Bless you!

*achoo!* ferret sneeze

In a rambly list of today's activities.  Clan Raids, weekendies, TP Rose (Stella went up a level after killing Roses, so apparently those things give Exp!), Basement (67/100 favor rate), CT up to Floor 5, Arsene Vault.  Vesped for an hour... it's no fun when only two of the characters do the vesping and you haven't UD gears.  Used Etienne and Watson (STF).

This thing gives me the creeps.

Shows up during DS farming.

 We lost our tank during the CT run.

The suggestion in the Chat box cracked me up.

Octavia does have Crusader completed

and I did have my blunt and shield on me.  XD

 The brats actually look normal on side profile

instead of an angsty teenager.

 

340 DS goal reached, now at the next 47/300 d('.'d)

New Species of Fish Discovered!

Out of the five Clan Raids today, we ranked #1 on four of them (one of them was a tie).  One more Sunday to go!  Hope we also attempt Red Sunset.  We're on the ranking as #3.

Tried out the Human pistol at Mufasar today.  Both times received good loot! \(^.^)/

Vesped my alt (under SG) a bit higher today.  It took ten minutes to vesp two Lv 1 characters to Vet.  I used Laurent, Claudia, and Renton (Viki) and each one took fifteen seconds.  Renton was promoted to Master today!

Afterwards, I helped vesp two families up a bit (no SG), using Laurent, Claudia, and Watson (he made use of the UD dagger!) and it took ten seconds per vesp.  I consider this pretty good, because I think I use fairly minimum buffs.  AM Boost, Pink loli, Leadership Lv11, Flare Lv12, Principal Lv12, and Lv11 Stra/Org/Logi.  I don't use any wings and I don't know what else other people use.  :o

Was asked how I could stand vesping "during FrankenFerret™ mode".

Well... while it may appear as though I enjoy vesping, I actually do not...

Things that help pass the time and not think of it as a daunting task:
* Listening to music and singing along
* Having someone to chat with
* Thinking about the end result, that vesping will help family character level up and also the alt (SG)
* Also had two special projects during the event and it was very, very worth the time and effort spent vesping

It also helps that it only takes ten seconds per vesp.  Back in the old days it used to take me thirty seconds!  I wouldn't have done three hours straight (with mini little ferret's room breaks, of course) with that kind of timing!  D:

Had crazy occurrence today (once in a blue moon!), which would probably not repeat itself again.

Chicken Broccoli Bake

Starting to feel like I'm off my game, like suddenly a step behind what I'm capable of.  I find myself forgetting to do this and that.  Do skills recede?  D:

Nicolai maxed out today, so he was traded out with Dr. Watson (STF).  ^.^v
(Sounds like baseball, "traded out".)

I rather over did it with this project... was a bit aggressive...
Thank you for your time and your patience with this slow poke Ferret.

Clan Raids rolled DHr x2 and Libra.  And broccoli.  ^.^;

Before signing off for the night, Thank you Fox-san for the costume!  :D

Time for Ferret to curl up and zzz.  It's been a tiring weekend.

Archangel's Heart

Every once in awhile I do something crazy.  Like doing BH runs at 5:30AM after four hours of sleep.  Not only that, I was playing in the dark!  :o  Night vision Ferret!

FrankenFerret™ did some work using team of Lavinia (Torsche), Freesia (F-Ele), and Nicolai (Soho).  Freesia maxed out... and Nicolai is on his way too...  This team took 30 seconds per vesp and it was very, very sad after being spoiled with 10-15 second vesping.  T.T

Silk of the Butterfly

Found the Serpent Plate costume for really cheap!  Hopefully next box will reissue Gloriosa and I'll be caught up with "new" costumes!

Attended one last Circus run with character when he finished his Expert stance.

Then massacred vesps until he was Master.

I think between the two characters I probably vesped for five hours in total*.  Not bad at all to get them to the Master level they ended at and roughly 36 hours between the two to get all stances maxed (including Expert).  I had fun with this project!  Didn't think it was going to finish in three days, but it happened!  \(^.^)/

*I probably wouldn't have done all this vesping if I wasn't able to kill them 10-15 seconds.  If I had Level 12 ET and UD wings or other potions I might have been able to do it even faster.  I heard of people vesping in 5 seconds.  So pro.

