Summertime

Ninja time!

Nothing better to do during beautiful summer days and nights than to... get fame in Norg. Hmmm... Considering you need to be infamous rather than famous for the pirates to take note of you, what do you actually gather in Norg..?

Pasifika had tried ninja out a bit, but without utsusemi it just wasn't much of a ninja at all. We all know Pasifika is way too nice and law-abiding to get anything from the pirates of Norg, though, so her friends helped her out. Phu sent her bright red necklaces to bribe Windurst's infamous cat burglar Nanaa Mihgo. Linathra took Pasifika to Norg and showed her around, and probably also spread some rumours about her notoriety... Finally the thick-witted guy noticed that Pasifika was, in fact, an adventurer, and he gave her the long-awaited quest. The now-all-evil Pasifika followed Linathra into the depths of the sahagin's domain and looted everything in her path!

Upon her return to Norg she was rewarded with the scroll for the ninja's trademark shadows. Lina, Pasifika and always ready Romidiant put Pasifika's new skills to the test in Valkurm Dunes: Pasifika the sly ninja slashed away with her katanas while Romidiant the stalward shield tanked the monsters (with his back to the enemy o_O;) and Lina the pulling & meleeing white mage danced to her heart's content. :D

Pasifika took a break from being a ninja when she dropped by in Al Zahbi for Besieged with Lina. While there, they ran into an aquaintance of Lina's. He had a cute wyvern with him, and while the two chatted, Pasifika played with the little wyvern... Come on, fly higher into the sky now! You can do it! :O

Fashion time!

Windurst Waters [S] has been under constant attacks for some time, and Pasifika defended her home city with Lina, Ame and some other friends. The campaign battles aren't all just mindless bloodletting, though, there are many other aspects to it, too! Spotting friends is always a nice bonus, although it may be difficult to see them in the crowd. Seeing the kinds of attacks and gear both the Windurstian armies and the adventurers use is interesting. Master Caster Lutete, for example, has excellent taste and she wears a holy breastplate & a flower in her hair, and she summons shiny... thingies. Such a delightful little taru, although a bit lethargic at times. *Yawn*
Here's another example of the many joys of campaign battles:
Also, what about these royal outfits, wouldn't they look nice on Pasifika, too? *_*

Here's a good shot of the army you'll be agains if you ever decide to invade Windurst Waters [S]:
Pasifika immediately fell in love with the beautiful coat and emroidered pants of the taru in the foreground, but Dhm said "Ha! You wish!" So they're out of the question, along with the pretty dark green Dalmatica, huh..? ,-_-,

Relaxing time...

If there's one thing that's more soothing than looking at the sea and the waves, it's wathcing a tarutaru fish by the sea. After long battles and exciting quests, Pasifika and Lina relaxed in Sarutabaruta, wathing the sea change colours as the day faded into night and brightened again in the morning.

Skill training

Pasifika went to a dark forest and took along her two adventuring fellow bodyguards... or maybe she had someone else there with her, too... x)

Actually, Pasifika, Lina and Donthitme, along with Romidiant, Feliz and Yufafa, all trained their skills in the beautiful surroundings of the Boyahda Tree. The truth about Pasifika's skill with hammer is quite sad, though... she could't hit a goobbue's rear end even when she was standing way to close to it for comfort. ;>_>

Finally Pasifika managed to land some hits, and was soon rewarded with a new weapon skill - Judgement. Taste this, you big..!! *miss* -_-;

The multicoloured flowers and other flora (like cute little Mourioches) are really beautiful in the Boyahda Tree, but during the hours spent skilling up, Pasifika got to see a bit too closely the secret to the tree's well-fertilised plants. :x

Rank Mission

Seeking to further help Windurst, Pasifika asked the guards for a mission... but they didn't have a proper one. Instead, they offered her one that hadn't been approved yet - sounds suspicious, right?

She inquired further, and found out, that doing this dubious "mission" would mean going behind the back of Semih Lafihna, and against the will or Star Sibyl herself. Treason! D: There's no way Pasifika would do that!
No way, so stop looking like that...

*Tarutaru puppy eyes*

You're our only hope...

Please...

Save the taru from the darkes of dungeons...

Please hurry!

