The 15th of May. 12 days after the Maple Story 1st Birthday even started.
I’d been at Ludirium hunting Cake monsters at Cloud Terrace for a week. I had found 3 Blue Presents which all had given me cakes. I was killing the cakes noramally and when I least expect it another Blue Present pops up. I decide to be an optimist and hope for a Bandana this time so I go see the Maple Administrator and she decides to be nice and gives me a fourth slice of cake. Great! Soon I can throw a cake party to the Game Masters!
I buy a Megaphone with the last Nx Cash I have left and use it on Channel 1 trying to trade my Maple Doom Singer for a Maple Soul Searcher or a Maple Bow. I had no use whatsoever for the Doom Singer since my Warrior is on another server. After a short time I get a reply from a person who has a scrolled Soul Searcher and 2 Maple Bows. We meet and we decide to trade my under average Doom Singer for his 8 speed, otherwise under average Maple Bow. I’m happy since I can finally use a Maple Weapon and he’s happy since he got rid of one of his bows and now he has a chance to make profit.
I head out to Cloud Terrace again to test the Maple Bow. There’s a nice “Happy Birthday Maple” text that pops up every time I shoot regularly. I mess around with it and suddenly a Blue Present drops from a Cake. I’m surprised. I rarely get two drops in a day. I decide that I’ll wait until tomorrow before I turn in the present to the Maple Administrator.
Double XP time seemed to start. I head out to Master Chronos but I get bored very easily so I find another spot. I find a nice one at the Blue Robots in the Toy Factory. I share the map with a Bandit at first, but when she leaves a nice Fighter steps in to share. We have a nice time chatting together and I manage to find a pair of shoes and a Blue Lined Kismet. I’m very happy since, as I said, I don’t get drops very often. Just as the double XP time is about to end I find a Maple Kandayo, the level 43 Claw. I decide to lend it to my brother who plays an Assassin. He starts doing his best on trying to gather up the money to buy it from me so he can scroll it.
I quit the game for the day and go get a good night’s sleep.
The next day after I get home from school and help carrying some wood to the back yard, I get back on Maple. I decide to go and return the Blue Present to the Maple Administrator. The Yellow Maple Bandana I get from her is crowns the whole series of good luck I’ve had. I can finally leave Ludibrium and head to the Coolie Zombies in El Nath!