Clan raids got me the Pisces I needed!  Now just need three Scorpios and five Taurus!  Also got a Le Scarce too!  :D

Did a Griffon instance which gave me two Constellation Boxes and even Rafflesia which gave me one Box (it never gave me boxes all the previous times, so I hadn't been keen on going).  Alas, no symbols that I needed.

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!

Guardian Angel

Borrowed proper vesping weapons, aka all three of them were UD equipped.  Time ranged about 10 to 15 seconds.  I was in so much shock.  "FrankenFerret™ Returns" as someone called it.  XD  (I mean, really, ten minutes for two expert levels?  That's crazy!)

Was really thrilled to find a cheap Capitaine Costume for Etienne.  Now I just need Gloriosa to get reissued and that Serpent Plate.

He looks so studious!  <3

 Exam is tomorrow!

I promised I would do my best!  p( '.' )q

Winter of Beginning

Bounty Hunter gave me an ELB recipe... why couldn't it be an ELN recipe?  I don't even own a single one of those.  (Don't get me started on how I almost got one, that would set me back up to being upset again.)

Started SG'ing again.  But wow, trying to vesp without UD weapons is like pulling teeth!

When Someone is So Compelling

Actually went and did BH today, Occulta x2 and Sedecram.  Nothing special from roulette, though Senpai generously donated the Soul of Steel from his roulette.  \(^.^)/  Only twenty-two more 92e Barons to collect!  :3  When that's done, I suppose I'll be working on Fire Gate and Lightening Gate collection.  >.>;

We got stuck in Alliance War.  Everyone else got warped out but we found ourselves still in Auch, so we wandered around.  It was a ghost town.  We wandered off to Coimbra too.  It was like... being in a scene from Inception.  Or Twilight Zone.  Not a soul to be found.  O.o;

The first prison squad I was invited to was aborted, so I went to dinner.  Ended up trio'ing Prison.  I forgot that I left my ET ring on Alberto (M-Sco) whom I was using to vesp, so I only had Level 10 ET.  Not very effective, but we managed to get through, even with "James" busy yapping about something.  :P

I did seven sets of Supply Distribution during Clan Wars!

Spent about three hours vesping today.  Got Borus (Coimbra) and Hector (M-Auch) to Veteran.  Also, Idge from Expert 1 to Expert 8.  Le pooped.  /edit Put in another half hour and promoted to Master.

I wish I had raids to use Flavia, she's so underutilized.  :<

There's something about that knuckle that's got Freesia so entranced.  :o

No Matter How I Try...

Ferret is a bad ferret who doesn't listen well to instructions when it comes to getting to bed early.  :x  Ferret's going to receive punishment tomorrow.  :x  (Such as no BH or something?)

The evening started out quickly, got the dailies done and the Cruz Event (except that Laurent died! why is it so difficult to heal pot in there?).  I was all set to draw the two designated Ferret Doodles for the day, after my shower.  Then instead... I ended up vesping for a good cause...!

 In honor of the captains of Halcyon Clan:

Furthermore:

Ferret Salutes the Captains

Ophi-starfish
Lab-puppy
Rei-kitty 

Yoshi-pikachu

You'd think Pikachu would be the easiest to draw, 
since he's already a cartoon,
but I had the most difficult time with him! D:

Good Luck tomorrow!

When the Moonlight Crawls Along the Street

Got home late from work.  Was kidnapped immediately upon log in by Ophi-taichou for Prison.  Lag ensued.  But I managed to kill one ogre smoothly without a scratch!  \(^.^)/

A program needed upgrading and kept prompting me to shutdown to install.  Had to log off anyway since I had to go eat dinner.

Nothing much today, just my two dailies.

Attempting to vesp with another family makes me cry.  Ferragamo family is too spoiled with Family Level buff and Alliance War buff.  Using any other family just feels like snail paced.  T^T

Oh, and ferret finally got de-clawed.

Oh Those Ogres...

Quietly did my two dailies while others were away at ToC.  (I don't make it to these during the weekdays because they are usually started when I'm just getting out of work.)  I never turn down an invite to Prison from senpai though, even though that was not in my budgeted schedule for the evening.

