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In 2009 I will be mostly eating…

February 5, 2009 at 1:52 am | In General FFXI | 2 Comments

Lets delve deep into the RdmRules archives and take a look at the new years resolutions of 2008, did I stick to them?

Real life resolutions of 2008:

Eat more fruit/veg -i.e eat tomatoes and drink smoothies – Done and done I’ve actually grown to love vegetables, roast any of them and they’re great! Still not so fond of fruit tho.
Be less bitchy, -i.e don’t bitch! (as much). - Well, I try… however living with my friend Rach at Uni brings out the worst in me :/
be less critical -i.e do I really need to slag Bleach off all the time? no! I’m gonna look for its good points. – I tried! I now try to see the good sides in things I dont like, so I think this is a tick.
be nicer to friends -i.e like, em, get friends a drink when they come round to my house? – Hmmm, apparently I’m a good host anyways. But not sure I’ve been nicer this year than other years.
and dress/look how I feel -i.e I got my hair cut because its easier to handle and more me, and screw skinny jeans, I’m back to baggy clothes. – Yea XD I no longer look like a Topman mannequin.

Nearly got a full list of ticks, not quite tho however for this next section I feel things may quickly go down hill…

FFXI resolutions of 2008:

Finish RotZ and CoP, maybe ToAU – Hmmm, over 1/2 through CoP now while still at the Ark Angels of RotZ, however I’m on Alexander for ToAU, just can’t get a party to kill him! So kinda the opposite of planned as I’ve basically done ToAU and not the other two. At the time of writing these my CoP static was running so completing CoP seemed realistic, however it abruptly fell apart. /cry
Change nation and finish either the Windy or Sandy Story. – Done ;P l’ll post on this later
Level a Craft – For this I’ve chosen Woodworking – Does getting it to level 20 count? I actually quite enjoy woodworking, its relaxing. But I couldn’t help but wonder if it was just a waste of Gil.
Keep up with WotG Missions! I wanna do them as they come out. – Pretty much
Get another job to 75 to replace Rdm – Ranger has been chosen for this ^^ – ooooh so close. At the time of writing this last year my Ranger was level 16, its level 68 now. Can I count that as a tick?
Try out Gardening to make ze gilz. – Ok, I just couldnt be arsed. My money making ways are good as they are

In all:

5/11 as Done!

2/11 as Almost

4/11 as FAIL!

Not too bad, better then I thought I’d do. However disappointing on the FFXI front >_< Looking ahead to this year now, lets see what I can come up with for some (late) new years resolutions~

Real life resolutions of 2009:

Keep up with university work! Don’t fall behind as per usual, go into class!
Continue to eat healthy, even more healthy then before!
Stay in contact with my friends I don’t see now I live in Huddersfield.
Try again to be nicer all around – Less bitching, more optimism, nicer to friends.
Be braver! Eg: I wuss out when talking on the phone to a stranger is involved -_- its lol i know…

FFXI resolutions of 2009:

Finish ToAU, CoP and RotZ.
Switch to Sandy (after getting my arrow from Windy) and obtain Rank 10 there.
Ranger 75.
Continue to keep up with WotG.
Start a lil endgame to gear up my Ranger, mainly some Sky and Dyna… /sigh
Start up LS Brenners again.
Do more things with friends Perhaps more so IRL ones. I’d like to do more things with Lee and Spen, perhaps Gary and Livija when they start to be sociable again
Get my flatmate Jack into FFXI! common! Hes played every FF except 11. He won’t see any good side in it just because its an online game. Drives me NUUUTS!

So basically for FFXI; DO THE STORY!!! Myself, Spankey and Amith have set up ‘Event Tuesdays’ where we’ll log on and do some story. This should keep me on track for my storyline goals. I’m also hopping onto Kroegers CoP static when they reach 5-1, however our LS statics tend to be rather slow moving ^_^; we’ll see if we get that finished by the end of the year.

The Weissberv

February 4, 2009 at 1:51 am | In General FFXI, Misc, WotG | 1 Comment

A recurring question from members of the Suicide Moogles Linkshell is;

‘Eh? Whos Weissberv? What are you doing on our Linkshell?’

Takes a minute for the old memory to kick in…

<Kroeger> A new member, perhaps?

<Weissberv> Common guys, it’s me, Weissberv! your remember me! =D … I’m the uber Samurai of Suicide Moogles =D The lemon in your lemon cheesecake, the Charizard in your Pokemon squad =D

<Amith> ?

<Ozrox> I have never seen you before in my life.

