Duo'ing Is Good For Your Health

I get on for conversational purposes only. Wasn't planning on any leveling or anything. I was going to do my taxes and talk. Like I was supposed to do yesterday. Right. So I get and find once again my ls is bumping. It's full of people. Yay! Inchigo, Annastacia, Mayonaka, and even Naquel. Naquel was having a bad day. Inchi was trying to skill up in the wrong area with DRG. Kirinage and Oliphant were on too. I was talking with Kakida thru tells. He was so hurt from RBK disbanding and disheartened about who his friends are. I felt bad for him. Then we got to more pleasant convo about skills and jobs. He gave me a fishing rod he got off of a gob. So I decide to fish and do my taxes. Ok. That couldn't happen. Fishing requires me to keep hold of the controller. Damn. So much for my taxes. I fish a stack of moat carp when I get a tell from Ghostdawg. He wanted to know what I was up to. I told him I was looking to duo so I raise my sword and elemental skills. He said he has to do same with his SAM. So we make a date. We head to Yhoator. During my skilling up party Naquel and Mayonaka get into a little argument. I had to settle them down. After that was squashed. I died. As we were fighting a crawler 2 tonberries and 1 element attacked us. I died and Ghost got down to 29 HP. I hp and OP back. We continue on when I got a tell from Naquel asking if I was mad at him. Lol. This is a constant thing lately. Ghost now Naq. Lol. I told him no but he should try to be nice. By end of the night my elemental went from 93 to 97 and my sword went from 120 to 124. I even learned a new weapon skill, seraph blade, that I can't even use with my RDM. Lol. Ghost gave me a warp cudgel to use to get back home to my hp. Then when I get home he tells me to keep it. Lol. And I found money in my delivery box from my stack of fish. Damn tonight was a good night.

Good Convo With a Serving of Party

Today was not a playing day when I got onto the game. I got on just to talk with my friends. I was going to do my taxes. I'm on a schedule. I had all my paperwork in front of me and everything. So I log on to find my LS popping. Yay! I had at least 5 people on it. I had Oliphant, Annastacia (formerly Chig), Inchigo, Mayonaka, myself and then Kirinkage. So we get to talking while I am calculating my expenses. Inchi's trying to get me to be his and I'm staying single, lol. Oli doing quests and missions and complaining he can't get a party with his BLU. Mayonaka leveled her WHM in campaign. Then we were discussing TV shows. That's when I get a party invite. I am torn on whether to take party (get exp) or just keep on with the taxes with good conversation. My FFXI gene overwrote my sense of responsibility. So I decided to join the party. The party is in Western Altepa Desert. The only way there is either a Tele to Altepa or OP to Altepa and both takes you to Eastern Altepa Desert. So I decided to OP and walk with sneak and invisible on. As I was looking for entrance to W Altepa, I bump into Naquel. I give him a pearl to my LS. I find my way to my party without incident. I party maybe 2 hours before I left party to log. I didn't get a level, but I have like 2k to go. Then I will be level 50. I will then be able to do my LB1 and AF2 quest. I'm getting up there. Soon I have to start partying in Whitegate areas. Ugh. I will have to become a mercenary and get Sigel instead of Signet. No more conquest points for a long time after that. There's so much I need to do: - raise my elemental magic skills - raise my enhancing magic skills - raise my sword skills - AF2 quest - LB1 quest - open jobs in Windy - do Lure of Wildcats in Windy

Taking a Break From Job hunting

I get on Friday, to party because I seriously need conquest points. So I am in Norg when I get on and I chocobo'd to Kazham to get airship to Jeuno. I got to Kazham without getting lost. Yay! While I was waiting for airship Kirinkage said he wanted to level his SAM instead. I said I'd level my THF. As I was waiting I was talking to Ghostdawg, he said he wanted in. So I make it to San D and change. On way to meet Kirin I was talking on CB linkshell. Then somehow they decided to party with Kirin and I. Kainbelmont sent me an invite. I told him it was 3 of that was coming. He gets Kirin in. I tell him that my 3rd person is coming. He ignored me and inited someone else. So now I had to tell Ghost that there wasn't any room. He was pissed. He had just used his last warp cudgel. I was lost as to what to do. I couldn't decide to stay or leave. Ghost said to stay and he wanted names to blacklist. I told himno because I don't think he was doing it maliciously. He was rantingly mad. I told him to calm down. I am now in Dunes partying and pulling. We doing very well. Then Ghost gets back to me and apologized. He said he had a short temper and he's sorry. That he wasn't mad at me and he didn't want to make me uncomfortable. I accepted his apology and he said that the party he ditched or me let him back in. So it was all good. So back in party we are all talking in ls. Naquel as being all mushy to me. He's always saying TK (that's his nickname for me) you are going to be mine. I told him he's going to have a fight on his hands if he thinks so. The Kirin said to cut out the mushy stuff because it's gross. Naquel just said bring it on he can take on all the other guys. Lol. Naquel is hilarious. Then Frizzlefry had to go. He was the PLD. Since I was talking to Inchigo I knew he was playing PLD and he was level 15. I told him to come along. I told Kain I had a replacement. The Kain again ignored me and invited Naquel and Delvega into party. I had to tell Inchigo not to come. This is twice. I don't think I'll party with Kain anymore. So now Naquel is in party along with Delvega. I don't remember who else left. Kirin said Kain must've been set to have a LS party. I thought it was rude. Anyway, I leveled twice and died once. Saturday I get on to do some more DRK quest. I start killing stuff. I got it down to 85 out of 100 killed. Yay! Then I got bored. So I decided to party with RDM. I got 5 people easily; Kirin (DRG), Oliphant (PLD), Titen (BRD), me (RDM) and Kakida (WAR). I got a SAM. Then he disconneccted on the way to Garlaige. So now I have to find a 6th member again. I find a DNC. We were doing well. Then we got 2 bats linked and it took all my MP trying to cure, so I had to remedy the situation. I converted, did a divine seal and cure 4 myself.

