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jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-07-28 01:07 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-07-28 01:07 pm
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But I... like... dinner...
D'you know what I need to do? Empty my screenshots folder onto either my external harddrive or onto CDs. D'you know how I know this? Because they've stopped saving. WOE!
Fortunately, there are ways to replay cutscenes in FFXI, so I can just go watch them again and screencap them to death a second time. Shoot, though. That's just annoying. ... ooh, wait. Maybe this time I'll remember to turn my name off. oho!
But aside from that, my brother, Aniko, and I went all, MISSIONS!!! last night at the FFXI: Wings of the Goddess expansion pack.
There are only eight missions out so far. The next update is set for September, where we'll undoubtedly pick up a few more.
That's the problem with buying the packs right when they come out. Then there are a million updates and you have to wait for everything and sometimes it's a bit annoying because you want to keep going RIGHT THEN, but... I mean, it's not like waiting is any better. Sure, the later you buy the game, the less updates you'll have to it through (since they do update the sold products to carry the information the rest of us had to download).
ANYWAY. Nabs and I were only on the third mission, because we're poky-slow and, mostly, too low-level to deal with the monsters they throw at you every so often. But sometimes Aniko has free time and sometimes we are even like, LET'S DO SOMETHING (or, you know, usually it's her doing that, but whatever). And then sometimes we actually do something.
Mostly it involved running around in Bastok, where the cool thing to do is hate Galkas. Poor Galkas. We had to go find their secret weapons store so they could all be murdered or whatever - except, of course, they didn't have a secret weapons store, so haha, morons. Anyway, I got lost trying to find the cave in Grauberg and ended up wandering through Hippgryph territory. I don't like those things. Those things don't like anyone! They have True Sight, so then can see you even if you're invisible. Jerks. But there was a short cut, so I got to run down a series of waterfalls, and it was all very pretty! ... and then I got aggro'd by a Chigoe, which is not good, but I was so close to the place I needed to reach! So I just ran for it (I had shadows up, so I had three guaranteed misses, at least), triggered the cutscene, and, when I exited the cutscene, I was ready to hit Perfect Dodge and warp to safety!
Except the thing had gone and run off, so, er. Yay! I was safe!
We killed Quadav (they'd apparently stripped and tied some poor Elvaan ambassador after capturing him while he was on his way to Bastok)... found out the Galkas were, in fact, innocent of murdering the guy we'd been working for. It was a TONBERRY.
Blasted things. They get everywhere!
That finished off the Bastok leg of Mission 3, and we'd finished Windurst a while ago, so we took off for San d'Oria, which is, so far, my favourite of the three cities. In the past, I mean. EVERY TIME, EVERYWHERE. SAN D'ORIA!
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCENMILLE LIVED TO ADULTHOOD, HONEST TO GOD.
He and Rahal, man, I just do not know.
Anyway, the little idiots had us running off to Jugner to rescue Altennia (who's lovely. I adore her so much! So I can't blame them for liking her), who'd been captured by ORCS. Of course, the San d'Orian knights were also going out looking for her, but leaving these things to people who know what they're doing isn't how we operate, sadly.
ORC KILLING finished off Mission 3! (Teeechnically, we'd finished Mission 3 when we finished Windurst, since you only have to do one city, but since you can do all three, I see no reason why not to!)
During that, we learned that the previous king had been killed... well, by orcs, but orcs working with Elvaan, and they wanted to get Destin, now. No! YOU CAN'T. I LIKE DESTIN I WILL FIGHT YOU TO THE DEATH TO PREVENT YOU FROM KILLING HIM.
Then Excenmille put me on cleaning duty, but I told him I didn't want to, not that he listened. I refused, and ran off to continue doing missions.
Of course, the next five focused around San d'Oria, so we didn't actually go anywhere. Except back to the present, to Jeuno, because we needed to steal some guy's ticket, ha.
The apparently famous Troupe Mayakov (a bunch of dancers led by a man who lisps and poses rather like a girl, um) was going to be performing, so we wanted to go! But we didn't have a ticket... we saw one unfortunate man be dragged away by his wife before the show started (she threatened no dinner! But he likes dinner, so he had to leave)... and then we went to the present. He's in Jeuno watching the new dancers, and he comments he almost saw the best dancers ever, once, but wasn't allowed. He's regretted it all his life. GOOD JOB, WIFE. Anyway, he still had the ticket, but he was going to throw it away right there, so we took it, instead. Then he called Adventurers weird. Can't blame him.
