Merry Starlight Celebration

Pasifika got the wreaths from the goblins and the new event pants from the Moogles. There are more starlighty things to get, I've been told, but the Mog House is pretty full...

Happy Starlight Celebration to everyone, in any case!

Adventuring again

After a long pause, I spent some time in Vana'diel tonight. While it wasn't as exciting and wondrous as when I first started, it was nice, certainly better than I had expected...



- I did a couple of GoV pages with Lina. It was easy, I got to smash things with a hammer, and I got a little exp, too. Hexa strikes and light skillchains~ Nice.

- Chatted with friends. Not much, but sometimes it feels very lonely to adventure with no contact whatsoever so this was nice as well.

- Waved at a passing linkshell member. Also offered to help, but wasn't needed... aww, I would've liked to be useful; I can open doors and I'm a decent decoy, and that sort of things.

- Met a stranger. A short and polite conversation, all straight out of the auto-translate dictionary, and he needed my help (but not for anything long and difficult). Perfect.

- Astarael expressed a desire to get a drom from a lottery pop NM. Said NM immediately popped and dropped the item. Nice~


Maybe I should do this more often... if I have time.

My First Magic Kitty

Not much adventuring lately, but here's something wonderful Lina gave me a few days ago:

My First (WHM) Magic Kitty, mostly crafted by her loving Lina-kitty paws~
(Well, she *might* have bought some of this from a store, but she made costumes for Kitty~~~)



The costumes include Pixie (with wings!) and WHM (complete with an awesome hammer!) , but I'm itching to make a RDM costume, or perhaps BLU... too bad my sewing machine isn't working, but I guess that gives me time to perfect my plans.

It's over 9000~

Last summer the popular idol girl Mumor joined forces with Uka, the dancing mithra, and they gave quite a show - and showed what's what to that foul fiend Ullegore, too.

This year Uka started the show alone as Mumor was nowhere to be seen, but in the end the girls did the grand finale together, with stupendous results:

Pasifika and Lina of course wanted to help their colleagues (everyone remembers Lina's and Pasifika's unparalleled summer event/show, right?), but they had some materialistic motives as well... It was rumoured that combining some hard-to-get prises from the summer event would create a shining furnishing, the celestial globe: "With a gentle shake, this exquisite crystal orb twinkles with the light of innumerable stars."

The star globe Pasifika got earlier had been a bit of a disappointment - it resembles a huge coloured egg more than the stars at the Heaven's Tower - but this was supposed to be more shiny. Much more shiny!*_*



Helping Uka by cheering and dancing earned Lina and Pasifika the pretty new yukatas - which gave them access to the expert levels of the minigames like chocobo catching (but why can't Pasifika also catch mandragoras, they're so cute too... ;_;), and that gave them one piece of coveted globe - a comet fragment.

The the traditional goldfishing game also had a new stellar surprise in store, but Pasifika had little luck catching fish. Lina, on the other hand, soon caught more than she coud comfortably carry, so she gave a couple of pretty shiny fish to Pasifika~

Lina also ate some of the big fish she caugh, but isn't that what a kitty is supposed to do with such catch.

Finally it was time to cheer Uka on again (didn't we beat that Moogle, I mean Diva already? o_O) to get the cosmic designs.



After that, it was just a matter of combining the elements into a shining orb of brilliance.


So cosmic... so shiny.... *_*


But... wouldn't it take at least two galkas to pick this thing up and give it a "gentle shake", like the instructions say!? @_@

Adventures with Lina

Lina invited Pasifika (and Dhm, too!), on an exciting adventure in Halvung. A lot of others were there, too, and... Cerberus.




The three-headed doggy won in the end, but it was fun while it lasted!
Pasifika tractored and raised more than she has in the past months combined~ ^^;

Adventures with Dhm

Donthitme the brave tarutaru took Pasifika adventuring - it's been such a long while! - and of course his idea of adventure was to kill important boss monsters (Important for what? I still have no idea...) and get some nice shiny experience points.

It was quite exciting, because all of this happened in areas where Pasifika hadn't yet been at all, ever - except that Abyssea areas kind of look a *lot* like the old areas. ^^;

Much of the local monsters were new, though, and Pasifika got to see some interesting specimens.

This is the first big bad boss Pasifika was taken to watch. (She couldn't do much else at her current level, after a long break, and with no idea what this thing was like, but she did cure the tarus quite a bit!)


You can't see it clearly from the picture, but this... thing... was called Rani, although people called it cat for some perplexing reason. No, Pasifika did not hear it meow, no matter how hard Nt told her to listen! o_O

Whatever it was, it eventually died - or broke, if it was a machine, which it might have been, maybe - and Pasifika got a merit point.


Next monster in line was the big bad bird Pasifika had already been warned about (in the cutscene as he entered the area), but it wasn't quite as big or scary as advertised.


It died and Pasifika got a merit point. You can actually see two more people getting them as well in this picture, at least if you know they're there.


There was some actual exping as well, in a couple of exotic - yet somehow very familiar - locations.

The chests were really... weird. Some were fun, others frustrating, all were weird. And yes, we did help defeat that big thing, Dhm had no problem tanking it~





All of a sudden Pasifika was ready for the next "Maat fight", which she aced, naturally...

or not, but passed, anyway. ^^;

Kitty gets printed~

This is a picture of a programme booklet of an event, and 6000 of them were printed.

There is one interesting detail in it...

Magian Moogle Trials

We all know this already: the Magian Moogles are a very suspicious bunch, and their methods of making gear or adventurers stronger is very... questionable, shiranai no?

