Thief's Tale

Thief -1

2009-04-30T13:59:00.000-07:00

Been back for a week or so now. I have been taking up fishing and gardening to get gil revenue coming in. I dont want to commit to parties or adventures just yet because of limits on the time I can play. I also am having a load of trouble remembering how to do things and how to play my job. Feeling like a thief-1 and not a thief+1. Fin says it will come back, which I hope he is correct, but 2 years is a long time to not do something. I may still just start a new character because at least at level 1 nobody is expecting you to be a master of your job, or knowing all the quirks to the game. Just forgot how much there really was, not to mention how much has been added.

Since I have been back some things I have done.

-Skilled Fishing to 5
-Skilled Goldsmithing to 51
-Died (Fin's Fault) on an easy prey.
-Made Xan stop eating her curry.
-Did a Goblin Maze Mongers rune run.
-Also did a gobbie bag quest.
-Planted 80 wildgrass seeds. Trying a new system of earning gil that will yield better results than I had before. Have lots to say about this, but will wait till my first harvest comes in.

Will write again and post pictures once I figure out how to take them.

-Spiyre the Thief.

I'm back... almost

2009-04-21T16:26:00.000-07:00

trying to get my password and stuff... but I will be back soon enough!

Around the world

2006-11-13T04:08:00.000-08:00

Been a few since my last post. Had a lot of ups and downs and arounds and stuff. Xan got sick which really slowed things down. I bought FFXII and played that for a while. Now things are picking back up... so whats happened to the loveable thief Spiyre since the last post? Quite a bit. Well... where should I start?

OPTICAL HAT
I got my Optical Hat. After Fin and Xan logged one night Hydroponic sent me a tell. He said 15/18 optical hats done. Can you come help with the rest? I said can I get mine? He said sure. So I went. Thanks to Badkitty and Pheonix for the little extra at the end. I didnt want to wear it after I got it because I felt bad Fin and Xan werent there. I wanted to wait till they got theirs. The next day we set up a run. Everything looked good, we had 18+ people, stunners, healers, DD and tanks... first run, I screwed it up when I said Call for help on the add and it oranged the Hakutaku... wipe. Xan gave her cluster to Phats. 2nd run we dropped it like a ton of bricks. It was easy. 3rd run, Fins go. I dont know what the hell happened but everyone decided to go afk 2 seconds after it was spawned. Stunners were not stunning, tanks could not get hate cause they were dead. We wiped and it was sad. Never been so pissed in my life. Tried to work a deal with Xishi to get some new clusters but it fell through. Will try it again some other time.

SKY ACCESS
Well this was just kinda tossed in my lap. I was about to start shouting for a party to burn some time. Trying to finish what every long ended quest I could when I get a tell from someone asking me if I wanted to do some Zilart stuff. I said cool, and before I know it. Zilart 6-13 done in a day. I can go to sky, which is a big deal I guess. Had sky for about 3 weeks now and have not entered yet.

LEVELING
YAY! We are exping again and it is going great. Avging about 7-9k an hour and been lucky on the bards. We made lv73, all within about 3 mobs of each other. Then Xan and I lost it :(. Then we got it back again!!! So now we are more than 1/2 through 73 with great hopes and dreams of see 74 before Saturday's dynamis.

DYNAMIS NIGHT 04-07
04 - Dont remember much of it. It was Dynamis Sandy so I went money. I think I got 14 coins and sold em all for 20k each. Made some money at least. Oh yeah. Now I remember. Xan and Fin were not there. We got the win! First win with our Dynamis Shell. It was actually kinda cool till the over zelious Keithe decided to pull every damn mob that was left for fun... we wiped after we won.
05 - Did Sandy again. This time I played as Fin cause he was still at Xannies and they both needed the win. I am not a big fan of Dragoon. Not saying its a bad job, just saying I dont like having to watch my flying lizards health, and it seems a bit slow. I dont know about the long game with it either... with THF I can do a lot of different stuff like coffer hunting, farming, sneakysneaky questing, as Dragoon, I just dont see all those things happening as much. Oh well, each his own, guess thats why I am not a Dragoon and Finny is lol.
06 - Xannie and I tonight. Fin had class in the morning. We did Jeuno tonight. It was WACK! Had like 18ppl show and spirits were low from the start. Aiden quit for a while and it was quite depressing. People were going AFK after entering... wtf is up with that? Well we didnt get the win or even close and about 1/2 through Keithe started having a nervious breakdown.
07 - So much better this time. We didnt get the Jeuno win but damn we did a lot better. Drops were shit, 3 SAM, 2 DRK, and 1 BRD. But spirits were so could. Felt like nothing could break us. We will get the win! Had a bunch of new people come with us a stuff so it was cool. We may be merging with another LS under our name. Its an issue of time atm, but I hope it get sorted.

