Our Guild's FIRST Zakum Prequest~

Hello friends, this is Andy here! I'm here to share the story of our guild's first Zakum Prequest!

If you think the Zakum Prequest was hard on you, well sorry to burst your bubble, but you haven't seen anything yet! Stick around and read about what Dilan, James, Chan, and I went through yesterday night (December. 23, 2012); we spent approximately two hours, probably even more, on the quest. 

LOL I love this map~

We first started on the Golden Zombie Teeth quest. This part wasn't so bad actually, but it was probably hard on Dilan since he was only level 94 and the zombies were level 130+. Luckily, he pulled through it nicely without dying! Woot, good job dude!!! James did pretty well I suppose (I wasn't there with him when he did the quest) and I don't have to worry about Chan. She knows what she's doing xD. When we finished our own teeth collection, we helped Dilan all together so this part of the quest didn't eat out so much time. I'd say we took about 40 minutes on this.

All the trouble for a "Piece of Fire Ore"

After finishing this quest, everybody quickly moved to the Zakum lobby to receive the next quest: collecting the 7 keys of rage lol (I've always hated this part of the prequest). Yes, our next checkpoint was collecting the keys from the rocks and boxes. I lost count on how many times we did this quest. It was unbelievably long after the 3rd trial. Oh, why did we do that same quest so many times, you ask? If my brain allows me to recall correctly, the first time we did it, only I received the Fire Ore (for those who don't know what that is, the Fire Ore is an item you receive after you finish this quest). Because nobody else received the Fire Ore, we retried the quest again. This time, Chan was the expedition leader instead of me, in hopes that everyone in the party will receive the ore. Oh, we were so totally wrong .__.'''. This time, only Chan received the game item, and James, Dilan, and I didn't get anything. And so begins another trial and another trial, until finally an idea popped into Chan's wonderful brain xD. So we went in again and once we finished collecting the keys, Chan and I left the party, leaving only Dilan and James to finish the quest. Then a miracle happened! Both James and Dilan received the Fire Ore at the same time! That let out a huge sigh for me and possibly everyone else too hehe. I'm going to take a wild guess here and say we spent a little over one hour on this part.

That mini heart attack xD

If you know your Zakum Prequest, you know what dish is coming up next: the heart-pumping, incredibly annoying, and stressful jump quest! Honestly, I love the jump quest the best. I was so glad that I finished collecting the keys that I quickly accepted the jump quest so I can get the prequest over with, only to find out that I "did not finish stage 1." Yeah, thanks Adobis, or whatever your name is, for opening the gate to the jump quest for me. I don't know why but everybody else got in just fine, so I independently redid the quest again. It isn't easy doing this part of the quest yourself; it took more than fifteen minutes to complete. After I finished, I jumped right into the jump quest. Just on a side-note, Chan was AFK at this time. As I was jumping from platform to platform, I met up with James and Dilan, who was still on Level 1. I finished the jump quest quickly and went inside again to help Dilan (James was pretty boss in this jump quest so he finished before Dilan :D) I think this is when Chan came back again. Both of us held Dilan's hand and led him through the jump quest step by step, and that's how he got through level 1. He didn't do so bad in actuality. He was doing well on level 2 also. Of course he fell a few times here and there but who hasn't right? So we ventured on and on until the notorious Nexon decided to troll Dilan and DC'ed him.

Dilan DC'ed on one of those ropes lol

ARE YOU HAPPY NEXON?! HUH? DON'T YOU EVEN DARE BEG FOR FORGIVENESS D:<

He never came back on. Chan, James, and I decided to just destroy Zakum without Dilan and then this happened: 

"Oh stop fooling around Nexon. Eh, someone's probably in there," I thought, so I changed channels only to find out that the same problem persisted. He..he.he..oh (that was supposed to be a nervous laugh xD) and guess what I found out on Basilmarket:

Oh, you can't see clearly? Allow me. 

Yeah, i think so...(echo...echo...echo...)

In retrospect, I think we spent more than two hours on this prequest LOL. This was a failed Zakum prequest, but I had a lot of fun, really. It was a great way to connect with our friends and members :) I just wish Nexon would fix this soon so the guild can actually fight Zakum for once!! And I'm sorry for such a long post. A lot has happened yesterday.

LOL, I saw this when I was getting keys. How do I know if this isn't duped  o.o

Well, it's time for me to sign off. I hope you enjoyed this post and don't worry, this isn't our last Zakum Run/Prequest. We will definitely do this again some time soon! Merry Christmas everyone and have a Happy New Year!!

[EDIT 12/29/2012]: Zakum is no longer glitched. If you'd like to solo Zakum, you don't need fillers, just make an expedition and click "re-enter" when you talk to Adobis.