I will do mine the long way too.

Miriel (Eleni)
My lovely was the first person I met in the game. She showed me the ropes, and was my partner the whole way. PL'd my very slow WAR in the first days and in the dunes too, and also helped me do my first misssions, get subjob items, PLD flag quest, all the little low level things that you take for granted. She was only level 48 WHM at the time and probably would have never gotten to 75 if I didn't get addicted to the game and push her. We got our first 75s together . We also went through several missions together, like Zilart and ToAU. One of my greatest memories in FFXI was when we beat Alexander. I was so pumped. Another great feat we accomplished was beating the San d'Oria rank 10 mission as a duo. We made a great team!

Misfit (Tyno)
Misfit was our guide through vanadiel and the third member of our trio. She was the highest level person I knew at first, all the way at level 66 WAR! I was in such awe at her strength when she would beat hard stuff up for us. Sometimes her other friend who was a 75 WAR came along and I looked up to him too. He saved our asses so many times. One of my favorite stories was when Miriel and Misfit would send tells to random newbies in the dunes of {Are you alone?} over and over. So funny. I would randomly /tell Tyno {Are you alone?} because of that.

Levian (Smelly)
Didn't really interact much with Smelly except for one party. He just randomly showed up one day and so we partied, and then he randomly quit after. You left us you punk!

ThePhoenix (Phanoix)
Phanoix was my back up WHM when Eleni was unavailable. We duoed sometimes, mostly for skill ups. I still see him on Asura and wave. Possibly the last Eoffer left besides myself.

Siegfried (Liera)
Brought his THF to help us get the level 50 limit break items. That's pretty awesome of him, considering what a daunting task those stupid items used to be. Drop rate on Ancient Papayrus was like 1%.

Citizen Bleys (various)
Bleys would come and go on Pandy. Sometimes we would party when he was around. I think we did Dunes once together. The most memorable experience with him was when he helped us get the item for Opo Opo Crown in the sand pits. We were there for about 4 hours killing worms and he stayed until we got them. That was really nice of him.

Omecle (Omecle)
It was really cool when Omecle and Ouch came to Pandy for a while. I wish they stayed because they were good folks. Ome is a fellow Taru PLD which automatically makes him awesome. He and I and Ouch (and sometimes Eleni) hung out a lot when they were around. He even joined our Dynamis linkshell even though the run times were at like 4 AM for him. Even though I wasn't there, one memorable moment was when he got a Valor Surcoat on his very first Dynamis run with my LS. A couple members wasn't too happy about that, but hey, that's the luck of the draw! If you wake up at 4AM to tank Dynamis-Xarcabard then you deserve a freaking surcoat.

Ouch! (Ouch)
Ouch somehow remains one of the people I talk to the most on FFXI, even though he's on a different server. When he spent his brief period on Pandy (only to break my heart), we had some awesome times together. One fond memory was when I wasted those G2 NMs for him. I was surprised I handled them so well. I wish I had the opportunity of partying with him when he was level 75 because I think we would have had some great adventures. There were times when I contemplated dropping $30 to go play with these guys but I'm a very loyal person so I couldn't abandon Pandy. We still have nice chats via Playonline messages, even if he is an elitist gear whore.