§ The Pwnage Club §
a .m a p l e .s t o r y .f a n f i c
hecksno!
wizet -pwns- maplestory
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"PWNED!" Another snail melted into the perfectly green grass. Of course, as an absolutely awesome side effect, the pretty yellow exp bar slid gracefully to the right. Now, only three snails stood in the way of a nooblet and level five. Nick was already jumping around in Lith, basking in all his glory. Just because Mei couldn't keep her eyes open a minute past six didn't mean he had the right to go level himself up to fifteen and brag about it to the whole world.
"C'mon! Get on the ship in Southperry!"
"You freakin' idiot, I have to get a few more levels while I'm here. If you were going to be all pissy about me being a slow leveler, then you should have thought before going on a snail raid without me!"
"Aww I didn't just kill snails, y'know. I pwned a bunch of ebil mushies too!"
"Make me feel even worse, why don'tcha?"
Click, tap, click, click, tap, tap, ahhh the wonderful melody of fluid keystrokes. Well, almost fluid. Okay, maybe more like bang, tap, tap, tap, bang, click, tap, tap. You get the point right?
An hour later, Mei was finally finished. It wasn't easy, considering she was being bothered by Nick half the time. At least it was all over. With training finished, they could move on to more serious things, like getting the first job advancement. Oh joy! Time to visit the old thief hideout and make fun of batman in the underground toilet lair. It's a wonder all the other jobs have fancy headquarters and the one for the thieves just had to be a basement with a toilet entrance. Who comes up with this stuff?
The time read nearly 4pm. Saturday, she could be studying, but yet again the no homework deal always wins. Besides, doing stuff last minute is the new trend. Everyone wants to be cool, right?
One thing that sucks the most about starting new is being poor. Every mapler knows you start out poor as dirt. No one is immune to it (except hackers). Mei could only afford the dinky little Garnier and two sets of stars. She barely had enough to load up on potions. The next two hours would be extremely gruesome to write about. So much dying was involved, mainly of the main characters. Two words: stupid mushrooms.
"This sucks! We're never going to get enough money to buy our equips." Nick followed through with an assault of F3s. The boy loved his emotes.
"Maybe we should go to the slime tree."
"Um, Mei, you're a sin. Sins don't make it far in the slime tree when they're still noobs. You'll get pwned instantly by a mob of rampaging jello."
"Psh no I wont."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah really, I'll just eat all of the jello. Besides lime is my favorite."
"Can you be anymore noobish?"
F7. Despite his warnings, they still went anyway. Mei has a tendency to get in over her head, and Nick is the one who usually pulls her out. Or wait I think it's the other way around.
Whoosh! A pair of Subis embedded themselves into a jumping, green blob, causing it to grimace and retaliate. Two more pairs came hurdling its way, and its short lifespan ended with a distressed squeak. Maybe Nick was wrong. On the other hand, she's being chased by a sea of bouncing blubber, screaming "ZOMGWTFBBQ!". Not bad, she just killed one out of 123456789… slimes. Mei put the name beta to shame. Although, she does get some credit because she's never handled a thief before.
Double stab here and double stab there, presto! Everything is jello free again. And Mei is standing in a corner, hyperventilating the crap out of her lungs. It really has been too long since she's played.
"Sooo, do you still like lime jello?" Nick swooned.
"Hecks no!" Her voice winced at the thought of angry jello chasing you inside a tree dungeon. Lime was definitely off the favorites list, no matter how awesome it was.
Training as she remembered it, wasn't this difficult… or morally degrading. There already was a group of pros snickering at her little scene. Wait, what were a bunch of pros doing in the slime tree? They should be off hunting drakes or kicking Alishar's ass. Level forty was far from noobdom. A cleric jumped onto the mushroom cap Mei was standing on and flashed an innocent smile. Something told her that it was anything but sincere.
"Do you guys need some help?" The cleric continued to grin.
"No, we're fine as it is." Nick busied himself with killing more slimes, he barely had time to notice his friend's mortifying position.
"First time on ms?"
"Nah, we played beta before."
"Really? I would expect more from a beta tester."
"Shut up! You may think you're all bad ass, but just you wait, pretty soon I'll over level you. Then I'll stalk and KS the crap out of you for eternity!" Mei fumed at his comment.
"Aww getting a little ruffled there. Don't worry, relax. I mean well. Sorry for getting off on the wrong foot. I'm here to help out noobs like you, even if you're not quite a noob."
A pink tagline appeared in Mei's chatbox: 'Tintaglia has raised Meixlin's level of fame'
"Um… thank you?"
"No problemo. Need any help, just pm me. I'll be glad to help level you anytime."
With that, the cleric rejoined his companions and they took the nearest portal out. The bewildered thief replayed what had just happened in her mind. A pro cleric had just offered a helping hand. Either he's on crack or the next generation maplers are some sort of mutants.
Nick and Mei continued leveling until the crack of dawn on Sunday. When six o'clock came running by again, Mei's head instantly slammed down on the keyboard, sending a bunch of random gibberish to her companion.
ka;cnwamcwoeknm kmavwokje wankc;mamd;al,mczm..dagjio;wnekvnz,nxcv;d... ZzZzZ
Closing Notes: sorry for the long delay. took me some time to remember what exactly happened the second day. just a reminder that some of the usernames in the story may be real and some may not be (i purposely mixed stuff up for the fun of it ).