GOLDSMITHING
With Xan dying I needed to find a way to pass some time besides FFXII. I started goldsmithing, in honor of my GF Kat who sells Jewlery for a living. I like it a lot, but its expensive. Droped over a million gil already. I have made more back but it was so slow for a while. I spent like 4 hours one night making silver ingots even though I was way over capped on em and made like 300k profit. Used that on Mythril and now I am at 48 which is high enough to start gold. Currently at 16k guild points, need 70k for my specticals. Will get there soon enough I think.

GARDENING
Well 54 Cuttings and 26 Sapplings and I thought I was going to be taking a huge loss. 18 Sapplings produced crap, cinny sticks which Fin and Xan got a good laugh at, and 200k in gold leafs which barely covered cost of Cuttings. Cuttings produced about 60 Sapplings which fetched me about 500k. Only sold them because I decided to go for coins on the next harvest, which is in 5 days. All hope was lost till my last mule decided to finally bloom. 30 fucking days btw, for sapplings with no crystals fed. It was worth it, made almost 600k on the harvest. Fetched a light ore! 350k, sold in less time than it took to put it on the AH and then run to MH. Well after this I was at about 1mil agil. Still short for the Scorpion Harness.

MOOGLEASSASSINS
Home. We are small, we are broken, we are a family. Shizuha joined us and so did a couple of other new people. Mississippi and Chocobo boy lol. Tristyn is leaving the game in a few months to go to WoW, he will see the light some day I think. We even have our forums up now. www.moogleassassins.tk Check it out. Once we have 10 or so active members I have some big plans for PR and stuff. I wanna compete against other guilds in Balista and stuff. Should be fun.

SCORPION HARNESS
Yep. Just got it this morning. Emp Hairpin sold for 1.37 mil and I bought the Harness from Miarge for 1.3mil. 400k less than the going rate at the AH. Kinda happy about that. Now I just need to find a DAT to replace it. Oh speaking of DAT. Nat has the best hair on right now I think. So stick with it please. Fin made me some bad ass Tattoo's for my Peti. I look so fucking tough with them, but now I am gonna beg him to do something with this scorpion harness.

Well I think thats all for now. Going to see if I am able to post pictures this time... if not I will link some. Till next time. Spispi out.

Dynamis Night - 03

2006-10-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

Well not much has happened in the last few days. I started taking up goldsmithing. I like it but its very expensive. I am expective a very large harvest tomorrow! I am excited about that... it looks like 50+ cuttings will be ready, and the rest of my sapplings 25+ will be ready for a second feeding. I am waiting till the full moon to harvest the cuttings. We mostly have been farming off and on the last couple of days as well. Fin and I helped Tristyn get him RDM AF Body, he was real happy about that. I killed a Deadly Dodo NM... wtf that is. Other than that not a whole lot has happened... till tonight.

We did Sandy Dynamis tonight. We FUCKING WON! God I wish Fin and Xan could have been there. It was a great run. Fin missed out on his AF, he is going to kick him self for that but no worries, we are doing Sandy again Saturday. I think I am going to see if they want me to play on of they're chars since I dont need the win now. Dynamis was good. We are getting much better as a team. I am dangeriously low on exp. If I die 1 more time I delv so I need to get a bit of a buffer in the next couple of days. Still no Optical Hat. Didnt relize the hard part was going to be the NM fight, but now it seems that gathering the eyes was the easy part :(. Anyways, it looks like the rest of this month is going to be a slow one so may not hear much from me till after the 1st unless something major happens. Till then readers.

Dynamis Night - 02

2006-10-22T07:51:00.000-07:00

Which FF Character Are You?

WTF is that crap?
Oh well!