DANCERS! They danced. (Actually, we almost weren't let in, but Ragelise, a high-ranking Elvaan (captain of one of the units), told them to let me in because we were friends. We weren't, but I guess he'd been hearing about me.) One of the dancers was a Hume/Elvaan hybrid named Lilisette.
After the performance, Cait Sith wandered around and we chased after her while Ragelise and Mr. Mayakov discussed their plans for the Mayakov Troupe to help in the war effort.
Lilisette attacked us while we were speaking with Cait Sith! THEY CAPTURED HER. She made adorable distressed noises (they've added little voice-bits, like when someone falls into the river? THERE'S A VOICE THAT YELLS. It's hilarious, for some reason.)
Long story that was fairly obvious but still a bit confusing, Lilisette is also from the future, and she's been using the Cavernous Maws because she wants to change history. Oh, Lili, no. That's never a good idea.
But, what's this? Ragelise and some others are riding out to La Vaule! That seems weird, so we follow, and, oh, by the way?
For those who don't know? La Vaule is a San d'Orian outpost/monastery-of-sorts place.
Except in the present, when it's an ORC outpost.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know how that's going to go.
Let me just say, as absolutely amazing as these cutscenes are, and as... KICK ASS AWESOME as Ragelise is (holy gods, fangirling. He is amazing. SERIOUSLY, WHY CAN'T PEOPLE FIGHT LIKE THAT IN THE PRESENT? WHYYY)...
Watching parts of the Davoi slaughters? Was not high on my list of things I ever wanted to see.
SE, that was really mean of you.
We met a couple lunatic... shadowy dudes, one of them hit Ragelise with something that'll kill him (in ten years.... which is what Lilisette had come to try to prevent because surprise! He's her father. Except he originally got the wound somewhere else, so CRAP WE'RE CHANGING HISTORY OR SOMETHING).
And then we saw a bunch of images through... some void that were scary and disturbing and I hope I never have to look at that stuff again.
Reminded me a bit of Promyvion, actually, with the decay and the dying and the dead and the broken down everything everywhere. Ugh.
AND THEN WERE WERE NINE CAIT SITHS AND MY HEAD HURT. But that was the end. And now we much wait until September to do anything else.
And then I went to bed at a very, very stupid hour.
This was supposed to be a short post! Um, oops. I should change the cut text to read CUT BECAUSE IT IS RIDICULOUSLY LONG, but I don't feel like doing so.
THIS POST WOULD BENEFIT STRONGLY FROM IMAGES.
STUPID EVERYTHING.
Fortunately, there are ways to replay cutscenes in FFXI, so I can just go watch them again and screencap them to death a second time. Shoot, though. That's just annoying. ... ooh, wait. Maybe this time I'll remember to turn my name off. oho!
But aside from that, my brother, Aniko, and I went all, MISSIONS!!! last night at the FFXI: Wings of the Goddess expansion pack.
There are only eight missions out so far. The next update is set for September, where we'll undoubtedly pick up a few more.
That's the problem with buying the packs right when they come out. Then there are a million updates and you have to wait for everything and sometimes it's a bit annoying because you want to keep going RIGHT THEN, but... I mean, it's not like waiting is any better. Sure, the later you buy the game, the less updates you'll have to it through (since they do update the sold products to carry the information the rest of us had to download).
ANYWAY. Nabs and I were only on the third mission, because we're poky-slow and, mostly, too low-level to deal with the monsters they throw at you every so often. But sometimes Aniko has free time and sometimes we are even like, LET'S DO SOMETHING (or, you know, usually it's her doing that, but whatever). And then sometimes we actually do something.
Mostly it involved running around in Bastok, where the cool thing to do is hate Galkas. Poor Galkas. We had to go find their secret weapons store so they could all be murdered or whatever - except, of course, they didn't have a secret weapons store, so haha, morons. Anyway, I got lost trying to find the cave in Grauberg and ended up wandering through Hippgryph territory. I don't like those things. Those things don't like anyone! They have True Sight, so then can see you even if you're invisible. Jerks. But there was a short cut, so I got to run down a series of waterfalls, and it was all very pretty! ... and then I got aggro'd by a Chigoe, which is not good, but I was so close to the place I needed to reach! So I just ran for it (I had shadows up, so I had three guaranteed misses, at least), triggered the cutscene, and, when I exited the cutscene, I was ready to hit Perfect Dodge and warp to safety!
Except the thing had gone and run off, so, er. Yay! I was safe!
We killed Quadav (they'd apparently stripped and tied some poor Elvaan ambassador after capturing him while he was on his way to Bastok)... found out the Galkas were, in fact, innocent of murdering the guy we'd been working for. It was a TONBERRY.
