Some Random Photos, and the most annoying quest I've done yet...

First up, the random photos:

Level 28 Party, Yhoator Jungle [BLM, WHM, SCH, PLD, THF, NIN]


Weird texture issues in Ranguemont Pass...


"Ok, so Campaign Battle in Crawler's Nest was a bad idea..."


Killing an Ice Elemental in Beaucedine Glacier, on the way to Fei'Yin


Leveling the Adventuring Fellows in King Ranperre's Tomb


Do a Barrel Roll!


Almeth gets mauled by a couple beetles...


Fucking annoying scorpions!


Killing ghosts, trying to pop Dame Blanche; we were in the neighborhood... ^^

Almeth and I's Adventuring Fellows finally dinged 50 yesterday, so that meant that we had to do a quest, "Picture Perfect" to raise their level cap from 50 to 55. Similar to the regular Limit Breaks that everybody does at some point, except for it was really fucking annoying. We spent hours doing this stupid quest with all the travel, here's a photo synopsis of the quest:

First, you gotta talk to this dumb bitch and do a prerequisite quest that nobody ever does, "A Pose By Any Other Name". Bonus points for figuring this out before you attempt to do "Picture Perfect"...

Then you have to go all the way to fucking Selbina to talk to this mega-douche, Diederik, where he bitches and moans about losing a painting or some shit, cause he's an idiot...


Then you go all the way to fucking Bastok and talk to this old bastard, Umberto, who tells Diederik to hand over his goddamn painting already...


Diederik wraps a generic painting up in copious amounts of childproof packaging, because nothing is funnier then watching an arthritic old man struggle in pain trying to open a package.


Diederik then bullshits Umberto into leaving the painting be for now while he stalls for time getting a replacement; Umberto is fucking pissed, and wants us to get him a Bal Shell from Korroloka Tunnel. Since Umberto is a huge fucking douchebag, this task falls to me, even though he's the dipshit that fucked up in the first place...


Run your ass all the way to Korroloka Tunnel to dig up the stupid Bal Shell from one of like three excavation points in the whole fucking zone. Fuck you, Diederik...


Back to Bastok to give Umberto the Bal Shell, he shits bricks, and Diederik runs off back to Selbina like the little bitch he is...


MEANWHILE


Your adventuring fellow runs off to Windurst to talk Angelica into making another painting for the old man, even though he's so senile at this point you could staple a dead bird to the wall, tell him it's a painting, and he wouldn't know the damn difference.


Angelica explains that she can't do a damn thing unless Fhig runs off to get her an Opalescent Stone, which conveniently drops off of a Yagudo NM in Castle Oztroja, which makes no fucking sense but, as this whole quest is a big pile of shit already, why stop now? Fhig makes her way to Oztroja...

After all that stupid shit, you have to go back to fucking Selbina to talk to Diederik again, since apparently he couldn't tell you this shit WHILE HE WAS FUCKING STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU IN BASTOK!


Diederik gives you some good news...HE FOUND THE FUCKING PAINTING AFTER ALL, so all the running around was a big fucking waste of your time. As you are strangling him to death, he fills you in on how your Adventuring Fellow is doing with the whole "Get the Opalescent Stone from the NM in Castle Oztroja" thing....Who wants to to take a guess as to how it's working out? Let's just say, a trip to FUCKING CASTLE OZTROJA is on the itenerary now...


You stupid useless bitch...


NM FIGHT (video to come later)


Back to Windurst (kill me) to talk to Angelica again, who tells you that she heard that she didn't have to do the painting again, but she wants to do it again anyways, because the first one was a big bag of shit. You'd think I'd be off the hook at this point, but nope...I get to be the fucking delivery boy yet again!!


"Almost done, just a little embellishment over here...."


She puts the finishing touches on the painting while Fhig looks on in dismay. Angelica explains that as Umberto is blind as a fucking bat it really makes no damn difference either way...meanwhile I'm outside trying to cut my wrists with a rusty butterknife.


With the painting finally fucking done, I make my way to Bastok for like the thirteenth time today to give it to this old bastard. Notice that it's like dead of night; that's right ladies and gentlemen, this quest took fucking HOURS...


Diederik, Fhig and I look on in horror as Umberto stares off into the distance, reminiscing on his younger days, whilst simultaneously pissing and shitting himself. Who says old age isn't fun?


Quick shot of the two most useless people ever to walk the face of Vana'diel. Umberto and Fhig Larv everyone! Let's hear it!!

So ends the most annoying quest I've ever had the good fortune to have to do in this game before. BRB, buying a poison potion to off myself...