MMO Tales - Maple Story - 1,000-exp mushies are Simply awesome.

So I'm a freeloader.

SimpleMS. It's a you-know-what -coughprivatecoughservercough-. Created by SimplyIntricate of MapleTip. (And I'm not a member of MapleTip - relating back to my first sentence.)

What amazes me about this is how easy it is to join up, compared to just about everything else on the internet (or elsewhere, for that matter). I click a link, enter an ID, password, and birthday, create a shortcut to MS.exe on my desktop, click Properties and modify a line according to their directions, click it, and start playing. No need to even download anything (well, except the original GMS, if you happen not to have that installed). Sure lives up to its name.

I made a sindit. I've always wanted a dit, actually. Mostly just to try out SB and haste and all that basic fun stuff. But I'd never have the time to train it nor the mesos to fund it. I did start a sindit, awhile ago, and got it up to level 24 or something before abandoning it.

This time though, training and funding won't be a problem. Say hello to 30x experience and drops. [1]

Maple Island was easy; I leveled to 4 upon killing my very first snail, and the next four levels went by in about a minute. I went to Vic at level 7, did the Olaf guy's job advance quiz thing, and gained 65 exp - er, I mean 1950 - which put me at level nine and three-quarters. (OMGWTH, HP reference?! Nuuub.) Anyway, since the Lith harbor cab doesn't work, I walked to L forest and suicided, respawning in Kerning.

Having leveled to 10 on the way (yay for 90 exp snails!), I advanced to thief, and then completed the Path of the Thief quest (never knew you could do that...), which gave me (OVER) 9000 experience and leveled me to 13 instantly. Slight problem, though... I had no money with which to buy a claw, no razor/fruit dagger, and an awe-inspiring damage range of 4~6 with my level 1 sword.

Oh, and one more thing. All the maps around Kerning are infested with event eggs. Yes, they've invaded SMS too. And for some unfathomable reason, probably a glitch on Simple's part, they start chasing you once they see you.

= no training for Russt.

I'm lucky that those stumps drop 30-150 meso coins, or I would've never gotten out of that hell. But eventually, I did, and after purchasing a garnier and a set of subis, things went by much faster.

After a mere hour at Ant Tunnel, I found myself level 30 and ready for my 2nd job advancement. Got the letter, went to the instructor, dark marbles blah blah blah. The drop rate of the marbles didn't seem to be 30x, or even 2x, but whatever. I eventually got 26 marbles, but then something went wrong. [2]

EPIC PHAIL.

Fortunately for me, re-entering the place doesn't take away my marbles in SMS. So I recharged, went right back in, and owned those last 4 marbles.

And so I'm a dit. A dit with level 10 clothes, a garnier, and subis. [3]

I decided I wanted a meba, and knowing Ludi weapon store sells them, went to Ellinia. I had a sneaking suspicion about the boat rides, and I turned out to be right: they are instantaneous and free. Woot

-visits every ticketing place in the Maple world- [4]

So I went there bought my meba, and instantly fell in love with 'faster' weapons. I also discovered another small bug of SMS. You know how normally, if you've attacked a monster and you're standing on a platform above it, it'll try to jump at you? It won't do that if you're right above their head. Doesn't sound very useful? Think again. [5]

I stood on that block and held down L7, and I believe I got hit about twice in seven levels

. And it wasn't like 73rd floor Trixters either, it was actually fast. Just to give you a feel for the utter cheapness combined with 30xp: I level to 32, and open the stat window while spamming the L7 button. I add 5 points to LUK, open the skill window, and add 3 points to SB. Looking down at my EXP bar, I find that I'm already at 28%.

Heks.

So with that pwnage, I managed to watch my sexy SB climb from 2 hits to 4 hits to 6 hits... all in the span of half an hour.

I R A DAGGERING DIT. R'AURE!

P.S. Suri and Oceanicca wanted me to link the thread on MapleTip, so here it is: link
It also has the instructions and stuff, go there instead of here if you get problems