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Super Smash Brothers: ONLINE LOGIN #8: Party Problems
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"I think you can finish him now!"
"ALRIGHT!"
A blade slashed through the body of a large turtle looking creature. 19 DAM! Floated above the monsters head, as it's body spilt in two. It fell towards the ground, never reaching the grassy plains as it exploded into orbs of light. Marth stood with his sword near the ground, having just finished delivering his attack. Jigglypuff in the background was bouncing up and down, cheering. "Yey!" She called out in excitement. "Those 30 experience points was just enough to bring me one step closer to level ten!"
Marth withdrew his sword and turned around to his partner with a smile on his face. "Yeah, good job. I guess we don't have that much exp left to go till we reach level ten then, huh?"
"That guy was pretty tough, though..." Jigglypuff said as she pointed her staff at Marth. "Life Up Alpha!" She cried, healing the swordsmans HP.
"Mhm..." Agreed Marth, taking a few steps towards the huge castle that was infront of them. "Who would have thought hammers hurt that much?"
Jigglypuff let out a giggle. The two of them were busy leveling up in an odd world that she had heard off on the forums called 'World 1-1'. At first, Marth was a little afraid that this level might hold, given Jigglypuff's record of area's shes' picked up from the forums... but so far, nothing but monsters and players... and no spooky ghosts. Huzzah. "So, shall we head for the boss now?" Jigglypuff asked, walking towards the large doors of the castle infront of them.
Marth nodded and the two entered the large castle. They found themselves in an empty room, torches lit around them. Glancing around the room would show that there was very little to be seen, besides chains and tapestries lining the wall. "I don't see any monsters."
"Me neither..." Marth answered, taking a few steps deeper into the castle.
As he reached about half way into the damp room, an orb of light floated down from the sky. "Welcome to my home!" Marth took out his sword as the orb transformed into a koopa looking creature, with a green shell and a white helmet over it's head. "My name is Big Brother Hammer!" It reached into his shell and took out two hammers, one for each hand. "And now that you've entered, I can not allow you to leave alive!"
Battle music began to play as Marth and Jigglypuff entered a battle against the low leveled boss. "You know the deal, Jigglypuff!"
"Right!"
Marth charged forward at Big Brother Hammer, who began to toss his hammers at Marth at a wild speed. Marth had to keep dodging from side to side as he advanced towards the boss, barely avoiding the oncoming projectiles. As he got within striking range, he swung his sword horizontally across the boss's chest, dealing around 20 damage. He pulled his sword back and swung again. His next strike to the boss dealt only 13 damage.
The Hammer Brother boss jumped backwards and pulled out a huge hammer that he held in both hands. "Back!" It called out, slamming the huge weapon down on Marth's face, knocking the swordsman back a few feet. 56 DAM! Floated above his head as Marth tumbled backwards.
"Life Up Alpha!" Jigglypuff cried, casting a healing spell on her wounded friend.
Marth stood up as the pale green aura healed his wounds. He took out his sword again and charged once more. Once again dodging the hammers, Marth managed to strike twice at the boss once more. The boss moved quickly to the side after his first strike, but was not able to dodge the second. MAJOR HIT! 31 DAM! Appeared as the Boss fell backwards. "Yarg!" It called out. Big Brother Hammer took out one of his hammers and swung at Marth knocking the human to his feet. "TAKE THIS!" The Boss pulled out an even bigger hammer, one about ten times too large. He swung it down at the swordsman, who barely managed to roll out of the way of the huge hammer. As Marth sprung back to his feet, he made sure to strike the beast from the side, dealing around 15 damage.
"THUNDER SHOCK!" Jigglypuff called out, raising her staff into the sky. A small bolt of electricity came zooming down upon the boss, dealing 40 damage and bring its HP into the orange.
