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Hey.

I'm Jasek. Duh.

I only started playing on January 14 of this year, so my guys are on the new side. I hope to make up time with my lack of a life and willingness to play on weekdays and holidays. On Maple I play on the Broa server and I have:



My Hunter, Jaysek, a level 49, with his now deceased intrepid farting cat, Toast, level 13. Fear his off-level clothes and his cat's poopy little pixels of DOOM.



My level 43 I/L Wizard, Jaybird37, clueless and slack-jawed, willing to stare endlessly at nothing for the cheap, cheap price of free. You can be assured the name sewn into his underpants is correct, but the day of the week is not.



My level 34 bandit, JayLower, a lucky little man with two high level sugar daddies to fund his threads and weapons. He was my reward for getting to 35 with archerboy, and in the time I've had him... he's hard.

The following is an account of their assorted misadventures. No animals were harmed in the writing of this journal and it is probably not suitable for small children, woodland creatures, manual appliances, and of course, the illiterate.

Screenshots? Screenshots? Bueller?

So, do you play your mage? or do you play your bowman regaurdless of his skillpoints?

Its hard to make a perfect character, my bowman's skills aren't quite right either 3nodding Sorry I only play Scania tho.

I must admit the urge to make a new account on Khaini is tempting. Just to see everyone start out at the same place. I will resist though, because all my friends are on the Broa. Much love to the Broa.

Slowly, very slowly, my funds are coming back. For a Hunter, I have an ungodly low amount of cash. I have 95k. Oy.

I got bored today. I did axe stumps at Perion (archer). Traded in some parts. I need to buy etc and use spaces again. I got both volumes of Maple History and heard the third is probably a drop from Ludi. I also heard that it's part of a quest and the reward might be a Chief Stan hat. I've seen the stats on that thing, and I want it. It looks ugly as hell, but I want it.

I just added 'maple story' to my LJ interests, and went around to the other blogs that listed it. One was a blog comm in the vein of BRPS, and the second most recent entry was about this one I/L level 49 mage who'd taken 10k from a noob in return for partying to help him level.

It reminded me why I don't party noobs anymore.

http://community.livejournal.com/badmaplestory/29657.html#cutid1

I've been in the Henesys Hunting Grounds and partied noobs; I figure if I'm killing I might as well help someone out. Then they get bossy. They tell me to go kill the green shrooms and to hurry up so they'll level faster. They bug me for pots and arrows when it's clear I'm using them too. They send trade after trade begging with the whiny face. They say 'give me' and 'I need' and 'drop me'.

I never got thanked, and I never took money, not that it was offered. The second I was bossed I ended the party and then the stupid noob would follow me around with party offers. I had this happen three times in a row one night, and that was it. No more.

It makes me wonder what happened to graciousness. What happened to people's sense of gratefulness. When it became okay for those receiving help to be so callus to those giving it. In a small way it makes me despair for the current generation of kids and realize how true it's become for the nice guy to not only finish last, but to be walked all over by the time he gets there. It makes me wary of true kindness and perhaps react with a little more venom than needed in times of false offers. I was on my magician last night and a much higher level opened a trade to give me cakes. I couldn't fathom anymore that he was giving me them for free. I kept asking what he wanted for them, or if he wanted me to fame him. I think I offended him and I feel bad about it. I did thank him several times, and for that I'm relieved. It upsets me that I react with such caution to someone trying to be nice.

All I can do is empathize with that very nice person in the LJ entry and hope she has better luck. Without sounding cruel about it, I hope she's learned her lesson and only helps friends. It's a hard lesson to learn.

And, hoping I sound as cruel as possible, I hope those who take advantage of others like that get hacked repeatedly.

I'm at pig beach with my archer and the cat. Suddenly this guy shows up, in nothing but his skivvies, not even a weapon. It's obvious he's a cleric when he starts healing himself. He runs around and he says 'noob', 'stupid noob', but he never specifies who he's talking about. I'm the nearest, but I don't care. Because if I'm a stupid noob, I'm not the one running around pig beach without a weapon.

So then he says, 'I feel like random defaming' and of course, he picks me. Then he smiles at me and leaves.

Oh and earlier? I threw caution to the wind and partied a noob who was bugging the entire Henesys hunting ground. He not only ordered me around, he told me to party everyone else he couldn't and when I wouldn't he yelled at me. He also died and told me to wait for him. I also did most of the work, as he didn't seem to have any red pots and had to stand there to regain his hp.

So it was a crap day all around, basically. Why is it the net constantly shows me the worst in human nature?

*sigh*