Saikai
08 August 2005
Maybe I should give up and just resign myself to the fact that I'm too lazy update this Blog more than once a month. /sigh Least when I finally do post something it should be worth talking about.
So what has happened this last month? In Final Fantasy XI I've managed to reach level 72 Samurai with Hocchan. When I reached level 70 I put on my new Hachiman set and was so happy. Hocchan was finally complete. I had a day or so where I sold my stuff to be able to afford the Hachiman Jinpachi which was the last piece I needed. Went on a coffer key hunt in Castle Zvahl Baileys a few moments after reaching 70 since Kaiken asked me to go. I died on that trip since I dropped into a room and linked 5 demons! /laugh
Also managed to get hold of a Kamewari from the Amikiri HMN in Gustav Tunnel. It was quite an eventful day. I'd decided to take a visit to the tunnel and stick around incase anyone was planning on killing Amikiri that day. Just so happened I ran into a group of Japanese players who were there to hunt some NMs. I asked them if they'd killed Amikiri or not and they said it hadn't popped yet. Curiously they invited me into their party and said they would help me kill it if it appeared. I followed them into the lower area of the tunnel and helped them to kill the various dragons they were killing. It became apparent what they were doing there when they told me that Ungur had appeared and they were going to fight it. We prepared ourselves and lured it into the tunnel we were camped at. All was going well until somehow a skeleton aggroed us and we got wiped out in a short time. Luckily the Bard had re-raise on and we regrouped. Rested until we were ready again and pulled it to a place where we couldn't get any aggro. This time we beat the thing pretty easily and got the drops they were after. A short period of skilling up later we discovered that Amikiri had spawned so we went to kill it. Dragged it up to the top area and Novada kited it around the rock while we fought it. Some stupid people watching gave us comments about how long it was taking but I didn't care. After it was dead they let me lot on the Kamewari and I was so happy and grateful to them for letting me join them for 4-5 hours. Turned out that Novada was a 75 Samurai amongst her other level 75 jobs. I'll be grateful to them forever.
About a week ago I was unable to log on to PlayOnline so I decided to watch a few episodes of anime while I waited for it to return to normal. After that I finally managed to get on and noticed I had a new message waiting for me. I opened up my inbox to find a name I hadn't seen for months. Cata. I was so overjoyed! I rushed onto FFXI immediately and found that they had decided to come back to the game for a little while. Meeting up with them again was such a sweet and beautiful moment. It was as good as it is in all the stories of long lost friends coming back. They are amongst my greatest of friends and I've been sad ever since they left back at the start of this year. I'm so glad they are back now and they seem to be enjoying their time on Guardians Reborn. I savour every moment they are here. Turns out that Vestapyro isn't leaving the server after all. Someone managed to persuade her to stay here and I'm glad she did. I hope she finds happiness on this server.
Unfortunately as one happy moment appears so must the sad moment show it's face too. I feel it had been coming for a few months now but I think finally Spicecake will no longer be playing the game. I'm not sure why exactly, I didn't want to ask but I'm very saddened by this news. She's been a fantastic friend to me for the longest of times. I feel guilty that I've not always had the opportunity to get to know her better. I hope she has many great moments in her life and that she remains the happy, cheerful person that I know her to be.
Had the pleasure to watch some good anime this last month. Got hold of To Heart - Remember My Memories and have had a great time catching up with Multi and the guys. Up to episode 11 of that show with 2 more episodes to come. Mahou Sensei Negima is coming along nicely with a few major plot progression. Haven't managed to watch anymore of Da Capo Second Season yet since that's still being released but I'll try and get a couple of them to watch.
If you look to the links area on the right you'll find that there's a new one. It's to Sunset Clouds who is/are (not sure if it's one person or several) the composer of the music found on this short story I found while looking through some forums: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dokihara/meetingagain-en.swf . Their other works that are available on the site are just as good and I've loved listening to them. I hope they continue to make great melodies for me to enjoy.
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