New Shell - Sense Of The Absolute

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am a 75SMN 75PLD 75RDM Hume on Seraph in Final Fantasy XI and this is my new ingame blog. Decided while we were camping Fafnir today to start making one. My current history is as follows: Started playing the game about 5 years ago as a Tarutaru called Clarkeyboy. I actually began by playing Tetra Master only but decided I would try out the game as it was a free months trial (I did NOT like the idea of a monthly subscription).

Level 1: Spent the first half hour of gameplay having no idea how to move my character, Num lock was off so nothing seemed to work. I introduced myself to many NPC's and got annoyed when they wouldnt answer my simple questions. After I worked out how to move, I started to explore the dizzying heights of Windurst. I felt lost, confused, abandoned by any kind of tutorial and totally pissed off with the fact I just couldnt grasp anything. Eventually I found my way out into the world and started to kill things. I was BLM....

Level 5: Shinokorosha, a 75BRD found me and amazingly, took me under his wing and trained me in the ways of the game. I was still a noob but now I had some kind of purpose and that was to one day wear an Errant Houppelande. It looked so cool and it became my purpose.

Level 8: Shino and his cronies pulled me up to Rank 5 (I had no idea what was going on but apparantley it was good and I was getting to see some nice story bits) without even having a sub job (No idea what that was at this point). Basically they tractored me around and dragged me from place to place. I was starting to enjoy the game now.

Skipping forwards a little as that could go on forever...I got my first 75 which was SMN. Absolutely loved the job, it was a great support class, and an adequate DD too, and this was my ticket into endgame fun, which until this point I was only told was great but had never really seen it.

Anyways the months and years rolled by, I got RDM, BRD, THF and BLM all up to 75 and gathered various rare pieces of gear from sea, sky and land HNM/NM/Events. Met some great friends, Draygon, Bethony, Sorceress, Sorceror, Buxx, Bornick, Tewl, Bradlowz amongst a few. We did loads of things that other people basically just moaned about not being able to do, and as we were always camping things like Serket, Roc, Xolotl, Simurgh, Lord of Onzozo, and other things, other people rarely got claims over us, thus causing my reputation to go down the pan, as everyone knows, if you outclaim someone, your instantly the worst person in the world.

I digress, time went on, and after doing so many things that got me in trouble with the law (GM's) I finally lost my character which to me was a blessing as I was finally released from the addiction..... until a year later (1 yr 5 months ago) when I found my old FFXI disks and decided to play it casually (yeah right). Anyways I reinstalled the game and made Touchstone! I wanted to be a PLD so thats what I did, levelled MNK to 18, WAR to 37 then PLD to 75, did all that in about a month. Capped out my fame, got to Rank 6, unlocked Sea and Sky, all in about 3 months, and I was back with a 75 and various random subs.

Played for a few months bouncing about from quest, to mission, to exp and found I wasnt enjoying the game as much as I did when I was a taru, so I decided to quit and leave for good... but after 9 months I came back, worked myself back up to high standing and got SMN and RDM levelled to 75, and here I am, to this point in time after a fun run in Midgard for a few months, Tsingtao sent me a tell asking me to come help Sense Of The Absolute with Sandworm, so I did, got paid, and left. Same thing happened the next day but this time, I didnt get paid, I got a pearl! That was yesterday, and in that one day we killed Aspidochelone (new title), King Behemoth (new title), and I got a group together for Storms of Fate.... FAILED! This morning we killed another Sandworm Doomvoided NM and also Dark Ixion (another new title!), which brings us to this point in time, camping Fafnir..... I hope you enjoy keeping up with my adventures and I will try to post as many pics as I can. The result: No claim ; ;