<Overlordlaharl> Isn’t Maruk our linkshells Samurai?

<Weissberv> ; ;

Once I get online and jog their memories by explaining he’s that Samurai who always causes a ruckus at events ending in several deaths, they quickly remember who he is.

The next question to follow is;

‘How the hell do you know him, Mill. And more importantly why is he in the LS…’

Well, gather round children as here is the story of how MillionsKnives met the fabled Samurai, Weissberv.

The year was 900 and something CE, three years ago-ish by my countings. ‘Twas a normal humid day in ye old Yhoatar Jungle, Mandys were a roamin’ and Gobbies were killing the local Adventurers, fresh off the Jeuno Airships after obtaining their passes.

Now, unbeknown to most is that MillionsKnives was not the original member of Suicide Moogles to meet our little Samurai. Nope. That pleasure went to none other then our resident Black Mage at the time, Chibimoon. My sister~

The two of them had been partying within a few hundred Yalms of one another, oblivious to each others existence. As frequently happens in those parts a Goblin with an attitude problem decides to let out some stress by destroying a party. After all, Goblins need EXP too and what better way to level up than to slaughter six under levelled Adventurers.

As a Goblin decided to open a can of whoop ass on Chibimoons party, a mirror image of the situation was taking place in Weiss party just around the corner. ‘Course all the way back then Weiss was more commonly known as Trooper.

Blood was spilling, tanks were taking a pounding and people were a panicin’. As members of each party frantically ran all over the show trying to escape the possessed Gobbies, our hero and heroin saved the day in there respective parties through a series of cure bombs and 2 Hours. Thanks to these acts of bravery the Gobbies quickly selected their next targets… and in one fell swoop from each Goblin both our heroes were knocked out. Still unaware of one another’s existence much less that they had just suffered the same fate.

As the panic died down and the party regrouped to finally kill the Gobbies it became apparent to those left standing that the best thing they could do, as they didnt have any form of Raise, would be to leave the dead for dead and move on with their lives.

<Party> Yea… thanks for the party. Sorry you died.

<Chibimoon> Can you at least shout for a raise?

<Party> A-wu?

*Party Disbanded*

Meanwhile…

<Party> Well, you were the White Mage, so guess we don’t have a Raise for you )= sorry, bye.

<Trooper> We could see if theres a White Ma-

*Party Disbanded*

As Chibimoon lay fuming and wondering what to do, as her Home-Point was all the way back in Bastok, I, MillionsKnives watched over her shoulder. Which is how I can retell this tale! Amazing, no?

Anyways, after a few minutes of lying in the dirt unable to move her legs, hoping someone would walk past and Raise her, Chibimoon noticed a tiny rock wearing clothes at the other end of the cave.

Wait, thats no tiny rock! Its a teeny Taru :O!

Trooper>> So I hear you’re eating dirt too.

>>Trooper : MillionsKnives is amazing.

Eh, so my memory gets a little fuzzy here, they may not have said that last part… as Trooper hadn’t met me yet

The point is, in the 20 or so minutes they lay their unable to use their legs, this horrible time was turned into a session of talking and laugher ( there was also bitching about certain party members who leave members face down and disband.) Eventually that little dead Taru managed to get them both a Raise from a friend…

…I think…? Or maybe they just Home-Pointed. Whatever… The key bit is Trooper was added as a friend to Chibimoons’ list.

Through the magic of a shared account this meant that when MillionsKnives got out of bed the next day he was greeted by all the friends Chibimoon had made the night before.

…yay…

Trooper>> Common Chibimoon, it’s me, Trooper! your remember me! … I’m the uber White Mage of Yhoatar The lemon in your lemon cheesecake, the Chansey in your Pokemon squad

>>Trooper : Sir, please, for the 10th time, I’ve never met you. It was my sister you were talking to last nite.

It took a few more /t’s before he realised I was not Chibimoon. However through that hour of repetitive /t’s I realised that this person, Trooper, was someone on the intellectual level perfect for use as a slave. And so our friendship grew from that day onwards, along with his daily tasks to make my life easier. Such as making my dinner or shining my shoes.

Now I cant imagine life without my little slave, Trooper, or Pooper as I affectionately call him

As time passed I found out that Pooper was only a sub character to that of the uber Samurai, Weissberv. We chatted for about a year or more before he one day examined me and said;

Weissberv>> Hey I didn’t know you lead a Linkshell

>>Weissberv : Dood, you’ve examined me about 1000 times… how can you not have noticed…

Weissberv>> Ooooo its shiny, can I have a pearl?

>>Weissberv : No, never.

