Another fun filled Saturday bites the dust!

Today was an awesome day! We shared some laughs, we shared some tears, but all in all we had quite an adventure...

Ultimately, the goal of the day was for Almeth and I was to win our respective G5 fights, and break the level cap so we could continue to push our way to 75. There was a few things to do along the way, so we got on early and started making our way around. GodzillaX, our friendly neighborhood Galkan, was already online, and had some time to kill before he logged off for the day, so Almeth quickly enlisted him into the days festivities. First up on the agenda was to pop and kill Tonberry Tracker, and hopefully get Almeth a Thief's Kote. There was a bit of travel involved, so we got jumped to it and made our way...

"Hey, Godzilla, you didn't see where Almeth ran off to, did you? Goddamn him and his flee!"


Tonberries, Crawlers, and Bees...Oh my!


"Jesus Christ, just paint a smily face or something, it doesn't need to be a Rembrandt for God's sake!"

We finally made our way into the Den of Rancor, but we still had a bit of a ways ahead of us. With our Unlit Lanterns in hand, we made our way to the Rancor Flame to light them, and then back to the door we needed to open. Things were going okay, until...

"Yeah, that's right, LAUGH IT UP FUNNY MAN!!!! I FUCKING HATE YOU!!!!!!!"

Godzilla and I laid there dead for a bit, while Almeth begged and pleaded with everyone in the zone with Raise to come and help us out, but it was no use. Everyone was too deep in Den of Rancor to be able to come back up to help us, even offering a 10k reward was of no use. Godzilla and I home pointed, and we tried again, but upon closer inspection of the route we needed to take to get to the NM, Almeth realized it was just gonna take too long for us to get out to him. With a sigh, we gave up on it for the day, and as Godzilla had to log soon anyways, we bid him farewell and moved on to our next goal of the day: skilling up for our fights.

I'd heard around that for higher level players, The Boyahda Tree was the place to go if you wanted skill ups, so Almeth grabbed a shield and we made our way out there. Can't be fighting Maat/Laila with underleveled skills, now can we? We stopped along the way to get some payback on all those Golems and Goobbue's that made our lives miserable way back in the day...

"Not so tough now, are you, ya big stony bitch?!"

"Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!"

"God, why can't you just LEAVE ME ALONE!?!?!?!"


"Aww, don't cry Mr. Goobbue, we didn't mean to...OH LOOK, ALMETH, TREE CUTTINGS!!" *STAB STAB STAB*


Almeth skills up, while I just kinda sit here. Kinda hard for him to get skillups if the mobs hitting me, ya know...^^


This place is pretty damn cool...


We even brought our Adventuring Fellows out to get some Experience.


"Oh, sorry, didn't know you guys were fighting!"


"That's a really interesting hat you've got there, Almeth. Really interesting..."


"Oh Almeth, I'm so sorry player...I guess 4 Mandys was just too much."


Checking out the scenery while searching for a coffer...


Fucking crabs!


"Alright!"

After my death, we killed a few more, then decided we were ready for our G5. we weren't fully capped, but Almeth and I felt that we were close enough to give the big dogs a go. With a little trepidation, I made my way back to Jeuno to pick up some supplies in preperation for my fight with Laila. With my Hi-Potions, Icarus wing, Squid Sushi, Persikos Au Lait, and Sleeping Potions (for Opo-opo Necklace) all gathered, I traded my Dancer's Testimony to Laila and commited myself to the fight...

"God, I hope I don't fuck this up..."

Yeah! Eat it whore!!! Level 75, here I come!!!!!!

Almeth was also successful with his Maat Fight (video to come soon! Congratulations player!!!^^) so all in all, despite a detah or two along the way, we accomplished our goals, and for one brief moment, made Final Fantasy XI our bitch.

It's a nice feeling... ^^

Just a couple pics...

Been busy building my new computer and getting everything working well. So far it's awesome, I was able to kick the graphics up in FFXI to twice the detail, and it looks great! I hadn't done Campaign in a couple days, so I logged in after I got everything configured and ran into this guy...I've never seen this shit before:

Nothing is quite as awesome as getting tags, taking 4 steps, and biting it to an angry AOE. As a runner up is laying dead underneath the thing for 20 minutes waiting for a raise. Yeah, it was pretty fucked up...



