We're all taru on the inside...

Ni hao

2006-07-02T10:47:00.000-07:00

>>Podan : So. Has Frenzy claimed Ulli over the gilsellers again recently?
Podan>> LOL
Podan>> You don't want to know...
>>Podan : Clearly, I do, because I'm asking about it.
Podan>> Seriously Slane...
Podan>> You don't want to know.
>>Podan : Enough with the dramatics.
Podan>> Okay okay...
Podan>> Well, you know how I got lost in sky?
Podan>> And you tried to help me find Ulli camp?
>>Scynscapa : Yeah, because you're a dumbshit navagator?
Scynscapa>> What?
>>Scynscapa : MT
Podan>> And you kept leading me to fountains and telling me they were teleporters?
>>Podan : Details.
Podan>> Yeah well, I gave up and went farming in Zitah instead.
Podan>> Somehow I ended up with alliance leader.
>>Podan : What does this have to do with Ulli again?
Podan>> Well see, they got claim and killed it...
>>Podan : Right, I knew that.
Podan>> And I MIGHT have logged out to mule right before the Autumnstone autolooted.
>>Podan : ...
>>Podan : Dude.
>>Podan : Frenzy's the first shell to claim over the T-nking monopoly in like 3 months.
>>Podan : And you lost the stone so you could play on a mithra?
Podan>> Well, we still got the claim and kill...
Podan>> Just, y'know...not the drop.
>>Podan : You're dead to me.

Oh no you di'ent!

2006-06-30T15:36:00.000-07:00

For those who are new to reading this blog (which I'm still kind of shellshocked about. I have readers? wtf...), I'm in a particularly awesome linkshell that goes by the name of Divine.

There's Divine, which is Sky/Social/Main hub. It's where everybody hangs out when not doing events, and/or in sky. There's there's Dedication, which is Sea/Limbus. And finally, there's DivineAlliance, which is a great little dynamis shell.

Well...not so little anymore. We average about 55 people per run, which is only 9 shy of the cap. It was rough going for awhile.... We had done a few runs with a shell called Manafont, and when they broke up, a lot of their members came over to us. As Seraph likes to say about his old shell MF..."We sucked."

And they did.

But after a rocky start with these new members, things have finally come together. Runs are smooth again, we win every one we go in. Even better...everybody has Xarcabard access.

DA has never run Xarcabard before. After Tibbetts coerced Eliseo into agreeing, he set up a Dynamis-Xarc run for this Friday. Which, if you're paying attention at all, is today.

Yay.

So I log on and expect to see some excited babbling in the main shell. I was fully prepared to join in with the 'Oh man oh man this is gonna be AWESOME' sentiments that were undoubtably being thrown.

Wrong.

(Divinitie) FOODMONSTERS CAN KISS MY ASS!
(Slaneyder) 0o
(Cheesethief) Uh-oh.
(Slaneyder) What's wrong Divi?
(Divinitie) They're going to enter Xarcabard before we do tonight.
(Flixx) (Um...) Aren't we on the calendar?
(Divinitie) Yeah.
(Visionz) But that'll mess up our Monday dynamis too!
(Slaneyder) What whores!!
(Tibbetts) I don't want to talk about it...
(Tibbetts) Everybody just quit freaking out until Eliseo gets on.
(Tibbetts) We'll explain the situation to him and see what he wants to do.

Yeah, right.

Immediately, Divi started talking about shelling out an extra million for a glass and blocking their entrance. Tibbs liked the idea, I thought it was downright gleeful. Some had issues with it, though. Like, the double entry fee, for one.

Now, I've been seeing Eadrick/Nick for three years now. He was in Foodmonsters for a long, long time, and he used to lead their Xarcabard runs. He's a WoWer now, but try not to hold that against him.

[16:51] Youneek07: Foodmonsters just stole Xarcabard from Divine
[16:52] Youneek07: Jerks aren't even on the calendar.
[16:52] Youneek07: Hope you're happy!!
[17:02] Eadrick22: Wha?
[17:09] Youneek07: FM doesn't even run on Fridays...
[17:10] Youneek07: They're Tuesday/Saturday
[17:10] Youneek07: Why the hell are they stealing our Friday?
[17:10] Eadrick22: planning around the weekend
[17:13] Youneek07: I'm gonna rip Vygun a new asshole
[17:13] Eadrick22: why vygun?
[17:14] Youneek07: He's the one talking to Divi
[17:18] Eadrick22: relax, fm isnt doing dynamis tonight
[17:19] Eadrick22: im talking to grifter now.
[17:20] Youneek07: Morracoo and a few other FMers are cuddled around the markings
[17:21] Eadrick22: dunno, grif just told me theyre not doing dynamis tonight.
[17:21] Youneek07: Well good.
[17:21] Youneek07: And...I find it oddly touching that you decided to talk to them for me
[17:21] Youneek07: Aww, I love you ^^
[17:21] Eadrick22: :O
[17:21] Eadrick22: didnt see the point in you getting all worked up if there was nothing to get worked up about
[17:23] Youneek07: Are you the reason they backed off, or were they going to cancel anyway?
[17:23] Eadrick22: i told grif divine was my gfs shell, so they probably wont push for it

Directly after, there was some interesting linkshell chat...

(Divinitie) They're not going afterall.
(Cheesethief) (Hmmm.)
(Divinitie) They just went from hot to cold all of a sudden.
(Slaneyder) Gee...I wonder what's up with that...?

Muhahaha.

Score one for Ead!

