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~

Meeting

Thursday, 7/15/10

Logged in and met up with the friend who introduced me to the server.  He's making some Touhou-themed characters--hence, Reisen.

We headed to Sphinx together to go hunt some Anubis (Anubises?  Anubii?) for exp.

I don't really know what to think of the general populace of the server.  For some reason it doesn't seem quite as nice as LRO, but that could be my resilience to change.  This Priest was friendly enough, though.

At times we amassed quite an army of angry followers...



Saturday, 7/17/10

Met up again and we went to go do some boring quests for exp.  Along the way we ran into two people who were doing the same quest as we were--they were even the same classes as us, which was funny, haha.

And here we are running into them again ^^;

After that we were pretty close to transcending, so we decided to go back to Sphinx to get those last few levels.  Soon enough I was 99, and very sparkly.  Didn't take too long for him to get 99 as well.

And hooray, we're high novices!

Thank goodness for the Bless+Heal NPC.  That's the only reason I was able to kill anything as a high novice (having 1 str/agi/dex doesn't really work out that well).  Unfortunately I still died to this thief bug xD.

But of course, soon enough I got to High Aco.  Yay!~

And then it was off to Payon Dungeon and then Firelocks, for more healbombing fun.

And before you know it, I'm a cute HP again!  Whee~

My friend even found me a ribbon, so now I'm back to my old look again.  Hooray! <3~  I'm even using a girl's diary for my weapon ^^;

After that we went to leaf cats for a bit for some jlvls, but then stopped because my stomach was in dire need of food (for once)...

yay...

Healbombed some firelocks and then leveled in anubis for a bit and now i'm 92/50.  whee.

IntenseRO

Well, my friend tells me he started playing again, so I figured (with an eye roll) that I may as well hop on.  It's 150x rates too, so no harm there.

After a bunch of issues with the 1.7GB full client DL not working and ratemyserver.net's filefront downloads being corrupted, i managed to hack together a working intenseRO folder by ripping some files from LRO and combining it with the IRO files I had.  and then...

Success!  It was already fairly late in the night, but I really needed to kick back a little (rough night), so I wanted to at least get started.  I quickly created my character, with the same recognizable red hairstyle as always, and named her Reinforce san.  I couldn't think of anything else ^^;

And here I am in the newbie spawn area.  As always, it seems rather crowded and bustling.  There's a bunch of NPCs here; even one for healing + bless + agi.  convenient, though it kind of upsets me because it means my support role is somewhat diminished and I can't go off and do as many random acts of kindness.  Oh well.

First thing I did was to buy some items and go off to the Ice Dungeon to complete the quest which would get me to base level 81 (as mentioned in a guide on the forums).  As you can see here, I ran into some issues while I was fly wing'ing around.  The warper lets you get into any level of the dungeon though, so that's convenient.

Ah, finally I reach the guy in the ice.  Then it's just a few more short steps to finish the quest...

And hooray, I'm base level 81!  ...as a jlvl1 novice.  Haha, ridiculous.  Anyhow, went to Ant Hell to whack some things.

And hooray, I'm a cute aco!~

Here's a screenie of the main town.  I forget what it's called now; name starts with a B or something.  Then Pront is the official vending town, and there's also a Mall full of NPCs selling items, etc.

After whacking a few more ants I had my healbomb set up, so I went to Payon dungeon and gained some more easy jlvls, then I was off to Amatsu for more healbombing of firelocks.  Somewhere along the way I also tried to kill an Anubis in Sphinx but failed miserably xD.

Anyhoo, that got me to jlvl 50, and then now I'm a priest!  Ugh, ugly...

Logged on today just because I missed my reinforce-san with her beautiful red hair.  Walked around in Gaia buffing a few people here and there.  Seemed strangely desolate, but who am I to know what's going on anyways.

*rustling leaves*

bblllaaarrrrrrg.

Clothing color fun

Soo...I ended up making a monk. I also ended up making random person a couple claymores for free, so I messed around with my bs for a while.

This custom palette makes me laugh every time I see it.















....I think I may leave it like that for the lols. XDD