FFXI Journal #3
Man, I got a lot done in Vana'diel last night. Expect this post to be long. Brief overview: 10THF and 7RDM, new friends and linkshell, lots of pics.
I met some new friends last night as well! Synfull and Ansiem are these really cool guys that are much stronger than me. I now play with them and we have a new linkshell, Asura Titans! Check it out, first week and I'm already hanging with the cool people.
I still havent' left South Gustaberg yet but I did get to venture to new territory. I pushed THF to 10 early and then tried my hand at smithing after realizing the new sword I wanted couldn't be bought on the Auction House (AH). I made a bronze ingot! Naturally I forgot to take pics of the hotness! I'll make sure to grab some next time. The store closed on me so I had to stop crafting early. The real issue with crafting though is that fire crystals aren't something I find a lot of. Oh well, smithing seems the coolest of the crafting jobs since I want to be able to make gear for me and my friends (and now my linkshell -- woot!).
Iujk (formerly Fitraubond -- a friend originally met AFK) and I finally touched base in-game. I switched to RDM at that point and killed stuff close to town with him. He's picking up on the game really quickly. He decided not to go with RDM though and is back to playing WHM with a sprinkle of BLM.
With Synfull's help we took on some Land Crabs! They were pretty tough. I also got to fight a Goblin Weaver and, wait for it, a Bomb! It was just like the fire bombs from standard FF titles. That thing almost killed me. It used Beserk and started taking almost half my health with each hit. Synfull is awesome though, so he kept me alive with his super healing power.
I took a bunch of new screens and they're of course awesome. Some of the highlights:
Synfull showed be his mog house! And then asked me to take my gear off. It was very forward of him but of course I did it. What do you think I'm sort of frigid conversative? Of course, I forgot to take pictures of that specific event but I have plenty of his room.
Also, Synfull has his own Chocobo! Took a bunch of shots of that hotness. They were worth it.
Don't miss the cools shots of me in the new gear sets Synfull let me borrow.
For reference (and I'll link this in every post from now on) -- you can view the album here:
That's most of it. I didn't get to see Tropico (another AFK friend) in-game at all but I'm sure he's busy with stuff AFK. I don't think I'll get much time in today. There's a Street Fighter 4 tournament going down @ UMD tonight (8-12PM EST). I know I didn't show last time but I plan to make my grand appearnce tonight. Especially since a friend seemingly threatened my life if I don't show. Don't worry, I'm not all FFXI-mode, I will be sure to blog about SF4. Man this post was long. I'll try to break it up next time yeah?
EDIT: I've played since then but I'm not going to create a new post. I have uploaded and captioned some of the screens. The post was originally written May 8 but finally posted on May 17. I was waiting on my lazy bum self to upload the most recent images. Link the album link to browse through all of them.