格好は常に整えておくべきだよ。

Sorry, been very inconsistent where and when I post my updates...

 Neo joined the family a long while back.

He seems to enjoy doing random poses with the Kano "twins".

JD got an Abyss Crescent

 Banshee joined the family

Don't know why, but these two look quite nice together.

Judith gets her school uniform.

It's too cold for bikinis

I could have sworn I posted this, but I guess it resides on Twitter and not here.  So this is about two months behind? ^_^;  This was when the bikinis were made available during summer event.

Lynn gets her bikini and Sirius got his school uniform from Armonia daily.

Risky was whining about something and Amy got irritated.

"I don't have time to listen to your problems!"

teenage!Claire and Nena lazying about at the the pool, Amy's not happy about it.

"Girls! There's lots of work to be done!"

It's Pink!

Little Naomi-chan (Lorraine) got her Marine Look costume.
It's pink.
Yes.
It's pink.

Kind of annoyed by the quality of the screencap.
JPG is fuzzy, but so is this PNG.
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Baby Polar Bears & Dark Moody Warriors

Finally got the Polar Bear Costume for chibi-Yukine-chan!  His friend got one too.  <3

Some black clad people joined the family as well.  Yuuia, Azrael, and Mjolniria.

Is this The End?

Character #148 Silver Flash Lyn

Named her Kandia because she looks like Kanda Yuu from D.Gray-man.  :p

Yes, regular Lyn will be Yuuia.  :p

Family Level is currently 79-34% at 148 characters*, all at HM 10-100%

*One of each character currently released, with exception of 3 Asoka, 3 Kess, 3 Viki, 2 Cadet Lionel, and 2 JD.

