Northern Markets
Episode 37+ Meeting with the Permanoob Boss

Almony’s assistant, the guy in the green business suit took Owl’s
back pack away and handed it to him. Almony opened it and reached inside.

Owl and Azure sat on the bench opposite Almony’s desk. Owl sat there
hands still cuffed together; Azure sitting shaking with fear.
“I am sorry you had to see all that,” Almony began. “That was one of
my lawyers; they are responsible for keeping the city and the
police off us. He wasn’t doing his job, so he was shot,” read more

NORTHERN MARKETS
Episode 36a
Going to Almony

From the newspaper, Kerning Kanko* Daily (Friday, November 16, 2007)
(…a group of students belonging to the Ellinia Institute of Knowlege and Education were arrested by a GM highway patrol outside Kerning. The students were arrested for illegal posession of memory crystals and tapes containing outlawed’ content. The students were handed over to the KCP for holding until a court date could be set after they declared sanctuary within Kerning County. Declaring sanctuary immediatly places one under the charge of the City of Kerning and the KCP and must be handed over by the GM and procesed in the local legal system.
At the press conference, KCP chief Mack stated the students admitted they ventured into the SEA Lands and Korean Lands to collect evidence of the infamous (not yet proven) magic markets and noob slave trades operating. According to the students, the markets employ various companies [some possibly operating in town] and hire parties to kidnap noobs and magicians in the Free Market and in Victoria and take them to the markets. KCP chief Mack also went on to say that the students were adventure librarians sent out by the Ellinia Library, and they were returning from the 2 year project.
GMs confiscated most of their evidence and the students have been released on conditions not to leave the city and a promise to appear in court….) read more

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(my map of victoria)

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(Kerning map. Noobstown is not on this map, i’m afraid -_-)

NORTHERN MARKETS
EPISODE 34+ Going to Noobstown

The next morning around 7 or so, Owl woke Azure up and they left the

doctor’s office and walked out to the waiting bus.
The driver checked both their tickets and let them on.
The door opened and the bus drove out into the blizzard and continued read more

June 10, 2007.
+Maple News+

NEW SHIP 4 ORBIS-VICTORIA LINE
ORBIS– The Ferry Transit branch of Maple Transportation approved this week of transferring the ship ‘Queen of Mardia’
from the route between New Seoul and Singa to to the route between Orbis and Ellinia. The commission denied rumors the new airship, just built last year, will replace the aging ‘Sixtopia’ which has been in service since 1952.
The Queen of Mardia is 795 feet long from bow to stern, and is equipped with five super power crystals capapble of producing 3.5 gigawatts. The 5 major jet engines and 10 minor jet engines can propel the vessel to 215 miles per hour, almost 3x the speed of the Sixtopia. The new vessel is also equipped with super light sales and hydrium tanks enabling her to ride the winds in the event of engine failure.
This new move has been made by Maple Transit a year after the loss of the ‘Minerva II’ the grand vessel that suffered total engine failure and crashed in the Balrog Lands, taking 241 people with her. read more

I was looking up resources on MapleSEA slang terms and i picked up this messae written by
a guy who, is really disgusted with the way things have gotten in MapleSEA. i havent seen much in SEA, but everything LordSaSa says pretty much goes for Global MS.

Global MS i have seen:
megaphone wars
mass KSings,
hackers (well duh )
rude hackers
Racist ppl and their comments that would have them charged in some countries. in Canada u could be charged for making a racist comment towards somebody else of the target race.
threats, phone numbers being spammed on megaphones, and various harassments and other BS. read more

I quit Global MS for now- all the pro-legits, ##%@# GMs, hackers who hack everywhere and in places you cant KS and get fast exp off them, and GM’s polciy of banning entire guilds for one hacker. to that i say :what
And thats just in Broa.
I have a char in Scania i see hackers EVERYWHERE even in the noob areas! and the GMs and ppl who buy NX all the time are shouting at eachother thru megas and [notice]s. On top of that every channel is crowded, and everyone is a rude arrogant ass-wipe! I havent even done anything to deserve mistreatment from them. So i dont wanna play GMS anymore because its just getting rediculous.
So i made a new char on MapleSEA in Aquilia whom i hope to be a dexless bandit that can do the sweet damage i’ve seen high level dexless bandits do in Broa during ludi PQ. etc. I saw a pic on this site of a roge, lv 26, shooting stars at orange mushies and getting 500 damage! i wanna do that.
But in MapleSEA i got a bad feeling that dexless isn’t going to work out, idk y…i saw this person who hopes to become a dex FULL bandit. dex full. Last time i checked, dex was a thief’s defence and the luk factors into damage. on top of that training my new guy up (hes a lv 9 beginner right now) he could only hit 3-5 damage on red snails and orange mushies while others hit 7-8 dmg. My stats are int 4, str 4, dex 25, minimum needed to be thief, luk 30 something. read more

Who is this mysterious stranger that stalks Azure? Is she part of the angry pro-legit mob?
Is she the LEADER of the mob? or is she in the Justice Arrow. Episode 28-
Will not be seen tonight Instead we present cops on duty!
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NORTHERN MARKETS
EPISODE 27A: C.O.P.S.

