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EPISODE SEVENTEEN: Night hoverbike battle

Sunday evening classes were always fun…not. Thats how the 112 students in the auto-shop class at the Institute felt as their teacher Master Speed (don’t ask why) rambled on about the rates of power in different Orbitian energy crystals.
Over the last two weeks, the class had been studying and trying to make energy crystals of their own.
Today was just a review and a practice ride in the vehicles they built.
“Don’t doubt it, folks. Energy crystals are a clean source of energy, and the lot of you coming in from Kerning– it will save tons of money on petrol. These crystals can be charged from sunlight, magic or electricicy. That’s how cool these things are. Philly! Get down here and hold up your crystal!”
A big level 50 permanoob guy got up from his desk and walked down to the floor where the gray robed nerdy looking teacher guy was. He went to the table next to him and used his brute strength to lift up the 70 pound (32 kg) crystal for the class to see.
“As you folks can see the admantium or orihalcon metal rings around the crystal magnetically keep it from falling out and the cables and beams holding these things to the bottom of your bikes while the crystals spin, charged by an electrical spark, then deliver a ton of energy to the engines, and boom! the bike is racing like a pro!”
Philly lowered his big blue crystal and let it pound hard on the wooden oak table.
“You’ll have that thing installed in your bike before the ride, right?” Mr. Speed asked the PErmanoob.
“Yes, sir”
Azure and her nooby friends sat in the eighth row up from the floor of the auditorium like classroom.
Jami sat next to her. Randy sat in the row in front, picking at the scab on his cheek. These guys were not actually in the class, the Institute just allowed anyone to attend any classes.
“So! Lets get to it!” Mr. Speed said, clapping his hands. read more

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EPISODE FIFTEEN: Azure is haywire

Bob never heard a word of the conversation- the noise of the machine were too loud. Then he heard loud clinking and the metal slab he was laying on slid back out.
A minute later, Bob was fully dressed. “What time is it?” he asked.
“It’s 3:15” Dr. Hemming said.
“You may not remember it, but Azure is right” Shuma said. “I looked at the images the machine made of you and it shows massive healed scarring.”
“It’s like you were ripped to shreds and healed back to 100% in two minutes” Dr. Hemming added.
“I guess there’s no denying it then” Bob conceded.
“This leaves a gap in the field report.” Shuma advised him. “You can’t leave here until this is cleared up” she reminded him.
Bob said nothing.
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All day Azure was barely awake. Clerics, or anyone working or volunteering in the infirmary always checked on her when they passed her room. At 2:30 in the afternoon, her critically low pulse scared the crap out of the people in charge of her. She woke up once around 5:00 and was barely able to drink the soup and health fuel the clerics gave her. They had to hold her up and make her drink through a straw. After she ate, she fell asleep again.
At 8 or so, the clerics moved Azure to a room closer to the office where they worked to keep a better eye on her. Her body temperature also dropped scaring them. They had a debate about what they thought was going on, and used power crystals to keep the girl warm.
Then at 11 at night things completely changed.
Azure woke up, shaking and sweating in the dark from that same dream again. She could hardly see a thing in the dark room and in panic kicked off her blanket. The power crystals went flying and hit the floor. One broke. The echo of shattering glass scared the crap out of her. read more

Today was lame on MS.
I went to PQ at Ludi with my guild mates…who always seem to miss when im in the party.
Then my mom wanted to talk to me about some crap and i had to go AFK…right when the ppl in my party decide to change channels and get in and they biched at me for being AFK and not ccing but when i got to my comp they were all right there in the same ch. I got pissed at meself for failing them and left the party then they biched at me more for quitting saying they missed again. I was thinking what and they no longer wanted to PQ. read more

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EPISODE SIXTEEN: Friendly Reunion

Wolfboy183 snuck into the laundry room where that permanoob girl was talking on her messenger. He saw the electric dryer and threw his wet clothes in it, inserted four 100 meso coins and it started up. The girl kept talking…
“…yeah, these two guys were following us, like, all day, and the one guywolf184 or something kept checking us out, it was creepy. Yeah, his idiot noob brother is in here…”
183 walked out, cursing under his breath. read more

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EPISODE FOURTEEN: Bob can’t explain o.0

