Adventures into Geekdom

For those who know me well, you know that it is quite a normal occurrence for me to be up late at night. I usually waste my late nights watching TV or just doing pointless stuff on Facebook. However, the past few nights have been spent in a surprisingly different way. I have in fact been sucked into the geek vortex. My friend introduced me to Perfect World, it is a mmorpg(that's right I'm even learning to speak the geek language) or massive multiplayer online role playing game.

The first night I didn't think much of it. I created my character, and started to check out the game. I had no clue what I was doing, as I have never entered into these levels of geekery before, so my friend played the game with me to help me out (thanks Jonathan). I started to figure things out, kill the little bug like creatures and get prizes. Pretty simple. The more buggy things you kill, the more experience you get. I leveled up the very next day. That was so exciting. I had to keep playing so that I could level up more.

The next step for me was fulfilling quests. I was sent on little missions by different people to do certain things. Kill so many of the beetle kings, talk to apothecary and simple things like that. Finishing a quest is awesome though! Some quests are so awesome you can level up by just finishing one quest. The more you level up, the harder the quests get, but that's fine because the more you finish the powerful you become. Becoming more powerful is pretty much exhilarating. I'm already a level 7.

Needless to say, I have become slightly addicted to this game. I never understood how nerds could play games for hours and hours...but now I do. Of course some things in this game still confuse me, like why that jewel thing gave me a pumpkin head for a little while...and what good did the pumpkin head do me? I think I'll figure it out though, hopefully by the time I'm powerful enough to kill those creepy land mermaid things that scared the crap out of me. *twitch*