So I didn't have much to do yesterday afternoon and had time to kill, so I decided to take a quick trip to Jeuno. I don't know why I say quick though, it never is.  Takes 10 mins from even Teleport-Holla or Teleport-Mea to get there on Chocobo.  Oh well.

Got to Jeuno and was unsure what to do.  I was going to just walk around, say hello to people, but then I remembered.  There was this NPC that I had talked to and wanted me to do something, but I can't remember what he wanted me to do.   I decided to go pay him a visit and see if he mentions it, then maybe I could complete it.  As soon as I got to his house, a cutscene started.

He was telling me that his son was sick and that he knew of a root of a certain flower that could heal his son.  He couldn't go get it because he had to stay by his son's side, so instead he asked me to go get it.  I happily obliged the quest.  He informed me it was in Qufim.  At this point, I was pretty sure I knew where to go.

Once i got to Qufim Island, I immediatly ran to the area I thought i was supposed to go and I was correct.  The only problem was this.  It was a narrow path going down the cliff side.  The path had a Goblin Butcher running up and down it.  Also this flower only blooms at night time, so I had to go between 22:00 and 5:00 (game time) which means there were banshee's.  Goblins aggro by sight and Banshee's agro by blood.  I casted Invisible on myself so the gobs couldn't see me, and also Sneak, just incase i need to not be heard.

As I ran down the cliff side, low and behold, there it was.  THE KRAKEN.  I checked him and he gauged as Increadably Tough, which means he no likey me and I no likey him.  I had Sneak and invisible on so he couldnt' hear or see me so I was in the clear.  The only problem was, he was guarding the flowers I needed so desperatly.  I did a quick one on him, and deactivated Invisible (b/c you can't be invisible and click the flowers :p), tabbed the cursor over to the flowers really quick, and got theh cutscean before he could kill me.

During the cutscene, the guy who sent me on the quest came up and said he was following me.  He said that these were the flowers he needed and then a chocobo came up and helped out.  Now this is the same chocobo that this guy (in a previous cutscene a WHILE back) had badly mistreated.  The man was releived that the chocobo was so sincere to help even after all that

He got the flowers and headed back home.  I as well headed to his house.  When i got there, his son answered the door only to tell me his father wasn't home.  Instead the father had left a gift for the son to give me.  2100g and a Beast Whistle :D. 

After this, I preceeded to the Chocobo Stables in Upper Jeuno.  I always forget that to get a Chocobo here, i have to enter the stables.  Instead I always accidentaly talk to Brutos.  Only this time when I spoke to him, another cutscene happened.

The first guy appeared and started talking to Brutos and I and the Chocobo.  He expressed his thanks to the chocobo and said a few nice remarks about me.  After he left, Brutos informed me that I would make a fine Beastmaster

dun duh dunnnnnnnnn
I have now unlocked Beastmaster job class

who knew...i didn't thats for sure

So I've decided I'm going to keep a log of my Chocobo raising.  To see where I make mistakes or not mistakes, which ever.  I'll be updating this every day till the raising process is finished. You can find more posts (when there are more) on it by clicking on the Chocobo Raising tag under Categories to the right.

So the egg hatched today, what a glorious site.  It is a female chocobo, named Blazing Lunar.  Caring for it is something new for me so I'm learning this slowly.  I watched over her a few times and then decided to take her for a walk.  As we were walking, she met a nice little chocbo named spring.  Hopefully they can become very good friends.  After the walk, I set up a care plan which includes Basic Care for 3 more days, then some long walking for the following 4 days.

I should also point out that since this morning, I've taken her on another walk where we found a hopelessly lost chocobo.  Poor thing was lost from it's owner, so we took it back to the chocobo stables, and now I get to help find the owner :D.  This should be fun

Last night, my wife (IRL) decided to start playing FFXi. :D is all i could say.  We spent some time talking about the different races, nations, jobs, etc.  She finally decided to be a female (duh) taru (yay) Thief (THF).  I've never actually used THF, so this is going to be a new experience for me and her.

She did pretty good for her first night.  Traded the Adv. Coupon to Jack of Spades, picked up a quest (Creepy Crawlers), picked up Mission 1-1 in Windurst, and hit lvl 5.  I'm proud of her for being able to pick up on this game so fast.

I can't wait till tomorrow, when our DSL line becomes active and we can both play together at the same time.  One of us will be on the PC while the other will be on the PS2. 

So I've finally unlocked Summoner (SMN) this past Tuesday.  This is the job I was most interested in when I started playing back in Januarary/Feburary, but it wasn't a selectable job at first.  I've worked hard on unlocking it, and at my pace in this game, I'd say none too soon.

For anyone that doesn't know how to unlock SMN, you can see the quest here (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Hear_a_Rainbow).  But or a basic rundown of the quest:

1)Achieve lvl 30 (any job)
2)Get Carbuncle Ruby from leeches
3)Talk to guy at House Of A Hero to pickup quest
4)Collect the weather elements (Ice, Wind, Water, Fire, Thunder, Lightning, Earth, and None).
5)Goto La Theine Plateau to finish quest and unlock SMN

 

Once I was able to pickup the quest, it took me about 10 hours total play time to finish it all.  It was a very grueling process, but I had alot of fun doing it. 

THe past few day's I've been messing around as a SMN to get used to the job, and I'd have to say, it's alot of fun.  Basically, I get to summon my avatar (only have Carbuncle right now).  I get to give her basic commands, such as attack, or pull back, or "unsummon", but there are also Blood Pacts that i can preform.  One is called Healing light, and It's like a light cure spell for me. It's fun though.

So this is going to be my blog on my FFXI progress and stories.  So let me start out with a bit of Introductions.  My name is dartvalince (please call me dart for short).  I am on the Unicorn Server.  Currently I am a RDM/BLM and I've not unlocked any of the extra classes.  I mostly enjoy playing with friends when I can, but I like to spend mind numbing hours trying to get NM's to pop just for the fun of it.  Sometimes I'll pop them and leave them there for someone else to find....Suprise!!.  I've not spent too much time on the story line, but i'm Windhurst Rank 4. I'll be updateing this along side my FFXI Livejournal community (http://ffxiljcommunity.livejournal.com).  Bunch of great people up there, very helpful in times of questions and concerns.

Well i'll leave you now with this introduction, but it will be updated as soon as i can start playing again (when i get my internet cut back on at home [1 more week hopefully])

-dart