Trials & Tribulations

Next week Shantotto will invite me into a world of shenanigans that will reward me with some awesome looking pants to go with my current wardrobe.

Here is what I currently wear:

My Awesome Wardrobe

These are the pants I want to get:

Tatsumaki sitagoromo look

Their attributes:

Tatsumaki sitagoromo

I am also looking forward to acquiring this nifty item from the Tenshodo:

Nexus Cape

Just so you all know what I’ll be getting myself into, here is a glimpse into the future.

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I’ve updated my sidebar wordpress plugin to accommodate the addition of the next addon due to come to FFXI players next week. Along with this, I’ve made it possible to grab this from my svn repository instead of downloading the plugin from my web site.

The svn will always host the most current version of this plugin. As with this, it is quite possible that it may contain bugs I have not discovered yet.

You may find the plugin at http://redmine.stelth2000inc.com/projects/show/ffxi-wordpress. Report any bugs and any support questions at that location as well. Also, as I’m still not all that good at creating plugins for wordpress, if you have any suggestions on how to better write what I have, please feel free to get with me and I’ll be more than happy to bring you on board to further develop this plugin.

Since I’ve last been able to post anything, I’ve been busy straightening things out with Ineyeri. I still don’t know what our status is, but, I’m willing to give it some time.

I wish I had a whole bunch of things to write about, but really, there isn’t a whole lot. I’ve been spending a lot of time in the past defending Windurst and West Sarutabaruta as this nation is having a terrible time obtaining more than just these two areas. It seems that every poll, we find ourselves gaining and losing the West Sarutabaruta area. With all of this campaigning I’ve been doing, I’ve finally managed to obtain my Starlight Medal. I’m hoping to gain my next rank, the Moonlight Medal as quickly as I did the the Starlight Medal. Once I have that medal, I’ll be at a standstill trying to maintain it while I go about obtaining Allied Notes to finish off getting the Cobra gear set, and a manual from Bastok that looks to be a very nice welcome to my ammo slot for when I am going around as a Scholar.

By doing all the campaign that I’ve been doing, I’ve leveled my Red Mage job up to presently 73. I’m inching closer to 74 which puts me just one level away from having it at it’s max level.

When I wasn’t doing campaign, I was out in the Boyahda Tree with a fellow adventurer friend of mine, Madness skilling up my sword so I could work on obtaining my weapon skill, Savage Blade. When I managed to cap my sword skill at 240, I went to North San d’Oria and talked to Curilla. She presented me a Sapara of Trials that I had to break the latent effect on to prove I was worthy to obtain this weapons skill. I spent a lot of time in the past performing weapon skill on the Yagudo’s, duoed for a bit with Ineyeri on them to allow for some weapon skill skill chains that provided me more points than when I was performing weapons skills by myself. After I got tired fighting bird after bird after bird, I took a break and the next day picked it up again in Vunkerl Inlet this time on Robber Crabs. I started out again by myself and managed to talk Ineyeri into joining me so I could do some skill chains to make it go by faster.

During all this time trying to break the latent, I did find out that I am unable to solo a bad link of three Yagudos whos jobs were a monk, red mage, and a black mage. It tore through my magic points and ate away at my stoneskin. In the process in trying to use some of my health points to give me some magic points by converting, I became a “one hit wonder” by the red mage bird I was fighting. Needless to say, I never go my reraise back up after it had wore due to not thinking about really needing it. Ineyeri had to come out and raise me, that is what got her involved with skill chaining with me the first time.

After finally breaking the latent on this sapara, I headed back to Curilla and she sent me off to the Quicksand Caves to fight a scorpion. Ineyeri and two other linkshell members assisted me in fighting this scorpion. I thank them for their help. If it weren’t for them, I’d not been able to have the Savage Blade weapons skill that I have now.

I’ll be ending this post with some pictures I took in the past few days.