The fight stopped suddenly as a cutscene began to play. Big Brother Hammer was holding his sides, panting, damaged from the fight as Marth and Jigglypuff stood ready to give the final blow. "Now you've done it!" He cried out, holding his hands out to the side. "HAMMER WAVE!" Two holes opened in the ceiling of the castle as hundreds of hammers began to fall from the sky. The began to form a wave like pattern behind the boss and he cackled evilly. "Let's see you dodge this!"
The wave of hammers came soaring towards the two as the cutscene ended. "Jigglypuff, get ready to jump... NOW!" Marth and Jigglypuff jumped into the air, doing a flip in unison over the wave of hammers.
"We did it!" Jigglypuff cheered as the two landed on the other side of the wave.
"Yeah. I guess all that practice in the field really paid off, huh?"
Jigglypuff pointed her staff at the wounded boss. "This is my last bit of MP... THUNDER SHOCK!" She called out again, sending another bolt of magic at beast and dealing a decent amount of damage bringing the beast's HP near death.
Just as the thunder shock finished, Marth dashed forward and raised his now glowing blue blade over his head. "DOLPHIN SLASH!" He cried, bringing his blade down on the boss. With Marth's final strike, the boss stumbled backwards and fell to the ground. "Got him!"
Another cutscene quickly began. Big Brother Hammer stumbled backwards, holding his hand over his heart. "Argh! No, no, no! How... How did I lose to pathetic creatures like yoooouuuuu!?" It cried as it disappeared in a flash of white light. A loud flourish boomed through Marth and Jigglypuff's headsets as the duo reached their goal level - level ten.
"YES!" Marth cried out, thrusting his fist into the air. "LEVEL TEN! ALRIGHT!" Jigglypuff simple gave a smile and nodded in agreement with Marth. "Great Job out there Jigglypuff! ...Hey, look!" He pointed towards the treasure chest that had formed with the death of the boss.
>MVP: JIGGLYPUFF
"It's... mine?" Jigglypuff asked in surprise. "I've... never been the MVP before... thats a good thing, right?"
"Of course it is!" Marth said with a smile. "Go open your prize."
Jigglypuff timidly walked over to the chest and opened it with her little hands. From the treasure box shot two orbs, one hitting Jigglypuff and the other striking Marth. "Oh, wow!" She called out in surprise.
>You've found 603 Gold and a Mushroom!
"Eh, not bad, I suppose." Marth said after reading his victory prize. "I guess it could have been better. What did you get, Jigglypuff?"
Jigglypuff didn't answer at first. She seemed to be in shock. After a few moments, however, she spoke, "Um... its a rare weapon... Pauline's Hammer?"
"Never heard of it, but I'm sure it's pretty rare!" Said the blue haired swordsman. "Good find, Jigglypuff! I'm sure you could sell it for alot of gold! Or maybe, find someone who can use it and make a trade?"
"...Maybe..." She answered softly. "Um, Marth... now that we are level ten... will you be heading to that new server? You know, to see that person Link was talking about last night?"
"Uh... most likely, yeah..." When he saw the look of sadness on Jigglypuff's face he quickly continued, "What, did you think we came this far and we'll spilt up now? Unlikely! We're going together!"
Jigglypuff smiled. "Really? Thank You, Marth!"
"It's nothing to thank me over... Urm..."
"Whats wrong?"
Marth gave a nervous laugh. "Haha, nothing! It's just... well, I don't know how to go about going to the next server!"
Jigglypuff nodded. "Yeah, me neither. Maybe the forums would have some information on it? Or better yet, the official site. I'll go check."
Just as Jigglypuff said, however, Marth jumped in and shook his head. "No, no. Let me. I need to... check something, anyway. You just head back to Mushroom Kingdom and wait for me by the water fountain, okay?"
The pokemon nodded and took out her warp pipe. "All right then. I'll see you back at town. Bye!" She disappeared down the green tube, leaving the party. Marth soon followed suit, logging off the moment he landed in the town.
