Ever.

EVEREVEREVER!!

I MEAN IT. >O!

So, it is just another fine day/night, and I was summoned online to participate in a Guild Party Quest. Y’know, that silly thing where you ‘wear manly earrings’ (as quoth by Piat) and go through various Tormenting Jump Quests just to get to that bonus stage where boundless of rich rewards await!

Yeah, that.

Okay, I’m logged into Verchiel, the level 28 Rogue that has been The Designated Incendiary GPQ Nub. She gets to be invited into the guild and unceremoniously kicked out of it after every GPQ by yours truly. (It really funny how whenever I kick her, someone will go, ‘WHY???’ and I’ll have to explain that it is my own Nub, so chill. )

Transit from darkness to the dusty sunlight of Perion.
A couple of seconds later, my brain registers that I have spawned in town.
Oh, I’ll have to crawl my way to the Excavation Site, joy.
No matter, the guildies have not arrived yet, I can take my own, sweet, un-Hasted time.

._.

Okay, I’m there now. Where’s everyone?
‘Orbis.’ ‘Somewhere in Vic.’ ‘On the ship.’ ‘Leafre.’
‘…’

At least I got a nice welcome.

Anyway, the cast of characters (With accompanying Pictures!):

Novv/Eona (Guild Leader and Bomber)
Verchiel/Silver (Intrepid Nubster and, um, me, of course)
Lollipop91/Lolli (Lvl 12x Intent-on-getting-Chain-Lightning-Skillbook I/L Archmage. And King of Dying Without Earrings.)
Rotikiamm/Prata (Favourite food of Incendiary, apart from muffins. )
ASHong (Um. Someone.)
PbSO4 (Mine <3)
ShalI (Extra character of Eona and HyberBody-slave)
Po1ntBlanc (Extra character of Lolli and grrEbilSmexehRanger)
Lollijr (Another extra character of Lolli, and erm, failed back-up Nubster, as you can see later.)

Fast-forward past the waiting (I once commented to Imppala that ‘GPQ is mostly waiting, waiting, and oh, did I mention, more waiting?’), and finally everyone was in Perion/Vic.

… Then Prata (aka Rotikiamm) had to lag out. >>;

But ah, he came back after a long while, and we continued.

Stage One!

‘You have passed the 1st stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
‘You have passed the 2nd stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
*twanging sounds as statues glow*
*more twanging sounds as statues are being hit*
Verchiel: done
*a stray twanging sound*
Verchiel: OMFG D< I MISTOOK MY JUMP KEY FOR MY ATTACK! YARGH.
’You have failed the Gatekeeper’s Final Test.’

Yeah. So we had to redo it. >>; Not only that, we somehow failed it twice more or something, cause we forgot the order at the second stage. Talk about bad omens.

Stage Two! Somehow my skillz at the Max Haste jump quest deserted me, and I ended up being stranded in the middle of the JQ without Haste. >>; Prata had to jump up halfway to haste me, in the end, before I could continue and put the last Spear in place.

Stage Three! Nothing happened.
…Oh wait, no, of course something happened.
ASHong DC’d, leaving us with a precarious number of six Questers. If anyone else DCed next, everyone will be kicked out of the PQ. We’re all thinking, ah, it’s alright, we’ve survived with six people before…

Stage Four! I broke free from the herd and went to fulfill my bit as a Nub. Killed the slimes, no problem, I enjoy eating grape-flavoured slime- I mean, yeah. It was easy.

*burps*

fThen it was another jump quest. Easy for me, I can clear it in one single attemp- *falls just at the last step*

OI! D:

[Rollcall of King Sharen III’s possessions, the Incendiarian way]
Novv: Panties done.
lollipop91: Bra done
Rotikiamm: Shoes d
Novv: Tomato?
Verchiel: Tomato done

So I happily went to the next portal, hit up, saw ‘You have gained Guild Points (+5)’ blossom on the screen before it blacked out, and waited.
And waited.
And waited.

WTF?!

My phone rang.
Call: Eona

‘WHERE ARE YOU, YOU’RE HANGING THERE IN MIDAIR YOU KNOW!!?!’
‘I KNOW BUT I ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO DC RIGHT?!’
‘OMG WHY DC NOW!’
‘HOW I KNOW MY STUPID INTERNET WILL DO THIS!! AM I STILL HANGING THERE!?’
‘YES!?’
‘THIS IS STUPID!’
[Mad, helpless laughter on both sides of the phone]

EURRRGH.

