Finally

There probably aren't that many who read this blog regularily, but I did promise this vid a good while ago. Sorry for the delay~
I've been kind of out of town and all, but, well, better late than never, right?

Spectacular summer event~!

It's over, but it was nice! :D


There were some... complications, but nothing could dampen the joyous mood. ^^ If you promise to tell no one, I'll let you in on a couple of behind-the-scenes secrets...

Pasifika and Lina worked hard to make this event, and they both wanted it to be the most wonderful summer spectacle ever. To make a good event, you obviously need tarutarus, so Linathra rounded up a couple of very cute ones. Lina barely had time to say "fireworks" and "event" before the tarus signed up.

As it happens, that left the tarus with a rather vague idea of the nature of this event, and as the big moment came... one of the tarus thought nuking Tiny Mandragoras with high tier Firaga *gasp* was suitable "fireworks". It was certainly impressive, but so, so cruel! D:

Luckily this taru only needed a nudge in the right direction, and he was soon popping Popstars instead of Firaga. :D But the other taru....

This one was in Starlight Celebration mood, and nothing could convince him otherwise. If only there was more time to explain... but wait! Pasifika had a spell that could send them all to the past, and resolve this problem before it occurred! This unlikely plan even worked! :D

Unfortunately, the taru coudn't make it to the beginning of the show in the new timeline, but Lina had taken full advantage of the time travel and made sure a replacement would arrive. When the replacement arrived, however, it turned out to be a puppet and not a taru. ;_;

The twirling puppet soon mesmerised everyone, and all was well. Then the tarutaru came, too, and it was time for some serious dancing~

After showing off some of their finest dances, the performers figured pretty much everyone in the audience now wanted to become a dancer. When asked if they thought they could dance, the audience raised a flurry of hands, and Lina picked a cute taru to the test. Astarael, Linathra and Pasifika all showed the taru some of their trickier moves, and to everyone's amazement, he copied everything perfectly. :O

Impressed by this show of skill, Pasifika invited the taru to join them in the grand finale.

First, Astarael suddenly hid the entire party from the viewers. The audience gasped in surprise as the entire troupe disappeared before their very eyes, but soon they were even more amazed by the brilliant fireworks show that illuminated the empty stage. Astarael, Dennis, Dibble, Dhm, Lina and Pasifika all popped various beautiful and exotic fireworks, some of them carefully handcrafted by a skilled artisan the very same day to ensure freshness. The fireworks dazzled the audience, sometimes popping in unison and right after at even intervalls, and finally in a blinding volley of brilliance.


After the fireworks finale, there was nothing else left but to bow and thank the audience - although Lina and Pasifika threw in a bonus Super Summer Dance, and all popped a few more fireworks. After that the event became a free-for-all as the audience first stood up to cheer, and then started popping the fireworks they had been given earlier. This went on for a while, but slowly the viewers and performers trickled away, leaving West Sarutabaruta quiet again.



At this point some of you are wondering 'How long can she go on an on about this?' and they shoud brace themselves for the worst.
However, for those who missed the show and want to see some highlights, and for those who did see it but would like a replay of the finest moments I have good news: of course there will be a video. Look forward to it~ ^^

Super Summer Spectacle!

There's dancing, fireworks, tarus... all the elements for a great summer event! :D And rumour has it it's interactive, too: You can cheer and clap with the motion emotes all you like, and when it's time for the Super Summer Dance, you can let your (/clap)ping show, too! (Please do! :D)

I'll see you all at West Sarutabaruta near the Windurst Waters gate this Wednesday at 23.15 BST~

If you're not sure what time that is your local time or have other questions, ask me or Lina. ^^

There's no place like home

After making all three nations safe (for tarutarus!), Pasifika can finally return home...

After seeing the grandeur of San d'Oria, the efficiency of Bastok, visiting Jeuno and Whitegate, of course, and adventuring in countless strange, exotic and wondrous locations, there's still no place like home.



(This post was started right after the switch back to Windurst, but got a bit delayd by the preparations of the grand summer spectacle... but better late than never, right?)

Random adventures - now with labels!

I finally got around to adding some labels to these post, and I even made a label cloud out of them. It should be somewhere over there (left) and if it isn't, there's probably something wrong... ^^;

I'm not expecting any huge demand for accurately labelled posts in my blog, so I settled for broad categories like "missions" (nation missions, CoP and all such go under this label) and "adventure" (adventuring which isn't necessarily exping, questing or doing missions).

Some popular themes like "tarutaru" and "Phu" got their own categories because there are posts dedicated solely to those topics. Not all post mentioning tarus are listed under "tarutaru", though - only posts that make a special point of mentioning the topic (or go on and on and on about it) get the label.

There may be some mistakes and it's theoretically possible some posts got somehow messed up when I re-published them with the labels, but I didn't notice any glaring problems with a glance. If you notice something wrong, please let me know so I can fix it.


Intermission:
Here's another word cloud (made with Wordle) of the most recent posts. It says "Galka" a lot, with a touch of "Hume" and Bastok", but there's a healthy dose of "Taru" and "Tarutaru", too :D


Back to the point: I haven't labelled the oldest post that are in Finnish, but I've been wondering if I should make some effort to translate them. If nothing else, they'd complete the stories of Pasifika's adventuring days as well as her fated romance with the elvaan General... but I'm not sure if anyone cares. (If you do, plese tell me.)

I did put the Finnish posts through Google translator to see if I could get help for easy translation there, but the effect was comic, to put it mildly. Finnish is a difficult language to translate, and the special terminology made it even more incomprehensible. When "translated" from Finnish to English, "tarutaru" becomes "fabulous fabulous". o_O That may be an accurate description, but that's not what "taru" means in Finnish. o_o;