First of all thanks for your in depth reply, Deathbane27.
It's obviously useless in writing a mirc plugin or fiddle around with some directx stuff to get irc working ingame.
Actually I just want to be able to chat with my guild while they're playing eq2 while I'm idling @work. Just to stay once in a while in contact with them (I recently quit playing eq2 due to some extra work i have to do). I know that you can pay some extra money and get that guild chat thing from SOE where you can chat via browser (java applet?). It just would be cool to find out a similar way without having to pay some extra fee
