Xamerkapsy >>> Tele-Mal~asi~a onry!

Spank me Tuesday and call me Charlie our lil Xamer has all growned up and has hauled ass to somewhere called "Kuala Lumpur" aka Koala Lumper....? no.... right

So anyway one can only hope he lives a little, gets a tan already (>;>)b *shakes fist*, and dosent get deported for playing with the cute 'lady' on the corner of his hotel!

Naturally we demand many cheap knock-off Nike goods etc....so saddle up pack-horse!!! Other than that, be safe, have fun and see you home soon!!

Astara's shark dive Extreme!!! /panic

Yesterday I had one of the greatest days in a very very long time! The entire Australia Day was just amazing!! Chris bought me a Shark Dive voucher for my birthday in December and we finally found a day we both had off and could enjoy and what better day than Australia Day!?

We spent the morning having lunch in the inner city befor ehopping ona ferry to Manly for the Shark Dive ( see this linky for the web details and an awesome short clip that will give you an idea of what I did! >>> http://sharkdive.oceanworld.com.au/)

All up the dive took about 3 hours and was the most memorable thing I have ever done!! I was swimming right there with a dozen Grey Nurse sharks, 3m Sting Rays and massive turtles! I even got to touch them all as they skimmed overhead and one shark even bumped right up against me!! I loved it so much I cant wait until next month when I get to undertake my official qualificationn dives that makes me an internationally recognised diver! woooot!

Zilart Mission 12~ Knocking on heavens door now!

After completing all the cutscenses before mission 12 we headed to West Altepa Desert with Neikolaas as summoner to help out. We found it with little drama and continued on to whack a pota round the room until it decided to KO me for fun! (*._.) After the fight I headed back to The Hall of the Gods where I laid the keystone in the gate and made way for the very first time into Sky!!! Taking my very first baby steps into Sky was amazing. The Ru'Anne Gardens were much mor eimpressive than I imagined and within minutes was entirely lost!! I managed to make my way back to the zone and with very little exploration left it for now until someone could give me the tour :P

Zilart Mission 8 ~ so close too sky i can feel it!

After months of silently dreaming of completing ZMs so that I could finally access sky I was invited to upgrade my HNMls membership to a full memeber with all access/points/lotting privliges due to the good word of my friends Kummy and Revon.

However, the only condition was that I obtain sky within 7 days to be accepted! I immeditealy began seeking assiatnce in Aht Urgan and thankfully Isadora was the first to reply to help and it wasn't long before we, and Sophus and some noobish thief were heading to Qufim for the BCNM! After waiting for the noobish thf to reach the spire and me having to rescue him ><;;; We ended up completely destroying the NM!! I was so happy that I was just one NM away from victory and thankfully Isa agreed to wait around for me to complete the mission 9-11 cutscenes before taking on the pot of doom!

Cop Mission 5-1 ~ Promyvion Vazhl GO!~

Once we had entered the Promyvion it was a matter of replaying exactly what we had undertaken so many missions ago in mission 2. Instead of four levels thought here were 5 and instead of 'easy' mobs each enemy was significantly harder! plus on floors 3-5 we had to kill an NM which was in essence 'the ghost of promyions past'. At each web of recollection we had to re-fight the mea, dem and holla prommy bosses of olde before we could move up the spire!! Talk about a massive ask! It was basically the 3 original prommies all in one and instead of making them slightly easier...they were harder still!

However, once we had destroyed the final ghost prommy NM we made it into the spire and rested up for our BCNM....which consisted of, you guessed it -- fighting ALL THREE prommy NMs at once in the same arena!!!

As always we kicked ass after our traditional dry run of doom! :D

Cop Mission 5-1 ~ Enduring Tumult of War

On the previous Monday morning my CoP static headed to Fei Yen to complete Missions 5-1 and 5-2. AT the begginning we had to fight a nasty Golem who had an aouto-regen that equated to 100hp/tick!! I was a bit worried however we completely decimated it within seconds and continued our trip into the bowels of Proyvion-Vahzl!
From there we were treated to a very length cs (as all CoP ones are!!) and found out some very juicy information regarding the mysterious 'boy' and Prishe!

This is just a cute pic of three Mandys on Puronguo Isle I saw...so cute! XD

Dynamis is goooooooo....kinda (*._.)

So today I started my 'end game' career with my first ever Dynamis-San d'oria run with the Rosesforthedead Dynamis LS. We met at 6am and got straight into the battlefield. However, unaware that I was the only one out of 50 people who attended who needed the win the team decided to go for max time and get as many drops as possible. After 3 full hours I had to run to make it to work on time so although this wa smy first official run, it was not officially completed :S
Ah well, Theres always next weekend and I will be sure to make it known I need the win every week :P gogo AF2!!

~~Edited to add pics 27/01/07

Chains of Promathia: Chapter 4 -- Complete!

With help from 2 new friends Havian and Celyme we were able to undertake the mission with very few troubles....except for my 30 minute intermission as "Mr. fix it-cable man" decided to cut my phone line for repairs without warning leaving the team dooomed-- well a tincy bit worried anyways (*._.)

