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#1 Dec 21 2005 at 3:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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*Somewhere in the Northern San d'Orea residentials...*

Young elvaan children:
"Boy, I'm bushed!"
"Yeah! I've never fought so many rarabs in my life."
"These skins should sell for a fortune, though!"

Grey-haired elvaan male:
"Hah! You kids think you have it so tough. That's nothing!"

Child1:
"Oh no, here we go...grandpa..."

Male:
"Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect your elders?? Where was I...oh yes.
Back in my day, we didn't get no 3000 gil for a stack of earth crystals! We were lucky to get more than 500, and we were thankful to get it! Of course, we had to farm for months to get that much, and we had to contend with the RMT too!"

Child3:
"Oye, not the RMTs again..."

Male:
"Whenever we'd get a leg up on them, they'd just drag a horde of beastmen onto us and warp away, leaving us to clean up the mess! Meanwhile, their buddies would make off with the good stuff. Even training was harder back then! We didn't have the luxury of displaced mobs -warping- back to their spawns. No, they _walked_, and they'd pick on adventurers all the way there! And if you so happened to be a summoner, we didn't have this 'mini-avatar' nonsense. If you wanted to master the elements, you'd have to take a full party of experienced fighters in to wail on them! These days you just have that scraggly rat sneeze on them, and over they went..."

Child2:
"Hey, not everything we do is easy! We work hard for our gear!"

Male:

"Pah! What do you know about work? Your generation has no work ethic, that's your problem. You get to walk into one of those pansy BCNMs and get your drop. In _my_ day, we had to hunt our items down! It was either beat out the RMT and your legit opposition, or haul your wallet to the Auction House and pay for it! I remember spending a month and a half camping the Valkurm Emperor. We didn't have these fancy shmancy Empress Bands to aid our experience gain, either. We either got a party, or we sucked it up and solo'd easy mobs for 30 experience! And heaven help the dragoon who got his dragon killed...none of this 20 minute recall bull, we had to wait two full hours to get our pets back!"

Child3:
"Grandpa, you make it sound like _everything_ took a week of sweat and blood back then."

Male:
"Oh, no, not everything, I suppose...in fact, some things were easier! Why, I remember..."

Child1:
"Oh, great, now look what you did!"

Male:
"Back then, 1 million gil would get you the Emperor's Hairpin, Ochuido's Kote and Leaping Boots, -and- you'd still have enough left over for the week's groceries! TP practically fell from the sky with our old weapons, one weaponskill lead right into another...not like these flimsy new ones, you'd be lucky to get 20TP on a PentaStrike...and oh, what a wonder it was to be a Beastmaster! Mobs hung around even after you released them, and you could hit chain 6 without even really trying..."

*Elderly Elvaan gets a far-off look in his eyes.*

Male:
"The streets were practically paved with gold, and our enemies fell swiftly beneath our weapons..."

Children:
"...I think he's having one of those flashbacks.."
"Let's get out of here while we can."
"Sounds like a plan. Hey, you guys want to help me level my Dragoon?"
"You have a Dragoon??"
"Wow! Yeah! Dragoons are cool!"


*Meanwhile, somewhere in Ghelsba Outpost...*

Ancient Orc:
"...and back in MY day, there was none of this 'Oh, we're so far from home, let's just warp back to our spawns' crap! After we got done hunting outside the city walls, we had to walk fif-teen coordinates just to get home! Sometimes we'd pick up a Tarutaru to snack on along the way..."

Orcish child:
...*sigh*...
#2 Dec 21 2005 at 3:18 AM Rating: Good
Bravo.
#3 Dec 21 2005 at 3:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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That...was awsome. Lol.
#4 Dec 21 2005 at 3:27 AM Rating: Excellent
I loled.
#5 Dec 21 2005 at 3:28 AM Rating: Good
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Male:
"Oh, no, not everything, I suppose...in fact, some things were easier! Why, I remember..."


"Why, back in my day, fishing used to be alot easier! You could fish in your sleep!" -NPC in Port Windurst
#6 Dec 21 2005 at 3:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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lol! Rate up!!
#7 Dec 21 2005 at 5:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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I could hear my grandfathers voice reading that lol...bravo indeed.
#8 Dec 21 2005 at 5:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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ROFLMAO, thanks man, I needed a good laugh this morning!
#9 Dec 21 2005 at 6:26 AM Rating: Good
Oh, I hurt. My chest is killing me from laughing so hard.
#10 Dec 21 2005 at 8:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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lolz well done, that was a great paraody.
#11 Dec 21 2005 at 8:31 AM Rating: Good
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Very awesome indeed!
#12 Dec 21 2005 at 8:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'd rate the OP up but since you can't go past 5, I'll just bump this thread a few times to keep it at the top best I can, so other's can read this wonderful lil story :3
#13 Dec 21 2005 at 9:13 AM Rating: Excellent
Why when I was your age 170k could by an Astral.

Rate up :) Gave me a good laugh which is always a nice way of starting a workday morning.
#14 Dec 21 2005 at 9:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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If you rate up the OP when he's already 5 it'll boost his average karma directly, I believe. So rate up. ^^;;
#15 Dec 21 2005 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
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HAHAH!!!! I think I cried!!!!

Great job!!! rate way up!^^
#16 Dec 21 2005 at 9:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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That was great!

So bored in computer class in school...thanks for a few minutes of entertainment. >_>
#17 Dec 21 2005 at 9:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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Heh. Rate up. Very amusing.
#18 Dec 21 2005 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
that was good stuff, well done, lol

Baron von GaugeChambers wrote:
I'd rate the OP up but since you can't go past 5, I'll just bump this thread a few times to keep it at the top best I can, so other's can read this wonderful lil story :3


actually, when you give an excellent, it gives it a 6...and the total score actually goes as high as 6, but only shows up to 5.00.

so rating up a post that is at 5.00 technically does boost that post's karma a bit
#19 Dec 21 2005 at 10:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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GREAT piece. Hah man so true! It should be stickied for the noobs. Wish i could rate you up multiple times for it you did a good job on that.

:)

Edited, Wed Dec 21 10:40:02 2005 by RattyBatty
#20 Dec 21 2005 at 10:47 AM Rating: Excellent
Laughs are as effective as coffee, and better for you!

Yay for a nice way to wake up.

Oh yeah, don't forget having to go to scarey new zones without a level 75 to sneak and invis you. First walk to Valkurm, anyone?
#21 Dec 21 2005 at 11:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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ah, I am enlightened Smiley: sly

Rate up's for Everyone! Smiley: jester
#22 Dec 21 2005 at 11:10 AM Rating: Excellent
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Awesome post man, definitely worthy of a rate up ^^b
#23 Dec 21 2005 at 11:11 AM Rating: Good
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Hehe, that was pretty amazing.

Very nicely written, made my morning start off pretty nice. :)
#24 Dec 21 2005 at 11:34 AM Rating: Good
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Hahaha, Very funny!
#25 Dec 21 2005 at 11:54 AM Rating: Good
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/cheer
Awesome ^^
#26 Dec 21 2005 at 12:19 PM Rating: Good
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Thank you for making my morning a little brighter!
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