What, can’t I try my hand at scriptwriting?
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INT. ZIPANGU – PARKING LOT

CUT TO:
SILVERFX appearing above the shiny portal, The CAMERA ZOOMS IN to show her suspended there for a moment as her much abused laptop scrambles to keep up with the furious exchange of digital information. CAMERA PANS BACK as she is dumped unceremoniously onto the ground as the laptop finally keeps pace, landing next to a stylish looking automobile and a bored looking Black Pig, BAKWA.

She picks herself up disgruntled, and makes her careful way past the lines of automobiles all parked haphazardly in the closed underground compound, which the CAMERA NOW PANS ACROSS SLOWLY. Bakwa snuffles along slowly at her heels, the obese beast looking as if it would rather find some dark spot to fall asleep in.

Silver has come to seek a training spot in this place, and she has heard of the wicked Yakuza mobs that called this place their Hideout, including a rather scary looking Old Lady that has been nicknamed ‘Ah Ma’. The nervous look on her face tells clearly that she has no wish (as of yet) to die in their bloodthirsty hands.

Subordinate C (O.S): [crying sound]


xXKuRaDiXx (O.S): pt?

Silver moves to her left a few metres more, the CAMERA FOLLOWING HER POV, and an Ice Mage comes into view, perched on a multi-storied scaffolding housing several cars. A wave of his staff, and chunks of magically conjured ice descend to freeze the mobs of female Yakuza members crowding below him. They are stilled in unnatural positions; even the tears of pain that they shed are frozen in exaggerated fountains out from their eyes. (Really.)

SilverFx: Yes please

A dazzling smile from Kura, but it soon disappears as a WHISTLING SOUND is heard OFFSCREEN. The CAMERA PANS DOWNWARDS to show the stunned look on Silver’s face and the grey marble tombstone that she now floats over where she has died at the bottom of the scaffolding.

SilverFx: Uh. I’ll brb. It’s my first time here.


xXKuRaDiXx: Kk. Come back, and I’ll teach you.

EXT. ZIPANGU – SHOWA TOWN

For the second time, Silver is dumped unceremoniously onto the ground as she spawns into the map. Walking quickly across the town, she approaches a shifty looking old man, KONPEI. Making quick and furtive conversation with him, she is soon allowed to the entrance of Raccoon Finance, and reenters the Parking Lot.

INT. ZIPANGU – PARKING LOT

Foolishly, thinking to defend herself as she crosses the Parking Lot now crowded with Yakuza, Silver lets loose a few arrows, gathering not a few enemies and gulping down Ramen all the way in a nervous reflex reaction as she finally finds Kura again on the scaffolding.

SilverFx: I’m back


xXKuRaDiXx: Hey. Here’s the party invite-

A war-cry of HYAAH! from a Subordinate C, and a familiar WHISTLING SOUND later, we are faced with the same scene as before: Silver the Ghost hovering over her grey marble tombstone at the bottom of the scaffolding.

SilverFx: Or not. [a sigh] I’ll brb. Again.

SCENE FADES TO BLACK.

Hmm. Y’think if the tagline ‘Stop here or be stopped’ too cheesy or anything?

After leveling up to seventy-eight, I got bored of the FoG (The forest of Golem, in case you don’t know your acronyms.) It just became a leetle slow. And uh… boring.

What irked me the most was that even though I had trained there for at least one and a half week straight, I didn’t get a single Glove for Attack scroll. Everyone else in the party that I usually train with had gotten at least one; ArchieCarmen had found FOUR. Even Berry, who had just moved there to train, managed to find one in the relatively short time he was there.

This is nothing more than just a freaking replay of the time when I trained at Jr Yetis: People found tonnes of GFAs there, and poor old me still hasn’t found a single one up till this day and date. >>;

I doubt I’ll ever find one anyway. Gah.

So what’s that they say about ‘If you get nothing, just move on?’
What, that I just made it up?!
Actually… that’s true. >D

So I moved on to the Showa Parking Lot. So far, I haven’t moved beyond the Parking Lot (PL) into the next few rooms to explore, but hey, I’ll be suicidal when I finally get my butt to level 80.

It’s pretty easy training. Since I’m a (SMEXEH <3!) Ranger with (UBERSOME<3!) Arrow Rain, I am usually assigned the bit of the map they call the ‘front’, seeing as how it, uh, is at the front of that map. I can also be assigned the ‘back’, on top of these cute little trucks, Where I am standing in the SS, the mobs can’t get at you because the Subordinates Cs don’t jump (neither can you loot, actually, since everything falls on the level below you).

It’s basically rather HP-pot-less training: Just stand there, and spam Rain.

