As if getting AMs and access to a full set of staves wasn’t enough; I also had the joyous option of obtaining some scrumptious BLM AF now that I had hit the 50s.
Unfortunately, though, I had to start with the Casting Wand quest. D: I made my way to Chumimi to see what was going down but before I could have a word I was greeted with the site of Shantotto, Koru-Moru and Yoran-Oran arguing as to the reasons why the baby star trees aren’t developing properly. I listened intently to their discussion and noted how Tarus arguing is the cutest thing this side of Wuffle Land.
Chumimi then asked me who I sided with in regards to this issue. I decided to side with Koru-Moru as I find his evidently knowledgeable views on soil to be both intriguing and inspiring. Now most people would simply see that as a needless part of the quest, but not I; my support for him was taken to the next level.
But since I couldn’t really prove his theory right I decided to just make his opposition feel bad. Well…I couldn’t really bring myself to say anything bad to Shantotto because, even though she called me a total loser and clearly has attachment issues, I like her. Maybe I like the abuse; or maybe I just like the cutsey/authoritative voice Datsuki attributes to her when we read out cut-scenes together. Either way, the upshot of that was that all of my energy was to be focused on one Yoran-Oran.
I started by sending him a tell explaining why his life is a miserable failure. When that didn’t work I followed him around and carried out an assortment of tasks to make his life at least 15% less convenient. For example, I threw away all of his spoons and replaced his plush pillows with slices of ham. I also turned the dial on his toaster to five instead of three as well as filling his boots with jelly.
Even as he was calmly pleading for me to leave his home I managed to turn it against him by taking a photo of him and editing it so it seemed as though he was holding a sign that declared his idiocy and lukewarm odour.
Anyhoo, Shantotto proclaimed that she believed the problem lay in Heaven’s Tower’s dim lighting and suggested that I help out by obtaining a Glowstone; which was to be done by throwing a faded crystal into the gorge at Xarcabard which, obviously, makes perfect sense.
So, Datsuki and I – following the minister’s sage advice – headed to Xarcabard and did so. But after we faded that crystal and stuck it in the gorge good, a mob popped Dx (who’d have thunk it?). The Chaos Elemental was easy enough to defeat and, thus, I was quickly back in Heaven’s Tower to collect my reward; which was promptly thrown through Yoran-Oran’s window. \(`¬`)/ But before he could say, “I’m going to call the police,” I was off to do me some CoP.
I dare say I quite enjoy CoP. q_o Well, I have to say I enjoy it a lot more in hindsight ’cause those level caps are annoying. :x I do, however, believe that it holds the best story arc in FFXI and completing it with friends is one of those things you’ll never forget.
Our first port of call was Promy-Mea; Amith, Spankey and Kroeger were kind enough to help myself, Datsi and Weissberv in this venture. :O
But that wasn’t all the help we got for we ran into another party upon entering. I decided that it wasn’t a bad idea for us to make our way to the spire as an alliance although *someone* had a different idea. D:
However, alliance or not, I carried out my magely duties to the very best of my ability. (>_<)b
Many dead Receptacles later – some were duds D: – we found ourselves at the spire. The fight was easy enough as myself, Kroeger and Datsi had farmed animas beforehand and everyone was kind enough to implement the strategy I had devised (i.e. attack and win).
If you’d like to see a video of the fight – which you obviously do – Weissberv posted one in a blog entry of his which can be found … *rummages* … here.
After the fight Nag’molada got all up in our jazz which was a tad rude, to say the least.
I do look forward to advancing with CoP. :o
Alas, after that great success, I decided to continue with my AF hunt in order to obtain a piece of AF that is, you know, actually somewhat useful. :x So, yet again, I took my adorable self to Heaven’s Tower – it really is a beautiful zone – and attempted to have a natter with Chumimi. But once more, since the glowstone idea didn’t work, we were rudely interrupted as another ‘discussion’ took place between the three professors as to which path to take next in order to solve the problem. Koru-Moru was quite active in the conversation until Chumimi mentioned that the star trees began to wither with the beginning of the Great War twenty years ago.
It was at that point he started to spazz out and proceeded to mumble something about having met a ‘mighty cuterino’ girl named Rasusu twenty years ago who was trying to solve the hunger problem in Jeuno that had been brought about by the crawler infestation in Rolanberry Fields; and how he had suggested that he should cultivate the star trees for food. When he finally came to, covered in his own ‘sweataru’, he asked me to head to Jeuno so I could find Rasusu and ‘get-gettily’ the bag of seeds that she had ‘borrowed’ from him.
I quickly made my way there but, alas, there was no sign of her. Eventually, I came across a man named Laityn who informed me that – twenty or so years ago – Rasusu had actually followed an adventurer and his group to Crawlers’ Nest in an attempt to exterminate the queen and has not been seen since. Clearly, that then equates to me murderising elementals in Crawlers’ Nest in the hope that they’d drop a bag of seeds. Hey, at least it makes more sense than some other quests…
Unfortunately, these aforementioned elementals were a little too high in level for Datsuki and I to take as a duo. ’tis why we asked Amith to come help.
Congrats on 75 RDM by the by. :x
After having sat in Crawlers’ Nest for a good while I, ingeniously, thought that it might actually be a good idea to find out when the elementals may spawn by talking to the weather NPC in Upper Jeuno.
After having found out that they weren’t actually due to spawn for a good hour or two, Datsuki changed to Datsi and we carried out a bunch of menial tasks. Eventually, we found ourselves at the crag of Holla. As I was sitting astride a rent-a-chocobo I asked Datsi if she’d be kind enough to cast Invisible on me. She was indeed kind enough to do so. :O
After running around for a few I commented on how it would be funny if we went into the Dunes and I pretended to be a talking chocobo that had escaped from his trainer and was on a hunt for greens.
But obviously, lol, we weren’t bored enough to implement such a ridiculous idea.
*five minutes later*
We repeated this sketch with a couple of unsuspecting people. Some were all, “I don’t have any greens…”; others were sending /tells to Datsi in regards to my whereabouts. It was pretty funny watching Datsi’s log fill with /tells such as, “He’s right here next to me!” as I lamented to them in /say about how she would surely, “Slap me for days,” if she caught me.
*chuckles*
Well! I’m leaving this update here for now, me hearties. But look forward to the next instalment of my blog where, as usual, I happily blabber on about pointless crap. :D…
See ya!~ (^_^)/
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