Cynicism: Go!

Well, here I am in one of my favourite places to level – the jungle. :o

They say that you can party here as a mage at level 24 and that is true, but the problem with being level 24 and fighting Gobs in the jungle is that I get resisted to hell and back. D: But I can’t deny that, with the aid of two PLs (no idea why lol), the xp gained was hot.

This party lasted a good while and it wasn’t too long before I found myself at level 27, which I was very happy about. :D Then, after the party was done I finished purchasing the spells and equipment I’ll need throughout the rest of my jungle voyage.

I managed to get myself another good party when I logged on a few days later which resulted in me dinging level 28. I left that party a little early though so Datsuki and I could attempt to get me a pair of Mycophile Cuffs.

Wee. :D

I have to say that Datsuki did an amazing job of mitigating damage; I didn’t have to cure her once and she was only five levels higher than the mob in question. @_@

The next day Datsuki and I planned to take advantage of the fact that today was indeed Taru RSE day and we both had time to play. Since Datsuki was kind enough to help me I figured that it would be nice to make things infinitely easier for her by dinging level 29 so I could wear my Seer’s gear and, most importantly, have access to Escape; so I threw my flag up and made my way to Kazham.

Technical difficulties arose, however, when I came to the realisation that there was literally not one xp party in the whole region; nor were there enough people online in my level range to make one – maybe I should have checked this beforehand. :x

But, hey, I’m a black mage and they can solo xp in a sexy fashion, right? :D

“Of course they can!” is the answer that resonated in my mind as I headed to the Goblin Pathfinder camp in Yhoator. Yeah, it went wrong…numerous times. D: I set my HP in Kazham and tried my best to grind out 5,000 xp but I failed violently; so many times, in fact, that I actually delevelled to 27. >:V ’twas at that point I thought to myself, like the hard worker I am, “Piss it, I’m going back to Jeuno. @_@”.

To be honest, not having Escape didn’t turn out to be too much of a problem. We spent hours trying to get a key to drop and when one finally did I was dead so we lost it. >_o

We did keep trying though and with ten minutes to spare we got another key to drop. We frantically searched for the chest and there could only have been about three minutes left by the time I accepted Guttrix’s kind gift for the effort we had put in – Wonder Clomps.

The stress of the situation was too much to handle for Datsuki; who I found soon afterwards looking mildly forlorn and wistful of times gone by as an NPC doppelgänger did some things to her that I can’t bring myself to type. :x

During the following week after the March update I continued to attempt to seek and make parties but I was having absolutely no luck whatsoever.

Amith and Datsuki were both kind enough to help aid me as I attempted to solo my way to a higher level but I wasn’t getting anywhere fast. @_@ I have to say that I was starting to get frustrated with my stagnant position. D: It seemed that no-one wanted my sexy services and I couldn’t solo for toffee. :/ Not that I wanted toffee, I wanted xp. In retrospect both would have been nice but it’s too late for that now.

In fact, the rejection I felt in-game became all enveloping; it started to seriously effect my real life activities. For example, I went to visit a friend; I knocked on their door, they answered and we conversed a few on their doorstep. After a while I began to wonder why they weren’t inviting me into their home, “Maybe it’s because they’ve already got a Scholar in there and they don’t need me,” I thought. It was at this point I just started screaming incomprehensibly for 25 or so minutes until they let me in. After they did so I proceeded to cast Bio on their tinned food and then, with the aid of elemental seal, I Sleepga’d their family, popped Manafont and nuked their dog, two cats and a budgie to oblivion. It was at this point they kicked me out. I did, however, manage to get a chain#3 so it’s all good.

This may have been a dream.

The point is…I forget the point. However, the point remains.

The next day, after yet more fruitless seeking, failed soloing attempts and being mildly drizzled upon! I’d had my fill of slight misfortune for the day, so I decided to entertain myself by undertaking a bunch of amusing activities in Kazham. :D

*music plays* ^_^

Firstly, I offered a hefty amount of brain stew to a nearby Opo-Opo; he gladly guzzled it down. I then jumped for joy as he gazed blankly into the distance and choked to death slowly.

Woo! :D

Then I flirted with the idea of suicide!

I don’t know whether the GMs were scared or something because it was at this point that things randomly took a turn for the sexy and I received a plethora of invites which, over the space of a few days, managed to propel me from level 28 to 35.

It was actually during this time that I first had the pleasure of being in a party that would actually consistently set up skillchains for me to be burst which pleased me. But what was more pleasing was the fact that, after having reached level 35, I was now able to party with Datsi; whose WHM was at 36. ^_^

Since then, we’ve been levelling both our main and sub jobs lots. The idea was for us to level together until level 40 or so and then Datsi would be replaced by Datsuki, whose NIN was at 41. Things have been working out nicely as Datsi has managed to make a selection of awesome parties. And when there hasn’t been a party to be had we’ve duo’d xp together. Trust Datsi to take away my xp woes. *_*; Thankees again for continuing to be thoroughly awesome, mon cherry. q_o

But since Datsuki needs to be level 50 in a very short space of time for her CoP static I haven’t had the chance to keep fully up to date with some spells (missing D2 at the moment >_o). But I did manage to find the time to best one foe and claim his drop. :o

Although I would love to talk about how I managed to do this, I have to be honest; the shadow of my character in that picture reminds me of a man playing violin with an erect sword shaped penis, which is quite an interesting thought. In fact I’ve spent many hours thinking about the delectable situations that would arise during the life of such a being and I implore you to do the same before we move on. :x

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Another problem is that our gil has been slowly dripping away. ’tis for this reason that Datsuki decided to change to Chibimoon so we could have a go at Under Observation with Barthezz (who is now in the capable hands of Squire Millionsknives).

I have to say that Chibimoon and Barthezz seemed to be a little anxious as to whether we would best this BCNM but I’ve no idea why; maybe I just have more faith in my awesomeness than they do theirs. :x~

Anywizzles, we did three successful runs but, alas, nothing worth writing about dropped. Still, it was fun and I’m glad we could do it together. ^_^

Well, I’m off now; I’ve a Ninja to assist in her quest for level 50 and Opo-Opos to kill.

Bye~

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~ by garciewaffles on April 23, 2008.