...somehow I got "Oneeyedwillie" past the name filter for my barb. I don't remember what Train called his. I do remember the start of that race, tho. Nitrain is very narrowly in the lead. Me and one other are right behind him...I see a polar bear cub (or some other kos mob...pretty sure it was a bear)...I start to slowly back off...bear aggros on Nitrain and proceeds to beat the shit out of him while I leave him alone to do his best bear chow impression. I laughed my ass off so hard. I miss that magnificent bastard =/

I remember that race. Funniest thing I've ever done in EQ. Winner was Glencannon aka "Barbieglen". I finished second. I don't think Train's toon ever managed to make it past EK.

The name of his barbie was "Haulbuns". He fed many polar bear cubs in Everfrost that night.

Damn, I miss him :(

A little story that some of you may not know. I remember how excited Nitrain was when this happened.

About a year and a half ago, Nitrain organized the purchase of a green dragon scale from a friend of his in (I think) EW. Up to that point, Vallis Scortor had never found Severilous up so we didn't have any epic warriors, which was definitely slowing us down.

Once we had the green scale, we had to get to Spiroc island to get the wing blade for our main tank, Thorak. Getting to Spiroc isle itself was quite an ordeal, as we had people falling off the islands, late arrivals, corpse summoning logistics, and plus we could only move about 1 island up in an evening. It was about day 5 when we actually got spiroc blades. And boy did we cheer!

Anyway, we went up a couple islands and got mage crowns, which was a huge success for us also. And then, day 7 I believe, we went up to Island 8 and tackled the Eye of Veeshan. At this point many people had fallen behind or dropped off, and we were down to a small number of people. The fight was close as could be - in fact, the Eye of Veeshan took out every single person except Nitrain, and then died on Nitrain's damage shield. Train was ecstatic at victory over Sky and especially in that way.

I wish I had a screenshot of that victory. Even more, I wish I had been there hehe - I couldn't log on that day :(

Glencannon, aka Barbieglen

Nitrain was a great guy and will be greatly missed by all.. RIP Nitrain

/salute





Ytryy

Didnt know him but from what i read.. wow. My deepest respect for him.

:(
Sad he's gone.

Nitrain was quite a character, and one of the people I missed when I quitted EQ.

Last time I met him was in a heavly populated zone. The nexus pre-PoP, I think. He was playing a midlevel alt with fungi tunic, great tradeable weapons, great tradeable hp/ac gear, and so on. I was playing Edeina, dressed almost entierly in nodrop gear. Some of it from Vex Thal. He shouted TWINK at me on the shout channel, and of course I proceeded to call him a slut. :)

First time I encountered Vallis Scortor, my main was of lower level then that alt. I was hunting in highkeep, and some guy joined the group. He claimed that there was two sluts in the group, and when I slapped him up quite severely he explained that he wasn't talking about Edeina and the other female character in the group, but about the two Vallis Scortor members present.

Bet the alt was Wascal :)

I don't remember.
Was so long since I quitted EQ. :)

In any case, the world need more sluts like him and the Vallis Scortor crowd.

Slutpower!

wow.. sorry to hear this. i look back fondly to my days with Vallis Scortor.

my condolences to his family

God, this is such a shock I can't think of anything good to say that hasn't been said. Nitrain helped me out so many freaking times I can't even count. It makes me think about a lot of you guys, old friends of mine through the years that I wanted to meet in RL but never got around to it.
My thoughts go out to his family and to all of you who shared so many good ass-kicking times with Train.

Does anyone have a photo of him they could post?

Alright... after Anna, I just gotta say...
This better not be a hoax or I will personaly track down and KILL whoever is responsible.

If this is true, it is a very sad day indeed.

I spent an amazing portion of my life with Nitrain/Quesay (all the old sluts for that matter) and I will always remember them fondly.

The advantage I have is I already missed him. I quit playing EQ a long, long time ago and the only thing that almost brings me back is the friends that I made. Now, of course, I no longer have the option of hanging with Train again... that aint cool.... :(

This BETTER not be some kind of sick joke!

hmm, am I in denial? ack...

GG, I wish it WAS a hoax. Unfortunately, it isn't.

He, like most sluts, was a hell of a character. An all around good guy, and I had alot of good times in EQ with him. I've been away from EQ for a long time now, but all those names on the 2000 roster bring back alot of memories, great memories. VS was my first real guild in EQ. He, and everyone else made my time in EQ pretty cool. When I look back on it now, I think I should have /moved with all the other sluts. SolRo wasn't the same without Nitrain and the others.

I'm sorry for everyone's loss, and I know I'm happy that I got to know Mark, and all the other sluts.My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and electronic counterparts.


-Jeff formerly Fallawen Farwalker

-Orun still the funkiest looking pally around?-

Funkiest smelling maybe...