First published on 2025-12-16.

rangifer’s diary: pt. cxliv: RevivalStory is my favourite rebirth server

Look. I can explain.

I now know that I don’t wanna play an archer unless sits a woodsman @ the Verrill East, if not a full-blown logger or, Cody forbid, a bowwhacker (F6?). It Hz my boanz. So pudella (unpopular, stinccy, grean, has heaps of DEX for some reason) must be replaced by pudella (🆒, fashionable, not grene, has a reasonable amount of DEX). It’s difficult to discern the subtle difference in spelling, but don’t worry; I deleted the fr∗cking h∗ck out of the old one anyway. Byeeeeeeee~

I figure, between pudella (🆕) and pudu, I’ll prolly get at least one to The Third Flight eventually, at which point I can finally play cheaph banned it. With plenty of LUK — “MISS”-ability, please! — and plenty of daggers. If I don’t get to use Band of Teeths and Ass-Salter I’mma just delete my char. Yeah. I can play any job I want. Especially if it’s some real stabby sh∗t, apparently.

Also I read Cigu’s Guide to Becoming an OK Chief Bandit and therefore had no choice but to make a dit. No, really, it’s that good. Read it.

I know what you’re thinking: “But didn’t you just make a normie-job’d char and regret it? Do you really need a new char every time you play with whoëver [= Muggle/Rift] happens to be around for a while? Do you even know what you’re doing anymore? Do you need an intervention? Will Western philosophy ever relinquish its various disguised forms of mind–body dualism?”

I’m glad you asct ’cause these are jus the kinda questions the voices in my head are constantly asking me so I have an answer prepared for you already: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The 1^st phew

Anyway. This time, I spent upwards of half an hour at a map called, not for no reason, Dangerous Forest, wherein I cycled between extremely intense Orshroomb-battling and extremely patient HP-recovery via standing perfectly still.

Level 8 pudella patiently recovering HP by standing perfectly still @ Dangerous Forest — [*crickets*]

Fret not — I got the h∗cking Frute Nife (yes!!!).

Okay time to ~~knife-advance~~ job-advance.

pudella makes her way through the L Forest & to the Thieves’ Hideout — Record time. (Excepting the Dangerous Forest bit.)

💡 Did you know? The GMS beta version (also used by RS) of the thief job-instructor’s name, Dark Road, and the later version, Dark Lord, are both wrong. His actual name is Dank Roared,^[3] thanks to his bong-rip-roaring success growing famously sticky cannabis and selling it at the local jazz fusion pub.

Now that I’m not a stinccy bowperson (💩), it’s time to go to Hennessy’s Hunky Grouse I anyway. I got some speebrunnin’ to do so I can ketchup with Rift.

pudella hits level 12 @ HHGI — On second thought, if I really needed ketchup, I shoulda job-advanced with Hines^® instead. Welp. Tool 8‐4 that.

Aside from being a good source of EXP & a decent mix of questical miscellanea, Hungry Hungry Giraffes 1 was also where I met a certain HijāzKār,^[1] a kamānche player, vocalist, & noobgician.

pudella, HijazKar, & Rift @ HHGI — Ah yes, the three components of any good *āvāz*: stringed instruments, singing, & Energy Bolt.

Once I had enough questational et-cetera’s to escape the orbit of Brooce’s accursèd goatee, my FRAP-ing instincts took hold. I needed to do zoomies. You understand.

I am the worst speedrunner of all time — Or maybe you don’t…

Up to this point, in my mind, taxicab rides were luxury goods. I ain’t ritch like that, and if I keep Del ⌦⁠ing my characters and remaking them, I never will be. Either that, or I’ll take pretty much any excuse I can get to wander about Tori Island by hoof. Could be either one.

But this is srs bsns. I’m s’posta be sbeebrunning here.

pudella’s first taxi ride rips through West Rocky Mountain I

💡 Did you know? Most of the ≈1k fare you pay per taxi ride goes towards cleaning the monster guts off the vehicle.

Fear not. I made it hear all in won peace.

HijazKar & pudella @ Perion Street Corner

pudella hits level 15 @ Perion Street Corner

New! flavour: pudella Red™ (Tastes just like long-wavelength visible radiation!^®)

I decided that lev elf if tene (➊➎) was a good revel to undergo wardrobely thiefification, knot the leased of witch was upgrading to the Feel Dagger.

The Feel Dagger is important mostly ’coz I knee dit to cut the h∗ck out of the colourful fuzzball thingies in The Deep 4issed of Patients ⟨Stepped Ooh⟩ before they bludgeon the h∗ck out of my crimson self.

HijazKar & pudella take on The Deep Forest of Patience ⟨Step 2⟩

pudella Double-Stabs a fuzzball to death @ The Deep Forest of Patience ⟨Step 2⟩ — It’s good meso, but I only get 8⁢ EXP and I’m unsure what to do with the Deep Red Forest Furball. If you know a quest or something that it’s used for, please do drop me a line.

After my Patience with Deep Forestry ran thin, I flew to Grushtree to do CMXCIX Necēs with Rift.

pudella @ Dungeon, Southern Forest III

Wants we were finisht, we discovered that The Rememberer’s career in con artistry began quite early.

600⁢ EXP

Transcription of the above

Rift: wow
600⁢ exp for 999 quest
thats dogshit
at least make it 1⁢ exp per kill
thats wild

pudella: LOL
true hahaha

Rift: how fucking shameful

pudella: is it worse than getting scammed by the rememberer
when he takes bob’s shell

Rift: yeah cause i dont read the dialogue

Mutch like pudella, pudella has little issue with Bubby Rings & their precious Bubble Things.

pudella vs. Bubblings @ Line 1 ⟨Area 1⟩

💡 Did you know? In fact, pudella is at an advantage over pudella because she’s red. As is well-known, read is the archnemesis of blew, so I take additional damage but, in exchange, deal an equal & opposite amount of damage back to the Bubblings. That’s just Newton’s third law.

Bye þis poynte, the kvests I had leffed were either long-term nonsense quests (Mrs. Ming Ming’s Second Worry, I’m looking @ u) or ones that Rift had also yet to do. But I was still too or tree levels Rift’s junior, so it was thyme to do what I do bessed: The Big Peach.

pudella hits level 20 @ The Pig Beach — 💪🏽 Big Peach, big levols. 💪🏽

pudella hits level 21 @ The Pig Beach — 💪🏽 Big Peach, big levols. 💪🏽

With which I collected, mite eye seigh, quite a few Wooden Mallets.

pudella’s collection of three Wooden Mallets

💡 Did you know? Pigs have so many Wooden Mallets because they’re great fans of croquet. In fact, they’re so good at it that the 1900 Summer Olympics would be the last Olympic appearance of the sport simply because the human participants were too embarrassed by their overwhelming porcine defeat.

Swine no doubt fear me at this r8, but the reel tessed is overcoming the Thicket Troll (again).

pudella slays Mano — Go on, get. I don’t wanna see your snayle trayle round these parts ever again. [*blows away smoke coming from dagger blade*]

Rift was bacc in town, so we decided to get our Octopus Leggings outta the way. Or rather, into the way. So that we can pick ’em up. Sounds like a plan.

Naturally, the easiest way to find a heap of Octopodes is to scamper our Pampers^® on over to the nearest urban construction site.

Rift & pudella vs. Octopodes @ Kerning City Construction Site

💡 Did you know? As lusus naturae of the abyss, Octopodes thrive on chaos & discord — hence their natural affinity for urbanisation. Unfortunately, urbanisation tends to happen on land, so the Octopodes have had to adapt. That’s why they, for example, wear leggings: otherwise, their tender legly flesh would quickly dry out.

Speaking of construction sites, we decided to head on down to an underground one so we could engage in X-treme competitive parkour.

pudella & Rift taking on the B1 JQ

Rift & pudella both fall down at the same time — Both contestants fall and *the crowd goes bananas!!*

In the end, it was a photo finish, so we both got the prize: grinding Bubblings in an abandoned heavy rail car.

pudella hits level 22 @ B1 ⟨Subway Depot⟩

After a while, however, we came to the realisation that identifying monster species by hue alone isn’t quite as accurate as we thaw tit ’twas. What we actually needed were not Bubbollings, but rather, Blushroombs. Their names don’t help either, ’caws all I see are a bunch of ⟨b⟩s, ⟨l⟩s, & ⟨u⟩s, and that spells blew as far as I’m concerned.

On the bright side, at least Blushroombs are easy to fined, on account of their all hanging out at the same spot.

pudella & Rift @ The Blue Mushroom Forest — Look at how positively thrilled that Blushroomb is to be Slash Blasted.

At first I thought it was perhaps some property of the soil, but it seems normal to me. Maybe they all fraternise amongst themselves here because they’re plotting something…

💡 Did you know? Blushroombs never leave The Blushroomb Forest because they can’t figure out how. Most monsters haven’t learnt how to use portals. Jrog has, however, and he’s coming for you. Run.

Speaking of plotting something, it’s time to revisit Utah’s Super-Ribbon-Pig Breeding Farm to set down some marbles that he’ll trip over, and then pilfer all his books whilst he’s down.

pudella doing the “Camila’s Gem” JQ

💡 Did you know? Utah is selectively breeding Super Ribbon-Pigs on his secret farm with the intent of eventually splicing their DNA into his own so that he can be the first human to achieve powers of unassisted flight. All this based on a misunderstanding of the phrase when pigs fly.

pudella gets the Pig Illustrated — Heist: success. I’m a real thief now.

Once I had my fair share of beating up mad scientists, I jointed Rift in his quessed to eliminate Hushies & Zushies from this whirled. As it happened, there were exactly 1098 of each species left standing, so it was up to us to locc tf in & mow down 2196 fr∗∗kin’ sporocarps.

