High priest!~

--Tuesday, 4/20/10--

Natalie was on when I logged in, and she was trying to teleport around in Abbey to join in with a party that had already started going through.  Eventually she found them...I tried to do the same with Fate-sama, but it didn't work out.  Eventually a new one formed in Morroc though, so I joined in.  lol at the "Invyte plseas" in this pic.

Being a mage in the party was rather...well, a lot more boring.  You just cast SG and MS...and that's about it.  Actually I found myself using soul strike and jupitel thunder instead--we didn't have a bragi bard so my cast time was horridly slow and most of my SGs/MSs were useless anyhow.

Eventually Natalie finally hit 99 and rebirthed.  look at us as cute little high novices!  And in the meantime, taro logged in...and yes, this was at about 4:30AM.

After some difficulties with obtaining equipment (you can't use storage, OR trade), we set off into the labyrinth forest to whack some things...

Of course, with only 1 dex/str/agi, it was even harder than when I was a regular novice.  And I got killed by a hunter fly somewhere along the way xD.

Eventually we both managed to get to jlvl10, and became high aco/high mage.  Finally I got to look cute again! ^^

We were still really puny though, so I used my monk to tank some enemies while Natalie bolted em.  And yes I had a little bit of fun by using Asura Strike on one of them =P

Eventually we switched and Natalie used her sin to tank for me.  Taro joined us at this point as well.  And...well, I leveled some, though it took a while xP.  Good thing I had a mace/club handy.  I tried setting my hair color back to white at this point as well, as you can see.

Now that we could actually kill things (well, sorta), we headed to payon dungeon, where I proceeded to healbomb the heck out of everything =D.  And yes, that is me casting fire bolt in the picture =P (it was a scroll)

I tried going for the true Reinforce colors (as seen here), but it didn't really fit with my persona well at all.  Though I guess it -does- look sort of cool, in an interesting way.

So instead I went back to a red color scheme and was much happier.  At this point we headed to Moscovia dungeon to farm sharp leaves for awhile...we both wanted to get to 2nd class, which meant jlvl 50...I was planning on using the sharp leaf quest to get there, but you need to be at least base level 60 in order to do the quest.  So in that case, I looked through the other quests that didn't require quite as high a level, and saw that there was one that required 50 Huge Leaf, which you get from the dryads that I had been killing earlier with Miyuki-san in the same map as the sharp leaf NPC.

Of course I only had 49 of them T_T.  So I logged in as Miyuki and grabbed one more, and turned them in, and...I got to base level 59.  *facepalm*  At this point it was about 6 AM, so I decided to call it quits...



--Wednesday, 4/21/10--

Okay, so I got to base level 60 through Payon Dungeon and did the sharp leaf quest, but I still needed more jexp before jlvl 50.  I was thinking about doing the sharp leaf quest again, but thought better of it (probably a waste of jexp).  So I partied with Taro (who has orcface in this pic) and went to the Ice Dungeon in hopes that I'd be able to leech a decent amount of exp.  Sadly, it didn't work out that well with the exp sharing--I went back to payon and the exp was better.

And finally, I was a high priest again! =D



At this point I decided to go through and see if I liked any of the other color schemes:

Here's one that's all red...but that was TOO red.

I thought I might like this one because it makes the ribbon on my back match the one in my hair, but it also made some other aspects of the outfit a little darker, and I preferred the slightly paler look.

I experimented with some other colors as well, but really I didn't like any of them quite -that- much, though some of them did look neat.

And of course, here's the two wtf ones that look like you're wearing lava.

So in the end I did just end up sticking with the default color scheme, which is the same as what I used for my HP back in osro.  hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! ^^;



--Thursday, 4/22/10--

Vina has bunny ears!




And orcface xD.  Btw I love how this version of the sprite just has the head totally offset so it looks even more bizarre.



--Friday, 4/23/10--

Now she's got a bow!

Then this guy started hitting on me.  Though he was terribly, terribly boring.  He didn't even say anything--he just used the heart emote a bunch.  He did "pet" ryo-ohki though, so he wasn't ALL bad. 9_9

Logged on later to find that Vina had rebirthed and was a high aco now!  Hooray!~

I brought out Alisa-chan (my new dancer character, who is replacing Subaru-san since I don't feel like making a taekwon), and went to payon dungeon to party with her.

We found no less than TWO spring flowers in there, and whacked on them, along with some random dude who was there.  I switched to my monk for this; it would have gone way too slowly with just Alisa-chan hitting it.

Michelle was on too...She had been collecting magic paint for the easter quest, so I handed her the 4 that I had, and introduced Vina to her ^^;

Taro and Michelle's bf were on as well, so we all met up at Glast Heim to party together.

