Phoenix Down!

Well, well. It appears that it has been quite some time since I last played. However, the adventures of Ketski shall now resume. Just looking at the pictures on my previous blog posts brought back a lot of memories so I’ve decided to continue updating.

I’m not sure I want to continue with blocks of text every day – so…, I will probably be doing updates once a week or so with more pictures and less text. This stuff will mainly be for myself anyway.

Because of Square Enix’s ridiculous monthly billing plan I now have to wait until July starts to reactivate Ketski. I’ve been playing on a trial account meanwhile – trying to rack up some gil to buy new armor. Hurray!

Updates (since the last post)

- Purchased all the expansion packs.

- Got BLM and WHM to 30 and WAR to 30

Friday, Febuary 15, 2008

<< Slowly, But Surely. >>

FFXI, barely anything happened. Most of the days I was too busy with school, and if not, I ran my character around to places to help a few friends. Nothing too interesting worth mentioning. I’ve decided to cut back on the blogging. It just takes too much time to write every single thing that happened on that day, every day, and frankly I’d rather be playing than writing. From now on I’ll be blogging about once or twice a week, with interesting information ( hopefully ) every time.

Interesting Fact #1.
I joined a tarutaru static. Basically, for those who don’t know, its a group of people who create secondary characters and meet up with each other a few times a week. This way its a guaranteed party for your character, with the same levels. :) I’ve always wanted to join a full tarutaru party so I joined. I didn’t mind making another tarutaru anyway.

• Blue-cowlick-haired tarutaru Poccha created!
• Goal: 18 MNK -> 37 WAR -> 75 DNC (not final)

Interesting Fact # 2.
Today’s my mom’s birthday.  She didn’t go to work today. Not because she was playing hooky, but because she was sick. She’s in bed right now. Not sure what we’ll do to celebrate.

Interesting Fact #3.
I has needz expansion packs!

Interesting Fact #4.
Mid-Winter Break starts Monday. No school for a week!

Interesting Fact #5.
The post has ended.

Saturday, Febuary 2, 2008

Well, the day was rather dull, but fun. I woke up around… well it doesn’t really matter does it? D: I went on FFXI, finding myself still in Bastok. Well, I finished up giving the last bits of my treant bulbs to Salimah, (don’t remember her name too well) and then bought slime oil from the AH and gave it to this galka in metalworks to get my Warp Scroll. And since I already switched to a BLM beforehand, I casted warp on myself.

Note: When casting warp, you go to your home point, the place you selected to appear when decapicitated.

Well, I appeared in Qufim, and since I had nothing to do there, ran all the way back to Jeuno. I tried buying some new spells in the Jeuno scroll shop, but everything was so expensive T_T Instead I just took the chocobo all the way to San’doria. Wow, San’doria. I haven’t been there in 4 years. I didn’t really remember much about the place but for some reason I was able to hum the tune of West Ronfaure (area outside of San’doria) perfectly o_O Well when I arrived in Sandoria I really had nothing to do so I ended up running around there for a bit, when I saw deadzone, someone from my linkshell. We chatted a bit and ran around empty space for about 10 minutes. Oh tarutarus, how hilarious they are. Then we started to poke and slap each other in front of an Elvaan Paladin. @_@

Well, we were both bored so I suggested that we could level up our level 1 jobs, and so we did. I became a level 1 RDM/BLM and he became a level 1 WAR/WHM. We bought some equipment from the Auction House (He bought 2 +1 level 1 gears, expensive-much? D:) and then venturd out to East Ronfaure. I must say my taru looked pretty spiffy with his sword and hat. And well… Deadzone was a taru in leather, not much to say about that. We both leveled up to level 4 when I had to help out my mom with furniture stuff >.< When I came back Deadzone had already changed jobs to his 27 BLM/WHM and was in Selbina. He was trying to hunt for a Carbuncle’s Ruby, an item that was required to become a Summoner.

I offered my help and he came back to get some stuff and we headed out to Valkurm Dunes (outside of Selbina). We tried to fight some leeches but Deadzone kept dying since they linked, and instead of fighting 1, we ended up fighting 5. >.< Saisgirl, a mithra from our guild came to raise Deadzone and offered to help. But she told us to go to Buburimu peninsula to do it, and so we did. We went to Selbina, took the boat to Mhaura and went out to Buburimu Peninsula. We were told to stay near mhaura so we don’t die, and Saisgirl did all the work. Thank her kind soul ;O When reinforcements from our LS was about to come Deadzone had to log off :/ But since I might become a SMN later anyway we continued to try and get the Ruby. 4 extra people ended up coming and helping and in about an hour we had 2 rubies drop at the same time. Since the rubies are exquisite, you can’t trade/sell them. :/ If only deadzone was on for a bit longer… Oh well. I ended up getting a Ruby, and after saying my thanks I had to go to bed (4 am).

P.S. When Deadzone and I were leveling, we got 666 exp. >.<

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Mommy’s Helper
Ketski: Looky-wooky over yonder-wonder Brygid. The sunset, is it notaru so beautiful?

Brygid: I hate sunsets.

Ketski: Brygid… I… I lovey-wovey you~

Brygid: /kicks Ketski in the shin

It seems Valentiones day isn’t for everyone. And no I did not misspell Valentine’s day. In FFXI, Valentiones day is approaching, where adventurers such as Ketski give chocolates to their loved ones. Ketski has yet to find a loved one to share his chocolates with though >: (Awwee).