No plans to add more at the moment until new characters arrive.

~~~

And that's it...  I log on to do some dailies and then poof.  Since there's nobody left to level!  I'm too lazy and bored after all that Vesping... tired of looking at the black walls in SCR... turning into a mole... I don't feel like using the remaining spots to level stocks.  (Ten characters yet to be released would bring me up to 158, meaning four free spots.)

One of the long time veterans posted on the GE Forum that they are finally quitting.  They talked about goals that they kept revising, but finally they are done, no more.

I've kind of been thinking I *might* be at that point too.  My never ending goal was to max out all the/all my characters.  I've done that... I've collected all the currently available characters and even had some duplicates.  All of them have Expert stances leveled (the duplicate Kesses don't have Punisher and extra Vikis doesn't have ET; but they have Heavy Stinger and Trance Robo).  Even Bareknuckle.  LOL  (So obsessive about completing that stance.)

I used to have To Do lists of things I wanted to collect and things I needed to work on, but after revisiting them, they are quite outdated/long since completed.  I have a few Strata recipes that I want, but I'm not sure about working on Armonia.  Even if I did, everything would be at +5 because of this new upgrading system...

The only things left is maybe the costumes that I used to love to collect.  For the hell of it, I put all the costumes (that are currently available for sale in the Character Book) that I don't have under the Cut.  There are some I couldn't get and not for sale, like the Female Fighter Wedding Hair and Costume set.

Oh and get the Tigres medals, but I don't remember the last time I've been to that raid.  There's never enough people or the time is too late.  :<

Maybe I can take a look at what crystals I have for Evil Weapon.  I have unopened Paradox Spoil Boxes.  Maybe try my luck at Naraka Pieces for Strata Recipes.  Maybe get around to opening Bristia Boxes...

Blah, blah, blah...  Three months left in the year.

Costumes Wish List

Race Against Time!

Six more days until June 19th, my five year anniversary of playing Granado Espada!

I don't think I'm going to be able to finish vesping the last two characters to High Master 10-100% and even less likely to reach Family 77.

There's no Bane on the MM for the past few days... and everyone on broad is selling at highway robbery prices...

Plus, I'm still missing Spy Olivia, Rosa, Snowflake Cherlyn, Selene, Rachel, Cutie Claire, Student President Ludin, Jane, Jin, and Snowflake Montoro.  :<

Here are the costumes I selected from the Charles Event:

I had 10 points left.  D:
If only I had stayed on 30 more hours!

Though, I don't know which hair I would picked: Soho, Heiran, Marchetti, or Mia.
I didn't really care for any of those, which is why I didn't choose them.

I have all the other costumes and hairs.

Declawing results in less offense powa!

A few ramblings followed by a few pictures.

I finally crafted something, I can't remember the last time I crafted anything.  ;_;  Chipping is a headache, that has never changed.  orz

I picked the Fealty of Terhea Costume (sword) from the Nightmare of Abyss Event.  I wish the would have let us go for another week or made them tradeable.

The World Cup Event ended, but all I got were Cards, Potions, and SCs.  Where were Punisher and Innocentio?!  Where was Character Card Box?!

Regarding Earring of Cepheus for Sirius quest, Armonia En Celar mobs hurt and keeping PF isn't fun.  But a miracle happened for me.  The Earring dropped after seven minutes for me.  [I sound like a giddy little girl.  :p ]

 Pouty

Crybaby

Shiny

 Until next time, hang in there Castillians...

Gummy Bears & Aloe Vera

I realized this post was siting in draft and never got posted...
This is old now, but here's the post anyway:

Family reached level 65 with the addition of the 105th character and vesp and vesp and vesping.  Still shooting for that goal of family level 70!  33 at Master 15, 47 at Master 10,  16 at Master 5, and 9 at Master 1.

Got the event costume for Grandies, working on the hair now!

Current post:

~Recruited Nena on the first day of the patch, but didn't create her until a week later.  I thought there might be some chance to get Barrack Slots other than paying a horrendous amount of vis, alas, things got worse this week (see paragraph below), so had to suck it up and pay with Feso.

Max: *eyes Nena* That ass is mine.

Laurent: *facepalm* Focus, please, we're on a mission.

Stella: *cringe* Why am I on this team?

~Reached 14,000 BAP favor rate, but haven't opened any Soldier Boxes since last November.  I have a sinking feeling that the exchange rate isn't going to be better since T3 is messing up everything.

~Still no 13th Moon Piece, Cain hates me.  :\

~10,000 Veteran B Exp cards collected (not on me though)

Complaint Box:

