It’s Not Over ‘Til the Cat Lady Sings.

What to wear?!

After all, I now have so many outfits to choose from!

Pretty soon after joining LB, I finally got my nAshira Gages to complete my nAshira set! I look stunning in red, it really looks great as an offset to my blonde hair.

Then of course, I needed a new outfit for my THF as I continued to level.

Purple factor +1, sluttiness factor +∞!

Of course, the outfit I love most at this time is my now complete Marduk. Thanks so much to everyone with whom I run Salvage! Completed the hands fairly quickly, as I had only needed the Enlil’s piece; then after a couple years of not seeing any Enlil Crackow drops (not that they ran the route that often, I think ;)), we got 3 Enlil Crackows within about  a month, for myself and Kuuhalee and Kotraz. Yay us. :)

Though I am the first of us with a complete set. ;)

Now, every good outfit needs the proper accessories.

So I got this great belt and didn’t know what on earth it would go with.

Until I visited Dynamis-Jeuno and Beaucedine of course, and completed my Koga set. :)

I don’t really care for orange too much, though.

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

The game itself is always providing new endings; for god’s sake, we travel back in time now to help with the war that left the land in the state it was in when we started the game. And now with the new scenario, we get to see a peek at a character from the beginning in a mini story.

Which I admittedly haven’t done yet.

I’m providing myself with my own new ending as well.

After returning select items to the linkshell, and saying individual goodbyes, and yes, a little bit of crying (I am female, after all) as I still doubted my decision up to the last moment, I left TeamKANICAN. It was a very very hard decision, after four years in the linkshell. I still remember my first night, just after I’d settled into my place in NYC… joining them at a KB camp and disconnecting repeatedly. Haha… I had JUST gotten BLM75, my second job…

First event was KB… last event was KV.

Perhaps I should leave linkshells more often, if it provides full drops. Heh.

However, I cannot regret my decision. Everyone in TK wished me well, everyone in LB has welcomed me nicely, and for now, I’m happy. :)

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One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

And so it goes…

Briefly, I would like to address comments on my last post. Nowhere did I say I was defending this that or the other. If you want to go make your snippy comments, go post them on Kaeko’s blog. Despite how it happens, I am allowed to “grieve” for the loss of my companions in this game. The point was not whether they were in the right or the wrong. I was saying goodbye to them, not inviting wimps hiding behind what they think is anonymity to try and pass their judgment on people they obviously know nothing about.

Moving forward.

For some reason, whenever I have taken an extended break from the game, it does seem that without fail, the first thing I shall do when I come back to game is Dynamis. This time around, it was Windurst, and after spending ages making sure I had WHM ready to go, I was asked to come RDM. Go figure. :)Nothing major to report, just Windurst. I did get lost like usual at one point after I had needed a potty break. Had a pretty decent amount of drops, so weird to see things people waited and waited and waited for drop like, two or three times in the run. Had a pretty wide array, DNC, SCH, BLU, NIN, DRK, WHM, SMN, etc… really everything but BLM it seems.

Did a few HNM camps as well, we got Aspi on… Thursday? night, and I got myself a pretty:

Hehe. Can go have fun on RDM with Chigoes now and work on that skill. A Body dropped but I didn’t actually pay any attention to who got it, I was kinda very tired.

Last night I did some Nyzul with Fatkat and others from LB, got to go on COR which is about as helpful as BRD when you’re running around like mad, but was nice on the boss, since we got Hydra (was floor 100). No hat drops though. :( Few random weapons on the way up and such, plus on the boss obviously. Mostly I spent the time trying to make sure my macros were set up properly… and find them again.

Then for event time they went to do La Vaule triggers… again. Not quite sure why so fascinated with this, I don’t know when they actually use them all and whatnot. Yuchi asked me to come NIN, which was like… haha, now to try and find and use all my macros on THAT job. Didn’t do too badly once I tweaked a few things, and some of those mobs are kinda fun in that annoying way to deal with. Heh.

Was on this mob I realized why Yuchi wanted me to tank… so everyone could take swings at me when they or I got charmed! :)

Some Nidhogg camping after, but I passed out pretty quickly, so nothing to show there. Think it was just Faf anyway.

All in all, mostly things continue on what was our norm anyway. As it was, I wasn’t doing much in the shell, the NAs were never really around to do much, so this situation doesn’t immediately change much. What now is more of… what do we do to move forward?