I can't be a part of that... but I'll give you a hint. -_^

O~ohohohohoho~~

Ok, so the last one was just really scary, but all the others were very compelling. No way Pasifika would leave these cute tarus in a pinch!
She didn't even have to save them all by herself: Donthitme joined her - and the red mage division. :D So, we only need to travel around the world and defeat some monsters. Ok, let's go!

Here's the evil orc king, but not for long! And then...

Pasifika will be king! Er... queen? anyway, what shall we do next, my loyal minions? :D

Things got a bit sticky after a while, when Pasifika ran into both Semih Lafihna and some wild cardians. She was saved pretty mysteriously, but the mission wasn't quite as succesfull as Pasifika had hoped. ;_; She got a rank-up anyway for her valiant effort, but the manner of her promotion was quite bizarre. >_> Instead of recieving her honours in the Great Star Tree from the revered hands of her nation's leaders, she got her rank from under the counter in a dusty corner of Manustery. It' probably fake, somehow... ;>_>

Flying elvaan!! :O

It's true, there's a flying elvaan among the troops of San d'Oria!
It all started when Pasifika wanted to try something different and went to Eldieme [S] looking for trouble. A campaign battle started as she entered (of course!), and she proceeded to attack the fortification with everyone else and their cousins. Everything went smoothly, until... Gah!! It's the orcs, runnnn!

Pasifika ran around pretty aimlessly, and came by a whole bunch of elvaan white and red mages bashing another fortification. They were too absorbed in their task to save poor little Pasifika, but they finally noticed the orcs and gallantly avenged her death. As Pasifika got up and dusted her clothes, they even buffed her... Windurst's troops never do that! o_O

The mage elvaans kept Pasifika company for a while, but finally returned to their headquaters. Another squad came to take their place, this time paladins, and among them... the flying elvaan, Valaineral R Davilles. :O
New orcs came by, making Pasifika hide behing the corner, although that wouldn't have been necessary. The Royal Guards took on the orcs and chased them off - and eventually left poor Pasifika all alone with the fortification again. Come on, this is supposed to be your battle! D: Flutter back here!

Fighting bravely on her own earned Pasifika enough experience to finally attain level 68, and to wear her Nobles Tunic. Wait, flying elvaan, Pasifika will join your troops! :o All you have to do is switch to Windurst's side and protect the tarus and the lycopodiums...

Heat of battles

Pasifika asked Emhi Tchaoryo for something she could do for her country, and recieved instructions for the Aegis Scream II campaign operation. "Help defend areas" - easy, right? After at least ten lo~ng campaign battles in various locations under Windurst's control, Pasifika was no closer to completing the mission than she had been in the beginning. -_- Reluctantly she gave up, and at least Emhi promised not to tell Major Mihgo about the failure. On the upside, Mr. Meanie, I mean, Llewellyn finally had to return the decorations he had taken away from Pasifika. :D

Apparently everyone hadn't heard about what happened to the previous party that asked Pasifika to join them... Fyren asked Pasifika to join his party, and promised to remember she had warned him when they died. Surprisingly, the party turned out to be very nice. :o
The cute little paladin tank (aptly named Lilbuttkicker, or something similar) did his job, and Pasifika even put on her "let's-get-serious"-gear to do hers. All in all the party worked out well, and Pasifika *gasp* gained a level. :O

After a long while, the lovely tarutaru paladin had to go, and some others scattered as well, but Pasifika kept going for a little longer. After all, Fyren - along with Ntfc, no less! - had gone to the lehgts of saying she wasn't a bad white mage. :D The new camp was in another part of the Mire entirely, and Pasifika blindly followed an elvaan back there through the mysterious undersea ruins. (Good thing they're so tall, makes them easier to follow - Pasifika only lost him once.)

Her party mood was pretty much gone by then, however, and she soon told she'd need to go. Unfortunately, she was the only suitable white mage - in the whole world! D: Fyren came to her rescue by finding a decent replacement, and finally Pasifika took her leave as a scholar/red mage galka took her place.

Once free, Pasifika ra~nnn for it (teleported, actually) and dropped by at Sarutabaruta [S] to defend the homeland of tiny lycopodiums just a little more. After that, the day's work was finally done. Probably the whole week's work, too...

