Practicum #5

I logged into Maple Story today, and to my surprise the website had been updated. Apparently they made some big changes, and there is some storyline going on that is called "Big Bang". These bad guys I guess blew something up and the worlds are all switched around. I don't know. That's all I gathered from the video on the main page. So I went into the game, and noticed that they updated the interface- the Health and EXP bars looked different, as did a lot of the buttons and frames. There were also quite a few new monsters.

I went on a couple new quests, as I was curious about what sorts of new things these updates would provide. All I really ended up doing was killing a couple hundred monsters and picked up items as usual to receive EXP points and some other special items. Not very exciting. Though for three of the quests I was supposed to visit some guy called The Rememberer, and I had no idea where he was. I looked online but all I could find were old posts from before this new world change had occurred. Eventually I went to one of the larger cities and asked where I could find this guy to anyone who would listen. No one was really paying attention to me, so I asked again. I actually got a response from someone the second time, which surprised me, so I asked more questions until I got my answer from the same person, thanked them and went on my way.

I didn't do much else after that because unfortunately the game made my computer overheat and turn off. It didn't make me too happy.