[17:26] Eadrick22: you know..
[17:26] Youneek07: ?
[17:26] Eadrick22: i could have them steal xarc just so you could come over tonight.
[17:26] Eadrick22: :P
[17:26] Youneek07: ...

Then again...maybe not.

Does not Imacompute

2006-06-29T19:11:00.000-07:00

There are some things in life that I just don't understand. Like quantum physics. Dick Cheyney. Scientology. Small children. Sign language.

These are things I know I don't understand, and I don't even bother pretending. Really, what's the point? Do that, and you'll just make yourself look like a fool in the long run.

There's one thing that I really, really don't get though.

WHY does everybody think I'm a guy?!

I know, I know. There aren't a lot of girl gamers out there. The population of my demographic has been steadily climbing, but not fast enough in my opinion. Maybe if there were more of us floating around, then the sheer concept of a chick playing a video game might not make some of you fellas start bleeding from the ears.

I've tried a number of things to get my gender across. For instance, I changed from 'haha' to 'hehe.' Didn't work. People just thought I was soft-spoken. I put a picture up on ffxiplayers. Didn't work. Nobody checks it. I had Cheesethief make me a Lilac Corsage. Didn't work, my equip macros take it off too often. I made an 'I'm a little teapot' dance macro. Didn't work. People just thought I was gay.

Seriously. I had a 75 SMN ask me out on a date. When he found out I'm female, he said he threw up a little.

Take last night for instance. I was talking to my buddy Exil, comiserating about sky's RMT situation.

(Exil) Eh, what're ya gonna do...
(Slaneyder) Yeah...
(Slaneyder) It'll drive a girl crazy.
(Exil) O.O
(Slaneyder) ...Don't say it...
(Exil) You're a girl?!
(Slaneyder) ><;

That's a particularly fun example, considering I've known Exil for a long time...

Here's another.

(Slaneyder) Dude, why are you pulling Jnuns?!
(Slaneyder) They don't give any xp, and there are flies and imps all over the place.
(Rangeretard) My chat window ar big. I can't see htem.
(Slaneyder) Just run in a big loop around our camp! Pull as they pop.
(Rangeretard) yes master
(Slaneyder) Better than killing frogs, Kermit.
(Rangeretard) you callin me kermet? ur the green lsimey one.
(Summoner) Now now ladies, no name calling.
(Slaneyder) I actually AM a chick. What's his excuse?
Rangeretard>> wow, u a girl?!
Rangeretard>> asl?
Rangeretard>> do u have a pic?
>>Rangeretard : Just pull, you muppet bastard.

And then there are some that just refuse to believe.

(Linkhighlander) Dude, slaney isn't a girl
(Tibbetts) I talk to her on vent all the time. She's a girl, I promise.
(Linkhighlander) No, he's totally a dude.
(Slaneyder) ...
(Slaneyder) Am I butch or something?!
(Linkhighlander) Yes.
(Slaneyder) I hate you...
(Imacomputa) lol!

I think it's the hat, honestly. It's not like tarus aren't androgynous anyway...slap a big red pimphat on top of my head, and it not only makes me look like the leader of a prostitution ring, it also hides my character's ponytail.

Anyway...

If you see me on Carbuncle, don't call me 'man,' 'dude,' 'bro,' or whatever other crazy words you boys use to refer to each other. You might find a dagger in your spleen.

You can ask me to do the teapot dance, though.

I'm down with that.

Luck be a lady

2006-06-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

Before sky last night, Cheesethief and I decided that we were going to go get his AF3 done. He's needed it for awhile, and I just found out the other day that he didn't have it.

Really now. I understand the whole 'not being able to find help' thing, but 10 levels later? That sucks. All he had to do was ask.

So we're running through Garliage, yadda yadda shout for gate breech, hooray two people I know, and we're through. We head towards the back of the zone where the AFNM's spawn is, when Cheese starts getting whacked in the back of the head by something.

(Cheesethief) wtf is hitting me?
(Slaneyder) I dunno. Let's kill it.
(Cheesethief) ok

I target the thing that's attacking him, sleepga the adds that he picked up, and go to work on the mob.

(Slaneyder) Wtf is he?
(Cheesethief) An NM apparently.
(Slaneyder) Wonder what it drops?
(Cheesethief) Let's find out.

What's this? A bat cape?

(Slaneyder) Is that worth anything?
(Cheesethief) No clue.
(Cheesethief) If it is, sell it and split?
(Slaneyder) Only if you don't want it.
(Cheesethief) Eh. Only 5 eva. It can't be worth much.
(Slaneyder) Yeah, it's not a great item.

It's official.

We win the internet.

{True Strike}

2006-06-25T23:02:00.000-07:00

Divine Intervention

2006-06-20T23:01:00.000-07:00

There are a few things you have to understand about FFXI if you want to play.

Number one:

Buying gil is bad for everybody. It makes inflation run rampant, and it will come back to bite you in the ass in the long run. Not to mention the fact that it's against the Terms of Service, so you run the risk of getting banned.

That should make you a sad panda.

Number two:

There are groups of people in the game whose sole and single purpose is to make gil. Lots, and lots, and lots of gil. These people then turn around and sell said gil to the yuppies who think they need it. Because that Kraken Club is just so fucking leet.

Right.

On Carbuncle, there are 2 main linkshells full of Gilsellers/RMTers. The one which is generally hated the most is Kindnessfriends.

What a pretty, happy name for a shell full of swine.

They're like roaches. For every one you see, there are three more hidden in the woodwork chewing on fecal matter or whatever it is that RMTards do on their time off.

