Chris Ganale

Forgot I had this one. Back-to-back frozen badasses with my old buddy who I hadn't seen in years before he found me in-game one day.

It seems Chao already shares an LS with both Dogberry and Stormwind so that takes most of the work out of finding you guys, now the issue is making our timetables line up. Rin, I don't know how easy it would be to find this particular Allagan relic she's looking for, as they're rare enough in working form as it stands. She does, however, need a much more common mammet heart to go with it so we can perhaps work something out. As a scientist and weapons designer, Chao is not particular on where she acquires her materials.

I wouldn't say DRG make for decent aoe damage. Better than MNK to be certain, but Ring of Thorns and Doom Spike are small potatoes.

So, without getting into details, I've found that I need to strike out on my own with Chao for a bit. That said, she's got a major project underway that requires certain materials she doesn't have immediate access to or knowledge of where to acquire (that is lore-acceptable). That in mind, she needs help from certain sectors. Dealers of Allagan relics would be the surest bet, but any with knowledge of where to find unplundered or barely-plundered Allagan ruins would work as well.

Quoted for truth, and throwing FF8 into the mix.

Even though Chao got (one of) her jacket tonight, she's a sad kitty now. Reasons and stuff.

We've got a thread in the XIV discussion section that tracks when Balmung is open. It's usually ass early in the morning, like 4 AM CST.

Finally, finally got one of the three BLM chests I was after.

The only real hard and fast lore on any of the tribes is the U tribe, because they have the settlement in Forgotten Springs. There's no hard and fast location for other tribes, and as examples, my R guy's tribe is from unspecified upper La Noscea, his wife's J tribe is from East Than, and I've seen another R person have a tribe in Sagolii Desert. Lot of tribes out of Sagolii, I've noticed. But other than that, you can basically have your tribe from wherever.

Pretty similar to my rule for raids and stuff. If you're an impatient BLM who drops thunder on a boss or a group before I even move, I'll let it kill you, then Voke'ahawk it.

I've gone back and forth between the trying to appease everyone and doing what I want. Mostly stick to doing what I want now and while the stress of being 100% lore-compliant and non-powered enough to suit peoples' tastes is gone, it does leave me spending my entire days getting my roulettes out of the way on two characters and then camping out in front of another FC's house waiting to see if the one person outside my own group that I RP with will even come on that day, let alone have the free time to do anything.

Even if it's not the intent of the individuals in question, that is the perception.

Oh the gear itself isn't the issue. Thanks to greeding random stuff through getting her MNK up to 117 (haha, Halo joke), I had enough assorted caster gear to jump her straight to i93 as soon as she hit 50. Her actual ilvl is 109 with nothing below 100, this stuff I'm after is for glamour purposes. Guess I forgot to mention that.

I am sick, just absolutely sick, of the utter inability to get any sort of half-decent BLM chest for Chao out of post-50 content. I've joined t2 PFs to get the Allagan chest (my ideal one) but it was my own mistake to go as MNK instead of BLM, and despite asking at the formation of the party to have caster gear that drops, the BLM that came in rolled need on both the chest and boots that dropped as soon as the chest was opened and then, when the healer checked with everyone about who wanted what, had the sheer audacity to giggle and say "oh, i already needed on it all". But again, that was my own fault for going on MNK and not BLM because I didn't think my BLM at the time could survive enrage method. Now every t2 I've pugged ever since has seemingly forgotten it has caster gear. I run experts daily, sometimes multiple experts, sometimes specifically targeting AKHM and Keeper to get the bogatyr chest (second choice) only for both middy and stupid-ass jester boss to tell me they don't drop it anymore. Yesterday the fucking jester even fucked with me by dropping the BRD chest when I begged at the outset "please drop a bogatyr chest" without specifying BLM. Not that I could take the BRD chest anyway because I already have it and am sitting on it for BRD to get to 50 and in fact, looking today, I realize I have all of the bogatyr BRD gear except the head wtf SE. Every week when it comes time to run the towers for carbontwine/coat/whatever I need at the time, I always run on BLM. And I always get one or more BLMs. Who always need on the fucking Crimson Vest (I'll goddamn take it as a bloody consolation prize at this point) despite hilariously outgearing me, and always fucking beat me. Ten minutes ago was the third time I've run CT in the past four days and the goddamn chest has dropped every time only to get snatched out of my hands by a fucking BLM in goddamn dreadwyrm who typically dies three or four times during the raid. So. Now on top of the RP situation hating Chao in the one person I regularly RP with having not been on in the past three days and typically having other things to do all the time, now the game mechanically hates her in either not giving her the damn chest I want or taunting her with ones I'll take as consolation prizes only to give them to someone else. Now that I've made an utter ass of myself and reduced what little favorable opinion of me there was, I've got an appointment to wantonly murder some hapless Covenant wastrels.

This is a pretty common thing. I won't inflate my sense of worth by saying it's a big issue, but it is common.

Oh shit, Yuuna's getting a new haircut. (Again)

I know how a lightsaber works in Star Wars. Mandos need to understand the weapons of their greatest foes, after all. But this is why I've said lightsaber-esque repeatedly and always suffixed it with "beam saber" as it's more akin to the Gundam weapon generated via fantasy rather than high technology. I only continued to use the lightsaber reference because I figure more people would know what that is than a beam saber. But I digress, this is not relevant to the topic of hand so I'll reengage the lurking device before I get run off. Again

It's easy. Take cylinder of metal. Insert crystal of your choice and magitek powercell (Disclaimer: if the Garleans have magitek photocells it stands to reason they'd have similar-sized powercells). Put focusing lens on open end. Boom. Instant lightsaber-style beam saber. Even with elemental variety!

It wouldn't actually be hard to rig up a lightsaber-esque energy weapon given existing technology in the setting... It's on my to-do list.

Ganale carries a small white dagger with the pommel fashioned in the likeness of a hawk. It was a gift given to him by Sabine in recognition of his observant nature. Ironically, he's as dumb as a brick when it comes to recognizing any feelings she has for him, but that's as much due to crippling self-esteem issues causing him to willfully seek a more 'fitting' explanation for any aside glances or things she does that indicate her feelings, such as trying to alter her sleep schedule to spend time with him. R'tahz has his wedding ring. Bit trite, I know, but it represents not only his love for J'karu but the peak of his romantic ideals, such that it's always on his person, either worn where it belongs or on a chain around his neck when he's wearing armored gloves that could cause a pinch hazard. None of the rest really have anything, though. Probably should work on that.

That was more explained in the book. The trike wasn't actively eating the plant, but because it required gizzard stones to aid in its digestion, it was picking them up accidentally when it ate stones.

A raptor was also shown attacking a man in the back of a van, so...

I for one am super-hyped about the Raptor Attack Squad. They're the entire reason I've given Tahz a pet raptor to raise, lol. I'm concerned though that the raptors will be the ones chosen to job to the big new nasty. Even more concerning is the mention that the Bad Thing was communicating to the other dinosaurs, and the pterosaurs at least seemed to do its bidding.

All of the yes, jfc.

That murkiness, and the absolute truth that, by definition, a 'royalist' would support the idea of a monarchy regardless of who holds the seat (even though I think the vast majority of royalists would revolt if it was Lolorito) is why I prefer to self-describe with the term 'loyalist', beholden to Ul'dah and the shining beacon she can be to the people.