Well, I was cutting it very close in reobtaining this honor. I had less than a day left before they were going to confiscate the medal I already had. It wasn’t for the long campaign battle in Karugo-Narugo where I obtained over 6k experience points as well as level 72 on my red mage, I really think I would have lost a considerable amount of faith in myself. I worked very hard to earn the medal I had before the one I currently have now, I don’t know if I would have it in myself to have to go through all the painstaking battles to reacquire it all over again.

After that long battle, I’m taking a bit of a break to recuperate. I’ll be back to the fighting after that. I wonder if there is still something else I should be fighting for….

Since my last evaluation a few days ago and finding out I only have a few days left on the power of my existing medal, I have been steadily defending Windurst against the Yagudo in hopes to finally meet the requirements to rank up to my next medal. As it stands now, I’m quickly running out of time to earn this medal and I may find myself losing the one I earned not too long ago.

Losing this medal will greatly diminish my demeanor. I worked hard to get that medal and I want to finally get out of the “wing” category and into the “medal” category of medals. I really could use something to brighten my spirits (see previous post to see why).

On that last note, I still don’t know where I stand. Well, I’m going to rest up some more. I will continue my battle to rank up later on.

Right now, that would be in the past in my home town of Windurst, Windurst Waters; however, that’s what this is about. This post is about my relationship with Ineyeri.

Ineyeri and I have been a couple for a while, was hoping to eventually have her as my partner in game. I’m not so sure of that anymore. I have been spending a lot of time by myself for a long time, doing my own thing when I can because frankly, I don’t have a whole lot of time available to me with the injuries I sustain. The attack on Windurst has started up again, I’ve been needing to get missions done, level my red mage job to 75, handle some quests, and a slew of other things. In the way of missions, Ineyeri has surpassed the ones that I’m on, so that doesn’t leave those to do together (for the first time).

I thought that even though we weren’t spending much time with me, that she’d understand my situation and support me. Instead, it was a couple days ago that I find out through a message topic of one of Linkshells, that she’s engaged to someone else. Now, I’m hoping, really hoping that it is just a hoax, but I can’t be too sure. I’ve confronted her about it, but I’ve not been given a straight answer as if we are together or not. This leaves me to believe that we aren’t and I’m back, once again to doing things by myself like I’ve done for many, many, many years.

All I have ever wanted was someone to call my own. Someone to adventure with me, and be there even when I can’t be. I’ll update you when I can, though, I can’t be too sure as when this will be.

It has once again been some time since I’ve posted anything. It has been quite tedious to do any sort of posting when you are out in the battlefield defending areas against Beastmen attacks.

Typically I would be doing these fights on my Scholar job, but I’ve decided to take some time away from that job and refocus on Red Mage. It seems that I gain more experience as my Red Mage than I do as my Scholar job. It wasn’t until I was out there for a few days that I acquired a new job ability. I mean I knew I had one, just didn’t look into when I acquired it. Composure has been awesome to use. I’m doing more damage with my weapon and certain spells I cast last up to three times as long as usual. Hell, it almost makes me want to go face Maat and slice and dice him to death with a sword, but I don’t have the necessary weapon as of yet to do so.

I’m still working diligently to reobtain my next medal. The Jeneoan council isn’t cutting me any slack though. I don’t know how much experience and allied notes I’ve obtained, but I would have thought I had enough by now. I even did a few campaign ops (damn Beastmen disarmed two of my bombs) to try and see if that would help me any. I have a few days left before I fall down another rank. As I’m currently taking a break from the battlefield, I’ll go back out later and fight.

I think I’ll take this time now to rest a bit. I’ll write more when I have another chance.

Earlier today I added a plugin to my wordpress blog to allow visitors that use their mobile devices to browse to a mobile friendly version of my blog. Inspiration for this came from a post from a gaming blog I visit, Pet Food Alpha. I hope by doing this it makes reading my more appeasing when viewing from your mobile device.