This would be a good point in time to whine about this new problem that the MSEA client seems to have after this new patch. At random moments, or between portals, or when you hit a skill right after you log in, the screen will black out and just stay black. You can’t alt-tab away, and you can’t return to desktop. The only way out for me would be to hit the suspend button, wait till my laptop goes to sleep, then wake it up again to force-quit the client.

It’s getting Really Aggravating. >/

Anyhow, yes, so that’s what I did to fix the black screen, and I went back to a rather disgruntled guild. Picking up our disappointment, we went back and tried again. But even before we could go in, people started DC-ing left right and centre, we didn’t even have enough to enter the GPQ. >>;

But after a while, we managed to get in again. At this point in time my laptop ran out of battery and went into hibernation. Someone (I.e. Myself *cough*) tripped over the adaptor wire, and dislodged the power connection without noticing.
And so I got us all kicked out.
Again.

Back to Stage One.

Novv: Rdy? GO!
*twanging sounds as statues glow*
*more twanging sounds as statues are being hit*
‘You have passed the 1st stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
Novv: GO
*twanging sounds as statues glow*
*more twanging sounds as statues are being hit*
‘You have failed the 2nd stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
Verchiel: ?! But I hit it correctly!
lollipop91: Nvm, again.

‘You have passed the 1st stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
‘You have passed the 2nd stage of the Gateskeeper Test’
*twanging sounds as statues glow*
*more twanging sounds as statues are being hit*
*abrupt pause*
lollipop91: fck. I forgot 4 and 5
Verchiel: -.-
Novv: You guys tired or what?!
’You have failed the Gatekeeper’s Final Test.’

Stage Two…

Verchiel: Blue done.
Po1ntBlanc: OMG Lolli DC!!
Novv: o_0
Verchiel: Um, we have no teleporter now…?

So yeah, that was CMI (Cannot Make It) from the start. >>;

I don’t remember exactly how many times we tried, but in the end, we just couldn’t make it back to Ergoth. It wasn’t the first time our GPQ marathon attempt has failed. The last time we tried the marathon, we did the GPQ thrice, but only succeed getting to Ergoth on the last attempt at 12mn.

So yeah. Those in favour of declaring GPQ marathons jinxed, raise your hands please. >(

On Friday, somewhere during the middle of the first of another GPQ run… SOMEONE SAID THE M WORD! *HORROR!*

Then, Lolli’s Archmage dc’d, then his other character met head-first with the Patch Bug at the second-last stage, and whee, out we went. >>;

Novv: ALL KILL ROTI!
Novv: HE SAID THAT JINXED WORD N SEE THIS HAPPENED!
Verchiel: *eats prata*
Rotikiamm: [F3 emote]

[during the subsequent run]
PbSO4: u guys need help?
lollijr: we just went in
lollijr: but we need ppl ><
PbSO4: aww
lollijr: 3 ppl here can random dc ><
Verchiel: *waves guilty hand*
zxdeanxz: me included?
lollijr: *two hands* =.=

Thenthenthen, the next run, right after I got my Tomato (aka the crown) and went to the next room, again, I met that Patch Bug.

*sighs* *picks up handphone* ‘Calling: Eona’

‘Hello?’
‘I’m hanging. Again. And I have the crown.’
‘OMG WHY LIKE THIS!!!’
‘I ALSO DON’T KNOW!!’
[random loud sounds and mad screaming and hysterical laughter]

Eona got so fed up, that she called the entire GPQ off. >>;

It’s one thing to have a worst GPQ with people that weren’t sure of how to do it at all. I myself remember the horror that was Incendiary’s first GPQ. No one listened, everyone randomly whacked statues; we didn’t even get past the first stage!
But it’s a whole new muffin to have a worst GPQ with everyone that already knows what to do, but still end up failing to complete a single GPQ. >>;

To date, since that jinxed run, we have not completed a single GPQ.

Ho.

Eh, since we’re on Incendiary, I might as well stuff you with more of Incendiary’s antics.

xBAKAkitten: L> GHEY PARTNER

*Ahem*

So we were discussing Short Term Memory, and I accused Imppala/Mandos of lying that he has it; happily he goes ahead and proves me right, that LOTR freak.

