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[Seyrena]

Seyrena here.

I started back in 2004 as Aleya on the Fenrir server. From the start, I wanted to be a Red Mage with that delicious pimp hat. Sadly, just as I was angling toward that level, Real Life interrupted and I had to quit. Since then, I've juggled MMOs before finally settling back down to FFXI again. I couldn't get my old characters back, so I started anew on Odin. I finally have full AF and am working on levelling into it.

When I'm not slaving away at the Grounds of Valor grindstone, I'm at my home in Bastok Mines raising an adorable chocobo named Kelsier or counting my gil from selling Teleport-Vahzl and Warp II.

[SHJcules]

Some fun reads here! it's nice to get some flavor for my fellow Vanadillions

as for me, I'm Springheeledjim of Siren.

I entered this world a tall and dangerously good looking Tarutaru. One with a small disposition to RDM magickz but aspirations to be a dark knight and leave my sinister mark in the world! My brother, Baratheon, a long haired hume warrior joined with me, with aspirations of turning to the light of PLD to preserve the balance of all things (me). Born about ten minutes apart, I am still the eldest, and though we qualify as twins, we are definitely NOT identical.

We duo'ed everything we crossed, and planned on such. Not that we were antisocial, we had a great LS and tons of good friends to chat with, they just weren't invited to our parties!

A few months later, the dynamic duo hit lvl 30 on RDM and WAR, and we set out to prove we were worthy of putting on our DRK and PLD shoes. To hit max level and reach our full potential only relying on eachother.

Buuut at lvl 25, after trying out this new place called Yuhntunga jungle and duoing these fierce, pillow type plantiod things, we stumbled into this cool guy who was dual box duoing mandragoras next to us as WHM and PLD (though it was months before we even realized it was one person!). Then, as if it was fate (and me even being strongly against it!) we eventually decided it'd be fun to combine our duos, into a mega, insanely powerful, super dual duo. We had more fun than we thought legally possible! I still remembers the GMs wagging their fingers at us.

He became my best friend for the next seven years. (it gets ya right here.. little tear)

With this new force at our disposal, grouping became a regular thing, and any time you saw one of us, you pretty much knew the other three were somewhere close. It took a few years, but this traveling circus of pain (PLD, PLD, DRK, WHM) eventually hit lvl 75. all while being completely honorable to our exclusive grind style.

Now though, as I have matured in both life and in game, I find myself more comfortable with nature and wild animals. Living out all my time as a BST now, I am generally found soloing weird things, or crashing my friends parties and going ape-sh*t with my jug pets, octopus axes, and sky tearing weapon skills.

Lol, wow these get long fast, I encourage everyone to start writing one and see what ends up coming out, as I'm just going to force stop myself here. And with the time I save, will sit back and reflect on all those things unspoken.. or play LEGOs

[Kensagaku]

This actually looks like a pretty fun thread, and got my writing muse going again. So kudos to you all for that, I've been having a block and I have work to get done. >_>

That aside, let me share my humble adventures as well.

Beware, Wall-o'-Text Incoming!

I started off playing this game at an invitation from a friend. I was just a simple Hume Thief, trying out the path of the treasure hunter (I was going through a treasure hunting phase with a lot of different games/stories) and hoping to make it rich in the world. I got to level 5 quite quickly, then learned something; I had chosen the wrong server! Much sadface was had and I quickly had to delete my Hume and start over on the RIGHT server, and to me it felt like a lot of time wasted because I had spent like an hour getting to level 5 the first time while I learned! That was back in the day where I thought you dodged attacks by moving out of the way.

I re-joined and ended up on Kujata with my friend Kuishen. He got me started off again and we were leveling low-level jobs together; he had been playing for a bit but had started another job to help me out at first. I was shocked at how fast they were leveling; at the time I hadn't heard of the EXP rings so I was quickly left in the dust. They were hitting their level 8s and 9s when I finally got back to level 5. There was much sadface to be had, since Level Sync didn't exist then and as a result my EXP suffered when the others leveled up.

After that, a certain friend abandoned me to level on my own, though he did help me out here and there with questing and job unlocks and such later on. This was around the time of the dunes, and I had all of THF10, MNK04, and the rest level 1s. The Dunes were okay at first, though I had to admit I had my worries as Kuishen had often gone on about how terrible they were. I was imagining huge terrifying monsters ripping us limb from limb; shortly before that a Battering Ram had said hi and I learned just how deadly some things were so I was worried. My first party at lizards wasn't bad at all though, and we raced through the first few levels quickly. Then we got to crabs, and I learned that subjobless THF + daggers versus high defense monsters was... questionable. 0-3 damage at most with 5 damage Wasp Stings (even though I had Gust Slash) was... well, underwhelming.

However, the dunes were an important time for me, 'cause I met my first linkshell there. It was an RP linkshell whose name I still can't remember, and I met my friends Ephraim and Vyren, who got me into hanging out and RPing with them. We also leveled together and had a good time, and Vyren was great about lending me gil to help me get my jobs going. I really appreciated it and looking back, I was such a leech. :s

From there I progressed to finding two new jobs I liked, since Thief didn't have the appeal to me I hoped it would. DRG and SMN, the first to be my first 75 eventually, were soon unlocked with help and I started on my path to level them both. At the same time, I was still jumping around on a lot of low level jobs to find something that appealed when I didn't feel like playing those two, so I had a lot of jobs around the 20s at this point. I remember a lot of highlights, like going to find ice weather for my SMN quest and then going to get my Tele-Vahzl crystal while we were at it. We killed Shadow Dragon, Biast spawned, and went on to murder us. We all laughed at the whole thing afterwards, but at that time, as a lowly level 30 DRG, I vowed to have revenge on that dragon.

To this day, I have yet to do so. He won't spawn!

Since then I've made a lot of leaps and bounds. DRG was my first job to 75 in parties, then BLU after that mostly solo, during the lolBLU days. I spent day after day learning spells as soon as I could, often levels before I could use them so that I'd have them ready. I've managed to collect all of them to level 90 so far! SMN came after that, bouncing between healing during ToAU parties, BLM burns in Xarc (S) and soloing off of guides on the wiki page. BRD was leveled as well, and pre-EG, I couldn't understand why people would hate playing the job. You always had to be able to react and adjust based on the situation while you were rapid pulling/buffing!

EG shells were fun in the past too. I remember main healing a DD party during a Suzaku due to lack of healers logged on as a DRG/WHM. Between Healing Breath III and Cure III, I somehow managed to keep people up! Don't ask me how though. Then there was Omega, which was terrifying the first time when I had to run up to sing for my tanks and I didn't want to get om nommed. Sea was fun, though I remember CFHing a Jailer of Justice by accident. :| Fortunately we managed to get it white again and kill it, and got full drops as a result!

Since then, with the release of Abyssea, I've gotten a lot of stuff done. 11 level 90s (DRG, BLU, BRD, SMN, RDM, BST, BLU, THF, NIN, COR and BLM) and a lot of AF3+2 gear as well as shinies for most of my jobs. Have yet to finish an Empyrean to my discredit, because I'm too lazy to waste stones soloing Bri/shouting for groups and I keep missing schedule slots to use for ls events! Hopefully I'll get my Kannagi done, but I wouldn't be surprised if I finish my Armageddon first. >.>;

So yeah, that's the story of Kensagaku, starting as a treasure hunter and becoming a jack of all trades. The end.