Incognito

The most exciting part of this week was crafting my second Strata weapon.  *_*
Exactly one month from the Strata Bracelet!

I choose the Bayonet for its uniqueness (even though it's a Rifle now), because Jurgen doesn't drop it anymore and the likelihood of Montoro dropping it is low (he mostly only drops SB manual...)

I will always prefer to be a shooter, but ironically been using magic lately.
*laments over my poor ASOs* boo hoo hoo~  T.T  (inside joke)

For example, at Prison... which we went with eleven people, not because we can't handle it, it was one of those, after Crow and Back Alley runs, an inbetween filler while we waited for more people for ToC, except this day everyone said sure why not.  Overkill.  XD  Yeah, that's me at the top with a magic team.  o.o  (Looks at the team below mine, makes me miss using duo melee!)

And speaking of ToC... every so often I get invited to a five-manned run... of tank/wc/dps/debuff/buffer (no prizes for guessing correctly which role I am :p) which take only fifteen minutes.  :O

I end this post with a screencap of Laurent on the farm.  This was from when he first got his new hair costume.  I mainly just wanted to capture the flowers.  ^.^;

Please note the new Blog Guardian!

Laundry List

Did a lot of raiding today.  Busy, so busy I forgot to do something as simple as Viron Box.  D:

This is probably not in the right order:
Bahia Room - No Sewing Boxes today T.T
Castilla Mines
Circus - Used Geia (Asoka) and enjoying the fact that I don't have to use a pink loli!
Hell Breaker 
Prison
Torsche Basement
Inside Crater, Sekhmet
Lightening Door
Joaquin Barrier Siege
Joaquin Barrier Defence
Rhapsody of Deadman - No Montoro Ring T.T
Demonic Occulta
Demonic Toubkal Mine
Demonic Tower of Ice Wizard - Twice
Demonic Secret Tower
Time Paradox Rose
Time Paradox Abremon
Time Paradox Sautarelle

Then I got in trouble with the parental units about missing dinner.  As such, I didn't wrap up Ion's quest.  Instead, I went and created Alicia (Grandice), Aristia (Mary), and Celestia (Beatrice) and their stance books so I could start leveling them.  Even though Merc, Casie, and Darian haven't finished theirs.  :p

Celestia was originally going to be named Cassiopeia, but last night I realized I'd end up calling her Casie, just like the F-Wiz, so I changed her name last minute!  I can't believe I have eighty-six names all picked out.  I guess I'll never have to look up a baby name's book if I ever have children!  :p

Trivia: All my Catherines are named after a female character in a Shakespeare play.  Lavinia (Torsche), Cordelia (SUM), Orphelia (STR), Olivia (DEX), and Octavia (INT).

Some pic spams!

When I was passing by Secret Garden

Scene from Grandice quest that cracked me up (a bit spoiler-ish)

 
Time Paradox Rose

Time Paradox Sautarelle (looks like a wasp Iron Man)

Current status of character quests (notes for self):

Angels & Grims

Crammed the activities in the evening, as I was trying to study during the day (I want to cry), starting with Clan Raids at around 14:30 SST.

Was lent a set of Life mod rifle and pistol for Laurent, but I only used them at Mad Farm and Mad U, as I was on WC duty for Mad Raff, Mad V, and Mad Griff.  Which was sad, because that was a very nice pair of weapons and would have liked to have more opportunity to try them out along with Valen's Life crossbow.  Laurent ended up tanking the KOGs in Mad U.  Normally he would have died within seconds, but he's wearing an enhanced armor.  :D  (Very happy, thank you so much!)  One LS Musk and two DHrs.  Would have liked an Aries for a project.  :o

We have two more Sundays to do Clan Raids, so I really hope we get more clan participation.  I'd like to see us Rank 1 in all the raids.  We haven't done Red Sunset in awhile either.

Spammed some boxes (switched different characters and locations for luck!), went to Circus, and BH.  Tried out Laurent and Claudia in full UD gear, used Lv 11 Leadership, Flare, and ET buffs (yes, because I'm still a crappy noob who only has one ET ring), Black Dragon, and a pink loli.  Was surprised to find that team finished off Necro in less than two minutes.  Still no Magic Leather Glove recipe and starting to feel desperate.

