The MogCompy is back up!

Oi... after going through a bunch of weird stuffs, I managed to find a replacement mobo and pretty much, I'm up and running again. I decided to format both of my hard drives (I have a 150gb and a 300gb) after backing up most of the stuff and pretty much decided to start over new. Unfortunately, I get to reinstall FFXI and patch it all up again... nifty~ Thankfully I picked up a copy of Vana'diel Collection 2008 so I have all the expansions and stuff on one DVD.

I'm just happy I got my computer up... nothing really much to post so... history time! I mean, I could talk about Pandemonium Warden and how screwed up it is but I'm sure you guys have already heard about it eleswhere.

But uh... lets see... lets talk about how I started this game.

I guess the official date that I started was April 7th 2004, which was a few weeks after PS2 US release. At the time, I always wanted to play FFXI but my computer was pretty outdated (it was sporting a TNT Ultra 2 at the time) and when the PC release came out, I frankly did not have the money to pay for it at that time. When PS2 release came out, my PC was actually decent enough to run FFXI and I was playing on a friend's account for a short period of time. I was more convinced at that point to play FFXI so I bought the PS2 version after trading in some of my games... like Phantasy Star Online Episode 3, which was complete garbage because the system was broken in that game!

Once I got all that running, I was ready to play the game and ironically enough, I just played it on my PC, didn't really bother playing it on my PS2, especially since I had no USB keyboard for my PS2 at the time. I started the game as a BLM and I really wanted to just be an uber mage. I figured I like playing something that was pretty simple and didn't involve having to run in and beat up on stuff. For the next 10 levels, I was in heaven. I was ignorant of everything around me, I was just a simple Taru with a simple plan: nuke the shit out of things. And, while I often find myself refering back to the past on many things and often dwell too much on them, I often don't focus on the "good" parts of the past and I'm taking that time right now.

This would be the very first screenshot of many

It's interesting looking back at my old journey I had going on in FFShrine.org. Actually kinda feels like I was a totally different person... yet I'm kind of the same.... and some of these posts... @_@;

We did meet a cool WHM in there named "Aphrimi" who raised me and healed us a few times... but we couldn't handle the bats in the deeper regions. We both left the ruins and leveled up on our own outside.

Later I would realize that their name was "Aphrini" and later I would realize that this person would be some SMN that I would meet later on in my first Dynamis LS. Who to thunk it?

Wow... :3 I sound like a jackass~

One thing a party must need: A White Mage. It was surprisingly hard to find one in the Tah. Canyons and the Maze. Eventually I ran into a party which had one and.... well... the warrior just sucked nuts. While I was blasting on a Goblin in the Maze, the Goblin turned at me because I raised his hate. The Warrior saw him attacking me and said "Run!"...

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Yeah, you heard me... he said run.

So, why did he tell me to run? Was it because his provoke was warming up? In fact no... while I was lying dead, I asked and he said "What does provoke do?"... I soon disbanded.

... I really don't remember me typing that.

... o_o;

After going to the Valkrum Dunes for awhile, I leveled up to 17. Upon hitting 17, I basically had only 600 EXP. Since I could not find a party in the Dunes, I set sail to Mhaura.

Upon returning however, I was told that I could handle Maze Makers as long as I had a WHM near me to recover me and back me up if I can't finish the job.

So into the Maze of Somecrap I go. I met a WHM Taru and I went from 600 EXP to the next level (4000). UPON hitting 4000 though, my Taru accidently cast Dia on a stink bat... and thus more stink bats came and we couldn't get out alive. LEVEL DOWN.

I was sent back to Mhaura (my HP) and left to the Maze again. This time I ran into one of the worst parties I've ever been in. For some odd reason, whenever I tell someone to not attack a bat, they end up attacking one and killing off most of the group (me included). This happened twice (I leveled up twice and I leveled down twice). After being fustrated, I just left the Maze and picked off my last 300 EXP with stray monsters outside. After hitting 18, I dashed towards Windurst and that's where I am right now.

:3 Jebus...

So anyways, uh... maybe... in the next four years, I'll look back on this blog and question myself again... or something. @_@;

God, is this even me?!