Luckily Narnia and Syano had already farmed the two Coral Crest keys necessary for unlocking the ah..locked door in Sacrarium. So with these precious tools in hand we ventured ever deeper into the fabled dungeons commonly likened to the depths of hell by many a weary adventurer. While avoiding the wrath of the evil 'Taurs we came across the King of the realm ... Keremet himself.
With a bolt unseen, Narnia threw her might against the evil Corse and hurried back into the safety of the entrance tunnel to his chamber where lying in wait was a group of elite fighters and mages ready to quash his dreams of Sarutab...err World Domination!!

The battle was draining and in the peak of the ferocity the evil Corse turned the band of friends against one another, turning our newly found comrade Celyme against me leading me to fall upon my blade in the ultimate sacrifice. The quick actions of the few among us, namely Syano and Odjaru, ensured we would not give in to the evil ones wishes. And so he fell and we rejoiced.Alas, the battle was merely half way through for we saw the face of our true enemy, the old and wise NM Old Professor Mariselle and his two demonic pupils. What a treacherous fiend he was indeed. With crafty teleportation and sleepga attacks he proved a worthy adversary for the skilled OnebyOne team. However, with tight team skills he stood no chance and he was quickly dispatched where we claimed our reward and headed back to Tavnazia to continue our paths to Sea....onebyone.

Xamer + Asta duo = Shadowlord incarnate!

After recently joining the EU HNMLS dynamis group RosesForTheDead I was invited to apply for thier main LS, but without sky I didnt want to risk rejection. Luckily for me Xamer was keen to help me acquire the very last crystal I needed for ZM5 from Yuhtunga Jungle via Ifrit's Hellhole!

After I dinged 57 Smn we gathered at the jungle and traveresed our way through the eery and problematic Cauldron. It was pretty fun, even the agro death from the nasty puppy the Shadow Dragon!

Thankyou Xamer!!!!!!!! As always, Team Xamasta > all!

Dynamis/ HNM LS obtained at last! :3

Today While seeking an exp party I ran into a friend from so far back I barely remembered them. We were good friends when I was a noobie Samurai in Crawlers Nest about a year ago. Kummy is now a BLM75 and we got to chatting about everything thats past and I made mention of the fact I am keen to find a decent HNMLS that can take on a keen Samurai without sky/sea. He told me to apply to his LS "Roses for the dead" which tackles Dyanmis bi-weekly and Kirin every week as well as other weekly events. They have a strict sea/sky requirement but if I was able to impress the other sackholders in the Dynamis/Kirin arena I would be bumped up the list of entrants.

They meet in EU primetime which is great also so that means I can attend all events at my preferred time without having to get up early or very late! Here's hoping I have all my AF2 in no time! :P

V8 charged Summoner!

After joining an exp. party last night as Summoner 53 I ended up playing right up until 3:30am and only managed lvl 54 before the party called it quits for the night. Today I woke up at the horrible hour of 1pm to the wrath of the mother who demanded I start getting a 'real' job asap :P

After flicking through my daily job update emails I decided to have a go at the ToAU missions I have been stuck on trying to solo the Amerats for the elusive Vial of Joly's Acid for mission 12: The Royal Puppeteer. After roughly 7 attempts today finally yielded me the drop! Hello ToAU13! ......NM can I have it? =P

On the ship to the NPC in Nashmau a nifty looking NM Proteus spawned and I asked the other ppl on the boat to help out whacking its ass!...as you can see, we did...what? we did!!!

After completying the last step I decided to continue the progress of Smn and ended up getting a party near immediately for KRT. I hit 55 pretty quick and decided to give Carby's newest ability Meteor a spin! and OMFG it owns!!! Oh Carby, how I love thee! Here's hoping 75 comes soon enough.

A summoner's education

Today I decided to snap myself out of this nasty rut I had sunk into by being self-indulgent by sleeping in till late and playing FFXI...as per usual.

I decided to tie up some open Smn AF hunts and completed the AF feet and decided to finish the Hands in SSG. While I was farming the coffer key Neikolass from FU decided to come along and lend a hand! After about an hour we finally got drop and it took another hour for us to get the coffer claim! All in all was great fun and I was able to meet alot of the newer FU members.

Lost in the void...

Belated hello's to everyone.

So you may, or may not have noticed my absence in recent weeks from both Astara and his flesh-riddled puppet Tim. In the past few weeks I spent a few solid hours with POL to help rectify the issue with the Aussie server congestion issues and allowed them to 'use me' as thier connection troubleshooter which was kinda fun as we ran through a large series of network tests for which I recieved a very nice thankyou email from thier Head of Technical Support.

It turns out they had no idea that many people were having connection issues. However it appears that the Taiwan earthquake had very little to do with the troubles, however thier latest update apparently included some 'unmentionables' a.k.a RMT/hacking prevention tools included that inadvertantly blocked or limted the ports that POL could access and hence the lack of connection. What still remains a mystery (or was for eyes only) is why it was mostly Oceanian/Asian-pacific network connections that were blocked.

Anyway after a while I was able to manually re-open my ports and BAM! FF was live once more.

...However...Since then I have probably seen Astara for no more than 15 minutes in the past 3 weeks. It seems I may have come to a simple crossroads of sorts and am once again debating whether to bow out of FF now or soldier on with the hope that somewhere soon in the future I will find a reason to keep plugging hours into it. What used to keep me coming back was the reliable conversations and happy /emotes that I would recieve from friends. In the past 6 months there has been a considerable drop in the number of people I speak too. I find myself logging in, staring at Moogle and logging out just as quickly...

It's really quite sad.....Hmmm. Indecision.