Events

Well, I've gotten a LOT done since I last posted, so I'll take a moment to summarize things.

Sodako
- WAR to 18
- WHM to 41
- NIN to 19
- THF to 20
- BLM to 23
- MNK to 10
- SAM to 10 (well, in an hour or two anyways, 8 at the moment)
- all non-ToAU jobs unlocked (haven't picked up ToAU yet)
- all ninja scroll quests except that stupid shining subligar one done, because the subligar are like 10k each, and I'm not paying that much
- Teleport-Yhoat quest done
- Made about 400-500k, not counting the BCNM action
- 7/7 on BCNM40 Royal Jelly. . . . . despite the easy victories, so far the best drops so far have been. . . . wait for it. . . . 2 scrolls of erase, which currently go for next to nothing thanks to undercutters
- Almost done getting another scroll of drain off a temporary mule created for just that purpose (150k last I checked)

Arigan
- Nothing at all beyond being used to sell a crapload of things and storing all my subjob's subjob's subjob's gear

Beyond that, I chose classes for the next quarter (starts september 25th, very late. . .oh, almost forgot, College since no one reading this probably knows that I'm in college or anything as far as my education goes), which are going to be japanese, which I plan on using in game, and economics, which I already know most of but I'm just doing it for credits really. And no, I'm not freaking taking japanese just because of FFXI. . . . . . or because of anime. . . I just want to learn it.

Theres another little bit thats happened that needs a bit of explaining. . . or at least I feel like explaining it. I grew up playing hockey (roller and ice), baseball, and soccer. After a few years of playing it I dropped soccer and kept doing baseball and hockey. Another few years later, I stopped doing baseball and kept going with just hockey. Now I'm 19, have been playing hockey for 12 years, and am just coming off of a half-year break since I last played. I won't get into the specific city, but near where I live theres an NHL (national hockey league) team, and theres a place with 4 rinks where that team practices, and where people can come and skate or sign up to play hockey. For most of my life as far as I can remember, my dad has played (goalie) with a team there that has kept a number of the same people in it throughout the whole time, and since I turned 18, he stopped playing for them and I started, sort of. So far I've been playing sort of off-and-on, for instance I didn't play last season but I did play the season before that. So, recently, I found out they needed a goalie, and as a result, I'm gonna be playing goalie for 'em this season, which I really enjoy. I also play defense, but I tend to go through a sort of cycle where I'll play defense for a while, decide I like goalie more, play goalie for a while, decide I like defense more, then play defense for a while and repeat the whole thing over the course of a year or so. Why did I want to explain all that? I dunno, it might be because my favorite part of FFXI is the social interaction and to me putting random crap like this out there is part of it. Honestly I don't know.

Another thing I've done since the last post I made was a little experiment with the people of FFXI. I put "people who /check others more than once are noobs" in my bazaar message, and, to my horror, pretty much everyone who examined me immediately proceded to /check spam me. What? Do I have to wait until level 60 to interact with someone over the age of 12? Or is it just that no one who has any degree of maturity /checks people often?

I also had a fun experience with a random jackass in valkurm when I was leveling. . . hell I don't remember what I was leveling because I've spent so much time there in the last while. Basically, I'm sitting near Selbina looking for a group, and this random person named Laqa runs past, /checks me, and randomly /slaps me. I didn't appreciate the /slap, so I threw out a /em laughs at the noob. After some whining from her, and some of the best misuse of the english language I've seen in a long time from someone masquerading as an intelligent player, she concluded by calling me "small time". Now, as I'd only seen that bit, which was fairly tame, I figured she wasn't too much of a moron, just didn't use english that well, like most people who speak it. But, sadly, I was being too optimistic. After a couple minutes I got a random /tell from her that mostly just have "FVCK YOU FAGGOT".

Lets see. After that, I had a pretty good idea of Laqa's personality. She tries to maintain that shes not stupid or a noob in public chat, keep her image, whatever. Appears to have a pretty big ego, probably fueled by some high level job that makes her think shes better than everyone else cause shes wasted more time on a game, and shes pathetic enough that she intentionally tries to get around the game's foul-language filter (not that I have it enabled anyways, believe me I do my fair share of cussing). To top it off, she uses stuff like "faggot" liberally, which pretty much guarentees shes not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

All in all, I have to say shes a pretty amusing idiot, if you see her and she randomly /slaps you, have fun with it.