And I have stood by my answer to this day. However, Weiss somehow managed to get a pearl. I think he may have hijacked my account for a day or something and pearled himself…

Our Linkshell rules state that I can not kick a member for no reason. So for the past two years I have patiently bided my time, waiting for the day where Weiss slips up and gives me an excuse to kick him.

No luck so far, but I live in hope.

~THE END~

In all honesty, Weis is one of my favourite people to do thing with in game. I like that things with Weis are done for fun and not for the other lame reasons people play FFXI for. It is a game after all

*drum roll*

And now, in no particular order here are MillionsKnives and Weissbervs New Years moments~

Being an amazing friend I decided to help Weiss with a Bastok Rank Mission. The dangerous quest involved popping two Golems in Ro’Meave. However only one needed to be killed to complete the quest.

With ease our heroes defeated one Golem (after the second had de-popped.) A search to end all searched started to re-find the ??? which had jumped location in the time it took us to kill the Golem. Success! We found it! As Weiss clicked the ??? to gain his reward he epicly received … nothing.

Ooooook, maybe we got the wrong ???, lets continue searching!

Hmm no it must be the right one, click it again, Weis.

*Two more Golems pop*

WTF?! THIS ISN’T RIGHT!!!

*panic*

*Weissberv gets hit in the face*

Eep!

*MillionsKnives starts Casting Sleep on the Golem*

*MillionsKnives agros everything in the area*

…shit…

A struggle between life and death ensued! After a Chainspell one Golem was down and one to go, with all the link slept. 10% left!

*blah blah wakes up!*

Crap…

*Millionsknives falls to the ground*

The… … important thing… is that Weis managed to kill the last NM and survived to click the ??? and complete the mission, he then boldly repeated the events of three years ago and…

left…

Thank you Spankey for coming to raise me XD [Congratulations] to Weiss on the mission

Next up was our first try of the new Moblin Maze Mongers event. OOOOO. I heard that apparently the Maze scales mobs to your level and amount of members allowing it to be a fun duo activity.

YAY!

…

Apparently I was misinformed :/ or at least the community was as it had only been out a few days.

Lots of elementals :/ lets not do that again.

NEXT —>

Summons over and over again as throughout Christmas I was at home so thar was mucho dual boxage of the brothers~

Course, Weiss didn’t come as he doesn’t have the fame needed. He was there anyway tho.

And finally~ Me, Weis and Kroeger have been dabbling in the WotG story. It’s been very fun too Weiss got caught up with the Sandy side of things, which gave me a chance to attempt to seriously tank an NM for a change. It worked well too but I’d be pretty sure Weiss was holding back so that he didn’t die.

There’ll be a few more posts on these missions as its far too much to fit in here! Stay tuned :O!

Fun Fact: I barely ever spell Weissbervs name right. I made a special effort in this post! Can ya tell?

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Party times at a distance

February 2, 2009 at 3:48 am | In Party | 2 Comments

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The thing with levelling Ranger is; You just look too damn cool for school.

I’m probably the worst Ranger ever because I get lost in staring at how minted I look in everything I do as Ranger D:

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I’ve levelled ze job quite a lot over Christmas and up to now It currently stands at 68~! Burnt through all my Anny ring ready for the event in … March? Level sync has made this really fun as every partys been with some LS members It started to feel like I couldnt survive in a party without Kedregan. We were having a nice little competition going on, who could keep hate, the RNG or the PLD? XD Sorry to say that Ked being an awesome PLD means he won most of the time ; ;

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This party was especially special to me, not only because Spen and Lasaro were in it, but because it had everyones favourite bought character – Nyaenhehe <3

Nyaenheheh was the first Gil seller me and my sister ever saw. Back in the days when Gil sellers would attempt to mana burn their way to 75 starting from level 1…

Not knowing about Gil sellers me and my sister were just very confused about why a party of 5 BLMs with level one gear were constantly dying in Yhoator Jungle. Then sporadically talking nonsense and not accepting Raises.

And so the name Nyaenhehe stuck in our minds ever since. Then last year she popped up again in better gear, with an LS etc. Every time I see them I wanna say ‘HOWS THE BOUGHT CHARACTER WORKING OUT FOR YA?!’ but they wouldnt understand )’:

Needless to say she’d been bough by a JP XD It was an honour to party with you, Nyaenhehe. /bow

Also in this party was a dick of a SMN, constantly not doing what we asked (and it seemed to be on purpose). I’d just like to say this SMN was invited to DD and seemed to go out of his way to suck at it, and its a prime example of why I never invite SMNs to DD. Every time I’ve been in a party where a SMN can DD they seem to not want to… like they’d rather cure whore…

Anyways, to get him back for being an ass we disbanded before his level ;P he left in a huff when we said we wouldnt wait for it and then the 5 of us laughed at him.

