So today was Friday, which basically means more time to procrastinate on MapleStory. So I basically spent a few hours in Kerning today. I am getting kind of bored playing my Cleric (level 44 now), so after not being able to kill anyone by summoning in Kerning — haha just kidding, I’m not that mean, really, but it is pretty amusing to summon where there are a lot of people — I decided to go on my other character, a level 2X magician that will be either an I/L mage or a F/P mage. I haven’t decided yet. (which is more fun? ;D)

Gosh, I played a little too much today. But anyway, there is always this first hurdle of joining a party. I think I joined a party first and then realized the leader was only level 15. (But eventually I found a party.) And after that, there’s the challenge of actually getting in. Haha. But after you get in and after everyone survives the first stage (hopefully), most things go well because usually at least three of the four people know how to do the combinations of stages 2, 3, and 4 systematically. And after that the EXP/prizes are the bestest.

I PQed a LOT of times with the same party leader this afternoon, which got me thinking, wow, I can really get attached to parties/party members. Maybe it’s only a game, but at least these are still real people right? There is a difference, somehow, between PQing for the fifth time with the same (successful) party and PQing for the first time with strangers.

Then, tonight, I decided to be brave and try to lead a Kerning PQ. Now usually I’m to scared to do this because I don’t have “AC” and I don’t see myself as a particularly “fast clicker,” nor do I have the patience to continuously click for more than maybe a couple of minutes. It also seems like the blame always ends up on the shoulders of the party leader, whether or not it is justly so. I guess the thing is I use MS to relieve stress or ignore stress rather than to create tension.

But today, for the first time, I led a PQ and actually got in! Well, it seemed to be failing at first. The channel I just got out from was full by the time my new party got there, so we channel-surfed for a while, quite unfruitfully. I then just clicked at channel 12, hoping to get lucky, and after a couple of minutes — I just would furiously start clicking as soon as I saw other people running towards Lakelis — we got in. Thank goodness, because I was just about to give up, too. Anyway, that was an accomplishment. For me. Afterwards, we successfully rushed back in multiple times. (We weren’t on at an hour when most people were on, but still. ) And of course, going back to the previous point, I added two of the party members to my buddy list afterwards.

Now my magician is level 28, and can wear prettier purple clothes! (And my Word document — college essays, hmmm? — still sits on my computer, with frighteningly few words.)

P.S. Re: my previous entry, thanks for all the comments! <3