Playing HKO again only served to remind me of how frustrated I was with this game’s difficulty curve.  I didn’t play it nearly as much as many other SanrioTowners did, so I’m severely undereleveled for all these event quests.

I know I have no hope of completing the Saving Christmas quest, but I’m taking hold of this opportunity nonetheless.  At last, I can travel to Paris and pay My Melody a visit!

Other players may laugh at my noobish apparel (still decked out in Florapolis garb, after all - not to mention my embarassing weapon.  Even though I bought the pretty flower wand, I’m 5 levels too low to equip it), but I braved the perils of the monsters between London and Paris in order to build up a collection of frilly pink screenshots!

BunnyWinx woke up as if in a dream… strangely, she was sitting on the beach and wearing only her underwear!  “Whoa… what’d I do last login?”

Not far from the beach was a new sight - not only were there holiday decorations all over, but Cinnamoroll was here!  He’s the initiator of the Christmas Event… looking at the quest requirements, I know there’s no way I’ll be able to come even close to completing this one.

DR. WILY’S MONSTERS ARE AFTER SANTA, WHAT?!  …Oh wait, that’s not what it says.   Still, that’s literally the thought that came to my head when I read this.  (And Wily has robots, not monsters…)

I really like seeing these trees.  The one with the pink bows is my favorite~

I just can’t get enough of seeing Chou-chou’s house!  I think it is my favorite location in the game~  The snowman and sled are a wonderful touch.

On my way to Paris, I came across some cute things.  I think this is the first I have seen of the Little Twin Stars in this game!

Omg, candy flowers!  They look good enough to eat~  Nom nom nom.

At last, I made it to Paris!  My first encounter is… Piano!!  Eee!  I love her, she has always been one of my favorite Sanrio characters.  Soooo pink and fluffy.

Her shop doesn’t exist yet, but it’s nice to know that we’ll be able to buy furniture for our homes~  Piano’s portrait is so adorable. ;~;

Random cute flowers and heart-topped banisters in the Louvre… I say the real Louvre ought to look like this, too.

Paris is so amazingly PINK!!  Pictures of My Melody are all over the place!

Bagle and Scone?!  These guys are everywhere!!

Had to screenshot this little area here… I wish I lived in a neighborhood comprised of houses that looked like giftboxes. ;~;

Some very very cute ornaments of only the two greatest characters ever adorning this building…  I wish I could see Melody’s parasol, but my inventory is in the way.

Melodeeeeeeeeee!!!   *worships*

Th-thank you… ;o;

Okay, Melody’s brother is ridiculously adorable.   This spot is very pretty, too…

I love this gazebo.  I want one!

Let’s share some of the last screenshots from the magical adventure that is Hello Kitty Online!

These are from Hello Kitty’s birthday party!  It sure was… crowded!

*suffocates*

Well, that was a week ago… the big news nowadays is that HKO Founder’s Beta… has ended.   I have a lot of goals set for myself once the servers open up again.  Among them:

• /*/ Reach lvl20 so I can equip that Florapolis Wand I spent a lot of money on.
• /*/ Actually travel to Paris, so I can see my favorite Sanrio character, My Melody.  Yup… I didn’t pay her a single visit during FB.
• /*/ Try my hand at farming successfully.

Here’s hoping for Open Beta to start up soon!  Hopefully with a party system integrated, so I can help my friends (not to mention get help from my friends) in completing quests and things!

In the last minutes of FB, tons of people lined the beach at Sanrio Harbor, bidding Hello Kitty farewell… in our underwear!  Thanks for bringing Hello Kitty herself to come and say good-bye to us, Neverender!

The GM’s are telling us to keep the client installed, so I can’t wait to see what surprised they have in store for us before Open Beta rolls around!

Chococat needs a cake for Hello Kitty!!  What’s that?  You need me to find your apprentice, in the woods?  I’m on my way!!

Gotcha!!  What??  I need to bake the cake myself?!  …Very well… what are the ingredients?

 Omg, srsly?!  That’s a lot!!  At least they’re all things that can be bought from the NPC’s in Florapolis and the Harbor, and for pretty cheap.

 Ran out of monies buying ingredients, so I continued with the plot quests and recovered Sakura’s Key.  I got a giggle out of the fact that Kuririn’s family has a hamster wheel in their house.

At last, the cake is mine!  The little icon of it looks like a volcano erupting chocolate.

Yeahh!!  Did you hear that?  BEST CAKE HE HAS EVER SEEN.

 London is all decked out for the party!  OIC WUT I DID DERE.  Individual pics 1, 2, and 3.

Inside of the party hall!  Check out all the great food!  Can’t wait until the party starts so we can om-nom-nom!  Individual pics 1, 2, and 3.

;~; Homg Hello Kitty and I are bff’s.

 BUNNYWINX IS IN UR BASE, READY TO PARTAY.

Woo hoo!!  Just read the latest news about Hello Kitty’s birthday event in HKO!!  Looks like I’ve got some work to do!  I was going to play zOMG! today, but Hello Kitty needs me more!!  I’ll post more about it as I play!