Rift & pudella grinding 1098⁢ Hushies & 1098⁢ Zushies

💡 Did you know? The Anne Tunnel is named for Anne E. Buddy, a benevolent witch who, on one fateful day, created the tunnels when she wisht upon a star that the mushroombs too had a place to go when they die.

pudella hits level 25 in the Ant Tunnels

Sudden spark chain kick split cross time thirty less one

All right let’s see them levol XXV accoutrements.

pudella’s fresh level 25 look — Like my new hat? I stole it from the local aviation museum. Hopefully it doesn’t have too much asbestos or whatever.

I know, it’s disappointing. I was so red! So colour-coördin8ed! Gimme a sec. You’ll sea.

But not yet. To thief the teeth of Whiled Boards I shall need to venture to more-or-less the opposite of the sea: the xeric highlands of Perry Yawn.

pudella @ The Land of Wild Boar II

💡 Did you know? Perion is so torrid that if you don’t hydrate & moisturise properly, your EXP will perspire through your skin! EPH in Perion’s best maps is regularly underestimated for precisely this reason. The greenish-yellow colour of EXP has given rise to the popular saying: if you forget, you’ll yellow sweat!

While Boreds are, as is well-known, as vain as they are clumsy. After sweeping up so many smithereens of their hoof-held mirrors, I brought the shards back to Curning’s Sitty, where I donated them to a random hospital patient so that she had something crunmchy to eat.

pudella hits level 26 @ Naora Hospital — No need to thank me. Jus doin’ what I can.

Now that I was level 13 again again (= level 26), I slapt on a couple o’ fashioner-bowl sneakers I got at the op shop down in Heneses and promptly sprinted to the tippy-top of Speepywould where I wood enlist the assistance of Rift in the service of slaying more Nècquis Jeunes than have ever spawned in the history of the Maple World.

pudella hits level 27 @ Damp Forest after collecting 14508 Jr. Necki Skins — Not sure how the maffs works out, but that’s just what happened.

💡 Did you know? Unfortunately, the exceptionally high humidity and relatively low temperatures of Damp Forest do not conversely increase EPH.

Having suffered slightly more than long enough in the № 1 snake map in the game that paradoxically doesn’t actually have that many sneyx, I decided to treat myself. Specifically, treat myself to like an hour of AFKing whilst I took the ship from L. Linnia to Oar Biss & bac again.

Wherefore, you axe? Lo & behold…

pudella makeover — ^[17] I know — the resemblance is uncanny. I made sure to include my nametag in the screenshot so you’d know which one is me.

Original promo artwork for the thief archetype ✜ — ^[17] I know — the resemblance is uncanny. I made sure to include my nametag in the screenshot so you’d know which one is me.

Not as overtly 🔥sexy🔥 as the red fit, but I like the chaotic, asymmetric punky vibe better anyway and I think you’ll agree that pudella has never lookt 🆒⁠er (and, it seems, never will again). A good semi-NX look is a thing of beauty — no wonder people always seem to want anvils (or whatever the doohickey is called that lets you make cosmetic clones of ordinary equips).

Enuf fashioneering for now. I may have ground Big Peaches for two levels already but Riffed did knot, sew its thyme two meat hymn they’re.

Meeting IGN HHG1 @ HHG1

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

pudella: hihi

HHG1: yo

pudella: is this your map?

HHG1: nah i just chill here

pudella: or does that stand for

HHG1: i dont leave actually

pudella: His Highness Greg The First

His Highneſs Greg I ſteps down from His throne

HHG1 later whispered me, thinking he might’ve recognised my name, and so I learnt that he’s also a gish! And he has a DEX dagger warrior too, but I’m unsure of the IGN. Very kewl.

In any case, I arrived at The Fig Veech punctually (phewph!) and Rift saw my new look for the first time, whereupon he accused me of hoarderliness.

Rift & pudella @ The Pig Beach (Rift: nx hoarder) — You know me. A cranky old NX miser.

Once we had enough 🐷⁠s to start up a modest headery (or whatever a store that sells Pig’s Heads is called), we decided that the next move was to stare longingly at some bats in an underground tunnel,^[4] piously wishing that our slender daggers could perhaps make contact with the slippery chiropterans.

pudella @ Transfer Area — [*the sound of whiffing echoes in the distance*]

💡 Did you know? Her Serene Highness Naora Kerning VIII (≝ Princess Naora) accidentally unleasht Stirges upon Kerning City one day when she kissed^[5] a sturgeon (hence the name), as part of a campaign to find herself a handsome prince. Unfortunately for her, the malevolent witch Eve Vill Intent (≝ E. Vill I.) had not been turning handsome princes into frogs & fish, but had merely been transmogrifying her latest abominable creations into (semi)aquatic creatures as a kind of disposal method.

My modest snake & bat collexion was enuph to plese Lucas (who now goes by Luke, to avoid confusion with Amherst’s mayor), for which I was awarded a modest Emerald jewel.

Emerald: A green jewel. — I know what you’re thinking: “Wowww nearly 200k⁢ mesos richhhh 🤑 fund me deer Gates”. Unfortunately for you I only accept grant applications in nicely-formatted PDFs via email and my only business hours are on the 37^th of the month (the 38^th on leap years).

Certainly completing Luke’s quest is confirmation that we’re mightily advanced First-Flighters who might even be close to taking The Second Flight. But we won’t know for sure unless we can pass The E. Vill I. Test™.

pudella on the way to Ant Tunnel Park

Rift & pudella @ The Cave of Evil Eye I

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

Rift: im apprehensive
these guys
are tanky

pudella: theyre mean

Eavilise are wickèd indeed. The question is: are they wickèd mean, or wickèd sick?

Rift & pudella vs. Evil Eyes @ CoEEI — Conclusion: Pretty 🆒 I guess, so more the latter.

💡 Did you know? The teeth of each row of an Evil Eye’s dentition are perfectly sized according to a pentatonic scale, leading to their use in marimba-like instruments known as Evil Eyediophones. Evil Eyediophones are a staple of the native Sleepywood musical tradition (in which they’re called ꤰꥈꥁꥎ ꤽꥋꤵꥎꤳ꥓), and more recently have been adopted by some jazz fusion musicians in Kerning City.

It seams I was 2 quic 2 disparage the Evil Eyes as “mean”, because the real meanieheads are, naturally enough, the Boogers Junior. LUKily for us, I wield a secret weapon.

Introducing: the Disorder skill — I’ve taken a Leaf out of the Octopodes’ book and now I, too, thrive on chaos & Disorder.

And that pretty much wraps up the pre-level-thirty kvestiges that there are to kvest, so it’s time to cash in for some 🆕 ⚙️.

Silver Chain Boots — Courtesy of Nella’s finyl requessed. Not the most amazing b00tz I’ve ever beheld, but they’ll nevertheless become semipermanently attached to my feat as soon as I macs Haste.

Red Cross Earrings — Pictured: Me getting actively & intentionally scammed by Alex (the Runaway 🐐), leaving me level-30-earringless & vulnerable to all manner of magickal volleys.

Now that we were un“quest”ioned, we needed somewhere & somehow to groind. On this matter our instincts were in concord: it’s LoWBII (≝ They’ll & of Whiled Bore To) time.

Although this was enough to thrust Rift into levol thurdy, I only made it to twenny nyne before I inadvertently took an impromptu nap. Wile Boards evidently have no mercy for reposers, and proceeded to fatally bulldoze my still-dozing body directly into an untimely grave.

Press OK to be revived. Once you have revived, you will be sent to a safe town nearby.

💡 Did you know? Wild Boars are called Wild to contrast them with Iron Hogs, who are valued customers of the Perion armoury and therefore cannot really be called “wild”.

My “big sleep” having yoten me back to level twenny ate (basically the dark ages), the only brane activity I had left in me was to show Rift & Avishay how to do the weird foothold jank teleport thingy just above the entrance to the Perion munitions shoppe.

Rift, Avishay, & pudella doing the weird foothold teleport thingy (Rift: LOL) — If you’re *really* good, you can do a littol jump with it and briefly achieve flight.

The Second Fight

The next day, refresht by a sleep undisturbed by untamed suids, the task set before me was to catch even upperer with Rift.

You know me: I’ll always take a jump-type quest if I can get it. Rift, on the other hand, insisted that the Ellinia Jake Use were simply not worth the sanity debuff (a dreadful debuff that not even All Cure Potions can cure). I guess it’s just me, then.

pudella does the first Ellinia JQ — You’re welcome, Sabby. Be sure to hit me up if you’re ever offering free samples.

Regrettably, the While Boreds really did a number on me, so a pile of pudella wasn’t enough to get me to rebel thirty. Cigu’s guide recommends Ex-Vacation Site Free (≝ ESIII) at this level, and I’m already on Vicky Island, so…

pudella hits level 30 @ Excavation Site III — Site: Excavated. Level: 30. Persuasion: ~~Rouge~~ Rogue.

After nabbing a Leaf Claw from the local cutler’s, The Second Flight was scheduled for takeoff. 👩🏽‍🚀

pudella @ Thief’s Construction Site

💡 Did you know? The monsters at Thief’s Construction Site are unusually weak because they are, in truth, different species that’ve been equipt with costumes by Thief Job Instructor. Cold Eye 2 is actually just a Curse Eye doused in bleach, and Blue Mushroomb 2 is actually just an Orshroomb painted blue and hyped up on stims.

Now that I’d proved my wurf by defeating very real Coal Dyes, Dank Roared was more than willing to give me a promo.

pudella advances to bandit (Dark Road: Alright from here on out you’re the.) — [2nd Job] Congratulations to pudella on becoming The!

Awll righty. Time to take my epically game-changing new 2^nd-job skill for a spin.

pudella using Haste for the first time — 速 “fast; speed” > MSM sù, Ko 속.^[6]

Wow. Ten (10) whole seconds of moving unnoticeably faster. I love being banned it.

Dizzy

The next day, I found that Rift had undergone yet another metamorphosis. Taking the next step in the endless circular wandering of transmigration, he reëmerged as Dizz (XVII^th of his name) once again — but this time, moar ironical.