We went to Bastok Dynamis. We did very well, and made it to the last mob. We would have won if had 2 or 3 more minutes. Xan couldnt make it, but she was there still in spirit (and voice). A Thief Vest dropped and as I expected I lotted a 58... I do not think I have ever won a lot in my life. Not a big deal, it was cool to see it drop. Money has been very tight lately. This is something I am not use to. I decied to sell some gold coins and stuff to last until my harvest. We will start lving again at the end of this month. 75 is just an arm reach away.

I think I am done with Mad Capsules for now. I havent had my LS equiped for 2 days. I just have a problem with leadership. I wish it wasnt so, I truely do. Deband is so god damn cocky and unsociable, and Shifta is his little puppet. Things were so great then they just fell apart. Xan, Fin and I are talking about starting our own LS. We are thinking of names and things like that now... my suggestion was Trynyty... but now I see how lame that looks. I think I like this one though Ourhome or better. I will run it by them later to see what they say. Face down in the dirt she said this doesnt hurt, she said, I have finally had enough.

killing the spirit

2006-10-19T19:25:00.000-07:00

Today sucked.

We got all of our eye's YAY!
We got our clusters YAY!
We spent like 6 hours getting a party together boo.
Everyone bitched, complained, and argued.
We killed 3 Hakutaku's for other ungreatful people.

Day ends. Got to do it all over again tomorrow.

Today Sucked and killed my spirit to play.

refilling the midnight oil

2006-10-18T21:23:00.000-07:00

sooooo much to do...

I will say this before I post continue.... if you point out an NM to me... I am probably going to pull it there for its NOT MY FAULT!

Having said that I can continue. Fin, Xan and I have been running around the last couple of days trying to find the engery to lv to 73, but we always seemed to be pressed for time or get wrapped up in something else. We are almost done hunting eyes for the optical hat. This has been a major undertasking. I caved in and bought a couple of the eyes for us to save time and Exp.

... Fuck those Million Eye's

I am getting excited about things. We are setting a goal to have our optical hats done by Friday/Dynamis. We will see how that goes. Xan/Fin wont be on at the same time this weekend so that kinda sucks, but we will manage to get a few things knocked out. It might be a good weekend to do a little Thief Knife hunting -HINT HINT- but if not there are tons of other things that I need to get out of the way. I have a feeling Fin and Xan will be busy trying to fall over each other again and again. I really wouldnt mind taking the time to get Rank10 this weekend after dynamis.

Ok now about this NM thing. Xan wanted to do some Mining after Fin had to call it a night. She decided to go to Ifrit Couldron. I tagged along hoping to farm a few eyes for some extra money and help her get the coffer for the map. I also kind of like the way the place looks... its different. Well were only there for a minute before Xan points out that an NM was present. I would have not even noticed if she wouldnt have said anything! Well after looking it up, just letting it go was not an option. It droped the V. Claw needed to make a scorpion harness *drool*... Well this is what happened that night in summary.

1.) I get a tell "See I made it out safe". Less than 2 mins after zoning in to ifrits couldron Xan has to escape.
2.) Xan: Hey an NM... your Lucky!
3.) Spiyre: Lets duo it
Xan: are you confident in your tanking abilities
Spiyre: I didnt cap evasion to be unconfident.
3.1) Xan: I am calling Fin to see if he is still awake...
4.) Xan: SAM come help us.
5.) SAM: "I dont have a map!, Help me get a map and I will help you!"
6.) Xan: Chot come help us
Chot: I wanna be war, but I will come as Pal cause Nin friend doesnt wanna come.
7.) SAM: I tanked this NM with a mnk friend
Spiyre: We got this
Xan: I am in mining gear.
8.) SCORE: NM 1 US 0
9.) SAM: My Drg friend is here.
10.) Drg: This is cool
Xan: NM's get me going
Spiyre: I can kill this bitch solo
SAM: We were close... lot tougher than I remember
Chot: I wanna be war, but I will stay as Pal cause Nin friend doesnt wanna come.
11.) SCORE NM 2 US 0
Spiyre: well that sucked
Xan: Fin is going to kill us
SAM: Maybe the Pal should Tank
Drg: I gotta go
Chot: I wanna be war, but I will stay as Pal cause Nin friend doesnt wanna come.
12.) Aiden logs on
13.) Xan: AIDEN HELP!
Spiyre: AIDEN HELP!
14.) Chot and Xan go to get gear and change Chots job to war. Aiden is all over the world doing what ever and I go afk...
15.) SCOR NM 2 US 0 Bomb 1
16.) Spiyre: WTF Happened! I step away and I am dead.
Drg: Lol... it exploded
Sam: Lol
Spiyre: ...
Xan: Fin is going to kill us
Chot: I AM WARRIOR! HERE ME ROAR!
Aiden: Just a moment.
17.) Drg leaves
18.) Spiyre: Ready
Xandora: Ready
Aiden: Ready as Aiden can be
Chot: I AM WARRIOR! HERE ME ROAR!
SAM: I just came here for a map.
Xan: I am never Mining with Spiyre again.
Spiyre: DONT BLAME ME!
19.) SCORE NM 2 US 1 Bomb 1
20.) Yay we killed it... who wants the crappy hammer cause the V. Claw didnt drop.
21.) Chot: I got Hammer. I am Warrior!
Xan: Night
SAM: MAP!
22.) Sam opens coffer. Gets map. End of the night.