My death, later that same evening, in a Besieged. While I'm actually able to hit the mobs now, I still do 0 damage most of the time...not too good for TP gain.

I hope to have more posted later, after I get to play around with everything some more. L8trz!!!!

Screenshots and such...

We've been doing a lot the last week or so, leveling and questing and such...it's been hard to keep up with screenshots and all, but I tried to snag as many as I could:

Level 46 Party, Quicksand Caves. DNC/NINx2/WAR/WHM...was very über ^^


Quick shot of the ferry as we shove off :)


"Alright, nothing blew up so far!!!"


The beginning of yet another long ass cutscene, during the quest Embers of His Past. It was a cool cutscene at least...


"Oh snap, somebody's 'bout to get fucked up!"


"I'm a tree!"


"Ohhhh Kayyy, somebody forgot their medicine this morning..."


"I'm a TREE, Goddammit!!!!"


"Ok, fine, you're a fucking tree! Shit, woman!!"


"Yeah, take that, simple bitch!!"


"Oh Noes!!!!!!!"


"AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH MY BALLS!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!"


"You done fucked up now, bitch!"


"OMG FAILSAUCE Q_Q"


"You've got 20 seconds to start cooking me up a Chicken Pot Pie, or you can kiss your face goodbye!!"



"OMG PWND LOLOLOL!!!"


"Dammit, you were my best ho! Those Bastards!!"


Killing Moblins in Oldton Movalpolos, waiting to see if Bugbear Strongman spawns...

Yay, invisible elevator!


Clearing out Quadav's, before spawning the NM's for the quest "For the Birds".


As annoying as Elementals can be, they're great for TP gain... ^^

The fight itself. It was a complete and utter joke :)

Level 58 Party, King Ranperre's Tomb. Damn good experience to be had fighting the bats in the basement at this level.

That's not to say we didn't have any issues here or there. Sorry Ame! :(

Adios!

A quick fight, short and sweet... ^^

We've been doing the usual over the last few days; had a kick ass level 46 party in Quicksand Caves, level 67 party in Bhaflau Thickets, got some quests done, etc etc. Almeth got his Ninja to 50, so we started working on his Ninja AF...first up was the quest "I'll Take the Big Box", which among other things, involved killing a Ghost type NM on the Selbina-Mhaura Ferry:

Poor little guy...

At any rate, it was pretty easy, as we expected. A random RDM watched us fight it; I'd like to think he was keeping an eye on us to make sure we were ok, but he never said anything, so who knows?

Anyways, that's all for now! Carry on!! ^^

Aren't we a bunch of busy little bees? ^^

Since my last post, we've been running around doing all kinds of shit. Aht Urhgan Missions, Wings of the Goddess quests, Campaign, unlocking jobs, camping NM's...we've been a busy bunch. I've got a lot to cover, so let's just jump right in, shall we?

First off, Almeth and I were finally able to unlock Puppetmaster and Corsair. It'd been a while since we'd attempted to do it the first time, and it was a piece of cake this time around. We actually did it the right way, and got the Lamian Fang Key beforehand...last time we attempted, Almeth tried to pick the lock to the door and blew through an entire stack of tools. I don't know why we didn't just get the key last time (all you gotta do is click a ??? on the ground in Caedarva Mire to get one) but regardless, we got it this time and got it done. As PUP is pretty much on the way, we got that banged out, too. I can now finally say I've got every job unlocked...WOOT!!

It isn't often that we go into Arrapago Reef, so I took a screenshot while we were there:

Pimpin' ain't easy...

In my last post I had the video of me fighting Peerifool; the beginning part of quest "One Good Deed?". The conclusion of it involved running out to Attohwa Chasm and getting a few cutscenes, so Almeth and I finished it up together. While there, we ran out to Boneyard Gully to look around (neither of us had ever been there), and also explored Attohwa some. There was a scary moment when Almeth aggro'd a Trench Antlion (those fuckers hide in the ground and spring up on you, scared the shit out of both of us 'cause we so weren't expecting it) but he was able to Flee away with it and survive. While we were in the area, Almeth asked if I was willing to try and pop Citapati, a lottery spawn from the Corse that spawn there at night. Although the NM seemed like it would be a little angry, Almeth is very keen to pick up a Harpe, so I agreed to give him a hand. Due to some Scorpion aggro the moment we started killing a Corse, it ended up like this:

Figures...