Being a member of the mythic ironginner species (Inceptor ferreus), Dizz would hafter grind for his own equipment. Given that RS has the Maroon Mop, the big question is: how get?

Mander Squellies

Transcription of the above

Dizz: commander skeletons drop maroon mops

pudella: oh damb
is it ok if i call them mander squellies

Dizz: lol

pudella: is that a no
ok im taking it as a no

Dizz: as long as u dont acronymize it

pudella: oh ok
yeah i would never call them MSes
MS means meipeul seutori

Although it’s good to see that Maroon Mops drop from an ordinary monster species year-round, Mander Squellies are bad news. Those guys are tuff — and I don’t mean E. Vill I.’s tuff, I mean Endgame McBigboi™ levels of tuffness.

And not for no reason. Rift found one for a measly 10k in the FM, which I briefly had the privilege of holding in my inventory (not my hands, since I meet 0/3 requirements):

💡 Did you know? The Maroon Mop was originally maroon, but its colour had to be changed because it looked insufficiently unlike a blood-soaked mop to get past PRC censors for CMS. For reference, here’s the original:

And that’s an under-average one!!^[9] The decision to lower the weapon speed category from IX to V (maybe IV, I can’t tell) means that this is no mere Mopginner server; it’s, like, a turbo-Mopginner server. Wowie. Unfortunately this obliterates one of the things that originally defined the Maroon Mop — strikes infrequently, yet hits hard when it does — but I guess it doesn’t matter quite as much when it has zero (0) competitors.

Anyway, none of this changes the fact of Dizz’s ferricity. Wanting to take maximum advantage of May Pole Eye Land’s unreasonably dense spawns of low-level monsters, Dizz didn’t set sail to Vicky until like level 20, so for now he remains a presence in my oranj chat.

Super serious sewer-centric suffering

I was loitering around the Quirning sewers, as I am wont to do (maybe that explains my “distinctive” fragrance), when I was unexpectedly suct into a KPQ party by HijāzKār, Avishay, & Celiaclaire.

Celiaclaire, Avishay, HijazKar, & pudella @ KPQ stage 1

💡 Did you know? If anyone ever asks you if you want to “party” in a sewer with some alligators for the “experience” and a chance of finding some “precious gems” & “expensive drugs”, you should say no. Unless there are scantily-clad women there, of course; then you know it’s just good ol’ KPQ.

Unfortunately, it turnd out that we wurnt very good at Capey Cue (≝ CC, hence CC plz meaning “let’s run Capey Cue, shall we?”). The 2^nd stage only has four (4) ropes, and we still managed to get it ❌ wrong.

Stage 2 WRONG — Welp. Guess we gotta start all over again from stage 1. Let’s get movin’, folks.

Eventually — if you can believe it — we made it all the way to the 4^th staydge… and got that one wrong, too. HijāzKār was not amused.

Stage 4 WRONG (Cloto: The difficulty of the problem depends on how you relate to one another.) — If what Cloto’s saying is true, then I guess we just have no interpersonal compatibility. On the bright side, now I know that KPQ is capable of doubling as an online dating service.

As time wore on, the situation grew tenser. HijāzKār lasht out at Avishay — formerly his friend.

Avishay levels up — Avishay staying strong

After hours of tyreless barrol mathematix, we finally made it to the ultimate boss of Curning’s Itty: His Imperial Majesty Slime VII, King of Despair.

HijazKar, Celiaclaire, Avishay, & pudella vs. King Slime — At least we’re pretty good at this part.

💡 Did you know? Being king of the Swamp of Despair might sound pretty bad, but at least it’s not the Slough of Despond.

It weren’t pretty, but we did it. Kerning City can rest easy knowing that we vanquisht King Slime. Forever. Five-ever, even. 😌

(Note: The above is a fictionalised account. All involved are nice people who are perfectly competent at KPQ’s 4^th stage.)

One Grushie, 2 147 483 647⁢ HP

Now that King Slime was deleted as h∗ck and therefore KPQ was no more, I was forced to revert to my old waze: Henchy Hunchy Grounds Won.

Dizz, pudella, & Vajra @ HHGI (Dizz: hii)

As you can see, Dizz finally escaped 🍁 🏝️ at the modest level of 2X, and we’ve encountered a fellow n3vvb of the thiefly creed by the name of Vajra.

In light of King Slime’s irremediable defeat, it seems that the spirit of bossiness nevertheless persists, always finding a corporeal form to inhabit.

The Final Boss of Henesys Hunting Grounds

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

Vajra: this green mushroom
has like 2000⁢ HP
come here lol

pudella: wut

Vajra: LOL
fking miniboss mushroom

pudella: it has infinite hp!!

Vajra: O_O
the final boss
of hhg
that green mushroom is the one with the panlid
thats why its got infinite hp

Mayhap some mysteries are best left ~~unsolved~~ undefeated. But I’ll be damd if we didn’t chry anyweigh.

The Grushie boss increases in size eightfold and slays Vajra, pudella, & a Stump

`royal_succ()`

Other mysteries, however, really oughta be lade to ressed. Like the mystery of how King Slime came back from the swampy grave in which we definitely super buried him like yesterday. Hwot givz?

In a bid to assassinate HIM Slime ~~VII~~ VIII, King of Despair, we joind phorces as a party of three — Dizz included. Irreversible as deïroning may be, it’s worth it if it means dethroning HIM Slime for good for good. Also something about Maroon Mops and being stuck at The Blue Mushroomb Forest literally forever because ironginners simply cannot get very much WDef.^[7]

Vajra, Dizz, & pudella vs. KPQ’s 1st stage

Clearly our chemistry was much better than that of the lassed time I was here @ the Gurning Bardy Gwezd, ’cause we clear’d the 2^nd stage on the 1^st try.

Stage 2 CLEAR — For our exemplary performance, we’ve been awarded temporary yelloe-grean bubbols that protecc us from the psychical damage we’re about to sustain from failing stage 3 and having to start all over again.

And with that, we slew every last 1 of King Slime’s goons — snek & urodele alike — before definitively taking care of the gelatinous monarch himself.

Dizz, Vajra, & pudella vs. King Slime

💡 Did you know? The jelly-sphere-capped antennae of Slimes evolved in the capacity of Slime-to-Slime communication. Although Slimes are capable of telegraphing messages amongst themselves, nowadays they typically prefer to use their antennae to tune in to local radio stations. Due to the Slimes’ status as important patrons of radio drama, Kerning City stations often play so-called Slime operas (the term is sometimes derogatory) continuously during the “after hours” timeslots.

Remember how my entire character progression was deliberately sabotaged by Alex when he plotted to awoared me level 25 earrings for his kwessed? Well imagine his chagrin when he lays I’s upon thease bad bois I scoopt from King Slime’s definitely 100% lifeless remains:

pudella: oo emerald ears! — Mmm-hm! Who’s laffing now?

I h8 2 brake it 2 u, but at this point, we came to realise that King Slime was irrepressible. All we were doing when we slew him was laying the groundwork for HIM Slime IX or whichever one comes next. As it turns out, royal descent is pretty easy when you reproduce asexually. Maybe the ol’ Habbies shoulda thoughta that.

Having said that, I am technically an antimonarchist (in the same way that hydrogen fluoride is technically not a nutritive beverage) so I don’t mind a few more rounds of regicide.

However, the entry to Keigh Peak Ewe is quite a smol sewer gr8, and any1 over level 30 is 2 tawl 2 make it thru. To avoid acquiring any unacceptable altitudinous adjustments, I used the ~~@altitudeanchor~~ @toggleexp command:

@toggleexp — My lord, what an absolute champion of a command. MapleL5s, for all its failures, has vastly higher QoL than RS overall, but even ML can’t figure out how to implement this command — either because they keep hiring people for Balance Team™ instead of development, or because the command would be too useful for permabeginners. Either way, *Balance Team strikes again*^®.

As you can see, announcing that I was gonna turn off my EXP turn doubt to be unnecessary, because this command basically does so for you.

Anyway, eventually we got to HIM Slime LXIX or whatever and the whole thing started to wear a littol thin.

Go, Stump, go!

Dizz previewing wigs @ Kerning City Hair Salon (Dizz: lol / pudella: ahaha) — Blowing off some steam at the local hare salon where anyone can try on four of Kerning’s hottest wigs

💡 Did you know? Ever since The Great Baldening of 256 AA, all MapleStory characters have, strictly speaking, been 100% bald. That’s why getting a haircut or dyeing your hair is instant: they’re all wigs anyway. Also, have you ever seen Maple body hair? Me neither.

Dizz was still lagging a few levels behind me, so I figured he might wanna KPQ some more l8r, whenever Vajra or some folk else were a vale-a-bowl. I therefore made a point of disabling my EXP when we decided to hit up the Excavation at First Sight.

pudella & Dizz @ Excavation Site I

💡 Did you know? Ghost Stumps have large mouths because they’re often needed to diplomatically settle disputes between Wooden Masks & Rocky Masks. That’s why it’s called arbourtration.

I won’t lye, I prolly lossed upwards of a hole levol @ this map alone due to @toggleexp. With grate power (i.e. the power to enter KPQ sewer grates) comes grate responsibility, and I disk-hovered 2 l8 that Dizz didn’t reed my message about disabling EXP gain. Let’s just go back to normal.

pudella hits level 31 @ ESI — This Mapler Found One Weird Command That Makes You Instantly Level Up (Rankings Enthusiasts Hate Her!)

