Not even 10 seconds in and I read "He will go to pieces." Like wut?

I don't know if you'll ever read this review. Just like you mentioned in that stunningly profound last author note, perhaps you will, perhaps you won't.

But I just wanted to leave some echo of the sort of insane revelation that just manifested in me. I read your story back in the 2000s - which year exactly, I can't recall. But I remember following your chapters with bated breath, with some beautiful convolution of emotions filling me up. When I revisited this story today, probably at least a solid eight years later, I was reminded of the beauty of this story. But I was also awakened to just how much I changed in the past decade, from that eager young avid Fanfiction-loving boy to the new adult that I am now. I've read tons of Fanfiction in my life - probably over 20 or 30 million words, spanning hundreds of stories - and I won't say that your story was my favorite in terms of storyline, topic, whatever. It was up there, of course, one of the best. But the true beauty was the emotions that you evoked in me and the memories that surfaced when I read your last note. The nostalgia was overwhelming, and I suddenly came to realize, like I said, just how much I've changed, and just how different everything is. Even you, I'm guessing. I feel so profound, like I've gotten a glimpse of the never-ending march of time, and the transformations that befall everything.

I guess I just wanted to type this review to say how thankful I am that you gave this to me. Your story was - and is - something that I feel will stay with me (no matter how small) for the rest of my life. It's a powerful change.

And so I move on, to my next adventure in college. Thank you, for everything. And good luck.

Wow...I just...I love how you poured your feelings out to us, your readers, and gave us some form of closure even if it didn't give us exactly what we wanted.

To tell you the truth, I went on after playing Maplestory for four hours straight in search of good stories to satisfy my appetite. I went to sort by favorites and your story was on top. Even after six years of no updates and the story remaining incomplete it was at the very top, number one spot.

So I started reading it. I was curious and did what I usually do when I find rare gems like yours that are never completed. I read the entirety of the first chapter to see if I liked it, and then I read the last chapter to see why you stopped it. I have to admit that I'm relieved that I've been spared the heartbreak I probably would be going through if I hadn't reading the last chapter immediately after the first.

But this last chapter...your final author's note...it's beautiful. Beautiful in the way that you bared your heart to us, your readers, and apologized sincerely for not being able to continue this. Beautiful in how well you expressed the stress and struggle that so many other like us go through on the website and as we enter college. Beautiful in how accurately you describe the difficulties of adulthood and balancing the desire to continue. And most of all it's beautiful in the way you admitted your own faults.

Thank you very much for writing this in the first place. And Thank you even more for giving us a conclusion of sorts if, eventually, you never end up returning. Of course, in case you do come back I'm putting this story on my follow and favorites list. In fact, you might end up never reading this, or by the time you do read this I'll have long forgotten the gigantic review I placed on one Maplestory fanfiction's author's story after their last chapter inspired me so, but I feel better right now, in this very moment for having written this review and revealed my honest feelings directly after reading your...confession, I suppose it could be called.

I guess...I'll write goodbye here hoping that you might read it one day even if you don't continue this so that you know that at least one of your readers hopes that, well, you're happy where you are now and maybe even successful. So, goodbye and thank you one last time.

Hey Kal Ancalas. Even though I know you will probably never read this note - a really short, unnoticeable note from a 13 year old girl you don't even know - I'm just gonna pour out my soul on this (soul transmutation! or not.) Soooooo...this is coming from the older sis of two little boys. Hey...personal info there...and I am an authoress. I know how Ark feels, as the eldest bro and responsible one. I know how Phoenix feels as the excited teen and also the person who lost a dear one...Don't mistaken me! I...I just have a...living...imagination. Those people, those FICTIONAL CHARACTERS as those others call them - I believe strongly that they...they live. In another NONEXISTANT world, maybe, but they...live. I...I am alive in your stories. By heart and dream I am a warrior and archer, one who wields double swords. One who summons magic. I...I don't know if you feel the same way, like the story actually happened, and you just recorded it, but I do. And whenever I read your story, I live it. Okay...that sounded cheesy and sappy, but yeah. Whatever you do, continue the story. Never give it up. For though giving up sounds like the easiest and most painless way, remember...those people - Zer, Ark, Ascion, Iris, Grace, and the bunch - they can only truly die when the spirit of imagination, of inspiration, and of magic that brought them into being is withdrawn from them. As long as there is still someone who is out there reading about them, as long as they are not buried and forgotten by all, they will continue to live. Really...though I would prefer not to encounter that many swear words...I have and will read and reread this story again. And again. FOR ALL THE CANDY IN THE WORLD, NOW! DO I HAVE TO COMPLETE THIS STORY MYSELF OR ARE YOU GONNA DO IT?! IN THE NAME OF NATASHA, THE MIDNIGHT WARRIOR AND FORGOTTEN OLDER SISTER OF EMPRESS CYGNUS, I DEMAND THAT YOU...whatever. That was just the outburst from the author inside of me. Heh. IN THE NAME OF ZERAION PHOENIX, ARK WOLFEN, AND ASCION BLADE, WITH THE ADDITION OF NATALIA ARUNDALE, TALES RYSDALE, DELINIA ARKLANSER, TRAPHES IGZARION, I "POLITELY ASK" YOU TO PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE UPDATE! *Puppy eyes* - Kate

