Ripplecloud’s adventures on HKO » 2009

The people I know outside of the Sailoria guild, I know them first through their blogs. It is always fun to meet them in the game. I had always wanted to put everyone together into one big guild chat. Unfortunately bloggers are fairly individualistic people who want their own guilds xD. The next best way, is to put them all in one room. Because I like it when everyone knows everyone else, and there are no fighting and no unhappiness ever~

Note: I lost this post the first time I wrote it…. so… it’s kind of different from the original xD

On the morning of the HKO Bloggers’ screenie event, ripplecloud almost couldn’t make it as she had a hard time logging in, but she did.

She bumped into Kiui at the London portal on the way to Palaise de Versailles, so she dragged him along. :P

Some bloggers were early. In fact, when ripplecloud first told Bi the night before. Bi had already changed into white to get into the mood xD

We were also lucky to have GM-Layla and GM-Miyaw drop in on us, while we wait for late players like Serenity. :P

She assured ripplecloud she would be with us pretty soon with her turbo-speed flying teacup.

picture from http://blog.sanriotown.com/starsong:mymelody.com/2009/01/10/oh-happy-day/

Meanwhile, the GMs went back to their duties. And the merry group just hang out until everyone arrived. Let’ see we chatted about… how Azog is popular with ladies xD… how Ken and Barbie are divorced… and of course the eternal Harry Potter and Twilight (that ripplecloud does not intend to read)… etc etc…

Azog suggested we do guys vs girls in two lines and we did… except that the girl line was kind of wonky. :/

And when we got it straight, Cipre decided that she wanted to live up to her guild name by standing on her own right in front. (not to mention that she is the self-professed spy without a blog xD)

But we managed to make her tow the line :P in the end.

Cupid was looking lonely, so we gave him some lopsided-love~

A less lop-sided heart…

All the love must have got to Cipre, because she decided she wanted a blog after all.

And once she started, she couldn’t stop :P

Another formation, brought to you by the letter H~

We surprised some random questers like Callie.. well the guys did because they were… singing…

We terrorised Kaylin with emoticons…

And we wondered why they all ran away~

Fearing that we would be complained to the GMs, we decided to leave the scene of the crime and visit Kitty. She sure was happy to see us and could not keep from jumping up and down.

Thanks for giving ripplecloud a happy morning! ^^

Event attendees (in no particular order): DeevFactor, tigerlyly, CalypsoCafe, Bi, Komori, azog, Airian, Starrfire7, Kiui, the_otakutopian, Yueya, Serenity, noliai, Cipre, serenitycat, GM-Miyaw

You can find links to these bloggers here - HKO Blogroll

Non-blogging attendees: VioletYoshi, GM-Layla

If I have missed anyone out from the lists above, I am sorry. Please remind me and I will add it in. Also many apologies to Victor, for planning the event at places that you are unable to access. :( I will make sure to check these if there ever was a next time. :P Sorry!!

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serenitycat: Ripplecloud’s Blogger Party screenie
Yueya: Ripplecloud’s Bloggers’ Gathering

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Quick links - Events. Love them and hate them.

February 22nd, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

Yueya: Ripplecloud’s Bloggers’ Gathering

Komori: Farming death touch and coffee.

kel: been hush-hush about it for a while

drayy: HKO

bearmyrocks: Tuxidosam a fisher?

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Invitation - HKO bloggers’ screenie mini-event

February 21st, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

Calling all bloggers who appear here - HKO blogroll *click*

Event details:

Errr… guess the few of us are just going to arrange ourselves a bit and take a screenie (ok maybe more than 1) :P. It’s my event so it can be as lame as I want it! xD

Terms and conditions:

Be happy ^^

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Quick links - Please remember to drink lots of water and get enough rest during the event.

February 20th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

General

Konata-tan: make HKO fun again

ripplecloud: here’s another pet guide, this time from Kaito.

ripplecloud: finds a new MAIcroSTYLE member blog, woot!

Azog: gets Kitty luck :D and The elusive wolf card!

onlinegame: new exciting Minigame coming your way, Try it now.

Komori: is bored of boars.