Thinking we were pretty 🆒, we ventured further to ſeech a grynden ſpotte. Since we were at the First Sight just now, the next logical step must be the Second Sight… right? But I’m not sure that it’s even real. There are rumours of a Second Sight, but others say it’s just another name for the weird thing you pass through to get from the First Sight to the Third Sight. Either way, there’s something not quite rite about the number two (2) (٢) (둘), so it’s bessed ~~two~~ to jussed avoid it.

pudella & Dizz try out Excavation Site III — Dizz gets a li’l “safespot” where the Masx can be boopt from the right-hand end of the middle layer.
(feat. **Kori** the legendary Excav Site 3 statue 🗽)

But the thyme is not ripe for Dizz & the Rocky Masques. Soon enough would they form a loving union (and put out a self-titled album), but for now they need a littol space. Let us back to Sight the First.

pudella hits level 32 @ Excavation Site I

Perhaps unexpectedly, Gostumps hit even harder than Wasks do, if not as hard as Rasks.

R.I.P. Dizz (Dizz: dam) — R.I.P. Dizz (2025〜2025) 🪦

Thankfully, Dizz is a beginner, and 1’s life can’t end if it’s yet to begin, so he doesn’t looze EXP nor is there a mess to clean up. ✨

ESI vs. GS1

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pudella: i feel like this is an impt map
can we call it ESI 🥺

Dizz: huh

pudella: its an important map i feel liek [sic] it deserves an abbreviation

Dizz: lets make it rly confusing and call it GS for ghost stumps

pudella: LMAO

Dizz: and GS1 if we wanna be specific
since its exc site 1

pudella: pls

Dizz: :D
“come gs1 hurry”

pudella: R>GS1 [2/6]

Indede, GS1 is an important map, knot only as a soarse of ruffly level 23〜30 EXP, but more kroosholy as an “over-all” soarse of 🌟DEX 60%s🌟. Butt wheel get bacque to that.

I will say, howe’er, that between my more-than-nonexistent need for HP-restorative draughts, and my level 20 Double’s Tab penalising me for a whopping five (𝍸) MP — per stab, so ten (𝍸𝍸) per Dubbol Stab — I was perhaps “in the red” mesowise. To help keep me aflote, Dizz offer’d to cell me the Bloop Oceans he was lewting, cints beginners are allergic to the ocean anyway.

Buying 189⁢ Blue Potions from Dizz — *Bloop!*

💡 Did you know? Permabeginners are allergic to the ocean because they have repressed trauma concerning the irreversible boat ride from Southperry to Lith Harbour. Hence why so many choose the islander life.

You can no doubt imagine my ~~pheasant 🦚~~ pleasant surprise, then, whenever I found an Equip item, irrespective of weather I could ware it tore knot (and irrespective of the weather in general, I s’pose).

pudella: GLUB — Pictured: Ocean 🌊 Mesana (clearly not a beginner-friendly glove) & Miffryl Viking Elm 🌳

pudella: hatte! — Pictured: Ocean 🌊 Mesana (clearly not a beginner-friendly glove) & Miffryl Viking Elm 🌳

At this moment, Dizz felt confident enuph to go bacc to safespotting the Rasks of ESIII, so we finally moved house more-or-less permanently.

pudella hits level 33 @ ESIII — Soam any revels. 🆙

Now that weed bin ESIII’d for a while now, we were looking 👀 for any sauce of Enter ⌅⁠🚆⁠mint. Maybe the Thamk’s Given spirit has sumfin to offer…?

Dizz gets a Pilgrim Hat — Dizz lookin’ about ready to diss-scent from the C of E, take a Pilgrimage to Cape Cod, and die come first winter

Well that was fun. Ennywaze, time for more suffering.

Level 36

Transcending poverty forever

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Are you sure you want to enter the realm of exchange? This choice is irreversible and may become a source of limitless regret.

By pressing “OK”, you agree to being spoilt and never having to worry about affording potions ever again.

My œconomick suffering would, however, be entirely lifted the instant I set foote in the Effem. For starters, pea pole are simply 2kind2me.

MP donation from Gunner (pudella: oh ty!!) — Immediately being showered with more Man-a-Licksers than I know what to do with, courtesy of **Gunner**. Thank you!

And then there’s the whole thing where I can venned stuff from my stoar.

pudella’s player store: b>lv25+ dit stuff (: — ^[8] Now my U’s inventory is relieved of Useless scrolls, *and* I’m literally a millionaire. 💰💰💰

In some waze, being restricted to player-stores (to the exclusion of hired merchants) is kinda cute: it’s a more claſſicker vibe, and you get to see everyone & their “Character Info” windows & stuff. On the other hanned, it is a bit silly, not to say impractical, to have to keep your client — and therefore also computer, internet connexion, etc. — at 100.0% uptime for the entire duration of your store, during which time you also cannot, you know, actually play the game!

Posh 🧐 ESIII

But I’d eye gress. Let’s get back to ESIII, shall’st’d’ve’ll we? This time joint by ࿅!

Vajra, pudella, & Dizz @ ESIII

💡 Did you know? Tobi Throwing-Stars are named in honour of Tobias Sure E. Ken, inventor of throwing-stars.

pudella hits level 37 @ ESIII (pudella: nice)

Level 38

Since I’m not here @ ESIII for the l00tz & I’m richer than Croesus anyway, I’m not really keeping traque of my drops. This one, however, will make a fassionable annex to my outfit:

A Silver Sylvia drops!

Silver Sylvia

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Silver Sylvia

Req lev : 30
Req LUK : 80
[Req archetype] : thief
Category : glove
LUK : +1
Weapon def. : 11
Number of upgrades available : 5

Not the gr8est teef glub of all thyme — in fact it’s a precise glovely analogue of the Silver Chane B00tz I got earlier — but it’ll do for now. Better than slapping psychedelically-coloured Work Glubs onto my wrists all William Nilliam.

The Fiery Fields

By now, we were more than reddie for the more mint of troof: Dizz’s XXXVI^th leuell. That’s The Mop Level™, in case you forgor.

Dizz uses the Maroon Mop for the first time, dealing 1501 damage to a Rocky Mask — Raw damage range before & after

Now that is a devastating amount of damnage. I thinc Dizz does more damnage than me @ this r8.

Surely, with such a massive up-greyed, we could move on to greaner pashchurz. And by “greener”, I actually mean 🔥redder🔥.

Dizz & pudella enter the Burning Zone — Enter… *The Burning Zone*.

Dizz & pudella @ the top of The Burnt Land I — Welcome to tBLI!
Population: 2.

pudella vs. Fire Boars @ tBLI — Welcome to tBLI!
Population: 2.

💡 Did you know? The Fire Boar (Sus ignifer) came about when one day, a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) tried to eat a Firebomb. Although the Firebomb proved indigestible, the two formed a potent symbiosis: the Firebomb relieves the boar of most thermoregulatory duties and provides flamethrowing abilities, whereas the boar provides the Firebomb with its nutrition & shelter needs.

Over the course of many millennia, this Wild Boar population, isolated by the mountain range that delineates The Burnt Land, evolved a separate organ of their gastroïntestinal tract — typically called a firepaunch — dedicated to housing Firebombs. Firebombs can no longer be found in The Burnt Land independently of their Fire Boar hosts, as the symbiosis is now an obligate one.

As pictured above, Thee Bernd Lan Dwun is basically a giant horizontal map with a handful of annoyingly thicc stairs sprinkled in for good measure. The spawns aren’t bad, but considering that this seems to be widely understood as a grine’d spot — presumably there’s no better place to farmb Fire Boards — it’s certainly underwhelming.

Also, we had a fatality.

A Fire Boar tramples Dizz to death — The Burnt Beginner I (Level 36, 158⁢ STR, 0⁢ HP)

Nimble Hands

To be filed under the category “people being too kind to me”: Yubi (Shibi) hooking me (& Zino) tf up with a KFan & a fr∗∗king Nimbo Rissedgarred.

Yubi gifts KFans to pudella & Zino (Zino: :) ) — Thanmk!!!

Nimble Wristguard gift from Shibi — Thanmk!!!

Witness… the peak fit.

pudella’s first KFan + Wristguard outfit — Savour it now, ’cos I’ll be downgrading l8r.

pudella casts Haste to show the KFan’s surface — Savour it now, ’cos I’ll be downgrading l8r.

KFan & Nimble Wristguard stats

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Korean Fan (+6)

Req lev : 35
Category : dagger
Attack speed : fast [IV]
Weapon attack : 56
Accuracy : +5
Avoidability : +5
Number of upgrades available : 1

Nimble Wristguard

Req lev : 22
[Req archetype] : thief
Category : shield
STR : +2
Weapon def. : 19
Number of upgrades available : 7

You’ll notice I immediately skedaddled my paddle to the Famous Pharmacy^® to buy a cool half-dozen 100%s for the KFan. And I’m leaving one (1) slot open jussed ink ace……

The blue violence of Slender Wallace

As I was sauntering out of the pharmacy that upgraded my weapon for me (as pharmacies typically do), I was accosted by a strange man who praised my fan:

Rift shows up with a Burgernet Helm on — The Iron Burgernet Helm was new and covers everything from the necc up, so I didn’t realise it was just Riffed. Hopefully one day he can complete his otherwise full suit of metal armour by replacing the bathtowel & general shirtlessness.

💡 Did you know? Burgernet Helms are so called because they originated as thin hairnets used to keep people’s hair out of their hamburgers. Gradually, as it became clearer that it was the hair that needed protecting from burgers rather than the other way round, Burgernets took on more protective forms. Finally, after The Great Baldening of 256 AA (partially attributed by most Maple historians to the influence of hamburgers), the Burgernets’ original raison d’être was lost altogether, and they were repurposed as military armour.

Now that my fite-or-flite response had been activ8ed, we decided to make use of the adrenaline by speadrunning Syumi Mission II: Bundle Reclamation (codename: “Slender Wallace”) (I don’t know where Shumi gets these codenames from).

pudella @ B2 ⟨Area 1⟩

pudella @ B2 ⟨Area 2⟩

💡 Did you know? The lasers in B2 ⟨Area 2⟩ are easily powerful enough to blind you. If, however, you shine one of the red ones in your eye and, simultaneously, a blue one in the other, they cancel out and improve your vision instead. I tried it once and now I can see olo.

