lvl up!

Happy birthday to me. I am now at lvl 26 (years... old.). I of course have work today. We have a busy workload plus I have an appointment with my commander and a flue shot to go get. yippie.

<- sketched this a couple of days ago. the choco is a little bit, but I kinda like it. Gonna color it over the weekend i think. :D

A couple of people in one of my linkshells a couple of nights ago suggested starting a little static party since we all seem to be on at the same time. Ickypoo (a 67 blue mage) and Eysis (a 67 white mage) and I all decided we'd try to be on about the same time to start pt's. Well, I think Icky suggested this more or less and then I somehow got volunTOLD to start the PT. ok. No problem. I'll start a party when I can. I'd rather wait for an invite. As a PLD, I'm usually in pretty high demand at my current lvl. there aren't a lot of tanks.... much less paladins.

Started the pt not long after Icky sent me a /tell to say he'd be ready whenever. I had been making a yagado bead necklace run for Shize so she could quest for Utsesumi (sp?) to lvl ninja. Anyways, I get around to starting the party, get my two static members, and find a drg, rdm, and a sam to go along with us. Not long after starting the pt, Icky says he has to go. Ok. No big deal. I can find a new dd. Then the drg (Chiodos) says he needed to leave ASAP. *grumble* He finds his own replacement and we press on. Eysis then says she needs to leave and the sam says he's going with her. They find they're own reps too. We're good to go still but becaues of the amount of members swapping in and out we have barely gotten started on getting any xp. I was only about 9k tnl. >.> I should have lvl'd. the RDM decides to leave. Ok. Good. This guy (who may perminately be on my shit list) I didn't mind leaving.

My pt now consists of two new rdm's (Algirl and Kisti), a thf (Battlebabe), Lazerus (some kind of dd...forgot his job), and another sam. Not the best combo, but we work with it. Battlebabe I like. She's been playing as long as I have and is a good player. Algirl seems to be the same way. Anyways, we're camping Imps, Flies, and Jhuns and we're probably a couple of lvls too low for that, but we seemed to be alright. Well, a fly spawned in the middle of our camp, so I tell Battlebabe who was pulling and we start on the fly. Someone was AFK and I died. No big deal. I die all the time. I'm a pld, it's what I do. Algirl revives me and I stand back to let the sam, thf, and drk (ah ha! that's what Lazer is) take it for a little bit. The sam starts to get pretty low on hp, so I jumped in with a couple of cures and threw up my 2hour (invincible). That was a dumbass mistake because now I've got crazy hate that will stick while I'm weakened even after invincible wears off. Invincible wears and I head for the zone. The pt was about to wipe and I've got all the hate... Might as well do what I'm supposed to and save the pt right? The sam tells me to stay. Basically "die again! we can kill it!" - yeah right. I pause for a minute which was my own mistake because at this point, the fly catches up and drops me like a sack of potatoes. The sam gets angry, says "this isn't working" and leaves. Without any hesitation or question. wtf? We replace him with a blm from Al and BB's LS, but by this point it's late and I've been trying to manage this pt for 3 hours. I'm exhausted and falling asleep at my keyboard. I let the pt know and since by this point they're all pretty much friends... they're ok with that so long as I can keep hate and keep taking hits. We ended up deciding to disband the pt, but just before we do... I die again. The blm went afk and apparently nobody knew. ugh. I had lvl 67 and then went back down to being 1500 tnl. I guess I can get 67 today for my birthday. :P We'll see I guess.

I'd love to start a big list of people I'm just going to refuse to pt with now or associate with all together, but that would be sort of juvenile of me. Posting that list that is. heh. I'm glad to have pt'd a couple of times with Battlebabe in the past few days though. I've seen her around as long as I've played and never actually met you. That and I always wondered if she was actually a female or if it was just a cleaver name. I never take for granted that people are what gender they appear to be in this game.

Anywho... back to Caedevre Mire tonight. Need to get a step closer to Maat. >.<

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.

testing

this is just a test. obviously.
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