Anyway, I was at the start of Ru'An Gardens when I saw a happy little message written in green.

(Skreeble) Well well, look who's up...
(Skreeble) Faust (Found it!)
(Linkhighlander) I don't see him.
(Skreeble) Trust me, he's there.
(Tonard) Faust?
(Slaneyder) Let's go get 'im.
(Tibbetts) k
(Eliseo) Kindnesswhores is up there too.
(Kinok) Girserrers.
(Norah) Bastards

I ran a search and found the whole gang. Tanking, Tbnking, Tcnking, Tdnking, Tenking, and Tfnking.

Tenking is my favorite. Sam65/War08.

lol.

We ran like our tails were on fire. Somehow, half of the group lagged behind, and it was just Me, Mallister, Link, and Skreeble left to get the claim and hold the fort.

And it would have worked too. It really would have. If it weren't for the fact that Faust spams Typhoon, and Link kept trying to kite it instead of letting it pound on him like a Paladin should. Long story short, we mini-wiped pretty hardcore.

And the T-nkings got the claim.

Bastards.

(Slaneyder) Get ready to steal that bitch.
(Eliseo) If their mages get hate, we're set.
(Skreeble) Why are they using Thunder I?
(Tibbetts) That's called hate control. Might wanna pay attention
(Tatix) (Burn)
(Peacekeeper) 55% and dropping
(Imacomputa) They got it...there's no way they're gonna wipe.
(Tibbetts) 30%, sigh.
(Slaneyder) God damnit.
(Aomizuchi) Just wait

That's about when a T-nking got overzealous and ThunderIV'ed for a good hunk of damage. Which made Faust angry, who ran into the room through the closed blue gate just outside of provoke range, and spammed Typhoon.

I've never seen so many tarus hit the ground so fast in my life.

(Tibbetts) I can't believe that just fucking happened.
(Eliseo) Get claim ffs!
(Linkhighlander) I got it!
(Skreeble) Zerg the bitch!
(Slaneyder) 22%!
Kinok: Thanks for doing all the work Kindnessfuckers!
(Slaneyder) Kinok, stop taunting the gilsellers.
(Kinok) Sorry.

Needless to say, Faust hit the ground pretty quickly and painlessly. Easiest Summerstone ever.

(Juib) Tcnking just threatened to call a GM on me.
(Yourmom) Rich
(Doominite) Too bad the GM petition service is down at the moment.
(Slaneyder) You know what that means...

Slaneyder starts casting Tractor on Tcnking.

(Juib) lmfao
(Juib) My turn

Juib starts casting Tractor on Tcnking.
Doominite starts casting Tractor on Tcnking.
Tibbetts starts casting Tractor on Tcnking.
Skreeble starts casting Tractor on Tcnking.

How many people can say that they've tractored all six of the T-nkings?

I can.

All in a day's work, my friend.

Whatev

2006-06-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

Trael>> And for the record, it's okay to take random invites in Dunes/Qufim.
>>Trael : I hate randoms. The parties always turn out to be absolutely horrific.
Trael>> Slane's elitist wwww
>>Trael : :O
>>Trael : I am not!!
Trael>> You're refusing an invite from somebody because they didn't /tell you first?
Trael>> Sounds elistist to me
>>Trael : It's not elitism, it's not wanting to waste my time.
Trael>> So you don't take randoms because you don't want to help people learn.
>>Trael : I never said that either!
>>Trael : I've adopted 5 different newbies since the xbox release. I don't mind teaching.
Trael>> w
Trael>> Slaneylitism.
>>Trael : t(><)

I'm not an elitist, damnit.

I'm not!

And I was determined to prove Trael wrong.

Also, I've decided that Summoner is going to be my next job to 75. Following in Eadrick's footsteps, I suppose. I really love the class, and I don't mind mainhealing with it. Which is good, because chances are that's all I'll ever get to do before I cap it.

So I'm sitting outside the gates of Kazham on my Summoner, happy little green flag waving. You know, snickering to myself everytime somebody aggros a gob, decides to zone, and doesn't quite make it.

Random1 has invited you to join a party.

My fingers typed '/decline' before my brain had time to register what had actually happened. And then I flashed back to my conversation with Trael earlier...

Backspacebackspace...

/accept

(Slaneyder) Hello!
(Random1) hi
(Player2) (/wave)
(Player3) ok
(Slaneyder) I see you have a white mage already. Do you have a tank?
(Random1) no
(Random1) and jrunk has been afk for about 40 minutes.
(Random1) i gave u lead ok slane?
(Slaneyder) ...
(Random1) kick jrunk and find us a tank

Arrrrr.

Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. It's okay Slane, you can work with this. White mage, corsair, and an AFK mnk. This is workable, there's potential here...

>>JPaladin : (Hello!) (Party) (Do you need it?) @4, whm cor mnk smn.
JPaladin>> (I don't speak any English) (Good bye!)
>>Jpaladin : Truman will be reincarnated one day...you just wait, you jap piece of mud.
JPaladin>> (I don't know how to answer that question)

HAPPY THOUGHTS, Slane! It's just one more racist JP among the horde. You're used to it, you've seen it before, don't let it get to you! Try again!

>>JPninja : (Hello!) (Party) (Do you need it?) @4, whm cor mnk smn. (Party) (Long time).
JPninja>> (Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass). (English) (I don't have anything to give you).
>>JPninja : What, do we smell or something?!

(Random1) u found us a tank yet?!
(Slaneyder) ...
(Random1) hurry up b4 i kick u
(Slaneyder) I have leader, you fucking ignorant swine!
(Random1) lol so wat i can still kick u

omfg.

