my horrible sense of timing........

[tirsden]

Let me tell you a little story. This tale is set in the online game Maple Story that I'm thoroughly addicted to. It begins two days ago...

I was hunting mithril ore for the level 33 wizard wand (for the quest to make it, as opposed to buying it). The ore can be looted from piggies with red scarves around their necks. No problem, I can kill them in one blast of Magic Claw. So I go to the secret Pig Beach and......... spend entirely too much time there. Hours later I managed to trade 8 garnet ores to another player who gave me a whole mithril plate (which is made of 10 mithril ore). I had the other 20 mithril ores and wah lah, I finally had my 3 mithril plates. I turned in all the correct goodies to the guy who makes the mage stuff and I got the wand.

Today I decided to make the level 30 gloves. I was level 28 when I started this endeavor. And can you guess what I needed? Two garnets. Which means 20 garnet ore. Dude, didn't I just trade 8 of those the other day? Oh well, it was worth it, right? I got my wand, it's all good. Time to hunt dark tree stumps and flaming piggies, cuz they drop that for loot. I found out fairly soon just how rarely they DO drop it. UGH.

Anyways, I'm killin' stumps on some random screen near the highlands town of Perion, and guess what drops off of a random stump? The level 33 wizard wand I had just made two days ago. The one I had traded my garnet ores to finish making. What are the odds of that?? For one thing, that kinda loot is insanely lucky. For another thing, it took eons to hunt down all the garnet ores, even after Mike joined the search. I probably spent around 9 hours total on that garbage. I did make a friend at least, another mage who ended up on the screen we kept destroying over and over. I bought a garnet ore off him for 10K (believe me, it was WORTH IT heck I woulda paid more but he was happy with that price lol) and later he partied with us for a bit.

So, in the end, I did finally get what I needed and made the gloves. Mike levelled while we were killing all the junk, and so did I, plus putting a lot of xp towards level 30. When I hit level 30 I get to figure out how to become a Cleric. Wheeee! ^_^

One more thing... Earlier today I bought the level 30 mage circlet. During my garnet hunting later, I looted a black jester hat. Which is also level 30 and WAY better. Again I must ask... what are the odds? That's what I get for planning ahead and buying/making gear early... or....... or fate is just weird. LOL.

~fin~

Comments

[l-u-d-g-e.livejournal.com]

The game is better than I'd imagined. It actually models how the Universe plays silly buggers with our heads! LOL

I noticed that snails stopped dropping arrows after I ran out of them.

Anyway, glad you got what you were after! I do have a few bits of various ores. I'll be happy to give them to you -- I won't be needing them for a long time.

yeah now I gotta catch ya online...

[tirsden.livejournal.com]

...cuz I been sleeping around lunchtime. Oopth. I have a boatload of arrows and feathers for ya (found out only 100 feathers stack together before a new pile starts).