Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Sirius, Laura, and Patrick!

Posing with friend at the beach!

Which later turned into an argument about whose pony was cooler.

When will this costume come out?  orz

Armonia 3 and Patrick quest was very annoying because of this boss!
I'm so sick of Armonia Gloria!

I like how his finger tips flame up.

Magnus: Hey!  ~.^

Patrick: Please stop, every time you make that pose you give me an ulcer...  :x

Finally got around to updating Character Card & Stance Book page (Laura/Saint Shot, Loretta, Heavy Stinger, Patrick/Inferno Guard).

Wish before the end of the year... to get my ferrety paws on a Cadet Lionel.  ; . ;

Next year... Armonia 4 and Final.  Anis' stance book will likely be a cash shop cow milker.

Fickle Fireflies

Spent the afternoon doing Hell's Gate and Judgement Day and Grandies quest.  Did Grace subquest (now waiting for news from Simon) and Selva subquest.  Currently stuck at Garim for Raven/Garcia and no Jack/Angie.  Also did Romina and Brunie subquests.

Shinies!

Nine SCs were used to get here

If only the real Montoro raid was this easy

Hang Glider

Ran around rampant today, when I should have been studying.  >.<

Finished Angie/Lorch Sub-Quest which involved going to Kielce Night to kill mobs for 10 Notes and Training Camp to kill mobs for 20 Notes.

I have many, many days to go on Selva.  Was pre-warned have to trade in her old Glove to get Bristia Glove.  Considered crafting the spare recipe, but ewww 4000 Shiny Crystals.  D:

Tried Bahia Room twice, but no Sewing Boxes.  :<

Attended two ToC runs, again, nothing nice.

Went to TP Rose with Reneia and Robin.  I had fun trying out his skills.  I also took Felicia (Reckless), Ambrosia (Sharon), and Anastasia (Emi) to TP Jurgen.  I stayed alive, but didn't feel like I necessarily helped the raid.  >.>;

The craziest thing I did today was...  I actually attended Clan Wars.  :O  Holy shit, Ferret did WUT?!  I LOATH Clan Wars.  Back when I was in Core Clan I hated dying, dying, dying.  I joined the cannon team.  Without a cannon team.  LOL.  My cannon team SUCKS.  I stopped using them after two failed attempts during Cortes raids last year.  Who did I use?  Alicia and Joey JosephDominic.  [JD: Hey, I saw that.]  I'm not sure how much help I was breaking colonies, but I warped around from Lago Celeste, Topolo Durga, and Zona Uno.  There were a lot of reds at Zona Uno, I used Detonate and though my trio went splat from the onslaught (no PvP squad there at the time, just cannon squad), JD managed to damage the enemy a third.  Which is saying a lot for me, considering my gears were not intended for PvP.

flowers under the overpass

Finally got around to starting Family Attributes Quests.
Got started on Angie/Lorch Sub-Quest.  I wonder if these two are going to end up best friends.
Selva's Sub-Quest looks like it will be a long one...  I hope I have all the materials for it.

Forever Favor Rating Quests

Kielce Favor Rate Quests...  They feel like they are never ending, don't know how long it's going to take to reach 10,000.  A year?  Two years?  I don't know what version the other servers are at.  The Wikipedia page for Granado Espada used to give that information.  I wonder which server has people who has completed it and how long it took them.  After maxing it, does it means can stop doing them or is there more?!?!  Except for Laboratory and Ork and Victor if you want to keep getting Bristia Boxes and Essences...

I still have Crow Forest Raid and Jun Viron Box Favor Rates to raise.  Higher Crow Forest means higher mobs in the raid and better roulette items.  I wonder what is the advantage of finishing the Jun Box.

I also wonder what that Kurt Favor Rate is about.  I recruited Kurt on my account and don't know if that will prevent me from doing the quest or whatever it is needed to trigger it.

Soft shell craB

\(^.^)/ Ferret Happy Happy \(^.^)/

♥ JosephDominic ♥

JD is a lot of fun to watch especially with Heiran.  When I have better gears for them I think they would be my "Dream Team".  *_*

Started Kano quest, made it up to the 60 Essences part.  This is where I wait another two months.  XD

Don't cry JD, don't cry!  D:

(>'.')>* For the assistance I received. *<('.'<)

Wild & Rampant

Yay, got my Evil Dagger, finally!

Also started on JD quest.

:o  JD acknowledges our family!

Simon: ahhh help! oh no!! imma get raped!!!

