Day #495 Recap

Current Game(s): Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI

Current Play Time(Final Fantasy X-2): 60:09 (+)
Current Play Time(Final Fantasy XI): 20:24 (+)
Total Play Time - 1,099:07 (+)

Current Game Overs(FF X-2) - 4
Current Deaths(FF XI) - 3
Total Game Overs: 67

Where I Currently Am(FF X-2): Chapter 3 Creature Creator Time!(57% Complete, Bestiary 65% Complete)

Where I Currently Am(FF XI): Mission 2-3

Stuff Did Today (FF X-2): Trained some more... got a boatload more HP for my Chocobo... putting him back to Black Mage lowered his HP under 5000, also got everyone's MP over 900... should be enough for good really.

Stuff Did Today (FF XI): Finished my Black Mage training getting it up to 20... Next I headed over to Mhaura and undertook a collection quest so I could equip a support job... This included a very rare drop off of rabbits and a drop off of a fairly high level ghost that appeared only 15 minutes out of every hour. I eventually finished, levelling up to 26 in my Red Mage in the process. This allowed me to learn Invis, so I undertook Mission 2-1.

Here, the Optistery wanted me to research a very important lost book. They believed a Mithran cat burglar was behind it, so we went and talked to her to see if she had it. She said she had a book and if we retreived a Lapis Monocle for her we could go look at it. We trekked all the way to the Maze of Shakhrami in Tahrongi Canyon and located it among some fossils. We brought it back to her, and she wanted us to meet her at her hideout deep under the Horutoto Ruins. We went there, taking care to avoid all the VERY high level monsters in the area, and there she ambushed us with her posse wanting all my money and equipment! Luckily the Ace Cardians showed up... apparently she stole something important to them. Ajido-Marujido, the leader of the Orastery came and destroyed one of the Cardians, and they departed. We were lucky to escape with our life.

Next, we received a couple of tests from the Aurastery, we had to take a doll with us first to Tahrongi Canyon and then Bururmu Peninsula and had to dispatch 30 creatures within an alloted time... we succeeded both times. Unfortunately, we couldn't return the doll until our time was up, so we took the time to investigate the Trust Magic as well as getting the ability to use our Mog House as kind of a mini-transport system within Windurst. Nice!


Status & Notes: 

New interesting system in FF XI... the Trust System... I guess after the game had reached its peak and the population started to dwindle, they created a system in which you could basically have your own personal party! Yeah, that's basically what this does, you undertake quests in which you can collect party members that you summon. I like it!

I kind of went back and forth on what to do next... I finally decided I'm going to travel to the other two nations and do that part of Mission 2-3 next... and THEN I'll level to 30 and do the Chocolicense quest. This way I can collect another couple of Mog Exits and Trust spells.

Over in Spira... remember when YRP was our main party??? Yeah, me neither, the Fiend Arena is far more fun and challenging... anyway... as you can tell above, I'm still working on preparations for the Ex-Crimson Squad fight which I'm really thinking is the hardest fight you can undertake before Chapter 5. I'm getting closer as I have all the MP I need... and am getting close in HP. I have everyone back over 7000... I'd really LOVE to get my Chocobo to Level 99 so I can go ahead and equip a Minerva Plate on it. Once I get through this fight I'm going to get back to the plot...