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I put my controller down and take off my headset for the moment. Damn that thing is ichty... Anyway, I use my mouse to click on the forums button. Just moments before I had received a message while playing the game - I had received new mail. And just as I thought, it was from my very friendly Healer, Daisy.
"Heh. I hope she has some answers..." I said to myself as I clicked on her message 'Re: Similar Monsters'
Oooh, Marth! It's been too long! -kiss- Ahem, anyway... so you ran into a monster like the one we faced :O!?! Wow... That sure is odd. Sadly, however, I have only about as much info on those things as you do. :( My suggestion: Make a post on the 'Rumors' board about them. I'm sure we're not the only ones who ran into them, y'know. Maybe others will have more of an idea. If not - try Ness. I REALLY think he's hiding something'... infact, leave that me, I'll get him. All for you, my dear Marth. No need for thanks. :3 As for that guy coming from the sky and hitting it with a bell... I have a confession to make. See, during the time you were KOed when we were fighting that monster, it wasn't me that killed the monster, one of those things floated out of the sky and did it, too. They're called 'Broken Characters', since they seem to move and act like a broken piece of character data (apparently. never seen broken character data to compair it XDDD). The only bit I know bout those is that they have shown up randomly and deleted other players! So whatever they are, the must not be good :(! So yeah... sowwy I couldn't help more, my dear. But if you make that post, you should be able to get some infomation on 'em. Hehe. I'll keep you informed on anything I find out, kay? ;D haha!
xoxoDaisyxoxo
...Well... that didn't give me too much information. Make a post on the forums? I could have done that without her help... Sighing, I closed down the e-mail and went to click on the 'Rumor' section of the forums. "Lets see... here we go, post new topic." I clicked on the button and it brought me to a new page.
"Title of the post?" ... Hmm.. I know. I typed in "Questions on the Wired Monsters and the 'Broken Character's" Hopefully, that will get some attention. Once the title was finished I began to write my post.
Dragon's Return: Hey everyone, this is my first post here, so sorry if something goes wrong. Haha. Anyway, I was just wondering - How many of you have heard of the Broken Characters, or of those weird purple Wired Monsters? I recently encountered the two of them with my party in an area a while back. We managed to get away, but... yeah, well I'm just asking if anyone has any information of these two things. Any information would be great! Thank You!
I hit the submit button and my post flew onto the forum. "I guess I just wait, then..."
I closed down the forums and returned to the main log in screen. I moved my mouse over the button reading 'Official Site' and double clicked. It brought me a page with so many different topics, I couldn't even tell where to start looking. There was everything from the 'History of the Game' to how to 'Move your Character'. "Maybe... I should have checked here first... before I started playing."
Atlast I found the topic of my desire - the servers. I clicked it quickly and began to read. "Here we go... Hyrule." I skimmed over the description of the town, item stores and what the area's were like in the server. Finally, I noticed the very last words, in big red letters read: In Order to reach Hyrule Server, a player must be LEVEL TEN and have completed the quest 'EPONAS RUN'.
"Ah, so I need to find that quest, huh?" I said, closing the window. I still had no clue where to get the quest... but atleast I knew what to do. I opened back up the forums and noticed that my post had already gotten some replys. "Ha! I hope they know more then Daisy."
Opening my post I found, to my surprise, three posts that seemed to be able to help me.
LittlePrincessMe: OMG MARTH :D! YOU MADE A POST :3! GOOD JOB! Hehe xDarkCloudx: Wired Monsters? Never heard of them. But the 'Broken Characters'... theres a thread for that somewhere else. Go search for it. Timeless Hero: ...Marth - I hope you read this in time. Don't post these questions on the forums. Hurry and reach level ten :D! You'll get more then enough answers then :D!
...Nevermind...
I closed down my topic and as the forums loaded back up, my jaw dropped. "Huh?! Wait... what?!"
My post was no longer on the page. Frantically I clicked the back button. My eyes grew wide as I read the words that scrolled across my screen:
TOPIC DELETED - Please Try Again Later.
