You know you are an insane gamer when the will to level up pushes you on even when you’re already half dozing off.

It’s like a hot afternoon at high school in class during a trigonometry lesson. You have no idea what you are listening to and you are dozing off, but the fear of the teacher catching you asleep keeps you from nodding off entirely (okay, maybe sometimes you’re so tired you can’t be bothered and you just go ‘fishing’ with your head dangling in mid air. lol: I think I trained my neck muscles that way).

I’ve been competing with my friend on Maple Story. He’s a level 60 Cleric while I’m now a level 42 Hunter. The only drive I have at the moment is to not let that deficit go beyond 20 levels. Before this I told him I’d never let him be more than 10 levels higher, but due to work commitments and the need to do other stuff, I couldn’t keep up to that. However, the need to not break another promise has given me the will to keep at it.

Was at friend’s place levelling up. Again for nearly 6 hours, I sat dutifully in front of the computer. The buttons weren’t even an issue. It was like an automated script, I’d just be pressing the same buttons over in repetitive fashion, occasionally monitoring the status bar and calculating how many more percent to level up.

Referring back to the highschool lesson analogy, I was nearly dozing off. There was no interest in what I was doing, but just that pure need to get it done and over with. I nodded off once or twice in 10 or so seconds, with only the fear of my character dying that jolted me back to consciousness, as death meant the loss of experience points, which meant time wasted to regain them to level up. At times I’d be pressing the left or right button and wake up again for fear of moving my chracter over the ledge (you won’t die from that, but you’d have to walk a fair distance to reach back up to killing monsters).

I finally caved in at 120am at 91.53% (or something similar). Have a whole heap of things to do in the morning before I shuffle myself off to work and I really do need the sleep. So off I go…