That's about when I yanked the power cord out of my router and faked a DC.

Dude, if wanting to avoid people like that is elitist, then yes, I'm a fucking elitist.

I admit it.

Trael, you win.

Chugga Chugga Woo Woo

2006-06-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

Nobody ever claimed that getting a job to 75 was going to be easy. I don't recall anybody saying that it was going to be tremendously difficult either, but I defintiely remember somebody calling it "@#$%ing tedious."

I believe the latter is the best description I've seen to date.

I'd been at level 70 for awhile. Originally, I had planned to pause my Red Mage at the big Seven-Oh (after finally defeating Maat), to finish /blm /nin and /drk. But a rather fortunate set of circumstances made it so I simply had to get to 72. I couldn't keep those in my inventory without being able to equip them. Physically incapable.

I hit 73 on accident. Before Dynamis one night, I joined a manaburn to pre-empt the xp I knew I was going to lose. That turned out to be the smoothest run DivineAlliance has ever had. Got 73 and Northlands access in one fell swoop.

And since I was only 2 levels away from 75...what was the point in stopping again?

73-74 was cake. I burned it with Tibbetts, Tonard, Mathhew and Exil. If you've never experienced at Chain 14 with a manaburn before...you should. Do it now.

74-75...

Yeah. This is where the story starts.

Seraphicradienc>> You're never going to hit 75.
Seraphicradienc>> You'll be 74 forever.
>>Seraphicradienc : Is that a challenge?
Seraphicradienc>> If you want it to be
>>Seraphicradienc : You watch. By the time you log tomorrow, I'll be 75.
Seraphicradienc>> Uh-huh.
>>Seraphicradienc : ...

TIME TRIAL!

Immediately, I warped to Al Zahbi and started to LFG. Shortly after, I got an invite from Dayz, a friend of mine. /sea all Dayz, pld/nin.

...

Whatever. Xp is xp.

Three hours and 9k later, I had officially eaten my own words. I slept a link for our White Mage, and as I was running back to my back line spot, another fly popped and linked with the link. I was out of mp, stoneskin fell, and I couldn't sleep it due to interruptions. My party sat there and watched me get taken down inch by inch without ever lifting a finger to help me.

Accepted the R3, showed them what a lifted finger looks like, and warped home.

At this point, I considered giving up and letting Seraph win his challenge. But there was some little flea behind my left ear egging me on. 'It's only 3 AM, you can get 20k in 3 hours easily. That last party was a lemon. Go for it. Put up the flag...put up the flag, damnit!'

Sigh.

I got an invite within 15 minutes. Not bad, considering the time it was here in the good ol' U S of A. And that party went very, very well, I must say. Boring as all fuck though, because I hardly speak any Japanese. It's all greek to me.

But, you have to consider the fact that I'm Slaneyder, and my luck, it's been proven, is absolutely horrendous.

One thing led to another...

Which lead to me discovering that, although Wamoura princes don't aggro, they link like a fucking conga line on speed.

I was literally ready to cry. 6 hours...2.5k tnl if I homepointed. Frustrated to the core, pissed at my past two parties for sucking and being dicks respectively, and clearly taking it out on the wrong people.

Randomrdm>> R1?
>>Randomrdm : (Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.)

I just sat there staring at my screen. There's no way I was going to sit there and solo nearly 3k xp, and there's no way I was going to join another party to get it. I was exhausted from working that day, and I'd been up for nearly 24 hours.

Just as I was about to accept the fact that I was going to have to homepoint, I saw the greatest sysmes ever.

Randomwhm starts casting Raise III on Slaneyder.

Wha...?

Randomwhm>> I'm Randomrdm's friend. ^^
>>Randomwhm : Oh my God, if you weren't a bunch of pixels, I'd tumble you right now.
Randomwhm>> w

Game on, bitches.

Scynscapa, in all of his worldly benevolence, showed up to help me burn the last 600 tnl. I dc'ed once, and logged again to find him grinning and chainsleeping the mob I'd pulled.

Damned Spoony Bards.

Tibbetts showed up too. Probably my best two friends in the game baring Seraph...it was really touching that they cared enough to help me out at 5 AM. Especially considering Tibbs had just ended an 11 hour shift.

Tibbs, Scyn, Seraph...the three of you are the best friends a girl could ask for. I love the three of you to absolute death.

Ride on fellas...ride on.

A Trainwreck Named Aspidochelone

2006-05-30T03:51:00.000-07:00

So after Dynamis tonight, I spent some quality time staring at my moogle and looking for something to do. Seraph logged off shortly after I got out, and he's usually my late night entertainment anyway. With him gone, I really needed something to do.

So I grabbed my Signal and Tactics pearls and headed out to Altepa to level my NPC a bit, burned through 20 beetles, and was just about to summon him again, when I saw a tell straight from heaven.

Tunarsbane>> Wanna come kill Aspid with us?
>>Tunarsbane : You have no idea how long I've waited for somebody to say that.
>>Tunarsbane : You DO care, you really DO! ^^
Tunarsbane>> ...Right. Anyway, nobody has enough members in their shell to do it the usual way.
Tunarsbane>> So it'll be 18 people from random HNM/Sky/Dynamis shells who have nothing better to do.
>>Tunarsbane : Free lots?
Tunarsbane>> I don't see what else we could do about the drops.

Hmmm...

What Slane Thought:

I don't have an HNM shell. I have Divine, which is Sky and Dynamis. I have Hamburglars, which is social. I have Breakthelimits, which is a piece of crap.