“This is pretty much the written part psycho-assessment stage of the Third Job Advancement test. It is not graded on how well you perform, but it more gives the teachers in El Nath a psychological view. Keep in mint it will also factor into the results of the 3JA exam and wether you pass or fail. They don’t want to pass mages, warriors, bandits, sins and bowmen who they think will suffer hardships later on or become dangerous to the people around them” Mr. Greenberg, the level 81 magician turned teacher explained to his class of level 69ers. He pointed to the details on the chalkboard that he wanted his students to write down.
BobdaBeaverSlayer13 sat in the fourth row. Even though the level 70 fighter listened, his mind kept drifting to his last project with that noob magician. He hadn’t seen her since yesterday when he and the bus driver handed her over to the clerics.
“Keep in mind, folks that it is NOT a wise idea to wait until you are 99% experienced before heading to Nath. If you are even at 94, you should go immediately. for if you encountered Balrogs on the ship or had to fight off summoned monsters, or anything else major, your experience will go up. Not a worry if you are level 69, but if you are level 70 and still havent taken the 3JA exam, I suggest you get your butt over to the station and catch the next flight” Mr. Greenberg was saying, checking his watch. “…which leaves in an hour. If you don’t know your %, come up after class and use the experience test machine by the door” he said, pointing to a funny looking wooden box like machine.
“Because if you hit 71, and you are not 3J, it will serve as a disgrace to the people at Nath and reduce your odds of passing, and even compromise you 4JA at Leafre. Understand?”
The students nodded.
“It’s about 2:30 now, so you have about 30 minutes to go over the packages I have given you and the criteria of the tests and their projects” the old teacher said, sitting at his desk.
Bob looked everything over. The test would include a written part, containing history questions, questions on the job class, and other topics. The other part would be a hands-on project assigned by the people there.
The advanced project is an essay basically written by the lv 70 hopeful explaining why he or she wants to advance. read more

this is just a pointless angry rant. i wanna get it off my chest.
I was in Ludi PQ yesterday and today. I leveled up on wednesday to 47, then yesterday i went up to 60%. and today i only went up 20% because wvery party i am in breaks apart, or the leader doesnt have a track or nobody knows what to do.
One PQ, the leader went and took a shower DURING STAGE 4.
the second, the leader was afk for 20 minutes
the third, people disconnect with passes
+ When it comes to doing portals and collecting passes, 2 or more portals are skipped and no one says anything and the who party has to check all the portals again.
+with all of this combined, I HARDLY GET IN! if i do, the pq ends early! read more

Ellinia Times newspaper. (a locally owned and operated company)
[ LUDIBRIUM– This morning at 4:00, the portal gates in the Eos Tower Library were connected to the portal gates in the isolated Korean Folk Town (KFT) on an island in the Korean Lands coastal waters. The new opening concluded a five hour patch job by the Wizet/Nexon patch crew. Prior to the patch, GM’s had to herd out the 100+ excited Maplers who couldnt wait for the new opening. the GM’s managed to get the mob to leave Eos Tower so the patch crew could carry out their work and connect the portal to the one in KFT, which was being serviced by a patch crew from the Korean Lands.
KFT is remote and is by no means access to the Korean Lands, which are cut off by the political divide established in 1949.
This morning, GM’s allowed the Maplers back into Eos Tower to wait for the opening. An unidentified mage was arrested for summoning a Mushmom in the Library. Fortunately, the giant jumping mushroom was killed before it could do any serious harm or property damage. When the portal was opened, a witness says the patch crewmen had to literally dive out of the way as the people rushed into the portal, which had not been throughly tested. The boss of the patch crew said he was extremely grateful the equipment running the portal was accurately set up, and the travellers were spared transcription-related injuries. read more

I was out taking out my agression on lunar pixies collecting their moons for a quest when this idiot named xiThunderx made a totally harsh insult to jewish people. I got nothing against jewish people, all the ones i met in MS and real life have been very nice to me
The guy got banned in less than 2 minutes after he made that mega, and i laughed my ass off.
I didnt think there was instant justice on MS, but surprisingly there is. read more

apparently some hacker came up with either to vac and slash from a different channel or map,
or he/she has a way to make him/herself look invisible!

I was making my way up Eos Tower towards the PQ place when on the 99th floor, i saw black ratz being lifted to the top, where they were hit (high above in the air) and died. I turned on the minimap and found nobody around.
In the first pic, i saw the ratz go flying up (look to the left side)
The second pic the same thing. That guy Startheft WASNT hacking, he’s legit. he was jumping to the higher screw when i took the screenie. AND NO I WASNT HACKING EITHER!
and the last pic, a small ratz being lifted and pwned. the hacker who killed him wasnt even in the room
(not on same channel) read more

i added some things to my kerning PQ guide. if you or your friends are struggling at the First acompaniment
or you wonder why first timers are having difficulty, check out my guide. it’s made up based on
what i learned in the KPQ and my personal experiences.

link