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It all started when I was 16ish, I had gotten a Playstation 2 for Christmas a few months back, and have long since been wanting Final Fantasy XI.
So by a stroke of luck i strike a short, high paying job for a week (i have family to thank for this) and amass 200 dollars, i believe ffxi was 120 dollars, and i had 500 saved up from a summer job last year (there arent many places to spend cash when you're living in the boonies)
I buy Final Fantasy XI (PS2) on launch - this would start the character known as Nattack.
Now I will explain to you, that Nattack is shamefully taken from the boss of Cosmo Canyon of Final Fantasy 7, and as far as i understand it does have a meaning (Nataku is the actual spelling) but what that meaning is i no longer know as ive had several definitions. It no longer matters to me where it came from as I've held the name longer than ive held interest in Final Fantasy 7.
I start the game. I had a preset of what character I wanted. I had read about FFXI beforehand from the Playstation Forums. I knew I wanted a Tarutaru. and I knew I wanted to start off with a Black Mage,of windurst. The actual type of tarutaru didnt matter at the time (but i wish I chose the dark haired ponytail these days) seeing my job titles now (BST > NIN > DRK) It's obvious black mage didn't work out. I had stopped before level 8. it was also my subjob for a time (noob)
I start in Windurst, magically on Valefor (I wanted Carbuncle, dont remember why) The very, very first person I meet is a girl named Wshadow. of which I think I am still friends with if i ever get back on game. and she shows me how to get outside.
the first quest i ever finished, the starfall hillock tree,
so.. I go outside. and I meet a little black mage named Aaeon, who taught me the controls (what meditating does, how to use magics) until i had met him actually, i had just been killing until i died. I figured they really meant you had to play in a party or else this.
anyways. time passes, I say "fuck blm" and start levelling red mage, because at the time i hated melee - i had just come from a long series of playing Necromancer/Sorceress on Diablo II and this was my norm., if it wasnt magic I didnt like it.
I meet a group of people, some of my best knowns in the game. This would be Paranor and Janie who started the now defunct social StolenSociety. It lasted for years and harboured many of the games greats (greenwinde for instance). and some of the games worst contenders. I wont name any names.
more time passes, im not very good at playing the game. Red mage gets boring so i start questing jobs. I try all sorts out, Dark Knight to level 21, dragoon to level 5.
and then I discover beastmaster. This was Necromancer all over again, I get a pet, and i keep throwing it at my opponents, It was great. and the suit was adorable.
let me tell you, this was and is my favourite job and experience out of any game.
this would also be about the time i meet MrPinkFloyd, who i commented on having the name of my favourite band. he and I mysteriously levelled at the same pace it seemed, its creepy
I level up to about 39, and meet another BST. Scarz. this is one of the most quirky guys ive ever met - if anyone remembers ClubFungus, thats this guy.
he and I level from 39 to about 61ish. but then I miss out, because hes so much faster than I. and he goes on to join Ultima I think (while i fester for a year)
Obakeken - one of the most finicky levellers, he would not surpass level 60 SAM until he got the best gear, commendable. truly commendable
now heres where I take a fork. I'm sitting in Port Jeuno, just minding my own business. when I get asked help for Promyvion. I am pearled with a linkshell to one of my most beloved linkshells, HiddenPower. its where I met some of my most favourite people (Kajikaru, Uppy, Rebeccca, Tuan, Reddeyes, various others of who i wont name because they know who they are)
for a linkshell interested in sea, they got me to sky (and up to the Bomb, i believe 5-3. i would stay on this mission foralmostever)
this is where I had to level Ninja, I got it all the way to 73, it was THE job to level at the time.
Time passes, I camp serket religiously, because I wanted so badly a Scorpion harness (they were only slightly less expensive than haubys' at the time, reaching 10mils)
I also farm Girtabs for Viking Axes, I was like a troll in Toraimarai, youd always see me for a few hours a day farming and selling viking axes for 500k a piece
alternating between bst/thf and nin/bst (the latter being much easier) and knowing the shortest routes, i was fast! i was good, but i was bored. making money isnt easy.
finally one of my best friends, Rebeccca, offers to hunt with me. we try devil mantas out. with her thf and my nin, we were a good duo. 4 drops out of 10 wasnt bad.
but then i continue to solo it...
zero of motherfucking 80, i counted. I COUNTED. this was years ago, when you could still camp in cape terrigan.