Unless, of course, Mr Leader B has a mind to just shoot at you and/or bump into you such that you slip from that spot, fall down through the gaps in the scaffold… and bump into the mobs of Subordinates Cs. They are deadly creatures, those ladies: their touch damage is about 530+, and they have these flashy pink magic attacks that are in the shape of HEARTS, and deal about 1.4k damage each.

Well, they had it right when they said hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, I guess.

So with such dastardly Yakuza ladies on my case, how could I survive untouched? I died about a total of four times in my first training session there.

As you can tell from the movie script thingy, I died twice even before I even started training there. Luckily, I had stopped training at exactly 1% the previous time I logged off, so it wasn’t much of a loss.

I began training in the PL with zero percentage EXP and a very friendly Kura who gave me a crash course in the basics of PL training and a slot in his party that had a Priest (8D).

After a while, since Kura had to go out to see the doctor, the party reformed with me as the leader, of all people. >>;

Roughly one and a half hours later, I had gained about 40%-

-that is, until I got distracted (MURDERED, I’D SAY!) by a passing Priest. Our previous Priest went AFK for a long while, and I had to find a replacement.

(It’s so irritating how Priests NEVER stay long in one party. They flit here and there, joining and leaving parties as they will, and it’s amazing how many people refuse to train with a party that doesn’t have a Priest.)

And right after that death, as I was making my way back again, I accidentally irritated a whole mob of deadly Yakuza ladies with PINK HEARTS.

Yep, death number four. *sighs*
Back to 23% to ye, Silvar.

So that’s how I learnt my multiple lessons, and from then on, whenever I so much as drop down into a mob of Sub Cs or get even NEAR them, I spam my HP pots like no tomorrow. Better wasting the mesos than dying AGAIN.

There were two surprises for that day.

I was just there, Rain-ing away on the parade of several disgruntled looking Subordinate Cs from the elevated safety of the top of a container truck, when the peace of my chat box was suddenly disrupted by an eruption of words of a particularly bright green variety.

It was Ganzy!

I couldn’t go stalk him though; I was kinda stuck there in the PL, tied down by the Cash item we all call x2 EXP. :/

The second surprise: ANNIIIIII <3

She famed me and wouldn’t let me fame her back. Well, you are just lucky that I’d already traded fame that day, Anni. >O

At that point in time, I was with a party that had Tomi (Xx3vil5inxX) and was stuck with a very strange Priest Priest32. Mr 32 insisted on opening Mystic Doors every time he met us alongside with the usual buffing, and he was more keen on Mystic Door-ing that HS-ing and Blessing us, honestly. >>;

But anyway, Mr 32 announced an intention to go Mushmoming or something or the rather, and I happily invited Anni to the party with this legitimate excuse to replace him.

Btw, Anni, Kura loved you to bits. He was like, ‘tt prz is healer and attacker , we don’t need a DK’, when I invited a DK to join the party.

<some fuzzy recollection of the convo>
Annikabelle: YES. I can finally SR! [Shining Ray, fyi]
SilverFx: Why couldn’t you?
Annikabelle: The DKs all yelled at me when I SRed at Mongs.
SilverFx: Why? They can’t stand the Anni Smexehiness?
Annikabelle: Indeed.

A few minutes later, when I thought Mr 32 would have move off by then, he turned out to have just hung around and leech EXP. Tomi requested that I kick him, and uh, so I did.

‘Priest32’ has been expelled from the party.
SilverFx: I feel so evil.
Xx3vil5inxX: You are.
Annikabelle: LOL
Xx3vil5inxX: no dun be
Annikabelle: Silsil is evil.
SilverFx: I hate being leader :/
Annikabelle: Silsil is evil.
Annikabelle: Silsil is evil.
Xx3vil5inxX: he deserved it.

I really hate being the party leader. It feels so mean and wicked to have to kick out or replace members that other members decide aren’t contributing, even if I know it is true, and every time I had to kick someone out, I felt really bad. :/

But it’s a job that someone’s gotta do, I guess. However, sometimes even leaders can’t have all the power.

What happened in this SS was that the leader’s Hermit friend KspTH was just sitting there, leeching, and the leader lonelybaby9 refused to kick him. Tomi called us all to stop attacking, and there you have it: Mob rule.

All the (rich) guys in my Maple life love to do this to break my heart. >(

Xx3vil5inxX: jean, do you want to see 184m?
SilverFx: NO TOMI I DON’T WANT TO SEE 184M!
SilverFx: GO AWAY.
Wolfrage: hey, that’s how much I am carrying with me now.
SilverFx: WOLFIE GO AWAY.

I hardly have 10million. T_T

And in the middle of Wolfrage asking ‘which is nicer? wolfie or wolfy?’, out pops something weird.