They lure adventurers to their clutches by promising to make everything better, stronger and... more better, but the little things you just need to do to get it all turn into a lo~ng line of ardurous quests, and the Moogles shoot those sharp (and heavy!) stars at you at every opportunity.

They're certainly not too gentle, and still adventurers flock to them, yearning more power and higher levels. For a good while Pasifika was immune to their siren calls, but then they came up with a way to pull her in, too:


The epic long-lost Chocobo Chick Black Wing Giant Frog Technique!

Job specific emotes! Yours for the taking, if you just complete a little trial, that really isn't a trial at all...

Next thing you know, Pasifika was doing a trial with her loyal adventuring fellow Romidiant, to make him stronger as well. Luto said Romi had been feeling down ever since Pasifika beat him in the duel, and in a way that was completely understandable. It was Pasifika's duty to help her friend get over it, at all costs! So she did a teensy weensy little trial.

Then she took a club trial, because clubs are good, especially the hammer type ones. Just kill some easy notorious monsters, the Moogle instructed, and Pasifika went camping.

Easy! Just kill a notorious sheep three times.

Pasifika had a little lamb...

There's time to take in the sights as well~


Kill three notorious orcs... so~ easy!

Look where you're aiming with that thing, you could put someone's eye out! D:

Kill three ugly notorious spiders.... ugh! They're creepy...

Could somebody cast blind on me for this fight..?

But the view is great, and there's no hurry~


Then things got just a little bit more complicated (Two possible trials? What is this all about?) and Pasifika stopped doing trials for a while... a very short while, because there was a new limit break for Romi *and* another club waiting for her...

Experience and merit points

Brave little Donthitme, the optimistic optimiser, left Vana'diel for a good while... and then he returned!

Was it the enchanting gameplay and plot that brought him back?
New blue mage spells?
The level cap raise in general?
Or perhaps he just got bored of the other games for a while...

Maybe it was the shock of this unexpected event, or due to Nt's newfound love for the new Grounds of Valor, but after Dhm's return, Pasifika quickly gained a couple of levels in the gloomy depths of Garlaige Citadel and Horutoto Ruins.

Exping in a duo!



Exping with a couple of friends!



Exping with friends, fellows and pets!



Exping in an alliance of adventurers and adventuring fellows! :D



Maat needs a little more convincing to let Pasifika past 80, but not much... A couple of merit points should do it.

Even Pasifika's ninja leveled up to 49.

Too bad her spells, skills and such aren't up to date now. ._.

New adventures

So much has happened lately, I don't really know where to start... But I have to start somewhere, so I might as well tell about notorious monster hunting. Lina has for some time now had the ability to pop up monsters to kill her (and her friends) whenever she sits down to heal, and others seem to pop them similarily - sometimes they even mean to do it!



All sorts of things can pop up, from fierce cats to fairies, and from huge rams to tiny but deadly bunnies.




The bunny was Lina's, but what we really wanted were the rams, for this mysterious little thief:


Erzio, is that you?

Also, it's time for Adventurer Appreciation Campaign again, and we all know what that means - pretty new event dresses! :D

The Moogles had the dresses ready, but otherwise had problems with their supply network, so Lina and pasifika gave them a hand.



Are Moogles really so bad at getting things done, or are they masters at getting adventurers to do their work for them..?
This time they also had some other non-Moogle helpers to do their dirty work.



Either way, the new dresses are really cute and frilly, and the jackets for guys are equally stylish and cool~



Power Frog Girls!?

Equipment

These days I mainly play with Lina, when she ask me to go on an adventure together. Because of that, I most often play when I'm with her, away from home - and my home computer - so I use Dhm's little laptop.

It's slow and doesn't have all the keys as conveniently as I'd like, but as long as I have my gamepad, I can at least do something. It's not configured right, though, so I'm quite clumsy with it anyway.
Sometimes I forget my gamepad home, and then I have really hard time trying to do something, but... at least there's the external numpad, I can use that... ^^;

So when I say "I'm on my laptop, so I'm a bit slow"... That means very slow, and more likely to accidentally warp out than cure you in a pinch. ^^;;

Fenrir, I choose you~!

Lina and Pasifika paid a little visit to Shiva and Ramuh the other day, as a part of their preparations for later.

Shiva was cool as ever, and didn't give any trouble. Pasifika meleed her happily, and so did Lina, although in the screenshot she's just looking on as Pasifika fights away.

Ramuh was equally easy to deal with, even though he looks so scary.

Soon Pasifika and Lina were ready for a greater challenge...

Being able to summon Fenrir had always seemed lie such a far-away dream - and with Pasifika's summoner at level 6, also an impractical one. That didn't prevent her from wanting to run around Saruta with the big shiny doggy.

Dennis kindly offered to help Lina and Pasifika, and having soloed Fenrir earlier all by himself, he was confident he could do it - and he was absolutely right.

The fight with Fenrir was exciting but rather short, and soon enough all three had the ability to summon the legendary canine - in addition t any other shiny being they were able to summon.


Encouraged by their success, the trio also desided to give Diabolos a try, but just as Pasifika suspected, it was a much more difficult fight.

Diabolos won the first bout, and a couple more after that, but then the cavalry arrived...

And the bunny beat Diabolos senseless in no time! :D

Good bunny!

Well, maybe someone else did something, too, but Pasifika certainly napped throught it all - if Nightmare can be called napping...


But now the mighty Diabolos has been tamed, and he's happy to flutter around in Saruta~