Whee!

Well as soon as maintenance was done we hopped back into FFXI to pay the Tonberry another visit. Which was fun as ever O_o; But congratulations to my snugglebunny for getting his Carbuncle's Mitts... Not that he'll use them. Then it was back to helping Dardar with some more San d'Oria rank NMs.

So we killed two greater bird NMs in Batallia Downs for Dardar's rank 9. It was pretty simple. But I was merely enjoying the view in Batallia since it was an area of it I'd yet to visit. I never realised you could actually get to the island on the south of the map. I just thought it was there for show. Too bad you can't get there alone, because that would be my new haunt spot if so. Only a few Goblin Bounty Hunters, and of course their diet only consists of fishing botters. (:

So afer lurking there for a while, and writing a bit of my uni assignment, I decided to go poke around in the new areas for a bit and listen to the music. It's my favourite thing about the Expansion so far. The music is beautiful. But I accidently managed to join Bastok's campaign. Usually that wouldn't bother me. But I'd already promised to do San d'Oria with Ed and Dar. So then I find out I had to walk all the way to Bastok before I could change to San d'Oria. Sounds easy right? No. You'd think the people of Vana'Diel 20 years previous would have heard of Chocobos... Obviously not. I had to walk. And there were VT mobs everywhere. It was rather scary. But after about an hour of Mazurka'ing myself and getting horribly lost in North Gustaburg [S], I found my way to Bastok.

On the way back when I was heading to the nearest Maw, I encountered this random cutscene that made me rather sad. [[Spoiler warning]]. I wouldn't advise enlarging the image if you don't want it ruined for you. But a random soldier died in front of me. Not 'KO' die... Acually died. It made me sad. Even worse was the fact that it was my snugglebunny's chracter model ;w;. It was so random. Pah. Silly Square - Enix making me feel all sad inside.

After that my snugglebunny told me that Charybdis was up again. Now this NM is a pain in the arse to camp. Always overcamped and even if you do claim it's a pain in the arse to kill. But regardless, I headed down to Sea Serpant Grotto with him. He managed to convince the random Red Mage Taru there that they should team up for a better chance of winning. I'm not sure how. But he did.

Well as you can see from the picture, my snugglebunny got his Joytoy. We won't be seeing Sea Serpant Grotto again anytime soon. Well, he very politely offered to help the Red Mage Taru, which I thought was lovely. {/comfort}


And yes. It does match your armour :D Congratulations my hunnybunny <3>

Oh poopie.

I woke up knowing it was going to be a bad day and that's exactly what it was. Ate 2 deaths today bringing my EXP total to 8953. Oh well, I suppose there's a cost for entertainment and it comes in the form of experience points.

Other than that I've done nothing all that interesting today because Square-Enix announced emergancy server maintenance, yet again. But I managed to help Darcia with her San d'Oria 8-2 mission NM. With my snugglebunny too, of course. Well, that was the cause of one of the deaths anyway. Why am I always the first to die? >w<

So the morning/afternoon has been spent in the Temple of Uggalepih. Searching for coffers and killing NMs of some sort. We even managed to kill the Carbuncle's Mitts NM for Vantopace 5 minutes before the maintenance started. I've never seen 4 people so desparate to kill a NM. It was quite funny actually. Because imagine, you'd just used the pop item you spent ages to get on a really hard to get people for NM. And you only had 5 minutes or it would be lost for good. Well that was it really. I've never seen someone lot an item so fast, it was rather entertaining to say the least. And can I just say, Light Carol > Searing Light. Silly Carbuncle. I do believe my snugglebunny has a pop item for it too so more Crimsontooth-Pawberry ownage will ensue as soon as Square Enix brings the servers back up. D:

Now to wait for the maintenance to finish. ~

And so it begins.

Well it's 2am, I'm not sleepy and I'm just plain bored. So after mulling it over in my mind over and over again, I actually decided to remake my FFXI blog. So here we are.

This also comes at a perfect time, since not only has the new expansion just come out (which has awesome music, might I add), I am also about a stones throw away from attaining my second level 75 and new main job, Bard. So it seems fitting that I recreate this blog as such a time (:

Suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Kinikki, I play on the phoenix server and have done for 3 years now. As I said, my main job is now Bard, but my previous was Red Mage 75. I decided it was time to hang up the old Warlock's Chapeau and make way for the 500 other Red Mage hitting 75 every day.

Now that's out of the way, I should probably tell you what I did today. Well for a start I reached level 74 on Bard. Oh, did I mention I static my Bard with my boyfriend's Paladin? He also reached 74. Which is quite good for him since it's his highest job now. (Like me, he used to be Red Mage. Go figure). Though he did level about 4000 EXP before me due to my 3 deaths the previous night. Gogo Bard pulling!

But for me that means only one more song to learn. One more song that I'll never use anyway because parties always want the same things. Minuet. Madrigal. March. Sigh. The life of a Bard can be so interesting. Well I lie. It actually is pretty interesting. Just gets slightly repeatative from time to time.

Pretty much all I have done this week is EXPed with Edmon, my boyfriend and occaisionally Darcia (: Though on Saturday I did manage to get them sea access, finally. Which gives me more reasons to go to sea. And it also gives me more reasons to feed Ed to stuff. The Yorva get hungry. (:

After EXPing for a while we had to attend Limbus. Which was funny because it was Edmon's first time doing Limbus (Adorable!). I'd done it before but not as much, as with Arsenals my old linkshell the runs would have been at 5am in the morning. And I'm not that dedicated. But we recently joined an EU Limbus shell, as well as an EU HNM shell too. It feels weird doing end game with him because I'm so used to him just being elsewhere and asking me how it's going. But I'm enjoying it.

We managed to do Temenos 2nd floor with only one death, and that was accidental. I myself gained 2 Ancient Beastcoins, bringing my total to 7 and my snugglebunny (Edmon's slightly less attractive nickname that I have bestowed upon him and will be using to refer to him from time to time) got 3.

We're both going for HQ Artifact armour as far as I know. Choral Cannions + 1 will be mine! . Anyway. I suppose I better go put my head down for an hour or so considering I have uni to attend in.. 5 hours. See you tomorrow~