Well, I did it.  Today I made it to level 140.  As soon as I finished the Daily Dungeon, I grabbed my 15 million and ran over to the Magic School to learn my Mana Span spell.  You have no idea how invigorating it is to zap monsters that easily.  There are a number of boss monsters that I've wanted to fight for a long time, and that I finally got to put my dukes up against today...like the Evil Treasure Hunter...and those nasty barbarians...and Jones1 (not to be confused with the kind and generous Clowny Jones)...but I'm getting ahead of myself there.  I guess I should wait till I've actually defeated them before starting to get delusions of grandeur. 

 Before this though, I read something quite sad on the blogs this morning: that Croesy is temporarily stepping down from his Dukeship.  It was a bit comforting to see that he would still be popping his head into chat, but it will be sad to realize that I won't be bothering him about mundane issues anymore.  I've bothered him quite a few times, actually...from pestering him to show me how to talk to Dr. Botson to magically erasing my annoying journal entries to fixing buggy quests to petitioning for new ice cream recipes...the list goes on and on. 

Now that I think about it, I've bothered a lot of people, especially when asking if quests were ready, or about ficticious quest bugs that weren't really there.  I suppose it's time to apologize to all the Island managers I've bothered, most notoriously Kerrik and Healer (if he's still lurking around somewhere).  Perhaps little old Talia must start using her brain before she calls wolf again O_O  

Anyhow, I've decided to keep my mouth shut for now and wait until I find another, legitimate, quest bug.  In the meantime I have started a *super-secret ninja* quest of my own.  Since Croesy has stepped aside, what is he going to do with all his free time?  I shall begin my research on Sleuthville.  There is a pig farm there.  And from what I've heard, Croesy really, really, really likes pigs.

 P.S: Did I mention that Jhal-Abur has a ninja teacher?  Her name is Ziva, and she runs a training school which has trained the likes of Daycare teachers, Japanese Architects, and even...dum da dum...MY MOMMY!!!!!!  Obviously, I got a few strings pulled to get lessons, but currently I'm arranging it so that anyone can learn how to be a ninja as well.  I shall always remember the three S's: Secret, Stealthy and Silent. 

 P.P.S: Although I suppose by revealing my interest in Croesy's pigs, I just forgot all three as well.