Badge of Courage: We Survived 500 Bounty Hunts

T.T  Done.  Finally.  Done.  Freedom.  *collapse*

 The last one was Porto Bello.

Running around doing celebratory fireworks.

Like a Chinese New Year Dragon.  ;D

The whole time I was trying to come up with a name for Cadet Elisa.  >_>  It's very un-Ferret-like to not have a name prepared well in advance.  I guess I better start coming up with names for... Pioneer Grandice, Sniper Bernelli, Cherlyn, Freeday, Liung, Vendetta Valeria, and Spy Olivia in case someday they make them available to non-cash players.  Oh, and a name for original Olivia.

Maybe I can finally sleep better at night.  No more BH nightmares.

 (\_(\

  / o-o \

Crafted the Al Risch.  My second Constellation weapon.  Yes, I am that noob.  Read it again, my SECOND Constellation weapon.  I've been playing for almost three years and only have two Constellations.  I've had the Shooting Crystals ready for over a year.  Just never went and got recipes.  Blue Crane put two chips on it.  :D

Ferret is covered in soot!

Did so much but little time to tell it with details.  x.x

Yesterday
✿ Attended fifth Montoro raid
❀ Circus again with Soul Bringer, need more practice with it
✿ Did Bahia Room twice to get Sewing Boxes for Mia stance quest
❀ Duo'd Lightening Gate and got a Diamond Dragon (rifle) to add to collection \(^.^)/
✿ Obtained Fleuret Glacier Stance Book (1st day: Le Dig Scout / 2nd day: Le Dig Musk + 5 Sewing Boxes / 3rd day: 5 Sewing Boxes + Elementalist Rob Costumes/Clara Mago Costume/Le Blanc Costume)  Was lucky I had the first two from Costume Boxes, but Le Blanc is a Rank 1 costume I had to buy recipe and craft.  Added to Tracker.
❀ Made one Panfilo Soup (for Claude)

Today
✿ Clicked webpage 435 times for Playtime Event, got a Ralph Character Card \(^.^)/
❀ Crow with Alicia (Grandice) and Tania (Brunie)  Yes, I call her Grandice instead of Grandies, because Grenmah will always be Grenmah to me and not Grandice!
✿ Finished Natalie/Daria quest (But didn't to start any other quests...)
❀ Crafted Platinum Controller  It came out +4 2S because of Blue Crane buff, also, some chips after, got Summons +2 because of Blue Crane buff too  <3  \(^.^)/
✿ Made three Panfilo Soup (for Brunie, Grace, & Raven)  Unfortunately, favor rate is at 50/100.  I'm so screwed...  I also forgot that ICP uses Diable too, so this actually makes it 45 stances I'm getting...
❀ Clan Raids with Alicia and Tania
✿ TP Rose, Cortes, Nephtys (Switched Alicia out with Octavia [Cathy INT] for the latter two)
❀ Bounty Hunter
✿ Circus, doing better with Soul Bringer
❀ Prepping for Bristia... farming, farming, farming Bulk Coal...  (Hence, a sooty Ferret.)

Counting down to Bristia!  Each day I will reveal a name for a new character.

Today's character - Barrel shall be Leopold

Double Trouble

Did something stupid today and submit a ticket for it.  I hope they will help with it.  :<

Lost three hours on Explorer Pack because went to BH and the clock there messed things up.

Started using CAA pass and trying to level up Omar (Najib), Borus (Coimbra), and Renton (Viki) in hopes of getting to next family level.

Did my usual dailies, CM wasn't being nice with the chip drops.  :x

Hopped over to Illier to clean account a bit and chatted with Eollica-sama.  :o

Might have to do vesping on an alt just to be on the safe side.

Blue Crane helped to chip something and finally got my second Human weapon.  \(^.^)/
(I'm such a weapon failure, there's really not much in my arsenal with racials.)

Nothing too much exciting, as we're back to farming again.  And I'm studying for exam (yet again).

Mostly just waiting for next year, new patch(es), and new content.

One more to go!

Crafted the Chess Greatsword which came out with 2S and fairly decent attack and attack speed.  Also crafted the Serpent Shotgun with +5 1S, less work in those two areas thanks to Blue Crane.  :D

Finished three more expert stances and started on the next three.  Not bad for a week.  Next week will be back to leveling pre-Experts.

