The tag field isn’t big enough. D:

So, here’s another random hodgepodge of topics. No, it’s not related to the first random hodgepodge of topics. Why? Because it’s a random hodgepodge of topics. *cough* Anywho, let me warn you guys first. There will be ranting in this. I’m in a very attackish mood right now. I just went surfing through the Basil Market forums, and, well… *nervous laugh* Let’s just say I need to stop looking at that forsaken place because of the shear amounts of idiocy breeding throughout the place. Either that, or make it so I can’t post.*watches as she ends up with a posting restriction*

Anyway, without further adieu (how is that spelled, anyway?), I give thee, the masses… Arc’s Maple Day ™. Ok, so maybe it’s not trademarked. Let me have some fun! I need it after the last week’s paper load. D:

Oh, oh! Soundtrack I’m playing! What a Fool Believes by the Doobie Brothers.

There’s also another reason I should never look at Basil forums (I swear I’m getting to the MS part). A few nights ago, there was a topic in the archer section asking if 20mil by some 5x level was good. I was going to post that that was very good, but many people beat me to it, but they instead posted things along the lines of “no, I have double that at half your level” and “blah blah blah blah more than you blah”. I thought my 7mil was good. D: Anyway, that made me want to go and get money in Maple. So, log on, and think, ‘Where am I gonna get money? I don’t get drops worth crap, and I don’t wanna go back to Zombies. Dark Yetis/Dark Pepes don’t give a decent amount, Jr. Yetis are overrun with those heaven forsaken EGGS, and FoG is completely out of the question. Hrm… I know! I’ll go fight Octopi and sell their legs for 100 mesos each!’

Soundtrack change: Cradle Song from Escaflowne. Then, Ash!taka (laugh at that being censored) to San from Mononoke Hime.

Man, am I stupid or what? So, I head over to Vic and go to that map outside Sleepywood that’s got all the Octopi and the Neckis. Ice, ice, whack, jump, ice, whack, ice, ice, ice, brinnnnnnnnnnnnnng. Rinse and repeat for 2 hours. Meet a nice sin who leaves as soon as she gets her Necki skins (and pays a nice price for the ones I give her; she has restored my faith in the decent sins!). Then, Return Scroll to Kearning, ESC, left arrow, left arrow, left arrow, enter, OHGODLAG, hop, skip, jump, commence spamming in Kearning PQ area.

Now, granted, they sold pretty fast. But, I made about 20k profit, because I used a few too many Pure Waters in collecting. 20k in 2 hours. Eh… I’m not liking this. But, I went back there today. Rinse, repeat above procedure for another 2 hours. Earned about the same profit this time, but had to deal with some beggars (plz gve muny or i gt bnned). Plus, I spent far more time selling the darn things today, so I wasted time I could have to been fighting something else for. . . good money. Alas! I’m not fiscally responsible! Woe is me.

Soundtrack change: Fighting of the Spirit from Tales of Phantasia.

The worst part about my money gaining exploits? I got more drops in the last two days than I have in the last month. 2 Steel Shields, 1 Purple Split Top, 1 Green Arianne Top, 2 Aqua Snowboards, and. . . 1 Pink Conehat when I spent a few brief moments at Macis. Curse you conehat! Must you mock me so!? *cries*

‘nother soundtrack change: The Ballad of Mr. Bonkers by the Aquabats.

Anyway, I finally broke down and went back to Zombies. I can finally kill them with a fair enough 50% chance to OHKO them. But, they’re so boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. I hate Zombies. With. A. Passion. I hate them more than Rob Paravonian hates Pachabell. Which is quite a lot, if I may add so. God, I’ll be so glad when I never have to go to that obnoxious place of nightmares ever. AGAIN. *rants!*

STC: Bass Drum, one of my high school’s marching cadences; Dark Moon, from Outlaw Star

So. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, time for something HAPPY! Happy! Happy! *is reminded of Zoolander* So, since I was in Vic, I obviously had to ride the boat back to Ossyria so I could go and fight the things that cannot be mentioned. So, get to the platform, miss the boat by about a minute (stupid boats and their time schedules; who needs time aside from stressed college students? D: ), and meet a group of people who apparently also missed the boat. Aren’t we a lucky bunch? Yeah, thought so. So, there’s 2 lower levels and then one Sader who’s one level below me. We goof off for about 5 sentences, and then 2 more people show up. Oh! Looky! Another Sader and a DK. Yeah, they’re goin’ Croggin’. They ask the Sader that was waiting for the boat to join them (I guess I’m not special enough to Crog *le cry*). Anyway, boat comes, takes off, SCURRY!, plop on the boxes. 10 minute boat ride is ahead. Joy.

STC: So Far Away by Stained

Well, this time, it actually was joy. There was a F/P mage in the cabin with me, and he was trying to shoot me with Fire Arrows (pshaw, shooting an archer with arrows). So, I yank out the spiffy puppet, toss it in front of him, and he has some target practice! Toss out a couple more, then he gets bored. Well, I had just coverted my hideous stack of monster cards into Match Card decks, so we played a few games. I won everyone single one – some of them without him even getting any. I’ll admit, I felt bad for winning all of them. I’m used to playing against Moon and usually losing – that Canadian has a memory! Anyway, we got to talking for a while. He seemed like a really good kid. We need more people like him in the game. If we did, man, it would be so much more pleasant.

So, since it’s getting late, and I have class tomorrow morning (oh man, only 2 weeks until finals, and then, FREEEEEEDOM! For about a week. Then I start my job. -_-), I shall have to bring this to a close. Remember, no refunds on wasted time. I have yet to master the fine art of space-time continuum travel. I’ll let you know as soon as I do, assuming I don’t get sucked into a black hole in the process (oooh, what’s that?).

-Arc
Ranty mode: Turn Off

P.S. Silver, if you read this, I passed your pounce on to Moon. He said something along the lines of, “Oh, thanks. That’s cool. I think? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrc, you know scary people!”

Edit: I fail at symbols.