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Material Component: Diamonds worth a total of least 5,000 gp.
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Atari is so silly. It wouldn’t let me install NWN2 because I have Alcohol 120% on my computer.

Pshh. Other games exist on this glorious earth. I had been planning on playing a combination of Morrowind and NWN for the first week of the new year. Little did I know that I would soon be dragged back to the world of Maple.

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ObjectInDaMirror: I think I’ll play maplestory again.
Iepiat: Huh.
Iepiat: Don’t you say that like once every 3 weeks?
ObjectInDaMirror: Um.
ObjectInDaMirror: I re-downloaded it.
ObjectInDaMirror: So…
ObjectInDaMirror: I think this time for real.

He made me promise to get on that Friday and add his new bowman, Hariyama465; on Friday, January 5th, I reinstalled Maple.

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Of course, given my super-awesome luck, only one person on my buddy list and in the entire guild was logged on. [2]

Jorgan85 was on, occupying a lonely slot in each of the two lists. Okay, well, about six of the people in the guild are on my buddy list, since they were on it before we made the guild. But anyway…

The second z4 I entered was free. I invited Jorgan over so I could help him get a slice of the 63% he needed to achieve level 70. I don’t have the much sought after Holy Symbol that Vanya has, but I was determined to help out as much as I could. We were training quite well, burning pots in order to get as much xp as possible, and more people in the guild had signed on. I wasn’t even bothered much when random people flipped through the channels, sucking all of our drops towards their little platform. Not… much.

Luck.of.the.gods.

That was nothing compared to what happened next.

Enter two high-leveled rangers who were aiming to take our map, or at least make it unable for us to train. We asked them kindly to leave, and then we asked not-so-kindly. Jorgan and I grilled them about their motives and their personal information. I contemplated out loud about — ehh, I’d better not discuss it here.

Iepiat: They left?!
Iepiat: ALLEN IS ALL-POWERFUL!!!
Iepiat: BOW DOWN!
Jorgan: Um.
Jorgan: They’re still here…
Iepiat: >_>

We pleaded to our guild for help, and slowly but surely, the calvary arrived. [3].[4]

First was Noahzer, a hermit friend of Foo. Noahzer asked his friends list, and along came CelisSoul and EvilStabber. The latter called up his guild, and a few people from Fam0us came. From our own guild, Skillful and ZyXomm. Noahzer encouraged BrwnSuperman from his guild to help us out.

With a barrage of skills and spells, this anti-ksing party (we do seem to be able to pull those together quickly) decimated the two offenders. Unable to do anything, the higher leveled of the two used a super-megaphone saying something or other about BrwnSuperman, which led to strangers entering the map.

The influx of new people gave me tremendous lag, and the situation had turned into a kind of ‘ks war’, what with all the ignorant standers-by. I logged off.

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Later that night, I signed on to get some training done. Skillful was on, so I held his map for him while he went to repot. After he got back, we partied for a while. [5] Assaulter is an awesomely flashy skill.

Happily, nothing ‘bad’ happened that evening. Jorgan had gotten to level 70 in the few hours I was offline, with great cheers and encouragement and a nice guild notice. I finally met up with Hariyama465 on my magician, netting him a level at green mushrooms. Linky.

So anyway. I’m back or whatever. I might even get on today.