John's Blog

Its been a while since I last updated. My ice/lightening wiz hit 40, so he's sporting some new gear.



Looking through my images, i see that he looks a lot different than before:



The base person hasn't changed, but some of the peripheral stuff has.

After several days of double experience points and a marathon session or two, my characters have changed a bit. The main one, my crossbowman remained the same:

4x level crossbowman

and my Ice/lightning mage got a makeover: (new color robe)

39 level mage (almost 40)

while others changed significantly:

Now level 35 (BW Page)

Made it to lvl 30 ! (finally)

and probably the biggest change:

level 3x FP mage.

Just as I expect my game characters to be progressing in their level, strength and abilities, God expects me, as one of his children to be growing.

The goal I have for my characters is to be powerful, and able to withstand progressively stronger attacks from the enemies. Even so, God expects me to be growing in my walk with Him, to be increasingly able to withstand the spiritual attacks from the world, and to be progressively becoming more and more like his Son Jesus

Gotta post an update.... My second magician has now made it to lvl 30! (That leaves me with just one below 30) He is a Fire/Poison Magician, for variety's sake. I do need to upload his picture since with the new equipment he can now use, he looks a lot different.

Level 3x F/P magician

I used to belong to a MapleStory guild called "JesusRox". I thought it was cool to advertise my faith that way. I eventually was kicked out, (without an explanation, and the only reason I can think of was that the guildmaster wanted to make room for other people).

Now, I'm not too sure it is a great idea anyway. Even though I try to apply my Biblical Morals (kindness, consideration, giving) in the game as well as in life, sometimes my motives are misunderstood and people get upset at me. I don't so much mind them being upset at me, but I don't want my Savior's name to be brought down by it. I realize that the same thing can happen in everyday life, but there you usually have the opportunity to put things into context.

The MS drive-by impressions reminds me of bumper stickers on cars. I also don't put a religious bumper sticker on my car for basically the same reason. I make mistakes, and I don't want my mistakes (cutting someone off, driving too fast, etc) to cause people to think badly of my Savior. Again, say in the workplace where the interactions are longer, you have the opportunity to put things into context, but driving down the highway, you only have one brief chance to make an impression, and its too easy to make a bad one.

OK, back to the blog. No, I don't really expect anyone to be interested in this. Its more of a practice issue than anything.

I've gotten hooked on MapleStory. It is a cutesy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). It is more fun-based than other RPGs. There is no blood and the whole thing is cartoonish in nature.

For those the may be familiar with the game I have:

4x lvl Crossbowman
3x lvl Page
3x lvl Ice/lightening mage
2x lvl mage

as characters I actively develope. (I think the term should be "MapleStory Multiple Character Disorder")