I'm terribly backlogged on blogging.  My memory's probably going to be foggy throughout most of this but I still have the screenshots to go off of, at least.

--Monday, 3/14/11--

Say hello to Shia! (from Pita-Ten)  Isn't she cute as an aco?~

Here's another instance of "spawn with 2 HP so even the poring is hard to kill".  Only this time I was a high aco so all my stats except for int were one, augh.  Some other aco named Mai Liny was also having the same issue so we just repeatedly spawned and whacked this one aco until we killed it. xD  Keep in mind we can't even use a knife!

And here's me as high priest, yay!

Later that night I ended up playing with Natalie...

We decided to go hunt for a Phen card, since I reasoned it would be useful for Sumomo, my battle sage.  As a side note, now that I've finished watching Nanatsuiro Drops, I'm utterly and completely in love with Sumomo and the series (and Nako and Nona as well xD).  JT + Lex = instant kill here. =D  Course, it actually turned out that I didn't need the phen card after all...but whatever xD

After that we decided to go see if we could do Magma dungeon with me using suffragium on Natalie.

Later I switched to Sumomo and we discovered the awesome, awesome, awesome power that is Water ball.  It is awesome.

Natalie giving me random items because I have like no equips at this point (look at my pretty cotton shirts).

And here's Natalie narrowly escaping death with 88 HP left xD

I can't really tell what this is...I think I tried going to some random dungeon and...probably ended up getting my butt kicked, haha.

--Tuesday, 3/15/11--

I try to log in and just hang around sometimes, even if I'm busy doing other stuff--just so people (and by people I mean Natalie) can know that I'm around.

--Wednesday, 3/16/11--

I can't really keep track of Natalie's characters anymore xD

She gave me this cute ribbon though, and...well, look at this image of Sumomo:

Yeah, it's perfect T_T

Me lamenting how I often hop on but am busy with other miscellaneous random things, like cleaning my room or chatting with someone or processing music or something or other.

Anyhoo, I wanted another Andre card to slot in my bible for another +20ATK (my attack is rather feeble at this point; i'm mainly just doing damage through my doublecasted bolts), so we went to and hell and...well it didn't take me that long at all to find one, yay.

And here's us getting screwed over at the entrance to Magma.  oof!

A bunch of leveling later, we got smart and decided to use my water endow to enchant our weapons.  It made a huge difference!

And a bunch of hours later I decide to do the platinum skill quest and get Energy Coat before heading to bed to catch a few hours of sleep before my final.  Yay...;)

--Thursday, 3/17/11--

Logged on and just decided to do some random stuff.  Tried out Lighthalzen Bio lab (floor 1 only of course) and surprisingly enough I can actually kill stuff in there, as long as I don't get mobbed.

Thor Volcano, on the other hand, just eats me alive xP

I did okay in glast heim church with my HP Shia though!  I forgot to mention that Natalie gave me this Orleans armor and orleans server--one which increases cast time but provides uninterruptible, and the other which reduces cast time.  So those are realllllly helpful (and hence why i don't need that phen).  My battle sage was using them but I handed them off to Shia so that she could use ME in glast heim.  Wasn't too bad!

Later that night I log on again to find Natalie in Morroc, who had apparently been looking at golden hair ornaments.  "Kind of appropriate for you to show up", she says ^^;

She gave me this cute flower band too!  I tried it on with Shia, inspired by this picture:

But I think I ended up liking the usual ribbon better ^^;

Me and Natalie's knight spent some time leveling in Abbey (lvl 1).  Our outfits do kind of complement each other nicely I guess~

Mainly I just sat back and ME'd once in a while, while healing and buffing.  Too bad ME doesn't stack xP

And just for kicks I brought Sumomo in once. xD  That didn't really end too well...but oh well.

We ran into another priest randomly.  Apparenly we were "little too high" level to party up, but he was doing just fine soloing--he had instacast ME, and was doing more damage than me too T_T T_T

Yay for ME spam xD

--Monday, 3/14/11--

Just trying to get the stylings of the other Nanatsuiro Drops characters vaguely right...

I'm also supposed to make a Shia priest, I guess.

And so it begins...again...

--Monday, 3/13/11--

I forget what my convention was before, but I'm going to do these according to technical date, not logical date (i.e. this was sunday night/monday morning).

Alright, so a few emails go back and forth and I learn that Natalie's on and playing, and so of course I drop whatever it is that I was doing and hop on to go join.

"and so begins a night where we're not gonna get any sleep, huh"

Is what I said.  I ended up going to bed not =terribly= late...maybe around 6:00AM or something, I just started getting tired and called it a night.  Taking into account that we just had DST, that's not actually too unreasonable, especially for me, and especially considering it's finals week meaning there's no class and I have no work to do anyways.

Anyhow, we met up, and after some fussing about about controls and the like, we went and whacked on things to get us to first job class.  Of course, I made liberal use of the @die command to get myself back to the LRO entry point training grounds where there's a whole bunch of porings and lunatics and fabres to beat on.

And here I am as a Mage, yay!

Only, at this point Natalie argues that we should just play on High Rate instead of Midrate since people are most likely only going to play over Spring Break anyways (sigh...silly college students...9_9).  So I (somewhat reluctantly) agree, and remake Akihime Sumomo on the highrate server.

Again, liberal use of @die...

...except this time for some reason we both spawned with 2 HP, meaning one hit from a poring and we were out.  Oops.  Well, all we needed was one kill really, so I just kept on running in, whacking, and respawning.  Somewhat reminiscent of D2, actually...

Anyhow, after -that- mess, we were ready to get some real experience, so we went south of Yuno to find some Geographers.  Took a bit of searching but I found some and proceeded to bolt, bolt, bolt the heck out of them for some nice juicy exp.

And soon enough, here's me as a Sage!  My first ever Sage in RO...

And then after killing some things in the clock tower, I was level 99 and ready to rebirth!

Some whacking and more clock tower-ing later, I'm a Professor/Scholar!  The outfit isn't half bad, to be honest...

...and apparently Natalie forgot to keep a dagger for when she rebirthed.  Oops.

Someone's pet is scary...

Anyways, I'm doing a battle sage build.  Professor is actually pretty fun!  Doublecast+memorize makes me feel really leet, being able to cast a double lvl 10 firebolt quickly.  I also keep forgetting I can move while casting, haha.  Only thing now is that I need a phen clip so that I'll be able to attack while casting and still have the cast go off safely.  Then I'll throw in autocast into the mix and then things should get -really- interesting, I think...

Here's me with my shiny lvl 99 aura, and Natalie trying on some clothing colors.

I couldn't really decide on a clothing style yet, but this one will do for now.

For reference, I'm supposed to be this character:

But for now I think I'll just stick with the red/green color combo, as I like the coloring.  I couldn't find anything involving white/gold/red that I liked better.

Checking back in on LuminaRO

Logged on just to see if my characters were all still there and noticed something funny had happened to a bunch of them:

Uhm, yeah, reinforce-san's hair got totally out of whack.  weird...so I went to the stylist to fix it (reminding myself, must not actually play; must not actually play), and...

well, got the style back, but the color didn't seem to want to work correctly.  Weird.  I'll probably do a reinstall of LRO later, as I'm guessing it's something to do with patching and new content and whatnot.

Anticipation

Sunday, 3/6/11

At Natalie's prompting, we've been gathering up the crew via email for plans to start up again, either Spring break or Spring quarter (or both).  Server is TBD.  We don't have a headcount yet, but I'm sure between me and Natalie we're certain to at least do -something-

I'm looking forward to it~