Abra: More ROSE Online. ^_^

Event

HKOevent: Helping Hearts gives you a triple boost! -New!

Rini: Happy Hearts Charity Event, (+ Happii Barentain, everyone!!!)ヾ(＾∇＾) -New!

Azog: Coffee plantation, and a more special surpise visit

Bi: An Offering to Mister Happy Hearts

ripplecloud: has a long grandmother story to tell

We all know about herd mentality. In events like the current donation drive there are a lot of people in the guild easily influenced by the excitement and overall drive of the guild to do as much as they can to win.. or to donate as much as possible.. Some of these people are going to be forgoing sleep, feeling more stress, etc. And in a small map, with other guilds that you now see as competitors, add lag and maybe some headstrong younger players… its trouble waiting to happen…

And unfortunately it did happen. There was an incident yesterday that resulted in a young member of another guild being banned indefinitely. It is a shame, because in any other situation, that young member whom I do know would have been a nicer person. She would have behaved differently.
There are only so many GMs around.

Since this is a guild event, Guild Leaders should do their part to make sure their guild members behave. I know Sailoria is just constantly reminding everyone in our guild to behave themselves and not make trouble. So I hope so far, we are ok with all the other guilds and that the other guilds have no issues with us.

And I strongly urge all guild leaders to continue making it more relaxed for players and closely monitoring when there are conflicts. Because when there are strong words exchanged, it only means somebody could be banned and many others coming out of this incident, sad or feeling ill will towards another guild. This is NOT the kind of community that any of us want to see in HKO.

Komori: exclaims in disbelief- 150 zippers for a purse????

Yueya: the numbers hurt

Bi: is Working Hard for the Event…

Amber: is excited about the Charity Event

Featured

Check out Dawn LaRee’s cake submission for Sanrio Yummies. If you like it as much as I do, VOTE FOR HER PLEASE :DDD Click here to vote.
Voting ends March 6.

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Hi everyone

February 19th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

LOL this morning I wrote to GM-Abby saying that I was going to make a ripplecloud event.

There were several factors prompting this. There were several comments on the blogs where blogger’s we know are saying they already knew who was going to win the Valentines, etc etc. At the same time I was thinking the HKO blogger ring should get together for a group screenie just for the hack of it :P. And then I got an email from a friend who was pretty upset and thinking of not returning to OB and I wanted to do something fun for her before Happy Hearts end.

So I thought hey, why not make an event that is smaller in size for just us bloggers and give out some prizes to these cool individuals and have a good time ^^

But the idea got more complicated (because I love throwing everything together before I start to pare them down) and now that I see what the Charity event requires to be done, it is no longer logical to carry out my draft ideas, which actually would take some time to do and bother quite a number of GMs hahaha.

So… even though that event is out of the window, I still think it would be fun to get everyone together for a screenie!! But I’m not sure if anyone will want to do this with me since most of you (I know) are active in your guilds and will be busy making shirts and bags xD… so if you think you want in on this, please leave a comment ;) …

If nobody is interested well, I shall just pretend this post never existed. Wahahahahahaha! :P

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Quick links - Vote for Dawn LaRee!!!

February 17th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

Check out Dawn LaRee’s cake submission for Sanrio Yummies. If you like it as much as I do, VOTE FOR HER PLEASE :DDD Click here to vote.
Voting ends March 6.

HKOevent blog
Helping Hearts Charity Guild Event!

★Congratulations to Cricket★
the little engine that could for Blog All-Stars

Most discussed topics on the blogs (since my last Quick list):-

Farm

Komori: Farming Boredom- New!

tigerlyly: R.I.P. Farm

Komori: I AM BACK

Lilypop: HKO Farming rant >.

noliai: Hello Kitty has been busy visiting my farm!

Starrfire7: Happy Hearts!

noliai: My new farm

HKO extension

onlinegame blog: Hello Kitty Online will remain open 5 more days! Mystery Charity Event!
Reactions

- Abra: Hello Kitty Online Open 5 More Days!
- iheartbadtz: Happy Hearts Extended!
- Angie: Woot!
- Azog: Hello Kitty Online will remain open 5 more days! Mystery Charity Event!
- Starrfire7: Happy Hearts EXTENSION!!!!