But now comes the salto mortale — the grand finale!

Just missed the portal but landed safely beneath it — …Clothes enough.

We tried taking on the Jr. Napkins @ the Sub Wade E. Poe, but Rift wasn’t havin’ a gr8 timer vit.

Rift & pudella vs. Jr. Wraiths @ B2 ⟨Subway Depot⟩ (Rift: fml)

In any case, now that Shumi’s Wallace was no longer Slender, we were induced to perform yet another level firdy ~~hop mission~~ jump kwest.

John calling my smartphone ✜ — [*ringtone*]

It’s John again, and this time he once some “Blue Violence”. I’m not sure what that means and the way he said it really made it seem like I was s’posta know, so we’re just gonna go to Speepywould like lassed time and hope it wurx out.

Rift & pudella @ The Deep Forest of Patience ⟨Step 3⟩ — The Deep Patience of the Forest ⟨Step III⟩ 🌲🧘🏽‍♀️🌲

pudella gets yoten by a sawblade — Okay ow. 😒

💡 Did you know? The sawblades in the Deep Forest of Patience are those of former lumberjacks who foolishly attempted to fell the sacred trees of The Dungeon. For this crime they were not only slain by the Forest, but their ghosts were sentenced to an eternity of moving their still-spinning sawblades back & forth to discourage any future attempts.

As it happens, Blue Violence blue violins are actually just litto blu flours. Given the name, I was hesitant to ~~pizzicato~~ pick them, but it was fine.

John was relieved to have them. He told me that he didn’t know what Bloove Yolas blue violas were either, but heard his wife mention them once. We love a happy ending.

Wreaker of retribution (+10)

Speaking of blew, I have another entry to file under “people being altogether too kind to me”: a Bluer Venger from Will, already pre-scrold wif 100%s‽

Blue Avenger (+10) from Will (pudella: tysm!!) — 🙏🏽

The astute reader may have noteist that so far, I haven’t shewn the stats of any gear having DEX reqs. That’s because they’ve been removed from all thief gear excepting weapons & (Dragon) Khanjars (i.e. from thief gear with 0⁢ WAtk average clean). This applies mutatis mutandis to other archetype-specific gear.

On this subject, Cigu’s guide writes “everything is an option now for every build”, which seems to imply that this change was intended to make thieves (& other relevant archetypes) nonnude, as it were, irrespective of build. It is as ever my sworn duty to point out that secondary-stat reqs on archetype-specific gear are, as befits their secondary status, always considerably smoller than accompanying primary-stat reqs — the latter of which remain unmodified in RS. So if the goal was to make “everything [] an option now for every build”, then only the smoller of the obstacles has been removed, leaving the larger one in full force (in this case: LUK reqs), making the actual logic unclear at best.

On the other hand we should note that hints in this general direction already existed in pre-BB retail MapleStories of any vintage. Warrior gear habitually lacks nonprimary-stat reqs altogether, although in this case the logic is obvious: warriors already have a more interesting WAcc dynamic. The only real parallel to RS’s approach, then, is the archer. Wizet never fully made up their minds as to whether archer-specific gear should have STR reqs: the Distinctions (level 40 hats), Bennis Chainmails (level 25 tops), Bennis Chainpants (level 25 bottom), Jack Boots (level 25 shoes), various other clothings of similar levels to the foregoing, and weapons all have $STR = level$ reqs, but everything else is mysteriously lacking in reqs other than DEX.

Whether the result is “balanced” I leave up to the reader’s judgement. The point is, I’ve just realised I’ve 70 base DEX for no apparent reason. 🥲

But stats are just stats (lame, not 🆒, nerds 🤓 only). The real problem, of course, is that I dunno how I feel about the new look.

pudella wearing the Blue Avenger

To be clear, I can tolerate having Seeable Boobs™. But if we’re being real I just went from scampish ne’er-do-well (🆒, roguish, punky, mysterious) to cosplaying as an astronaut(???) or something. Nevertheless +14⁢ DEX is nuffink 2 snease @, so I shall be wearing this blu boddysoote 4 the 4C-able phyoocher.

Especially tasty

And the future is Flow Rina Beech, of which I’ll be getting a “Special Taste” i.e. everyone’s leased favourite Flawiner Beatsch questline. It’s also the only Phloreanerb Each questline,^[10] so technically it’s also everyone’s most favouritest Floor-in-a-Beach questline. But let’s beer eel: it’s our least fav. It just is.

pudella collects a Coconut from a wooden crate

💡 Did you know? Florina Beach’s Coconut trees are notoriously shy, and don’t like to be seen with their Coconuts hanging out all willy-nilly. That’s why they’ve learnt to fashion their own wood into crates wherein they can hide their Coconuts.

Admittedly I’m a smidge underlevold for a Special Taste, so an Ordinary Taste would be more appropriate. But I technically meet the levvo req, and the Lorangs & Lupings aren’t too panefol.

Now I just need 160 (A0₁₆) (CLX) Klang Klores. Hau hard canne it B?

pudella stands on the invisible ledge @ Lorang and Clang — Photographic evidence of a humanoid creature not entirely unsuspiciously standing on a perhaps incompletely secret ledge at Lorang and Clang, possibly with the intent to pass through a not wholly covert portal to arrive at what would presumably be a clandestine map allegèdly referred to as “Clang and Lorang”. At press time, a Lorang was found standing on the so-called invisible ledge, but some have suggested this could be the result of a newly-developed power of crustacean levitation.

💡 Did you know? In reality, of course, crustaceans don’t levitate. Except when you’re not looking.

pudella vs. Clangs @ Clang and Lorang — Oh, sure. Just go ahead and hit me for 178 damage, that’s fine. No, really, I’m not upset. I only need to kill 300+ more…

It may not be wurf fit, but it’s gnot gnuffing. Here’s to my 39^th experient’s point. 🥂

pudella hits level 39~! — A good experience point is difficult to come by these days, you know.

No words but a great honour anyhow

So anyway Florina Beach can chew my bum. Sorry, is that too rewd? [clears throat] Florina Beach can pound sand. There, I think that’s more appropriate anyway.

It’s time to geaux bacque to what I kneaux beste: ESIII, where Rift made his triumphant return — and this time, with 100% more anmger.

pudella & Rift @ ESIII — It seems to be contagious, so now I’m rather a bit vext myself. So much so, in fact, that I can scarcely resist the urge to forcibly plunge this Korean flag into every stone-visaged bipedal mushroomb I see.

Another day, another Stone Masquerade. This time around, ~~empartied~~ emmapshared with a certain Cupid, a Mt. Xbow–wielding archer of the ferrous persuasion.

Cupid & pudella @ ESIII — Not to be confused with IGN **Cupid**, Vajra’s TTR toon.

That could be me right now. Except the ironicality, seeing as pudella was birtht for the purpose of partying with Muggle/Rift. And the fashion cents (white danna on white bathtowel? 🤨). But you know what I mean.

Thankfully, with the power of modern technology, we can peer into this alternative dimension of counterfactual Mt. Xbow–wielding pudella:

pudella in the Mountain Crossbow–wielding alternative dimension

Not much was lost in my decision to remake, it seems. It’s good to know that in this alternative timeline, I’m compelled to wear an almost fully NX look. Understandable given that archer definitely always had the worst options aesthetically. Maybe that’s the real reason why Wizet/N3cks0n^® drest pirates the way they did: to give archers someone to look down upon fashionwise.

Preparatory hardening

And for the final instalment (so far‽) of “people being overly generous to me”, I was gifted a powerful upgrade by none other than fellow banned it Osta.

Meeting with Osta @ the Free Market (Osta: o/) — THANKEE

Let’s chekkit tout:

pudella’s new KFan — It’s… another KFan?

It is. But the additional +4⁢ WAtk is extremely welcome given that upgrading to a level ≥40 dagger is not looking like an E.Z. tasc at the moment. Welcome enough that I immediately scrambled my bramble on over to the Keigh C Farmer C to spend another cool 420k⁢ misos on scrolz.

But where we’re going, we don’t knead WAtk. It’s time for just a litto bit o’ the Thanmksgiven spirit (feat. Rift).

Rift & pudella enjoying Thanksgiving @ The Rain-Forest East of Henesys — Dutifully bedect with Maplehontas & Chi Facts, as is only traditional. At least, I assume it’s accurate. I’ve nevr attended a Maplesgiving pheest b4, sow I mite b doin’ it rong.

Now I’m full of Turkeystuffs, and — guess wot?

pudella hits level 40 @ The Rain-Forest East of Henesys — ~~Chicken butt~~ Turkey booty.

Now that I’m positively stuft, it’s time to find Mr. Lee and asque himb whether I’ve any “mail” in my “mailbocks”.

Nimble Wristguard, scrolled

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pudella: oh huge

Nimble Wristguard (+3)

Req lev : 22
[Req archetype] : thief
Category : shield
STR : +2
Weapon def. : 25
Magic def. : 3
Number of upgrades available : 4

Wowie! Three (3) She’ll DEF 60%s from… unicolor? Odd. I dunno who that is, but they sound like they smell even queerer than I do. Anyway, the squroals of mysterious origin all past! Now my shield is extra shieldifical (defensive, sexy, makes me take less damnage).

Daytripping to oblivion

And I’m gonna knee’d it, too — for Ell Pee mfing Queue.

I know! U prolly thawt u’d never sea Elpy Cue (or Hell Peak You, depending on your disposition) in this here dyery ever again. I (as ⅓ of Oddjobs™) join’d RevivalStory when fully all of zero (0) non-Oddjobs players were active, and although lv1000boss aspired to LPQ one day, he was assuming it would require multiclienting and an expansion of Oddjobs’s membership. Then we realised that the former would be 🚨illegal🚨 and the latter would be, as they say, not in The (Match) Cards.