I'm excited that I've made progress.  I just might finish before the end of the year.

Six more characters to expert.
Twelve more expert stances.
One more Serpent weapon (javelin).

I'm so glad :)

Got a lot of things accomplished today!  \(^.^)/

Crafted: Magic Belt!  War Crescent (came out 2S)! War Prominence!
Contemplating crafting Serpent Main-Gauche, crazy huh?  It's the last one, less the 100e elemental bracers.
Also hoping for a Magic Leather Glove recipe to craft too.

Chipped: Resonance of Steel (second one)!  War Crescent!  War Prominence!  Elite La Emperador!
I have nine Elite Trumps now!

Socketed: Serpent Bayonet!  Whisper of the Forest!  Serpent Cannon!
Four more to go: War Prominence, Dragon's Fury Javelin, Dragon's Fang Hammer, Angel Knuckle

Crafting and Chipping luck made possible by the Blue Crane!

Was also gifted the Serpent Plate Costume!  Thank you very much!  :D
Now I'm up to date on costumes*!
*Excluding old Cash Shop costumes from before I started playing.


 /update OMG this blog hit 20,100 views!  Thank you readers!

Chaotic Specifications

Went to Prison with new team again, but had them in the wrong ordering, so that messed up the buffing a bit, but I did get faster at buffing.

Perhaps I should try: Org-Pric-Org - swap to DVB rings // Flare - remove brace // Amplify // DVB  // Pink Loli

Rebuff at warp point: Reset ET/Org rings then to DVB rings.  Put on PF ring before ogre room (forgot about that today).  Bleh!  Ring swapping is no fun.  Ferret only has so many fingers on her paws.  :o

I had one ogre cell and am happy to report that I made it out alive today as well.  ^.^;  Felicia got smashed by Testo because I forgot to PF.  >.<;

We had a low showing at Clan Raids today.  Instead of taking my lovely muskies I went with Salvatore (Ralph), Claudia, and Ana for more DPS.  I triple WC'd with Taichou at Griffon.  I didn't have any problems landing the initial WC, but I did a poor job of placing the trio (Griffons were a bit unstable, slashed more wildly than previous week) so Casandria and Mercurcio got smashed.  Clannies were quick to res them though, so that helped a lot.  Thank you!  :D  I even tagged a few items, including a Provoke ring (uh, no... let me get the hang of triple WC before I even attempt to be a tanker... maybe in like 10 years!!!)  Threw both my Provoke rings on Borus (Coimbra).

Chilling out with Taichou with our WC teams

Crafted my White Dagger today.  I don't care what anyone says about White Dagger versus Black Dagger, so don't even start!  It was my decision to craft it.  This dagger was blessed by Blue Crane chipping and now I have another UD weapon.  *_*  Also rechipped the Black Dagger and that one now has Life.  This totally made my day.  \(^.^)/  How interesting that the White one is UD and the Black one is Life!  :o  These two daggers look quite nice together, like the Black and White Bishops.  I need another Golem and another Human weapon... but what?

I might even take Lavinia (Torsche) out now and play with her.  Haven't used her in ages.  D:

Float Like a Jellyfish

Just the usual stuff today!  Being a very quiet ferret in the game.

Item is being stubborn.  D:

Haven't heard back from G1 regarding my ticket.  :x

Met my chips goal so now I can try to re-chip my Dragon Crossbow, hopefully with some Blue Crane luck!  :D

[ PRESS FOR COOKIES ]

The first thing I did was work on upgrading and the two items made it!  Now I have one last item I want to work on.  I hope I don't run out of resources before this one makes it.  Then I will not upgrade anything for the rest of the year.  Not that I have anything I want to upgrade anymore.  ^.^;

Eollica-sama hopped on Orpesia and I suddenly remembered I should check my Illier account to see if there were boxes to spam.  XD  I got there and nudged Eo-sama.  We hung out in Ch1 Auch Leo while I spammed Raiden boxes, nothing exciting, just a bunch of Elite Treasure boxes and I gave Eo-sama two Raiden boxes and she got the same Treasure boxes so I gifted them to her.  (Such a small gift, compared to the work she put in to SG'ing my account there.  D:)  I had fun even though my time on Illier was brief.  (Who doesn't have fun spamming boxes?  XD)  When I get around to farming the last of my next patch materials (mainly the Dragonfly Silk and Black Magic Stone) I'll try to spend some time on Illier again.  It won't be awhile though, I have a hard time being active on Orpesia as it is.  :x

I was gifted Taurus and so Pierre was able to start on Crusader.  ^.^  Thank you very much!  <3  moo-moo~

Had six Angler Spinelles and with Blue Crane buff, three of them turned out to be Anglers!  Talk about good luck!  Best spawnage I ever had!