[Simon is not reliable to protect Rosaria]

Here I stand forlorn

Spent the day in Clock Tower a lot...  First it was going to Floor 9 with a random squad, then it was duo'ing Floor 1.  Good news: It can be done.  Bad news: It takes too much time!  Then went and spammed it again to get the next quest drops.  Now it's just waiting for the last day to go beat some robot ass!  Used Cathy Activator the first time and Helena the second time.

Crafted manufactured a Cube.  I really must be crazy since I had meant those Essences for Kano.  The Essences were saved as part of my Bristia patch preparation, which I was not aware (at the time) of the Cube and what it takes to craft it.  I had help with the crystals and borrowed Essences to make it.  >.<;  It has been a month since the new patch and I've only managed to collect 70-75 of each.  I guess this means a month or so to return borrowed Essences and save up 60 for Kano.  But then there's the problem of the additional 120 to operate the mind linker for four days.  Kano's recruitment is looking to be even more troublesome than Viki's.  Claire was annoying too.  What's with kid requirements giving headaches!  I guess because of this, I decided to get the Cube first.  Either way, it was going to be a long ways to collect.  (Someone said I am perhaps the third person in the clan to manufacture a Cube.  A sure sign that I must be crazy.)

In other news, I took Reneia (Heiran) to TP Jurgen and TP Rose.  Enjoyed watching her stance.  So shiny.  I didn't use this dagger for the raids, but the White Dagger looks nice with her.

She looks sad about something

Post #425: Viki visits Auto Baron

This tiny tot is so troublesome, ever since his recruitment quest.
The amount of Violent Gechos I had to kill for him.  >_>;

Whee!  Auto Baron!
Little kid in the big, big Clock Tower

Hamster Wheel

Day 3 was not so lucky.  I stayed up for reset to attempt it, but after six tries, I just couldn't make it past the guards.  I was too exhausted to concentrate I guess.  The third attempt was close though, I made it to the end but the guard woke up.  Then I tried six more times in the evening... but I guess I was too stressed out and was hurrying too much.

Finally after doing some Kielce dailies I thought I would try one last time.  I made it through and killed the guard at the end.  I feel like such a failure that Day 3 took me thirteen tries all together to complete, compared to the really lucky one attempt on Day 2.

In total, it took four tries on Day 1 (22:43 left on timer, no killing), one attempt on Day 2 (finished at 23:49 with killing), and thirteen on Day 3 (22:56 after the dialogue of Renault and appearance of Heiran).  For a total of eighteen attempts or 9m down the drain.  Orz  Getting past the guards is the hard part.  The combat was no problem even though I embarrassingly used a Trump Rapier because I have no rapiers with attack speed mods for Simon (Raven).

I was worried about whether Rosaria (Grace) would be able to combat Heiran, as she's only Expert 3 and I don't have any good rifles or shotguns, but she did just fine.  :D

Reneia (Heiran) has finished Bareknuckles (all my characters with that stance have it completed) and Butterfly and is now working on Femme Fatale using PIO Vet daggers (one from Tora and one from herself - the only two PIO Vet items I got from Auch was a shield and a lightening bracelet, the rest came with those new characters that start at Level 100).

Femme Fatale is omgomgomg.

I remember I would get mesmerized watching Outrage on speed cap back in the day.  Then it was Croisement and then Punisher.  Notice these are all shooting stances...

But now... Femme Fatale is like whoaaaaa~~~ *_* and it's not even on speed cap.  Making this the first (and only?) melee stance I'm gaga over.  XD

Just relieved I got Heiran.  Now my wish list is to get Trance Robo stance book by the end of Sunday.

Day 2 Miracle

!O_O

Day 2 of Heiran quest only took one attempt.  It. was. a. miracle.  I got really lucky because there was a fairly cleared path to walk through and I hid at a small corner, hugging the wall, the guards came really close and said "do you hear someone moving?", so I made sure not to move, they walked away and there was an opening and I got through.

O_O!

In other news, promoted Marcelo (Panfilo) and Matthias (Jack) to Master.

Titans & Olympians

o.o

Stayed up for reset to finish Marchetti quest, added to Character Card & Stance Tracker.
Two Bristia characters down, one more to go.  (Until JosephDominic and Chelsia joins us.)

SB takes care of everything.
(Just like Sect of Moonlight used to.)

Tora is "imma kirr u in ur sleep" emo.

Marchetti is "you're too stupid, 

you're giving me a headache" emo.

Also, Mar-Mar, one does not simply give a princess away.

Later in the evening I got started on Heyran quest.  (There seems to be a continuation of Marchetti quest, but I didn't bother with it for now.)  It took me four tries to get it right.  2m down the drain.