I got stuck with three ogres.  :o  The first two went pretty well, but I got smashed in the third and had some technical difficulties getting the pink loli to work even when I was not under PF.  Ana died several times, so I spent a good deal of SCs today.  >.<;  But at least I got to experience three ogre rooms which I eventually got out of.  Everyone was almost done with Testo.  >.<;

Vesped Kuro's Shirasaya (Idge) up to vet to get the family level up to 8 in order to get the Master cards.  I'm planing on saving those cards for when the new characters come out.

No shiny pictures to share today.

Until tomorrow, be good, fellow Swordlings!

~Ferret, drained.

Plugging Chugging Away

Yesterday evening's adventures were very compact:

*Circus

*CM

*Vesping the remainder of Kuro to Master 10 in about 25 minutes (senpai really created a vesping monster out of me ^_^;;;)

*El Pat for FF buff but I got stuck in limbo in the entrance warp and missed the chance to dps bosses

*Undertaker with senpai with my Viron PPT ("pew pew team" of Simon and Laurent)

*Prison was messy because my graphics were lagging and my heal pot holder wasn't working and I got smashed in ogre cell  >.<;  Agony!

*Merc'd Kuro over (Family Level went up to 49 and 36%, getting closer!)

*Vesping (on my own account) a new female elementalist, Freesia, using Claudia and the new male scout Alberto (on Arnis using Trump, anyone have a UD dagger?), because if I kept using Geia and Ana, they would max out and I don't want to do that!

This evening didn't involve as many activities, but was it still time consuming.  Upon logging in, one of the vice leaders indicated they were aware I had a WC team (eek!) and I agreed to go to ToC after I scarfed up my dinner.  Plans were changed and senpai took on WC'ing.  In the end, this was a better idea, as I was too burnt out from work to really focus learning to do this.  I think on the weekends I'd be able to concentrate more.  The Dark Gemini roulette wouldn't let me buy the third one even though I was pressing the whole time but it didn't even count down and went straight to "0".  What the heck?!  I came out of ToC with a Cut Shoot RES Necklace which senpai swapped me a Physical RES one.  Now I have Shoot, Physical, Fire, and Psychokinesis Necklaces.  I'm guessing there's a Lightening and Ice one?  :p  I'm such a n00b when it comes to Accessories.  I wanna collect one of each Necklace!

 This shocked me!  I tagged the first boss in ToC?  How???

Stayed up to attend Medusa.  Zzzzz...

And some random pics.

Passing by Rei-kun at Gate Keeper.
(Not really, I was kidnapping his UD GS.)
Jealous of the Ginger Tiger!

If this is what happens after a run as WC'er,

 maybe I don't wanna learn.  (j/k)

I think the Blue Crane buffer pet also gives +500 Drop Rate for wanted Box items.  I got my Blue Serpent Costume Ele-M and Le Sagittaire Optimiste Hair because it was standing nearby.  ;D

Sometimes the vice leaders crack me up.

FrankenFerret Strikes Again!

I was going to make a post about the Blue Crane buffer pet, but it's late again and I was instructed to not stay up past my bed time.  So the dissertation on this rare pet will have to wait until tomorrow, perhaps I will write it during lunch time.  ;3

It being a usual Monday during a normal work week (no more back to back business trips, phew!) means I didn't do much in the game other than hide out in CAA.  EXCEPT that the incessant disconnections made it difficult to do so.  Fix this sh1t G1!  >O

Went on two CM runs (evil plotting ensued) and my usual Circus run.  Managed to zap Helena fast enough that I didn't have to deal with her.

Before bedtime I spent 80 minutes vesping Kuro from Master 3 44% to Master 8 66%.  Ferret has sharpened her claws and fangs.  Tomorrow I'll be done and will have a new addition to the Family, therefore, bringing myself ever closer to my goal of Family Level 50.  *_*

Here's a picture of my triple WC team.  Casie hasn't finished Darkness, but she's got WC.
(Didn't put any gears with SP on her, so looks like she doesn't have enough, but she will.)

Zip-A- Dee-Doo-Dah

*Castilla Mines ~ Took Laurent (Lionel), Claudia, and Ana.  (I have a preference of taking characters that can team buff.  Musks can't buff a team, so I left them in the Quarters.)  Made it to Blink Dog but got killed by Fanatics on my way to Chrysalis.