So when I get a ping from a friend who needs me to help kill an HNM for free lots? I'm all for that. I'll delevel for that. I'll spend 3 hours in front of my computer for that. Just give me a shot at a Wyrmal Abjuration and I'll be at your camp in under three seconds flat.

What Really Happened:

Shit!

I've never had my ass beat so hard in my life!

Really, we would have been fine if it weren't for the adds. We would have been able to creep its HP down little by little with our 6 blms. But no. There's all these raptors and birds running around, and we had no way to control them. They kept harrassing our poor, poor mages.

Remind me to go kick a turtle sometime today.

What it is to burn

2006-05-27T18:15:00.000-07:00

So last night, after I saw The DaVinci Code and spent some quality time with my favorite ex-taru, I came home and logged onto my social shell, Hamburglars. They're a great group of people, and I love them all to death.

With the addition of the Xbox 360 to Final Fantasy, we've had a surge in members. I don't mind helping; in fact, I really enjoy adopting a newbie or two at a time and teaching them the ropes. I like running them to Jeuno for their first visit, getting them their telecrystals, yadda yadda yadda. It makes me feel like a good little red mage.

But when it comes to 13 new people asking the same questions over and over...I'm sorry. I gotta take a break. That's usually when I equip my Divine pearl and have an intelligent conversation for once.

At any rate, I logged on last night to find one of our long lost-and-found newbie members asking for help with the Blue Mage flagquest. It's completely soloable, by the way. But hey, that's alright...I need to do that quest too. I might as well help him out.

The quest took us all of 30 minutes. Cake. And it wasn't a bad flagquest either. Not as good as Dragoon's was, but it's hard to beat a good storyline.

Congratulations, I can now become a Blue Mage.

Thax u ;O

So I go home to Windurst, change to Blue Mage/White Mage, buy some lowbie gear and a leet bronze sword, head outside, and start whacking shit.

The first bee I attacked use Pollen as soon as it had 100 tp. "Neat!" I think to myself. "I'll probably learn that now, and then I can go change to a melee sub for more attack power. ^.^"

Slaneyder defeats the Bumblebee.
Slaneyder receives 50 experience points.

"Oh, that's okay. I heard this could take awhile. I'll be patient. ^^"

-0/10 Pollens later-

Starting to get getting irritated. Ten isn't a lot, granted, but I'd still like to learn it before the sun comes up. I'll keep going...might as well.

-0/30 Pollens later-

Seriously annoyed. Been at it for about an hour and forty-five minutes now...and still no spells learned. Another half hour, and then I'm done.

-0/43 Pollens later-

Punched my toon in the face, gave her the finger, and went to bed. Woke up the next morning, did some chores and read a bit, and decided that I was ready to try learning my Blue Mage spells one more time...

-0/56 Pollens later-

Seriously. What the fuck.

-0/64 Pollens later-

I've deteriorated to mashing my keyboard incoherently and drawing funny looks from anybody in East Saruta. Seraph has put a comment in his vent channel reading "0/100! Can she do it?!"

I'm 2.3 seconds away from becoming the Hulk and tossing winnebagos like bowling balls.

-0/83 Pollens later-

jkfld;sauiornewkle7a980-4321789-4321jkld;sayuhg.

-0/104 Pollens later-

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Redrum redrum. Here's Johnny.

-0/114 Pollens, 0/52 Foot Kicks, and 0/38 Wild Oats later...-

Fuck BLU. I've heard of seasoned convicts that would crack under this kind of pressure.

I'm going back to Red Mage.

"For the---Shit!"

2006-05-22T00:06:00.000-07:00

Today, after a particularly fun manaburn with everybody's favorite Tibbetts, I stole a D2 from him, and zoned into a particularly feirce Besieged. Just in time to see the Mamool Ja Savages retreat.

Carbuncle 42, Beastmen 0.

Nice.

Hmm, what to do...I guess I could craft for a bit. Wild Onions are down, and I can make good profit on Navarin and skill at the same time...Hmmm...warp to Jeuno then, it is.

I trot over to the Moghouse entrance, stand by the crate, and wait for the Warp Taru to load...

And wait.

...

Still waiting.

...

...Shit.

Slaneyder: THE WARP TARU HAS BEEN TAKEN PRISONER!
Besieger301: No...no way.
Besieger35: omfg!
Slaneyder: He's gone!
Besieger12: The AH manager is gone too!
Besieger9: ゆがみ(Tarutaru)は誘拐された!
Besieger128: We gotta get that little pecker back!
Besieger92: (Invite to join party) 4 (Tarutaru) (Help desk) (mission!)
Besieger235: Get him--!
Besieger79: 私達はに(Jeuno)戻る方法を私達私達の(Tarutaru)を取り戻さなければならない有しない orz www
Slaneyder: SWARM--!

I've never filled an alliance so quickly in my life. 18 people materialized out of thin air, and within 5 minutes, we poured out of the gate into Wajoam, en route to Mamook.

By the time we got halfway there, somebody had beat us to him. He was gone for approximately 10 minutes.

Have you ever seen 400 people go after 1 single NPC?

Because I have.

And that little bastard thinks nobody likes him...

For the Horde!

2006-05-18T19:44:00.000-07:00

When Beseiged first came out, I was pretty unimpressed and let down by it. Honestly. The monsters were weak, when they reached the town at all. During the first successful one I attended, 6 mobs popped. 4 died instantly, and the other 2 warped out.

