The Summer Breeze festival is running at the moment. This is one of my favorite times. The music that plays at night is one of my favorites (though it seems to be everyone else's hated song ^.^;). I missed out on last year's swimsuits, but took part in all the festivities and got my paws on some good event items. I spent quite some time dancing for the hope of all Vana'Diel, and helping the Fantastic Fraulein Mumor defeat her rival, Uka Totlihn. It was good, cheesy fun watching them drop hearts and stars on each other's heads through their dancing techniques.
I particularly like the new yukata, and the way it matches with my new face. It is a mithra port of Lillisette's face, with purple eyes. It matches very well with the lavender floral print. Here is a moment of frustration during a bombing run in Sauromugue Champaign [S], with Zephiris and Kipupu in the background. The imps kept eating my bombs. The little bent ears help make this picture as well.
I have been campaigning like crazy lately. I know, there is a possibility I have gone mad listening to all those drums, but it is a means to an end. That is what I tell myself, anyway. I am currently 66 on my blue mage, and am trying to get a full set of the cobra panty (err... harness) set. This means I have been seeing a LOT of death lately.
But I also managed to break my previous record with this nice little lump of XP in Fort Karugo-Narugo [S]:
Bluefenris has a dancer just a little lower than I am, so we have been duoing as well. FoV has been my main course of XP ever since starting a melee job. I was having trouble with the RDM weapons, and the fights were lasting too long, when Bluef (as he hates to be called) ran up and helped, despite being too low to stay there on his own. It helps make killing weapons in Ro'Maeve a little more stable and minimizes deaths due to links. The downtime has been cut also with a second, so its a good setup.
We have also almost got our static back together in Tuesday night assaults again. Makai is probably not coming back, so we have been subbing in other people we know. This has worked somewhat well so far, and I am currently sitting pretty on Second Lieutenant (5/25). The promotion exam involved not-Naja schooling us in Officer's camp, and for some reason it involved a galka and a lot of baby chocobos. Yeah, I have no idea why either, but it was pretty damn cute.
I also have a static with some former Team Suicide members for Nyzul Isle on Saturday mornings. Not sure why I picked it up just yet, as I am not a big fan of Nyzul, but it will be nice to finally reach Floor 100 and be done with it. Einherjar picked up for a little while, and we cleared all the Tier I wings. We seem to have hit another block now, and have been having problems with the Tier II wings. At the moment, I am one win away from an Omega Ring.
Speaking of TS, it seems everyone I know is burning out on their events. I have already stopped running Dynamis (on account of my deep hatred of anything Dynamis related) with them, and only attend their Monday Limbus and Sunday Einherjar events. In looking for a shell that was less endgame-oriented and more just friend-oriented, Zeph suggested I start my own social shell. It ended up being called CatTail and is still uber small, but every person in it knows everyone else. So that is a nice little return to prioritizing little things done together. It is also the very first shell I have ever led. Oddly enough, despite the name, I am the only mithra at the moment. I still think KaersKrew would have been a better name. =3
Ishkur seems to be online more often, which is good because it seems all the people I have known for awhile have been gone more often than not. He helped Emi and I out by tanking some mobs we were trying to learn BLU spells from. Diamondhide is a pain in the ass, but I learned Zephyr Mantle and Enervation in this party. I helped him out as well by jumping into a Nana Mihgo BCNM (I still do not even have Moogle Kupo d'Etat -_-;) and killing some THF AF NM for his buddy in the shitadel.
Finally, here are some strange little WTF moments. Thayos and I were campaigning (again in Fort Karugo-Narugo) when I pulled a rafflesia while we waited for the yagudo to arrive. Methinks he plays RDM too much.
Also, I spotted this little beastie in Xarcabard [S] and had to literally stop and recheck to make sure it was not just my eyes and imagination playing tricks on me.
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