Holy sheet.

Well, the time has come to say goodbye. Well I lie, the time was like... 3 weeks ago. We never said goodbye, we went quietly. Because we really really hate attention, and I didn't want us getting badgered for gear. What we had, went when we hit the delete button.

21-12-2004 ~ 26-1-07

Thank you Phoenix, for giving us 3 years of fantastic times. I made some lifelong friends on here who I still keep in contact with via Skype, Myspace & Gaiaonline. Didn't make 75 but still proud of my 74 levels, even though 74 only ever lasted a day with Findy about.

Baudelaire, Hawkhellfire, Helberath, Hiyoki, Kissfan, Klesk, Leylana, Tunay, Veer, Xishi, Aiden, Akura, Anubin, Artharu, Atlantic, Ayns (another quitter. ilu dude.) Badderkiller, Bastroville (Stufreak <3), Bengerbot, Chot, Colsoni, Darkmessenger, Darksol, Dinith, Dhoffryn (I'll miss you little man), Drakkan, Erufina, Gandalph, Gav (Not rid of you yet. ;D. Chavalicious.), Hyushi (or you James. <3), Joshuaa, Kabekebe, Kekori, Lighia, Lilvash, Lunamarie, Naiya, Orichimaru, Ozzman, Painkillers (GL cooking!), Shizuha (ILUdood.), Spiyre (...ilu2.), Stodya, Sucubus, Thetallest, Zadelia, Zilana (ILU. Talk on skype.),;

You made FFXI. Along with those I didn't add to my friendslist, those friends I've lost such as Shifta and Deband - you all made the game worthwhile to play. Keep on making us proud. One day you'll understand why we hit that delete button and stopped the addiction. I never met you face to face, I never got to prod you and call you stupid - but loved you. (:

Moving on.

Thats right!

The times come for 'Chasing the light' to evolve, and as you can see it is now 'Unforgiven'. For a number of reasons. White Mage is now on a hiatus, and I didn't deem the title fitting for the job I was going to take up, and because of the stunning Metallica song of the same name.

Prepare for updates soon, Xandora and Findecano are coming back to Phoenix.

Getting towards the end.

Long time no post! Lots of things have kept me from posting on here, so I'll add everything here now. Firstly, myself, Findy and Spiyre are nearing the end of our journey on Whitemage, Dragoon and Thief. 74 was attained a few days ago. It felt good, even though poor Spiyre had to solo the EXP for himself since the Ninja couldn't stay for an extra 1k. Annoying, but worked around. Spiyre got his Optical hat and Scorpion Harness, and looks rather amusing wearing them!

Not worked on Cooking like I should have, but I haven't had the heart (or gil!) to do it. When Spiyre hasn't been online me and Fin have been playing RAGNAROK online, so time on XI has been dwindling. I think it will change when we get into the next jobs we want at 75, however - Bard, Thief and Ninja. Our static may even grow! Shizuha and Hyushi may be in, which is awesome!

Bad day.

Really, really bad day. We set off today to do our Optical hat run, since myself and Findy need it. What happened was a total disaster - someone called for help on someone elses cluster, I ended up giving my own cluster to them. I felt too bad for the poor guy. Then, we managed to do his, perfectly. When it came to Fin's which was next, the stunners didn't stun and we all ended up wiping. 4 weeks of sweat, blood and toil down the Vana'Diel drain. Needless to say we were gutted. Not put off though. Someone is holding a cluster for me, till I make 800k to rebuy it and give it to Fin - he will get his hat.

I ended up going mining for a while afterwards, to try earn some of the 800k - some of it will come from selling Bynes from Dynamis (good luck to Thetallest, who got my Bronzepieces as a trade for his Bynes. I did this since General needs Bynes and he needed Coins... Complicated). But not before taking a shot of my MH. There, now you know where Xannie broods her days away while dreaming of songstresses and summoners. As well as Dragoons, obviously... The one thing that totally made my day yesterday, however, was during Besieged. Level 6 Mammy-Ja's, I was transfixed by something.

The frogs. Oh my goodness, they're so bloody cute. Little frogs in wizard hats. So a new beastman I'm infatuated with, I dread having to kill these little guys, though to be honest it'll be a little hard. I mean, inbetween me telling Spiyre over Linkshell (My screenshot folder was full, thats why I have a full screen by the way) since Findy was AFK, I found out a disturbing fact about these little blighters. I'm pretty glad they aren't as small as they looked on the first picture Squeenix posted of them, like the Fleas. These you can see, like Leeches. Plus their brightly coloured so thats another plus. But the thing I find really horrifying?

