Koalas, Pandas, and Treasure!

Holy Moly! Its almost Halloween people! Get the candy! The costumes! I need more candy!! Hope everyone is feeling alright. I know the weather has cooled down a little bit for many and I hope you're all staying cozy! Gotta make sure you stay healthy enough to get some treats soon everyone! So, adventure time! KoalaPandas does it again with another fun event out of no where! Lilyoda sent me a tell a few weeks back asking for help to put a garrison together. Turns out there is a rare instrument that isn't on the AH too often and the garrison drops it. I hadn't done garrisons in quite a while but I always remembered them to be quite fun. So, with a few persistent ls messages, and asking peeps to come help, we had ourselves a little garrison run! Sadly we only had one pop item, (took us an hour and thirty minutes for it too!! >_<;) but we got the harp Lilyoda needed and some peeps walked away with some nice little prizes. Thank you KoalaPandas for showing up for your fellow linkshell mates again! And pat on the back for Ichrius who was kind enough to lend our linkshell some extra muscle.

More helping Koalas! Hermos needed some help on an AF fight so me, Cyprias, and Arnor decided to give the mobs a little eucalyptis tree lovin to the mobs! We took em out without breaking a sweat and Hermos got to walk away with some shiny drk AF. Congrats Hermos!

Last but not least, ZNM loving! Finally got to fight Dea and give that darn Rhino a fight. Hermos, Arnor, Forix, Beyond, Cyprias, and the taru's friend Strangeprime were nice enough to help me give Dea a good punch to the face! Forix kited while everyone whittled it down and me and Beyond kept people alive. Sadly Arnor had some bad luck (I'm so sorry for binding it next to you! Accident Honest!) and he was the mean death reciever for the night. I lost count after three but he made me laugh so hard my sides were hurting from the laughter and all the while Forix was running in circles crying out for refresh and hastes. After a good amount of time the group finally took out the mob and I got my Enkidu's Subligar! Although I do look better in them then Kallo, even my tush can't make the ugly subligar look amazing. Thief has always had ugly armor (besides AF!) and the Enkidu set just adds to it. Oh wells, the str bonus from the legs is very nice and my thief WS set is looking pretty decent lately ^^b. Thank you so much everyone again. Was very kind of ya to run at that rhino when he sure as heck knocked many of us back.

Thats my little update for now. ENMs appear to be kicking up again so hopefully the group can earn some gil next time. We haven't had much luck the first two runs but that just means the good stuff is right around the corner. Salvage is bringing the fight back to the bosses so should be fun to see us go at it. Keep kicking butt everyone!

Oh, and on a little note I finally got the music up again and this time its Halloween stuff...sort of! Anyhoo, I didn't know her that well and only talked to her a few times, but I did enjoy chatting it up with Selphiie. I know she quit the game and all, but every time I hear the first song I'm always reminded of her scary resemblance to the Grudge girl @_@;;;. Anyhoo, the first song is to you Selph! I know you're out there and I hope you're enjoying life to its fullest \^^/.

When Life Shoves Ya Down. . .

We all have those rough spots in life. You know, where curveballs are being thrown at you and you're not enjoying life. Where even the cookies don't taste as good as they should. No matter how hard you smile you can see it in your eyes: pain, anger, and frustrations of life. I don't remember the exact quote, but someone once said it were these moments in life that truly showed the character of a person. The moment when you're knocked down for like the 50th time and things are looking bleak. Do you lay there and quit? Or do you stand back up and fight. I admit I chose to lie down for a bit. Mistakes kept happening, even mistakes I didn't know I could make. Those are especially the worst...its like sneezing and finding out you somehow broke someone's favorite tea set. Not only are you shocked at what happened, you cant prepare yourself for the after effects of your mistake. You wan't to say its not my fault. You want to throw the blame on someone else. Anything else...but it all comes down to your runny nose as the problem. Ok...those were a bad comparisons...anyways, I don't know if I'll do any better this time around on my feet...but all you can do is try even harder right?

*Deep breathe* Gosh...what I would do for some fresh tea. Anyways, like my little rant said, I've been going through a rough time and I was having a tough time. I try not to show it too much but as a friend of mine pointed out and I quote, I'm just a "emotional, expressive, overreacting idiot". Owww...but she had a point. And it was those qualities in me that got me in that rough time. However, with the thanks of many of my friends, I've been feeling a lot better. Ranting helps, but its pretty hard not to cheer up with the silly BCNM picture that I got XD. Frag, Cyp and me decided to give the Jelly bcnm a go in hopes of some treasure. And what do ya know, thanks to a little luck, and a lot of cheering, we all got a little cut of gil thanks to a Utsu scroll. ^^

Turns out Lynq does the Prime fights quite often to earn gil for his Dynamis weapon. I only had two fights left to get a bauble to fight fenrir so thanks to Lynq, I'm ready to kill me the big honcho. I don't know how he does it...I'm guessing he has a trained parrot or something, but Lynq was able to play all three peeps in the picture and not let em die! Craziness! Thanks again Lynq.