I did speak with Yuchi some about the situation. Recruiting is realy the most unappealing thing. So then it’s either try to work within the JP timelines and find outside groups to do… well, pretty much everything, or considering finding another linkshell. And I’ve been considering that possibility since before all this happened. Just now.. I have even less tying me to TK. :/

Right now, I find myself back to the old standby of soloing puddings, back on the wall side where I prefer for some odd reason. My BLM buffer is always suffering, and I can never really seem to pinpoint why. Hehe. :)

Now what.

As everyone is well aware in the FFXI community, things have been severely shaken up.

I won’t go into long rants about how important the endgame community is or anything, but it is important for it to be stated that endgame is mostly what I have continued to be involved in… when I actually have a computer and can play. Which… after having just gotten mine up and running, it died again, which is why there has been a lack of posts. There wasn’t anything to post. :P

I was called by one of the people I’d consider among my closest friends on Thursday when the bannings hit, and told to sit down. He explained what was going on, as not having any computer access and not really supposed to browse at work, I had absolutely no idea that anything had happened.

I remember laughing, kind of oddly, and honestly, it took me like, at least 5-10 minutes before I even got vaguely curious as to what happened to Ashira. I asked him to check for  me and found my account had been untouched. I am unsure if I received any sort of warning, however, since I can’t log into my mail at all, haven’t been able to for like, 2 yrs.

My group of friends that I did do things with, when I did do things, did find out about this exploit when we lost a member to another shell on another server. He got in touch with us to let us know. Kaeko is a type to be fascinated by that sort of thing, as I am sure everybody knows.

We did use this three or four times in Salvage over a period of three months. We just never ran with any regularity. I can’t even say what drops were gotten, if any. I know one time things were set up wrong, so drops were distributed normally. The last time we went, I was defaulted a pair of Freya Ledelsens for my up and coming COR… at first it was like “oh nifty” but within a week I was of the “good god i will never freakin’ upgrade these things, I still don’t even have any Morrigan what am I even thinking…. and goddammit INVENTORY SPACE” and tossed ’em.

I don’t know that I had much of an opinion of the thing in general, it was a sort of “wtf” deal more than anything, like how the fuck did this work like this haha, and a sort of “neat” deal, but I didn’t really put that much thought into it. Honestly, the last few months I was sorta only half there for anything anyway. You know that mood, you want to do things but shoot down basically everything anytime anyone suggests something to do. I’d been really really frustrated of late in game, and Salvage was about the bottom of my list of things to do.

So as I said, my character was fine, and I’m now using a laptop and back in game and such, while finishing building my new and better computer (part by part.. sucks).

Then I heard that every single person I ran Salvage with those 3-4 times got hit in some way or another. Baffled.

So it’s been a tense 3 days.

I was told they used it in Nyzul once too, and honestly I can’t recall if I was on that run or not, but I -think- I was. Maybe? The only thing we got out of that was a WAR weapon. If it’s the run I think it was, I got two weapons myself, both legitimately distributed. I had just come back to game after a lengthy absence when my HDDs went nuts.

I think I got one of the drops in the run when things weren’t set up right and we just lotted out normally. And then, like I said, I tossed the Freya’s, though not with a good honest intention, just more of a ‘whatever’ moment.

It’s now been the three days, and two of my best friends in this game appear to have been hit with a permanent ban. Kaeko and Oreeooo, my two little Tarus, both great players, very smart, one very versatile and one just too intelligent for his own good… appear to have been permanently banned. And now I am just at a loss. I do not know what I am going to do. They were essentially the two I pretty much wanted to have online and around before I did anything. Oreo just basically kept me sane by agreeing with me about everything, haha, and Kaeko kept me sane by NOT agreeing with me about anything. :)

I suppose we can wait another week, see if they got a ten day or some such, but Kaeko already seems to have made his peace – you can see his blog at http://kanican.livejournal.com.

I know I need to wait it out a few days, especially since I’ve just now been able to get BACK in game myself, but I feel a little lost.

I’ve tried to rationalize and figure out why them, not me, why this, why that… one person who came with us only once got at least a temp also but got nothing from the runs. Kaeko collected Alexandrite in hopes for a Mythic, Oreo got a drop, but so did I even though I tossed it… I think the other only got the random weapon in Nyzul… it makes no sense, there’s no rhyme or reason here. I don’t mind the punishment, I understand it, but consistency would have been nice. As it is, I’m not sure what point there will be for me to stay.

Goodbye, my friends. <3

Back to the usual.

So I managed to get my computer up and… limping and have returned to game. Thank goodness, because I was spending waaaaay too much money on books to keep myself occupied.