Wonders of Vanadiel in just 1 day

After a longish time of only occasionally dropping in to see a movie about an apparently orphaned chocobo growing up in Pulonono's care, today was finally the time for some real adventures. In just 1 day Pasifika went through pretty much all of the things she ever does... starting with checking on the chocobo, and then continuing with Pasifika's corageuos war efforts: cleaning up Windurst Waters [S].

That mean Guy Llewellyn took away one of Pasifika's medals because of the little "vacation" she had, but after a couple of campaign battles in Sarutabaruta and some cleaning duty, she's now finally considered to be worthy of the medals she has. Just them and no more, but that's enough for now - the tug-of-war with the evaluation officer over the medals is a normal part of Pasifika's life. So... what next...

A friend came along, and Pasifika spent a good while just chatting, and finally decided to follow her friend to Eldieme [S] - it's quest time! While this wasn't the back Pasifika is used to following around, the whole thing seemed very... familiar. Ametrine kindly guided Pasifika to Eldieme and right to the person who starts the quest - and just then the campaign battle begun! The San d'Orian knights were attacking, but... the whole thing only lasted two minutes (max!) and the knights never appeared... one of Vanadiel's many mysteries! :O

After recieving good advice about being careful and using sneak & invisible, Pasifika ventured into the heart of Fort Karugo-Narugo all by herself. Luckily, there were no nasty monsters to vanquish, but instead a taru to talk to. Easy! :D Pasifika even had time to stop and wonder the shining round platforms (again)... They're pretty, but they must have some use besides their ornamental value... What do they do?! Pasifika also had a very random encounter with the mysterious Piscean Casters, who were just running through like they always do. o_o

Pasifika returned to the quest-giver and was thinking about waiting for another battle in Eldieme, when she got a party invite. As always, she replied with "Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass." The party leader didn't give up, however, and Pasifika agreed to help until he could find someone else. The leader was ah-so-grateful and Pasifika followed the party to the spooky Caedarva Mire - where it became perfectly clear why Pasifika doesn't party. ;>_> (Doesn't like to party -> won't do it -> is bad at it -> doesn't like it -> won't...) The leader patiently gave Pasifika advice about keeping the tank alive and other fine points of being the main healer, but after a while the party got a great pull of two Jnuns and an imp, and most of the party died. At that point the leader told Pasifika she could go, although he still assured her he was very grateful for the, erm, help. Another whm took over, apparently, but Pasifika warped out as soon as she got permission and had rest of the party Raised. Another member of the party sent tells afterwards, apologising for not being able to help and assuring Pasifika had done "her best". How sweet! ^^; Hopefully he didn't think Pasifika left because the "lucky" pull got her killed, because she was far more worried about getting all the others killed. -_-;

So, after the mini-party, Pasifika had about half a minute of free time in her Mog House before Lina asked her out to play. Pasifika geared up her little utsusemi-less ninja and together with Lina she slaughtered her way to Tahrongi and even Buburimu. With Lina's adventuring fellow Feliz tanking, the tough rarabs were no match to the trio! Pasifika did get a good dose of death and excitement, though, and she also met some very kind strangers who were ready to come to distant corners to give her a Raise, or two.

Trolls were kindly preparing an attack to Aht Urghan just when Pasifika had some time in her hands, and she went to Al Zahbi to await the troll horde's arrival. It was so much fun! Pasifika met some old friends, and some new ones too, so waiting for the trolls to figure out their map was very nice. Pasifika was first greeted by a hugging taru and a dancing elvaan, and more friends gathered as the trolls came closer. :D The Besieged itself was fun, too, in a party of friends. ^__^

Pasifika was ready to call it a day ay this point, but little Donthitme and his friends were camping a big bad cat in the Labyrinth of Onzozo, and Pasifika joined them for a while. The wanted cat didn't appear, though, but the party killed a good deal of the regular ones (poor kitties!) and a colourful bunch of manticores, goblins and such on top of that. Nice weapon skill training, and pretty exciting, even though this time the notorious monster got away.

Well, isn't that about all there is to being an adventurer? (Adventurer a la Pasifika, at least. x) An ocasional mission here and there, and some rearranging of furniture on the Mog House, maybe... some sight-seeing, too, although there was a good deal of that involved in these adventure as well.. but there can never be to much of it. ;P I'm sure there's something else I'm not remembering, but it'll all come back to me when I adventure more. ;D