Erm… 4 of us, Nyaenhehe didnt know what was going on

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THEN CAME A PARTY WITH BOB AND KED, WHILE WEIS SAT AND WATCHED! This camp was horrible D: some Puk camp at the furthest point S/W in the Woodlands, long ass pulls D: NEVER GO THERE!

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And no partying spree would be complete with a session from the great Spankey~ In this picture I’m being a cheep skate and using holy bolts YAY

This party was memorable as 2 people suddenly left as they had an LS event. What strange LS’s when they spring events on you just after you level. l’ll have to get one and see how it works…

When the THF asked which RNG wanted to pull and we quckly said none, you should. He said;

‘lol yea but then i g2 [Disengage] lol but i guess so.. when we get to 65 though one rng is gonna lol’

to which I orz’d. They were a nice person and turned out to be a good puller, but the though that a THF thinks them having to disengage to pull is a problem made me wanna hit my head on the keyboard lol

Despite the rather ranty post I had HUGE amounts of fun Thanks to my friends for partying with me. Level sync rocks <3 Thankfully my skills only gimped by a few levels.

At the moment I’m in a predicament as RNG :/ unlike my RDM where I can basically buy my way into good gear, RNG gear sucks from AH and NMs >_< I’ll have to do Dyna and Sky to be decent. The problem is I don’t have time for these in my life :/ I could do Sky say once a week? Finding a Shell that doesn’t split after a little while seems to be hard. Everyone I know seems to be in LS where people bugger off and the LS has to reform, meaning all the time spent on points is lost. I really don’t have the luxury to devote the time to regaining points if my Sky LS falls apart :/ I’m not sure what to do. Guess I need to bite the bullet and try it. I’ve done Sky once before and found it very fun.

If anyone on Hades knows of a good Sky LS that runs at decent GMT hours and wants a RDM drop me a line >_< I don’t mind at all having to spend time saving up points, just so long as the LS isn’t fragile enough to disband D:

…far too many don’ts in thar ^-^;

Dyna on the other hand. So, so boring…

Merry Easter!

December 31, 2008 at 3:33 pm | In General FFXI, Real Life | 8 Comments

Merry Easter everyone! Hope you all have a nice night! Whats your new years resolution?

Mine is to Keep up to date with University work! Have one night a week where I do work and actually use my free day for work XD, as in the past three months I did barely any work until the last five days, when I realised that four entire graphics projects and a 2500 word essay were piled up to do.

At this point I nearly cried.

Then Misatos words ‘CRYING ISN’T GOING TO SOLVE ANYTHING EITHER!’, so I just got on with it. I also repeated ‘Like it or not you’re still alive, get moving an do something!’ to myself a few times Thank god for Evangelion~

Luckily(?) three of my friends were in the same boat, so I was not alone in my struggle.

Long story short, I work quite well under pressure haha so I diiid get everything done and it all looks quite good if I do say so myself. However I didn’t get sleep for the last three days, thank god for Red Bull!

This picture was taken of the state we were in after hand-in to make sure we remembered how horrible those 5 days were and what they did to our faces D: Never again! Hence the new years resolution hahaha;

[ Bad times ]

If I get kicked off the course after Christmas I’ll come back and edit this section to say that I totally tried to fail . Anyone who wants to see one or two bits of what I did its up on my DA account here: http://madnessmilly.deviantart.com/

While on on an irl tangent, did anyone dress up for an xmas party? For my flat Xmas party I couldnt think of anything more festive then a frozen dead boy!;

This is a normal night at uni;

BRAWWWWWWWWWWWL + Vodka Redbull

Then zeez is for our Robot fancy dress party, I went as a Cyborg Ninja :X unlike the others I had foward thinking and realised it would be very hard to get drunk in a carboard suit XD;

Hmmm, after that series of terrible photos lets move on to FFXI~

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The Avatar duo (awww what a cute name!) have been in action as usual. I like this photo for some reason, its cute them two being in the same clothes. As sad as it is I think of them as brothers XD Barthezz should really be added to this sites banner

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[ Action shot! ]

The brothers (awww!) also took a trip to Besieged. Which I still think is fun but a complete joke. The system is so laggy in there it shouldn’t have even been relesed. Is it only me that thinks that? If any other game played that that it’d never be put onto the sheleves…

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