*Circus ~ Don't think I need to talk about this one anymore!  Claudia pwns 'nuf sed.  :o

*Vesping ~ Got Salazar (Jose) to Level 90, then spammed him to Expert.  Even though he's a late bloomer, I foresee him catching up or beating Dietric (Lorch) on finishing his Expert Stance.  Salazar is currently using a Frozen Swordfish Cannon and is hilarious to watch!  He's the last Expert I'll make.

*Family Level ~ Reached Level 48 and 20% today.  *_*

*Alliance War ~ The opposite of what I thought was going to happen, happened.  I was shooting for Rank #14 and Level 6 Buff, thinking that I would more likely get the latter.  As it turned out, I Ranked #13, but didn't get my Level 6 Buff.  I think next week I'll stay the same in ranking, but get my next level buff!

*Faction Fight ~ I entered with my Prison team (Geia, Claudia, and Ana) and was one of the first families in there...  I thought I would try to kill the East Gate Ancient Gerero, thinking someone would just finish him off before me and dash in the warp to Ancient Diablo.  Nobody followed and nobody entered...  So I got free 100 Chips all to myself.  And a Hero Seal!  :o  Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow, but a different gate.

*Prison ~ Went with senpai, Ash-san, and Alze-chan.  Ironically, when I feel like practicing ogre killing...  I don't end up having to kill any...  Ash-san was in the first cell I entered and he was already half way through, then I ended up in the red warp to doom as the second cell.  :o

Forgot to post from yesterday:

Mufasar

The only screencap I took at Cortez

Semi-Back

It's difficult to hide from a certain tuna pizza person...  Returned temporarily.

Circus ~ Took my time today because there was no rush to attend any clan raids, so I don't actually know how long it took me to finish.  I had a Chest key from one of my ASV runs with senpai, so I used it in Emily's room (my room?!), not sure if there was a chest in Frost's room.  I got three 100 Chips from it.  Mario didn't poop his bomb today, so I guess I killed him fast enough.  I still can't get Abyss to set off on him, so I'm stuck using Ele Bluster.

Castilla Mines ~ First three bosses, something I wouldn't have bothered to venture to, but when senpai says, "Jump", I jump.  Like a little lemming.  ^.^;;  Was so close to finishing off Basilisk.  I kited him out of his cave before attacking.  Next time I'll bring an anchor.  LOL

Mufasar ~ I really don't like that Dominator!  >O  Ferret Enemy #1!

Cortez ~ Was ordered to be on cannon.  -.-  When the taichou gives instructions, you follow it, even if you dislike and are a failure at the task.  We finished Cortez, but I didn't enjoy the raid because I spent nearly the whole time at the Gate and didn't get to watch any of the action until the last two minutes when Cortez was killed.  Now I feel rather disillusioned by this raid that I've only been to for the third time ever.

Vesping ~ Why does it take so long to vesp a pre-vet to vet?  I got so tired trying to get Lorch from 60 to Vet that I gave up at 90 and spammed him.  Now he's working on Dual Blaster.

A Quick Run Down

~Tagged along after senpai to meet the Nechro Shaman for the first time
~Quick ASV session with senpai (omg, ATP so fun to watch!)
~Lightening Gate with clan
~No Clan Raids tonight :<
~Vesp'd Gloria (Angie) to Level 60
~Created Marcelo (Panfilo) and vesp'd to Level 60
~Created Omar (Najib)
~Vesp'd Demeter (F-Ele), Aphrodite (Emi), and Artemis (Caly) to Veteran (tomorrow commences the Pioneering quests up to Bahamar in order to gain access to Circus - not looking forward to the long winded Skeleton Dungeon quests...)

~Ferrie, out.

Spawn Faster Vespies! Keep Up with FrankenFerret™!