T3Fail blotched my ability to vesp last week by making CAA pk-able again.  I mean, really, we've been through this how many times?  You can't put this on your checklist to review before you roll out new patch?  And they still missed it this week.  Too busy thinking about the money they'll make from selling Growth Stones in the Cash Shop.  I mean, the most essential stuff like Barrack Slots (for more characters to raise your family level) and items used to upgrade and enchant gears got put in to Feso Shop.  Yet, the primary ability to get the Feso is by buying Growth Stones in the Cash Shop.  Win for T3, loss for non-Cash players.  I haven't been, or at least I tried not to be, vocal about stuff, but today's patch notes was the last straw for me.

Piece of rice on cheek

Family Level reached 64, four dozen (48) characters left to get to Master 10, then the process of getting them all to Master 15 (88)!

Here is my collection of stock male characters' Capitaine Costumes!

Models: (left to right) Benecio, Vincenzo, Etienne, Giorgio, Mercurcio

Happy two year anniversary!

Midnight Snacks, it's what we do!

Here are a few highlights for the past week!

Went on a CT run and on the 12th floor Punisher was rolling, but alas, it was not to be.  Constantin (Kaisse) is without that stance.  :<  The poor guy only has Flintlock and was leveled to Master with Outrage.  ^^;  What can I say, I'm frugal, conserving my vis for other things instead of buying bullets for Flintlock.  In any case, Outrage is better to use for AFK leveling.

Still keeping eye out for last two old cash costumes and the hair for Mifuyu.  Was gifted a fiery weapon costume!  *_*  Except that Isabella (BSI) uses a greatsword instead of polearm, so not likely to see the costume.  Secret!Hidden!Weapon!Costume!  ;3

Crafted another Artifact!  I received help with the Soft Cotton Yarn.  (Thank you!!!)  I've been doing my best to keep up with Durant quests in hopes of getting Artifact materials.  Sometimes I get lazy...  It takes me about three ET buffs with Francois (Ion) and Octavia (Cathy INT) running up and down collecting up mobs and AOE'ing.  Next goal is to reach 100 Royal Insignia.

Attended Fury Sekhmet and got a Magama Storm Ring (Ludin's Efreet skill)!  :o  I've only started to go recently because I happen to be around.  From the sounds of it, the roll rate is low?  It's going to be like Pokemon, gotta catch them all!  (Ferret snatch!)  I have all the Frost rings because they drop in BH Ice Wizard, but I haven't paid attention to my Tempest rings, not really sure where I got them from because I don't go to Lightning Gate (I'm guessing this is where they drop?), plus I'm not a Beatrice user, so I'm not pressed to get them.

Another thing about clan raids, before the server transfer we took pride in keeping the number one rank on the server, but since the transfer, every week the ranking refreshed, and now we only do them when we get a new member who needs them for Family Attribute quests and the occassional member who isn't already Esmero.  Clan raids used to be the only time I really interacted with the clan.  They were short and kinda fun, and it was where I got my Books for Ion quest.  ^^;  (I kind of want to see us finish Curse of Red Sunset Forest, that was one we had difficulty under G1, I'm sure we would have no problem finishing it now.)

Nowadays it's only going to Montoro with clannies.  CT isn't fully clan and neither is ToC.  ToC I tend to have reliable people I ask* and we generally are able to start ASAP without the room having to restart.  (Thank you, timely people!)  Asking in Clan Chat is usually met with a wall of silence.  :<  The clan members for TP runs at night have started to shrink...

Which leads me to the last subject... that I will post next week.  Yeah, I'm pulling American Idol Ryan Seacrest, "The results... when we come back [from commercial break]."  Poor cliff hanger.  This post is getting too long, I figured I would save it for another week.  Or maybe I just want you guys to come back next week.  XD

[*I think I do all right when I try to organize Crow/Back Alley/ToC runs, a few times I did okay with Tigres, but CT takes too many people and I'm just not up for trying to organizing one.  Ferret is not a leader by nature.]

I leave you with pimp!Max, sitting on the couch at the end of Circus.

Why do I suddenly want to see Joey and Max faceoff?

JosephDominic: How many times do I have to tell you to refrain from calling me that name?
Maximilian: I'm sure I can beat pretty boy.  :D*  [grin with sparkle in teeth]
JosephDominic: [...]  I am surrounded by idiots.

Camel Express

I felt like celebrating and created the Asoka I got from the previous Playtime Event.  She became the 100th character!  I got the Sellasarse Bariante costume for her, though waiting on the corresponding hair.  I named her Mifuyu (perhaps uncreative, but I guess because we won't get her on this server, I wanted her to be represented).  Asoka is the only character I have double of.  (I don't consider my four Catherine robots "repeat" characters, as they have unique Expert stances.)

There have been a few times when I went to turn in my daily Viron box quest to Jun that Elminor was "fake alive" and standing but not attacking.  Here is Chelsia, whom I took out of Quarters to see if T3 let me keep her Summer costume.  (The Rosa Event was not officially announced and was active for a few days.  I managed to get in three days for three Rosa Notes and got the costume before T3 discontinued the event, but didn't know if they let us keep the costumes or removed them.)  Here it looks like Chelsia summoned Elminor with her book. :o