"That's... weird..." I said, myself really at a loss for words. Why did my post get deleted? I don't think I violated any of the rules... I shook my head and was about to go check the Rules of the Forums once again when I suddenly remembered I had something else to do. "Oh, thats right, Jigglypuff!"
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Jigglypuff sat on the side of the large fountain, drawing random pictures in the dirt with her staff. "I sure hope... he didn't leave me..." She muttered quietly, letting out a sigh. "Oh well..."
She was about to get up and begin to log off when she heard a familiar voice call out to her. "Jigglypuff! I'm back!"
Jigglypuff turned and smiled as she saw Marth running towards her with his hand waving. "Oh, Marth. Hello."
Marth reached the mage and began to pant. "Sorry, sorry! I had to check a post on the forums."
"It's no problem." Jigglypuff answered. "Here... I think I just invited you."
"Yup. Good Job."
"Okay then Marth... what do we have to do to get to the next server?"
Marth shrugged. "Well... I know we have to complete a quest called 'Eponas' Run'. Where you get that though, I'm not sure."
"Oh. How about you ask one of your friends?" Jigglypuff suggested. "Maybe they'll know."
Marth nodded in agreement. "Yeah, thats a good idea. I'll send a whisper to Link then..."
>MARTH: Uh... Link? >LINK: HEY MARTH :D! >LINK: Did you read the post on the forums? >MARTH: Yeah... but it got deleted shortly after. >LINK: Cause i reported it : sowwy. >MARTH: Um... can I ask why? >LINK: Get to level ten and you'll find out ;D >MARTH: ...sometimes you can be a real jerk :( >LINK:O!!!! >LINK: My heart :( >LINK: But trust me, once you find out, you won't regret my choice ;D >MARTH: Whatever dude... >MARTH: Anyway... I was wondering, how do u get to Hyrule? >LINK: You need to be level ten, first off. >MARTH: I am. >LINK: Really!? Congratulations!!! >MARTH: Yeah... well, what do I do after that? >LINK: You gotta get the quest Epona's Run or somethin. >MARTH: Where do I get it? >LINK: There should be a NPC in the field to the east. He gives it :D >MARTH: Thanks.
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"Heh! Ness, guess what?" Link asked, staring up into the cloudless sky of field he and the boy were traveling in.
Ness stopped in his tracks and turned towards the Hylian. "What is it?"
"Marth is level ten!"
The boy rolled his eyes and shrugged. "And you're point is...?"
Link sighed. "I'm sure by now you know that he's part of the 'Event', correct?" Ness nodded. "Well, then, now that he's level ten, it will only be a few more hours before he can meet with Zelda! And then we might have another ally to join us!"
"Oh wow." Ness said, his tone obviously giving away his feelings. "Soon we'll have a newbie to help us battle against the forces that are trying to destroy the Internet and infect the globe through the web. How wonderful."
"I know, isn't it!?" Link replied with a smile, missing Ness's sarcasm by a mile. "Let's hurry and take down this boss so that we can get back to Zelda by the time Marth finishes his quest." Ness reluctantly sighed and followed Link as the two headed off in the direction of the boss.
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"Did he tell you?" Jigglypuff asked timidly.
Marth nodded. "Yeah. We need to find an NPC in the field to the east. I guess he'll give the quest then."
The two walked to the east and down the dirt road which lead them to the wide open grassy field. Like before, it's calm and peaceful nature was much more welcoming then the city itself. Players were resting in the field, most of them talking in party chat, while Toad NPCs ran about the plain. "Which one gives it?" Asked the pokemon, watching the mushroom men run around.
"Uh... I'm not sure." Marth replied with a shrug. "Let's spilt up and ask them all, I suppose."
And so began Marth and Jigglypuff adventure. So tideous, it was. "Hello there!" Jigglypuff would greet.
