Newest gameshow: Name Thistle's Craft! (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Last week a couple people told me I was mentioned on some FFXI radio show. Being the paranoid guy that I am, I wanted to track it down and see what was being said about me. Finally they uploaded the ep and I'm listening now. Apparently I'm a level 100 woodworker! Woo!

So now I'm a level 100 bonecrafter who was the first NA to ever HQ a scorp harness -- made millions on them!
The chick who runs Alla says I'm a level 100 woodworker.
My apron says leathercrafting.

You decide! What's my craft?

(The mention of me is a tad embarrassing -- she said I contributed a lot to Alla. That was three years ago when Alla was just about the only game in town! Arg! Don't go repeating it now, I don't want to be associated with that! :/ )

In other FFXI-related news, still no Wings. :/ Sucks to be me. I'm going to go to Gamestop as soon as they open tomorrow, even though everything will probably still be in boxes. Maybe I can bribe the guy to take mine out early. :/ And even just getting it won't be enough -- people said it was taking them 6+ hours to download the updates. *sigh*

Last night the LS got a group of no-Wings-people together to make a bunch of Vellum (item needed to open SCH). We farmed sheep, made leather, Beanie made the gold dust (which somehow comes from brass...), and I made the finished product. Two nice things came of this: 1) It was much better than sitting around in a funk! A fun thing that a bunch of people could help on. 2) Not only did everyone who helped get a stack, but I HQed it enough that we ended up with three extra stacks. We're having a mini-contest to give them away (to LS people only, sorry).

To try to have some good game-thing today, I did the first upgrade on my gobbiebag. Only cost me 100K total (for the hide), I had everything else. Even though the next bag would cost me 300K, I'm semi-pondering it since I made more than double on selling those deathstones than it would cost me to upgrade both now. Only thing that's stopping me is that after Friday there should be lots more hides on the AH, thus price should/might fall.

Comments

[deckardmagnus.livejournal.com]

If you're at Gamestop the moment they open the doors, you'll likely beat the UPS guy there. I'd say give 'em an hour for UPS to come and for them to sort/unpack/sticker/prepare the shit in the boxes. Take this from my four years experience at Gamestop/EB.

If I get Wings before next Tuesday, I'll be surprised. No rush here though, the content isn't going anywhere.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Even though waiting is hard, I'm going to *call* the game store and make sure it's unpacked before I go down there.

And I'm really glad Wed worked out so nicely. I had fun having a project to work towards! My plans for WotG is: Unlock Dancer. Unlocked Scholar. Camp whereever I have to camp to do Campaign until I'm sick of it. It's not a bad plan!

[deckardmagnus.livejournal.com]

As a former Gamestop/EB employee, I can tell you that, first thing in the morning, particularly on a busy day like Black Friday, nothing is annoying like someone clamoring for a specific item from one of probably fifteen or more boxes of shit in your morning shipment (bear in mind an afternoon shipment will come too, likely double the size of the morning shipment...)

Give 'em some time and give 'em a break and they'll be a lot nicer to you than they might be otherwise.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Indeed.. though, to be fair, the company kinda shoots themselves in the foot. I remember several years ago when they didn't call until *after* the shipment was physically in their hands and unpacked. Then they switched to automated and ruined everyone's day ;3 Isn't technology grand?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Calling *after* would make more sense. Don't get my hopes up and then crash them! Even SE has learned that one...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And they didn't even get a morning shipment! One guy told me UPS was closed for the day. 9.9

Oh well! Got it in the end. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Calling was a good idea! Especially on Black Friday. o.o

Nicely, Dancer and Scholar weren't hard to unlock. I'm not sure at all what unlocked Campaign for me (I think you can do it once you take your nation's pledge... which means doing the first quest/mission/whatever it is).

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I thought you were the 100 clothcrafter who made the first kyudogi and HQ's dalmatica's as a hobby!

[quistie.livejournal.com]

No way! Thistle is clearly the first NA bonecrafter to hit 100! And he only give that up because he discover that it is not possible to make a Scorpion Harness +2!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Shhh! I've discovered how to make SH +3s! I'll mail you one~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That too!

[rocl-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Oh man I hope I wasn't of those people who remembered you wrong >_>

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*points* Hey, you have a LJ! Yay!

And I don't think so! No worries either way. :)