Speaking of events, the previous two weeks have been trying to do missions where roulettes gave Shiny Crystal Chests.  Did Castilla Mines and Castilla Relics and Max (Veil) went from Master 7 to Master 9 (took him during Clan Wars too and got 100% EXP).  Looks like he will be the next to get to High Master.  Currently waiting to hear results of the winners of event.

Lately clan and some allies have started back up on doing Tigres raid.  We took a break since September when it first came out, because we were stuck on Floor 5 and sometimes it was hard to find twelve people around to do it due to time and interest (and the usual difficulties of securing a tank).  I guess because there's not much else going on, people are looking for something to do and up for the challenge(?).  In any case, we have completed 5th floor (with less than a minute to spare).  Hopefully we will improve with more practice.  See Tigres Prison Raid Medals.  There is a Easy and a Hard version!  Just added 4th Floor Easy version today!  \(^.^)/

Lovely Ladies of Summer

A few updates since last time and then regarding the post title.  ^.^

Made attempt at Naraka Alchemy...  Of the nineteen pieces I put in, I got seven for a 36.8% exchange rate.  :x

Some costumes became available for sale by Feso.  Buckled down and spent 300k on Adriana's glasses.  T.T  So ridiculous, she should come with them in the first place!!!  Her icon has it afterall!

Recruited Veil and Kaisse on patch day (the seven Elemental Jewels were very T.T and I had help with the Pure Otites <3).  Veil is named Maximilian and Kaisse is named Constantin.  (Updated Character Card/Stance Book post.)

Some screencaps from the quests.

JD faces off Kaisse.

The Zeppelin!!!

 The fighter was used to represent our family.

(Nice costume!)

Went on two Tigres Prison raids!  :o  We made it to fourth floor so far.  Someday... when we make it to the ninth floor... for...  Heavy Stinger Stance Book?!  Still need Punisher for Constantin.

Now, onward to the Lovely Ladies of Summer!  There's a Rosa Event at Bahia.  The rewards consist of Summer Hair and Costumes for Grandies, Beatrice, and Marie.  I used alts and grabbed the sets for Grandies and Beatrice.  (Marie's is not tradeable.)  Then I got myself the Bahia Mascot Medal which gives HP +1.  I will get two more.  :o

The initial quest is buying a Small Watermelon for Rosa.  Then the next day you get a different quest.  So far I have seen five different quests.

✿ Bahia Defensive Operations ~ You have to defend the colony from six waves of Level 130* mobs, after the fourth wave, the Martial Arts boys (a.k.a. Gertrude, Gracielo, Baek Ho, and Irawain) show up and assist you.  *Level of mobs is based on the team you use during the combat.
❀ Test of Rosa ~ You have to beat up the MA boys, they are Level 120*.  *Level of MAs are based on the team you use during the combat.
✿ Cleaning the Tourist Spot ~ Kill 15 Rusty Zealot, 15 Vedanobah, and 15 Hell Hound in Al Quelt Moreza Nartex.
❀ Dish for Stamina Recovery ~ Buy 1 Frozen Marlin from girl in Outside Bahia and 1 Emmenthal Cheese and 1 Silken Tofu from lady in Port of Coimbra.
✿ Local Products War ~ Buy 1 Ferruccio Milk and 1 Chocolate from lady in Port of Coimbra and Lisa, respectively.

To be updated if more to come...

Here are the Lovely Ladies of Summer!

Grandies' ponytail is a bit odd to me.

♥ ♡ Marie ♥ ♡

Beatrice is too smexy.  (Garter, really?)

Reminds me of Female Scout's bikini.

Ah!  I should screencap stock character swimsuits too!

Cottontail

Some happy things.  :)

Exchanged costumes with Sewing Boxes the other day and got a new addition to the collection! Just a five more of the old Cash Shop costumes to go.  :D

Was able to get the two items related to crafting, so I permitted myself to buy a decently priced Lionel hair.  :x

Got a Elite Ziz Bracelet from BH Medusa!  Now I just need the fire and ice bracelet for the set.  :o

Also today, got a ELNr Wiz from Crow raid.  Which... is like omg finally!  Something from this raid!  Too bad it's only worth 10m now...  T.T

The only other times I've gotten anything of worth...  Last year I got a Whisper of Forest from Prison.  This year got a Constellation pistol recipe from BH Occulta and a Serpent Cannon from BH Minotaur.  Otherwise it's been Dullahan, Kobold, and Werebear stuff.  Oh!  And a General Plate recipe from ToC.  :p  (Where's my GCr???)

I also been meaning to write about my dear little pets.  ^.^

Coco ~ Romecio - Rome, Italy (quest)
Poppet ~ Venicio - Venice, Italy (quest)
Moppet ~ Milania - Milan, Italy (quest)
Panpan ~ Turincio - Turin, Italy (Halloween Box)
Rudolph ~ Riminia - Rimini, Italy (Christmas Event)
Cockatrice ~ Hugo - named after friend who gifted as birthday present (Cash Shop, gifted)
Sys ~ Felix - Felix the Cat (Letizia Shiny Box, gifted)
Black Dragon ~ Velskud from Dragon Nest (Alphabet Box Event)
Red Tiger ~ Watson from Sherlock Holmes (Halloween Event, gifted)
Pigling ~ Shirley as feminized name for Sherlock Holmes (Feso Shop, gifted)
Acorchado ~ Joey because JD wouldn't let me call him Joey! >O (Cash Shop, gifted)

I have an Arctic Wolf pet box, but I haven't gotten around to creating it.  Might consider naming it Murakumo from Zone-00.

Random Screen Cap: Liung Twins!

Red Bean Mochi

Not a whole lot of new stuff since the other day.  Though I wouldn't mind another ToC tanking adventure.  XD