Death Talley Total
Xandora: 5 Deaths
SAM: 6 or 7 Deaths
DRG: 1 Death
Spiyre: 4 Deaths
Aiden: 2 Deaths
Chot: 3 or 4 Deaths

So... if you see an NM and dont wanna fight it, dont tell me its an NM. I wouldnt notice anyways.

Dynamis Night - 01

2006-10-14T21:27:00.000-07:00

Ok. Tuesday's and Saturday's are Dynamis night. A few weeks ago Aiden, a Paladin in the Linkshell invited Findecano and I into a new Dynamis Linkshell. We have been doing them, with some regularity, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. That is how Findecano, Xandora, Zilana, and I became so close. I don’t know what happens on Dynamis night but they are nothing short of complete fun. Now we do have an occasional snag with some of the other people in the Dynamis LS, but all in all its good fun. What happens in Dynamis... stays in Dynamis. We will get more into what happen on this Dynamis night, but first, the pregame!

Yesterday, FRIDAY the 13th!. Fin, Xan and I made 72 which was really cool because that means we only have 3 more lv to go till we are 75! After we lved for a bit we were asked to help with a NM in the Tonberry Temple near Norg by Stodya. Kissfan came along with us to help. It was the first time Xan had ever seen him. She says he looks like a big teddy bear. We had some fun before going in. Before going to the Temple I came across a chest in Sea Serpents Grotto and tried to pick the lock, only for it to be weakness trapped. I hate being weakened... its so, well WEAK! Now I can deal with the normal 5 min weakness that comes after being KOed but not this hour long crap I was dealing with. To remedy the situation I KOed my self by getting naked and attacking a bunch of Tonberrys. Problem solved. Well, I don’t know if was because it was Friday the 13th or what but our adventure in the Temple was a mess. We formed an alliance with another group of people who decided to take a different route than us. Once we finally caught up I needed to step away for a min. When I get back most of the other party is dead and my party is trying to fix the problem. We get another agro and said screw it and escaped. Come back a different day I guess.

This morning - Time till Dynamis starts - 12 hours. Seeing that we just lved to 72 the day before and Dynamis can be a real pain on the Exp we decided to get a buffer. It took us a couple of hours but we each got about 10k buffer which is more than enough for Dynamis.

This afternoon - Time till Dynamis starts - 6 hours. We made plans and did research a couple of days ago to try a KSNM. Operation Desert Swarm. 6 people against 6 scorpions. The more we kill the tougher they get. After doing a couple of shouts we were able to put together the perfect party. RDM, THF, DRG, BLM, NIN, and WHM. I am grateful to say we went 6/6 on this. Only a couple of loss' but by the end we had the system down pat. I got a decent belt and dagger, the Heart Snatcher. These were good perks but the day was unsuccessful. We were after an item needed to make Scorpion Harness which Fin and I want. None dropped for anyone. Xan also had a stream of bad luck when she zoned before collecting her items. We don’t have plans to do KSNM's again soon, but we will do them again I think.

This evening - Time till Dynamis starts - 1 hour. Before Dynamis starts we all gather together at a meeting place. This is usually the funniest part of the night and can really set the mood for the rest of the night. Its always filled with ass grabbing fun, and is never complete until I am chasing Fin in some very short sublingers, poke a few rumps, make fun of Dynamis LS leadership, and molest Zil.

