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rangifer’s diary: pt. cxxxiv

The Gishoping™

Imagine my delight when I was informed of the imminence of the 120^th levelup^[1] of our very own Gishop (f.k.a. Ananda; a.k.a. Battlesage, Warsage, Permanovice, Aniket, Dreamscapes, illadvised, Paean)! I (cerbip^[2] cervid) saddled my paddle real quick-like over to The Dragon Nest Left Behind to witness it myself, alongside Cortical (GishGallop, CokeZeroPill) & SwordFurbs (Furbs, SwordFurb, Yoshis, Fabiennes, CowSmiley)!

Huge.

But you know what’s even more hugerer? The 4^th yobb advancement! It’s time to live up to the name & become a gishop!!

Not so fassed, tho. To prove one’s gishopworthiness, one must first battle the gatekeepe— no, not that Gatekeeper — the gatekeepers of the forth jerb: Griffith & Manõ. …Oh, & you have to win the battles.

Let’s start with Griffith, because he actually fOcking exists. At first, Gishop was soloïng it, but soon decided that we should all join in on the Ctrl ⎈-pressing fun:

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Gishop: im so jealous of your damage tf

cervid: hahah

Gishop: i swear ill outdps you
AUGH
I SWEAR

Approximately three years later, we eventually found a Manon:

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Cortical: “and cervid killed the fuck out of manon with her great range
the end

cervid: happy ending

Gishop: gimme one with bad ending

Phewf! It’s thyme!!

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

[serverwide announcement]: [4^th Job] Congratulations to Gishop on becoming a Bishop!

Furbs [item smega]: [Fan] CONGRATIONS IN BISH GISH GISHOP (permanovice) #OddJobs

cervid [smega]: GRATS RED (GISHOP) ON GISHOP YAYY HEAL MEEEEEEEEEEEe

Gishop [item smega]: [Monster Book Ring ⟨Tier 10⟩] i am going to spend an absurb money on a joke class thank yo

Grassed again!!! 🥳

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And, although I haven’t any screenshots to show for it, another huge grats as well to Bertolt (Jonathan, daggerknight, Gumby, Johnny, Tiffany, Edward, Kimberly) on 4^th-job summoner!! Can’t w8 to see those bonkers DPMs!!! o.o

Footnotes for “The Gishoping™”

1. [↑] Ackshually, it’s the 119^th levelup, because PCs start at level 1, not level 0… 🤓
2. [↑] “It’s getting increasingly difficult to spell cervid’s name… x_x”
         ― Taima

Off the cuff

How about some punching? Just a little…? Don’t worry, you won’t be the punching victim. That honour is accorded to, in the first event, Black Crow 👺, whom I (tarandus) puncht alongside courser Gock (Harlez)!:

And, once again, along with the usual Yāosēngs & al., we did some 2nasing! This time, with another cursor by the name of littner, & a bishop by the name of harpsalm! Having a bishop meant that I wasn’t on indefinite barrol binch duty during stage 1, & instead I attact the Dunit:

But I still had to do quite a bit of yoinmking to keep the ’bot from drifting too close to its master. What can you do.

Stage 2 was, not unexpectedly, similar: harpsalm aggro’d the Imperial Guards to keep them at bay, & I also had to bully Doonas quite a bit to keep him from wandering around & stinccing up the place:

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

[system message]: You’ve been slowed, so your movement speed has been decreased.

harpsalm: th[at’s] good to know
gonna test ur theory
ima be generous and give em till 47 [minutes portion] on timer

What “theory”? Well, harpsalm was gonna take a trip to the LMR right quick, & figured that he could AFK without fear of the Imperials deäggroïng in the meantime. Gock warned that the Guards would deäggro every minute or so — this was the theory. In practice, I think the deäggroïng might or might not’ve taken more than 60⁢ s (I couldn’t see that far to the right-hand side of the map), but it was definitely a short enough time to get the Guards to wander over to us well before harpsalm arrived back from the LMR excursion. Oop!

In any case, after an unfortunate but recoverable death from littner as a result of the classic “looking away from the screen for a few seconds”, we defeated Dunas II:

Wowie! Level 178~! Now I’m finally no longer penalised for being below Quorb Lays’s level…

💜

(…cnvpstdf…)

cnvpstdf

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Unnecessary bit at the end

There are no pictures in here

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Allow me to make myself clear:

1. I don’t like expressing negative emotions & experiences in my writing. I’ve experimented with it on sporadic occasion, & the result is typically little more than an exercise in self-humiliation & self-misrepresentation.
2. I disbelieve in the general usefulness of the notions of “nerf”, “buff”, &c. (as evidenced by one of my essays being dedicated to this theme), & I’m likewise not heavily invested in the absolute “strength” or “weakness” (notwithstanding whatever this might actually mean) of my PCs apart from my in-game efforts to improve them.
3. I’ve a high tolerance for bullshit, as evidenced by my continued lengthy history with MapleL5s.
4. High tolerance isn’t the same as unlimited tolerance. I’ve a finite tolerance for the very essences of MapleStories being eviscerated by gamerboys under such specious excuses as “engagement”, “metagame”, “balance”, & the other usual suspects.
5. There’s nothing more that I can usefully say in defence of MapleStory. If, for some reason unknowable to mere mortals, someone wanted to understand my reasoning on the subject, then they could read one of the various essays that I’ve written (&c.…). If my writings are so esoteric as to defy comprehension, or so lengthy as to defy attention, then tant pis.
6. I’ve mixed feelings about the secularly increasing amounts of digital/virtual self-debasement required to play my PCs — the source of the admixture being evidenced by the love demonstrated in my diary.
7. I’m still here.