Quests

tigerlyly: The Final V-Day Quest- New!

AngelBaby: Happy Hearts

iheartbadtz: has finished all her Quests

Kiui: posted a 3 liner - Phew, finished valentines quests!

Azog: Happy Hearts quest chain

General

tigerlyly: Helpful Hands, More Happy Hearts. and Moving Water?!- New!

tigerlyly: Universal Potty Break

AlmightyTallest: Fat Kitty needs a CPU diet

Azog: Bacon explosion

Not able to play very much

Taylor: HKO…Goodbye!- New!

Dreamspirit: Good bye… for now

Kittyology: SOO BUSY!!

butterfly414: Happy Hearts

Pets

Azog: Pet care and maintenance- New!

Azog: The Beast Encyclopedia, completed?

Captan.Harlock: Gotta Catch’em All!!

Newbie experiences

Taylor: HKO

clearwing: YAY hellokitty online finally ^_^

Abra: HKO!

Character

tigerlyly: I Turned Level 26?

Lilypop: Whoops!

Note: - New! as off my last update to this post

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39th entry - Bugs, kindness and a runaway Kitty on HKO

February 16th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

So we know that the GMs have new banana suits that some wear more than others. (Guess who are the rebels? :P) But did anyone realise that the Rescue team seem to be gone? Does that mean… :O … that the getting stuck bug has been squashed??? I haven’t been stuck yet for Happy Hearts, have you?

The item mall bug (check out the ??? in the inventory. I wouldn’t try getting anything from the item mall until the GMs say its fixed. ;P) gave ripplecloud an opportunity to PM GM-Calealen and ask him the helmet question…

Maybe that’s why the lady GMs wear hats instead :P

Anyway, there was a server reset the night (ok, morning, it was 4am for me :P) before which broke up the Swear Word Test Group session. The result was… ripplecloud lost clay and had to go back to digging. Digging is what dogs do best, not ripplecloud - -

But the digging was done and on her way back, ripplecloud saw Juno!! :DDD Only it was not juno D: juno!!!!!!!!!! When you you become a boy????? :/

It was then that ripplecloud realised that people can get the same nick (sort of) if it was in different combinations of caps and non-caps :(…

In fact, it was then that ripplecloud remembered that there used to be a Sassy and a sassy in Sailoria in FB, and it got so confusing in the guild chat they decided they couldn’t belong in the same guild and left.

ripplecloud would certainly hate to see another Ripplecloud, riPPlecloud or even rippleCLOUD D: Eep! GMs! Help!

But enough of the confusing talk.

It was time to go to Melody’s Grandma in Paris to finish up yesterday’s quest and to get the day’s quest! :D… …

…O.K. so maybe ripplecloud should let all the others go first :P *Major lag*

But when ripplecloud did get the new quest, she realised that she couldn’t gather any of the goat bamboo stuff that she needed. ripplecloud was perturbed because her gathering skill and tool were high enough. Luckily, the ever patient Starrfire7 listened to ripplecloud’s description of her problem and came up with the solution :DDDD It was ripple’s chopping tool that was not high level enough!

So she made ripplecloud a new axe! And ripplecloud visited her Rose of Versailles farm to get it.

With 1024 resolution, ripplecloud got to see the top bit of Empire State Building. I think Batz is ~~singing~~ squeak-chirping.

Thank you so much Starrfire7! (And also to Katsuko who checked if she had a spare axe for me ^^)

Bi invited ripplecloud to her farm the day before, so ripplecloud and Starrfire7 thought they would visit Bi together.

But it seemed farms can only hold 5 players at a time now, so Starrfire7 was rejected at Bi’s door :O It was sad :(

In Bi’s Relax Range farm, members of the Misfits were slaving away :P. ripplecloud met Loki, Cipre and the unforgettable HKera ^^ The bad news was, we over-picked Bi’s oat plants and killed them D: The good news was Bi had enough oats to make biscuits and distributed those to us ^^ Thanks Bi!