"What fine weather we're having, don't you agree?" Said one.
"Do you give the quest?" Marth asked to another.
"Gosh darn it! I think I broke my toe..." Replied another.
"Umm... Excuse me..." Jigglypuff said meekly to another NPC.
"I heard those Beast Folk are smelly. I've never smelt one, though." Was this one's reply.
"What fine weather we're having, don't you agree?"
"I bought a new item at that shop over there. I think he ripped me off!"
"Do you like dancing?"
"What fine weather we're having, don't you agree?"
"Gosh darn it! I think I broke my toe..."
After about ten minutes of running about the field, the two met back up and fell to the ground. "Not a single one of them gave the quest..." Marth muttered, sighing in defeat. "Man... how are we going to get to Hyrule now?"
Just then the sound of someone approaching them echoed through their headsets. The two tired players turned to see a human with brown hair and blue eyes, knightly looking armor and a huge sword across his back. "You two. I've watched you guys for a bit, what are you guys looking for?"
Marth rolled his mouse over the character. PARN it read. "Well, um, Parn... We're looking for the NPC that gives the quest Epona's run or something, so we can go to Hyrule."
"Really? Wow, you two must be newbies then, huh?"
Marth got an angry expression on his face, but it quickly vanished as he sighed. Jigglypuff just looked downwards at the grass in embarrassment. "Could you just help us?" Asked the swordsman, standing up.
PARN turned and pointed to a purple tent with the word 'QUEST' written above it. Marth's face went five shades of read as he began to speak, "Well, this is just a hunch, but maybe if I was looking for a quest, I'd try the building with the word quest on it?"
"Erm... well... uh..." Marth glanced around the field trying to think of something to say. Jigglypuff just held her head lower and let out an embarrassed moan. "I didn't... notice?"
"Uh huh..." PARN answered with a nod. "Sure you didn't. Well, good luck with your quest." The Dark Blade PARN waved goodbye to the two as he logged off.
Jigglypuff stood up and ran over to the building, not once taking her eyes off the ground. Marth watched the pokemon run and he couldn't help but let out a laugh. "Geez, must have embarrassed her, huh?" He said, walking calmly behind the running mage.
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-Quest Shop-
Marth entered the purple tent and was met by a worried looking Jigglypuff, who was busy shifting her toes and staring at the ground. "You get embarrassed easily, don't you Jigglypuff?" Marth asked with a laugh.
"Sorry..." She muttered, not taking her eyes off the ground.
The swordsman shrugged and looked around the room. It was a simple room with a purple rug and a table with a purple cloak infront of them. On the ceiling of the tent were images of stars and moons. On the table was a crystal ball, which was glowing a light blue color. Behind the crystal ball was black cat looking creature with violet eyes and a violet dress with some orange stripes towards the end. "Greetings!" It spoke as Marth entered. "I am Katrina, the quest giver of the Mushroom Kingdom. What quest shall you take part in today?"
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I moved Marth up to the crystal ball and pressed the A button. A list came up with a bunch of gray and hard to read missions. "Can I not choose those?" I asked, clicking on the first mission I saw.
An echo sound played, which was followed by the text appearing on the screen: Only the leader may choose the quest.
"Oh, Jigglypuff, you need to select the quest."
"I do!?" Jigglypuff called out in shock. "Oh... oh... um..."
I heard a click and the words appeared on my monitor: You have now become party leader! "What the..."
"I made you party leader. I remember how to do it, since when I first played, my party kept leaving and coming back. I made you leader because ... I erm, don't want to mess up and choose the wrong quest."
She really didn't have much self confidence, huh... I shrug it off and click back into the quest lists. I scrolled down and found the one I was searching for. "Here we go, Epona's Run." I clicked it and as I did, another echoey sound filled the headset and text shot up onto the screen. "Huh?"
"Whats wrong?" I heard Jigglypuff ask.
I pause at first, thinking over what I had just read. "...So, wait... we need another...?"