Pussies. Why'd they run away? There's only 700 people waiting in a small, condensed area to rip their faces off. It's not my problem that their entire army called in sick.

Psh.

Anyway, with the patch that was released recently, Beseiged has become a lot more hostile. And I do mean a lot.

Take last night's attack, for instance. Level 5 undead swarm. Now I've been through level 5 attacks before, and they're really not that much more difficult than the level 1s were. So I sent a tell to some cronies of mine, and we hooked up for this event.

(Legloas) So how long til these asshats attack?
(Slaneyder) Could be awhile yet.
(Legloas) Fuck, I'm going to get some breakfast.
(Scynscapa) You're gonna miss it.
(Legloas) I'm a monk, bitch. I don't miss.
(Thunderwolf) ...

Love my friends.

Anyway, they attacked, and I got warped back to the middle of town for some reason. So did half of my party. No big deal, I say. We'll just go one south, one west, one north...

...And DAMN. The square was packed with Lamias. Chocked to the brim.

(Scynscapa) Wow
(Xevian) We're fucked.
(Slaneyder) Ow! What's hitting me and why?!
(Thunderwolf) I'll raise whoever dies.
(Slaneyder) @#$%!
(Leglaos) Slanes, cure me!
(Slaneyder) I'm dead!
(Xevian) I gotcha.
(Scynscapa) Ow!
(Thunderwolf) I'm staying here and protecting the warp taru.
(Leglaos) You're a white mage!
(Thunderwolf) So?
(Slaneyder) >.o

The mobs got all the way back to the square, where the little NPC guys happily whiffed away at it. That was cool.

We actually won the fight, but somehow, we lost the homepoint in Al Zhabi.

...And nobody knows how to get it back.

...

Right.

Dunes = Dumb

2006-05-15T23:16:00.000-07:00

Leveling any job from 12-20 is a hassle. Red Mage was interesting to say the least. White Mage went quickly. Dragoon? That was plain fun. Summoner was a bitch. Ninja was an adventure. Black Mage? Cake. I flew solo on Puppetmaster. And Dark Knight...

Ahhh, Dark Knight.

I understand the allure of a Dark Knight in the dunes. It has a huge output of damage, despite the fact that I've made and consumed meals in between scythe swings. And the job is better than I expected it to be. I'll be honest. Granted, it's an Engage and Walk Away type of thing, but I can deal with that.

The Dunes, however, are still the Dunes.

The other day, I was in Al Zhabi, skilling on Navarin and seeking for a party with drk. Ding, invite. So I hop over to the little warp taru, get sent to Ru'Lude (awesome, he got it right), hop a tele, and zone into Valkurm. The whole trip took maybe 8 minutes.

By the time I get there, the party has disbanded.

Frustrating, though not unexpected.

I plop my assaru down in Selbina and start seeking again.

Silvanos invites you to join a party.

Christ. I hate random invites.

/decline.

Xboxnoob invites you to join a party.

...

/decline.

Stupidgalka invites you to join a party.

><;

/DECLINE!

Veteranplayer>> {Party}?
>>Veteranplayer : {Yes, please.} :)
Veteranplayer>> nvm, JP only.
>>Veteranplayer : You're the reason Truman is my hero.

Silvanos invites you to join a party.

Son of a...!

/join

(Slaneyder) I HATE YOU!

/pcmd leave

Silvanos invites you to join a party.

/killself
/killself

/echo WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!

><;

That place never, ever goes away...

2006-05-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

I finally finished /blm about two weeks ago and a year late. But, it's better late than never, and at least this way I can fully grasp how important it is to have. And since /blm is done, it's time to work on another one.

What options do I have here...

/smn. Currently, it's level 23. Possible. I've seen it used as a sub, though the only habitual /smner I know is a galka, and there are obvious reasons for that. All in all, I'll throw it on the back burner for now. It's not high on my list.

/rng. I've always been fascinated with the idea of subbing this to my Red Mage. I have a bow I want to break latent on, and there's no other way to do it. But, once again, this combination is a toy. Not useful. Scratch it off the list...

/nin. Now this is fun stuff. I fully enjoy this job, and it's already sitting at level 20. No need to spend excessive amounts of time in the dunes. Problem: It's mainly self-serving. I can't take /nin into Dynamis or Sky, with a marked few exceptions. So...sigh. Work now, fun later.

/drk.

*shivers*

I'll be honest. I've gotten bad vibes off of this job. It just never looked like something I'd enjoy. Sure, mass DD is cool, and a complete change of pace when you consider that I'm a professional pink mage. But drk accuracy is horrendous, and any weapons they specialize in take about four years to swing. Not to mention the fact that the flagquest itself is irritating and boring as fuck.

But...my sky linkshell needs /drk.

><;

God damnit.

99 darts and one really pounding headache later, Congratulations, I can now become a Dark Knight.

Yippee skippee.

1-10 was ridiculously easy, and I actually started to enjoy myself. With the release of the new jobs, SE inadvertently made soloing to 10 way, way too simple. No matter what the job, you cab go /pup, equip a shock absorber, auto-repair kit, and a strobe. Voila. Your own personal tank. All in all, I got to 12 in just under a day and a half. Considering that I hate grinding out levels, that's very, very good for me.

12-20, on the other hand...

I hate Dunes. I mean...we all hate Dunes. But I hate Dunes. Just seeking for a party there is ridiculous. Honestly. Sometimes you don't even have to seek. You just have to be there.

Side-story: OPwarped to Zulkheim the other day on my rdm to fish on the ferry. Right off the bat, I get a random invite from a player that we'll call Annie.

