Road to 230
I started playing RAN Online when my best friends owned a computer shop back in 2009. I was late into the game relative to them, and I was amazed at how an archer can just do a somersault and have everything die within a 5-inch screen radius, and that with her underwear showing. I was partial to the swordsman, though, though I really can't tell you why (it might be because the swords were huge ). So I became a swordsman built with dexterity stats. Fast forward six months later and I was level 107, and ended up having an ice elemental sword in the game and UTI in real life. I was still studying for my Master's then, too, and was enrolled in Thesis Writing I, with nothing to show for it two months already into the semester. I quit the game, got well, started my thesis, and finished the proposal for it within the remaining three months. I found RAN again ten years later, eight months ago. Things were different - the items were different, the dynamics were different, the playi...