Do you want to know what happened? Both bats said fuck it to the rest of the party and advanced towards me. Guess what happened next? I died, you guessed correct. The rest of the party tried their best to pull them off me. My cure 4 generated way too much hate when combined with divine seal. Anyway, I still leveled to 49 before I quit for the night.

Sunday I came on to check the new conquest. Li'Trelor was available. So I know I had to go to Mhaura to buy maps for there. On the way I was asked to raise some people. Kirin actually OP'd there when I was there. I was expecting it but hey, I convinced him to escort me to Zi'Tah. He obliged. We get to Mhaura and we have no idea who to buy map from. We were all over the place. Just as I was about to call it quits, I found the guy. The funny thing is that Kirin was standing by him and didn't even know. We head to Zi'Tah. We get to OP and I finish my supply run. I warp back to San D. Kirin stayed to farm. I log out.

Still Unemployed

I get on game thinking I'm going to add some more #'s to my tally for DRK job. I an still in Bastok so I head out to North Gustaberg again to kill. So I ended up killing 4 more mobs, that makes my tally 14 or 15, when Ghostdawg asks me if I wanted to fight the bomb thingy that killed me the night before. I said that I can't because I need darksteel ore and theren't any on the AH. He checked today and there was 3. I asked to buy me one and I'll give him back the gil. So I go change and take airship back to Jeuno and met him there. I go get signet and a warp scroll when I got to Jeuno. Just as we met by Kazham airship entrance the ship was arriving. We ran on board in time. Yay! On ship we exchanged items and gil.

We get to Kazham and picked up chocobo. Ok here's the issue. Ghost only knows how to get to Norg from Lowlands OP in Yuhtunga and I don't know at all. So we both had to feel our way thru. I lead first. I got us close but so far. Then Ghost got us the rest of the way. I get into Norg trade the ore to the chick NPC. He said he'll meet at NM site in Konschtat Highlands. Before I could say wait, he disappeared. I told him Iwanted tofinish supply run since I was here. He said ok.

So I get on chocobo from Norg that takes me back into Yuhtunga. I try to navigate to Yhoator; where I need to be. I get lost numerous times. Then I finally zoned into Yhoator. Yes! I am the woman. Who says persistence never pays off? I navigate Yhoator easily. Didn't get lost one bit. Why is Yhoator so much better to navigate? It was a straight shot. I hand in suppliesand then OP to San D. Then I OP to Zulkheim.

I met Ghost by NM spot. I trigger the NM he killed it with very little help from me. No death. Yay! So we walk back to Valkrum Dunes OP. We then OP to Uplands (Yhoator). This time we walk back to Yuhtunga with me casting invisible. I did get aggro'd once by a hidden gob. We finally did get to Yuhtunga. Then he lead way to Norg. This time when we get in Sea serpent Grotto thru hidden door to Norg, my sneak wore off just as a skeleton spawned behind me. So of course I catch aggro and die. Ghost was ahead of me (I told y'all my character runs slow) so he didn't make it in time. But he did get me a raise.

He apologized profusely. Said no need. Now that was the 2nd time I died doingthis SAM quest. So when I got in Norg and traded items to NPC it said I must wait 3 hours to get job and Great Katana. I was not about to log until I get the job. I put too much time and death into getting this job. I stayed there and got it.

Next time I go on, I have to party. I have no more conquest points to use until I get some.

