The entire idea of each zone having a level range totally escaped me.
I wanted to hang out in Steel Canyon and fight crime, just cause I thought it looked cool.
My first "This is awesome, I love this game" moment was right after I first completed the tutorial, I was running into city hall to meet my first contact and as I was running up the steps, a chick superhero walks out the door and flies off in front of me.
That was really cool looking to me.
Learn modesty, if you desire knowledge. A highland would never be irrigated by river." (Kanz ol-Haghayegh)
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). He explained it to me, said good bye and then he teleported away. 
It's funny because it's not like it's a huge flashy attack power like Inferno or Foot Stomp, but I've always admired the animation for Recall Friend because to me it's just so perfect.
Then he came over to me and handed me a wakie. While I rezzed he told me, that I should better stay in the lowbie area where the spawns aren't as tough as those that downed me. I told him about my mission and that I just couldn't find the area where I was supposed to look for Hellions (my, I was really a n00b then
He leaned back a bit, opened his arms, flashed and was gone!!!
Wow, that was soooo cool. How I wanted to be able to that, too. Being able to move from one spot in the game to a completely differrent spot in the blink of an eye. I was really wondering how it worked. I assumed that the power allowed for some kind of bookmarks you could set as your teleport target areas and that you were getting more bookmarks the higher you leveled.... and I wanted to do that, too! Teleport was so awesome, it was the coolest travel power in the game and I couldn't even imagine how people could take something as mundane as flight, super speed or super jump.
Well, I later respecced out of teleport and took flight.
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I loved your story, Myriad. One of my first "holy cow, this is COOL" moments was on an early team in The Hollows. The team lead was already at the mission door, and was using Recall Friend to TP us to it. I was the first one he transported. He had a bind "Prepare to be transported through the mystical ether to my location, Sardan!" and I went, "Err, what?" Then *flash* and I'm standing in front of him. My jaw dropped. Then I saw him teleport one teammate after another, and I just dug the animation, how the character sort of pulled his clenched fist towards his face like "come here NOW" and people did.
Later, at the end of that mission, the team lead thanked everyone for coming and logged. I realized I was a looooong way from the safe area. My heart was pounding as I tried to work my way back to Lt Wincott. I found out that falling into Grendell's Gulch was sort of like being transformed into the girl who has fallen and hurt her leg in a horror movie. Not a happy outcome.
Freedom: Blazing Larb, Fiery Fulcrum, Sardan Reborn, Arctic-Frenzy, Wasabi Sam, Mr Smashtastic.