As according to the Drake’s ingenious plans, the weaklings were shipped off by Kargos to some other place. The Drakes had planned to toss the weaklings into the sea. The Kargos however, were distracted by the scent of human heads dangling from crosses. The Kargos trotted to Perion and happily feasted on the corpses that someone had hung out. The weakling Drakes slipped out and found refuge in a branch of a cliff.
“Well, we certainly don’t have to deal with those bullies anymore!” announced one.
“Finally, a land all to ourselves without others pushing us around,” declared another. The Drakes in Perion developed and through some strange process that Charles Darwin called “natural selection” (wth?) the Drakes adapted to the environment. Their scale color changed from blue to brown in order to reflect the heat of the sun, and they managed to survive by eating the abundance of plants and snails. The Copper Drakes thrived in peace for thirty years, until one strong and aggresive Copper Drake was born. His name was Wally. After growing up, he ventured out of Perion and into the dungeon. He bumped into the original Drakes, and wondered why their scales were blue.
“Hey, some weird Drake just walked in!” exclaimed one of them. “His scales are brown!” Everyone crowded around to see the strangely colored Drake.
“Who are you people?” asked Wally.
“We are the Drakes…who are you?”
“But I’m a Drake! Who are YOU???” demanded Wally.
“No, we are the Drakes,” said one firmly. “You could be one of those useless weaklings we shipped out thirty years ago.” Wally ran out of the cave in horror back to Perion.
“This is what I meant. Something very bad will happen,” said Bob.
Wally told the other Copper Drakes about his adventure and discovery. The eyes of the older Copper Drakes suddenly lit up. They finally remembered why they were in Perion.
“So this is exactly why we are here…” said Wally after being told the truth by an older Copper Drake. “How can we stand this idiocy? Let’s fight them!”
“We don’t stand a chance,” admitted another Copper Drake. “Don’t you remember when we got owned by noob swords thirty years ago?”
“That was before,” said Wally. “We will have our revenge.” read more

Today I wasted approximately four hours of my playing time. First of all, I was training my level 55 ice mage at Red Drakes. There was someone in the map, so I changed channel. While the screen was black and waiting, I walked over to the opposite end of the room to turn the radio on. When I turned back around, I was dead. Some hacker had sucked all the monsters to the safe platform. I lost 5%, lots of time wasted there. read more

The Expansions

And so, Wizet has created the most magnificent looking world in Cyberspace. But it was still lacking something. After thinking for a very very long time, he raised his eyebrows, smiled, and exclamied, “I’ve got it! I’ll have clear away some forests and put in some towns!” Wizet was just about the scrap away three quarters of the forests when he noticed something. The forests in the northern part of MapleStory had a horrible drought and dried out. It was now a scorching rockland where barely any vegetation could survive. “Well, that’s a start. I’ll name this place Perion.” He scrapped away the west side and built Kerning City, the urban town. “This town shall be looking like some of those towns on Earth!” He scrapped away the south side, and built a peaceful town called Henesys. The east side of MapleStory was still covered in forests. “This shall be called Ellinia,” he said. He charmed each town with some magical powers, and gave the forest all the rest. And the four towns were established. read more