Chapter Thirteen

Disclaimer

I don't own Mabinogi nor any NPC's connected. Either Devcat or Nexon does.

A/N

Well in the last chapter, Jack arranged where he could call up his non ride-able pets on his homestead. Let's explore the possibilities of that in this chapter.

Some time ago, Dan warned me that a very lengthy maintenance was about to happen. Evidently, some of the players noticed the glitched monsters and the engineers are going to address that in this coming maintenance. Of course, I don't see how they could when I am a direct cause of these glitch fomors.

According to my calculations, I have approximately fifteen days my time before the maintenance starts. That is plenty of time to gather the necessary items I need to make sure I can stay busy on my homestead the entire time.

I start by gather seed packages by doing grocery jobs. I also do church jobs to get holy water. Next, I go hunting for foxes to earn money for base potions from the healer. I put all this on Stagquodo.

I then make sure Simballa, my little elephant, has at least three pickaxes in its inventory. I decided to move my sickle and how to Stardestiny since I cannot call him on the homestead. I noticed my guitar was on Stardestiny. I moved it to Maximillion, my minibear, instead.

On the day the maintenance was to begin, I decided to do one last grocery job. I had just enough time to complete. I had just enough time to put the seeds on Stagquodo and recall him before heading up to my homestead. Immediately upon arriving on my homestead, the portal disappeared meaning I was lucky this time. I vowed never to cut it so close again.

I started to settle in for the long haul. If what Danster said was true then this maintenance had the potential to go on for about a month and a half. I called up Simballa to get a pickaxe out. However, I never got that chance for Simballa faded away. I got worried so I used the command menu to look at my pets. What I saw horrified me. My pets were disappearing on me one at a time. Stardestiny, Maximillion, Woolery (lamb), Exclaimation(bald eagle), Blessedherbs (herb pig), invpet5, and Cobalter (Shire horse) were all gone one at a time. Suddenly the rest of them disappeared in one sweep disappeared from my list. I had no pets left on my command menu.

"Who are you and what is this place?" asked a strange male voice from behind me.

I twirled around and saw a strange looking man standing there. It was not a normal character; it was a man about twenty-five years old. "I could ask you the same question," I stated.

Suddenly Nao appeared on my homestead, "JACK! YOU GOT TO COME WITH ME RIGHT NOW," she yelled frantically. I can tell she was beyond scared.

"What is wrong Nao?"

"That man is an Admin. He and his fellow admin have been wiping out your pets before the Goddess stopped them by teleport the rest to a safe haven. He means to do the same to you."

I looked at him and he grinned menacingly. I knew then what Nao just said was the truth. I took a giant leap into her arms as she teleported us away. A second later, we materialized in the Goddess' special chambers. Tarlach was there too with the Morrighan.

"Are we safe here? You told me I was safe on my homestead yet the Admin was able to delete Simballa while I had him out there."

Tarlach and Morrighan gasp when I said that. Nao spoke up, "I am sorry you had to see one of your pets deleted right in front of you, Jack. To answer your question, yes we are safe here. This castle is located in a pocket dimension outside of the game. The admin have no control here. We were able to save some of your pets by teleporting the bulk of your fountain within the courtyard of this castle."

I felt somewhat relieved but not all the way, "May I see them."

"Certainly Jack. Please follow me," requested Nao.

I followed her thru the castle to the inner courtyard. I knew what she meant by 'fountain'. After someone logs into Mabinogi, they see a fountain that all their characters and pets surround. Here you can choose to be before logging into Mabinogi. By teleporting the entire fountain here, they did indeed made it so the admins could not delete any more pets.

We turned the corner and I immediately saw Staton who took a flying leap towards me and knocked me literally down. I laughed, "Ok boy. It's good to see you too." I looked over and saw Airohk and Blackchaser. "You know what is happening, don't you?" I asked the both of them.