The text read: You need three party members to accept this quest!
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Marth and Jigglypuff walked outside of the tent and sat down on the side. "So, we can only do this quest if we have three members, huh..." Marth muttered. "Let me see... Link and Ness have their status set to busy... and Daisy isn't online... so I don't have anyone who would come." He turned and looked at Jigglypuff. "Do you?"
"Um... no, none of my friends are online..." She answered.
"Then what are we going to do..." Marth stared up at the smiling clouds in hopes of getting an idea. "I guess... we could just ask a bunch of players if they'll want to join us, right?" Jigglypuff didn't answer. "Let's see..."
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I fumbled around with the party controls until I found the 'Search for Party Member' button. "Here we go." I clicked and it brought up a list of names - apparently all the players in the server that were looking for a party and were around my level.
"Oh... hm..."
"Whats wrong, Marth?" Came Jigglypuff's soft voice.
"Well..." Next to each of the players name there was a level, their class and what they were searching for. For example, some of the players were looking to level up. Some where looking to do certain quests. Some wanted to trade items. After doing a quick run through of all the players looking for a quest, I found that none on the list were looking to do Epona's Run. "No one is looking to do our quest."
Jigglypuff muttered an 'oh' as I continued to play with the controls. "No biggie!" I announced, making Marth smile. "I'll just put that we're searching for a party to do that quest! I'm sure someone will want to join."
I filled out the needed criteria to search for a party and clicked the enter button. As I did, a green orb appeared over Marth's head. "Eh?"
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"Maaaarth!" Jigglypuff called, standing up and backing away. "There is something above your head!"
Marth stood up, and as he did, the orb traveled with him, not once moving from its place atop his skull. "Oh... I guess that shows that we're looking for party or something." He replied.
"Oh. Hehehe..."
Across from the two, there were two more players. A young girl in a pink parka was sitting atop a rock, staring into the sky, while a boy in a blue parka was laying across the ground. "...Oh!" Cried the girl suddenly. "Someone just put up there marker for the quest."
"Really?" Answered the boy, not paying much attention. "What class? And how many?"
"...Oh... it's a mage and a swordsman."
The boy on the ground let out a 'Hmm' as he rolled over. "Nah, lets just keep waiting for a single party to open."
"Okay." She replied with a smile. "Sorry Marth and Jigglypuff, but you'll have to join the waiting gang." Said the girl with a silly giggle.
However, upon hearing the names of the players, the boy on the grounds' eyes widened. "Hey... what did you say their names were again?"
"Marth and Jigglypuff." She answered.
The boy sat up and glanced around the field. "Can you tell me where they are?"
The girl nodded and highlighted Marth's name on her party search list. "Right over there." She said pointing towards the blue haired swordsman, who was busy dancing for the laughing Jigglypuff.
Looking over, the boy noticed the two characters avatars. "...I see. Hey, let's go talk to them. Maybe we will form a party after all."
"Kay."
The two got up and walked across the field, heading over to the two laughing players. "Hey, you! Meat shield!" Cried the boy as the two neared Marth and Jigglypuff. "C'mere!"
Marth turned around at looked at the boy stunned. "Uh... excuse me? What did you just call me?" He asked, not sure if he had heard what he did.
"You heard me, meat shield!" He called again, making a motion with his hand to come closer. "I need to chat with you."
"Well, maybe you should try talking to someone nicer before you ask to chat with them!" Marth yelled back, turning away and crossing his arms. "Geez, why are people online so rude?"
"Oh, he wasn't being rude." Came a sweet voice. Marth turned around to see the pink parka wearing girl leaning out from behind the blue boy. She had an innocent smile on her face and her hands bend her back. "It was a compliment. See, the term 'Meat Shield' is something that players use to refer to your class, since you can take the most hits and protect the team the most. You're the prefect tank, you know."
Marth glanced back. "Really?" She nodded. "Oh... sorry."