Of Mithra Melee and Full DD Ninjas

I've been screwing around with some statistics with my linkshell leader Draconum, just figuring some things out, and I'm beginning to think that Mithra melee (SAM, DRK, WAR, etc. . .) can compete with its Elvaan counterparts fairly well. As a result I think I'm going to try out SAM on Sodako for a while and see how it goes. Honestly can't say I've seen many Mithra taking this route, usually I either see mage or THF/NIN.

Also concerning NIN. . .I've been doing my best to avoid parties where I'm tank, not because I don't have money, not because I don't have utsusemi, I have both. NIN before 37 just ISN'T a good tank, so I've been DDing as much as possible, and doing pretty well. It hasn't been amazing damage or anything but I'd like to think that I'm doing fairly good damage, and I can always just provoke and tank fairly easily in a party so its not like my NIN can only fill that one purpose.

Yeeeeep just random stuff that doesn't have any real purpose. Maybe I'll put more crap up later.

Oh I almost forgot, this is from last night:





I'm too lazy to photoshop them so its all in a line, so theres a bit of overlap between the two screenies.

Status Report

So, I haven't posted anything in a while, and I figured I'd start making posts randomly as to how far I've gotten, mostly so I can track my progress.

Arigan

Individual quests done: 15

Job levels:






Rank: 1, almost 2

To do list: Subjob, rank 5

Sodako

Individual quests done: 56

Job Levels:


Rank: 5

To do list: Teleport-Vahzl, Teleport-Yhoat, Utsusemi: Ichi, Tonko: Ichi, Kurayami: Ichi, Dokumori: Ichi, Jubaku: Ichi and Hojo: Ichi quests, unlocking all extra jobs, get THF, MNK, and WAR to 10, then level them in valkurm, level BLM to 25 or 30, make money

Random

So, I was just screwing around last night on my Taru alt. . .and I suddenly notice the flashing icon in the top right corner of the screen telling me I have an e-mail. So I quickly log out and check it. . . and for some reason that I'm not going to complain about SE just sort of randomly restored Sodako, the first character I'd made after coming back to FFXI about a month ago.

VERY nice surprise.

So since then I finished off the teleport-dem quest, and now all I need is the teleport-mea one and I'll be set for my teleport spells until yhoat.

While trading in letuce to the hairy (hes toothless I found out) old man in selbina, one of my really good old friends Imacdeath started pretending to be a noob and I followed suit.

Because the screenshots themselves sucked due to the fact that I was using the windower, which caused the stupid console thing to be over like half of the screen each time I took a screenshot, I just transcribed the whole thing.

