Of course, I knew closed beta was going to come to an end and we all wouldn’t be able to play for a while, but now that it’s almost here, I don’t wanna go!  But if saying farewell to Florapolis and my friends for a while mean next time we get to explore all over and check out new places, new cities, (new monsters, eeeeek!) then I certainly can’t complain for the delay.

So instead, I went through and sorted out some of my good memories to post, to remember all the fun of closed beta and to remind me to be patient for open.

 Here’s one very good memory: finally finishing my house!  Which I then used to sunbathe on, naturally.

Then there was the time I found a GM up a tree.  Alas, poor Bacon!

 And who could forget the great Tadakatsu and his super fun events?  Here’s Angelsky and me, posing with our cool new threads and umbrellas that we won in the detective game.

And here’s a whole BUNCH of us gathered at the cafe for the music lyrics minigame:

I even got to help  run one of the events!  We had a top secret planning session at my house with Tadakatsu, Flowerfall, Bucket, sqolive, Bella, and later Tom and Akio-kun.  (If you ever want to run a game or take over the world, these are definitely the folks to call.  Go Pika Construction Co.!)

Our event was a TON of fun, and people were running all over trying to find us and save Tadakatsu from the ninja invaders.  At the very end, it came down to the wire for who would get the very last quest item for Tada and win the game.  A photo finish!

Of course, lots of other fun things happen.  I remember chasing Tadakatsu and Akio-kun all around with my umbrella sword, and the great watermelon invasions at the farms of all my guildmates, and building building building to get everyone’s house done in time, and the Area Effect fire spell guy who was definitely a troll but made me laugh (will post the log of that conversation sometime), and all sorts of good times.

I just can’t wait for open beta!

I’ve only been playing HKO for three days now, but I’m already having so much fun. It’s been great running around and exploring, trying all the quests, finding fun little surprises… I can’t wait until later versions, when more areas are updated! And it looks like I came just in time, too… building my house is going to be hard work, but hopefully I’ll be able to get it done in time for the 25th.

Thankfully, I’ve made some very nice friends who are helping me. Maybe if I finish my house in time I’ll see if anyone would like a helping hand in building theirs up. It’ll be so fun in the Open Beta, when we have more time, to see how everyone decorates!