It was mostly us tanking while Vina healbombed stuff, since she needed to catch up in levels.  I also got some experience, and got Turn Undead level 10, which worked nicely (well, except for the times when it failed xD).

After Vina caught up we went for Stings in search of gloves.  We...didn't manage to find any, though we did get Silk ribbons.  Look at ryo-ohki with her cute ribbon!  Though...unfortunately the location of the ribbon is a bit off...oh well, it matches with me now ^^;

I would have stayed and partied longer but at this point I needed to sleep; I wasn't well-stocked on rest and had to wake early the next morning...

Happy birthday to me.

--Monday, 4/19/10--

Logged on and saw that Vina was on, so we met up and said hi;  after chatting for a bit, we headed to Morroc for an Abbey party...

This one was significantly smaller than the other ones, but more competent--I definitely had less work to do and people weren't dying left and right.

Of course, that didn't stop us from getting mobbed at the warp by Beezlebub.  D'oh!

And again at the warp here.  Blargh!

Oh well, it was still okay.  And I almost made it to lvl 98 too!



--Tuesday, 4/20/10--

Logged on; Michelle was on but iirc she was mining and doing homework and whatnot.  I didn't see any parties forming in Morroc, but saw that there were like 34 people in Abbey so I thought I might just poke around and see if I could join up with a party.

Eventually after enough warping around I managed to find a group (I helped them after they got wiped (?) at a warp).  This one was medium-sized but still pretty-well organized; the tanks were up in front like they were supposed to be and things worked pretty well.  Everyone was somehow running into SP problems though; I had to chug a lot of grape juice, even with Magnificat.

We almost got wiped here, but I managed to teleport away in time.  And, as you can see here, I got off an AWESOME Redemptio that managed to save the entire party.  I died after, but man, this was the crowning achievement of my priest career.

Not too long after, I reached 99 and said goodbye (they thanked me for the healing =D).

Michelle was still the only one on, so I asked here to celebrate my rebirth with me at Gaia.  How suitable that my rebirth ingame happens to fall on my RL birthday...^^;

And here's me as a high novice!

Michelle even gave me a present =D  Thanks Michelle!~<3

I decided that was enough for now, but I'm really looking forward to getting to high aco, and later high priest. I'm gonna look cutee againnn!~ ^^

Abbey Party (again), new skin

--Saturday, 4/18/10--

Got an IM from Michelle late last night after getting a decent amount of my CS164 pset done (phew) and she said there was an Abbey party forming in Morroc.  I hopped in and found her char so I could friend her, and waited to be invited to the party...

Here's us just chilling at the entrance while we're waiting for everyone else to get here.

It was my first time being part of one of these really big crowd-type parties.  Of course, things are necessarily disorganized when you have a swarm like this, so the most you can really do as a priest is heal people who are dying, rez people who are dead, and buff whenever someone complains.

Eventually I caught on and started using the Party menu in order to quickly see who needed to be healed or rezzed, and did so.  Made things a lot easier, though I wish you could extend the window to show the entire party instead of just 8 people at a time.  I was scrolling up and down through the list a LOT.

We had two or three wipes.  Pretty inevitable, given the type of party we were in.  Though, I have to admit I was at least partly (mostly?) to blame for one of them.  I accidentally hit Q (my teleport key) and so I was away from the group for a bit while I frantically teleported around until I got to a (relatively) safe place.  When I ran back to the group, not only were they in worse shape because I wasn't around to save their asses, but I brought a bunch of other aggro'd monsters with me.  Oops.

Ryo-Ohki nibbling on a carrot.

We found a spring flower in the middle of the dungeon, hahaha.  We ended up leaving it behind, though.

Some guy randomly got up above the wall xD

Of course, being the multitasker I am, I had no trouble checking up on Ryo-Ohki and making sure she didn't get hungry, in the midst of all the healing and whatnot. ^^;

Overall it wasn't bad at all--I hit level 97, which is great, and I have to say, I'm =really= liking the priest role in the party.  I don't know if I'd feel nearly as satisfied with any other role.  But as a priest, I feel important--after all, you're the only one who -everyone in the entire party- directly interacts with.  The other dps guys are just kind of there throwing damage in the mix, but nothing they do actually affects you (well, except when they're stupid and try to tank things that they can't).

Eventually it got pretty late (like 5:00AM or so) and we had a wipe so I called it quits.  Michelle stayed on, probably.  Not sure how the party did after that--a part of me hopes they had more trouble because I was important. =P


--Sunday, 4/18/10--

Remembering that I saw some alternative skins in some screenshots included in guides and whatnot, I browsed around for some cute skins today.  There was a Hello Kitty one, but it was strikingly blue and...well, blue.  So I opted for this pink angeling one instead.  Hooray!~