Crafted Cobra ring, aiming for a second!  Paired it with the Drunken ring and Leopold's (Barrol) doing well, might be the next one to get to High Master.  (He needs a costume...)  Have the complete set for Distortion Cube but no plans to craft it.  :p

Promoted Shane (Liung) to Master!  Slow poke!  Tried him at TPs but couldn't get Shock to land, though he landed Gravitation.  And now back to my regularly scheduled* leveling of trios to Master.  Current victims trios: Alexia (Romina), Natalia (Soso), and Bruno (Irawain).
*I'm not kidding about regularly scheduled; I literally have a schedule.  o.o!

Took Delia (Ludin) and Francois (Ion) to ToC.  It's so nice to see him in that costume.  I'm weird...  I can't stand his blue hair because it looks unnatural (same with Daria and Natalie) and his original clothing looks tattered like he's a pauper.  D:  The blonde hair looks funny with the original outfit and the new costume looks funny with the blue hair.  When I get around to it, I should bring Torsche out with her Belle De Jour set and pose her next to him.  Her hair makes me think of Gwen Stefani and the coloring on the dress...   >.<;  I'm hard to please when it comes to costumes?  ^.^;

Also bought a Grace Summer Hair.  >_>;  It was decently priced.  There's a decently priced matching costume, but... I'm keeping an eye out for something related to crafting instead, so will have to pass on the costume.  :x  I hope I don't end up with the opposite of buyer's remorse.  Always think, "I'll buy it when the price goes down."  Chances are it doesn't go down and worse, it never comes back!  T.T  Still... the little piece of hair makes me happy.  Because I think it's pretty.  ^.^

Now I'm finally going to get around to posting Joey's Magic Bean adventure.  But since it's been awhile, I don't remember what it dropped.  There were White Gold Bars...  Level 33 Melee Crystals...  Rumins...  I didn't get around fast enough and the Giant woke up.  I should have started off by turning on Shirley (Pigling).

 Magic Bean planted by accident... wasn't paying attention to the seeds in Inventory.

 Was a bit disappointed, I really wanted to see Joey actually climb up that bean stalk!  XD

You get five minutes to click on the boxes.  I had Romecio (Coco) out at the time.

Maybe next time I'll post my lovely pets.  <3
(Thank you.  You know who you are.)

*squish*Joey*squish*

JosephDominic: Unhand me
I'm a ferret... I don't have hands.  Perhaps you mean "unpaw" you?
JosephDominic: -.-'

翼を持つ者

Not too much news to share.  Kielce Back Alley Poor favor rate is over 7000.  :o  Though I don't have the Bristia Soldier Boxes to test if it makes a difference since last time.  Should probably just wait until I hit 8000 favor rate or 200 Boxes (could be awhile, laugh).

I recently treated myself to a Ion costume set.  :x  I haven't bought anything in ages and the set was much cheaper than what it was when it first came out.  My vis is primary used for materials for crafting and what not and few roulettes (like the last few floors of Clock Tower).

I really miss the Quinzel costume boxes from G1.  At least back then non cash players had more chances of either getting costumes or costumes from opening boxes.  Now it feels like this Lucky Shop put a gate and only the cash players are really getting the costumes and selling them for horrendous prices.  With the economy being the way it is, had to prioritize what vis is spent on.  (It's pretty desperate when you have to start NPC'ing drops from maps for vis...)

Which makes me sad because costumes were the primary reason I starting played the game.  Some people were in it for the PVP or super raids.  Raiding is fine.  I'm not a PVPer.  Everyone can enjoy what they like about the game.  But since costumes aren't readily available and affordable... well... the game starts to have less and less draw for me.  :<

I was able to get a few costumes in the beginning from a friend who had extras and I bought the corresponding Hair.  I stopped following what costumes came out after... Raven's Butler costume.  I think there's also Marie Summer, Tora Assassin, Grandies Summer, and Beatrice Summer sets that came with character card and stance book (or whatever).  I used to rely on Ashardalon's blog for Cash Shop stuff that came out, but I think he's given up on posting those for T3.

Some costume screenies.  Because it makes me happy.  T.T  (Then why am I crying?)

 I really like Grandie's costume.  ^.^

 Veronif looks like Velma from Scooby-Doo.

Ralph always looked rather hunchbacked to me in that costume.

Ion looks so much better in this than his original.  I like that little wing on his left shoulder.

The pants could be longer though and it looks like he's not wearing socks.

Vincent looks less creepy in this costume, though the pants look like ballerina tights.

 Posing with friend to compare Ion's outfits.

Costumes I don't have:
*Asoka Sellarsarse Bariante Hair & Costume
*Grandies Summer Hair & Costume
*Lionel Indigo 9 Hair & Costume
*Female Fighter Wedding Hair & Costume
*Mia Rainism Hair & Costume
*Adriana Sybis Hair & Costume
*Sharon Wavy Shaggy Cut & Shadow Robe Costume
*Raven Butler Suit Costume
And whatever else I missed.  >_>

[Oh!  And something super awesome was crafted today through collaborative efforts!  d(^.^)b]