So imagine my surprise when no fewer than five whole Mooplers of the LPQ level-range existed simultaneously! There’s just one cweshchun, tho’: do we have what it takes to conquer all nine(!) of LPQ’s toughest trials??

LPQ lineup — I think we have a fighting chants.

Celestia: HM / SteaI: ye — The first LPQ party ever of all time assembles @ the 101^st Floor

After passing Read Sine’s rigorous background chex with flying colours, we deleted the fr∗ggin’ hecc outta stage 1.

Abandoned Tower⟨Stage 1⟩

Stage Too is also a stage. In case you might be tempted to doubt its stagely status, it too drops Parses of Dementia, albeit not from Ratz from Ranother Retention (≝ R³; not to be confused with $ℝ^{3}$ ), but rather from a most peculiar, delicate, & subtle creature known as the starred box.^[12] Pry them open if you can, for if you resort to brute force (= beatboxing), they may grow rather cross with you.

Thankfully I am experienced in the way of the box. Some have said that in a passed lyfe I may have been a bocks myself. It was therefore my duty to coax them into giving me their Parses.

pudella @ Stage 2 — The box whisperer at work

💡 Did you know? The Abandoned Tower atop the 101^st Floor is abandoned not because it’s dangerous, but simply because everyone forgot about it. That’s why they’re called Passes of Dementia.

But the boxes are no mere voucher misers. As important to the ecosystem of the A Bandit Tower as any other critter, they’re also home to dozens, perhaps even hundreds (I wouldn’t know, I can’t count that high) of Bloctopodes from An Othered I’m Mention.

Bulma & pudella @ Stage 3

💡 Did you know? Bloctopodes are ectotherms, and therefore rely on the starred boxes for shelter & warmth up here, roughly 💯 storeys above their native habitat. 🥶

Being long since Abandoned, the Tower is lit almost exclusively by natural light from the 17 suns constantly rising & setting over the beautiful Lūdus Lake. This was, however, bad news for myself & Bulma when we tript over a Crack and found ourselves fallen into a dark chamber of the Tower.

Unable to see with our own, we became convinced that Shadow Y’s 👀 were leering mute out of the murk at us. Not pleased that we were being ogled, we tried awkwardly to defend ourselves.

Bulma & pudella blindly attack the Darkness in the Tower — [*Darkness in the Tower*]

💡 Did you know? Shadow Eyes thrive in the Darkness because they not only lack vision, but instead have acute antivision (not to be confused with ant division, which is how ants reproduce). This means that instead of seeing things when light hits their retinae, they antisee things when darkness hits their antiretinae. They therefore cannot see any visible objects, but can see (or rather, antisee) invisible objects rather well.

Having not clearly benefited from the experience, we eventually fumbold our weigh outer the dusk and into stage 🖐️ with the ress to var party. This was Stage Too with an importin’ twissed: 🤴 🧱 🥅 ’Ems from May Nother 🎲 Mention. At first I thought they were just ordinary King Block Golems, until one of them yeld “𐌓𐌀𐌀𐌀𐌀 𐌀𐌉𐌋𐌋 𐌚𐌖𐌂𐌊𐌄𐌍 𐌊𐌉𐌋𐌋 𐌉𐌖 𐌓𐌀𐌀𐌀𐌀𐌀𐌀”,^[13] which is Blocklish (not to be confused with 🥦⁠sh, which is only spoken in Ellin’s northern forests) that roughly translates to “raaaa I’ll f∗cken kill you raaaaaa”.

Thankfully, I’m fluent in Blocklish (Geanie offers free instruction in it) so I was able to he’d this worning instead of follow thru with my impulse to tightly hug the adorable Block creatures. More thankfully still, in my time within the Darkness in the Tower I learnt powers of Dark Sight, allowing me to evade the murderous Golems’ detection entirely.

pudella sneaks past the King Block Golems from Another Dimension — [*Lūdi-flavoured John Cena joke*]

pudella in “the thief portal” — [*Lūdi-flavoured John Cena joke*]

💡 Did you know? This only works because Block Golems have normal vision rather than antivision.

Stage sicks was easy enough, to be sure. I knew I’d scrawld a string of fifteen digits between ⟨1⟩ & ⟨3⟩ onto the bacc of my hand with a Sharpie^® for a reason. And they call me crazy! I’m basically carrying!!

💡 Did you know? If you do a lot of LPQ, it’s best to get something more permanent, like a tattoo. LF>LPQ tats

Anyway. Stage VII, which I guess(?) is on the 101 + 7 = 108^th phlore, was kinda like stage 🖐️ except we can actually fite the G013m5 this time.

pudella, Celestia, Bulma, & SteaI vs. the Block Golems & Rombad @ stage 7 — With the exception, apparently, of whoëver in this image is “**MISS**”ing.

Aside from the “MISS”ing concerns, Vajra is missing from the above image because he was upstairs. Something to do with… ra ts & an octopus? I dunno, that’s just what he told me. Pretty suspishous, if you ask me. Maybe he’s the killer?

💡 Did you know? This isn’t Cluedo^®.

Oh, right. Whatever. I still think he did it.

Anywho, stage ate is my fav ’cause it’s all about dancing. 💃🏽 Conveniently, the stepping locations are neatly markt with digits, making choreography a reel brease.

The stage 8 shuffle — Come to think of it, it would be even breezier if we could leap directly from a digit to the one beneath it. Maybe one day I’ll be good enough at Dant’s sing to master such a skill.

💡 Did you know? The characterisation of LPQ monsters as being from Another Dimension is the result of a misunderstanding of the box-counting dimension. Early rediscoverers of the Abandoned Tower thought that the dimension of something could be determined simply by counting how many boxes it has, and stage 8 clearly has nine (9) boxes as pictured above, so it was naturally inferred that the Abandoned Tower was from the 9^th dimension.

Once we’d master’d the dance to the Blooba Loon’s satisfaxion (it was staring us down with a toothy grin the entire time 😅) we were permitted to leave The Rehearsal Chamber and enter the real deal: The Ballroomb.

Stage 9: A Crack on the Wall (Celestia: snipe from here) — Very nice chandelier 10/10 interior design

Of coarse a bawlroomb is no good without dancin’ pardners, so we were underwhelmd to say the leased when we found ourselves in the company of no more than a single Longe Ratz (pictured above).

Then again, at least it wasn’t an Ultralonge Ratz…

💡 Did you know? Every time a Black Ratz slays a Mapler, it grows one (1) pixel longer.

In any case, we soon realised weed meerly arrived a bit early. That is, in the manner of an earl. 👑 This proved somewhat intimidating for our e-steamed guessed who has nary a noble title to their name, so we had to lure them out with the delisceous aroma of a fresch Pass of Dimension. 😋🍽️

Now, I don’t mean to be rood, but I will say that Alisha (or was it ⟨Alicia⟩?) is a name I’ve heard many times, but never to refer to a landlubbing cetacean with headlights for eyes and a grampa clock for a hat. In fact on second thought I don’t typically see whales wearing hats at all, so maybe that’s an untapt market for all you investors out there. 📈

Bulma, pudella, SteaI, Celestia, & Vajra vs. Alishar (Violet Balloon: Levels levels levels levels levels levels levels levels.) — Also it is rather nippy today up here on the 110^th floor, and in more waze then won. 🤨 We are evidently in dire need of winter woollies. 🧥🧥

Oh, wate. Sorry about that. Here’s the Social Media^®–friendly version:

Black bars version — Just to be safe. No nipple is free from suspicion; any of them could be of The Wrong Gender™.

Ok phewph. Wouldn’t wanna get Zuct™ or whatever in a few years from now when the entire Social Media^® landscape is finally nothing but clankers sharing “content” with each other to s(t)imulate “economic activity” and my as yet undiscovered MapleStory blog is the last bastion of human-generated content (f.k.a. “art”).

Speaking of art, Bulma demonstrated the clerical art of carrying the h∗ck out of us all by Healing up the devastating whale-wallops willing & just about able to two-shot us and, not to no avail, using her level 6 (six) Bless on me when I realised I was the only one hitting our baleen guess’d and yet had neglected to buy Sny Purp Ills.

When our solitary dancin’ pardner was awl tucker’d out, said their cowboy “so longs”, & hung up their hat for the knight, we took the opportunity to “admire” the treasure chamber at the top of the Tour Abandonnée.

SteaI, pudella, & Vajra @ Abandoned Tower⟨Bonus⟩ — Mmmm… a few dozen mesos, several litres of Red Potion, & some OJ to wasch it all down.

I’m sure Alisha won’t mined if we snag a cape or two as well; the things are clearly several dozen sizes 2 smol 4 a whale anywhey.

Arturo

Transcription of the above

Arturo: Thank you brave hero pudella for saving Ludibrium! Your accomplishments here will be remembered. Here is your reward for pulling off such an amazing and impressive feat!

Reward:
Scroll for Overall Armor for DEF ×1

No need to thank me, Arturo. I can only hope to be treated to another night on the Tower sometime soon.

Rinse & re-pot & re-Pete

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

Toly: u got the change?

pudella: ofc

Toly: damb girl where r u getting these mesos

pudella: need to know basis

Toly: ight sheesh

pudella: bowman’s too?

Toly: as u wish

As it happen’d, I would be treated to such a night sooner than I could regather my brane’s L’s. I need more drogas (that’s cowboy slang for “drugs”) to keep me going, and I need them post-Haste.

Misky isn’t aloud a permit to sell the hard sh∗t (Eyedrops & Holy Waters), so I’ll need to travel to an undisclothed location in the CD seedy Lūdi underground to get my ficks.

pudella falling down Path of Time

pudella takes 34 clock damage at the bottom of Path of Time — Oof! 34 clock damage. I oughta take care of these clockfaces some day.

