Xanathos' Wedding. Return of a friend. Appreciation of Level Sync and friends.

While last week had its ups and downs-from the cancellation of the Nyzul run to CoJ's victory over Omega-some good things came in the direction of my adventures and others on the game. Just last tuesday, before attending Xanathos and Ororodos' wedding held in South Gustaberg I "paid my respects" to a rock mount on Vomp Hill. I needed to do this, strange as it sounds, to give thought to friends and aquaintences who are present and those who've quit the game.

It has been, as of this coming March, 7 years playing FFXI. Though I don't have as many level 75 jobs or experienced the game to its maxium potential (Salvage, etc) yet, and though there have been some rough scrapes socially to the brink of wanting to quit the game I still keep going. I want to give it my all even if i don't finish everything 100% on this game. I do it for those that have left the game. I do it for family and friends who have passed on in real life. I do it for myself most especially. I've learned that life, yes, delecate and short. So you want to give it your best. A few of my friends who have quit the game have no regrets that they had not finished thier goals; because while yes, its good to have goals one thing is certain: the game is just digital....the friendship and good times are real. That is more important. Everyone, never forget that ok?

After Vomp Hill, I headed over to the base of the lighthouse where I ran into the rest of the wedding party.

(The wedding party meets up with Syrynx, the chaparone and Best Man *me*)

This has been the 3rd time I've attended a wedding and the 1st time experiencing one outside of a nation city. Everyone was assembled when I arrived, and a few others followed. Surprisingly half of them I knew so it was great seeing old friends. It stunk that Foulei couldn't make it but only because he had to work the day of the wedding. It couldn't be helped since it was arranged by the Weddingmaster GM of the specific day. Syrynx, a long time friend of many, gave us instructions on what we needed to do once we were taken up to the top of the lighthouse. Afterwards she provided us with drinks and fireworks so when the ceremony was over we could celebrate and take screenshots, which are below.

(Wedding party *left*. Bride, Groom, Best Man and Lady *right*)

(Left: Happy Couple;Xan and Orodos. Right: Xan, Luriel, Ororodos, Syrynx)

















(Left: Ororo and myself. Right: Me, Syrynx, Xanathos)

There's more screenshots where that came from which I still need to aquire from Xanathos and the others so expect more images in the near future.


Oh shoot, I should've added this first. Prior to the wedding marked the return of yet another longtime friend; Scarlette!!

( Bumps into Scarlette in Windurst (s) area; brings back old times!)

When I last saw her last summer, she was leveling Dancer. Seems she's picked up where she left off once she returned and is having a fun time with the job. Its good to see her again. In fact she's joined the ranks of CoJ, mostly just to mingle with the rest of us on the linkshell. Currently she's really not into the whole endgame aspect of things right now, which is understandable because, like me, she wants to work on her character progression for a little while.

Progression, the word, has been ongoing lately this week. Last night Foulei, myself, and those who needed completion of Dynamis-Quifim acheived that finally! After about a year we finally got completion. Some good drops came about during the run which I do congratulate the dynamis ls members who aquired them, though I never said so directly. I tend to be rather....quiet during events mostly, as strange as that is.

After the dynamis run was over I hopped on to leveling Samurai. I gained about 3 levels on Thursday, but shockingly enough, I gained 7 levels last night!! Arathas, Envytaru, Dorion, Kirby and Massive invited me, with Foulei as our PL*powerlevel* (prior to the invite Foulei PL'ed me a bit), to join them to level on Quifim Island.
I kinda wanted to keep to myself for the evening but with convincing from Foulei I then graciously accepted the invite to level with them. Sure enough I had a wonderful time and thanks to them I'm now about 3/4ths of the way to getting Samurai to 37 for my warrior! I have to say, Level Sync is a blessing. It really is helpful especially if friends want to get together to acheive a goal such as leveling a job even though the level ranges are so far off. Level Syncing fixes that so there's no limitations to that matter. We did so well and got some fast exp that it was even hard for Foulei to keep up with us as far as healing us goes and I had to ask the group to slow it down to fighting 2 mobs at a time, not 3, haha.
Guys, thank you for the invite and the help. I really appreciated it in the end :)

Well, time flies when one makes posts. It's now noon, on Valentines Day. Its time for me to get ready to spend the day with a special someone after lunch with family first. Have a good day to you all as well!

-Rusty.