[Beyond the Sun]

So, I’ve finally returned after nearly a year away from Vana’diel. The reason for my departure was the steady breakdown in performance I had been experiencing from my PC which could only be attributed to general system degradation. The solution came in the form of the PS3’s PlayStation Store offering virtual PS2 HDD drivers and Blackmutoh and Lilboobookitty sending me the disks I needed to get things rolling again.I no longer have to pay $260 a year to maintain the forums either, as Lilboobookitty has moved them to Devilutionaries.com. So that’ll help with replacing my computer within the coming year.

To be honest with you though, there was a much more important factor that lead to my loss of interest in FFXI.

Reeroo never came back.

Klaive waited faithfully for over six months before finally accepting that she would never return. Klaive without Reeroo was like a Ninja without shihei. He was utterly broken. Her departure decimated him utterly, and it left me feeling apathetic towards FFXI overall.

It took several months for my mindset to change and for Klaive to be liberated from the burden of his loss. He’ll always miss Reeroo, and I’ll always miss playing him when he was with her… but time has healed his wounds and the time to move on has come.

Since I’ve returned, I’ve become acquainted with some of the new members of the linkshell including Nadjaa, Shallon, Peepers, Dracian, Biwo, and others. I was also reunited with old favorites such as Blackmutoh, Talondalus, Eggmantash (henceforth referred to as Eggm), and Drahgoness. I also caught a glimpse of Mikichan and Lilredd.

I’ve also been pretty active since getting back, having fully merited Critical Strikes, and attained 2/4 Spell Interrupt rate down.

My greatest accomplishment since my return, however, took place shortly after this screenshot was taken (on my PS3.)

Can you guess what it was? Yeah, that’s right…

I finally got Fenrir! I ran in there and showed him that he was my BITCH. ^^ When I defeated him, I held my head in dominance and he bowed before my superior balls as I drank his beer in front of him and his peers.

I’m looking forward to the Wings of the Goddess expansion now and am currently trying to prepare myself for the release of the new jobs. It is my hope to choose one as I did with Blue Mage and run with it up to post-60. Even 75 if no limitations are presented as they were with Blue Mage.

We’re in the process of building a Rise of the Zilart and a Chains of Promathia static out of the Linkshell, and maybe outsourcing some other people for it. We’ve already cleared the promies, and I won’t be doing any of them again for any reason. So, we’d only be looking for people who have accomplished that as well.

Anyway, look forward to future updates and feel free to comment. ^^