I think it is very boring totally dull sick city minds, but here they lie I did not have heavy bone bows to my eye bone structure and have stolen F mt DNA derived hereditary genetic brain tissue of mine as well derived from Jingiz Khan the Golden Family, and the latter possibly is on an orange-haired girl who looks like a Turk at the World Bank called Kunt something or other it really is her name!and I may have lost the tissue which is of my ego and head general in Kazakhstan or elsewhere.
They can find that out with DNA and two girls one who looked to be of Hun descent and Mongol descent or to have of my brain tissue were refusing to confirm abuse of me on a public transportby detectives

I read the chapter and it almost made me cry buckets. You're quite a strong person, I read stories that had their authors grow old and forget and the ones who disappeared forever. But something tells me you're not one of those authors, like you can pull yourself up together. I love the story quite absolutely, and I get that you're not Superman who can make stories at the of his wrist when he hears someone demanding for more, I'll wait for this story to end, cause I believe that every story has their beginning and end. Don't you?

Wow, I just read this whole thing. That was quite the speech my friend. I read the first paragraph of chapter one and I thought it was really good. Then I saw the last update date and scrolled to the Author Note chapter. I don't think I can handle the disappointment of reading an epic story, only for it to have no proper ending. A girl needs closure, you know? Nevertheless, I added it to my favorites and clicked the 'Follow' button, for when the time comes that you finish this, I can read it at last.

OI
IT'S ME AGAIN.
Yeah, too lazy to sign into my real account (whichihaven'tusedinlikeayeardon'tkillmepl0x)
ANYWAYS.
It's been exactly a year since I posted my review here, and I'm going to keep friggin doing this until you upload - granted, that means I'll still be here typing away in the year of 2080, but hey why not.

Continue it.
Finish the goddamn story, or at least give us a summary of what happens. C'mon, bro. Don't leave us hanging here. That's just cruel. Seriously.
I forbid you to stop.
And I swear you're writing it/brainstorming it RIGHT NOW and not telling us hmmmmm Kal?

Max

I'm having trouble reading this story because every time i start to i have the sudden urge to play one of my own archer characters.

I like story very much.

It's been a long time, I don't know if you even still read these. I first read Revolt bout 2 years back I think and reading the last thing you posted, confessions of a mad author really made me sad. You were really the first person to inspire me so much to start writing and I can't thank you enough. It's sad to think that revolt will perhaps never be finished but thank you for whatever has been posted up so far it was a joy to read, one of the best stories I've read. I've stopped playing maplestory for a while now, it's hard to keep up with the changes and I preferred how it used to be. To me, revolt has so much of the old maplestory in it and perhaps that's why I love it so much

Being Tales is suffering.

It's been a while. I've stopped playing MapleStory, yet every now and then, the wonders that this story brought me come back to mind. Undoubtedly one of the best stories I've ever read.

Of course, it's been 3 years since I last read it, and when you last updated it.

Please give us a finish. While many of your readers may have completely forgotten about this, Revolt stays in the back of my mind. Thanks for the hours of reading that you've given me. You probably won't read this, but please just give me a few more to finish it.

. . .
. . .Oh my fuck.
Okay, this has got to be one of the best stories that I have ever read. Seriously. You're right - the MapleStory fandom is incredibly small; too small; but I think that this story kinda makes up for it.

I'm sad to say that I'm not exactly an "old-timer" of this story, as in I haven't been reading this story since the first chapter came out and stuff. I started reading this story around the beginning of April 2013. (Yes, it HAS been that long).

And I'm glad to say that I've finished this entire story in 20 or so days.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME I'VE WASTED ON THIS STORY AND THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT?

Thank you for making me waste like frickin 40 hours of my life and enjoy every second of it.

But another thing. . .you haven't been on here for three years. Three friggin years. 'Course, you're probably off in college at this moment (I think you're - what, 21 now? I dunno XD) studying for REAL things like SAT tests and AP classes and whatnot, but please understand that you DO have friends on this site - new and old.

What I'm trying to say is, it would be incredibly nice if you updated. I have laughed throughout this entire story, especially the filler chapters, and it would be a huge shame if you left. Which, you probably have. So SHAME ON YOU DX

So. . .yeah. You're probably not gonna read this, but if you do, my final words are. . .please update! Or at least tell us that you're ALIVE out there. . .or something.

Thank you.

Max

Yea, um... Well since you aren't really active anymore this review won't mean much but I'm just going to be a stubborn prat and accept your challenge about that stabilizer thing even though it probably has been answered hundreds of times already, heh.
Stabilizers are the feather thingies at the other end of the arrow (opposite end of the pointy bit) that lets the arrow fly straight. Now, usually stabilizers have to be perfectly symmetrical to be balanced, or the arrow'll fly all wobbly, hence the name. I think what Spiraea Kozak is trying to say is that you make the stabilizer lighter on one side so that the arrow will tilt in an arc when it flies. Dunno if that's possible, though. But it would be flippin' awesome if you were to fire and arrow at a person and he'll be all like "Hah! You missed!" then the arrow turns around and impales him in the neck.
I didn't google, wikipedia or internet-search anything I wrote here, but I did watch several Mythbusters episodes in the past (I think they were the ones about the Robin Hood Arrow and the one were they tried shooting a bullet in an arc, but I really can't remember) so I'm not sure if they count.
On to the review actually related to the story:
Wow. That was the best death scene I've ever read. I think that was the first time I've actually cried reading about a fictional character being sent to the afterlife. I'm not being sarcastic.