~First time I was simply stupid and didn't wait for the two guards at the gate to say "Zzz".
~Second time I got over zealous and red loli'd when I saw them "Zzz".  When I got to the next part I watched for a clearing through the guards and red loli'd.  But messed up and got detected.
~Third time I didn't use any red loli's and slowly zig zagged my way through the guards, but misstepped half way and got detected.
~Fourth time I think I simply got lucky, there was were some close calls near the end.  I almost cried of relief when Raven reached the end.  (Ferret cries when vis is being wasted because she's incompetent.)

Those guards are always moving.  Watch their patterns.

Stay away from their circles to avoid being detected!

I felt the right side gave the most leeway.

Not looking forward to Day 2 and Day 3...

We meet again

Helped provide some materials for Symbol of Garim and went to get my Raven/Garcia quest drop done.  The symbol is not necessary to do the raid, but may as well.  Though the roulette was not worth it.  Nobody got anything decent.

This one is the daddy to the Black Dragon.

Grandpa is the one in Lucifer Laboratory.

Finished the rest of Raven/Garcia quest.  Raven is a bad business man and Garcia is silly for following him.  Also started Marchetti quest.  I might be able to get him on Monday.  Not sure if I can start Heyran quest though.

Went to TP Rose, Neph, and Jurgen.  Found out I can get two Spoil Boxes.  :o

Went to meet Auto Baron again as Mia.  It's boring being Mia and hard to buff people after they start to run away.  I don't know if I've suddenly been demoted from being a DPSer or what, but I really don't want to be Mia again.  At least I made some progress on Viki quest.  I might be able to get it done over the next two to three weekends if the clan goes to CT.

Random screencap...

Sofia [unintentionally] appears to want 

to duel with my former vice leader.  ^^;

Where's my cresent?

Leopold was promoted to Master!!!
Crafted a 100e Hammer came out +5
Matthias (Jack) is done with his stance.
Now using Tania (Brunie) and Octavia (Cathy INT) to help level Gloria (Angie).

Finished extended Jack quest, which was go to Argus and Lightening Gate, then give him 50 Maid Costume Pieces and 50 Dress Pieces.  Good thing I'm a hoarder, I have better things to farm.  ^.^;  Kept every drop (other than weapons and pure ores) since I started playing, so it's been nice to see some of these things actually become of use.

Went to Rafflesia (one Constellation Box) and Vergo (no box!) as well for Raven/Garcia quest, but still haven no way to get to Garim.  Kind of behind on Marchetti and Heyran quest because I don't have this completed.

Snow Cabinet

A few list stuff and field trip screencap!

I just found that I only need Crossbow, Staff, Cannon, Sabre, Dagger, Polearm, and Bracelet to complete my set 96e Trump set!

Now trying to get those Kiecle daily favor stuff going.  Finished Peter/Jeremy (bye bye Rare Books!) and Gregory (took two days to farm 500 Wolf Fur to trade for 50 HQ White Fur).
 
I make my rounds by walking around in this order:
William (mob kill) - do with Durant survey (Night)
Victor (crafting)*
Daniel (hunting) - do after town stuff
Ork (books) - do onsite (green books) or with hotel flyers (yellow) or with William/Durant (red)
Simon (hunting) - do after town stuff
Kelly in Lab (dark water) - do after town stuff
Roy in Lab (turrets) - do while in lab
Durant (survey) - do with William mob kill (Night)
Rica (hunting) - do after town stuff
John (hotel flyers) - do with Ork if town based
Elizabeth (painting) - do while out in town
Serena (bad boy) - do while onsite
Anthony/Scott (pirates) - do while onsite
Jeremy/Cain (delivery) - do while onsite

*Three different sets of things he wants:
1000 Pure Ores - I have plenty of (haven't had this one yet)

10 of each kind of Unpolished Red/Green/Blue Gem or break HQ gems (haven't had to do this yet) - good thing I'm a hoarder, I kept all of these from breaking Rings and kept HQ gems from raids and even picked up other people's drops in town (as they say, another person's junk, is another person's treasure!)

10 of each kind of Philosopher's Stone, Marble Stone (Frozen Wastes), Hard Scale, Diamond Ore (Frozen Wastes), Black Steel (Ice Wizard) - currently have sufficient amount, but may need to farm again, especially the Ice Rufus Reaper Wings (Ice Wizard) needed for the Hard Scale, which thankfully is a one to one trade unlike the Wolf Fur

Went on a field trip to the training grounds.  It was neat to see the moon reflected.