Just finished playing for the day, here’s what I got for ya!

Eee!!  A house made of tea, and giant sugar cubes, and creeeeeeaaaammmm!!!!  Why, oh why, can this world not be real??

What??  We have a princess?!  This is the first time I’ve heard this…  Do I get to slay a dragon and rescue her?

This flower garden is sooooo pretty!   I’m unsure what character this house belongs to… how do I get the keys for these places??

Chatting it up with Ripplecloud…

Back at the Harbor, Yggdrasil showed us some neat tricks!  Where can I get a sparkle-creating necklace like that?  And more importantly, is there a necklace that creates a flowery effect, too??

*Sniffsniff*  Smells so pretty~  I thought this area seemed very serene, so now I’m keeping it forever!  (Love the adorable penguin-hut, too.)  HKO has such fanciful plants.  This one is Dark Opal Basil, which sounds so cool and romantic to me~  Basil is an herb I like a lot in food, plus it is my very favorite boy name ever!

I thought it was a good idea…

On the eastern side of the Harbor, I found a trio of Deku Scrubs!

Omg adorableness alert!!

Now, I’m north of Florapolis, in the South Dream Woods, on a quest to gather materials needed to learn how to craft an axe.  Gathering those materials involves cutting down trees with… an axe.  Why did I need to buy an axe in order to complete the quest for crafting an axe?

At least now I know what all the fuss over Box Pigs is about.  They do have charm.

Adorableness alert again!!  Wee-ooh, wee-ooh, wee-oh!!

…What is this thing?!

Back in Florapolis now, and feeling like a queen~

Love this tree!!  I found it on the way to London, which is southwest of Florapolis.  The monsters here are very strong and I had to run away fast!    The moths are adorable, though… I think I found what monster I want to be my pet!!

Successfuly braved the perils leading to London… It’s a pretty place, but not much to do because much of the NPC dialogue and quests aren’t in English yet!!

I chose this area in particular to take a screenshot of, because a building is blocking the H in the sign, so it says ‘ELLO KITTY!!  Get it?  ‘Cause it’s London?  Ha ha?  …Haahhh.

Thoughts and discoveries made during my second day of playing (this was yesterday, and I intended to make this blog post yesterday as well, sorry for the delay!):

I had just started playing when I happened across Ripplecloud and Noliai sitting with GM Calealen and others.  Hi there, girls (and guy)!

Now that HKO has only one server, as opposed to three, everyone is vying for their share of spoils… Somehow, the dozens of people here are expected to collect 30 crab claws from the handful of crabs available, which have very slow respawn rates.  *cry, cry*

I took a break from the furstrating crab claw quest and started exploring… then realized I hadn’t shared the picture of what my character looks like~  There I am!  I look just like 1/3 of everyone else playing.   I was really hoping for more variety in the character creation.

 I like this gal.  That was my first guess, too.

AT LAST, VICTORY IS MINE!  It took a very long time to reach this point.  But now, it is over!  Onward with the quests!

I love the environments in this game~  I could just walk around exploring, adoring the scenery for hours.  These trees look like cupcakes or gumdrops!

Bravely, I ventured to the next map, Florapolis.  I didn’t have much time to explore here, but I found a magic wand shop!  I really like the looks of that sparkly flower wand!!  Eeee!  It costs a lot of money, though…

My last discovery came in the form of Pinkuruchan’s PRETTY PINK HOUSE, especially the flowery bed.  Ahhhh, I want one~

Ta-da!  The first post in my brand-new HKO Diary category!  HKO is finally here, oh joy!  I played it for a couple hours as soon as the doors opened, which was very late at night.

There were some grueling times right before the server opened up!  I and many others passed the time by mingling in Noliai’s Hello Kitty Chat, which reached a record 10 visitors at the same time!

Some had more trouble than others making their way toward SanrioTown Harbor, so those that made it in grasped the hands of their left-behind comrades and dragged them along through the dimensional portal between Connecting Server Land and Sanrio Town.  …That’s how Noliai got through, at least!

Here’s my first batch of gathered HKO screenshots.  If they’re too small to read, you can click on them to view the full-size image.

Hurrah!  My favorite Sanrio character.  Can’t wait to actually find her in the game and not just as a tutorial guide…  Erm, no, Melo, I don’t notice a button below you…

“Are you happy today?  If you’re not, smiling surely helps!”  I just thought that line was pure awesome.

Myself, Aaron, and others are puzzled by this Hello Kitty doppleganger.

Dear Daniel warns us of the magidal doors that await us in our adventure.

Finally made it to SanrioTown Harbor!  The time is now to quest for the pants of ultimate power.

Exploring around the Harbor~

Hmm… the 450pixel width of this blog layout isn’t very forgiving when it comes to resizing HKO screenies. I will have to come up with a more creative way to share these in future posts.

I’ll spend more time playing today (I’m still learning the basics of gameplay, really…).  If anyone sees me (my username is just BunnyWinx), feel free to say hello!  I’ll probably be hanging out in the My Melody server!