Lol at what happened a few days ago back at Aery.
We decided to camp Nidhog versus the lovely nasa (for those that don't play the game anymore, it's an incredibly powerful bot that belongs to 1 linshell in the server). Our chances were very little because of that, but also because we only had 8 people. After some time Nidhog decided to pop and after months of getting outclaimed, we finally claimed it again. Big problem though: I was the only tank >~<. I immediately freaked out. I had tanked Nidhog a couple of time but it was always with the help of great PLDs. Now I was alone trying to order linkshell around and keeping shadows up >.<. That didn't really go well together. I've noticed before when poking Ixion on PLD that I really can't focus on anything other than tanking. Anyway we slept it 4 times in the hope that people would rush to help us. After that we really had to fight it >.<. So with sweaty hands I start spamming my keyboard. I dunno what I was hoping for ; that utsumi would cast faster or something? I dunno, but my keyboard didn't appreciate it and turned against me...
Here I was, with Nidhog on me and an out-of-control keyboard... I tried to remove macropalet that was stuck but it wouldn't let me. Instead my keyboard decided it was time for a walk... Out of nowhere my little taru begins to walk away from Nidhog! O...M...G... Guess who followed me... HOLY SHIT NOOOOOOOOOOO! My heart stopped beating... I was gonna PK my whole linkshell...........
Thank goddddddd I hit a wall and everyone noticed something was really wrong... My linkshell all disengaged and slept it sooo fast, it was amazing! For some strange reason I was still able to chat, so I told them that I had to fake d/c and leave them alone without a tank. Luckily another tank was nearby and after relogging fast everything went smooth. Ended up killing Nid with the weirdest ally ever, but it worked out XD! And all the effort was awarded with finallllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy an Adaberk again. I would've killed someone if that wasn't an Adaberk Nid... Eventhough I think I would've been killed if that was an Adaberk Nid and I Spike Flailed everyone... >.>; phew... who says FFXI is boring?

Enough text. Picture time '~'

It's been a long time since my last FFXI update, so I've fallen behind once again D: Here's what kept me busy in FFXI during this summer's holiday. Warning incoming spoilers!



Unfortunatelly Matth decided to quit the game, so my summer in FFXI has mostly been me doing solo stuff if there weren't any linkshell things to do.



I finished all the WotG missions and I have to say, they were great! I love the Windurst story so much. SE portraited the great leaders of ancient Windurst times as heroes (sometimes a bit too overly confident) but they remained extremely cute, funny and clumpsy, it's adooooraaaable.



Unfortunatelly the first time I lost. I ran out of MP too fast and had to switch over to Carbuncle. I couldn't recover MP fast enough in the times Carby had hate, because he died too fast, didn't have much hate and I could only wait for auto refresh. So for the next fight I brought a Yagudo drink, which meant I was easily able to do Silphion (new ability for SMN that steals 300MP from Elemental summons every 5 minutes) and resummon Fenrir for that extra bit of HP and Emnity.



So Windurst got a male mithra yay... San Doria also got a new looking character. She's some famous dancer in San Doria that is chasing Caitsith. Her face expressions are great. Here she is getting owned by Caitsith.



And here is Caitsith skydiving.



The victory of saving Windurst and San Doria only lasted short.The cat seems to be the cause of all the problems and he shows you a vision of what the cities will look like soon. OMG Windurst >.<!



This post is really becoming too big so I'll stop for now. I've alot of none related things to this story to say still, but I'll save them for later. Until then^^/

For the passed weeks Matth came to visit me in Holland. The days really flew by. The first few days we were very busy visiting alot of different towns. Unfortunatelly before I went to pick up Matth from the airport I got a stomache, which I thought were just nerves or something like that but it took a few days to pass. Matth however was being very nice to me eventhough I was a bit grumpy because of that >.>;. Luckily it passed fast enough and we spend some very active days in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Tilburg, Nijmegen and on a biketrip! Maybe it was a bit too active lol because we were always so tired when we got home, but we had alot of fun nonetheless!

We went to Rotterdam where we wanted to see some Airplane race in the city, but as soon as we arrived, they stopped >.> Our luck. So we just toured around the city and had dinner. I wished I took a picture of matth's face when he saw his food arrive, his face was worth a million XD. He ordered Spare Ribs and they gave him what seemed like almost a whole pig lol. Can't believe he could eat it all XD His face afterwards was even worth more :D:D
In Tilburg we went to a huge fair where Matth won cute plush dolls for me :D Too bad we didn't win any huge prices. We were sometimes close, but I'm pretty sure it's almost impossible to win something like a Wii there.
We went to Madam Tussaud in Amsterdam, which was great lol because Matth pretty much wanted to take a picture with every doll eventhough my camera could only take like 40 pics XD.

Dutch cities are cool and there is quite alot historical places to see, aswell as new attractions. However I also wanted to show Matth the other side of Holland, which is nature, because nature in Holland is alot different from the one on Sicily. We went to a village called Oisterwijk and we rented bikes (yes bikes!). Matth didn't ride a bike for like 10 years so it was so rofl to see him riding it. He actually did good, Until some people wanted to pass and Matth decided to give them space and just totally move off the road and crash in a tree haha. Where was my camera T_T!!!

In Nijmegen we met up with Vivify and Evenstar. We went there the week before but it was horrible weather and super crowded, so it was more suffering than a cool trip <.< With Vivi and Even it was very enjoyable though. They took us on a tour through Nijmegen, which is cool cos I didn't know anything about the city when I was walking there with Matth the week before^^; Afterwards we had a barbeque and almost fried some cats '~'

We also went to my city, 's-Hertogenbosch (yes, weird name <.<) where we did some boat tour and climbed some cathedral. Was a nice view but the tour on the cathedral was a bit boring for me, so I can't imagine how it must've been for Matth, who doesn't understand much dutch >.>
We also went to see two movies, Hancock and Batman. Hancock was cool, Batman was great! If I'm honest I'm not a huge fan of batman so I didn't have much hopes for this movie, but the story was great and it's really worth watching, even for nuubs like me.
The weather wasn't always working with us and sadly Matth caught a cold during one of the trips and sortly after it I received it from him <.< So the rest of the days we spend relaxing alot and going out once a while.

I really had the best time again and everyday felt like a dream *.*.
No real life picture this time. We didn't take that many. Maybe next time :D It might be soon depending on our school schedules ^_^
Random pic for wall-o-text's sake.