DYNAMIS!!!!!! - Now this may seem disappointing but Dynamis is actually kind of boring after it starts. Keithe, Thf puller, usually moves us from spot to spot screaming NUKE THIS! MELEE THIS! DONT REST! DONT MOVE! WHY ISNT ANYONE LISTENING! I am Keithe. I pull and scream. God speaks through MEEEEEEEEE. Pull Keithe Pull, see Keithe pull. He isn’t that bad of a leader, but he isn’t the best either. We kill mob after mob trying to extend our time and pray that a piece of gear we want drops. We have done about 6 or 7 Dynamis' now and only 1 of the awesome foursome has received a piece we want. Dynamis usually last about 2 - 3 hours. Near the end we are tired, cranky, and conditioned to the idea that the piece we want isn’t going to drop. The only thing that keeps us awake is the idea that we may actually finish a Dynamis. We haven’t done that yet. Tonight, I had this overwhelming urge to agro as many mobs as I could, but I didn’t. I will soon though. . I am Spiyre. I am a thief. I poke things in the rump for fun. Poke Spiyre poke. See Spiyre poke. If I see you... its already too late for you. Just smile and take the poke.

I have a lot of pictures to post but for some reason it wont let me right now.

Day for trying new things.

2006-10-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

Its seems the little band of three, Findecano, Xandora, and myself were up for testing the waters on several new things today. While passing some time in the early part of the day we headed to the Tomb to try to obtain some Eye's that we needed for a quest for the Optical Hat. Fin had already acquired his, and it was just Xan and I left. Well we got them! After that, we were feeling a little adven turious and headed to Sea Serpents Grotto to try to find a different type of eye needed. Although we didn’t get the eyes we were after, we did come across this nasty looking beastie. I will have to say I am impressed with Fin's bravery on this battle. I didn’t think we were going to engage it at first, but I think if we would have passed I would have given him grief all day over it. It took a moment of coaxing from Xan and I bef ore we were swinging dagger and pole arm against the tyrant. After the eye hunting was over and short rest we decided to head off to Aht Urhgan to gain some experience from the Sea Puks and Mamool Ja. This tedious task too many hours and left us quiet drained. After reviewing our progress and see how well we are coming along, we were gifted with a second wind. The need for adventure hit us hard, and we attempted to do something we have never done before... Assault. We claimed our orders, which were to clear out a small cave of some ugly worms. This tasked, being followed by all of today's previous events proved to taxing. We attempted the mission 3 times, and learned our short comings. Although we were unsuccessful in finishing the Assault mission, we gained an upper hand in learning our performance strengths... and our weakness'. Don’t worry, we will be back and next time, those worms better dig a little deeper to hide from the terrible threesome.

(OUT OF CHAR) - Sorry Tabby for getting you killed, I adjusted my filters, I have no excuse other than it was late. Nat and Neil, if I let you all down during assault I am sorry, but the third go around I was just ready to call it quits. I was getting really tired. I am glad KF made it to the conversation today; I really would like to get him to level and party with us. Never minding his timid quietness, he always has something clever to say at the right moments. All and all I had a blast today on the game. I really enjoy trying new things and we did just that. I am looking forward to tomorrow’s adventure which I plan to post on. Till then, get off of my blog.

Helping the little guy.

2006-10-11T19:36:00.000-07:00

Today the young White Mage Smifwick asked for help locating the powerful Runic Portals. While I was passing time waiting for Findecano and Xandora (usually its the other way around) I decided to take him. The journey proved to be quite short, but the boat ride was relaxing.

Findecano's leadership skills were fleeting which put me in charge of our adventuring today. Feeling the need for something, and after recruiting a few helpers, we headed off to Mamook to spy on what the Mamool Ja were cooking up. After finding quiet little grounds safely away from the training grounds we found our selves interrogating by force. Needless to say the Mamool Ja has little information to provide and do to an unfortunate calculation by Findecano (thats a lie, it was my fault) we found our selves biting off more than we could chew at one point. I would like to make a note here, I pretty much do what I want. If you tell me a monster is too tough, well its like telling me not to go to a Taru Kegger (picture of Fin and I is all I remember from the last Taru Kegger I went to), I am going to grab that beast and take him on a spin. All in all the day was productive but not quiet exhilarating. Xandora did remind us of her mind control powers on Fin, which was (as always) funny and entertaining.