between this and farming sky a bit, my funds run out and my account goes down for a while
...... TIME PASSES, i move out of home, i get my own credit card and up goes my account, i would be 19 years old at the time.
the very first thing i do is install ToAU, quest a bit ,and meet my old friends. Rebeccca was under a new name and not too interestedd in playing anymore. but her brother, who reminds me alot of my childhood friend without the chinese - so it was very welcoming, took me under his wing. Me and his crew finished sea, camped a few mobs, but lots of drama would occur. lots and lots of drama. We met several people Darknitealucard being the only one i can remember right now. though i know there was another of which I liked, he was one of my favourites.
the need to get to sea and the need to have a jobthat wasnt bst or nin prompted me to level DRK, which is now my most powerful job, but my least favourite of the 3 (not to say i dont like it, just in ranking, i like bst and nin more)
anyways, the linkshells disband twice. i got sea, i got sky, i was set. I was still pretty retarded though. no gear, no nothing. I meet up with Davricle.
at the time, I figured he was a good guy. seemed okay, he and I sat in the same general location in whitegate. he invites me to join DarkLegions (I have yet to apply to any Linkshell at this point) and I meet another, a really cool guy name Byxfluzba who at the time lived on the same goddamn street as me.
now, in dark legions my first few months were pretty enjoyable. even if my first action was to fail our hydra by exploding. I got blamed hard for it but only by a few people (I had solod 3/4 a bottle of tequila, so i dont blame myself)
and I meet the GREATEST person ever, Muketsu. perhaps im just biased. naw. shes the greatest. I grow to love this person as she becomes my adventure buddy, friend and general interest of sorts. anyways. things happen, and i notice her hard work going for naught as she occasionally would control another character, so many credits were not given and at times ridiculed because of what her linkshell didnt seem to know. it frustrated me, and I brought it up a few times. at one time questioning davricles leadership, which was ultimately ignored and forgotten.
this is also the time where i solo'd Despot on my BST. I had invited DL to come up and kill him with me because I wasnt confident in my skills yet, but as events happen DL actually got themselves killed and i had to solo the end of it anyway, forfeiting the Gem of the West (I would get more, as i evident)
Cerberus: A dramatic event happens where a waste of space Blaghna cries over not getting lot on lolgol for his warrior/paladin. he gets rewards for it, which was bullshit. that is all about that.muketsu leaves, her friend leaves. I stay in dark legions for a while. I dont know why i stayed, I guess it was the other people in dark legions that I liked. many of them i had known from previous linkshells, so i was at home on one point. but not on the other,
well. anyways, my job had made joining events difficult, relationships between the linkshell Tribulations sour, who ran our or ran with our dynamis's ( i can never tell which). but because my friends had joined tribulations, and because I didnt really feel like leaving such a good system, i continued to join them in their runs. this would net me all my important AF2's.
DarkLegions takes note of this and threatens to boot me due to my never joining events (again, before I joined I had made it known that I worked afternoons and would join when I could, this apparently was forgotten. so im half bitter, half think this is a full retard move)
I leave and apply to tribulations to join my friends, i join loldrg again an start doing Omega runs which would net me full homam and some really cool AF+1's. as well as net the highest points ever spent on homam boots, and the lowest points on homam body.
I also take a few looks into the updates. WOTG is released and la vaule is primed with many... many bosses for me to enjoy.
Beating the boss:
NOMNOMNOM SO MUCH FUN
i also meet up with a few friends and try killing:
with much success.
I get Gnadbhods
I also try ZNM's out, a la sortasolo Brass Borer:
things happen, they take me through some of my better experiences, they even pop my byakko for me, which puts me at 0/5 on kittypants. - i farm another byakko pop ._.
a horrible event happens, the salvage bannings. I take part in these, and my friends are permad, I am banned for 3 days, and shit just sucks in general.
many months pass and I continue to linger in shattered linkshell, I go linkshell'less for a while. and then I join another one of my favourites, CtB. its also the time where i got serious about getting First Lieutenant, as perdu's were on my agenda.
CTB is fun, thats all there is too it. there are many personalities. I wont go through them all. unfortunately my time with them was cut short as, again, my credit card expired. If my account is still around, I will be pleased to join them again. hopefully I get this job, and play with my friends again. because im not done yet!
edited out some bullshit typing errors. i did this all on whim, i was suprised to have a picture from 2004 in there, and one of my earliest in fact
This post has been edited by Nattack: 23 March 2010 - 02:19 PM
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