Eirwen's lineart

I like doing surprise gift art for people... it's just sort of a random little thing i like to do. A lot of them time when people ask me for art (and I don't know them very well at all), I don't like to do it nearly as much. Even if it's a commission and I'm getting something out of doing the drawing. I'm weird like that.

So right now I'm working on a drawing of Eirwen who is a friend of mine and former Linkshell member when I was on Odin. All the guys I know on Deviantart that play on Odin are good guys (and girls) and were part of the reason I even considered staying on Odin.

Eirwen's drawing has colors but they're very much in the WiP stage. I'll post that up when they're done. I'm going to do something a little more cell shaded that normal I think.

Got WotG mission screencaps to post, but they're on my other laptop so I'll post them later.

the usual suspects

These are the three that i've kinda been hanging around for awhile now. L-R Screamer, myself, Shize, and Forix. We're not all actually low lvl... Forix had us standing around and then going out to kill random mobs for some sort of video game video/report/essay/thing he was doing for a class. I think I was a 10thf/5war in this picture. Shize was a NIN, Screamer a SCH, and forix a ... DRK... I think. Either way, we were all playing jobs none of us normally play. I ended up kind of liking THF and have since lvl'd it up to 17. ^_^

I'm starting to get more into DD jobs. I think I like the idea of hitting the enemy instead of being hit by it. Crazy concept huh? I've still been having terrible pt's for my PLD (i'm still at 67), but oh well. I'll get through that. Last night I actually had a pretty decent pt. Rather than going to Caedavire Mire, we ended up at G-8 in Bhaflau Thickets fight Date Eruca's rather than Heraldic Imps. The result was much faster kills, more exp, and less down time because of stupid status effects like silence and amnesia. I hate fighting imps. Ugh. Left my pt last night with about 10,000 TNL... which isn't bad I guess since I started out at 28,000 in the pt. I came in to replace a NIN who was their main tank, so of course they all didn't stay together as long as I would have liked, but the fact that the pt was doing well while i was with them was nice. I'd like to try that again tonight, but somehow I have the feeling I won't get it.

Over the weekend, i'm going to try to get to 70 and get a couple of rare/ex items I need to PLD. (parade gorget, jelly ring, and bomb queen ring). Stuff I might need to continue lvl'ing with suitable gear.

After the pt last night, I ended up running around with my artist LS; Odinartists (a group of artists who all play on Odin... duh?). Ahvi (a 30war) was needing to do a run for Bastok 2-3 (dragon killing! yay!) so a bunch of us volunteered to help her. I kinda came in late on it, but still got to go out and slap that dragon around. heh. I think all together it was Taiso, Norris, Erkz, Teg, Ahvi, and myself. We ended up breaking the record for beating the dragon by nearly 3 minutes. ha! Anyways, I like this LS. It's not too over-crowded... stays fairly active... and I tend to get along with the people really well (Norris and Taiso are great guys.) There's a nice mix of 75's and lower lvl's in there and a lot of people that are willing to help with stuff. I occassionally do to so I actually feel like I contribute to the group. heh. fun stuff.

not going to die for you

Something I did in reflection of the crappy parties I've had in the past three days. I've actually had lvl 67 three times in three days. How messed up is that?

Kinda bored tonight. Thought I might PL some people. That turned out to be even more boring. Found out Daggy from deviantart is on Odin server now. Looking forward to meeting her in game. ^_^

good to be home.

I just started playing again. It's nice. I've really missed this game. As I left the game in 2006, I was a 62 pld with rank 5 in San D'oria. I've barely done any missions and I had only done the quests I needed to to get by. I was playing a lot back then to try to keep up with a friend who I started on Odin server with.

I started playing this game originally with my friends Lee and Brandon (Leenk and Yoinokuchi on Ifrit). We had all rp'd together in various message board rpg's... transformer stuff mostly. We're all gamers, geeks, and all three of us like Final Fantasy, so FFXI seemed like a natural thing to get together and play. I went off to basic training for the Air Force (in 04) and Lee and Brandon started playing while I was gone. Lee a DRG and Brandon was a... uhm... whatever mood struck him at the time. I think he started as a whm and now plays pld mostly. I ended up moving to Germany and finally found the time to play when I wasn't working. However, those two started having to deal with other things and didn't play nearly as much. Thus, I was a little bit alone to figure things out. Shouldn't have been a big deal, except that I didn't have lots of time to do that. Enter Angie... LagunaL8 in the art clubs I've known her from before, and Screamer on FFXI. I found out she was playing on Odin and that being back in the days before world transfer, I started a new character and played with her. She was always on so I always had someone to talk to in game and lvl with. It was kind of nice. You don't really want to feel alone in an MMO ya know? Ang however passed me up pretty quick because she was able to play so much. I feel pretty stagnant on lvling and finishing quests. No biggie. I was having fun anyways.

August 2006, my son was born. I took a long break after that to be a dad. I still am of course.

I just started playing again. It's been 15 months. Some of the people I started playing with in Odin are still around (Alphonze, Shize, Screamer, Croce) but most aren't. It's not bad, in just a week I've upped in rank (from 5 to 6), gained 6 levels on pld (66pld/33war now) and finished a few quests here and there. The new expansion is out so I've got those missions along with a few dozen from previous expansions I've not finished. I've got a long way to go. No big deal, I'm still having fun with it.