Weekend update: Blah.

[thistlechaser]

How the hell I have ?skip=250 after only a two-day weekend is beyond me. I'll never get caught up at this rate.

The weekend was highly busy and mega-stressful. I got almost no sleep either day (ugh) and what food I ate was crap (my best quality-wise meal of the weekend was pancakes. That should tell you something...).

I'm suddenly dying for sugar. Sometimes I have urges, but all I need to do is resist a little and they go away. But not now. All weekend (even now) I want to eat frosting. I want to buy a whole cake and just eat the frosting off. I've not had sugar in, what, going on a year, so why's it hitting me now? (Maybe it's just that I'm so darned hungry in general. 10:40, and I've not even had time for breakfast yet.)

As I said in the flocked post earlier, work is currently sucking. It hasn't improved since then.

FFXI is annoyingly busy. These CoP missions are insane. I wrote about the big fight on Saturday, but much of Sunday was spent running around the world just to see cutscenes. So so so so much story... I was stressed out of my mind, which might be why I didn't enjoy most of it (the Windy leg with the three troublemakers was the only part that I really liked).

We killed a NM as part of this running around, which was fun. (I like killing things, it's what I do. It just makes me feel right in the game.)

In an effort to cheer up the folks who hadn't succeeded in Saturday's battle, we went back to Riv-whatever Site #A749775012 (too busy to look up the name) and killed dragons and hyppogryphs. Was fun, and nice seeing the area again. Unfortunately it was not the money-making area I had told people it was (the $$$ drops were rarer than they should have been, I think...).

I did get some screenshots though! Nice ones.

Hyppogryph -- Mmmm. Finally, a good screenshot of one! Aren't they cool?

A closer look at its face. They looked sort of like Chinese dragons to me.

How they all ended up: Ha ha ha! They're sort of cute when they're dead, kind of like a sleeping cat.

This is where we were. Freaky, huh? The islands just hang in the sky, clouds above and below you. *boggle*

The mobs all had new (and very annoying) moves. This one kept amusing us:

Comments

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if was a freak trip or not. Nif and I went back later and *could not* get a key to drop. We were there for 1.5-2 hours and couldn't get him a copper key. Very frustrating.. we have to go back =/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Very odd! We got so many keys to drop the first time... Well, if I'm online when you go, feel free to poke! I can always help kill stuff if you want company. (I think I have enough oil/powder left for another sneak-run through the Coast, otherwise I'll buy more.)

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that inexplicable urge for sugar is probably your brain telling you, "Gimme glucose, dammit, or I'm walkin'." So uppity.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Stupid brain! I'll stab you with a pencil if you keep it up! *stab*stab*stab*

[2515049.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures. I've never seen Hippogriffs look that good! (I run in 512x512 for background, so I suffer.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, I play in really big mode. Donno what the exact numbers are. :p 1200xsomething, I assume. The screenshots are 1200xsomething in Photoshop, and I reduce most of them to 800xsomething for posting.

[2515049.livejournal.com]

I do 1600x1200 overlay (menus), and 640x480 background. I used to do 512x512 background, which looks about the same, but figured I should match the aspect ratio of my monitor.

I have my eyes on the upgrade I desire, just can't justify the money yet. Things look so much more pretty for you other people!

[sylf.livejournal.com]

Wait, Paladins are supposed to be immune to terror and fear! That's not fair, the Hippogryph is obviously cheating.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

They do look sneaky, don't they! We'll just have to kill more of them as "punishment"!