"Nice save..." Muttered the boy, at which the girl gave a giggle.
"So, uh, what do you two need?" Marth asked.
"You're looking to do the quest, 'Epona's Run' correct?" Asked the boy. Marth and Jigglypuff nodded. "Well, so are we."
Jigglypuff's eyes lit up. "Oh, really? That's good! Marth, we can form a party!"
Marth nodded. "Alright, that sounds good. Its nice too meet you two, um..." He rolled his mouse over the two.
Character: Popo Race: Human Level: 10 Class: Mallet Smasher HP: 140 MP: 65
Character: Nana Race: Human Level: 10 Class: Mallet Smasher HP: 140 MP: 65
"It's nice to meet you too, Marth." Nana, the girl in pink, said with another smile.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." The blue boy, Popo, said. "Invite Nana into your party now."
Marth nodded. "Uh, sure..." There was a brief pause as Nana was added to the party.
"Hey there." Nana said with another smile as she switched into party chat.
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I wonder if this girl is going to be as happy as Link? Either way, I clicked on Popo and went to add him into my party as well. But as I clicked 'Add', an error message came up: You can have no more then three party members on this server.
"Huh?"
"What is it?" Jigglypuff asked.
"I can't add Popo to our party."
"Well of course you can't." Popo said rolling his eyes. "...Are you two new or something? Each server has its own limit on how many people can be in your party at once. For example, on this server, you can only have a party of three. As you go through the servers, the party number increases."
Nana continued, "On the final server of the game, you can have a party of eight members. But it's very rare that you'll find a party that big. See, the bigger the party, the hard it is to get rare items. Plus the EXP is shared evenly..."
"So eight is the biggest party you can have?" I asked.
"No. If you want too, you can form an alliance with another group of players. You can have two parties of eight working together." Explained the blue Popo. "That is very rare, though. Mostly you'd see that during a very tough event or quest."
Wow... that's good to know, I guess.
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"So, does that mean you're not going to be joining us?" Marth asked.
Popo shook his head. "Nawh, I'll show up. Just leave that part to me. We'll form an alliance in the field once you guys show up."
Marth nodded. "Okay..."
Popo nodded and started to turn. "Well then, go get your quest. I'll meet you guys at the area field. Take good care of Nana while I'm gone, okay?"
"Ah, sure." Popo smiled and began to head back to the city, waving goodbye as he did. "...That sure felt weird."
"What did?" Nana asked, inching closer.
"This whole... 'party' thing."
She grinned. "Find it weird to put your faith and trust in successfully completing an important task in the hands of complete strangers?"
Marth gave Nana a lost stare. "Uh... I think so."
"Well, you'll have to get used to it. See, in online games like this, it's very rare that you're going to be in a party with all of your friends all of the time." She explained. "In order to level up, or complete a quest, you're going to have to join a party of mostly strangers to complete the task. Whether or not that party works, however, is up to the organization of the group. If you've got enough healers and buffers, and damage dealers. Stuff like that, y'know?"
The swordsman nodded slowly. "I see."
"It's really not so bad, honestly." Nana added. "It kinda gives you a worldly look at the game. You know, getting a chance to play with many different kinds of players. That's one of the most important parts of these online games - interaction between different players. And the fact that you're thrown into random parties sorta forces that interaction! That's the best part of the game... well, to me atleast."
"Hmph. I've only met two kinds of people so far. Nice guys and Jerks!" Marth answered, crossing his arms in a huff.
"Well... sooner or later, you'll find the nice jerks." She replied with a giggle. "But until that happens, how about we go prepare ourselves? We might need some items for the trip."
"I suppoe..." Answered Marth with a nod. "Alright then. Let's meet back here in five minutes." The two females nodded as well and the group set off towards town to stock up on supplies.
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Back in town, my party of three split up, each heading to our own shops. I found myself once again infront of the large mushroom shaped item shop. "Welcome to my store! "Please feel free to browse and carouse. Hoho!" Welcomed the NPC.