red = shout
blue = party
purple = linkshell
black = emote

Imacdeath : WHY ARE SHEEEPZ INSIDE THE TOWNZ????!?!!?
Sodako : mebe we nede bowz?/!?1/1/1/
Imacdeath : BOWZ!!!! WHERE ARE DE BOZW!?!???///?!1/!?
Sodako : i dunon....
Imacdeath : u stpidu n00b
[Sodako> we make awesome noobs
Sodako : stfu lamzer
Imacdeath : ANYONE KNOWZ WHERE DEB OZW IS AT????!!?1/1!?1/???
[Virtualboy> imac...noob?
[Sodako> we're shouting about how to kill the {Sheep} in {Selbina}
Imacdeath : u stfu, urz da lamerz... u sux0r
[Imacdeath> lol
[Virtualboy> always has been in my book
[Imacdeath> lol
Sodako : ur momz iz teh sux0r lol
[Imacdeath> :P
[Imacdeath> didn't even know u had a book
Imacdeath : ur momz iz ze sheepZ!!!!1!1!!1//1!shift!
Sodako's eyes brim over with tears.
Imacdeath: SOMONG GIMMEZ GILS AND BOZW SO I CAN KEEL SODAKOZ
Sodako's eyes brim over with tears.
Imacdeath : SOMEONG GIMMEZ GILS AND BOZW SO I CAN KEEL SODAKOZ MOMZ AND GET EXPZ!!!!1!!1!!!
Sodako : my momz is dead ; ;
Imacdeath : Oh.
Imacdeath : sux2bu
Imacdeath : ANYONEZ GOT FREE GILZ???1/???/
[Sodako> imac just out ass-hole'd me
[Imacdeath> lol
Imacdeath watches Sodako rape Melyon from the {back}.
Sodako : stfu noboz j00 sux ; ;
Sodako doesn't have the physical equipment to rape someone from behind.
Imacdeath : u gtfo u st00pid n00bz suxor
Imacdeath hands Sodako a pickle.
Sodako : my dda wlil pwnz joo stfu
Imacdeath : Rayine! U HAVE DA 1337 GEARZ! GIMME GILZ PLZZZ....
Imacdeath : PLZ, I LET U TOUCH SODAKO!!!1/1!11!!
Sodako : /cry
Imacdeath : SEE? SHE LIKES IT !!!!!!1!1!!!
[Sodako> oh god I wonder if anyone is buying this
[Sodako> . . . Melyon keeps feeling me up
[Imacdeath> hahaha
[Sodako> I'ma call a GM claiming hes sexually harassing me
[Imacdeath> ROTLFMAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH [etc. . . .]
[Imacdeath> HAHAHAHAHHHSHAH
[Virtualboy> haha
[Imacdeath> ZOMGHAHAHAHAHAAHAHa
[Imacdeath> haha, that's so awesome
Sodako : zomg Melyon kepes feleing me up ; ; how clal GM??////
Imacdeath : IMMA GM, NOOB, WUT U NEED???
[Sodako> lol
Imacdeath: GIMME GILZ I'LL FIX UR PRBOLME
[Sodako> dude don't impersonate a GM
[Sodako> lol
[Imacdeath> lol
Sodako : tihs guy wit grene name keeps felenig me up ; ;
Sodako : how ban?
[Virtualboy> [GM]Dave: Greetings adventures! I hear that you two are causing trouble in {Valkurm Dunes}.
Imacdeath : SARSYU! YOUZ GOTZ 1337 GEARZ TOO! GIMME GILZ PLEASE.... IM PO0R...
[Sodako> lol
[Imacdeath> lol
randomplayer: can anyone get me near or very close to bastok plx ... would tip but im broke but ill give 12 fire crystals
[Sodako> lol you should actually port this guy
[Imacdeath> laf i doubt he's got the crystal
(Imacdeath) HELLO! THANKZOR FOR JOIN MY PT!
(Imacdeath) J00 NEEZ DA BASKOT
(randomplayer) i cant pay i dont have any gil :(
(Imacdeath) COMEZ TO DA DIRTY OLD MANZ AND HIS SHEEPZ
(Imacdeath) BHUT FIRST
(Imacdeath) DO U HAVE ANY BOZW??? I NEED TO KEELS THIS SHEEPS
(Imacdeath) STEELTITTYZ U COMING???
(Imacdeath) I THINKZ U GOTTAS BE NEAR MY FOR DA MAJIK TO WERK
(Imacdeath) OK, SO BASTKOZ?
(randomplayer) yes plz that would make my life a lot easier
(Imacdeath) OKAYZZ BUT U HAVE NO GILZ???
(randomplayer) i only have 22gil
(Imacdeath) 22 GILZ>???
(randomplayer) yes just startet playing last night
(Imacdeath) DAMN DUDEZ JOOR ONE BROKZ GALKSA
(Imacdeath) AND UR ALREADY LVL 11!?a?a?!?!??
(Imacdeath) WIZH I WAS LVL 11
(Imacdeath) OKAYZ ANwYAYSH
(Imacdeath) BASTOKZH
(randomplayer) yes some nice dude pl me
(Imacdeath) ZOMG!!!LAKHT@!!!
(Imacdeath) PL??!?!?!!!!/1/1/1!???///?!!shitf!!!????
(Imacdeath) DUDE!!!! WHOC AN I GETZZ DA PLZ TOO?!???/?!1?1

and it went on after that, Imac {Teleport-Dem}'d the poor newb who of course didn't have the crystal so we got a great laugh out of it, then I ran off to Bastok to get my tele-dem quest and gave the newb a whole bunch of money making tips. Turns out hes a really nice guy.

<3 The Solonavi