Astara's other other cage

A blow-by-blow tale of Astara and his dealings with the world in which we can humbly dream of...

Thursday, November 30, 2006

So there its is, the Flag I salute! What a fantastic run from Rank 1 over a year ago to its final completion. It feels really good to have witnessed the final mission CS and see how it tie sin with the opening movie and CS. Thankyou to everyone who helped me through these past few days, especially Kazaroth, Askpee, Budmaster, Brakan (gogo 69!!!), and Akakami!! I love you guys! and yes I cant wait until we conquer Bastok Rank 10 next! CHEER CHEER CHEER!

PLUS WOOOOOT we broke the record for Rank 10 BCNM clear time! Haxxed! Thats Tarutau power for ya! Peace Out! xoxo Astara (aka Star Sybil's 'Shining Star')

So on the final mission we were forced to face the evil Cardians and ban thier wicked ways at the Full Moon Fountain. The fight itself was amazingly simple and I must admit I was slightly pertubed that for a final Mission it was all over so soon ;-; However, once we had beaten the BCNm, many cool things ensued, and I shall not go into details for the sake of those still to complete. So for now all you have are some non-revealing pretty piccies! Enjoy!

Hall of the Gods roundtrip!

On the way through Rank 9 we had to make a visit to Ro`Maeve yet again and I realised that I had never been into the Hall of The Gods. The place wa sfantastic and only instills my desire to reach Sky soon! Gogo Xamer and Asta TEAM A!
However once we reached the Hall it was in fact neccesary to visit anyway to acquire the Ancient Verse. The spooky CS with the extinct species was quite interesting!

Ranke me Up!

So we had to harvest Goobues in order to acquire thier ...humus >.>
A few times we were also agro'd by the nasty Korrigans which one dropped the rare 4-leaf Korrigan bud and dropped to one of the party members, Askpee I believe, which I soon after found out they sold on AH for upwards of 200k ><;;;





Rank me up!

So following on from the previous rank missions the night before we continued onwards with completing Rank 8 which was amazing fun!! We had to fight some nasty cardians in the Sarutabaruta ruins and then make our way to The Sanctuary of Zitah. All in all was great fun!!

Pretty Moogle Rods


Was recently in Al Zahbi when I ran across someone who had both of the Fan Festival Moogle Rods...They looked awesome, and the present giving stat looks fun! Wants one!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Wow what a day! Part IV

It was such a rush and after bouts of applause and praise I was feeling pretty spiffy with myself =^.^=…..until we had to try for the third and final time. After the Black mage’s sleepga and silence were massively resisted, we were subdued by the onslaught of Blizzaga III followed immediately by Aeroga III and Thundaga III…needless to say…we fell hard and fast! The worst part was I had 300 TP and he was down to 12% HP….karma truly is a bitch! Thankfully our Blm had 2 ls buddies on hand to venture out to save us, although it was VERY close to the 60min limit! Yep, that's me with mere mins left to raise.

After this 2 of the members were completely buggered as it put us back almost 2 hours and we all decided to call it a night and continue tomorrow till rank 10!

Wow what a day! Part III

BEST FIGHT EVER! Was just so much fun, had to agro all 3 of his comrades and the nasty Dirty-Handed Gochakzuk! It went really well and he fell! We had to wait for next re-spawn to get 2 more wands but unfortunately he managed to get off Blizzaga III which wiped four of the party members out with over 1000 damage!!

Me and the Ninja survived and I busted out the Meikyo Shisui and was able to solo Light Skillchain (Yes Xam, it actually hit for once! ^^) on his ass to totally pwn him!!!!! SAMURAI HAX FTW!!!

Wow what a day! Part II Piccies




Just some more piccies of the CS in Ro' Meave...notice the lil guy in the rags....striking resemblence to PuPu from FFVIII!! Very cute!

Wow what a day! Part II Piccies




Whats cooking doll face? :D

Wow what a day! Part II


Later today after lunch I sought out a Merits party and after about an hour, and of course only mere moments before Besieged I get an invite. Turns out the party consisted of 3 samurai’s, a ninja and 2 bards.

The party was fantastic! We parsed at about 8k limit points per hour and worked together real well. All up I earnt over 18k limit points and unlocked my very first merit!! >>>> ‘Stote Tp Increase’

After we had disbanded however I got a tell almost straight away asking if I could help with Windy missions 8-10 all in a row with a group already started!! (see picky above) I jumped at the offer! The party were already at Davoi at the NM and were more than happy to wait for me to do all the pre-req’s in Windy and Ro~Maeve! So I made way there and we ventured into the house of the Big Bad Wol….er Orc :s

Wow what a day! Part I

Today I logged in at about 11am and was immediately asked to join a party in Garbage Sh*tadel and I gladly accepted which I stayed with right up until level 37 went DING! :D So now I am officially set for merits and any other events that need some extra whacking power.

