[Beyond the Sun]

Today began on a rather interesting note. It seems I’ve been a bit too caring towards AlphaMalevolent, because he has begun to act very spoiled. He was prancing around the stable, snorting and headbutting people, and being a general nuisance.

Having never encountered this sort of behavior before, I followed the only advice they gave me and proceeded to scold him.

Of course, after he hung his head in shame, I felt really bad and had to make it up to him. So I decided to take him for a long walk. I tossed him some vomp carrots and started our journey out to Jugner Forest. Upon arrival, we encountered another chocobo, Melody. AlphaMalevolent quickly befriended her.

After leaving him alone with his new-found lover, I traveled to Jeuno to rendezvous with my own.

Reeroo and I spent a while together, talking and cuddling and things of the sort. She was being very adorable in her little witch’s hat, and I had been missing her all weekend. I was very happy to be spending some time with my girl, and the second she ran up to me and hopped in my lap, everything stopped sucking and everything was once again right in the world.

We headed out to Rolanberry Fields and did some bazaar shopping. After several fruitless minutes of browsing, we sat together on the grass and just forgot the world together. It was just me and my little butterfly, the way I like it. ^^

Speaking of which, check this out:

So I cuddled my girl some more, kissed her little toes, all the usual stuff… until she had to go. ; ;

Well… Blackmutoh had been wanting to get Savage Blade for a while, so we decided to form a WSNM party and beat the stupid monster.

This is Savage Blade by the way:

So we got 10 people together, and Blackmutoh had a terrible crashing, breaking, shattering, expensive merchandise disaster of an accident at his house and had to go AFK. So we all did Teleport-Altep and he caught up just after by Outpost Warping. We then began our arduous trek to activate the four pillars that open the accursed Altepa Gate by being very confused from the beginning, having poor communication, and going in 20 different directions at once (Yes, that’s two different directions per person.) Eventually, we managed to gather together at the gate with three switches activated and less than 15 minutes left before the switches reset again. By now, the ONLY WHITE MAGE had given up and warped back to Whitegate. When asked “WTF?,” he responded that he’d return if there was some order.

I told him to get his ass out here and stop being a dumbass or to GTFO of my alliance.

He barely made it to the gate in time.

We zoned into the advanced section of the cave, killed a Notorious Monster of some sort, and proceeded to clear the spawn room of Anticans. When the time came, Blackmutoh clicked the ??? and spawned Girtablulu, which was a big bad scorpion… which died in 30 seconds. Over an hour spent in utter confusion, running around in the desert and waiting on hopeless high-level n00bs to catch up… and we beat the damn scorpion in 30 seconds. -_-

Blackmutoh and I were victorious!

After comparing AlphaMalevolent to a Galka’s Destrier on the way home, I came to appreciate my chocobo’s tail much more than ever before.

Blackmutoh got Savage Blade finally, completing his quest, and I gave him the gift of a Guespiere, which he really seemed to appreciate… though he had been hoping to obtain a Wing Sword. He explained he wants to get the Wing Sword on his own though, so I felt pretty good about the gift. After that, we traveled to Kuftal Tunnel and experimented with Savage Blade. We discovered that following Asuran Fists with Savage Blade creates Fragmentation. ^^ And that’s the new skillchain for duoing, it seems.

All in all, it was a very productive day… and maybe it’s not even over yet! ^^ I hope to get to 75, but with Final Fantasy XII coming out tomorrow, I don’t know how realistic it is to hope for that. I guess we’ll see. ^^