Joe’s Tavern
1337 Naora Ave East
8:15 PM
Police Chief Mack and Spud were driving the old 1985 Cadilac police car east along Naora Ave after taking a kid to his parents for shoplifting up at Target Superstore. They were now on their way to a bar on Naora Avenue where a 999* call went out a few minutes ago.
The rain stopped a while ago, but it was still dark out as it was night, and the roads reflected the streetlight.
Mack pulled up in front of this low rate bar on Naora Ave and Rogue St- a block east of major Nexon St.
“And here is where we get the occasional Friday night drunken idiot” Mack said, shutting off the car.
He and Spud got out, closed the doors and walked in.
Joe’s Tavern wasn’t much, just a streetside bar where people usually come in on their way home from work or to a party or something. Place was plain- red walls with posters, pictures, neon light signs that were logos such as Sap Beer, CancerStix cigarettes, things like that.
The place smelled of booze, almost too much for 8pm. Guys sat at the bar, others sat at tables, some played pool, or omok. Some guys were going off over a little MahJong tournament they set up.
The two plainclothes cops walked over to the bar. “Hey!” Mack called to the fat guy cleaning mugs.
“Yeah?” the guy asked in his raunchy voice.
“You run this joint?” Mack asked.
“Yeah, what’s it to you?”
“Chief Mack, and…cop Spud. Police”
“Look, mang!” the bartenter growled, sweat on his bald head making it shine under the bug light behind him. “I already kicked those Permanoobs outta here! Damn cockaroaches smashed mah window over there, cost me half a mil to get it fixed!”
“We’re not lookin for Permanoobs! We got a 9-ner call from this place about some crazy guy, what you do with him?”
“Oh” the bartender said. “Yea, the boys overthere pwned the crap outta him already. Shoulda seen it. They messed him up bad!”
“Well, if he’s hurt bad enough, you’re getting the hospital bill!” Mack shot back. The fat man stopped smiling. “He’s in the back. This way” read more

NORTHERN MARKETS EPISODE 22
Spud gets fired & goes to KErning

UMT NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HQ
43 Government Way, Parliament Zone district, Orbis

Unlike most of the buildings in the politcal center of the city, the building was plain- built out of bricks.
The National Law Enforcement HeadQuarters was the center of GM activity for the southern territories of the UMT (United Territories of MapleWorld). This was mainly the administration center. It was also where GM’s who worked poorly were fired… read more

NORTHERN MARKETS
EPISODE 21-Meet Bob’s Angry Bowman Girlfriend

The atmosphere in school became an eerie cold place for Azure. Ever since she got out of the infirmary, people had been looking at her in and out of classes. In the mornings, she had history class, math, and P.E.* After lunch she was supposed to take magic-science followed by L&L*. In the morning, she skipped history but tried to go to math class.
The teacher, Mr. Pinski was a douche and constantly ran his students into the ground with his tough, high speed lessons. He kicked her out because of the rumors going around, and she skipped the rest of her classes.
She, however liked math, it took her mind off other things…except when the students kept calling her hacker.
In the hall ways, she’d walk, and the other people would approach her and whisper or shout ‘Hacker!’ read more

My guild boss Mara65 and most of the guild live in Holland. I found out from them that Maple Global was planning to ban all the european players; forcing them to go to Maple Story Europe if they wanted to keep playing the game.
When the Europeans are on, there aren’t enough of them online to fill the servers as there are Amaricans and Canadians after 3:00 PM Eastern time. At this time between 3 and 3:20, the server fills up and remains packed on weekends.
On top of that what with hackers, scammers and complete ****ing idiots ruining the game, the european players are going to be blocked. They dont cause lag amd im sure the overseas connections are good.
I sometimes play MapleSEA and the servers are in singapore, so my connection goes through satellites in space to reach singapore and i dont lag at all.
What’s the deal? read more