Cheshire Moon

howl~ howl~

Some info, after making Panfilo Soups for two Diable stance books, I've learned:
Great Illier Style Spider Steak - Gertrude
Great Illier Style Wild Wild Boar Steak - Mia
Great Illier Style Wolf Steak - Natalie
Great Illier Style Comodo Steak - Daria
Great Bristia Style Meat Stew - Garcia
Great Bristia Style Stirfried Octo Dish - Raven
First Class Fish Sausage - Alejandro
First Class Stirfried Corn - Nar
Great Illier Style Golden Apple Pie - Brunie
Great Bristia Style Egg Stew - Grace
Great Illier Style Special Salad - Claude
Great Bristia Style Capy Fish - Jack

Who was there?

No more previous patch quests/subquests except for Viki Robo Trance!  Which I'm kind of like... really... that's more work than Soul Bringer and even two Diable books.  Orz

I started off with Cruise, it didn't take too long.  The Imoogi came back to haunt him.  He had a run in with Asoka.  Suddenly I was like, ":O omgomgomg!  OTP!"  lol...  I think she cannot stand to be around him.  I think he will not give up.  I had fun trying out Furious stance.

Sword Dance Tango

Romina's wasn't too bad either.  Najib's was annoying because I couldn't get Thief Morgan, so I stopped for awhile and started on Brunie's, which was equally annoying trying to get Angry Comodos to drop the quest items.  Finally inbetween clan raids I finished Najib.

Have to get back to getting Sewing Boxes, still have costumes I want.  :<

10 Devil's Whisper, 12 Book of Combat, 2 Book of Shooting, and 140 Wolf Furs to go.  Eventually may have to go back to farming Rufus Reaper Wings.  Which is fine.  Lisa hasn't finished leveling Blitz Assault, so team can go back there.

Cheshire Moon

Did a few Kielce quests.  Had a run in with a Jurgen Follower in Night.

Magic Gauntlet and Magic Grieves were crafted!  \(^.^)/

Now if I can just get a Magic Leather Glove recipe!!!

That's it for today!  Going to be farming for Wolf Fur!

afraid of the dark? here's a flashlight

Attended Cortes in Lucifer Basement.  Let's just say it was chaotic, very much like our early days back in old Orpesia server under G1.

Finished Jack quest.  Had to kill Jurgen.  This guy should be a UPC.

Didn't do any Raven quest, as I need to do Rafflesia, Vergo, and Garim raid.  I don't have any hammers and need to find a squad for Garim.

Things still needed for Kiecle:
500 Wolf's Fur to get 50 High Quality White Fur (Merchant favor quest)
47 Ruby, 12 Book of Combat, 5 Book of Shooting

Finished with the Thick Spider Meat.  But now need Great Fish.
I'm worried I won't make 100 favor rate, so might have to get Thick Brawn for 8th soup...

I need to give up on the impossible

One more day of killing for William until I can speak to Olivia again and continue Jack subquest.

Finally, after three days, Simon let me move on with Grace subquest.  The Chimera (74AR/67DR), Sunflower Dandelion Gorilla (87AR/67DR), and Cherlyn (87AR/70DR) hurt.  But I survived somehow.

Also started on Raven subquest.  I feel sad for Garcia about what he said about Selva.  The whole run from Secret Garden to Death Corridor took me 10 SCs.  The majority was spent on that spot in Banquet Hall.  I fast clicked the conversation, didn't even get to read it, because those stingray and mirror things were killing me too much.

Also went on a ToC run.

I'm going to collapse now.  Halfway through the week.  :<

Post #400: Taurus Jumped Over the Moon

Wow, I can't believe I've made it to 400th posts!  I are crazy blogger...  At some point in the day, the blog reached 30,000 views!  *_*  Thank you for hopping over and "viewing"!  ^^;

Managed to make some progress on the Bristia sub quests.
Turned in William-Jack favor quest for Olivia.  Two more days to go.
Finished Selva's subquest.  Poor Eduardo.  :<
Simon still refuses to let me continue with Grace subquest!  Day two of checking!  -.-#  ARGH!
Haven't started Raven subquest, though I heard some part of it is bugged.

Went on a ToC run which people kept getting told change their support characters.  Maybe sometimes it's a good thing I'm seen as just a stupid dps who isn't allowed to try the first robots, so I don't have to deal with having told to change wardrobes.  I have support characters and the stances, I just don't have the rings to be support other than WC.  (I mean even I have to admit I get annoyed when someone buffs Level 10 Leadership when I'm used to Level 11 myself.  So I wouldn't do the same thing to other people by bring Level 10 Rio, Lorch, and Grace.  I wonder if Mia's level matters, I haven't seen her brought very often anymore.)

The highlight of the day!!!  Was that I received assistance with Captain Capri!!!  Therefore!!!

Leopold: Aw, shucks, I really am a sleepin' han'some!  z.z  [falls asleep]