"Unfortunately yes, Jack. At first, we had no clue but got scared out of or wits after seeing Stardestiny fade into nothingness when we knew you did not call him. Where is Simballa? Was he not with you?"

"He is also gone, Airohk. He faded right in front of me." Every one of the pets bowed in reverence to what I just said. I turned to Tarlach, "Do you still have access to the other accounts? I know for a fact not all the pets were transferred over to this one."

"Yes I do. We did not transfer all the pets for why have duplicates of the same type of pet," stated Tarlach.

I did not reply to him but turned back to Airohk, "It will be your decision if we bring over anymore pets from those other accounts. You do know what I am talking about."

Airohk and Blackchaser looked at each other before conferring with the others. At one point two other people was accessing Mabinogi with their separate accounts from my computer. I paid for all their pets as gifts to them. I had turned my house into a rooming house at one time. These were college student going to the nearby University Hospital studying to be doctors.

The female with long red hair was fascinated with Mabinogi ever since she moved in so she asked if she could play it. We set her up with a separate account so she could play but since all her money went to living expenses, I helped her out with pets. Everyone that knew her loved her both in game and out. Tragically, she was killed in a traffic accident shortly after joining the Navy. She was on her way to a special school for her job in the Navy when it happened.

When I told the guild what had happened everyone wept. We held a special in game memorial service for her. She was truly a great person and a great friend to everyone who knew her. One of my guild mates was so broken up with her death that she asked if she could look after her inactive account so I gave her the details. Almost immediately, she changed the detail of the account so no one can access it including her after she transferred the dragon on it to her account. I still don't know how she did that.

The other account was to my male roomer. He actually was not interested in Mabinogi but rather in her (my female roomer). He played as a way to connect to her. She gave him hell at every turn. Before she was to report in to the Naval school, she took time off to spend with her family back in her home town. Guess who followed her there? It was good for him for during the time he spent in that town he was hit on by the local hussies. She got so jealous she admitted to loving him. Tragically, he saw the accident happen that killed her. He gave me his account details saying he never wished to play again. I was going to delete the account but realized I paid for all the animals and it seemed such a waste so I deleted his toons and created new ones to play with, Alexia being one of them.

I know both accounts to be inactive so the question is will the remaining pets wish for those animals I know to be on those accounts be transferred by Tarlach, Nao, and the Goddess over onto this account. I am hoping yes.

Airohk stepped back up to me, "Yes Jack. You may bring over pets from those other accounts but on one condition, we get to chose whom."

"Alright Airohk, I agree to those terms. Tarlach, are you able to transfer those pets?" I asked.

"Indeed I can. Airohk, who do you wish first?" asked Tarlach.

Airohk and Tarlach spent an hour transferring pets over. When it was over, I must say I was impressed with the selection. I could not ask for any better. From account J, I got the white shire Cecelion, the minibear Sirmaximus, and the grey hound Raxxon. From account S, I got the black thoroughbred Globster, the other twin white ferret Stagpod, the bald eagle Scotalon, the dog Scrollkeeper, the dogs invenpet1 and invenpet2, and the black cotton ostrich Mercuryrise.

In my possession already (which was saved from being deleted) was the black fire dragon Airohk, my other thoroughbred Destinystar, the chestnut pony Goldanner, the hawk Pattipeck, the pelican Palicore, the black wolf Roudalfo, the grey wolf Bonnapart, the black unicorn Blackchaser, the dogs invpet#'s 1-4, the Alaskan Malamute Starbracer, the Siberian husky Staton, the white cotton ostrich Snowable, the Snow Tiger Battlercat, the Black Flamemare Danielstang, the flying carpet Carpetbagger, the Oak Magic broom Oakdalion, and my two Samoyed dogs Regginald and Reggiebalm. Overall, I think I still have a decent amount of pets and good quality ones too.

But what good is all these pets if they will end up being deleted. I turned back to Nao, "I think it's time we have a serious talk with the Admin that showed up at my homestead. Is there a safe way to talk with them without fear of them deleting anything?"