When I woke up at noon, I was surprised to see Cornelious in the game still. He said he wasn’t sleepy yet, so we tried to think of some adventures to do. Bleh….it was hard to be creative in that department because I usually hang out by myself or just tag along with a group of friends. Thinking of something to do as a duo party has always been difficult for me even since I was playing with my boyfriend.

Anyway, I asked him if he’d like to go to Altepa Gate. He said yes, and we headed there. Long story short; we went in and found Lusheeta in there, sitting near the NMs platform. Since I didn’t want to be rude, and I recognized she’s one of Maxpeter’s best friends, I asked if she was hunting the NM. She said NM & EXP Ring (through auto-translation.) Therefore, we decided to leave and bid her a farewell. Once outside I was once again overheating my brain to think up a place to go. It was still difficult, damn!

So….while I was feeling frustrated with myself’s lack of creativity, Corny said he would pick a random letter from English alphabet and then go anywhere that starts with that letter. So I closed my eyes and poked a button on my keyboard, then tried to hit enter button, so we got “m.” in the chat log.

I couldn’t think of any place at the moment so Cornelious named a few, one of them was Merophatuad Mountains. So, we Teleport-Mea. Then when I thought about Meriph. the place Castle Oztroja popped up. So, I brought him there. We killed some Yags in NM room until each of them popped. No drop though. Then we left, and Corny said he wasn’t going to bed yet and that he would stay for a short time.

Therefore, off we go, to the Parradamo Tor, my favourite place to go and contemplate upon my lonesome self. Here are selected pics from the picnic. And Corny, if you want any of the pics in original size, just let me know, k? The original screenshots are 1600 pixels in my computer. These are resized (clickable.)

On the way to it, at nighttime Parradamo Tor looked like an enormous pile of cake in the distance. I love this deep blue colour of sky, it has slightly lighter shade near the horizon.

Waiting for the emission to die down so we can pass, I took an opportunity to take a screenshot.

When we arrived up top, it was almost dawn and the moon was setting on one side.

We sat down to wait for the sunrise. This was also the place I brought my fellow adventuring buddy to sit and take some pics.

I’ve always thought that the colour of sky in FFXI is wonderful. Nice graphic. And the colours could change so much it’s amazing. Look how it’s changing from night to day. That pinkish colour was pretty.

The deep blue sky lightened up. In the clouds, the reflection of golden ray from the rising sun shone. I couldn’t resist the urge to dance!

The light-coloured sun showed up. I danced a lively jig. Good morning Vana’diel!

Cornelious joined in, so there were 2 crackheads oops! sickos oops, no! weirdos dancing in the morning sun, atop the mountain. Hahahaha! Oh, and before we left Bastok, I told him we must bring screenshot gears, so he brought those…. At first I only wore my puzzle-face maker, Trainee Axe, but then I ran back into my Mog House to get the twin clubs from Valentione’s event.

After a few attempts, we managed to screenshot this.

Then I grabbed his bum and he got freaked and ran away it was also nearing dawn on Cornelious’ timezone, so he had to leave, heading to bed.

Good night, Corny! Sorry I kept you up, hope it wasn’t too much a torture. 

After that, I tele-ed out myself. Now see, the sky has no cloud, and it’s clear blue! Woot!

However, I like it more when the sky has various cloud formations. It looks more interesting that way.

I think I have a ton of screenshots from Parradamo Tor. I’ll upload them later.

So…. after leaving the Boyahda Tree and parted with Elwyn and Kujimaro, I dragged my sleepy head to King Ranperre’s Tomb along with Cornelious for this Treant NM. Actually I’ve seen this NM with Maxpeter a few times already. But I was never there soon enough to see the Saplings. So, when I heard from Cornelious that they will kill the Saplings soon, I got interested.

We arrived in the Ronfaure and Corny asked me to invite his friends, and they told him they got 2 or 3 sub DNC so there will be 3 Erase available at a time. Corny said, well, we have Esuna. So they started yelling he never told them he had a White Mage friend! lol! No! I’m not his WHM friend! I’m his MNK friend!!!

(Corny would object to my claim for sure, because whenever I met him in Sky, I was always White Mage, lol!!)

Anyway, when I arrived they were already killing some Saplings.  After killing 3 or 4 (as far as I saw) the big tree popped!

Well, this was a bad screenshot, because Corn and friends were still out there to the far left after finishing the last Sapling. =_=

Then we fought, it was a longer fight than I thought. And the NM ran around a lot because it has hate resetting move. The buffs removing move was also annoying.  I was frustrated, because I’ve always hated mobs that remove buffs. Seiryu, for example.

The fight went well, though not very smoothly. There was no fatal injuries, no NM stomping on mages (well it kinda poked and slapped Abigor around a bit, but no stomping.) And also….no drop lol! However, that was fun. Thanks for letting me in guys! Finally got that romantic & sweet title again, Mon Cherry.  ^^ Hehehe.

Oh, wait, after the fight, Cornelious was angry that the tree didn’t drop what he wanted, oops, wanted to go home the quickest way, so he blew himself up.

But hey, I was resting right there! Of course the worm aggroed me and Corny said oops, I forgot. LOL Yeah, people always forgot. I had at least 3 Ninjas doing the same thing to me before.

It’s ok though I have my lovely Repose. I really liked this spell since when it was newly added. It is truly a White Mage’s lifesaver. Through linkging, adding in party, as well as Dynamis runs, I’ve learned to master the quick-cast of Repose. Also, the other people were there looking out for me too. They got ready and engaged so quickly But when they saw it’s slept, they didn’t run in.

Abigor casted a teleport spell and we were out at a Telepoint Crag, leaving the only corpse behind Sorry Corny, dead body isn’t allowed in the taxi.