SpearFuries: OMG KSER
SilverFx: KSKSKSKSKS
SpearFuries: I GONNA CALL MY GUILD COME KS U U MEANIE
SilverFx:=O
SpearFuries: Oops
SilverFx: I’M IN YOUR GUILD YOU SILLY
SpearFuries: I’M GONNA STEAL YOUR MUFFINS THEN!

Instructions from The Almighty Leader a’fore another long-ago GPQ.
MY BUTT! ANYTHING BUT MY BUTT!
AND MY PRATA!

OMG$$

Yeah, as you can see, I got an oodle of moolah selling a Storm Arrow skillbook, which I luckily got from one of those long-ago successful GPQ run. Forty-four million! It is by far THE most expensive thing I have ever possessed and sold. And luckily I sold it early in the Fourth Job patch, because by now, the price has gone down to 25m. <3

And it helped to pay for my nice new shiny 100%’d (ya, Immacheapskate) Dark Anes and my nice new shiny nice new shiny- uh, okay, I’m repeating myself- smexeh Metus! >D

Of course, I hafta make use of them right?

Refer to pictures attached to blog.

Anyway, that Metus was bloody hell difficult to get. >>; I had originally won an auction for a wa107 one, but the seller allowed my rival bidder to make another bid after the auction ended because the rival apparently had ‘technical difficulties’. Pffbt. So the argument was like this.

So yeah, your beloved awsm smexeh Silvar the Rangar is now lvl 91! >D
WHEEEEEEEEE!
Damnit, so close to 1337!

Oh, and on the promised suicide run with Eona (I’M DISAPPOINTED EONA, I DIDN’T EVEN DIE! ONLY YOU DID!), I saw ANNI! We were just wandering past Vikings, and then there was this Ice Mage guy that went ‘EONA! OMFG SILVER! It’s Anni’, and then she promptly knocked me out cold. Ow.

Ahem. In the tradition of saving the best for the last…

Will be a good time to hold onto your hats, Dear MMOt.

I’m getting married~ ^_^

The (un)lucky groom is dear sweet PbSO4 (<33 Who knew a chance meeting at the Ludi Pet Walkway could become something so wonderful?) and yep, we’re getting married in-game on the evening of 25th, 1700 (GMT+8) . ^^ This Christmas is going to be white in more than one way, haha.

We went about doing all the wedding quests after that failed GPQ on Friday, wherein I got chewed up by all the silly people you get the Proof of Love from. WHY CAN’T THE BRIDE HELP OUT TOO, I ASK YOU?

And we got into a tizzy trying to synthesis the Moon Rock needed for the ring. We were both stuck in Ossyria, (because we didn’t know you only needed four out of eight Proofs, and flew to Ossyria to get our fifth…) and we were reluctant to fly back. Luckily we bumped into Jasmine (aka ClericAngIe), who was sitting around in Ellinia, and got her help to make the Rock.

And whee~ We were engaged on 21/12/2007. ^_^ Couldn’t have picked a better date, hm?

Bet you guys thinking: What happened to the Silvar that doesn’t quite approve of Maple marriages?
But eh, I couldn’t care less now. :X I don’t even care if I’m being quite a hypocrite here, lol; I wouldn’t mind being one for him. ><

And if you are wondering: What happened to Mr Tomi, then?
We-ell, I honestly haven’t seen him in nearly a month or so, and sporadic logins of like, once a month?, before that don’t really count. >>; (He logs in, I say hi, he says hi, and the next minute, he’s offline without even a goodbye. Gee. I know he’s busy, but y’know… ><;)

Anyway, yep, I have 30 invites for that day~ I want you guys to come, of course, but I know that no one in their right minds in America/thatgeneralsideoftheworld would stay up to 5am ++, AND there is also that stupid problem of the IP block. ._.

Come to think of it, that ‘right mind’ thing isn’t applicable for you guys. >>; Just the IP block then.

BUT I’M SURE SOME OF MY FELLOW SINGAPOREANS CAN MAKE IT, RIGHT?! >O! *prods Fenny, repty, greenday* I know Imppala can’t come, he has guard duty on that day, the poor dude. (Edit: Scratch that, he got his guard duty cancelled! ) And Zhlink has something on too. >(

./pleasedon’tletmeDCorgetMommedonthatday,it’llbesohorribleifido.

And that’s all. Cookies for you who have read this entire blog. :X

*And oh yeah, credits for the title to Imppala.

Here’s your especial mention, Zhlink. Now shush. XD