jecca_mehlota: (Moogle-go-round)
( Jun. 16th, 2009 03:43 pm)
Mog Bonanza winning numbers have been announced (again)! I... I did not fail so much this time? Yay!

Last year, I did not know - none of us did - how they'd be picking the winning numbers? One match was rank 5 (the lowest rank), but was it one match anywhere or did it have to be that you matched the number and order? It was the latter. But though I had purchased ten marbles (the limit), I had not made each one to end with 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. They were all over. So I didn't win anything on... someone. Hisime, I think. Someone won rank 5.

This year I knew better! So all three of them were guaranteed to win at least once! So they all got rank 5. And then Kihara won rank 4, as well, and was almost rank 1, but no such luck. Oh, well.


Now I just need to pick who gets which statue. Fafnir, Behemoth, and Adamantoise... (Currently thinking Hisi, Ki, and Aya, respectively. That may or may not change. As this is important information, I will be sure to keep you posted.) (Actually, maybe Ki will get the turtle and Ayarei will get Behemoth...)

And I need to pick a rank 4 prize, too. Since Ki's supposed to be a mule, it'd be silly to go with the hairpin or boots, so that just leaves the stuff that I'll end up tossing on the auction house. CHOICES.


...Sure, it may have cost me 20k per character for, essentially, three statues, but emptying those blasted marbles out of my inventory is prize enough. Shut up about how if I hadn't spent the gil I wouldn't have had to deal with -30 total inventory room.
Is this Jecca being too lazy to swap to [livejournal.com profile] brinkoftwilight to post this? YES. YES IT IS.

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Place bets now on whether I'll have actually accomplished anything by this time next year!
Oh. Wow. Nostalgia.




.... The opening cutscene for A Crystalline Prophecy is not half as long as I'd been led to believe.



This game turns seven on Saturday. I have been playing for five and a half years (North American release was October, 2003). What.
We have a tree! It is a very nice tree~ But it was very cold when we went to get it! Possibly I froze a bit. But it was okay! Because tree. Plus, the tree farm gives us free hot chocolate and candy canes. We've also got most of our lights up. AND we got a lot of snow over the last few days, so finally things are sparklywhite. Everything is so pretty!

It is also still freezing, but that is what FIRE is for.

We get to decorate the tree soon! We've been meaning to do it already, but I keep having this WORK thing that I have to go to, and it steals all my time away.

Dissidia clips show Shantotto fighting! POSSIBLY I AM MORE EXCITED FOR THIS GAME THAN I SHOULD BE, AND POSSIBLY PART OF THAT IS FFXI CHARACTER IN IT YAAAY shut up i know no one knows or cares we exist .__.

Oh, and since that's a brilliant and totally not planned at all segue. STARLIGHT FESTIVAL!!! It is the best one of the year! TREES! SNOWFLAKES! PRETTY EVERYTHING AND AND YAY

Aaand, this year they changed it up, so the actual game is not completely awful and impossible! Thank you, SE! ♥ Now instead of having to find someone of a specific job and level range, or any of the stuff they asked the first year (it was HONEST TO GOD IMPOSSIBLE the first year. Not so hard after that, but still bad), we just need to find someone of the correct race and gender. It's fun! We don't need to just stand around crying in frustration because there's no Elvaan male with a level 63 Beastmaster anywhere in Vana'diel. (To be fair, 2006 was Treant cheering, but I missed it 'cause of ... I... don't remember? BUT I DID MOSTLY MISS IT. Also, was like a dumbed down version of the original Twinkling Treat event from 2003, which was awesome, so I was a bit disappointed by it.)

PLUS we still get to give presents to the NPCs and more than in previous years yay! And we get to go out and smash boxes. SO NOW I have pretty +1 boots (so now I can call my NPC buddy and have her turn up in the Dream outfit!) and the awesome new items. Bells! We get bells! They ring when you hit things with them! I have the NQ and the +1, so I am EPIC DUAL-BELL-WIELDER. *jingles down the road*


eee I love the Starlight Celebration so much.


So I am warm and happy and the house smells of tree, yay! and I AM IN A GOOD MOOD.


Pretty much the only negative thing right now (ASIDE FROM THE SUBJECT LINE LOOK AT ME AVOID THAT SUBJECT AHAHAH) is that I am having Promyvion dreams. I'm not sure if it was the map-hunting, helping people with Mea, or a combination of the two that set it off, but it's... not fun. Promyvion just sets me on edge so much. Of course, since this is Promyvion and why do things halfway, eh?, as soon as I start waking up, I start forgetting everything. (I'm usually very good at remembering my dreams.) So I just walk around feeling unsettled all day. (I managed to really freak myself out last night and then couldn't get to sleep, too, which was like. Added fun. WORD OF ADVICE if you're visiting the Emptiness in your sleep and are generally unnerved by it and feeling really tired and on edge, do not look out your window and think, kinda looks like Promyvion out there, BECAUSE THEN YOUR MIND WILL SUB IN CRAVERS AND WEEPERS AND STRAYS AND AND mostly the Cravers, really, don't ask me why.)

I am sorry, but Promyvion just sets me right off.

the dust and the-

Maybe I will make an illustrated entry about it later.


BUT. GOOD MOOD.

Just not keen on the idea of going to sleep again. whee~!
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