Right ... it started as a game where you could meet like-minded folks at the Brit Blacksmith shop as armor got repaired. You'd then perhaps team up because the Brit Cemetary had spawned 2 liches which were rather hard for a solo player to take at once.
So, you and Jo Blow went and nailed the spawn at Brit, finding along the way you could really do well together. So you folks went around to the cemetaries in the land, expunging the evil undead in their home ground.
By the time the night was finished, 12 people were in a group and heading up to Yew Peninsulas to smack down reapers and other baddies. Or to Shame and nail the Dire Wolves, Gargoyles, Reapers, Eles and stuff outside the dungeon entrance.
Then again, that was a time when land spawn was high and not the awful low-grade thing it is now. You could actually depend on seeing more than 2 Dire Wolves in a 20 minute period outside of shame. And all the time, the possibility of a guild of reds attacking you was right there, too.