Had to submit a ticket to G1 for a mission crash.  I hope they respond soon.  >[

Attended Medusa.  It was so laggy that it took 30 seconds before the buff I did would actually occur and I had a hard time switching Ana's Rosario to Rod.  I don't even know if I was able to WC, only saw that Simon passed out on the floor.  >.<  Then it was Ferret's turn to pass out.  zzz

Crouching Ferret

Lay low for the most part this evening.  The first CM run gave me twelve Lv100 Chips and six Vet Chips, the most I've gotten on a single run!  The second run gave me none.  Did a super quick four minute BH Occulta.

I used one hundred and fifty-one Lv92 chips on my Baron weapons until they all got some kind of 30%+ attack.  Still have seventeen Barons left to collect.  I have fifty chips left to put towards trying to get something awesome on my Steel of Resonance.  :<  Hopefully Blue Crane buff will assist with that.

Darian (Garcia) made it to Veteran 5, so I have switched over to Tania (Brunie).  Will alternate the two of them until they get to Expert!

Time to early sleep for this drained ferret.  :<

Work Hard for Dream

Other than the dailies, today included Crow, Clan Raids, and BH Occulta.

Madness Farm started quickly and didn't prepare my Muskies quick enough, by the time I got there the wolf was practically dead.  >.<  I did my best to WC during the raids.  I did my best at Griffon with Ana and got most of them.  Would have gotten more WCs in if I had help with getting Refresh Memory when I asked.  :x  Got a DHr (I have too many of these! So I am trying to craft stuff with them! >.<), a Rare Book of Combat and Rare Book of Shooting.  Now just need ten of each and I'll be ready for next patch!

This week the graphics on my character's HP were on a delay.  The character HP bar was showing full health, but the bar on the squad was showing different status.  D:  I wasn't HP potting and then suddenly my character was almost dead!

I successfully killed the Elite Veilant today without death or too much lag.  ^.^;

Wrapped up the evening by crafting the Serpent Javelin with the buff of Blue Crane!  It came out +2 with 2S.  :D

Summer will end and the leaves will turn again

There was a bit of bummer news at work today that made me feel sad.

But two things cheered me up in the game.  :)

✿ A Sys Pet!  It's like an early birthday present or something.  *_*  It's so cute.  *cuddles* *squee!*

❀ Two Constellation Boxes dropped from Griffon!  Lucky Blue Crane buff yielded a Pisces!  Now Katia and Etienne can learn Unlimited Shot together!  \(^.^)/  Muskies are <3

Thank you so much!  *Ferret cartwheels*

Mother, Sister, Brother Family Outing at Temple

/edit: When someone in the clan specifically calls out your name in Clan Chat that you are to get going to Medusa, you feel obligated to go or else it looks bad reflection on you, even though you're exhausted and didn't feel like going and was about to go to bed.  :\

Trust the Label!

Pretty busy for a Monday night.  Back to back: Prison, Circus, and Crow.

After that was crafting Black Dagger!  With my Blue Crane buff, it came out +4 2S!  Thank you Blue Crane!  :D  I only had two chips to throw on it, without EBs.  39% ATK only.  XD  Ah well, another time!

Now I want to save up Chess Pieces again to make a White Dagger to pair with it. I still have Rapier and Blunt to make (or buy Dragons?).  This weekend I will try to request for Blue Crane buff to craft the Serpent Polearm!  :D  Serpent wise, I still have the Bayonet and Main-gauche.  Actually, I never got around to making the Cresent or Tonfa either.  When I get these eight, I will have at least one of each type of 100e (includes Dragons).