/sea all Annie.

Level 12 warrior/white mage, Rank 1.

Hmmm...

/accept

(Annie) Hi!
(Slane) {word}
(Player1) OMG u got us a 72 rdm! wtg!
(Annie) I know! We'll be able to take anything!
(Slane) Yep. We rock.
(Annie) What other jobs should we get?
(Slane) None. We're fine the way we are.
(Annie) Really?
(Player1) u sre?
(Slane) Totally. Now stand right there, I'm gonna pull.

10 minutes later, I come back with 12 damselflies, 8 gobs, 5 crabs, a pug, and a gaggle of leeches.

(Slane) OMG! LINK! ZONE ZONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
(Annie) YOU'RE A NOOB! WE'RE GONNA DIE!
(Slane) RUUUUUUUUUUN!

No, I didn't let the noobs die.

I should have.

But I didn't.

Anyway, I think that demonstrates why I hate the dunes. Nobody has any @#$%ing clue about anything at all. It's gotten even worse with the release of FF on the Xbox. Now it's not just possible that you'll run into somebody who will get you killed, it's downright impossible to avoid them. And thanks to the popularity of the xbox, chances are you'll end up with several somebodies.

I don't mind teaching. Hell, I don't even mind dying so long as I get a raise. What I do mind is noobs who act like experts. That drives me insane. They do something stupid, get everybody killed, and then blame it on somebody else. Usually me.

><

I can feel a headache coming on already...

Fuck you, drk.

Hmm...

2006-05-09T11:34:00.000-07:00

[13:29] Youneek07: So I'm driving home from Nick's, and this guy on the interstate cuts me off
[13:29] Youneek07: Bastard
[13:29] Youneek07: Little miffed, not too mad
[13:29] Youneek07: Then he slows down after cutting me off
[13:29] Youneek07: Gettin' angry
[13:29] Youneek07: So I go to pass him
[13:29] Youneek07: And he cuts me off again!
[13:29] Youneek07: Now I'm pissed
[13:29] * bobglauser grins.
[13:29] Youneek07: Zoom over into the right lane, roll down my window, give him the finger, and I go to shout "YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT!"
[13:30] Youneek07: and it comes out "YOU'RE A FUCKING NOOB!"
[13:30] bobglauser: ...
[13:30] Youneek07: ._.
[13:30] * bobglauser /cheers!
[13:30] Youneek07: ><
[13:30] Youneek07: It was quite possibly the saddest moment of my life
[13:30] bobglauser: Sad?
[13:31] bobglauser: That's kinda good really
[13:31] Youneek07: It's something, alright...

Fuck you, Xbox...

2006-05-03T08:45:00.000-07:00

I don't have anything against newbies. I really don't. We've all been there before. We've done the stupid things (diaga in a clump of Thread Leeches, anyone?). We've all asked the stupid questions ("wtf is provoke?").

Hopefully, we only asked them once.

Ever since the 360 release, I've helped a lot of Question Mark Kids. Tossed out gil here and there, taught them the mechanics of the AH, spell menu, job abilities...the works. I'll always help when asked. What can I say, I'm just that nice.

It's when I have to explain things three and four+ times that I start getting annoyed.

Case and point: Yuhtunga Jungle.

*shiver*

I'm seeking for a party on my blm. I'm tired of having a gimped sub. I'm a permanent pink mage...but it might be time to finally level blm to par. Despite the fact that I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.

So I airship over, snag some pineapple to juice, and head outside. No invite. As a rdm main, this irritates me.

So I decide that if I'm going to sit in the jungle, I might as well kill shit. I pull a T mandy and start sleepnuking. And whaddya know, I have an audience. 2 level 26 rdms, shocked that I'm soloing and winning.

Hehe. Newbies. They're so cute.

A few seconds later, I get a tell from one of them, who says that she wants to team up. Okay, I'll mini-manaburn a bit. That's always fun.

(Slaneyder) Okay, here's how it works: I'll pull the mob and sleep it. Then I'll yell out a time, like 12:45. When the clock hits that time, you guys cast Blizzard, I'll cast Aeroga. {Understood}?
(rdm1) k
(rdm2) ok.

So I pull, sleep it, and they both start meleeing it.

Strike one.

(Slaneyder) Disengage, disengage! I'll sleep it.
Slaneyder starts casting Sleep on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is asleep.
Rdm2 starts casting Fire on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora takes 25 points of damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is no longer asleep.
(Slaneyder) Stop! Stop! Sleep it!
Rdm2 starts casting Sleep on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is asleep.
Rdm1 starts casting Blizzard on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
(Slaneyder) QUIT!

By some miracle, we managed to kill it. I don't know how. I'm not sure I want to know. Either way, it ended up with us getting 70 xp. Coolah coolay.

So I explain it again. Full detail this time. Hell, I even tell them I'll type '3 2 1' instead of the timed nuke method. That's Sesame Street simple. It's Barney Fun Time simple. They say they understand now, so I pull again.

Slaneyder starts casting Sleep on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is asleep.
Rdm1 starts casting Fire on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
(Slaneyder) >.o;;
Rdm2 starts casting Sleep on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
Rdm2's Sleep has no effect on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora takes 27 damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is no longer asleep.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits Rdm1 for 22 damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits Rdm1 for 31 damage.

Somehow, we managed to kill that one too. It involved a manafont, though.

Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment, because I tried again.