The next night (or maybe two nights later, I don't quite remember to be honest), Almeth and I started working on some Aht Urhgan quests and missions. We were able to complete the mission Royal Puppeteer pretty easily, as this involved killing Ameratats in Wajaom Woodlands until we got a Vial of Jody's Acid for each of us. Lucky for us, we got the acid after 2 Ameratats, although we did have some Tiger aggro that was pretty fucking annoying (goddamn those Tigers and their paralysis move!). The did drop a Rusty Medal, which is used in long chain of quests to get some Imperial Standing and some Imperial Gold Pieces. As Almeth and I wanted to expand our Mog Locker some more, we were all about getting some free Gold Pieces, so despite the fact that the cutscenes were long as shit, and involved tons of running around, it was well worth it. We also attempted to do Aht Urhgan Mission 13 - Lost Kingdom, but that didn't work out so hot.

Building some TP before we attempt to fight the NM for Aht Urhgan Mission 13.




The fight itself. We were doing pretty well, but enmity control got away from us, which left me in a bad spot as far as healing us goes. We're gonna try this guy again with Amedelie; I think we'll be much more sucessful with someone else to take hate and deal damage.

Getting my face kicked in by Jazaraat was a little discouraging, so we ran around and took care of some other quests in the Aht Urhgan area. The first one we tackled was When the Bow Breaks, which just involved killing some spiders for a Frayed Arrow, and trading the arrow to a ??? in the same area...which rewarded us with more long ass cutscenes.

"Yeah, spider webs! Awesome!!"


The beginning of the longest 15 minutes of my life...


Alright, Threesome!

Make that foursome! This might not be so bad after all!!

"Oh, stop fucking around and just shoot somebody already, shit!!"

F-A-I-L


QQ, bitch...QQ


"YEAH!!! OFF WITH HER MOTHERFUCKING HEAD!!!!!"


What? He didn't kill her? What a rip off!

There was many more cutscenes, but I'll spare everyone from the rest of that shit. Needless to say, I got Carpal Tunnel from mashing the Enter key over and over again.

Yesterday, Almeth and I started the day off with a Besieged...it went ok, although not having reraise items and Wizard's Drinks really sucked a fat one. At any rate, it was a little rough starting out, but as more people showed up, things got easier. People were really friendly yesterday:

"Umm, could you stop grinding your crotch into my back? What the fuck kinda perverted shit is this?!"

Since we were already in Aht Urhgan, we finished up a few more quests, expanded our Mog Lockers (70 slots, woot!!) and then made our way to Sandy past to do some Campaign Battles. Amedelie showed up not long after, and joined us. Almeth tried to do it as his 48 Ninja, but the experience was just too broken at such a relatively low level, so he switched to THF. We banged out a Granite Rose I as well; since nobody ever does it we got a fat exp bonus for it. For the most part, it was just battle after battle, though:

This battle was so fucking crowded that the NPC's had to go up in the trees to attack. Nice...

Since we just so happened to be in Jugner Forest (S), we decided to give Fingerfilcher Dradzad another go. Now that we had gained 6 levels on him since our first attempt, we figured we had a far better shot at finally killing him and moving on in the Wings of the Goddess missions...and we were right. Having Amedelie along to use ranged attacks on him when he started countering made the fight a joke, and we were ecstatic that we finally got our revenge:

Yeah! FUCK YOU!!!

Amedelie had to log out not long after that, but I stuck around a little while to finish up the quest line Fingerfilcher was involved in, and got treated to one of the cooler cutscenes in the game:

"Huh?"


"Oh shit..."


"OH SHIT!"


"OH SHIT!"


"OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK..."


"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"


Well, look who it is...Cait Sith!

"Aww pretty kitty!"


"Yeah? Well your character sucked in Final Fantasy VII!!"

That was pretty much the whole cutscene. Creepy cool shit. The next quest's cutscene was boring by comparison, but I did manage to snag a good pic during it:

"God, what a big baby! Walk it off, Asshole!!"

That's all I got for today. Ciao!!