Doubles: LoEs, pistols, crossbows, rods - These are the characters I use the most, most people know I fail at melee except Asoka.  :p  I have a handful of Greatswords, but no decent GS for her.  :<

Dragon crossbow was birthday present from last year and a Serpent pistol was purchased, but otherwise the rest were all self crafted, upgraded, socketed, chipped with my own chips and EBs (alas, chipping luck was not mine).  \o/

Adventure Filled Day

Started the day off mellow.  Decided it could be a good upgrading day.  Requested presence of Blue Crane buffer.  And... then, a miracle happened.  My White Bishop got to +7 on the first attempt.  *_*  SO HAPPY.  To make things just as wonderful, I got it to 3S on the first flux.  *_*  YPPAH OS.

I will never, ever, chip, upgrade, socket it without BC presence!  :O

The evening consisted of a Crow Forest (ironic Jewel Powder) run just before Clock Tower, then Clock Tower to Floor 10 (I admit I got impatient, I self buffed and went after mobs instead of waiting for Rio buff :x ), and the series of clan raids (Book of Combat and two Le Scarce Warlock!).

Also, a little thank you to Elsie-chan.  ^.^  <3

Crow Forest with Taichou and Senpai

Clock Tower - I don't remember what floor, after six o'clock

Ferret's trail of Very Good Beef, leading her to Candlegeister!

Clan Raid - Rafflesia

Etienne & Katia

Drooling over the pistols~!

I love my Muskies~!

I take them any chance I can, which isn't many T.T

Tonight Before You Fall Asleep

Normally attending Cortes causes me a lot of grief, but it went well today.  :o!  Senpai ran though Luci Lab with me and I suffered minimal casualties, though we did have a run in with a swarm of bats that caused delay in arriving in Basement.  Cortes raid was totally comedic to me today.  Nephthys swiped us dead over and over again.  Mobs spawned and escaped to the main floor, reminiscent of my first times at Cortes.  Ararats followed someone in and there was smashing abound.  Random Bog Anglers spawned at the steps.  I went kamikaze a few times attempting to res Taichou's WC team.  Anastasia passed out underneath Cortes as a result.  Ginger and I ressed each other a few times while killing rogue mobs.  James' Emi was bugged, as she continued to remain napping no matter how many times I tried to res her.  Normally all of this would have irked me because it meant prolonging the ordeal.  But tonight, I didn't give a sh1t.  I was laughing amidst the chaos.  :o!

O.o Orly?  o.O Yarly!

I attribute my sense of humor this evening to 1) eating dinner (usually I attend this raid on an empty stomach due to timing) and 2) the magical Blue Crane buff giving me a Pisces from Griffon.  Only one box dropped, so I only had 1/12 chance, such narrow odds.  *_*  Whee!  My first Pisces towards Unlimited Shot* (pew pew pew with my two Serpent Pistols)!

Happy, happy, happy Ferret.  \(^.^)/

Whilst I was laying on the cold floor...

Up close and personal with Nephthys

*Dilemma, who gets the stance first?  Katia or Etienne?  D:  Ack!  I love both my Muskies!  /Q.Q\

What a Wonderful Evening!

Pre-Prison run was a real riot.  I hadn't laughed so hard in weeks.  In effort to conserve FF buff, Senpai stood his Gracielo at the Prison entrance while waiting for the rest of the squad gather.  I took out Rico as well and Ginger followed suit.  The Gracielo triplets waited for Pikachu and I stated that Pikachu was missing out on some Gracielo KO's.  The triples became quadruplets (long lost brothers?).  Then I jokingly suggested we should do Prison with Gracielos.  XDDDDD  /shot

 Thank you Senpai, Ginger, and Pikachu for the giggles!  :D
muchas gracias // muito obrigada

On serious matters, Ferret just barely managed to survive the heat last night, hence, she was able to play and write this post!  :o  The air conditioning was fixed also, so Ferret will recover.  *phew!*

I received assistance with the Mana Stones and purchased the remainder.  Went to Mboma to craft the White Bishop with The Blue Crane in tow.  Lo and behold!  It came out blank +5 1S!  I had just enough to get Upgrade Accelerators and +5 Lacquer.  With the luck given by Blue Crane, it got to +6 on the first attempt.  +6'ing things makes me nervous.  +7'ing things give me ulcers.  So that was exciting.  It also only took one Socket Flux to 2S (though no luck with 3S).  But the most awesome thing was the chipping performed by Blue Crane.  It doesn't have racials, but it got really nice mods.  *_*  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  One happy, happy, happy Ferret.  \(^.^)/

330th & 359th Degrees Celestial Longitude

Today's Prison team consisted of an all star cast of Taichou (used very specialized net to
catch this starfish!), Senpai (ahuehuehuehue no u!), Ginger-kun (kitty returned from
exile!), and James-san (received redemption for ressing my spooked team).  I feel like the
Fifth Beatle to these four Beatles. 

