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Carlton · @Smart_Zard

14th Mar 2013 from Twitlonger

What AdventureQuest means to me? Well that is a good question but to truly understand my answer I would have to walk you through my experience with AQ, starting at the beginning.
It all began back in August 2005, my family had just gotten the internet for the first time and I was really excited to be able to use the internet from my home and not only from my school. For the first few days I went to websites like cartoon network.com and nick.com looking for fun games to play. The games on their sites were fun at first but got boring really quickly. So then I turned to yahoo and searched for “fun free game” and the first site on the list was AdventureQuest. And man was I surprised by AQ I have never seen a game like it before, a RPG but in flash with hand drawn characters and best of all no downloads required. To say the least AQ piqued my interest. I was even luckier than I thought because I started playing during the final Carnax war and seeing such an imposing creature made me even more excited to play AQ. So I made my first account but since I didn’t know much about the game mechanics I only got light based equipment and my stats was all over the place but that still didn’t stop me from enjoying myself though. I was occupied with AQ that whole day. It was all great until the next day when I discovered the limited login slots that AQ had back then and I was really disappointed that the only way I could get pass it was to buy a guardianship but since I didn’t have any money and my parents wouldn’t buy it for me I had no way of obtaining guardianship. But it didn’t take me long until I found an easy way around the limited login slots by simply making a new account so I could continue playing. I continued to make more accounts until I finally got sick of starting over again and again and stopped. I realized that if I wanted to truly enjoy AQ that I needed to become a Guardian so I decide to do what I dreaded most, getting a job. So I applied to multiple local retails stores until I finally got hired by Target as a shelf stocker. When I got my first pay check it was on my 16th birthday and the first the thing I ever purchase with my own money was an X-Guardian upgrade as a birthday gift for myself. And I’m happy to say that I have been enjoying AQ ever since. But my time with AQ wasn’t always full of bliss because on April 16, 2011 my grandma Annie lost her fight with breast cancer. When I got the news my body went numb and I seemed to have stayed numb for a very long time. I didn’t have the energy to do anything and walked around looking very depressed. My mother suggested that I do something that could occupy my thoughts but my usual hobbies didn’t really help me much. So out of desperation I logged into AQ but I couldn’t think of anything to do so I decided to play some really old quests, doing so filled me with the feeling of nostalgia. Going through memory lane with AQ really helped me feel something other than sadness, which I will always be thankful for.
So to answer your question, for me AQ means a lot of things: a lifetime of entertainment, a representation of many of my life accomplishments, and a place I know I can go to feel good about myself no matter how depressed I get.

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