Oh Salvage, you bring some of the greatest and worst feelings out of everyone. If you want to know what its like to have a crappy relationship, do salvage people! First few nights out it feels great and new. You love how different it is to everything else you've done before and it even drops random 15 pieces from time to time to tease you. But once you're in for a while? The repetition starts to wear at you a bit, the high difficulty curve due to set up of players and the runs themselves begins to make ya twitch. But when you finally do get a drop? It feels amazing. Not the yay~ feeling you get from sky or sea. I mean the OMG \@_@/ and you literally feel your heart not beat for two seconds before your head realizes you need to pump blood to live. Anyways, we've been doing bosses lately and we went 1/2 on LAC and 0/1 on LBC. Although I know salvage is difficult and what it demands from players is quite a lot, I still can't help but feel disgruntled at the peeps who have whole sets of armor. Almost a "why not me!" Kind of thing ya know? Although I love the linkshell I admit our win/loss ratio's overall are pretty awful. However, I'm not gonna get my panties in a bunch. Just gotta strap in tight, and get ready to kick some butt. So screw you few peeps who I heard were talking crap on my linkshell. I'll have Raikoh stick something in yer bum. Because he likes doing that...because he loves to talk...and say stuff...lol. I think I might do a little bio for all of the salvage members. They're all quite a happy go lucky bunch and I admit if it wasn't for all their great attitudes, I probrably would of left a long time ago.

Helping out a fellow KoalaPanda yet again! Although I have been very busy with school, with my commitments to certain statics and events, and enjoying farming and other activities with c-*cough hack hack*. Ah sorry furball. Sooo~! Despite being busy, I got to help Lynq with CoP 5-3! I think...at least thats the number I remember. Anyhoo, it was the one where you gotta fight a bunch of robots and a few other things along a very long path with doors. Except for Talliah getting in a little cuffle with a bat, the run through actually went very smoothly. So congrats to those who got the mission completed! One step closer to sea!

Anyways, thats my little drama filled post for the day. I apologize about not having music for this post but I already have my selection of music lined up for my next few posts ^^b. Try to enjoy your October and finish on a good note everyone! This month only comes once a year, so make it a good one!

Gasp for Air

Blearg! I've been swamped with school work lately and I have all sorts of tests and quizes I been having to study for. Luckily my moogle doesn't look after me so I've still been able to sneak out from my pile of work for adventures! Like salvage! The darn bee up above has been super duper rude and hasn't dropped anything in a loooong long time. But what do ya know, by pure luck we got both a Skadi 35 mask and Usu 35 boots from it! Woooo! That puts me at 7/15 for the whole set. Hopefully I'll have some fancy pieces to show off for the ls. I can't wait ^^.

Well Talliah invited me to a ENM static and I always wanted to try out the fights. The gil is also nice since I can then put it to the side for my salvage armor. Anyhoo, while getting the item to enter the icy one, I got to poke and visit a very friendly dragon! This time I learned my lesson and stayed far back so he didn't try to eat me. Good times ^^.

The ENMs went pretty smoothly. One of the peeps didn't show up so Rig was kind enough to step in for us. We didn't get any amazing items but it was very nice and interesting to do these new fights. I'm always interested to see what kind of challages Vana'Diel provides and these ENMs seem challanging in a fair manner. Which is much nicer then some fights which are more evil then a monster that steals your cookies and pies at night. (The Mandy BCNM40 fight. . . *shudder*)

The only one I had experience on was the antlion fight. We were able to do the fight with little problems as well. We even saw Xolotl on the way there but just waved and kept going. Good stuff. Anyhoo, here's a picture of the actual chasm. I always thought it would be super cool if they had some deep cave down there to explore. I mean there has to be ancient stuff down there!

KoalaPandas lending a helping hand! Souel has been leveling pld as of late and needed help killing a NM that dropped a nice earring for him. Although this wasn't really a linkshell event, a few members came out to aid him in his conquest of a shiny earing! Although I had to take a quick break due to school (darn moogle caught me!), I was able to sign back on and help out souel. It was the least I could do since he's helped me out so much @_@; *nod nod*. Anyhoo, by pure luck the NM dropped the earring so congrats Souel! Not sure what it does since I hate tanking but I hope its something good!

Life has been kind of hectic lately for me, but I want to wish all my friends a very heartful thank you. The warm welcomes and hellos and kind hearts are always nice to come to when school and drama are kicking your butt. I also wanna give a very special thank you to Cyprias. For being there and trying much harder then he should to cheer me up. Thank you very much everyone. Lets keep making this October a wonderful one ^^b.

Rawr goes the Ranger!