Rdm2 hits the Yuhtunga Mandragora for 4 damage.
Rdm1 hits the Yuhtunga Mandragora for 6 damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits you for 24 damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits you for 21 damage.
Slaneyder starts casting Sleep on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is asleep.
Rdm2 starts casting Dia on the Yuhtunga Mandragora.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora receives the effect of Dia.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora is no longer asleep.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits you for 25 damage.
Critical Hit! The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits you for 43 damage.
Rdm1 starts casting Cure II on Slaneyder.
Slaneyder recovers 82 HP.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits Rdm1 for 23 damage.
The Yuhtunga Mandragora hits Rdm1 for 20 damage.

/pcmd leave

Zone.

God, I hate the jungles...

Chingchongney?!

2006-04-30T16:32:00.000-07:00

There are few things I enjoy more than making a gilseller's life difficult. Sleeping. Pasta. Foreplay. That's about it though. Not much else rates higher on my 'Slaney-glee' scale. Maybe long walks on the beach and candlelit dinners. Maybe. But I think my joy of fucking with RMTers is greater than my leukwarm love of sappy bullshit.

But I digress. I don't go out of my way to harass poor chinese women trying to make a buck. But if they happen to be in my area, annoying me, and practically stealing my gil?

Game on, bitches.

Take last night for example.

Scynscapa, my favorite Bard in the whole wide world, has been on the lookout for a Hornetneedle for awhile. We were bored, broke, and had nothing but time on our hands. Naturally, the best place to head when you're facing those conditions is the Temple of Uggalepih. Habetrot every 15 minutes, Wespes galore for Bee Larvae, and enough tonberries to fuel your anger for a week.

We hop an airship (be damned if I'm gonna pay 5k for a tele), choc over, do the Temple Shuffle and end up at Habetrot's spawnpoint. And what do my wandering eyes see, but a troupe of gilsellers sitting before me.

Now, I'll be honest. I'm not positive they're gilsellers. But one was a 72 black mage, rank 1, with onyx earrings and eremite's rings.

Come now.

After a few unsucessful attempts to get Habe (I need to learn to macro in multi-item trades...), we started to farm Wespes. 3 mobs and exactly 0 damage later, we got the drop.

Luck of the Irish.

For the record, Death from Above is a pussy.

And that's one sweet little dagger he drops. Awesome delay.

Anyway, we decide that we're gonna kill more bees and see if we can get another larvae. I wouldn't mind having that dagger myself. It'd just be a toy, considering I have my Wing Sword and all, but a fun toy all the same.

That's about when the gilsellers started killing our bees, training them to zone, or just generally keeping them claimed.

...

Eat it.

Things that make you go "Why..."

2006-04-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

How is it possible. I don't understand. I don't get it. How can somebody pick up a job at level 1, level it for months, go through Genkai1-4, kill an old man, make the final push to 75...and still have no notion of the most effective way to play their job?

Does not compute.

I'm not going to name names. I'm not that mean.

Okay, I am. But out of self-preserverance, I'm not going to name names.

Case #1)

I duo with a Black Mage friend of mine all the time. We fish on the ferry, we kill the Sea Horror, Silverhook, Black Beard, yadda yadda. Occasionally we fish Devil Mantas in Cape Terrigan (when we can get the hook before Mayi and her consort of RMTers. Bitch.) He's a good guy. I don't have anything against him.

Generally, we sleepnuke stuff. It just works out well for us. He's a BLM though. He's going to get hate. With my Errants and +int shit on, I can do maybe...600 with FireIII. On a good day. Maybe a little less/more with AeroIII depending on the mob.

So why...why God why...does he refuse to buff before he casts?

I sleep, he nukes, I sleepII, he nukes...and then shit. I still have 15 left on my sleep recast, and he's getting knocked around like a family therapy sock puppet.

Out of everyone in the game, he's gotten me slaughtered the most.

Case #2)

I don't have anything against White Mages. They cure, they raise, they do their little Holy magic burst thing...it's cool.

A good WHM will haste the tank, slap a regen on him, cure away, toss an erase or two, sit down, and repeat. A bad WHM will let me haste everybody, refuse to regen, watch me Erase, drop huge cures in the middle of battle and run around like a chicken when he gets hate.

And ask for refresh when he already has it...

...Blasphemy.

If you want me to rip your face off and replace your eyeballs with your tonsils, you should ask me for refresh. I'm sure you'll feel just swanky with your corneas adjusting your vocal chords.

Case #3)

Red Mages.

Oh-ho, don't think I forgot you, Mr. Ride-The-Refresh-Train-To-75 Moocher. Yeah, your /NIN sub really comes in handy in Dynamis-Bastok. Those extra shadows do a fine job of keeping you alive when that scorpion you forgot to silence Breakgas your whole alliance.

And yes, elemental staves do help you enfeeble. If I have to explain that to one more 70+ peer, I'm going to hurt somebody.

Fin.

Welcome to my sad, sad little world...

2006-04-28T10:03:00.000-07:00

Hi. It's me. Aren't you just pleased as punch.

This is, of course, my first entry. Whether it's an online journal or a real pen-and-paper one, I always hate this the most. It's like introducing yourself to a wall.

"Hi, uh, blog...I'm Slane. I'll, uh...be writing in you. I'll be gentle. Don't worry..."

Yeah.

Anyway. This is me:

(Damn...I hate Blogger's image system already.)

Sup. You just love that vacant-eyed stare, don't you? And the feather? Come on. The feather is hot. Who can resist a chick in Red Mage AF?

Whatever.

Long story short: I'm a taru. I'm a Red Mage. I'm on Carbuncle. I hate pidgeons.

Right.