Call This Number!
06 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: call this number, phone number, voice mail
This post isn’t FFXI related but I thought I’d post it to all my blogs/sites/Twitter/whatever to try and reach a larger number of people.
CALL THIS NUMBER
(206) 337-8887
WHAT IS THIS?
The number listed above is a voicemail-only box that I have set up for random people to call and leave me messages.
IS THIS SOME KIND OF TRICK?
No! This is NOT some trick. This number is VOICE MAIL ONLY! It doesn’t call some random person in a random state. This isn’t some kind of prank being played on a pledge or some other nonsense like that. What happens is that when you call and leave a message the service sends me an email containing the message. It doesn’t save your number. I have no idea who leaves the messages (unless you specifically say your name). You’re anonymous. Say whatever you want! Make it hilarious, sing a song, or just tell me off. Whatever!
AM I GOING TO BE CHARGED IF I CALL THIS NUMBER?
The short answer to this is… maybe. It all depends on your service plans. Most local (U.S.) non-prepaid services have unlimited nights (and possibly weekends). If you call during that time then no, you shouldn’t get charged. But check your service plan before you call it. I’m not responsible if you have to pay a few cents to leave a message. International callers will most likely be charged, sadly. I don’t know if you can use something like Google Voice to call it for free as I’ve never messed with that service.
WHY AM I DOING THIS?
I’m interested in what people have to say to a total stranger. Consider it an experiment. Okay, truthfully? I’m bored and am looking for a new interesting way to brighten up my day. The last time I set this service up I got some pretty interesting calls. Everything from a song about cats to a call from New Zealand. It was pretty awesome. I’m hoping to get some good calls like that again.
This is the only post I’ll make about this. The next post will resume the FFXI talk. 
Doomed Pilgrims
01 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in NMs, Quests Tags: Doomed, NM, Pilgrims, RotZ
Smz and I have been working on the Zilart missions. If you can’t guess by the title of this post, we’re currently on Headstone Pilgrimage. Well, technically he’s on the one right after this one. I kind of fell behind. Because of that I decided to go ahead and try to get it done solo.
Asuran Fists Get
29 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in NMs, Quests Tags: Asuran Fists, easy, NM, Quest, Trial, Weaponskills
Wooooo! We’ve been busy.
While doing weaponskills to unlock the weaponskill weapon we ran into an NM in the tree:
And murdered it easily.
Next we made our way down to a skeleton NM to finish up the trial:
And showed it who was boss:
Now I have Asuran Fists!
Some Drops
23 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Smz and I had a pretty lucky night last night.
Both of us have been wanting to get a Joyeuse for our jobs that can use them, however we haven’t had any luck camping the NM til last night.
We managed to get it to pop and had a crazy but relatively easy fight. So Smz is now the proud owner of a Joyeuse.
After that we went skilling up in the tree. However, our labors weren’t quite as fruitful there so we moved to Zeruhn Mines to skillup and attempt to get the ring that drops there. Well, we got the ring to drop! WOOOHOO! Hopefully the ring’s effect is not just a placebo effect.
In less exciting news, my level 97 RDM’s enhancing is completely capped. If I had to guess how long it took to cap enhancing I’d say it took over 48 hours straight of casting barspells/refresh/protect/etc (a little bit here, a little bit there, etc). That seems utterly ridiculous to me, but it’s par for the course when it comes to SE.
And I must really hate myself as I’ve started another Magian Trial (this time for the WAR’s str G.axe). Anyone who knows me at all knows that I can’t stand the Magian Trials. I just find them all so boring. At least the G.axe’s trials aren’t quite as annoying as the G.katana’s WS trials. So that’s something I guess. 
Anyway.. that’s all for now.
Duoing Pallid Percy
19 Mar 2012 2 Comments
in NMs
Hmm.. so today we decided to try and duo Pallid Percy for the RDM and SAM head seals that it drops..
It was a pretty rough fight but we managed to tough it out and won. That’s probably the most fun I’ve had in FFXI in a while (at least the most heart pumping). So after Smz won the first (and only) SAM seal we still had one more pop item left. Figuring we’ve got this in the bag, we tried again.
It raped us!
I’ve never seen us wipe so fast to anything before in my life. It was like night and day between the first and second pop. I still don’t know what really happened and why we were destroyed so fast.
We raised and healed to full. Since the NM is near the worms that drop its pop item we decided to try and farm one more pop item to try one last time for the day. Ten min later we popped the NM again. Lost again. It was easier than the second time, but harder than the first.
If we hadn’t won the first time I’d say it was impossible for us to duo (despite what people say on the wiki). Yet, we won the first time so I know it’s possible. I guess it really comes down to pure luck (of which I have little).
I’m really curious to see if I can figure out some new gear combination or food combinations that would help us win this thing more than 1/3. I’d really like to finish my SAM AF3+1 head (and I know Smz would like to too).
Guess we’ll keep trying.
Shoha is done!
19 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Tachi: Shoha is done. I haven’t had a chance to test the strength of 5/5 Shoha yet but I hope it’s worth grinding 100 full merits for. 3/5 was as strong as Y/G/K so I’m expecting good things out of 5/5.
Things to do (whenever I get a chance):
- Finish my Keitonotachi trial (this one will be a long-term goal, as the trial I’m on is painfully dull and I can’t stand to do it for much at a time)
- Figure out how to duo a worm NM in Abyssea for SAM and RDM AF3 head seals for both of us (I need both, Smz needs SAM).
- Do the level 40 AF weapon quests for: WAR, WHM and BLM and then immediately store all those pieces in storage.
- Do lots of campaign to build up more notes so that I can turn around and buy lots of voiddust
- Figure out the best AH items I can buy for RDM and get to building my item sets.. (then I’ll start working on the rare/ex stuff for RDM)
- Work on WAR so I can get it up to Fell Cleave level (which will then allow us to grind merits a bit easier)
- Need to finish skilling up RDM. Enhancing was completely capped at 87 but now that I’m 97 it’s a bit behind again. Elemental and Dark are both waaaaay behind. Healing is somewhere inbetween. X_x
All of my FFXI Pictures
12 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: galleries, Pictures
I’ve been playing FFXI off and on since 2004, when I used to play on the Asura server. After 2005 I quit (to make a long story short RMT camping literally every monster + decreasing funds = not a good time to play FFXI). I came back in 2007 on Quetz as a completely new character and have been pretty active since then.
Over the years I have taken an insane amount of pictures. I’ve recently spent a bit of time uploading them all to phobotucket.
If you’re interested in seeing seven years worth of pictures (with an eighth on the way soon) click right here and take a gander.
Aside from being sorted by year, there’s no real order to the galleries. And I’m quite aware that I have taken a huge number of totally pointless pics.
Enjoy!