First thing I tried to do when I signed in was make macros. So far I’ve gotten BLM and BRD done, and those two took like, nearly 3 hrs. And I even forgot stuff. -.-

The WHM macros will be a pain, I just know it. :(

I was back on… hm, Monday night, that was macro night. Wednesday came around and we had Dynamis-Windurst (for which I was late… I was tired >.>). I went as BLM to make sure macros were good… I’d forgotten Drain and Aspir, and forgot to actually put my nuking gear in everyting but Thunder IV. I know I have the wrong enfeebling gear tag in a macro also, but as if I remember which spell it is now to go fix it. ;)

I (lol) got another pair of Cleric’s Duckbills in this Windy run, though; I did toss my extra Cap, but figure that’s easy enough to get, and I can prio the mitts in Xarc since I have all my other Xarc pieces and like, no one wants them.. then I can store the NQ set and that will actually open up like 3 slots for me. If I eventually am able to upgrade another piece (preferably legs!) from Tav, then I’d just go back to leave them in the mog house.

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Splat.

Well, computers really don’t make that noise exactly, but they may as well.

My computer has expired, so it shall be some time before I return to game and to blog, etc. I can’t even check my regular email because everything is blocked at my new job… only able to post now because I was able to steal a moment on someone else’s computer in the house, and the computer’s been dead for over a week already.

Don’t miss me too much. :)

Remember this pic from the last blog?

To mark my having completed four sets of AF.

I have a new pic to add to it now!

Full RDM AF2.

I think I did predict once that I would finish RDM before NIN, lol. :D Still short Koga body and feet.. thank god I did not end up somehow getting RDM hat before Koga Tekko. ;)

What’s more, I won with a 423. ._.; I obviously thought I had no chance.

Furthmore, I must thank the LS that jacked Dynamis-Jeuno and my chance for Koga Kyahan from us tonight. If not for them, we wouldn’t have gone to Tavnazia and gotten the 2 COR hats and the RDM hat. As well as other not worth mentioning stuff. ;)

So Auronku got his COR Tricorne tonight, yeah, so I don’t feel so bad having won the other in Xarc. :)

And in Beaucedine Sunday, I opted to take full advantage of my super Haste now that I have full Blessed +1 (well, outside Briault) and melee. Well, not really. People were just charmed, and I was bored so I decided to beat on the NM instead of anything else. :)

Oh, and I got the COR AF2 body. ;)

Just the hands and legs now for another 5/5. Which first, COR or NIN?! Or SAM? SAM just needs feet and body too, heh. Then of course, all the matching belts. :)

Otherwise, it’s been a bit of an odd week for me. Adjusting to new schedule and dealing with all this LS applicant stuff, which is just an entirely different way of finding members for us. So it just feels a little weird.

Deleved on BRD and BLM a little more! Got them slightly decent buffers now in campaign, though, so hopefully it’ll last a while. Really need to get out and just EXP and maybe just cap them again. Like I did you know, 2 yrs ago.

And still need sooooo many merits. ._.;

TeamKANICAN is taking applications.

Pretty short post today. Mostly just this announcement:

If you’re interested in joining my linkshell, or just joining us for Dynamis/Einherjar, go to http://teamkanican.freeforums.org.

So yeah, that’s the “interesting” news I mentioned last update. :)

In other random bits, last week Odin actually had “Splitting Heirs” available as a campaign op, as San d’Oria had taken over La Vaule. It was found that this is where Witch Sash and varying grips and such come from. I went with some friends to try it…

It was.. interesting. And I was 74BRD before we went in. ;)

We didn’t win, but there are a lot of Witch’s Sashes around now. ;)

We also did a Bomb Queen run for Dio, myself, and Senrez on… Tuesday? I think. :) I finally got my ring!!

I’m now over 1500something HP for Devotion! :)

While we were in Ifrit’s Cauldron, we killed a few other things, too. :)

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So what happened in the last two months?

Oh…

…not much.

Just had a major LS team up to take down Absolute Virtue 18 times or something.. or was it 15? I really don’t remember.

Yes, that’s me, naked from a delevel. ;)

This actually only happened, what, three times, wipes. Overall we did very well.

That’s just one of our drops. In total, TK got three Ninurta’s Sashes, three Aureoles, no Futsunos, and I lost track of the non-100% ring counts.

I myself got a Mars’ Ring from the runs. :) If we had gotten *one* more sash, I would have had a -slight- chance at it, but it would have had so many variables that basically I wouldn’t have been so lucky. ;)

All in all, though, much thanks to LB and BBQ, I think we really did a great thing here, and perhaps in the future we’ll tackle Pandemonium Warden. We’ve tossed the idea around a little. :)

Spleen: How many naked COR mithra does it take to something a something?

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