Memories #6: Windurt Nation Missions Duo

This screenshot was taken during the time Mooner and I did the entire Windurst mission line just by ourselves. I'm not sure which mission we were working on, but it was taken while we had to climb to the top of Castle O. It always took us forever and ever to get to the top because I'm terrible with directions and this place is an awful maze. I do know this was taken in one of the oubliettes that you can fall into through a trapdoor.

As I said, Mooner and I duo'd the entire storyline by ourselves. It was so much fun! It took us probably about 2 weeks working on it off and on, so I didn't have to live in Windy for very long. I really didn't care for life there. The only bonus it had was being so close to the cooking guild. Other than that I missed Sandy terribly during my time here.

I moved to Bastok and got rank 10 there with help of random pick-up parties and bored friends. Mooner originated in Bastok and he had already been rank 10 there for a while. It took me a lot longer to complete Bastok than Windy. I hated being away from Sandy.

I always felt it was impressive that the two of us were able to duo the whole of Windy though. It may not have been, but I was proud of us. The storyline was pretty cool for Windy, as well!

One-year anniversary

Today is our one-year wedding anniversary. And even though I don't play anymore, it's still a special day. I'll always remember our ceremony, our friends, our clothes, the whole day was magical. I'll always have a special place in my heart for my tall, dark and handsome Mooner.

Instead of reposting a bunch of screenshots, I'll link the original blog.

Memories #3: CoP Airship Fight

I had a static for the biggest part of the CoP missions. Well, actually, I had a static for the whole of CoP. I lead a small group of people from DirtyTao up to and through the Ouryu fight. Shortly after, DirtyTao died out, and I joined NorthernSun. I then joined a group of people and we were a static for the rest of CoP. This screenshot is from the dreaded Airship fight, during the Ultima portion. I won't go through the fight, but this was the most challenging for my group. It took us 2 days I think and countless tries to finally beat this fight. I know a lot of groups have no problems with this fight, even in pickup groups, so I have no idea why this one was such a challenge for us. But we did it. And it was awesome.

I'm going to go on and say that doing CoP with a group as tight-knit as mine was, was one of the highlights of my career in FFXI. I made my best friends while doing this. There will always be a place in my heart for Tristyn, Mishra, Kildain, Neps, and of course, my Mooner. These CoP missions can and will challenge you and your abilities. Will challenge your friendships. Will challenge your patience. And I wish everyone could have the experience and memories that I do.

It's been a while.

Been a long time since my last post. I've been busy. With real life mostly, which is okay.

Managed to get DRK to 37, so now I can CSS.

My Sky shell has moved into Sea one day a week, we just started last week and I missed this week's run due to sick children, but it seems like we'll be good there.

My brother has started a character on the Fenrir server. I toyed around with the idea of moving over there, but decided against it. Well, that and Mooner told me I better not, lol. So I've made a new character to play with him on. She looks just like Stardust and her name is Anansi. Started out in Sandy, of course ^.^ It's actually pretty fun to start over again. I have no plans on doing CoP or anything with her, but city missions and things are fun to redo. She's also a WHM.

That's really about it. Between logging in for Sky/Sea or to level WHM or DNC, I really haven't been up to much lately. Once October is over I'll probably get the itch to play a lot more again. October is my favorite month and I hate missing it!

I'll leave you with my latest attempt at editing!

Could use a nap!

So I was going to go see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this Saturday, but my best friend's husband was being a dick. Sucks. I rented The Haunting in Connecticut instead. It sucked. I've seen that movie before, it was called The Amityville Horror. I understand that it was based off a true story, but I was still dissapointed and I believe a lot of it was fabricated for the movie, anyway. It did have the chick that plays in Candyman though, I dig her.

I'm writing this really fast while the game is under maintenance. I have to step out anyway for a while, real life calls, but tonight being Sky night I may not make it back in time. That's what my other leaders are for though, hopefully one of them are on. Speaking of leaders, I'd like to welcome Mooner into leadership of the shell! He's taking Zanen's place and I think he'll do a good job.