Went to Prison with almost same crowd as yesterday.  Got LaRo to come long, for as long as I've known him, it's my first time going to Prison with him.  You'd think I was an evil dentist drilling his teeth when I try to ask him to go to Prison.  >p  Had a lag spike at the usual left spot and Claudia got smashed.  *sigh*

I totally forgot Philip's (Eduardo) Grim is Lv124.

Wishing Upon a Star

A rather busy day: CM, Viron Box, BH, Circus, Papa Broccoli [Uncle Celery needs to die too], Mufasar 1, Chipping, Boxing, AW, FF, Prison, and Mufasar 2.  Le Pooped!  (>x.x)>  Zombie Ferret

Prison was fun, went with players I haven't gone with before, including Miss Lusse.  Whom I believe was my lucky charm for roulette.  No one volunteered to open the chest, so I nominated her.  ^.^;  And because of her charming aura, I got a Elite Soul of Steel to add to my 92e Baron collection!!!  *_*  Thank you!  \(^.^)/  First time getting two good things, usually it's useless gloves and boots.

 Borrowed a beautiful Highlander's Claymore to try out during the run.

 

Timed Mufasar 2 to be killed during CW buff, even took the time to kill Domi, who spawned during this run, because of trying to delay Mufasar's death.  Two decent things dropped, but the Magic Leather Glove recipe still elusive.  (Assuming that drops there, I don't know, as I don't go to Mufasar often enough, but a girl can dream, no?)

Unexpected Luck

:o

This morning I upgraded something to +7.  I thought I was pushing my luck, since yesterday I already got two things to +6 and +7.

Next, I crafted something [important] that came out 3S.  *_*  This is the second time in my entire Sword2 career that I've crafted something 3S.  It was probably about the same time last year that my ELB Scout came out 3S.  *_*  I've had a handful come out 1S or 2S, but for something to come out 3S is like... a miracle!!!  Now to put Jewels in it...  ^.^;

Then tonight I threw twelve chips on something that I'd been throwing a few chips on here and there.  It came out pretty nice, no racial mods, but 40% Atk and 30% Atk Spd, which I think is the max stats you can get?  So I consider this lucky too!

:o

Went and tried my luck at solo'ing Prison for MQs, but as I expected, only got four.  :p

Every Night I'm Talking to the Moon

Tonight's major adventure was solo'ing the first room and middle hallway of second room of Prison because... I felt like farming for MQs.  I got a nice amount and consider this lucky, because I have had occasions where I got none at all!  Shooting for 150 MQs by the end of the month.  :o

Go, go, Ferret, go!  (Haha, pep talking myself!)

Mysterious Carrots

This is going to end up being a laundry list of raids I went on today.  Feeling rather exhausted because it was raids back to back with 15 minutes in between for dinner and shower.  Feeling sick today and throwing up (sorry too much information).

ToC #1 where I triple WC'd with Mercurcio/Casadria/Anastasia.  I think I did all right, though I attribute a lot of my well being to the tanker.  I didn't count how many SCs I used, but probably about 15-20.  :x  Means I'm still fail.  Need to use no more than 10 I think before I can consider myself good at it.

ToC #2 where I went with Laurent/Claudia/Anastasia.  I got lazy trying to figure out what non-maxed out character to take so I ended up taking these three.  I was in the middle of attempting to get Feast from robot, but someone triggered 3rd Queen.  >.<;

After a dinner break, participated in Prison, which I went with Geia/Claudia/Anastasia (more maxed out characters, instead of taking Felicia).  I can't remember the last time I went to Prison so it was like... uh... what do I do?  Ended up going to the right side as someone else selected to go left.  I didn't lag in the spot where I Abyss, which was a surprise.  :o

Went to BH Occulta and Sedecram, had waited a day to give it a chance to "reset" clock.  The timer is so messed up.  I couldn't go to Circus because it was closed off.  I hope G1 would fix this and that eating up 1-Day passes issue, but I doubt it.  *sigh*  Went to slaughter the Untertaker instead (to vent out my frustration or something).

After a quick shower, went to get FF buff, then attended Crow.

This might not sound like a whole lot, but having been inactive for awhile this was actually really busy for me.

Ferret, le pooped.

Sleeping in the Middle

I go poof for a week and suddenly it's like I don't even know how to do Prison anymore.  :\  Kinda makes me worried if I'm gone for a month I'd come back not knowing how to play this game anymore.  o_o

Some of this might have to do with reverting back to the old team of Geia/Claudia/Ana after spending time getting used to Claudia/Felicia/Ana and the fact that I had Geia in the wrong order, in the middle instead of on the left messed up the buffing sequence and the bracelet swapping.  We were instructed to go down the middle, which is not my usual direction either, as I'm accustomed to going to the left.  Too many mobs followed me and I got smashed.