I sighed at the annoying greeting and opened up the list. My amount of gold was pretty decent, so I began to pick some maximum tomatoes and an item I read about on the forums early in the day - A Heart Piece - which is said to be able to revive a fallen player. "That'd always be good to have." I said with a smile.
"What would?"
That voice... I've heard it before...was it...
"Ooooh, is my dear Marthy going on an adventure?"
Ah... I remember...
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Marth turned around to come face to face with the healer in the yellow dress, Daisy. She was winking at him with a huge smile on her face. "Long time no see, hmm?"
"Not really... it's only been like two days, right?"
Daisy giggled. "Yes, but you see, once you start playing this game alot, two days becomes a long time, y'know?"
"I guess..." He muttered, going back to shopping.
Marth's ignoring of the healer caused her to cross her arms and give off an annoyed 'hmph'. "You're really not a friendly person, are you Marth?"
"I am... just not when I'm busy." Marth finished up selecting his items, paid with his gold and took a step away from the counter. "So, whats up Daisy?"
She shrugged. "Not much. I just logged on and I saw you walk into the shop, so I felt like following."
Marth raised an eyebrow. "Stalking much?"
"Well maybe I am..." Daisy replied, her voice softer and sexier. "And I bet you wouldn't complain, hmm?" She took a few steps closer to him with a very seductive look on her face.
Marth blushed. "...Hey wait! I didn't put in the command to blush!" He yelled, looking away from the healer.
At his outburst Daisy couldn't help but laugh. "Certain commands when done to other avatars make their avatar respond a certain way. I just used /seduce on you, which made you blush."
"Oh..."
"I forget you still kinda new." Daisy said with a smile. "But look! You're level ten! My, my, haven't we grown? So, what are you doing? Are you going out to level up in a field or something?"
Marth shook his head. "No. I'm doing the quest to get me to Hyrule."
"Oooh, Epona's Run? I love that quest!" Her eyes grew wider and brighter and she brought her index finger to her mouth for added cuteness. "Oh, Marthy, let me join, pleeeeease?"
"Sorry, I'm already in a party."
"Oh, drat." Daisy muttered. "What a bore... well, either way, good luck on your quest. I'm off to level up."
She turned to leave the shop when Marth called out. "Hey, wait."
Daisy turned around. "Hmm?"
"That message... I got yours." He answered.
Daisy gave a smirk. "I see." She lowered her voice. "So... have you found anymore information on those creatures?"
Marth shook his head. "No. Well, not really. I did make a post on the forums..."
"Yeah, I saw that."
"It was deleted a few minutes after, though."
Daisy looked shocked. "Really? Was it now..." She began to stroke her chin in thought. "Hmm... you know, now that I think of it, I remember another post... something about a deadly glitch... was deleted shortly after I was PKed by Dr. Mario. Maybe... this is some sort of super cool and secret event that the mods don't want people to know about. " Daisy shrugged. "Thats just a hunch, though."
"You think that Ness knows more about the event?" Marth asked.
"Oh, yes, thats right. I talked to him a bit after you gave me the stone. He seemed to know something that he didn't want to tell me." Daisy turned and began to walk out of the shop once more. "I'm going to chase him down and ask him. I'll let you know any information I pick up, kay?" She turned her head one last time. "You keep me informed too, alright?" Marth nodded. "Alright, good! I can't wait till the next time we play, my little Marthy."
"..." Marth sighed as Daisy giggled and ran off towards the white portal.
>POPO: WHERE ARE YA GUYS? -.- I'M BORED!
"Aagh!" Marth took a step back as Popo's whisper appeared suddenly on his screen. "Geez, he seems impatient. Well... I better go get that quest, then."
With that, Marth dashed off towards the field, hoping that his two party members haven't gone without him. "I sure hope this quest isn't hard..."