The Job Market Is Tough

Hey I get on to try to make some headway in the SAM and DRK job quest. I start with the DRK since I'm in Bastok when I log on. I have to go to Parlborough Mines. Another stinking cave like Ordelle's Cave. I really hate caves. So of course I am trying to get through caves to find a boat. The same boat Kirinkage and I accidentally took when he was helping me with Kazham map quest. So I've been here before. So as I am navigating these mines I am holding conversation with Ghostdawg and Unworshipdangel. Unworship told me he is now level 50 RDM and ready to do LB1. He said he did Dunes parties for levels 48-50. It's been hard getting a party since I've been on for a while. I got side tracked now. I also contact Delvega since I got a message from him when I logged on. He said he'd get back to me later. So I made it to the boat without getting lost. Yay! I zone into Zehrun Mines and got my cut scene. I get my Choasbringer Sword. Now I have to kill 100mobs with this Sword. Are you ready for the bad news? I can only use sword with either DRK or WAR jobs. Since I can't use DRK I have to use WAR; a job I don't want to level. So now I decided to try the SAM fights. I asked Ghost if he thought it was possible for me to solo the first NM. He said no. He said I was going to help me with NM. So I had to meet him in the Sanctuary of Zi'Tah. It's a place I've never been and I do not possess a map. I asked Ghost where to get map. He said Mhaura. So that's another trip to take later on. So I meet him in Zi'Tah.  We kill NM together. I get one item. Now I have to go to Konschtat Highlands to defeat a bomb; another NM. Ghost said he couldn't help me with the second NM. This time I believe I can take it all by myself I warp to San D from Zi'Tah then OP warp to Dunes. I went to Selbina and traded more cabbages to the guy. And see if I can start quest that I couldn't before. Yes! I got it. Damn my fame is rising in Selbina. I have to go back to Beaudeaux. I'll do that when I finish DRK. So I walk to Konschat and find location. I buffer up and trade item to fight bomb. It was a very close fight. We were both close to death, but alas I died. I HP to San D to find I need to get darsteel ore to trade to girl in Norg for more Oreintal steel to kill bomb again. So I check AH. No darksteel ore (sad face). Now Delvega contacts me. I asked him to check Whitegate AH for item, but he was in Jeuno already but he checked Jeuno AH for me. None. Damn! So I can't finish SAM any time soon. So Delvega wants me to join this other LS called ClanBelmont. I told him to meet me in Bastok cause that's where I was heading to start on my 100 mob killing.Why kill in W Ronf? I want Gustaberg OP so I am doing my part for San D to win Gustaberg conquest. I change jobs to WAR with chagrin. I then found out that the sword is just not a regular sword; it's a great sword. That means no weapon skill for me. I head into North Gustaberg. All there is are decent challenges. I take on a wasp. Doing well until the S.O.B. Healed itself. Then the shit nearly killed me. I disengaged and zoned. Damn sword has a huge frickin' delay. So I go out to try again. I try the worm. Yes. I can take the worm. I do well. I tell Del to meet me in N Gusta. I probably killed 4 or 5 mobs when Del found me. He gave me a pearl. It's green. Clashes with my outfits, lol. I get on and a lot of folks I know are on. Even Naquel. He was so excited to see me. Lol. I lost track a bit counting my mobs because of Naquel. So before I logged off, I think I killed 10 or 11 mobs. So I have 90 or 89 to go. Fun! .....Not!

The Job Hunt Part 1

I finally made it back home from vacation yesterday. To find out several things askew: 1. My other LS: RazorBladeKiss has broken up 2. The other broken LS Valor Kingdom is back open So I get a new pearl for Valor Kingdom. I go on to find just a few people on, so I switch to my own LS. I get a person from LiveJournal onto my LS. So Ghostdawg and Inchigo are on my LS. I decide to open jobs today to gain fame. Since I'm in San D, I decided to start the PLD Job Quest. To find out I have to do 3 quests in order to become PLD. 1. I had to get a Revival Tree Root - Titen sent me the item since San D didn't have it in AH. 2. I had to get a stalactite from Ordelle's Cave - Ghost came to help me here because I was hopelessly lost in Ordelle's. 3. Then I had to go Davoi to find some unused well - Both Inchi & Ghost came to help me. I succeeded to get to the well alive but Inchi got caught by 3 Orcs that killed him. I raised him. We get out fine. Ghost went to farm & Inchi went to gain his level back since he leveldown when he died. I return to San D and complete quest. Ding PLD. I don't foresee me playing PLD anytime ever. Don't like tank jobs.

I then decide to open NIN. I head to Bastok. There I open DRK and NIN. Ghost & Inchi said they'll help kill leeches and escort me to Norg. I do all the necessary parts in town. So Ghost met me in Bastok and took me to Korrolka tunnel to get to leeches. We meet Inchi at spot. We kill leeches then I warp back to Bastok. During my ride to Jeuno, Ghost's static party started so he had to leave. That left Inchi to escort me to Norg. I meet him in Kazham. We choco to Norg. I find out I don't have a map of Sea Grotto and Norg. I get what I need in Norg for NIN quest and I also opened the SAM quest while I was there. I warp back to Bastok and finish the NIN quest. I then log off.

It's Been 4 Days

It's been 4 days since I've not played FFXI. I am out on vacation and my laptop still doesn't do the game well. I made it through 3 days fine. The 4th day, I had a FFXI dream. You know what this means? I'm heading into withdrawal. Will I make it until the 8th when I get back? Will I be able to play on the 8th? When will I get to play again? Stay tuned for the answers. Ha Ha.