I haven’t actually participated in any of the FFXI events before when I played. I was planning to participate in the Halloween event before, but I decided not to for reasons unexplained. If I do decide to participate in Valentione’s Day I probably will end up giving chocolates to some random tarutaru xP

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Aside from that, when I logged on I was in Bastok. A few conversation pieces with my LS and friend Raybrant on XFire made me find out that I can’t go to Kazham, or Elshimo as a whole even if I do have the keys. Why? Because I don’t have the Rise of Zilart expansion pack.

/shoots self in the head with… black magic?

 

If I only found my FFXI book from 4 years ago… (it had rise of zilart’s cd-key on it) nyargh! I don’t know what I’m going to do now, but since I have 2 of the 3 keys for the airship pass, I might as well get the 3rd and get the pass for future uses. Ernst hasn’t come on yet though, so not sure if that’s going to happen today.

Since I was in Bastok anyway, I decided to raise my Bastok fame, mainly to get the Warp spell for my BLM. In Bastok you can receive a quest to get the Warp Scroll, but only if you have level 2 fame. In Windurst the same requirements apply for the Blaze Spikes scroll, and in San’doria for the Drain scroll. I looked up some quests in Bastok, and found a repeatable quest that I could do easily for fame. All I had to do was provide Salimah with ingredients to cook for her family (self and child, really). It so happened that I had about 2 stacks of some of the ingredients she wanted in my mog safe already. Who knew storing up wild onions and treant bulbs would pay off? So I took them out and gave it to Salimah. There’s a little time issue though.

If I trade the appropriate item to Salimah at the right hours in-game, I get a higher amount of gil, whereas trading her the item at any other time will give me 100 gil. Here’s a chart I found on some site.

• Sleepshroom: Trade during 18:00-5:59 for 200 gil
• Treant Bulb: Trade during 6:00-11:59 for 200 gil
• Wild Onion: Trade during 12:00-17:59 for 350 gil

I didn’t have sleepshrooms, and I wanted to get as much gil as possible, being the poor taru I am, so I had to wait out the time until it was time for treant bulbs, and then afterwards, wild onions. The annoyance comes with the fact that… you must ZONE before being able to repeat the quest. So I ended up giving 1 treant bulb, running all the way to bastok mines, then back to bastok market to go to Salimah again, and repeat. D: What a great time waster that was. I hope I have enough fame now. We shall see soon enough.

Oh… and I got the title Mommy’s Helper from the quest. Hurray. >.>

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Kazham Keys 2/3 parts done!

Just my luck that my LS members are ever so kind :) This is the first time I’m writing a post at the same day the events I’m writing about occurred! Well today I had school( bleh ) and got my report card… !!!!! Be right back, gonna show my mom my report card. Completely forgot about it.

>> Back: She was somewhat neutral with her feelings. A sensed a bit of annoyance but also happiness. Hmmm. Very strange reaction.

Anyway…. I came home around 4:30pm, wrote my blogs, ate, etc. I think I played FFXI starting around 7. Well I was in Qufim so I just popped up randomly and asked my LS about kazham, since I didn’t know much.

I found out that Kazham is in Lower Elshimo SW of Windurst on an island thing where you have to take an airship to get to. (I’ve never ridden one before, this should be exciting :D) Twist is, to get an airship pass, you have to get 3 keys, 1 from each “monster’s lair” of each nation, and I have absolutely no idea why! I guess I’ll find out later. Anyway, you have to get 1 from Giddeus ( Home of the Yagudos- Monsters of Windurst), 1 from Ghelsba Outpost ( Home of the Orcs – Monsters of Sandoria ) and something-or-other Mines ( Home of the Quadavs – Monsters of Bastok ) I keep forgetting the names of the locations :| Anyway, the guy in the LS said I needed a higher level to help me do it, so I spontaneously asked the LS if anyone wanted to help me, and surprisingly someone did. Ersntjan said sure with delight and met up with me in Jeuno right away. I was pretty shocked and happy at the same time.

We took a port-mea to Tahrongi Canyon and took the chocobo to Giddeus in West Sarutabaruta. We fought one Yagudo Priest… and… found the key already O_O . We then went to the outpost in West Sarutabaruta to get teleported to Windurst. He switched to his WHM job and teleported me to the craig of dem, while he helped escort another linkshell member to the craig of mea. (My this must sound so confusing to those who don’t play FFXI @_@ ) I was supposed to meet with GrandThief, another linkshell member who was going to help me out with the mines in Bastok and so I took the chocobo there. I knew GrandThief from 3 months back before I quit. He taught me a bit of german. wie geht es ihnen?

Ernst joined us shortly afterwards and we got 2 keys at once after a few minutes of joking around. Oh, a little note about what I like about the mines. There was a little wooden elevator platform that I thought was pretty neat. Also, when leaving the mines, you actually take a little canoe down the river out of the mines. I thought that was pretty cool that they did that. Makes the mines feel more “real” and “alive”. Anyway, they were a huge help. We went to Bastok afterwards since we got the key(s) and Ernst had to go to bed ( 5 am at his place in the netherlands o.o ) .We said our farewells, and hopefully we’ll be able to complete this tomorrow ;)