Aug. 18th, 2005

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When people say "Stephen King would benefit from a good editor", I'm sure they had It in mind. 1,100+ pages. The first 500 or so totally unnecessary (to my mind). I'm about 600 pages in, and still not hooked on the story. People have said it's a good story. They've said it's scary. I've seen neither. (And you'd think that after 500 pages of nothing but character background and history that I'd actually care about the characters, but no. I don't like any of them.)

Does the book get better? Does It get scary at some point further on, or if I was going to be scared would it have happened already? (The adults are wandering around town on their own, visiting whatever their feet carry them to.)

I hate to think I've put 600 pages of reading into the book only to drop it now, but if I put 500-600 more pages in and feel the same about it I'll be even less happy...

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FFXI: I've been spinning my wheels all week. Other than Eco/Escort on Tuesday, I feel like I've done nothing all week. I forced myself to go farming at times, but even that wasn't very successful. Last night nothing was scheduled, and since I still need money and haven't really been farming well, I tried to force myself to go last night. As happened in the rest of the week, it didn't go well. (I've been trying to farm something new, but the mobs are spread out across whole zones and thus hard to find -- I spend way way more time running around looking for them than I do killing them. I'd sub RNG for widescan, but then I'd lose TH...)

So when Beanie's request to join them for Sandy mission 7-1 came in, my first reaction was to bounce and cheer. Finally, something exciting to do! Then I recalled that I'm somewhat too low for it. :P But they needed a DD and I needed the mission, so I ended up going!

I don't count mission mobs or BCNM mobs as "real" NMs, but I got a screenshot of it anyway. Orcs have very strange names.

I've found a very odd thing with mission mobs: My absorbs stick to them much, much, much better than lower level XP mobs. We did the 7-1 battle twice, and I tried to absorb three things each time (VIT, STR, DEX). The first fight all three stuck, and the second fight two did (the third one stuck on the second try). *boggle* On a XP mob I have (at best) a 50/50 chance of it sticking or not. But on Sandy mission mobs? CoP mission mobs? It's like the darned critters drop their pants and are begging me to suck their stats!

The hardest part of the mission was sneaking through Bostaunieux Oubliette. I've started to get paranoid about sneaking through things. (Invisible isn't so bad, since you can cast it over itself.) It was my understanding that if your sneak falls you can just stay still and you'll make no noise, thus not get aggro (we tested that at Summerfest last year), but they seem to have changed it or something, because that doesn't seem to work now. Bah.

I was thinking about Bostaunieux Oubliette, Sandy, and general FFXI stuff a lot this morning. If FFXI were real and I lived in Sandy, I'd be darned angry that they let part of the city be taken over by mobs. (Yeah, it's under the city, but it's still the city. Right?) Most of the mobs were Too Weak to the 74/75s in our group. Sandy should hire a couple high level adventurers and have them clean the place up.

And that got me thinking about taxes. Sandy (and the other cities) really should be charging folks for living there... (How else are they going to reward adventurers for doing missions?) And when you rent a mog house in another city? As realistic as stuff is in the game, it's amazing there isn't a fee for doing that.
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When people say "Stephen King would benefit from a good editor", I'm sure they had It in mind. 1,100+ pages. The first 500 or so totally unnecessary (to my mind). I'm about 600 pages in, and still not hooked on the story. People have said it's a good story. They've said it's scary. I've seen neither. (And you'd think that after 500 pages of nothing but character background and history that I'd actually care about the characters, but no. I don't like any of them.)

Does the book get better? Does It get scary at some point further on, or if I was going to be scared would it have happened already? (The adults are wandering around town on their own, visiting whatever their feet carry them to.)

I hate to think I've put 600 pages of reading into the book only to drop it now, but if I put 500-600 more pages in and feel the same about it I'll be even less happy...

---

FFXI: I've been spinning my wheels all week. Other than Eco/Escort on Tuesday, I feel like I've done nothing all week. I forced myself to go farming at times, but even that wasn't very successful. Last night nothing was scheduled, and since I still need money and haven't really been farming well, I tried to force myself to go last night. As happened in the rest of the week, it didn't go well. (I've been trying to farm something new, but the mobs are spread out across whole zones and thus hard to find -- I spend way way more time running around looking for them than I do killing them. I'd sub RNG for widescan, but then I'd lose TH...)

So when Beanie's request to join them for Sandy mission 7-1 came in, my first reaction was to bounce and cheer. Finally, something exciting to do! Then I recalled that I'm somewhat too low for it. :P But they needed a DD and I needed the mission, so I ended up going!

I don't count mission mobs or BCNM mobs as "real" NMs, but I got a screenshot of it anyway. Orcs have very strange names.

I've found a very odd thing with mission mobs: My absorbs stick to them much, much, much better than lower level XP mobs. We did the 7-1 battle twice, and I tried to absorb three things each time (VIT, STR, DEX). The first fight all three stuck, and the second fight two did (the third one stuck on the second try). *boggle* On a XP mob I have (at best) a 50/50 chance of it sticking or not. But on Sandy mission mobs? CoP mission mobs? It's like the darned critters drop their pants and are begging me to suck their stats!

The hardest part of the mission was sneaking through Bostaunieux Oubliette. I've started to get paranoid about sneaking through things. (Invisible isn't so bad, since you can cast it over itself.) It was my understanding that if your sneak falls you can just stay still and you'll make no noise, thus not get aggro (we tested that at Summerfest last year), but they seem to have changed it or something, because that doesn't seem to work now. Bah.

I was thinking about Bostaunieux Oubliette, Sandy, and general FFXI stuff a lot this morning. If FFXI were real and I lived in Sandy, I'd be darned angry that they let part of the city be taken over by mobs. (Yeah, it's under the city, but it's still the city. Right?) Most of the mobs were Too Weak to the 74/75s in our group. Sandy should hire a couple high level adventurers and have them clean the place up.

And that got me thinking about taxes. Sandy (and the other cities) really should be charging folks for living there... (How else are they going to reward adventurers for doing missions?) And when you rent a mog house in another city? As realistic as stuff is in the game, it's amazing there isn't a fee for doing that.

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