Xx3vil5inxX: b my maple gf lerhx jean
SilverFx: [in answer to Wolf] wolfgotpwnt
SilverFx: [now paying attention to Tomi] O_O WHAT?!
Xx3vil5inxX: hahahas
Xx3vil5inxX: jkjk u de larx

… Nice joke, Mr Tomi. *bishes*
I told him not to scare me in the future like that, or I’d put out his lights with my fist if I got so distracted that I fell off the truck down to the Sub Cs and thusly to my death at 97%. >>;

(Hahaha, put out his lights. There was a whole extended conversation about it, but eh, I’m lazy to type it out. I kinda forgot how it started too, so yeah. You didn’t need to know this. :X)

So Anni told me to tell her when I reached 99.9%, which I dutifully did.

SilverFx: 99.9!
Annikabelle: SILSIL, I’m TAGGING YOU >4
Annikabelle: SILSIL, I’m TAGGING YOU >3
Annikabelle: SILSIL, I’m TAGGING YOU >3
Annikabelle: To hell with the other people :/

Then, uh, I leveled even before she came. -_-

INT. ZIPANGU – PARKING LOT, AT THE BACK OF IT

Silver continues to spam a bright blue shower of arrows onto the mobs below, when the CAMERA PANS RIGHT to show the entrance of a girl in a toga with brilliant orange curls, a disgruntled looking dragon floating around her head. It is ANNIKABELLE, Valiant Priest and Intrepid Spammer.

The two girls stand there on the back of the truck, with Silver spamming more Arrow Rain. After a few moments, Silver gives Anni a F3 face.

Annikabelle: Waiting for you.

An awkward pause on the part of Silver.

SilverFx: I already lvled.

That was when all hell broke loose and all other buddy and guild chat were swept away on the UNCONTROLLABLE TIDES OF SPAAAAAAAAM@@@@@

SCENE FADES TO BLACK.

Oh urgh. I should have notified her at 99.8%. T_T

Later on, I went to stalk Wolfrage on his MM hunt. This is the Mushmom that he whacked to death with Power Knockback.

And the Mushmom was all indignant, like, WTH YOU WHACK ME FER!

I remember how I randomly picked a channel to go to, since Wolf didn’t have any other tracks, and sure enough, a few minutes later, MM spawned. I’m not that bad at guessing after all.

Then, I suddenly remembered that I had under level 40 characters who needed to complete this Showa quest that required one kill of MM. But before that, I needed someone to help me kill twenty Yakuza Leaders.

Someone = Wolfie, ehehe.
I still love the angry little crow on that Puppet’s shoulder.

We rushed back to a channel for which he had the timing for, and unfortunately, there was a lvl 9x DK already there. He was someone that I had trained with while at FoG; however, I was on Gemina, so he didn’t recognise me. :/

So I was just hanging there, changing from my speed gear to my DEX armour to attempt a hit or two at an Iron Hog while waiting for the MM to spawn when the ‘Quest Complete!’ dialog just popped up!

Apparently, KS wars at Someone Else’s House with a lvl 14x Ranger take very little time to end indeed. >>;

What happened to MM?!

My first MM. EVER. She’s kinda dead and gone in that picture though. But you can see my loot of the MM spore in this SS.Wolfrage let it to me when she spawned, and I happily killed my first ever uninterrupted and un-KSed Mushmom. I think about five Strafes or more did the job; she’s even easier than a Sub C. >>;

We spent the rest of the evening just fooling around in that map and talking to another random Ranger that wandered in. Fun stuff.

Annikabelle: Where’s the giant centipede?
SilverFx: I ATE HIM
Annikabelle: ZOMG
SilverFx: ^__^
Annikabelle: SPIT IT OUT NAO.
SilverFx: this conversation is so familiar.

Things don’t change much sometimes, do they?

Anyway, so I’m now at level 79, 87%+. I’ve been slacking obviously, or else I’d have been lvl 82 by now. I had enough of the PL last Friday, and just stormed out of that place to Victoria to stalk a few people, and then tore across the seas betwixt Victoria and Ossyria (bumping into another near twin of mine with a really nice guild name (heh) along the way) to join Berry in Orbis.

Where Berry saves Gastropoda the pain of having to travel back to the beginning of a Pig Farm-esque map that is based in China <3.
This is part of the road to the Shanghai Worm/Centipede That I Have Swallowed. So, yeah. It’s really irritating, and when you get there, the Centipede (which spawns around 2-4hours apart) is invariably NEVER there.

A specimen for Scyne’s studies.

Alright, alright, I’m ending this blog now, stop yelling and protesting and waving those nasty placards already! >O

Cookies for thee~ ^^ I’ve got Famous Amos Choco Chip IRL, so I’m really happy (and developing a sore throat, lol).