Hunting

After spending lovely holidays doing holiday quests and sitting under the decorated trees in her mog house, Pasifika was ready for some adventures, and so she went hunting for notorious monsters...

First one was easy to find: Bune was patiently waiting in his cave, keeping an eye on the tunnel where the tasty adventurers usually come from. pasifika kept an eye for Bune for a while - from a safer distabce this time - until others could come bring it down.

Just as the reinforcements arrived, a single red mage grabbed the big beast. :O
For a good while it looked like an even fight, although a very, very slow one. Bune got the better of him eventually, and Pasifika's party claimed the monster. Bune had no treasure, though. :/
After Bune went down, Pasifika raised the unlucky red mage.

Next notorious moster on Pasifika's list was a sahagin in Yuhtunga jungle. Known for appearing in various parts of the jungle, the walking fishie eluded Lina and Pasifika for a long while. Finally Pasifika cornered it in the northern parts of the jungle. Assisted by their loyal adventuring fellows, the two mages took on the sahagin.

It was a fierce fight, and Feliz coudn't quite keep up, but Romidiant fought to the bitter end. It was close, but not good enough. :/
Despite their defeat, Lina and Pasifika didn't give up, but called another white mage over instead. Who says white mages can't tank notorious monsters?

The Sahagin had no treasure either, but Lina, Pasifika and Romi blew some steam by wrecking havoc in the Quicksand Caves, and there was a treasure coffer just waiting for them. Lina got the map for the area, cheer!

As if that hadn't ben enough excitement for one day, Pasifika went to help Tito get a formidable monster, behemoth. Unfortunately, others got it, and it turned out to be a pretty small behemoth anyway. Lina wondered if it was just a behemot pup still. In any case, it was no match for the trio fighting it, and there was nothing Pasifika could do about it.

After getting suddenly teleported out of Behemot' s Dominion (leaving others with no means of transport behind :/), Pasifika was starting to calm down after a day of excitement. Just then a cute little taru came by, on her way to Jeuno for the very first time. A tarutaru escort quest? :D What a nice way to end a fun day. ^^

Season's Greetings~

The Great Escape - a little game

Last year I made a little FFXI-themed game as present to Lina. It was in Finnish and just a silly little game, but now I've translated it into English anyway.



Instructions for downloading and installing

Follow the link to the site where the game is uploaded.

Link (File Dropper, updated 4.8.10)

If the link doesn't work (it will expire after a while since this isn't exactly a popular file) or if you'd like to get the game for different OS, leave a comment or /tell me in FFXI.

Among the ads there you should find a button for downloading the file. You'll need to give the number from a picture... sorry, bots, no game for you! (I know, it's a bit complicated, but it's free.)

After you've downloaded the Great_escape.exe to your computer, run it to unpack the game. A folder will come out, and inside is the icon for starting the game.

The version I have up now is for Windows, but I have it also for Mac and Linux, so leave a comment if you want me to add a link to either of those versions.

Instructions for gameplay

This is a point-and-click mystery for you to solve. There's not much to say about the controls, you'll just use the mouse to play.

One hint that comes to mind is that sometimes when there's text on the screen, the next click will make it disappear - and nothing more. So if you click A first and get some text ("This looks like A and what do you know, it is A.") and then click on B, you won't get the description of B - the text for A just disappears. Just click B again. If still nothing happens, then the game has nothing to say about B.

If you have any problems, tell me about in in FFXI or leave a comment, so I can fix it.

I made the game with Ren'Py, in case you're interested. (renpy.org) The pictures are from FFXI (Square Enix) and "music" by me.

I hope you like the game~
Please leave some comments if you play it (whether you like it or not).

Treasure hunt

Pasifika has some (many @_@) quests uncompleted that she has started ages ago, and one of them came to mind recently. It required finding some very important items in treasure chest, and Pasifika started the treasure hunt in Sea Serpent Grotto.

This kind taru helped Pasifika get the key and lead her to the chest. One down, two to go~

Next place was the Labyrinth of Onzozo, and Pasifika spent a good while trying to get the key. Finally she got one, and then searched for the chest... Of course it's always at the last place you look, there's no point in looking any further, but this chest was in the last possible place, after Pasifika had checked all others already.

A goblin seemed very interested in this treasure, but not in the least upset about some adventurer taking it. Not fighting over it was a smart choice from Mr. Goblin, as Pasifika had just done short work on a notorious gobli that had crossed her path in the labyrinth. Aptly named place, by the way.

Last treasure was in Castle Vahlz and Pasifika already had the key. The chest was sitting there in plain sight, not far from the entrance. Lucky!

Pasifika got caught up in the excitement of treasure hunting and decided she'd go find a chest in Ru'Aun Gardes, too, to get the map. Its just that... she didn't have the map and was hopelessly lost there.

Luckily, the taru guide from earlier volunteered to show her around, and Pasifika got her map from a heavily guarded chest.

The guided tour included also other highlights of the place, like the tragic Five Galka Bridge and also the place where Kirin occasionally hangs out. Kirin wasn't in this time, but some other time, then~