Claudia solo'd Circus at Expert 9 50%.  One Electric Bluster and one Tenseness took care of the bosses.  She took care of Mario, but was in too close vicinity of his bomb, thus,  met an untimely death.  :x  I'll have to work on that.  Helena versus Helena was fun to watch, but she's a real pain in the behind.  :\  My goal is to improve my timer of thirteen minutes.  :o

Spent fifteen minutes vesping the remaining 50% for Claudia to Master.  (Currently unpromoted, for a reason.)  I'm really going to miss vesping!  O.o;  Does this make me sick?  That I like to vesp?  But only because I'm borrowing really, really nice LOE and GS and I can multitask whilst vesping.  It all feels so effortless.  (I have never felt like this in anything I've done in this game, so it's a very wonderful feeling!)  O.o;  Otherwise, I'm sure I would be hating it.  ^.^;

Geia, Claudia, and Anastasia...  Vesp Killing Machines.

Oooh, yeeeaaah!  They make FrankenFerret™ proud!  :3

I was minding my own business of turning in my card run at the CAA Memorial when I came face to face with the Heaven Giant Keeper.  Is it normal for him to wander that far from his home?  Does he attack you?  Because he didn't come after me.  (Perhaps he heard about the FrankenFerret™ and didn't want to provoke my wraith.  LMAO...)  I thought I would give him a try, since I had no idea whether I could handle him.  I went back to Quarters to grab my vesping team.  I thought for sure someone else was going to get him before I returned.  But it was as I left it.  I buffed up and charged [to what I thought would be my death].  :o  I killed it.  :o

Before I head off to PillowLand: Thank you, Alzeda-chan and Eri-senpai for providing me with Dyes.  Tonight, I got a Prelude Stance Ring and a Leadership personal skill ring.  Thank you so much!  *_*  I'm so happy.  \(^.^)/

~FrankenFerret™, out!

The Irony!

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Before I start my usual rambles, I'd like to take a moment to say, 

I feel very blessed to have many kind, wonderful, terrific friends in Sword!
Thank you!

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When I have little time to play, many things seem to occur.

When I actually have time to play, nothing seems to occur!  :o

I was home all day, on a Monday.

Teppie-kun invited me to Prison and Eri-senpai said he would come also.  He thought I jinxed it by saying that I hope neither of us crash today.  I got smart and restarted GE before departing for the Torture Chamber.  Yesterday was not repeated.  :3  I didn't end up dealing with any ogres...  My first room was the empty Treasure Chest.  Then it was the red warp to doom.  Nothing exciting from the roulette to report.

I talked to senpai about Fire Gate raid while I was updating my Weapons* listing (I should start listing Accessories, now that I actually have some).  He had Fire Orbs and so... Mercurcio (M-Wiz) Levitated in Topolo Durga (you can't red loli there) because it's a long trek to the Gate and I don't have a warp there.  I'm happy to say my team didn't die once and it appeared that I was doing damage.  \(^.^)/  The big difference probably had to do with the fact that I was using maxed out characters.  ^.^;;;  They used to die a lot when I went the few times with Ophi-taichou.  *Old school HTML hard coding!

AND drum rolls please... the Fire Gate weapon was...

THE RUBY DRAGON!!!  dundundun!!!  Which senpai got from Round Robin, but let me have.  Even though he was just short that one for his collection.  Senpai's so nice.  T^T

I had fun posing with senpai!  :D

Thank you, senpai, for what would have otherwise been an uneventful day!

Also... did some vesping with Ana (Emi) and Claudia (Helena) to get little Renton (Viki) up to Veteran.  Created Dietric (Lorch), Salazar (Jose), and Gloria (Angie).  Claudia is 50% away from being Master!

~Ferrie, scurries off to bed.

A Bit Glum

It's kind of hard to spend only three to four hours during the weekdays and make any sort of progress between doing real life things like eating dinner, getting a haircut (see #28), going to the gym, showering, and finding time to vesp.  I didn't make much progress on Valencia this evening, but I did create Renton (Viki) and vesped him from Level 20 to Level 55.  Really like using the LOE Eri-senpai lent!

Went to Circus with Bellza-chan and Almontri-chan!  F.A.B.ulous strikes again.  Like a mini reunion.  :)  I find Claudia really scary at Circus.

Nothing special from Viki's Easter Eggs.  I'm also out of Shiny Crystals to buy Dyes.

As Rei-kun (ebil-ebil!) would say, I'm "le tired" from vesping.  :\

I need to get sleep.  I've only been getting about five hours a night.  :\

~Ferrie, glum.