Ragnorok Revisited

In my gaming class, we were asked to list some of our childhood games. The first thing that came to mind was Ragnorok Online, a Korean mmorpg, even though I technically did not get into it until high school. My friends kept about it but I tried as hard as I could to ignore them. After all, I was constantly swamped with calculus homework and always had to stay behind after school. Yes...I was a drama nerd and even have videotaped performances and club t-shirts to prove it. I refused to play also because I assumed it would cost money. I was soon informed that a friend of a friend owned a free online server called Pimp RO. Thus, I was finally roped into joining towards the end of sophomore year. The game was 2-D and did not have spectacular graphics or anything, but it did have really cool character designs. Soon, I was spending hours on end grinding, killing pink puff balls that looked like meat buns. I was also unexpectedly attached to my pet ghost, which was always two steps behind me. Of course there was also hanging out with my friends. We used to go online together, and search for bosses in dungeons. It really helped that their levels were a lot higher, so I was able to gain experience much faster. At one point, we were obsessed with the game that we even made costumes and wore them at Sakura Con. I played as an archer, but ended up with a high wizard costume because a bow would have been hard to make out of wood. I don’t even really remember why I stopped playing. Perhaps it was due to college applications and harder classes. I kind of wish that I can log back in and revisit the Ragnorok world but alas, the server has since been deleted, including all of my saved data.