Ark [Light Novel]

[CutePurpleBunnies]

Originally Posted by Forbin

When I was reading Ark I was reminded of all the things that went on in Everquest / World Of Warcraft.

KSing from a NPC at a certain level lowers your 'faction'.
PVP dudes will backstab you the MOMENT a good drop happens.
People who play 'Holy' characters tend to become 'Holier than Thou' types in a crisis.
Training NPC Mobs onto other NPC mobs (Usually nerfed)
Ebaying all your stuff.
Training Faction to ridiculous levels (For Example, Dark Elves in the Light Elf Town)
People who are helped by entire gangs of flunkies just to get the bragging rights.

Ark reads like a history book to me.

Spoiler for OT:

Hanging out with the orcs in S.Ro while everyone else gets attacked by them.

People at the Freeport yelling about rats eating through the bottom of their bag, and providing people with steel weapons if they brought the "lost" items back to them at the gate. (back when nothing had level caps and steel weapons were OP)

"Evil" races having the kinder, more helpful players

The ongoing auction spamfest of auctions in the zone east of freeport, where even a lvl 1 with a few silver could make it big.

PVP dudes backstabbing you all day every day everywhere. (rp pvp server)...

Damn you starting nostalgia trips, games just aren't the same these days...**grumble grumble**

Oh, and the rain of dead woodelves in the city of kelethin....

[Amanomurakumo]

Originally Posted by CutePurpleBunnies

Spoiler for OT:

Hanging out with the orcs in S.Ro while everyone else gets attacked by them.

People at the Freeport yelling about rats eating through the bottom of their bag, and providing people with steel weapons if they brought the "lost" items back to them at the gate. (back when nothing had level caps and steel weapons were OP)

"Evil" races having the kinder, more helpful players

The ongoing auction spamfest of auctions in the zone east of freeport, where even a lvl 1 with a few silver could make it big.

PVP dudes backstabbing you all day every day everywhere. (rp pvp server)...

Damn you starting nostalgia trips, games just aren't the same these days...**grumble grumble**

Oh, and the rain of dead woodelves in the city of kelethin....

Are you even talking about Ark anymore?

[Sarka]

So, is his application get retrieve and glued back together?😂

[nakie08]

Originally Posted by CutePurpleBunnies

Spoiler:

I'm on vol 18ish, can't remember exactly when it happened but... at some point the person who wanted to include the people that where leveling using alternate means gets tasked to find the person behind... well, that more spoilers than you asked for. He ends up signing a deal to provide them with ingame video of his character, but only video he chooses to send in. Mainly because the exec can't outright say why they want everything all the time from him without sounding suspicious, and he doesn't want to give away how he acts outside of his "heroic persona". I guess it isn't much of a spoiler if I say that they found out about him because of another player with him recording some of the things they did together and posting it to the hall of fame.

Is it just me or does that sound like LMS? Or is that really what happened in Ark too?

[Forbin]

Originally Posted by CutePurpleBunnies

Spoiler for OT:

Hanging out with the orcs in S.Ro while everyone else gets attacked by them.

People at the Freeport yelling about rats eating through the bottom of their bag, and providing people with steel weapons if they brought the "lost" items back to them at the gate. (back when nothing had level caps and steel weapons were OP)

"Evil" races having the kinder, more helpful players

The ongoing auction spamfest of auctions in the zone east of freeport, where even a lvl 1 with a few silver could make it big.

PVP dudes backstabbing you all day every day everywhere. (rp pvp server)...

Damn you starting nostalgia trips, games just aren't the same these days...**grumble grumble**

Oh, and the rain of dead woodelves in the city of kelethin....

Ah Good Old Kelethin, where I spent 3 months bringing up my light elf Faction so high that my DARK ELF could almost walk freely there...until I found out the banker was on a different faction..haha

I hope when the 4th book is completed I see more of my memories be written down.

Everquest Song Have you Seen my Corpse

[Forbin]

Chapter 3 Volume 4 is out!

Spoiler for Chapter 3:

Alan and Andel hire a group of Killers to kill Ark 5 times. Andel requests to accompany them when they kill Ark
This removes 1000 fame (I think) from Alan, but he probably doesn't even notice the diff.

Andel turns out to be a son of a politician who has tons of money.

Alan wants the secretary girl to be 'one of his' and wants Ark out of the way. Alan also knows that Ark soloed the 'V' boss and is very jealous.

Questions running in my mind.
I didn't notice that Shambala was the name of the 2nd person 'auto disqualified' Weird that he met up with Ark eh?

How did Ark give Shambala the sword he needed? The snake wasn't functioning properly.

Was the Cat Elder Hassan a he or she, the translation flips the gender every other statement.

Who's the fourth person who was on the 'Heroes quest?'. Alan, Ark were the two who found a piece (I assume Alan has?) and Shambala, but who's the 4th?

[jelder]

When Snake wasn't functioning properly, it would spit out all the things stored in it out one by one. Ark just kept the sword after it was spat out and gave it to Shambala later.

[casgoldsmith]

stop comparing LMS with Ark, LMS is 1000x better than Ark
That's a fact

[bakato]

Originally Posted by casgoldsmith

stop comparing LMS with Ark, LMS is 1000x better than Ark
That's a fact

Yeah. Ark's personality and circumstances were just forced compared to Weed's upbringing.

[drunkenwolfin]

Originally Posted by Forbin

Chapter 3 Volume 5 is out!

Spoiler for Chapter 3:

Alan and Andel hire a group of Killers to kill Ark 5 times. Andel requests to accompany them when they kill Ark
This removes 1000 fame (I think) from Alan, but he probably doesn't even notice the diff.

Andel turns out to be a son of a politician who has tons of money.

