((Totally rare, Out of Character post. Will probably be deleted later.


Where have all the good players gone? Is it because I switched servers? Or is it because the game has honestly lost of them?

I'm not talkinga bout good players as in, good equips/does their job. Those people are wonderful and I sure as heck want them in my parties but my mind is elsewhere today.

Where did the people who actually liked this WORLD go? Not the game. Not the level grind, not the mechanics, not getting uber gear but Vana'diel. Did people like that ever exist or has it always just been me? :(

Am I the only one who can spend a good chunk of time just sitting in Windurst Woods watching people come and go, just enjoy spending time in this beautiful, engaging world, playing a character that I enjoy?

Do you ever FEEL like your character? Do you ever think "Who is the person I make run around all the time? Where are they from? Why did they choose this job? It's sad to know that nearly no one else thinks that.

I enjoy reading people's journals. The really well done ones remind me why I LOVE this game :D But then I get into the actual game... and I have to hope from LS to LS because one is too busy talking about midterms and making ignorant drug jokes and the others are silent. And people named Weedpimp run past you. I'm having the hardest time finding friends.

Is it because everyone who remains in FFXI are jaded? They've played so long that they don't notice? Maybe all the people who still enjoy the game are all high levels now and so have no contact with lil' ol me? Or did all the people who enjoy a good RPG leave? It makes me so sad.

This wonderful game has so much potential. I wish I could enjoy it in the manner that it is meant to be. I wish I could find a group of people who are happy exploring, slaughtering goblins and hunting rare items because they want to. Not because they have nothing better to do, or to achieve the next level of leetness.

I want to keep loving this game. Coming back has reminded me why I loved it. But it's also reminded me that for as wonderful as the game and world is. The fan base can really, really suck. ))

-pinned to the wall of Pahya's Moghouse-

To Do This Week

Hunt down Bastok dragon, get Rank 3
Visit Castle O, make annoying run up stupid big big tower, Rank 4
Get Fishing to Level 4
Get Cooking to Level 20
Get Bonecraft to Level 10
Get Leathercraft to Level 5
Cap my Dagger skill
Work on Bastok, Sandy and Windy fame in effort to get that darm gob to make me a bigger bag

.... Can I go back to getting beaten up by goblins in the Jungle now please? ; ;

It has been a verrry busy past few days. There has been much training, and doing missions both for Windurst and a few for the other nations as well. I got to know a bit more about the hume lands, and their relationship with the galka.



The realationship here interests me... galka are so strrrange.
We've had a few adventures in Qufim, including poking this big guy...



But the past day or two has been spent collecting keys. It feels odd for me to collect keys, as I have the skills to open pretty much any box I may find but Tai has found some galka who give us an airship pass to our home of Kazham if we chase down some keys for him. Naltai is so excited about going home... I don't know how to tell herrr that I won't exactly be welcomed there.

I did get the pleasure of nabbing a few shiny treasure boxes to keep my mind of things though.



Naltai and I had trained our favored jobs as high as we could before needing to work on our support skills. We decided tonight to trrry to form a party with some of our new friends from a linkshell we joined recently. The party was NIN, MNK, BRD, RDM, WAR (me) and WHM (Naltai).

The party actually decided to take a turn from the norm and hunt in Buburimu Peninsula instead of the usual Dunes. In gathering all of the members together Naltai got the help of a very friendly summoner she had met while farming in Giddeus. Her name was Madlyn and she wonderfully offered to support our hunting party for a bit. What starrrted out as a short party ended up being a long leveling sesson where I went from level 12 to 15. Madlyn was joined about half way through by a frrriend of hers, another summoner of some renown. They were so helpfull and friendly! As nearly everyone we've met on Carbuncle has been!

Naltai and I ended up getting pearrrls to their LS and spent some time chatting with what seems like a really fun group of people! Including a fellow mithra, very exicted to be making friends again. I left so many back in Kazham, Naltai has been my only friend nearby for the past bit. It was so nice to have linkshell chatter in my ear again I felt like crying with happiness.

*yawns*

Ohhhh my. Lazy few days forrr me. Naltai and I haven't leveled recently but we did run into a super helpful red mage who helped us get our skull. So we are set for subjobs... as soon as we manage to get back to leveling =^.^=

I recently discovered that Windhurst is very well known for it's silk cloth production and as such, the thread used to make the cloth is in very high demand, after selling a stack I pulled the crystals I've horded in my moghouse out and managed to get my Bonecrafting up to level 6. I'm making arrowheads, which I've been forcing upon Naltai because she made the mistake of telling me she wished to level woodworking >:)

I've also spent the time working on my "image". As anyone who has met Nanaa knows, half of being a thief is style. Firstly, I decided to be a trendsetter and came up with this:



Cute huh? Naltai seemed to like, and since I did it I've noticed a few mithra running about with tail ribbons as well.

I'm also not much of a fan of Lizard armor. For a mithra, who is naturrrally tan who happens to have brown hair, decking myself out in brown armor is just ... blah. So after much shopping I came up with this outfit:



What do you think? It's muuuuch easier to move in too. I can't stand heavy armor.