Now when you look at the picture. What do you think? Miry be busting out her moves? Arnor telling Miry a spider is on her back? Or perhaps she is doing tai chi? Well you're all wrong! I'm camping a NM of course! But not just a regular NM! A super NM!

Because with the help of Arnor, we went rabbit hunting season. Black Coneys to be exact. And let me tell ya, Arnor is craaaaazy fast with getting this NM. So fast I think he ran faster then when I had flee on. I would see the pop thingy for a second and with just one blink kaboomy! Arnor would have the mob. In fact his claiming skills were so impressive he actually made the other group camping it leave! Craziness! Anyhoo, we actually ran out of carrots after a stack so Cyprias was kind enough to run us another stack and stay for a fight for the 13th rabbit. And lo and behold, I gots me a Selene's Bow! Thank you Cyp for the delivery and thank you super duper ultra much Arnor. You. Kicked. Butt. Simple as that.

And I got Selene's Bow because I'm in the middle of leveling ranger! I'm still scratching my head over this one really...I really dont see myself ever using it again once I hit 75. Like...once I'm level it...it's just gonna gather dust. I know I was super impressed watching my kittypal Talliah kick butt with it...but...again...not really my cup of tea. Weird I know, but its like a random urge to level something just for the sake of leveling I suppose. Anyhoo, I've had some great parties and some awful parties due to level sync. I do think the new system is great but I agree with many people when they say some kinks need to be fixed.

OMG SUPER GIANT PENGUIN! I always love spinning the camera around to see what kind of angles I can get and I love the picture. ^^; I was collecting me some zeni and tada, gots me an awsome picture. I must warn you though, watching these penguins yawn dont just make you yawn. They put you to sleep. Heck, they put you to sleep from a mile away. Craziness! Anyhoo, I have enough points to hopefully get Arnor a fancy blade for his blue mage. I gots to get it for him. I just gotta!

Salvage! More salvage fun. Sadly the amazing taru Rafnir decided to hang his hat for good. Although I didn't talk much with him out of salvage, he was very good at what he did and I respected him. And let me tell ya. I don't respect all that many tarutaru. Anyways, I'll miss that little bugger and his antics and I hope he enjoys whatever he's doing to the fullest. Hecky and Jdogg, two other powerhouse members are currently out as well. I honestly don't know much about their status but I hope everything is alright for them and they know that they got a loving kick butt salvage linkshell waiting for them. Yar! Anyhoo, we got quite a lot of 15 drops lately. I think 3-5 in just one run. Very impressive. Bosses are coming up so it should be interesting to see what the linkshell does. Fingers crossed @_@b

Thats my little update for now. I have updated the friends list by giving peeps nicknames and what not. Armi is back from his adventures from a far away place and I think Milie and I worked out some kinks. Either way, they're back on the list because they be impressive players that people should keep an eye out for. Oh yes, and a new song that I updated randomly after the last post. I found it funny and I hope it puts a smile on your face like it did mine. ~Love and Peace.

Hehe...Ooops ^.^;;;

Been busy with school and what not, totally haven't been writing as much as I could. >_<;; But I totally still have events to talk about. Like helping Sorreah with an AF fight! With the help of Hye and Zaina, we used some super mithra power and easily killed all three demons no problem! Congrats Sorreah! ^^

Dynamis! It has been very intersting ^^;;;;. The group is very friendly and they're very nice even though I make a few mistakes here and there @_@;. Its really amazing how clockwork the people work. Don't get me wrong, peeps still die and mistakes are made here and there...but holy moly, it doesn't phase them one bit! I'll be freaking out and they just calmly fix it lol. But yeah! Super friendly bunch and I'm very thankful for my pal Talliah for pointing them out. Ty kitty pal! I have two pieces of monster AF2 thanks to ya! Wooo~!

Saaalvage! Although Saturday runs have kind of gone kapoooty, we've been going strong during the week! Jdogg has fancy Usu boots, and we're getting closer to some more! We got all the way to the 5th floor on ZR and we actually killed the NM for the first time! Wooo! Sadly the drop rate is poop and we got nothing but alex pieces. Ohhh wells, at least we didnt walk away with nothing ^^.

Nyzul Isle Investigation! Thanks to the effort of Gimpers, and many members wanting to partake in it, KoalaPandas now has a Nyzul Isle static! \@_@/ Amazing! With the super amazing leadership of Gimpers, we got to the 10th floor with almost no problem at all! And thanks to a mistake about which mob we were supposed to kill, I accidently made the group kill a NM and we found a swordbreaker. @_@;;;;; I ended up getting it but I felt kind of bad. I got it thanks to a mistake... ~.~;. Its alright though, I just gotta give 200% next time and make sure we get some amazing treasure for the rest of the peeps! ^^

Anyhoo, thats my little update for now. Here is a cute little picture with Cyp cyp. I go afk for a second and next thing I know I gots me a comfy spot! :3 See ya next time peeps, I gots me a comfy spot to get to! Rawr~!