Mushmum!

Today, I logged into Maple to the estatic cries of the acolytes of the Cult of Silvar-

—–[Transmission Interrupted]—————-

Am I online now? Yes? Oh. Okay. *coughs*

Hello, puny human underling. I see that I have your attention. ‘Tis I, Ham, the Commander of the Hamster Army. I have, um, taken the liberty to get rid of our insane Leader Silver and reintroduce her to her most beloved piece of clothing: the straightjacket. Let us get this over and done with, shall we not? Or my fellow hamsters will get no peace from that madwoman.

Silver: YOU USURPER! TRAITOR TO THE CULT! DIEEEEE!

See?

Silver was helping Snow, her friend, finish that quest from the new fangled town Zipangu, which, in my humble rodent opinion, is nothing but a gimmick by that devious human company Asiasoft to compete with the Hamster Army to take over the world! That will not do, of course.

Silver: Get on with the Blog! OR I’LL-

Ster: Sorry, Ham, she got away there.

Thanks Ster. Gag her properly this time. Ah yes, back to the quest. It was required to kill one (1) Mushmum to complete that quest, named Actor’s Training. I’m not sure, but perhaps it is a human custom to send trainee actors to brave dangerous monsters when they want to join acting. Silver, being the nice and kindhearted-

Excuse me, while I make some changes to the script.
*some furious scribbling*

Silver, being the completely idiotic and gormless girl she is, decided to party Snow and help her just get a Mushmum kill. It took the better of half an hour of walking to the Mushmum map, finding at least three lvl 7x and above already camping inside, CC-ing, re-walking to the Mushmum map, finding one entire guild of high lvlers camping inside, CC-ing-

This is ridiculous.
*more scribbling*

It took the better of half an hour of pointless activity before Snow finally found an empty map. By that time, Silver, the completely idiot and gormless Leader of mine, was fed up right up to here.

Silver: You are too short to demonstrate that. Not even if you stretch out on your two hindlegs and point as much as possible.

Wait. Where’s Ster?

Silver: I ate him.

Right. I won’t miss him, anyway.

It didn’t help that Silver, after asking countless of times, could not get Snow a party to help her achieve one (1) Mushmum kill. Just one (1) kill. Not one hundred (100) or even one thousand (1000). One. (1!) Snow only needed to have a party that will completely eliminate Mushmum once (1!!) and the quest will be done. However, every camper Silver asked muttered some sentiments along the lines of ‘later get items, then she loot how?’, despite the two girls’ word that Snow wouldn’t loot.

What was wrong with these people? If Silver had been intent on getting a Mushmom drop, she would have gotten time tracks and made sure that she had a companion with a decent level along with her, not randomly crashing channels in hope to find some scrap of kindness and dragging a lvl 35 Wizard along with her.

I told you human nature stinks.

Silver: Only sometimes. Just read on, Ham, before I steal your rations of sunflower seeds.

It was their last try. Snow found an empty channel at Channel 8, and the two girls went to camp there. It was empty, so Silver figured that it would take a while before Mushmum spawned. True enough, even after 25 minutes of waiting, the oversized mushroom did not spawn.

The waiting and already-too-much frustration was aggravated when a Crusader and an Ice Wizard dropped in. It reminded Silver of her last MM adventure, when she was KS-ed by one Crusader and one Ice Wizard. Well, that was water under the bridge and this time, she wasn’t about to give way.

So Silver begged them.

The plea for the Crusader and Wizard to add Snow to their party succeed only halfway: it turned out the Wizard wasn’t with the Crusader. The Wizard was added to the party, because they figured that one more person trying to kill the MM together with them won’t hurt.

But the Crusader wouldn’t budge, despite repeated requests. However, for reasons as unknown as the reason why sunflower seeds taste good, the Crusader changed channels last minute. Which Silver thought strange since he had been camping there so stubbornly for the past few minutes, talking only to his Panda like some demented Dr. Dolittle whenever the two girls tried to plead with him.

But Silver knew the peace wouldn’t last.

The Obligatory Convo

Snow: thank goodness
Wizard: crusader left. Yay.
SilverFx: He won’t be the last.
SilverFx: There will someone with time tracks. That someone will definitely come when MM spawns.
Newcomer: And that will be me.
SilverFx: *f7* ta-dah.

But this story does not have an unhappy ending, with Silver storming off incredibly mad and disillusioned with the world at large like in her last MM adventure. The Newcomer turned out to be 0SinBoiBoi0, a Hermit also helping another character under lvl 40 finish the same quest, and kindly invited Snow to his party.

Mushmum spawned, Silver hung on the rope to watch the pwning action as the Hermit killed her off in no time, and most importantly, Snow finished the quest. [1]

Wait! What are you doing, Silver! Ster, help me! No-!

Ahem. Let me take over from here, Ham. You can’t do grateful for nuts.

I was so happy and relieved to finally get that ordeal over and done with that I famed the Hermit. I was even ready to do a fame parade with all my noob army, all fifteen or so of them. But what made me even more pleasantly surprised was that he not only did not accept the thanks we spammed him with (‘Don’t thank me, thank Mushmom.’), he even famed me back. O_O

Another honorary mention will go to oOEarthOo, that kind Wizard dude who passed me an Antidote when he passed by me running around being poisoned by the Zombies in the Cemetary map. [2] Also, b3min3, the nice Priestess that partied me in the Zombie Cemetary map voluntarily and gave me my first Holy Symbol buff ever, even if this poor little Huntress couldn’t kill much in that map. You guys rock, even if I don’t know you at all.

So, the point of this blog? Screw you, you heartless mercenary Maplers and thank goodness for the small kindnesses that can still be found if you look hard enough. All hope is not lost for SEA, then.

Ham: So… our plan for world domination continues?

Yeah. Leave me out of that straightjacket, though.

Cookies for you, reader!

Oh, and SS no. 3 is for entertainment only. It was lagging so bad in SEA today, people on my buddylist kept DC-ing and relogging every few ten minutes. And there were heck a lot of Megas blaming the GMs for the lag. Sure, kiddos, spam more Megas and make the GMs’ day with a fatter paycheck.