Non-BSG update (FFXI, RP)

A while back I had said I was going to take a FFXI break and play WoW for a month, but I really hadn't felt like playing either game, so I never turned WoW back on. That feeling has only gotten worse.

Doesn't help that I was skilling gold on Damask. Again. Fifth time of doing gold 1-60. That's what hell is going to be like for me, having to skill gold over and over. It's even worse because I'm so utterly sick of crafting. Not "meh, just need a break before I start another mule~! *bouncie*", I mean like I never want to do another synth, skill up or not.

Got gold to 57.7. I thought I could send Damask home (I need things he has in storage!), then I noticed that those colored Almirahs take an alchemy subcraft... so Damask has to stay in Bastok and do that sub now. (PS: I'm kicking myself for not just buying him an airship pass when I had the chance.)

I hate Bastok so much. It's so damned dirty. Yay for a city made out of grimy, soot-covered stone. And have you been in the alchemy guild there? Oh yay, let me do a craft where every damned NPC in the guild is coughing, talking about being sick, wanting to go to the hospital, or inhaling fumes (GET A CLUE!). Lovely craft. So happy to be doing it. Again.

Have I mentioned that I've done alchemy 1-60 five times already, too? *gun to head*

I'd not be logging on to FFXI at all if I had anything better to do. Funny that I can't recall what I did with my life before this damned game.

RP is the high point of my non-work hours, and luckily I've been getting it almost daily! One day I actually got two scenes! (I don't know if you can count one of them though. It was with what must have been the worst player on the game. I had never ICly met her before, and on her second pose she had her hands all over Thistle, touching him, groping him... god, I felt like I needed a shower RL. She just didn't take a clue, either. He moved away, she followed and tried to put her arms around him. Her description was rather disturbing, too. "She has scars all over her face and body, a sharp nose, sunken eyes.... but she's beautiful! Beautiful, I tell you!". WTF?) All the other RP rocked though. Squall rescued Thistle (called him an idiot and told him to come home~ Eee, so cute!), met an Immortal and later had to defend their ship from her (heehee!), and other assorted adventures.

It's funny when you just notice something really basic about your character. I hadn't really realized just how optimistic Thistle is... ( A couple poses about love back here~ )

It's strange. All the years I've been playing Thistle, I never put his story together in my head like that. He's been hurt so much, so often, by those he loves, but he never loses hope. RL me would have given up on love after the first bad relationship. He focuses on the good, I (sadly) focus on the bad.

I've never enjoyed playing "good guy" characters, I always like being the bad guy, which makes it strange that Thistle is my longest-played character. I (and he!) don't like to think it, but I guess he really is a good guy. :P (He thinks of himself as a big mean eeeevvvvil Dark Knight and a dangerous violent Corsair, but he loves kittens and babies and wants to protect the world. :P)

Yay RP! I feel better just typing all that up. :D

Non-BSG update (FFXI, RP)

A while back I had said I was going to take a FFXI break and play WoW for a month, but I really hadn't felt like playing either game, so I never turned WoW back on. That feeling has only gotten worse.

Doesn't help that I was skilling gold on Damask. Again. Fifth time of doing gold 1-60. That's what hell is going to be like for me, having to skill gold over and over. It's even worse because I'm so utterly sick of crafting. Not "meh, just need a break before I start another mule~! *bouncie*", I mean like I never want to do another synth, skill up or not.

Got gold to 57.7. I thought I could send Damask home (I need things he has in storage!), then I noticed that those colored Almirahs take an alchemy subcraft... so Damask has to stay in Bastok and do that sub now. (PS: I'm kicking myself for not just buying him an airship pass when I had the chance.)

I hate Bastok so much. It's so damned dirty. Yay for a city made out of grimy, soot-covered stone. And have you been in the alchemy guild there? Oh yay, let me do a craft where every damned NPC in the guild is coughing, talking about being sick, wanting to go to the hospital, or inhaling fumes (GET A CLUE!). Lovely craft. So happy to be doing it. Again.

Have I mentioned that I've done alchemy 1-60 five times already, too? *gun to head*

I'd not be logging on to FFXI at all if I had anything better to do. Funny that I can't recall what I did with my life before this damned game.

RP is the high point of my non-work hours, and luckily I've been getting it almost daily! One day I actually got two scenes! (I don't know if you can count one of them though. It was with what must have been the worst player on the game. I had never ICly met her before, and on her second pose she had her hands all over Thistle, touching him, groping him... god, I felt like I needed a shower RL. She just didn't take a clue, either. He moved away, she followed and tried to put her arms around him. Her description was rather disturbing, too. "She has scars all over her face and body, a sharp nose, sunken eyes.... but she's beautiful! Beautiful, I tell you!". WTF?) All the other RP rocked though. Squall rescued Thistle (called him an idiot and told him to come home~ Eee, so cute!), met an Immortal and later had to defend their ship from her (heehee!), and other assorted adventures.

It's funny when you just notice something really basic about your character. I hadn't really realized just how optimistic Thistle is... ( A couple poses about love back here~ )

It's strange. All the years I've been playing Thistle, I never put his story together in my head like that. He's been hurt so much, so often, by those he loves, but he never loses hope. RL me would have given up on love after the first bad relationship. He focuses on the good, I (sadly) focus on the bad.

I've never enjoyed playing "good guy" characters, I always like being the bad guy, which makes it strange that Thistle is my longest-played character. I (and he!) don't like to think it, but I guess he really is a good guy. :P (He thinks of himself as a big mean eeeevvvvil Dark Knight and a dangerous violent Corsair, but he loves kittens and babies and wants to protect the world. :P)

Yay RP! I feel better just typing all that up. :D