2008-07-06, 08:08 PM
So I went to the Anime Expo in Los Angeles yesterday and stopped by the nexon booth. They were giving out Mabinogi tote bags (which turned out to be quite helpful for carrying everything) and as I walked up for the first time, they were just finishing their Trivia contest. He said they would ask more questions in 30 minutes, so I went and messed around for a while, then came back; the questions they asked were quite simple: "Who do you go to to advance to warrior?" Advance to Thief?" "Advance to Archer?" (This question, btw, I won a T-shirt and 10k NX on.) Then he asked a question about Mabinogi, and Audition (It was funny because no one could answer them. >_>) and finally started to ask some interesting things:
"What is the newest Continent in MapleStory?" Well, that's Masteria (obviously). The next question was even better:
"What's the name of John Barricade's brother?" I was sort of dumbfounded that they asked this because there's only two places where this is mentioned: Once, during John's NLC quest which a good 90% of us did almost a year ago, and the second in the TCG item description of Subani Ankh. These references to him are also not obvious, and considering the fact that it seems most people flat out ignore everything NPCs have to say, quite rare. I couldn't answer again as I had already answered the earlier question, but I tried to whisper it to my friend. I was a little loud and got caught. :p Still, I waited like 30 seconds before and no one answered. (If you're wondering, my friend later won on the last question, which was asking where you could buy NX cards, but they ran out of shirts. I gave her mine since I didn't plan on wearing it anyway. XD)
What's the significance of this? Well, for one the flash ad that's been popping up everywhere, has a picture of an NPC we all suspect to be Jack Barricade on it. Since the other questions were all so easy, it seems odd why they'd make one be about a random remark made by one NPC two times.
![[Image: barricadeadke3.png]](http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2817/barricadeadke3.png)
Unless, you know, he's coming out as a real NPC soon. (Obvious patch hint.)
I got lots of pictures but I don't think any were at the nexon booth. Mostly of just people in really cool costumes. If any people want to see those then I'll post them. As a whole it was really fun, even though I could only stay for 5 hours.
"What is the newest Continent in MapleStory?" Well, that's Masteria (obviously). The next question was even better:
"What's the name of John Barricade's brother?" I was sort of dumbfounded that they asked this because there's only two places where this is mentioned: Once, during John's NLC quest which a good 90% of us did almost a year ago, and the second in the TCG item description of Subani Ankh. These references to him are also not obvious, and considering the fact that it seems most people flat out ignore everything NPCs have to say, quite rare. I couldn't answer again as I had already answered the earlier question, but I tried to whisper it to my friend. I was a little loud and got caught. :p Still, I waited like 30 seconds before and no one answered. (If you're wondering, my friend later won on the last question, which was asking where you could buy NX cards, but they ran out of shirts. I gave her mine since I didn't plan on wearing it anyway. XD)
What's the significance of this? Well, for one the flash ad that's been popping up everywhere, has a picture of an NPC we all suspect to be Jack Barricade on it. Since the other questions were all so easy, it seems odd why they'd make one be about a random remark made by one NPC two times.
Unless, you know, he's coming out as a real NPC soon. (Obvious patch hint.)
I got lots of pictures but I don't think any were at the nexon booth. Mostly of just people in really cool costumes. If any people want to see those then I'll post them. As a whole it was really fun, even though I could only stay for 5 hours.