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Avast landlubbers! Talk Like a Pirate Day may be over for this year, but Nexon is adding an expansion to MapleStory which will make it feel like Talk Like a Pirate Day all year long. A pirate expansion, to be more specific. Now, players can choose a pirate class for their avatars and visit Demethos, a whole new Mabinogi area.

There are five special events going on to celebrate the pirate update. The first is a Demethos Double / Double event which lasts from November 12-26, 2008 and gives players double experience and item drops in Demethos during the event period. The second is a contest, running from now until December 14, 2008 - the first player in each world with a pirate at level 70 created and leveled up during this time period get a MapleStory doll collection, 2 t-shirts and 2 towels. The third event runs parallel to the second one - the player with the highest level pirate in all of MapleStory by December 14 will get an alienware laptop. The fourth is a Pirates Guild raffle - Nexon is looking for in-game videos of all pirate guilds. On November 26, Nexon will give 10,000 Maple Points to one of the guilds as a prize.

The final event isn’t really pirate related. Instead, its more of an outreach program to players who may not have stopped by MapleStory for a while. Any user who hasn’t played between August 11-November 11, 2008 and logs in between November 12 and December 1 will receive a Cash Shop item after MapleStory‘s next server maintenance. Not a bad little incentive to welcome a player back.

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