But I’d Rops & Wholly Waughters aren’t the only drogas duras that my dealer (who asks to remane a Nonny Muss) supplies. For instance, Sniper Pills are in a legal grey area these daze, so we refer to them with the less threatening sobriquet “Bowman’s Pills” instead.

Selection of buff pills

Transcription of the item in the above image

Bowman’s Pill

A pill of refined bowman’s potion. Accuracy + 10 for 10⁢ minutes

Anyway, now that I was loaded up with enough pharmaceuticals to euthanise a benippled whale, ’twas time for more El Piquiú (that’s cowboy slang for “The PQ”).

This go-round, I managed to anger the 2^nd starred bocks in stage 2, thus falling for the Tower’s Strap.

pudella @ Tower’s Trap — Just me, all by my loan’s sum. Only the PC who breax the box is trapt, which is inaccurate to BBB’s description (and equally so to Hidden Street’s earliest) but who knows. The logic is serversided anyway, right…?

Then again, perhaps I don’t mind being isol8ed from the rest my party for a brief reprieve in the event that they’ve decided on emulating the collective temperament of branned neue Maplers vintage 2006.

Bickering — Well, it’s been 19⁢ years. Not sure what the timescale on emotional maturity is…

This was how I learnt that RS has a functioning report-a-user system, because at the end of the run we were visited by none other than the server owner (& sole dev, etc.…) himself, wackyracer (“wacky”).

wackyracer appears floating in the middle of the 101st floor (wackyracer: hi / pudella: hihi) — Pictured showing off his powers of GM flight

And enjoy the GM buffs we did.

pudella stabbing the freakin’ heck out of Shadow Eyes in stage 4 — That’s gotta hurt.

pudella hits level 41 in LPQ

After our Elpie Queue party dissolved into the ether, I still had some supernatural buffage remaining. I wasn’t sure how long jiyem buffs lasted (hint: half an hour), so I decided to head to the not-so-nearest Road of Time to burn the rest (i.e. not very much) away.

pudella @ The Road of Time ⟨4⟩ — The Road of Time ⟨4⟩, home to no smol number of Master Chronoi, before it was redesigned and, perhaps worse, renamed to the much more confusing *The Path of Time ⟨4⟩* (not to be confused with *Path of Time* sans *The*).^[14]

I’ve never before scene this map in my entyre lyfe, and didn’t much grynde it, so I can’t really judge. With any LUK I’ll be back here in the future (i.e. further along “The Road of Time”), but forne ow, I’ll merely noat the vast labyrinthine dungeon feel of theſe olde middle-Clocktower maps. Presumably they were redesigned with the intent to make them more, I s’pose, gryndable(?), but the sheer intimidation I experienced waltzing thru them is a testament both to the stunning artwork and to the raw power of map design itself.

But let’s get bacque to LPQ, yes?

As it turns out RS is no stranger to LPQ mules. A certain Arale (Enzo; Oscuridad, Sacerdote, Mush) kindly joined myself and the inseparable partners Yzzi the ’sassin & IcedMocha the I/L whiz to form a party of… four?

Yes! LPQ in RS has a generous 4〜6 (as against the more usual 5〜6 or 6〜6) party-size req, which is a much-kneaded relacksation.

Arale Lucky Seven damage @ stage 1 — He deals LPQ-mule damage, too. I didn’t even know damage numbers go that high, to be onnissed.

💡 Did you know? LPQ mules acquire their powers of insane ph0cking damnage by sacrificing a fraction of their sanity to the Altar from Another Dimension. This grants them the ability to pray each day to ʭːʢɤ̃ˀʭǁ, the god of LPQ mules, with each prayer cumulatively increasing the mule’s power. This (un)holy might is technically unlimited, but goes away as soon as the mule does anything other than LPQ. Moreover, it backfires beyond a certain point when Alishar decides they’re simply too scared to come out & play.

Yzzi & pudella @ stage 3

When we got to stage 7, we had the privilege of witnessing the Enzo Special™:

Stage 7, Enzo style

Transcription of the chatlog in the above image

Arale: yall about to see the enzo special :3

[mapwide announcement]: [Notice] Rombot has been summoned somewhere in the map. [×2]

What’s so special about that? Well, he summoned all the Rombads at the same time, which requires gr8 a-Jillity (in-game & IRL), and also daringly risx failing the run entirely. There’s a “fun” litto bug in RS’s implementation where summoning a Rombad causes all Parses of Dementia in the map to be obliter8id. Since the three (3) Rombads drop one (壹) Parse each, and you need three (11₂) Parses to clear the stage, triggering this bug even once (1^ce) is enough to 🗑️ your run.

That sed, we’re a pardy o’ fore, sew theirs know weigh week canned do the neck’s tage anywhey, rite?

Stage 8 with a party of 4 (Arale: you two know it? / IcedMocha: ok)

Actually, it’s pretty simpol. Instead of searching for the correct 5 (out of 9) boxes, we search for the correct 4. Out of 9. Feels like you don’t have to be a 🧞‍♀️⁠ess to come up with this generalisation, but maybe you do. Thx, wacky.

Further commentary on the generalisation

The number of possible combos is given directly by the binomial coëfficient. This coëfficient has an inherent symmetry: if there are $n$ boxes and you need to choose the correct $k$ of them, you can accomplish the same by not choosing the incorrect $n - k$ of them. This proves

(\binom{n}{k}) = (\binom{n}{n - k}) .

LPQ has $n ≔ 9$ and usually $k ≔ 5$ . But $9 - 5 = 4$ , so our party of 4 has exactly the same number of combos to try as usual (namely 126).

RS’s LPQ even extends this generalisation to a full party of 6, so full parties have quite the advantage at a mere $(\binom{9}{6}) = 84$ possible combos, i.e. only ⅔ as many as usual.

Further reading: Unlocking the mystery of LPQ’s 8^th stage.

You might suspect that the distinct lacc of downjump would ruin the usual “JMS method”.^[15] It’s true that it makes the “alting”/“cycling” part probably more of a PITA than it’s wurf; Vajra tested it once and it wasn’t amazing, although with some more practice it could be reasonable. However, the JMS ordering of the boxes is still standard and helps just about as much as it does in downjumpy implementations.

Alt or aln’t, we still kict Alisha’s booty. Or rather Arale did, and the rest of us provided modest assistance. Nice.

pudella hits level 42 from Alishar’s EXP — ^[16] feat. SteaI

Infinite money glitch

Anywho, time to take a kwicc brake from LPQ and chec my maylbocks again.

Selling an Eye Accessory WAcc 60% to Nanrexh for 30 million mesos — Oops, I accidentally made a cool thirty million (3 × 10⁷) mesos.

Wait, what? There are 30M⁢ mesos… in the entire game, total? News to me.

To be clear, I definitely don’t want that stinquey WAcc scroll ew. But now that I’m seeing people actually log onto the game, and I sometimes go to the 🤮Fream Arquette🤮… it feels more like a “typical” server with an economy & degen scrollers & Endgamey McEndgamers and I’m getting MapleL5s flaschbax oh no.

I know what you’re thinking: “deer you always want people to play MapleStory with you so you really can’t complain when your wish is fulfild and they start trading with each other & expedition-bossing all day”. But you’re so, so wrong. I can complain! In fact I’m doing it right now!!

More seriously I’m ecstatic to see people RevivalStorying it up and I hope to truly join them one day. That said I am still allergic to trading, buying, & selling, so I do wish the droprates were a littol less diabolical in general. But thas jus me.

On the brite side, Shield DEF 60% droprates are apparently generous enough for me to finish my own Nimble Wristguard — or NWG (≝ Not a Work Glove) as we used to call it back in the deigh.

The Nimble Wristguard is finisht! (i.e. 0⁢ slots) — So defensible.

“God Save the ManoKing”

And that DEF was about to come in handy when it became my duty to DEFend ManoKing from Alishar’s treacherous clutches.

Stage 7 with Vajra, Arale, & ManoKing — Pictured: ManoKing fighting valiantly alongside the rest of the party

So far, so good. Admittedly, a Maple Sword, a Blue One-lined T-Shirt, & no bottomwear nor shoes whatsoëver serve as a peculiar, not to say deficient, battle outfit for an otherwise perfeckedly ordin’ry wizard. But I respect the drip.

However, sometime during stage 8 — presumably when Arale, Vajra, & I were deaply engrossed in boxly maffematix — ManoKing was stolen away by the deft ~~hand~~ flipper of AFK (≝ Alishar’s Foolish Knavery), and replaced by a statue of identical appearance. By the time we realised what had happened, it was 2 l8.

Vajra, pudella, & Arale fight Alishar as ManoKing looks on, trapt in a wooden cage — Stay strong, ManoKing.

Worry knot — we saved him. For better or worse, tho’, it seems that Alishar’s reign of dastardly terror isn’t coming to an end any thyme soon. Until then, I’ll B hear. Thanx 4 reading.

💙

Footnotes for “RevivalStory is my favourite rebirth server”

[↑] Hijāz (حجاز)^[2] is a particular jins (جنس) “kind, sort” (cognate with English genus, gender, genre) i.e. basically a tetrachord. In Western integer notation (based on 12 EDO): {0, 1, 4, 5}. Jins Hijāz therefore, within Western-influenced contexts, tends to be associated with Phrygian dominant, the V^th mode of harmonic minor: {0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10}.

