Once Upon a time...

It's been three years since I first started playing. That's really crazy. Most of my experiences in FFXI have been pretty okay too. The one thing that can sum everything up though, is drama. Lots of it. I remember the good old days, where Vana'diel was this huge place that I'd get lost in. I remember wandering Konschtat for hours, just lost. Then a Tremor Ram would sneak up from behind me and totally dominate me. Now I know that zone like the back of my hand. I'm finding myself really bored with FFXI. . . I have a lot of goals I'd like to see accomplished, but I don't have the motivation to go about it alone. I refuse to bug anybody I know either, because it's not their goals. They are my goals. Begin so detached from the game though could be a good sign. I feel like I could quit at any moment and not miss it enough to come back. This week has been a real long one. I leveled bard a little bit. Got it from 12-17. My goal was to have it 25 by tonight, but that isn't happening.

I like to reflect a lot, in how I came to where I am today. I'm going to do that with this update. I'm lazy to upload pictures tonight, so deal.


How it all began


I was never much of a gamer. I could play a mean Zelda Ocarina of Time. That was about as good as I got, though. I would have never pictured myself being glued to an MMO. It's totally not like me. I remember hearing about Final Fantasy XI through commercials and my friends, but I never took any interest in it. That all changed one day. . . Ladygarnet (from Asura) and Enlenne (from Quetz) and I were all talking one afternoon.. Lady and Enny started to talk about galkas they had seen with the names "Twinkletoes" or something similar. They both found it hilarious, yet I had no idea what was going on. They'd leave me to go play, and I had enough of it. I finally went and grabbed a copy for myself. After hours of installing and prepping, I was ready. I created two characters and had two seperate codes I had to enter. Azurial was my mithra. She was to be on Asura. Evanai was my hume. As soon as I logged in, I met this really friendly mithra who gave me 2k gil and some leather armor. I thought I was graced by a really rich person, and I felt pretty rich myself. I was totally shocked to find out later, that that was in fact a manthra.
After I got my leather gear, I went outside and met Enlenne. She told me to kill a bee, and I did. My first kill in FFXI ever. I was ballin. A few days later she introduced me to a friend of hers, Lolindor. It took me probably a good twenty minutes to navigate to where they were. I felt really bad, because Loli had to go and he was waiting for me to get there so he wouldn't seem rude or anything.
Fast forwarding a little bit... Enlenne soon went on a long break to play WoW. Lady was always busy on Asura, so I was left to fend for myself. I did the smart think. I stopped playing and took a break myself. A break.. . during my first free month. . .

I remember getting powerleveled to 10 by Nile and Setheroth. They were the absolute saints for doing that for me. I was such a high level, fuck yeah. Playing with the big boys now. . . Time went by, and I went on so many breaks. . . a year later I finally made it to 20 warrior. After I accomplished that great feat, I quit for three months....

When I finally returned, I was determined to actually acheive something. Unfortunately I get bored and sidetracted easily, so it took me 11 months to get my first 75. I was in a CoP static, a great social ls, dynamis.. I got BLM to 60... Then things started to happen, and I slowly abandoned all of that. . . Luckily for me, the CoP static is resuming again tomorrow.. I don't have a social at the moment, but I'm starting Dynamis tomorrow as well. Maybe being busy with activities will get me reinterested.

I honestly don't know how much longer I'll continue to play. Who knows, maybe I'll find a great social ls and the people will pull me back in.

Random crap


My friend, Ladygarnet, talked to me yesterday and convinced me to make a character on Unicorn with her. We kicked a little orc butt before giving up. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the opening cutscene for FFXI. . . .







yeah..