first of all, after these years, it was extremely surprising (and refreshing) to see a shard of this nature in 2012. I played this game when I was 19 until about 23 years old...from literally the first day the game came out on the Atlantic Shard until the end of the t2a when the game started to go in what I considered a downhill direction.
I was literally one of the top 10 richest people on the Atlantic Shard when I quit (at least landwise). I had a house in guard protection (really early you could build them there before an early OSI patch fixed it) in Britain, a two story east of Britain, a tower out near yew, a castle east of Britain next to my two story (near the Bog), and several other small houses throughout the world (I got my houses grandfathered in to me when OSI started limiting the number per account). I had 6 multi GM chars including my 7 x GM "Reeves Vonador"/tankmage with sword/tact...the only remnant of that account and character is a google search where you can find a "whispering rose from Reeves Vonador" - lol...sold my castle and most of my items to other players of the time and quit for EQ...never looking back until a short time in Age of Shadows when I discovered the game had taken a turn for the worse. Man, t2a and earlier was the best days of this game. I still remember the Atlantic greats of the time such as Prop, Ibn Shaun, Yorik, Shera, Annihilus, Tarek Bin Ziad and Sylia Stingray just to name a few, and many of the PKer's including the MERCS, AoD...Babamonkey, Trajan...etc...even the annoying but occasionaly helpful and ever entertaining Isobel. I never was much of a PK outright, but I did bust up several during my time, and I could definitely hold my own against most any... At the time, my buddy Prop had a sword BLUE in color that was called "Syrem's Razor" and I myself had a full set of solid black plate mail from a special GM event where these baddies came out...it wasn't your typical black plate...and I can't remember what it was called... but it was SICK...
In any case, those days are long past, and now I'm doing ok to work on my new main char (Sinnexx) who will be a tank mage here. If anyone wants a history lesson the Atlantic shard, let me know! haha. I am now working on my getting cash up for a large house (preferably tower or better) though I'm sure if that hapens I'll have to buy it off another players as there doesn't appear to be a ton of room on this shard for that sort of thing, being that the shard has a few years on it.
I would just like to say that I hope to play here a long time and I look forward to once again becoming viable and having fun killing/getting killed. Hell, Jesus Christ and Pope Benedict already saw to that when I was out farming as an apprentice mage out near the Fire SHrine..lol...good times good times...Who knew we had such famous religious folks here?
Anyways, thanks also to Jackko, Kaine, and Pickles so far for helping me get on my feet here. My char isn't ready for serious combat yet, but he will be. I have a ton of screenshots from my old char if anyone would like to see them...in the castle, etc... I also had full inv plate and a set of every viking sword from the first level of magic up through vanquishing, not to mention the tons of rares OSI kept giving me each year due to my account tenure, and literally tons of other cool stuff from the era.See you all around...
Sinnexx formerly "Reeves Vonador" of the Atlantic shard
Hope to see you in game and enjoy UOSA. 