Went to Medusa again this week.  Was permitted to use Laurent (Lionel) instead of Valencia
(Calypso) because of Daemon pistols.  Going to this late night raid puts a monkey ferret wrench in my sleeping pattern.  :x

The most awesome thing happened today!  Blue Crane came with me to Griffin and I got three
Constellation Boxes!!!  I opened two, which were Leo and Aries and gave Blue Crane the third
one to open.

It was...

:o
:o
:o

It was...

:o
:o
:o

A PISCES!!!

I.
CRIED.
MY.
OWN.
GRIFFIN.
TEARS.
OF.
JOY.

(>'.')> Thank you Blue Crane! <('.'<)

The long sought item finally appeared.

I don't know what to do with my second ever Symbol Set...  :x

Took some screencaps in Coimbra.  I don't spend much time there, just pass through to get to
Castilla.  I usually take my poses by Viron's tulip garden and koi pond.

Etienne solemnly ruminating

Freesia the fallen angel

Bunny Marshmallow

Just did the usual dailies.  Blue Crane participated in BH and I got a Le Scarce from roulette, one of the types I didn't have yet.  Got a DHr and two symbols, but Pisces is ever elusive.  A second Constellation weapon is simply a no go for me.  Checked out Cruz event.  Also did Fire Gate, but no Constellation Boxes.  Out of 15 Angler Spins, two were Swamp Anglers, which is a very awesome spawn rate for me (thank you Blue Crane!).  Even though these raids didn't give the things I hoped for, it's always fun time with

I also finally got around to finishing that Gertrude Rat Infestation questline... now I have something else I need to do daily.  >.>

A shout out also goes out to glic-san!!!  Thank you!!

Vantz-chipping-kami-sama "nudged" me on MSN (felt like I was being paged LOL) to have a chipping session.  His chipping magic churned out something good in 10 chips!  *_*  I need to work on other properties before it can make its debut.

I'm exhausted.

The rum drinking conspiring pandas will just have to wait until tomorrow.

(Today was awesome.  Thank you.)

Some screencap spammage instead.

 Evening in Venice?

Never really paid attention to wizards because they were not my forte, 

just realized that the female wizard is rather classic beauty.

Rico didn't get his send off bedtime story.

Post #125: No More Cortez Either!

I should not be permitted to attend Cortez raid as cannon unless I have 33AR cannons.  Since all I did today was muck things up.  Fifth time at Cortez, second time in cannon role, first time with two cannons.  The other cannons were competing on who finished their gate faster and how they only let one mob come out.  I'm standing there trying my hardest, which apparently wasn't hard enough, and had probably up to eight mobs come out before the gate was down.  Used up at least six SCs because the support didn't res me.  But then again, it's my own fault for not being strong enough to finish the gate in the first place.  :\  I don't know what I'm doing wrong because I buffed up and potion up.  All I can think of is having shoddy cannons compared to the other cannons.  Or just being a crappy player.  Both.  I feel so embarrassed.  Cortez raid really shatters any confidence in my abilities that I've built up during the week.

I've never Blocked Whispers before, but there were three people on PM talking to me about cannon.  I was stressed out to the point that I blocked whispers because I didn't want to talk about it anymore.  :\  And the one time I actually blocked whispers I miss an important PM.  LaRo-kun was trying to PM me to catch up.  D:  I think Sword really lost him to Tera.  >.>;  But at least we caught up a bit.  T.T

Today's saving grace was attending Mufasar with senpai which was a very smooth run because I was able to buff (without phone call interruptions), WC'd a few times, and best of all, no Dominator spawnage!  Hallelujah!  BH runs was blessed with appearance of the Blue Crane.