Last night I had a very interesting sleep. apparently I slept-walked in my room after dreaming that my window was made out of a pillow I dreamt that I had to close the window in order to prevent bats from coming in (or something >.>). I woke up and found my pillows on the other side of the room and my window locked shut. I am one who must always sleep with my window wide open, so when I noticed the window locked shut the dream smacked back into my memory a million miles an hour and I was hugely disorientated…and just a lil freaked out.

I put it down to lack of sleep, too much FFXI making my imagination go crazy! ^^;;;;

Monday, November 27, 2006

Mission 7-2 : Team A = Tarutaru Power Strike!

So after I had helped out Xamer we move donto the Windy mission. First stop: Altepa for OP home.....until I realised (post xamer OP) that I was yet to complete this run, and had inadvertantly set my homepoint...for 4000g!!! gah!

So after Xam-xam came back to save me we got the mission orders and headed to tele-yhoat where *someone* decided to make friends with the entire Yuhtunga Jungle, indeed scaring the heeby-jeebers out of the poor noobettess on the way.

and finally we made it to the Temple of ugly-mugs and attempted the NM, but got agro before we had time to max out mp and Tp which led to us escaping with him at 30%! But we tried again and...whooped...his...ass! and thank god he never got off Everyone's Rancor!

Was super dooper fun times!!!

Be-gone evil Lich!

YAY go soloable NMs! Now I have Summoner to 53 I'm well into getting the AF and need the Toraimarai Canal access so Ive had to start the cute widdle Keruto's Rhinostery quests in order to get it directly from Windy! So I Had to take on the wickedly fiendish Lich C. magnus and his nasty AM's.... luckily with just a few quick ws's he was down!

However...as I was zoning out I asssumed the little skele buddys would think twice about agro'ing me....I was wrong, very wrong! However, Win> Loss = Yay!

Minotaur of doom!


Last night I popped on to undertake Windy mission 7-2 for rank 8 with Xamer, but he needed help on the CoP 2-3 mission in the Aqeuducts to fight the Minotaur. So I decided to come along to help out, it was good fun!

I actually had forgotten 90% of this mission already and couldn't understand why none of it was coming back too me, until I realised once we had killed the Minotaur, we had a thief use his skills on the door and therefore bypassed the entire Key hunt expedition that Xam's group did next.

All in all was nice going back because it really shows how far you've come and has made me even more determined to get to sea! Congrats again Xamer! See you soon in a sea near you!

Warrior Powah!


I've been working on getting Warrior to 37 for the past week now and as of this morning Ive gone 10 levels from 26-36! So with just one more level to go, and currently in an exp party fingers crossed I will ding 37 today.This will mean tonight I can merit until either

1) My fingers drop off,
2) Chris disowns me, or..
3) I max out ALL merits! HAX! :D

But in all seriousness I can't wait to max my GK and Crit. skills and leave the lowbie levels alone for a very long time. That is all. Good day.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Long time no see.


It's been such a long time since I posted. Since last time alot has happened. The greatest point is that I officially completed my exams on the November 15th. and have been pretty much been lyinga round and sleeping in till lunchtime and getting to bed at about 3am each morning! :D

Plus Chris and I have become completely hooked on this Foxtel show called "Most Haunted' which is so amazing!!!

With all this extra time I've managed to get back into the swing of in-game fun and have gained 52 Summoner and am working on getting Warrior to 37 so I can spam merits this summer. I will keep you posted on how things go and look forward to catching up with you all in-game for fun soon!!!!!

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Team A > Garuda! = Winnnnnn!

So last night I was pondering my summoner options for when I finish up uni in a week and am starting to get quite impatient by the fact that I am lvl 48 with no Fenrir. So I asked Xam-xam to help me duo Garuda so that I would have all six Whispers neccesary for my yummy Moon Bauble.
We both gathered together late last night and made our way to the arena after both completing the weekly choco run :P....Unfortunatey after we had made it all the way to the protocrystal soooomeone forgot thier tuning fork *coughsillywhmcough* :D

We went in and even with baraero the bitch managed to wipe the floor with poor Xamer, which led to a not so glorious wipe of me with a nasty Wind Slap to the face!
Alas, we tried again and she went down! Take that you green...thing >.>!! :D
Fenrir/ Diabolos..... look out cos im'a coming for you next!