Regardless, I'm displeased at how I messed up and died during the run.

Something to look forward to before Tuesday is hopefully can get enough letters to make twenty more words!  Really excited to see this project nearly complete!

Go, goal, go!  Allez, allez, allez!  Consigue con honor.  Estaría perdido sin ti.

/random

At the Shore's Edge

The afternoon went something like this:

♩ Finished vesping one character to Master
♪ Started vesping a new one to Expert
♫ Went to AW for a whole ten minutes and shot at people with Laurent (Lionel) even though I knew I was going to die
♬  Went to Prison and my Level 11 WC with the two other squad members killed Testo before my WC ran out and no mobs spawned, it rocked!
♭ Went to Circus with Expert character
 ♮ Participated in BH (was gifted a Magic recipe!)
♯ Checked out a special zone boss

All hail Raven!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

één.  Got a Gold Earring today from BH Sedecram.  Got an Artisan's recipe of some sort from somewhere.

twee.  Went to Clock Tower, hadn't gone in a while forgotten about those nasty blades on one of those floors.

drie.  Clan raids didn't give anything interesting to note.

vier.  I got another Inno ring from Prison that I already have... why can't it give me the ones I don't have?  :\

vijf.  Sent out a few "Random Ferrie Hugs" Vanty and Elsie were the first to to reply.  :D

Ferret counting sheep... zzz

But it's all gonna be alright

YAY!!!  I finished farming 1,000 Mega Quartz!!!

\(o^.^o)\   \(o^.^o)/   /(o^.^o)/

Went to Prison today.  My team was the first one through the evil red warp to doom.  And... they... killed the Kingdom ogre and the minions on their own!  :o

My various teams seem to surprise me a lot lately.  :o

Today's lovely La Sensation Amicale

Now to save up to get the Dark Buffalo costume that got reissued (hoping Gloriosa will come back too), the Capitaine Costume and Hair for M-Musk, and the Blue Serpent Plate for M-Fig!

Silent Time

An Alphabet Box dropped from one of the Honors in Circus.  I was surprised and would have taken a screen cap but my pet picked it up quickly.

A box dropped in CM yesterday as well, I don't know from that mob or boss; I didn't know it was there until after I finished the run.

That's it for today.  Take care everyone.  Ferret's not well.

Mists of Ice

Tried out Portia (Adelina) at Circus today.  It was a good change of pace versus using Claudia, which was starting to get boring because it was getting repetitive.  Also had an observer, Monsieur Gio (aka Mr. Hot Pants who better watch out for Mama Cougar's paws).

Prison gave me a third Restore Ring.  I would have much rather have a Redemption Ring as I don't have one yet.

Mad dashed to an unscheduled Mufasar.  :o  Domi was especially tantrum-y today.  D:

Attended ToC.  I need to find an alternate for Salvatore (Ralph) because he got to Master 10 today...  If I had a worthy polearm I'd take Patricia (Idge).  Or I start bringing support characters!  Le Shock!  o.o!

I got Feast on the fifth attempt!  ^.^v  Thank you Senpai for the Relics!

A clannie's White Tiger pet wanted to play with Renton (Viki).  It was so cute!  :D

Harmony in a Bottle

The two most memorable events of today were:

1) Generous Room in BH Occulta
Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to put second bracelet on Claudia, so I couldn't spam Tenseness.

2) Attending Prison run with Taichou, Senpai, Ginger, and Rolo (newly designated nickname for Loyo-sama!)

Le pooped from drilling 527 sample questions in preparation for mix.

Therefore, la fin.

Fascinating Rhythm

Went on an early Prison run.  It started off with five people, but one had to leave, found another replacement, who also ended up leaving.  We went with four, but one got disconnected.  So ended up with three at the end.  (Yes, Ferret knows how to add and subtract!)  Still spending way too much time ring swapping and buffing with this new team.  I have GOT to learn to do this faster.  :\  I dislike being the slowest.