And then it was back to questing! Most of which comprised of walking, walking, walking… and bumping into friends…

Everyone has a heart plush but me :(

… and…

Hello kitty!!!??? 0_0

Omg, ripplecloud had never even got to see Hello Kitty at the previous events and here she was! :O But it was wierd… it felt like a scene from the runaway Gingerbreadman…

“You’ll never catch me” says Hello Kitty.

That’s EvaKitty, PinkiTwinky and ripplecloud chasing after Hello Kitty. ripplecloud never knew Kitty was such a sprinter 0_0 Mysteriously, Hello Kitty finally decided to stop and play at the crop circle of North Secret Peak.

But when EvaKitty turned to go, Hello Kitty followed her! :O Hello Kitty adopted EvaKitty! :DDDD

But after following a bit, Hello Kitty grew bored and disappeared. :/ Oh well, at least I saw Hello Kitty at North Secret Peak!! :D

It was a bit of an anticlimax for ripplecloud who went back to questing. Luckily, there are amazing guildmates like RubyPrincess, who really worked hard to stash items and share with the rest of the guild. Compared to her, the easily distracted ripplecloud feels *ashamed* :(

Next stop, the Palaise de whatever (I forgot :P)… Cupid was there and omg, cupid was soooo cute, ripplecloud accidentally gulped an oat cookie :O and that was needed for the quest!!!! - -

Hey check out my heart plush!! xD *love* And I want to a pet Cupid!!!

Luckily, Miyabi had just one cookie left and she even took the trouble to take it to ripplecloud in Paris. In fact, Miyabi too had been absolutely wonderful the whole day, answering everyone’s questions and giving stuff out. *giant hugs for Miyabi :DDD*

To pay the goodness forward, ripplecloud decided to go to the harbour to give her very teeny, tiny stash of extra quest items to Sailoria.

And look who is at the harbour!! :D

Keep your eyes peeled guys, you never know when HK may pop up! xD Did you see HK today?

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Yueya: Happy Hearts Event
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Sanriotown blog: Cupid Needs Your Help!

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Quick links - Cupid’s quest has ended, who won?

February 16th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

HKOevents: Happy Hearts Event Prizes

Yueya: Happy Hearts Event

Bi: the tale of a little lamb….

Azog: Stress test day two

Tigerlyly: The HKO Version of a Pokedex

iheartbadtz: had Happy Quests

AlmightyTallest: is it time yet to feed the pet

ripplecloud: hmmm, I wonder who this is o_0… A Warm HKO Hello to you all

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38th entry - HKO Happy Hearts: Changes from the previous version

February 15th, 2009 by ripplecloud•云云 :D

I wasn’t expecting the HKO map interface to change, but there were some pretty obvious changes for the better! The cute images are now gone, replaced by icons that corresponding to those appearing on the map, very user-friendly. And the map is no longer cluttered with overlapping text because these now appear only when you mouse over them. The best update must be the addition of the "!" and "?" signs by the NPCs, conveniently telling you if there is a quest available or no. Thank you HKO team ^^.

ripplecloud logged in more than one day later from when the event got started. Luckily for her, she met the amazing Katsuko, whom you may know as the highly efficient secretary from Founders’ Beta days heehee :P

While ripplecloud was trying to make sense of all those confusing new quest requirements, she became happily distracted from the quest at hand when she bumped into Bi.

They had the most amusing conversation about censorship. In fact, ripplecloud very rapidly discovered the high level of censorship in the game within the first five seconds of spawning in New York. That is not too say that ripplecloud uses undesirable words in every phrase.

So having now discovered the witty intellect lying hidden within Bi’s blonde head, she was obliged to discuss the same scintillating topic of censorship with Bi. :DDD

It was riotous conversation and ripplecloud went on with the game in good spirits. She was extremely happy to meet noliai, even if briefly in the game.

And she was also very fortunate to receive a lot of extremely useful quest tips from Starrfire7 and the rest of the guild in the guild chat.

ripplecloud soon made her pot of strawberry fondue and was on her way to Paris to finish the quest when she discovered a merry gang at London! :DDDDDD It was Azog, Serenity, Bi, Lilypop and GM_Calealen on the board.