They can turn you into a Frog. I was raising someone when it happened. Another full screen picture I'm afraid. I don't think Spiyre and Findy quite believed me, but they certainly do now. I think its part of the charm they use, I'm not quite sure.. I wish it lasted longer though, I quite enjoyed being amphibious. Different to the Mage I usually run around as! If people do ever EXP off of these (which I doubt... But some people may try) that'll be fun. Frog-ga?

Skilling up fun.

Definatly one of my best Whitemage moments. I got from 190 to 220 with Spiyre, on Lesser Colobri and Colobri in the next expansion areas. It was good fun, though I feel bad Spiyre used all his Ninja tools on me! Ever since I was a level 20 Whitemage, Hexa Strike has been the weaponskill I've wanted. I suppose any Whitemage wants it; with the correct gear on its amazing. Though I did ...148 to a Lizard near the Crag of Dem. Heh.

Dynamis tonight! Me and Findy missed the last one, so I hope we can complete this one. Should be great fun. Skype makes things easier with communicating in there since the Linkshell chat is always logged and the party chat goes by too quick.

Managed to get more spells for my Bard (and dig up some screenshots that wouldnt load on my previous entry) while we were hunting for the O-hat items. We still need to get the NM, but we do have the cluster! Hurrah! A good 4/5 weeks of getting items together and we finally have them. This seemed to upset some LS members so we ended up closing the door on our MadCapsules chapter, and opening up a new one... With MoogleAssassins. I somehow got blessed with shell leader, thats probably why theres only 5 in the shell right now. But a family takes time to grow.

Holding out for a hero.

Thats right, my little feathered football of love got retired. So she can have babies with LuckyComent, and because I need to start raising another. I can still call her using the chocobo whistle, but I do feel a little empty. Must be because I spent a whole month gardening and farming for her. I did get a plaque for my mog house which I'm proud of though, but the cutscene for retiring your Chocobo is really sad. I took lots of screens. If there are any typo's in this entry, ignore them - my keyboard decided to break down a few nights ago so I'm stuck with a rather nasty one which I'll decimate when I get a new one.

No Dynamis last night, made way for lots of loose ends to be tied up. I went mining in Ifrits Cauldron, along with Spiyre. Oh dear. Soon after zoning, we found a rather delightful NM. Wondering if we could possibly solo him, Spiyre looked him up on Allakhazam - Tyrannic Tunnok. No. We couldn't duo this guy. But we needed him dead, this beast dropped the V Claw we needed, for both Spiyres and Findy's Scorpion Harness. We've been doing KSNM runs for the claw to no avail, and after this I think we'll go back to it. We managed to enroll a 75 Samurai into helping us, Baudelaire. He brought a 72 Dragoon who had to leave, but she was just as up for it. This guy was amazing, up for it and stayed the whole time. Chot came as his Paladin 74 for the first fight, we got him to 5% before we wiped. This happened twice. Asking Aiden, our LS Paladin he aggre'd to come out, and Chot went back and changed to his Dragoon 75, which allowed me to get my.. Er.. Gear. I'd been doing the fights in mining gear which isn't that constructive really.

4 hours after initially finding the NM, we dropped him. With Dia, and a weaponskill from the Samurai since everyone else was dead. No drop. But it had changed somewhere, from being about the item, to being about dropping this guy for pride. It felt good, definatly the most enduring battle I've been in. Thank you for your help guys, I'll send out those IOU deathcards soon.

Nothing much else for today, thanks to Spiyre getting hold of Mage's Ballad for me I got my Bard to 25, was a great experience. I'm getting my spacings which is awesome.

72 and going strong!

Today me, Spiyre and Fin actually got to 72. Were all pretty hyped about that, it was fun getting there - I can say I got a level without a refresher in the party. Our Red Mage disconnected leaving us with 5 and we were still getting chains, I'm pretty proud of that. We accidently got a Black Mage Mammy-ja towards the end of the party which wiped me out since noone could land a silence, but it was good - someone came and gave me an R3 to keep my level.

I got my Chocobo Whistle today, I'm really psyched about that. RainDance can have babies now too, I'm gonna pimp her out to Findy's chocobo and make a RainDance jr. Of course I did try her out when I got the whistle, hence the used charge - she's actually, pretty normal. Some people got really sluggish chocobos, I'm glad mine isnt. Thank you to both Zilly and Findy for spoiling me today... Findy getting me a beautiful corsage, and Zilly for getting me an Errant Hauppelande, I'll make it up to you at christmas. Even though your both evil for ganging up on me and stuff, but... I love you. Loads. Skies, not puddles.