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Some More Random Pictures

Posted on January 17, 2008 by pyra | 2 comments

I made a mule on Diabolos and went to visit my old friend Virmythrax. Got to see her Mog House too. I like what she’s done with the place, it is quite organized, unlike mine, which is, very Spartan. I need to get one of those tables for my fishtank.

visiting_virmy

This is just one of those pics that had to be posted. From Apollyon NE, the one boss Cronos, was hiding in a tree. I liked it, but the picture lost much in the resizing.

cronos_limbo

Floating chest! Many people saw this one floating for some reason, so it wasn’t just on my end, this time.

floating_chest

And my aggro-happy friends, as they aggro not 1, but 2 Om’youvras. Az should take note, this will kill Mischa much better than just one lower-tier UFO will.

double_ufo

Really, was this necessary? I hit him for 31, then get nailed for 1023. That doesn’t seem fair for some reason.

-pyra

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Posted in Campaign, Diabolos, EternalMemories, FFXI, Limbus

Dynamis – Cleanup

Posted on January 17, 2008 by pyra | 1 comment

One of the more annoying things about having multiple jobs at 75 — especially multiple characters with multiple jobs at 75 — is the desire to be ‘done’ with a dynamis zone. This month, I have completed two zones.

The first was a Sandy, where Ata finally got SMN AFv2 Boots. I say finally because I haven’t seen them fall in years (until I joined KillerInstinct). I no longer have any jobs without AF from Sandy.

Then the next run, Jeuno, I managed to get myself a pair of THF boots (on the second pull of the night too, I knew they would fall).

thf_booties

My SMN is 2/5 AFv2, and THF is now 3/5, with body and hands to go.

The only two pieces I am still missing from city runs are SMN Pants (Windy) and THF Body (Bastok).

Slowly but surely getting there. I have the chance to be "Finished" with Bastok tonight, if I spend my points on THF Body (assuming it falls and the others ahead of me don’t want, or enough of them fall). But I don’t really want the body all that much, its sole purpose would be to complete the set once I have hands. So, I don’t much care if it falls or not – I don’t even have THF AFv1 Body yet.

Also from this run was this screenshot. I thought it was nice.

treesure

Mmmmm, Treeeeaaasure.

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Posted in Dynamis, FFXI, KillerInstinct

Testing out a New Signature Block

Posted on January 8, 2008 by pyra | 1 comment

So I found some new tools and toys to have fun with PhotoShop

Thoughts? I made this all myself too.

-pyra

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Posted in Administrative, FFXI

More fun than one should be allowed

Posted on January 2, 2008 by pyra | 3 comments

So it looks like my monking days are coming to a close again. But I’m not complaining.

Much to my surprise, it appears as though I’m needed on thief.

At least I know in advance what subjob I’m bringing :).

For last night’s Dynamis – Valkrum, only one thief showed up. So, I ended up running back to town to do a quick change to thief. I was in such a hurry and had such nervous excitement, that I forgot 2 pieces of gear that I shouldn’t have. The first being my normal pants (Bravo’s Subligar), which was not a huge problem. I just wore my AFv2 ones instead. The second was also not a huge deal, it was my shield (Tatami), which is just such a nice item that I rarely get to use.

I ended up being puller for one of the 3 Nightmare Flies. Since it was my first time as thief in this zone, I was nervous.

It took me a little bit to locate the fly, but I found it and waited for it to move.

I grabbed it and started running to camp.

It was so exciting, it was thrilling… the fly caught up to me. No worries, hit the flee and I’ll be fine *splat*. Crap, I’m dead.

I gotta admit, my heart sunk a little. First time trying that pull and I screwed it up.

No one could get to where I was fast enough to save the pull, so I did the noble thing.

Accepted reraise, hit perfect dodge, and shot the fly again. As soon as I dropped off the cliff, I had a black mage and ninja to get a little hate on it. Arrived back in camp with 30 hp.

Next time I’ll live through it :).

After that was one of the smoothest dreamland runs I’ve seen maybe ever. And the drops were amazing.

2 Ninja Belts
1 Paladin Cape
1 Summoner -1 Head
1 Samurai -1 Head

Of course, as one of 2 thieves there, I take full credit for all drops.

It would have been a lot better if I had some alcohol, because I needed it.

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Posted in Dynamis, FFXI, KillerInstinct, Random Thoughts

Adding a bit of Realism to FFXI

Posted on December 28, 2007 by pyra | 1 comment

Most people probably have not noticed, but in FFXI, everything, both near to the viewer and far, is in perfect focus.

This isn’t how the real world is, but since the game can’t re-focus based on where the viewer is looking, it works.

So, I’ve added a little bit of this realism to a screenshot.

blur

This was done in about 5 minutes using a simple blur tool in photoshop, but it makes the scene a bit closer to reality.

Here are two more examples.

blur2

blur3

This was first brought to my attention a year or so ago by the cross-server ‘hero’ Lordwafik, and I’ve always wanted to try it myself.

It was kind of fun, and a lot easier than expected.

-pyra

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Posted in FFXI, Random Thoughts, Real Life

Dynamis – Xarcabard Final Cut Scenes

Posted on December 21, 2007 by pyra | Leave a comment

The closing Cut Scene from Dynamis – Xarcabard was one of the coolest I’ve seen so far. It should be, for all the effort it takes to get there.

dy_x_cs1

Ohhh dead-ish people. Its like a dead family reunion.

More ghosty people. Its really, really awesome.

Then some parts of the text. As I said, awesome.

Ohh, a mysterious ??? is talking. I wonder who that could be. Any thoughts? Diabolos perhaps?

That…Just….Happened.

-pyra

Dynamis – Xarcabard

Posted on December 20, 2007 by pyra | Leave a comment

Since I have a habit of including parts of the opening Cut Scene for new things, here we go, Dy – X.

Cornelia is one of my favorite NPCs. I know she is dead (according to the story line), but I still like her. She shows up in the Monk AF quest Cut Scenes, and is just awesome, except for that whole galka love stuff.

dy_x_open_cs1