Attended an unscheduled Mufasar.  Dominator made an appearance.  Boo hiss!  Got stomped on a bit, but no deaths.  X<

Clan Raids started off short handed, so I went Salvatore (Ralph), Claudia, and Ana because of Life mod on Salvatore.  Swapped to UD mod for Mad U to kill KOCs.  Then swapped to Triple WC for Griffon.  There was slightly less death today because I got better at positioning.  But Mercurcio (Male Wizard) has 50% chance of being slashed and killed because he is wearing the lowest armor (96e +6 3DR).  The last Clan Raid was V for which I have no Hum weapons.  I figured it didn't matter who I brought as long as they hit fast and hit hard.  I went with my MUSKIES!  RAWR!  :3  lovelovelove~!  I miss them everyday.  D:

La Fin.

Tomorrow is another week.  :x

Submersible Serenade

Finished M'Boma extended quests.  His expression is pretty hilarious.

Made soup!  Which is so much cheaper to make now!

Spent most of the day leveling Xenia (Lisa) and Omar (Najib) currently at Vet 7.

Attended Prison with awesome people!

Crumpled Asteroids

You know you spend too much time in the game when acronyms at work become game acronyms.  Today I read ToC as Tower of Chaos instead of Table of Contents and CR as Castilla Ruins instead of Credit.  RE became Reckless Emilia instead of Retained Earnings...

I think I'm way too organized about this game.  I sort accounts for materials, for vet gloves/shoes +6 gears rings, and for 10.6 materials.  My own Leo holds the gears and some materials... and costumes!  Let's not forget about those!  XD  But costumes... haven't been up to date with them.  Now I'm three short: Gloriosa, Black Buffalo, and Black Pearl.  Hopefully they'll get reissued in later boxes.

Today was an exhausting day and I was hiding.  I soloed Prison with Felicia on the team, there was less death.  However, after spending fifteen minutes and only getting four MQs, I've decided it's not worth the time and effort and will spam a fourth CM instead.

(Coach told me not to go to Prison tonight.  But Ferret was bad.  Punishment coming.  D:)

And really BH, what's with this, can't you mix things up a little and give me a ELNr or a Constellation recipe?  >O  If only I had this kind of luck at a slot machine!

Monochrome Atoms

Spent the day working on Angie extended quests which were a pain because the Octopus in Scorching Plateau were slow.  Even worse were the Monegarm in Ferruccio Wall, to the point that I ended up using my main DPS team to active kill the last dozen.  Now Xenia (Lisa) and Omar (Najib) are camping Capybara Plantation for the last leg of the quests.  At least those two are getting exp for doing these series of quests.  >.<;

When I'm done with Angie, I'll be farming 50 Dragon Leathers and 50 Black Steels for Alejandro quests.  Probably best to farm for the leathers while doing M'Boma quest too, as I'll need to be in the Zonas.  The Black Steels would put me in area for farming Dragonfly Silk.

Participated in a small Crow squad.  Kept getting debuffed and it was quite unpleasant.

Geia didn't die in Prison much today, but I was rather displeased to find after spending 20 minutes in there to only get four MQs.  *shakes fists!*  Well, 26 more days to go would put me at September 30th if I continue to meet daily quota.

Forgot to say that I took Torsche to BH yesterday.  It was a lot of fun watching her acrobatics!  :D

Ferret, collapses.

Not feeling too great about exam.  :<  Back to work tomorrow and will be quiet again.

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:

So close and still so far

Knocked out the dailies before lunch time. Then studied.  :o

Went to Prison immediately after AW.  Even kidnapped a Ginger!

Tried out Claudia-Felicia-Ana.  The buffing and ring changing still needs practice.  I'm not accustomed to having to change rings so much like that yet.  Well, everything takes practice.  I just don't like taking so long buffing up and being behind everyone else.  It took me awhile to build up a rhythm to speed up with everyone when I first started with Geia-Claudia-Ana.  I don't like that feeling of eating other people's dust and being left behind and being slow.  (Pikachu is a different story, I will always eat his dust, so I won't even try to be fast enough to catch up to him.)

I had one ogre to deal with and the team did pretty good with killing it.  I was worried that I wouldn't be able to.

Looking back at all this, I'm not doing too bad.  We're talking about someone who never played video games (poor hand-eye coordination) and who would pause The SIMS just so she could plan out each character's next steps (not good with spontaneity).  And who used to get yelled at by her brother when she first started playing Sword for being slow (got frustrated with me because I just didn't "get it").

September month marks two years and three months in this game (on the 19th)!