So it was time for me to log out and crawl into my bed. Good night! Sleep tight!

Well, since it’s Sunbreeze Festival, recently my Vana’diel Adventuring life has been full of chatting, frolicking, relaxing, and slacking off. However, in this couple of days I’ve done something considerably productive.

I’ve mined with Duckie and got Jan a bunch of Darksteel Ore for her Smithing. I’ve made as well as signed a few furnishings, cages and tables for examples, for myself and a few friends. So, now my Fafnir Statue does not seem like it’s going to flip off the table anymore. Moreover, I’ve received a Hammock from Jan and thus I rearranged my Mog House! In 2 days, I’ve gained over 5000 Guild Point from Culinarian’s Guild because Jan reminded me to turn in GP items. I’ve also leveled some of my crafting skills.

Short story : Today I got my Woodworking to level 40, and am ready for Guild Test. It requires a Traversiere (Bard’s instrument) and I bought one (how sneaky!) from Jeuno.

Long story : Today I went to mine in Gusgen with Duckie and then left her (she was leaving for bed as well) to join Cornelious in Kuftal. He was with his Japanese buddy named Kennchann. We fished for Devil Manta and ran around killing stuff, hoping for NMs to pop. We got 2 or 3 Mantas, I can’t remember, but non dropped the Angelskin. Also, my fishing kinda suck, I couldn’t hook the NM >.> All I got was Pugils. Lame!

Then after we killed a Pugil (other people got the Manta) Corny /heal to rest and we talked a little bit. He then went quiet and wouldn’t get up. Meanwhile, Kennchann went to check on Treasure Coffer for some money. After a long while, Corny still didn’t move, so we suspected he fell asleep already XD Poor thing! He’s been up all night and must be very tired.

So, after one more attempt to fish up the NM (which failed) Kennchann logged out. I asked a camper there (Twolipsrbetter) about aggro pop and he said sometimes Scorpion pops in the area. Therefore, I abductedCornelious to Altep with my Teleport spell and left him there. I went back to Bastok and started leveling up my Woodworking until it hit level 40.

Oh…and….

Trying to level up my Woodwork, I used Beetle Arrow recipe and then Fang Arrow Recipe, burning some of my junks as well as mule’s Crystals.

Well, during the production of Fang Arrow Heads, I also got my Bonecraft to level 36 from 35. Oh, and by mining as a team with Duckie, we got a few Silver Ores which I synthesized and gained a few skill points, bringing my Goldsmithing to level 16.

Other crafts, however, haven’t moved yet.

Tags: Aleczan, Bonecraft, Cornelious, crafting, Craftsmanship, Duckie, Goldsmithing, Kennchann, Woodworking

Today is my lucky day

Today, I was preparing for an overnight trip out of town with my father and mother. However, since I wanted to frolick in Vana’diel for a little while before having to leave it for 2 days, I logged in to the game. I did a lot of thing this morning. Hanging out with Cornelious in his Mog House, admiring my hand-crafted cage in his house, talking about furnishings, making some more cages, grabbing Alecredion and making him put my signed cage inside his house, buying Yagudo Feathers for Elfitine, and teleporting Duckie to Dem.

Well, after a long talk between me, Jan, and Corny, we noticed that the Mog-Tablet discovery was going on. Corny rushed to Jeuno and went to Battalia. He also told me I should go out and find it. I said something like, I’m leaving the house soon so forget it! But then I found out that my mother was still preparing for the trip, so I went to Konschtat Highlands. I ran around, sweeping the area hopelessly. Starting from the Crag of Dem to northeast, making a U-turn after I got to near the Passhow zone, continuing southward and then sweeping west.

Elfitine saw that people found so many Mog-Tablets in a very short timespan and gave up. Corny got beaten to Battalia’s one. So I kind of ran around aimlessly…concentrating more on the chat (and munching) than looking for the Tablet.

The conversation went like….

Corny: I was lucky to find mine last week. Wasn’t paying attebtion and was stuck at a wall while running, when I looked back, the Tablet was there.
Corny: When Stefy said the Nomad Moogle Statue was rare I felt so lucky.
Alec: How close you need to get, to see it??
Corny: idk I read 20 w/e thingies

Then more and more Mog-Tablets were discovered, West Sarutabaruta being the 10th.I got discouraged, but still running around.

Corny: It didn’t seem like I looked away that much though, so I’d say 10.
Corny: And I didn’t even see it on the ground or anything like a shine.
Corny: I think it’s just walk around and hope for a land mine.
Alec: Awwww…

At that point I felt even more hopeless and started dropping my attention. Then I ran without specific direction, hitting TAB key on a Tremor Ram and various goblins. Then I ran into a wall while nibbling on some cherries, and noticed that my target wasn’t yellow…but green!

Turning back I saw…

Alec: Mog-Tablet!!!
Alec: OMG OMG
Alec: OMG!!!!!!! (<<< I was overjoyed at that time)
Corny: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
LS: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corny: Get it! Touch it quick lol! Before someone steals it XD
Alec: Got! I got it!

So I headed to Jeuno for my reward. It turned out that my Tablet was the Tablet of Courage. So I got an Argent Coat (male’s tuxedo >.> which I can’t wear) and a Kupofried’s Ring. Anyway…..still it’s a lucky encounter!

Woot! I felt so lucky it didn’t seem true.

Duckie was more thrilled about the Super Kupowers we would get. She was hoping for Swift Shoes ot Atrisan’s Adventage like last week. XD But, duh, we didn’t get any of those.

By the way, the Moogle made me sign something…. Well, he was cunning. He made it sound as if he was thrilled to have met me and wanted my autograph so much that I forgot to ask what was it! Hopefully it’s not an evil kind of slave contract like what President Naja did to me. :\

Well, I’m off for the trip! See ya!