a story begins

2006-10-10T21:57:00.000-07:00

Up until now my story has been my own. I wish to share it because what was once described as carefree thievery has become an amazing adventure. Stories like mine are meant to be shared. No... meant is the wrong word. Stories like mine must be shared. It’s through self progression that we gain the will and courage to take that road. You know, the one less traveled. It’s a victory in impossible odds that we gain a perspective of our own worth. It’s through the loyalties of friendship that we find meaning behind sacrifice. My story... well my story, looking back has all those things, and as I tell you my story you will see that it is never too late to be that person you want to be. I will try to catch you all up on story to date. I will be brief and your imagination can fill in the gaps. I was born in a little town, with little people called Windurst. Even at a young age, I knew my path. The elder Tarutaru would tell my mother that fate gave me swift hands and quick thinking. They were right. By the time I was 13 years old I had been banded from every merchant's store. I was never caught, but people just magically became poorer when I was around. At the age of 20 something unexpected happened. I had this urge, or calling to be an adventurer. It wasn’t long before my name was known in the surrounding regions. I also got my hands dirty with the Tenshendo and took up a minor practice in Nijitsu. Not really my calling, but education in the art proved most useful. During this time, my childhood friend Tristyn, was becoming a fine Red Mage and making a name for him self in Bastok. Tristyn and I soon discovered that making a name for our self wasn’t enough as an adventurer. You needed to "know" people to get ahead. We got in with several groups of other adventures, Divine Guardians, Black Materia, and a few others that I can not remember the names of. None of them seemed to have the poise or motivation that we craved. It wasn’t until Tristyn and I was helping eradicate the never ending populous of the yellow carnivorous crawlers emanating from the Crawlers Nest that we met some fine adventures who had a great treasure to offer us. Now that I think back on it... Tristyn really was the one who was invited; I just kind of tagged along for the ride. To be more specific (and a little less shady, sorry it comes naturally) Tristyn made friends with two adventures, Painkillers and Syren. We had a very exciting party, very effective and efficient, which is always good, but we also had a lot of fun chatting. One day Tristyn was having an "out of body experience" and I was guiding his actions when Painkillers invited Tristyn into the group known as Mad Capsules (a ridiculous name I first thought). Tristyn having warned me that this may happen and taking advantage of the moment, I accepted the invite on Tristyn behalf as long as his best friend Spiyre could come along. I was told that someone by the name of "Kissfan" would be delivering our communication devices called "Linkpearls" to us. I was expecting a sexy little Mithrian with a name like that, but names are defiantly deceiving. Kissfan turned out to be a monster of a Galka whose arms were as big as my torso. He looked like a huge hairy walking mountain of metal. What I discovered from joining the group was that I wasn’t looking for people in the "know", I was looking for a family. I found just that. Many people from MC were newer to the adventuring game, some were seasoned, but they all seemed to come together to help when they could. Sure, like all families, hard times came and went, and the family adjusted as needed, but all and all things are still pretty good there. Not long after joining MC I fell in close with two members. Their names are Xandora and Findecano. Xandora is a shy but fierce little Hume White Mage, who is always followed by her bodyguard/obsessor/lover elvaan Dragoon Findecano. Findecano gullibility gave me ample laughter playing some slightly crude, but very thievish tricks on him. Often times telling him after I helped him that my services were at an astronomical rate and watching him ask me with unease if I was only joking or if I was serious. Xandora isn’t nearly as gullible, and I have yet to test the waters, but playing jokes on her would only result in me feeling sheepish. Another adventure Zilana has also, from time to time, graced us with her presence. Zilana's humor is only matched by her skill as a Red Mage, both which are of the greatest degree.
We have had many adventures together so far. We have found our selves standing together as the darkness of the dynamis universe covers us, with unearthly hordes of nasty beast trying to rip us limb from limb. Sun bathed beaches of Bibki Bay where peace and quiet is on tap. While going these adventures I have picked up some new trades as well. I took up cooking as a way to pass the time and I have great love of gardening and watching things grow.
I know what your thinking... where is the story at? What is so remarkable about what I have told you so far? Well this is just where the story starts...