Sorry Maria, I don't know how to use you and Salazar properly, 

so now the two of you won't see the light of day again.

Hector is very tall.

Ferret promised someone a doodle, she will try to get one drawn before bed...

A Celebration?

I just realized today marks my third month in Halcyon Clan!  :o

Today was raid filled because supposedly it was a lucky day.
For me it was kinda break even.  ^.^;
I had fun though!  :D

Circus, CM x2 (I really need to get MQ!!!), Prison, Griffon (one Constellation box), Rafflesia (no box), Scharf (one Constellation box).  I think the trick is that the Blue Crane needs to be in close proximity during the raid or else I don't get a Constellation box (hence, none from Raff).  The lucky buffer pet got me a Scorpio!  :D  And the other was a Capricorn.  Much later in the evening I also went to Medusa.  Ana even got a WC on Medusa.

Might have missed listing another raid, but my secretary is away and I can't function without them.  :x

Thirty-two Level 100 chips to go!!!

And here I am, sharing my childish doodles of Ferret's adventures at work.

Drawn on 2in x 2in (5cm x 5cm) yellow sticky note paper

Top to bottom, left to right:
1) Angry Ferret Shredding Papers
2) Ferret in Matrix Dodging Papers
3) Napping Ferret
4) Ferret Needs Caffeine
5) Sailor Ferret (Mayflower Ferret) & Chief Awaome (friend at work)
6) Big Mac Smoke Signal (Chief Awaome)
7) Milkshake Coma Ferret
8) Terminator Ferret Army ATTACK!!!
9) Ferret's Case of the Cricks in the Neck *tear*
10) Ferret Fury Fireball

Someone evaded treating their friends to a meal again!

New Difficult Project!

Prison went all right, although this raid is starting to lag on me again.  I *think* I killed all the left side mobs in the first room.  I *think* I killed the left Elite.  The Elite Bio was acting goofy and started going on a field trip, away from its usual spot.  I was running out of buffs, but had too many mobs on me that I didn't dare to stop to buff until reinforcements came.  I saw an Elite Fang of Steel flash on the roulette, but it was not meant to be.

CM didn't give me any chips today.  Chagrin!

Because I had time to kill before FF buff, I decided to do BH Occulta and Sedecram.  I forgot to put armor on Geia, so she died while Ana floated to the warp.  I had to SC and Geia's character icon was blacked out.  >.<;  I could put armor on her but I couldn't get her to Moonlight stance.  I had to let her get killed by Nechro so I could res and get her back on Moonlight.  I was too lazy to rebuff Flare, so I made do with only Principal and Strategy on Geia.  I goofed up at Sedecram too, as I forgot to have a White Gold Bar on me for a second Occulta.  >.>;

BUT!!!  The other account got a Silver Earring from Sedecram roulette (unpaid)!  *_*  Wow, awesome considering it's only my fourth solo BH run!  *does a couple ferret flips*

I also attempted Rafflesia, but no luck with Constellation box.  I swear my Blue Crane needs to be present when I do this raid for loot drop buffing!!!  *pout*

El Pat FF treated me kindly.  :)

I was done for the day.  :o

Or so I thought.  :o

I got out of the shower and saw in clan chat that Ophi-taichou was going to do the FC for the GCr Wiz and asked who wanted to witness the FC.  I had put in for it because I became eligible.  We sent in our top three numbers.  Two of my numbers were selected by others already, so my lowest number was my FC number.  >o<  I didn't think I was going to have a chance.  I made Salazar (Jose) and Dietric (Lorch) (who I had just taken out of SA Caeb to witness) do the Praying pose and I even turned on the game music (usually I have it on mute).  My number came up on the fifth FC.  *_*  But taichou kept FC'ing until Lab-puppy-san said, "a ferra ganho".*  ^.^;

"Only" 753 Mega Quartz, +7 Le Scarce, +7 ELB, and 50 Gold Ancient Relics to go.

Give me another year to accomplish this.  LOL

But I'm happy.  It's a sign that I need to work on WC for ToC.  :o ~!   AHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE!

*My Portuguese is poor, but "ganho" looks like the French "gagne" and Spanish "ganar", so I figured puppy-san meant "win/won".

Just something random that still makes me laugh when I read it.