Hijāz Kār (حجاز کار) is a particular maqām (مقام) “place, position” i.e. sorta like a mode but not really. Hijāz Kār in particular corresponds to the double harmonic scale on C within its first octave, but it might not be octave-repeating, and we’re not even gonna talk about what siyr (سیر) “motion, course, excursion” is. A representative integer notation of Hijāz Kār is {0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17}.^[11]

If you really wanna know more about what a maqām is from a Western music-theoretic perspective, I recommend Offtonic Theory’s treatment of the subject.
[↑] I’m using Persian here, although most of these words entered Persian via Arabic. For more Persian-specific terminology, see the relevant English Wikipedia article.
[↑] The r → n (ㄹ → ㄴ) thing is, diachronically at least, actually real in Korean, albeit only word-initially: /ɾ-/ > /n-, ∅-/ (the latter before /i, j/). Of course the ⟨r⟩ in question < English START, so it’s irrelevant, but you have to let me have it for the joke.
[↑]

Note to self: KC Subway Line region history

RS seems to have backported an advanced version of the KC Subway Line region from GMS ca. v13〜21 (2005-11-30〜2006-04-05). Transfer Area as such doesn’t exist in v12−, but its MaID is used as Line 1 ⟨Area 2⟩ which, in this iteration, is home to a colourful mixture of not just the expected Jr. Wraiths & Stirges, but also Jr. Neckis & Bubblings. This then immediately dead-ends in Line 2 ⟨Area 1⟩, another giant four-chambered map with Wraiths instead of Bubblings.

Indeed, all maps in the archaïc version of the region are large four-chambered maps, L1A1 included (which also has Jr. Neckis!).

RS is clearly at least somewhat averse to backporting maps that already exist in v12 or earlier. This case is presumably special because the v12− Subway Line is pretty clearly an unfinisht version that’s considerably smaller, entirely linear (in spite of nominally differentiating “Line 1” from “Line 2”), and has no diversity in map structure.
[↑] Not surprisingly, the version of this tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm was considerably more violent: the princess’s touch that turns the prince to his human form is not a kiss, but the princess throwing him at a wall with murderous intent.

Relevant excerpt (Google Translate^® version included)

Sie packte den Frosch mit zwei Fingern und trug ihn hinauf in ihre Kammer, legte sich ins Bett und statt ihn neben sich zu legen, warf sie ihn bratsch! an die Wand; „da nun wirst du mich in Ruh lassen, du garstiger Frosch!“

Aber der Frosch fiel nicht todt herunter, sondern wie er herab auf das Bett kam, da wars ein schöner junger Prinz.

She grabbed the frog with two fingers and carried it up to her room, lay down in bed, and instead of putting it beside her, she threw it against the wall — whoosh! “Now you’ll leave me in peace, you nasty frog!”

But the frog didn’t fall dead; instead, as it landed on the bed, it was a handsome young prince.
[↑] Appears as a morpheme in 속하다 “quickly” but this is more usually “(to) be part of; be a member of; belong” because 屬 is also read as 속 “genus”.
[↑] RS is based on GMS v12, whereas the overengineering of the PC DEF formulae happened in v37 (2007-04-18; KFT) at the earliest. Although the un-overengineering is welcome, this has the side-effect of removing a beginner quirk: that their StandardPDD is unusually low, effectively increasing their WDef.
[↑] “lv25+” is a typo that should read lv35+.
[↑] This version (≈ GMS v12) is too ancient to have the dazzling array of Equip-item glowy colours familiar to e.g. v62 players. There are, to my knowledge, only two colours: oranj meaning that one or more scrolls (irrespective of scroll type etc.) have succeeded on it, and white otherwise.
[↑] As we’ll see in the next entry, RS does have King Clang. But the associated questline is perhaps understandably absent.
[↑] That’s a big row of integers, but it’s really just three ajnās (اجناس = the plural of jins) glued together, albeit with two different types of glue: Hijāz + whole step + Hijāz + unison + Nahāvand. Note the minor tetrachord (= {0, 2, 3, 5} ≡ jins Nahāvand) at the top, instead of yet another Hijāz.
[↑]

Note to self: Reactor names

Reactors cannot have names nor descriptions in the way items, monsters, maps, etc. can, as they have no data associated with them in Data.wz/String (≡ String.wz). Nonetheless it seems an internal info/info string node for a given reactor is possible, e.g. RID 2202002 (Lūdi’s starred boxes; mimicked by RID 2202003, the LPQ version) has one reading 루디브리엄 범(汎)용(用)리엑터 “Lūdibrium Universal-Reactor”.
[↑] Let me know if you enjoy receiving unenthusiastic-sounding death threats from robots, and maybe I’ll include them more often.
[↑] It’s unclear whether this map ever existed in-game in GMS. RS has taken it from the GMS v40B (the final GMS beta version) data, where most of Lūdi was already WZ-wise implemented. But these data were removed for GMS’s release, and Lūdi would only be frfr implemented in-game in v19 (2006-03-02).
Note to self: The middle-Clocktower region history

The points of confusion here are GMS v19〜21, and MapleSEA.

I don’t know where to find pre-BB MapleSEA WZ data, but the earliest archived Hidden Street version (2006-04-09; GMS v21 was current, not substantively different from v19) has the original maps named The Road of Time ⟨1⟩ through ⟨4⟩.

By 2006-05-30, Hidden Street has renamed the maps to The Path of Time, but the minimaps are unchanged. However, by GMS v22 (the earliest version 19+ with WZ data archived), The Path of Time ⟨4⟩ has already undergone a minor redesign. I suspect that this minor redesign actually coïncides with the rename, and Hidden Street merely never collected new minimap images.

Assuming this coïncidence, we have only two distinct variants: TRoT 🐎 vs. TPoT 🫖. Then there are three possible stories:
1. Both GMS & MapleSEA had TRoT in-game for Lūdi’s initial release. An undocumented transition to TPoT then occurred in both servers very early on: in GMS, v22 (2006-04-18, 47⁢ days after Lūdi’s release) at the very latest.
2. The GMS patches v20〜22 really were, as all documentation seems to imply, insubstantial, and therefore GMS never had TRoT in-game at all. MapleSEA briefly had TRoT in-game — similar to (1.) — thus explaining the first month of Hidden Street entries.
3. Neither GMS nor MapleSEA ever had TRoT in-game. The initial Hidden Street documentation (incl. minimaps taken from in-game screencaps) was obtained from players of a more advanced implementation (KMS, JMS, etc.).
Of these three, (1.) seems the least likely to me, so I’d tentatively conclude that GMS never had TRoT. The only English-language mentions of maplestory "road of time" I could find with a WWW search were on Wikibooks, where an IP address registered in the United States made an edit to the warrior guide on 2006-02-25 suggesting TRoT1 as a training spot. This would seem to be five days before the release of Lūdi in GMS, so it seems this wisdom was probably lifted from a more advanced implementation — as in (3.).

We can, however, go beyond TPoT as considered thus far. In GMS v49 (2008-01-23; 4^th grade, etc.), TPoT — and presumably the middle-Clocktower region in general — underwent a major overhaul (see TPoT4, for example). We therefore actually have three mapwise-distinct variants, over which two (not three) distinct names for TRoT/TPoT are spread.
[↑] If you’re not familiar, see: 「組合せ数学」 (don’t worry, it’s in English).
[↑]
Note to self: Monster DEF

See the “0” damage line? Not possible in later implementations. Presumably this is related to the fact that in these primitive versions, monster WDef applies to individual damage lines separately — in later versions this remains true only for MDef.

Later monster DEF handling involved deciding that a hit (≝ an attack-line that neither whiffs nor is defeated by ACC–AVOID mechanics) always deals damage, i.e. hits are clampt to the interval $[1, dmgCap]$ . This allowed repurposing zero-damage lines as identical with “MISS”es.

However, this decision was made without considering at least two possible spurious — i.e. not the result of an ACC failure — sources of zero-damage lines:
- Aftermods apply after the clamping occurs. Example: capreolina “MISS”ing weapon-cancelled monsters by direct-hitting them with AB.
- Healing values are truncated so as to prevent $HP > maxHP$ . This means that a full-HP monster in range of an AoE monster heal is healed for zero and therefore a “MISS”.
[↑] The Hanja on the thief model’s eyepatch is 忍 ↦ 인 ⟨in⟩ “(to) suffer, endure”, which occurs in some Sino-Korean compounds: 인내(耐)력(力) “patience, fortitude”, 인고(苦) “endurance, perseverance”, 인계(界) “the Sahā world” lit. “realm of suffering”, etc..

(…cnvpstdf…)

cnvpstdf

Hip hop, Easter’s on its way

Transcription of the above

Dizz: if ur life depended on it how many carrots do u think u could eat
in 1 sitting

pudella: 13

Dizz: damn

pudella: ahaha

Dizz: i was thinking at least 20

pudella: carrot is larj

Dizz: nah i can make a carrot disappear in a few monches
i wouldve probably said 30
what about baby carrots

pudella: lmao

Dizz: i could probably eat like 4 bags

pudella: how much is a bag

Dizz: i dunno like 40 or 50 lil carrot bois

pudella: i can do 4 of those

Dizz: oh ur a champ
me 2

pudella: i ate liek half a bag

Dizz: maybe i should up my number

pudella: yesterday in one sitting

Dizz: damn ok
hip hop easters on its way
lookin ass

Hidden knowledges

Transcription of the above

unicolor: yamming hard to the ORbis ship music rn
did u know theres a @jukebox command

IronDizz: no >:C
god damnit

unicolor: hahah

IronDizz: that makes me fucking angry

unicolor: why!!

IronDizz: just list them ALL somewhere

unicolor: oh
yeah i feel u

IronDizz: fucking all of them
why are u listing remember and re but no jukebox
hidden commands make people who join go oh wow no jukebox huh

unicolor: i literally learnt it because wacky[racer] visited us at LPQ
and he mentioned it as a fun fact lmao
i was like damb u literally have to [be] visited by the server owner
to unlock hidden knowledges

A Look-Out Shed Around The Beach

Kerning City

Line 1 ⟨Area 1⟩

Credits

Awkward crickets noise was mixed together from field-recordings by Defelozedd94 & ItsTheGoodstuff of Freesound.
❌ Wrong buzzer is a slightly tweaked version of RICHERlandTV’s “Bad Beep (Incorrect)”.
“The Timer is Now” makes use of melodies from “The Time is Now”, the 1^st track on John Cena & Tha Trademarc’s You Can’t See Me (2005, Columbia).