Wyverns on the brain

When I'm not constantly fishing, there's something about the folks in my linkshell I've noticed. Nearly all of us have Red Mage leveled. In our off time we also all seem to enjoy playing Dragoon. It's like some sort of mass conspiracy. Even the people who don't have Red Mage leveled enjoy Dragoon. I think there's maybe one guy in the whole shell who hasn't jumped on the Stabbing Things in the Face bandwagon with us.

This weekend we slowly rolled up a big Dragoon Katamari.

Two of the folks in our shell had recently unlocked it and were leveling it up from level 1. I tagged along with them and took Carbuncle for a walk. We got to level ten before calling it a night.

The next day we started up again and I pulled out my own Dragoon to join them. So there we were, three level 10 Dragoons ruffing up bunnies in Ronfaure and La Theine Plateau when another member gets on and wants to know what's going on today. We told him of our Dragoon Bunny Stabbing Squad that was going down and he decided to join our merry band.

Before long we had decimated the local wildlife. There was little hope of repopulation.

Turns out another shell member wanted to join in, bringing our total to five Dragoons and we headed out to the Dunes.

It's difficult to describe the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with having 9 other helpers when you go impaling things with a sharp stick. So much jumping and gnawing on faces, it's just magical.

By the time I had to leave to fix dinner we had eradicated all of the lizards and put a large dent in the goblin population. When I got back, two more folks had joined turning it into a full 6 person party composed entirely of Dragoons. Sadly we didn't have enough people to build a full 18 Dragoon alliance so I opted to go back to fishing rather than tank everyone's exp for the night by adding a seventh Dragoon.

Dragoon is a job I've been meaning to level for a long time now(see hints dropped in this blog). Now that I've actually started it, I must say it is everything I had hoped for. It provides a relatively simple alternative to pick up when I get burned out on Red Mage-ing it up and need a relaxing night of killing things. So far it looks like the majority of the complexity of the job will actually be coming from its subjob. This is good, because it means I can have a good level of control over how hectic the job becomes. While I could sub a mage job and get more survivability and utility out of it, I'd just as soon stick with /SAM or /WAR. If I wanted the stress of a spellbook I'd hop back on Red Mage, yeah?

Wyvern helper, a pointed stick and some jumps. I'm really enjoying this.

Buster poses for animal crackers.


Two firsts: Test driving Dragoon in Sarutabaruta at level 1 and my new NPC Liabelle. She hits things and they fall down, I can't really ask for more.


Getting people up to speed while walking Carby. He often took on foes all by himself while we worked on another.


The beginning of the Katamari.


Freg joins us while Gretta and Tryp try to drag me away from the fishing hole.


The Dunes didn't know what hit it, but it was blue and wielded lots of pikes.


We sang Kumbaya around the gobbie campfire.


If you fish long enough, stuff like this happens. Suddenly the world around you starts to break down and you realize that there is no boat.


But it's ok, because you achieve enlightenment and get superpowers, like the ability to breathe underwater.

I felt like sharing

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A weekend is a terrible thing to waste

Screenshot Spectacular: I Can't Remember The Number

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a terrible thing kids. You know how a three day weekend usually gets you all excited because it means three days of uninterrupted adventuring? Yeah, this weekend that turned into three days of not playing so my hands can have some time to heal before work starts again.

So instead of venturing forth it's time to slow down and have a screenshot recap of where I've been wandering off to without any adult supervision.

We had some new members joining the Linkshell recently. Here they are being initiated and taking an oath about punching bunnies, or maybe that's just how I like to remember it.

I spent a lot of time taking pictures of all the fireworks this summer. There's something about it that just makes me feel really settled into the world.

I can't help it guys, I just really like the way some random shots come out. This one is from Port Bastok.

We decided to take the Tarus for a walk and also to kill a Notorious Monster for some Artifact Armor in the Citadel.

Our Linkshell had a night of BCNM runs. Much fun was had by all. Loot...not so much, but it was a lot of fun trying to keep track of eight monsters at once and keep them all pinned down.

*shakes head sadly*
At least I had the sense to not use my standard online handle in-game. It just makes you look like a fool. I've never really understood the desire to mimic the franchise while within the franchise itself. Just seems silly to me.

This is about par for the course when my friends and I go trioing.

Here we are waiting on a new person Lies had recruited to the game. I think we were waiting for the better part of four hours and they didn't show up. Finding new folks to adopt is difficult these days.

This is what happens when people from Windurst try to fish.
*ducks incoming shoes and vegetables*


Low level Linkshell party...Assemble! There was much fun rampaging through Korroloka Tunnel that night. It's always fun to take some friends and head out to non-standard locations. I'd take that over another generic round of Qufim and the Jungles any day.

Carbuncle is awesome. Summoners who know how to actually use him are also awesome. Go go radioactive squirrel crowd control!


Against my better judgement I wandered back to the Windurst side of the world and headed underground, where I found the Three Mage Gate. It's an intoxicating atmosphere.

Bored and restless, a few folks in the linkshell decided it would be a brilliant idea to trio an avatar fight. I think it went well.

Another victim...er, recruit to the Linkshell. We sent this one into the Oubliette.

Once again it's up to the Doctor to clean things up.


After the initiation adventures in the oubliette it was time for some good old fashioned bunny punching.

We went to Tavnazia for some CoP missions, but more importantly: Taru Bongos!

I also managed to lose some gil betting on sheep pit fights.

The closest thing we had to a group photo that night. I really must go back there some time and poke around the scenery.

In unrelated news, I'm now crafting Holy Water for pure profit. One step closer to financial independence.


This frightened me enough that I had to take a picture.

Lies is responsible for this project. We're experimenting with crawler go-karts.

The linkshell went around mugging people until they gave us slave NPCs. Now if I could just figure out how to get them to stick around longer...*schemes*

Wardrobe change courtesy of the Linkshell. This'll do 'til I get my Warlock's Tabard. Still not chucking my Baron's Saio though, that thing is stupid useful.

Of course there was fishing. How could there not be fishing? What there hasn't been lately, is a good haul of Moat Carp however. I'll need to work on that.

Until next time children, remember not to punt the Tarutarus in Jeuno, the guards don't like that much.