Gotta run!

Wedding, amongst other things....

So...to start my blog off, I'm going to write about my wedding to Mooner, whom I've been friends with for about 3 years now.







The day started out a little boring. We met Akryi (played by her husband as she wasn't home yet) in Jeuno at the church to do our last rehersal before our meeting with the Wedding Master, and had about an hour to spare before they were suppost to arrive. Mooner spent that time crafting and I chatted with Akyri's husband Krueger about ghost hunting, lol. Akyri gets home and we practice some things a little more. She finally starts getting /tells from the WM, who's getting ready to meet with us.











(Don't ask me why he's naked...)

So the Wedding Master pops up (like a GM, only they're not) wearing a Royal Cloak, which I thought was kind of odd, 2 Sandy rings, and PLD relic boots. Cool, I guess. I thought they could have dressed better but yeah...Anyway, she goes over the rules and what's expected of the guests with Aky then sends her on her way to meet the guests and give them all pearls to the linkshell I made for the day, dirtylittlesecrets. I know, cool name ^^ I'm keeping the shell around for something.













Anyway, while Aky's busy with the guests Mooner and I reherse our vows and actions with the WM, she even praised me for having everything macroed right, lol. We were pretty well off with knowing what to do thanks to my lovely friend, so we ended up waiting and chatting with the WM about things while we waited on our guests.











Time came for them to enter, most of our friends were able to make it. Quite a few of mine that I had invited couldn't show, but that's okay. Mooner was able to invite more of his. They're all mutual friends of mine anyway, so I was okay with it.














Our amazing guests.

We went through our ceremony very well, I only forgot to turn once, lol.













It was really neat, and afterward there were fireworks and dancing!









After the dancing, fireworks, and giftgiving were through, the guests went on their way, and Mooner, Aky, Krue and I stayed behind for more pictures. I wanted one of us and the WM but they left before I could ask. At least she was dancing in the picture above!


After all was said and done, for the honeymoon we went and duoed Appollon NW? NE? I don't remember, I don't do Limbus often, but it was fun! Running around Sea in our formal wear is super cool, too. Not too many people have the RA/EX wedding set. ^^ The rings with our names are awesome, too. They have no stats other than to looks nice, but I have a new "idle" set, now!

After Limbus we talked his brother, Moondaddy, into some ENM'ing! We all but MD had the key item for Boneyard Gully, so we did that one first. We lost due to timing out, so not even a chance for Hagun, but that's okay. I really do need to merit my poor Monk, though. His Samurai was blowing me out of the water! After Boneyard Gully, Mooner was nice enough to lead us up the mountain in Uleguarand Range so we could do Brothers. We all even made it to the ledge without falling the first time! We climbed back up after getting our key items and only had to wait a short time for the weather to go away. Jormy wasn't up, I always get sad when he's not, he's very photogenic!
So we won Brothers very easily and got crap for drops. As usual. I lotted highest on both, a 2k dragon bone and a pretty decent sword that I can use for Red Mage, which I'm keeping.

After the ENM's we went to the Tree for some skilling up, me on club and he on polearm. That didn't last long though because, while we did run into some mutual friends of ours, it was very late and a few of them had AWFUL spam macros and I couldn't take it, so we warped out and ended up bazaaring together all night in Bastok.

Wednesday night was Sky, we did a Kirin. Our first attempt at an *almost* zerg...sort of...the tanks held him still for a while? Our shell just doesn't have the jobs for a true 1-2 minute zerg Kirin, but we normally get him down with little trouble and that's all that matters. I have a very good core group of members and I can't wait to get them their gear! Oh, Schmoopy got her W.legs off Wednesday's Kirin, so CONGRATS to Schmoop!

On a sad note, due to SE's weird random credit card related bannings, my sky linkshell lost a founder/leader/friend. My close friend Zanen, who co-founded the sky shell with me and Moonbath, was banned for no reason that SE will give him. So now we are left 1 leader, and friend, shy. I'll miss you Zan! <3