Blasted things. They get everywhere!
That finished off the Bastok leg of Mission 3, and we'd finished Windurst a while ago, so we took off for San d'Oria, which is, so far, my favourite of the three cities. In the past, I mean. EVERY TIME, EVERYWHERE. SAN D'ORIA!
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCENMILLE LIVED TO ADULTHOOD, HONEST TO GOD.
He and Rahal, man, I just do not know.
Anyway, the little idiots had us running off to Jugner to rescue Altennia (who's lovely. I adore her so much! So I can't blame them for liking her), who'd been captured by ORCS. Of course, the San d'Orian knights were also going out looking for her, but leaving these things to people who know what they're doing isn't how we operate, sadly.
ORC KILLING finished off Mission 3! (Teeechnically, we'd finished Mission 3 when we finished Windurst, since you only have to do one city, but since you can do all three, I see no reason why not to!)
During that, we learned that the previous king had been killed... well, by orcs, but orcs working with Elvaan, and they wanted to get Destin, now. No! YOU CAN'T. I LIKE DESTIN I WILL FIGHT YOU TO THE DEATH TO PREVENT YOU FROM KILLING HIM.
Then Excenmille put me on cleaning duty, but I told him I didn't want to, not that he listened. I refused, and ran off to continue doing missions.
Of course, the next five focused around San d'Oria, so we didn't actually go anywhere. Except back to the present, to Jeuno, because we needed to steal some guy's ticket, ha.
The apparently famous Troupe Mayakov (a bunch of dancers led by a man who lisps and poses rather like a girl, um) was going to be performing, so we wanted to go! But we didn't have a ticket... we saw one unfortunate man be dragged away by his wife before the show started (she threatened no dinner! But he likes dinner, so he had to leave)... and then we went to the present. He's in Jeuno watching the new dancers, and he comments he almost saw the best dancers ever, once, but wasn't allowed. He's regretted it all his life. GOOD JOB, WIFE. Anyway, he still had the ticket, but he was going to throw it away right there, so we took it, instead. Then he called Adventurers weird. Can't blame him.
DANCERS! They danced. (Actually, we almost weren't let in, but Ragelise, a high-ranking Elvaan (captain of one of the units), told them to let me in because we were friends. We weren't, but I guess he'd been hearing about me.) One of the dancers was a Hume/Elvaan hybrid named Lilisette.
After the performance, Cait Sith wandered around and we chased after her while Ragelise and Mr. Mayakov discussed their plans for the Mayakov Troupe to help in the war effort.
Lilisette attacked us while we were speaking with Cait Sith! THEY CAPTURED HER. She made adorable distressed noises (they've added little voice-bits, like when someone falls into the river? THERE'S A VOICE THAT YELLS. It's hilarious, for some reason.)
Long story that was fairly obvious but still a bit confusing, Lilisette is also from the future, and she's been using the Cavernous Maws because she wants to change history. Oh, Lili, no. That's never a good idea.
But, what's this? Ragelise and some others are riding out to La Vaule! That seems weird, so we follow, and, oh, by the way?
For those who don't know? La Vaule is a San d'Orian outpost/monastery-of-sorts place.
Except in the present, when it's an ORC outpost.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know how that's going to go.
Let me just say, as absolutely amazing as these cutscenes are, and as... KICK ASS AWESOME as Ragelise is (holy gods, fangirling. He is amazing. SERIOUSLY, WHY CAN'T PEOPLE FIGHT LIKE THAT IN THE PRESENT? WHYYY)...
Watching parts of the Davoi slaughters? Was not high on my list of things I ever wanted to see.
SE, that was really mean of you.
We met a couple lunatic... shadowy dudes, one of them hit Ragelise with something that'll kill him (in ten years.... which is what Lilisette had come to try to prevent because surprise! He's her father. Except he originally got the wound somewhere else, so CRAP WE'RE CHANGING HISTORY OR SOMETHING).
And then we saw a bunch of images through... some void that were scary and disturbing and I hope I never have to look at that stuff again.
Reminded me a bit of Promyvion, actually, with the decay and the dying and the dead and the broken down everything everywhere. Ugh.
AND THEN WERE WERE NINE CAIT SITHS AND MY HEAD HURT. But that was the end. And now we much wait until September to do anything else.
And then I went to bed at a very, very stupid hour.
This was supposed to be a short post! Um, oops. I should change the cut text to read CUT BECAUSE IT IS RIDICULOUSLY LONG, but I don't feel like doing so.
THIS POST WOULD BENEFIT STRONGLY FROM IMAGES.
STUPID EVERYTHING.