Alan wants the secretary girl to be 'one of his' and wants Ark out of the way. Alan also knows that Ark soloed the 'V' boss and is very jealous.

Questions running in my mind.
I didn't notice that Shambala was the name of the 2nd person 'auto disqualified' Weird that he met up with Ark eh?

How did Ark give Shambala the sword he needed? The snake wasn't functioning properly.

Was the Cat Elder Hassan a he or she, the translation flips the gender every other statement.

Who's the fourth person who was on the 'Heroes quest?'. Alan, Ark were the two who found a piece (I assume Alan has?) and Shambala, but who's the 4th?

Wait... where are you reading this? I thought volume 4 chapter 3 was the latest??

[SinsI]

Considering that the contents of that spoiler are from that chapter, it is his misprint.

[drunkenwolfin]

I see now, considering the time of the post and time since the last chapter came out I assumed there was a second source of translations I was unaware of.
I wasn't exactly game to peek at a spoiler from ahead of where I am up to lol

[Forbin]

sorry wrong volume.

[Forbin]

Not out yet but things that happen in Volume 5

Spoiler:

Ark gets a new sword the 'Saw Sword' which summons a being called the War Lich, War Lich wants to fight a 'Skelly' of power so it can finally go to Vahalla but Skull is to pitful ATM.

He finds the Underground World which is full of Racoon guys and finds out the 'Soul Gem' (Which is probably the 2nd piece of the 3 treasures) was being held by the Fake Truthseeker, a Red haired man.

He then ADDICTS ALL OF THE RACCOONS with Beserker Cookies (Who said Ark isn't evil) to raise his intimacy. OMG!

Finally the Assassins catch up to Ark but instead Justiceman comes out and WHOOPS THEIR ASSESS! Andel Escapes. (Uses 3 warp scrolls in a row! wow 600 meters in a second). Alan Pays Andel a really large sum and Andel uses it to bribe an employee at Global Exos to give Ark's home Address.

Ark triggers another 'Event' where the World Tree beneath Cairo. Basically the tree beneath Cairo is going to explode and kill everyone. Global Exos goes nuts because another World Event is triggered and Alan is no where near (I think). At the end where the tree (Lvl 250) was at 99% Popo (NPC) who is dying from the battle tells Ark to run but instead Ark nurses him even though it will cause his death. Miracle Nursing triggers and it turns out that was the key to shutting down the tree. Ark gets the 2nd Marvel which was NOT the Soul Gem. The soul Gem was fed to the tree causing it to go beserk.

Andel hires another set of Assassins (15 I think) and right before Justiceman and Rocco die, Ark shows up with the Racoon Tribe and whoops them. Ark corners Andel, and pulls out a 'Scroll of Truth' which turns Andel Chaotic and then a BUNCH of Robbery scrolls and basically steals Andel penniless. (again)

Ark Offers the raccoons to live in Lancel Village which improves his quest to 60%.

That's about as far as I got, reading MT gave me SUCH a headache.

[Rainne]

i actually Enjoy ARK more than LMS, IMO the battle system makes more sense, a level 70 can defeat a 300 Monster with the right condition. iN LMS thats pretty damn impossible even with Weeds badass Swordskills

[toaa]

so is ark in trouble and can alan get crushed by a car ?then the car accidentally goes back again?

the car has spikes on its wheels by the way for a weird reason

[Schion93]

Originally Posted by Forbin

Not out yet but things that happen in Volume 5

Spoiler:

Ark gets a new sword the 'Saw Sword' which summons a being called the War Lich, War Lich wants to fight a 'Skelly' of power so it can finally go to Vahalla but Skull is to pitful ATM.

He finds the Underground World which is full of Racoon guys and finds out the 'Soul Gem' (Which is probably the 2nd piece of the 3 treasures) was being held by the Fake Truthseeker, a Red haired man.

He then ADDICTS ALL OF THE RACCOONS with Beserker Cookies (Who said Ark isn't evil) to raise his intimacy. OMG!

Finally the Assassins catch up to Ark but instead Justiceman comes out and WHOOPS THEIR ASSESS! Andel Escapes. (Uses 3 warp scrolls in a row! wow 600 meters in a second). Alan Pays Andel a really large sum and Andel uses it to bribe an employee at Global Exos to give Ark's home Address.

Ark triggers another 'Event' where the World Tree beneath Cairo. Basically the tree beneath Cairo is going to explode and kill everyone. Global Exos goes nuts because another World Event is triggered and Alan is no where near (I think). At the end where the tree (Lvl 250) was at 99% Popo (NPC) who is dying from the battle tells Ark to run but instead Ark nurses him even though it will cause his death. Miracle Nursing triggers and it turns out that was the key to shutting down the tree. Ark gets the 2nd Marvel which was NOT the Soul Gem. The soul Gem was fed to the tree causing it to go beserk.

Andel hires another set of Assassins (15 I think) and right before Justiceman and Rocco die, Ark shows up with the Racoon Tribe and whoops them. Ark corners Andel, and pulls out a 'Scroll of Truth' which turns Andel Chaotic and then a BUNCH of Robbery scrolls and basically steals Andel penniless. (again)

Ark Offers the raccoons to live in Lancel Village which improves his quest to 60%.

That's about as far as I got, reading MT gave me SUCH a headache.

THANKS, btw

Spoiler:

did they really find out Ark's RL address?

[Rainne]

for anyone looking for Volume 5 Translation, Not the best but its readable and much better than Google/Bing



https://arkmachinetranslations.wordp...e-5-chapter-1/

[Schion93]

Originally Posted by Rainne

for anyone looking for Volume 5 Translation, Not the best but its readable and much better than Google/Bing



https://arkmachinetranslations.wordp...e-5-chapter-1/

thank you

[merpati]

thanks for the link!