Shantotto, the Love Doctor

 Doctor Shantotto has recently traveled to distant realms.

Excuse me, ma'am... Are you lost..?

 Shantotto the Great is here to save Eorzea...

 ...with the intense, burning fires...

 ...of love!

She has everyone just bursting with...

love?!?

I thought the girl wanted us to bring him chocolate, not get him arrested!?

Was this really a good idea..?

Ohohohohoho...

 And this costume... is it really necessary?

Ohohohoho! You look absolutely ridiculous!

But in the end, everything is allowed in war and love... wait a minute...

Doctor Shantotto, which one is this supposed to be..?

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!

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!? @_@

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...

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!?

Doll Festival

Sunbreeze Festival~

Ah, summer festival~

The time of dancing Tarutarus~

And speaking of dancing, it's also the time for watching the Mighty Maidens dance. (Check out the leftmost dancer, does she look familiar..?) As always, their peaceful performance was interrupted by the powers of evil, but Lina and Pasifika cheered them to victory, every time. After all, if they didn't get enough help, they were unable to turn the monster into a Tarutaru, and they killed it instead... what a waste!

After alot of dancing and chocobo chick catching, Pasifika took a little dip in the river, to catch some goldfish. There where some really big ones around, but for some reason, she only caught tiny ones.

Although dancing and games are what the summer festival is all about, the festive fireworks and the cheerful music create a lovely backdrop for some exping, too, as well as dying to notorious monsters time and again - in good company, of course.





The festival has now ended, but Pasifika has three new shiny decorations to remind her of the memorable event.

I'm so~~ famous~

My picture's in a magazine and all~

We were interviewed as the organisers of the (real life) event we had in May, and I'm very happy about how both the event and this article turned out. It's in Finnish, naturally (I'm not exactly an international celebrity), but I've pointed out the most important parts, which are:

- picture of Lina('s player)

- picture of me, wearing the whm jacket my grandmother made me (which is why I consider it relevant to my FFXI blog)

- screenshot of a little "tutorial game" I made (using Ren'py and free graphics & music from the internet) to be used at the opening ceremony of the event, because games was one of the event's main themes



You can also see we had quite a few people there. No idea how many exactly, but we probably got the 1000 visitors during the weekend that we'd set as the official goal. Just enough to make the place look busy without making it way too crowded. <3

Happy Halloween~

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. ^^

Egg-cellent!

Moogles have been handing out shiny decorated eggs during the past events, and Pasifika's Mog House is just about bursting with them. They're too shiny and/or cute to put away, but there's really no real reason to have a dozen or so of them...


This year the Moogles finally realised the problem, and they had prepared the 4-in-1 wonder: Four shiny, decorated furnishings that can be combined into a one, big... weird... thingy. o_O

At least it's just one egg now, but... it's... certainly original. ^^;


This one may actually end up in the event item storage after a while.

Valentione Singles

It's Valentione's Day again, and the Moogles are encouraging adventurers to play cupid for the horde of Valentione Singles that has invaded the cities.

Pasifika has traditionally done this with a very special someone, but this year none of her friends asked her to join, and the strangers she asked weren't interested. (Not that she asked very many, talking to strangers is hardly her forte... but they were very non-interested. :/ )


Pasifika desided to do this on her own, then - the singles were in desperate need of help! - but it didn't seem easy. The girls immediately recognised her as a kindred spirit, and they spilled their guts about their taste in men. The guys, however, were a good deal more reserved...

With nothing better to do, Pasifika just moped around the single guys, waiting for a kind-looking guy to come within range - like this gorgeously-clad elvaan gentleman - and help her getting the chocolate goodies from the guys one by one.

While this plan was slow at start, a fellow cupid finally saw Pasifika trading chocolates by a single guy and asked if he could join. Sure! :D


At first these two cupids-in-training just compared notes and ran around gathering the missing pieces, and finally met at the Moogle...

Pasifika discovered her San d'Orian knight in shining armor was not an elvaan, and he didn't have any shining armor either. He was a nice guy all the same, and so a galka ended up brandishing a Miracle wand with Pasifika's name on it.

(Pasifika still has all 4 wands with Phu's signature, of course. Oh never more can she crack the joke about having a reraise for Phu "with your name on it". ;_; (Yeah, heartbreaking... but come on, laugh, its a hilarious word play!))