Thanks for the welcome everyone--I really appreciate it!
Namin?, to tell the truth I didn't know you could walk from Prontera to Payon. In fact I didn't know hardly any of the towns even existed. And I'm glad I don't have to use a job changer; I was looking for a vaguely official experience to see what Ragnarok is actually like, and so far it's extremely different from what I knew about it.
But then I'm also glad for the resetters, because no doubt I'm going to royally mess up soon. And the custom clothing colors are cool. So this does seem to be the perfect mix of official and custom.
I've seen your name in the chat screen several times while playing, but when you mentioned me I was talking to an NPC and I don't know how to post messages without the game registering the Enter key as a Next command. And after I was done messing up--I mean, um, speaking to the NPC--I'd forgotten to say something. That wasn't me, by the way.
Thank you, Pandora--it's great here. And it's amazing how many people offered to help me out, and how much they did help me. I hadn't really thought about it, but apparently I knew next to nothing when I played at my old server (except for how to follow someone around on EXP Share and randomly attack what they were attacking, hahah) so when I said I knew the basics... whoo, boy was I wrong. I'm very grateful for such a helpful community.
Is that where the hairstyles came from? Well, they look great nonetheless and I'm looking forward to those big pigtails, no matter how much I like one of the (I believe newer) official hairstyles.