Visiting the past, part 3

After I saw how Windurst was in the past I couldn't wait to visit the other cities and Bastok was my next target. My friend Roninhiroishi wanted to tag along. We began by going through Rolanberry Fields and reaching Pashhow Marshlands. The marshlands looked weird very blueish and with a lo of grass, flowers and monsters.


There were this lizard like monsters we never seen before, we had to fight one because I drew its attention to me. They petrify and potion so I let the Linkshell know to be careful about them.

After running around looking for a detour to Bastok because we knew the way to the highlands was blocked, we found the entrance to Grauberg. The place looks like the highlands but more like a forest in some parts, there was a waterfall which was very nice to see.

We reached North Gustaberg and to reach Bastok there is a neat ramp leading to the higher parts of Gustaberg. Too bad the passing of time destroyed the ramp, it would make traveling from Bastok to the highlands more easy. We entered Bastok Markets and noticed they are very prepared for war, nothing too surprising there. I was tired from all that walking and decided to rest my feet near the fountain but it was nowhere to be found, replaced by a tower.

After my short rest I was ready to go to San d'Oria next but in Jugner forest I took a wrong turn, reached a cave and thinking it was the way I entered it. Next something attacked me, it was a gnole protecting its lair. I was took by surprise and tried to defend myself but it was too strong for me I was knocked out. I decided to visit San d'Oria some other time, for now I have other stuff to do. Those silly Elvaans can wait.

Visiting the past, part 2

After all the running around in areas near past Jeuno I had a goal in mind: to join the Windurst Cobras. The Cobras is the Windurst campaign organization. I had a long road ahead of my since there is no chocobo service available. I traveled and reached Meriphataud Mountains, when I was going to reach Tahrongi Canyon the way was closed. It took me a while to find out where to go, lucky there was a cave that lead me to Fort Karugo-Narugo. This new area looked like the canyon but with more fortifications and more Yagudo running around.

I manage to find my way around, sneaking past all the yagudos and walking plants and reached a familiar area. West Sarutabaruta looks more greener and with a little more vegetation.

When i reached the Windurst gate all looked fine until...
I entered the city the view was shocking to me. The war has hit Windurst hard, some places were destroyed it is a sad gloomy place unlike the Windurst I know. After seeing the devastation I knew I had to join the Cobras for sure. I talked to some people around until I got to the Mithra in charge. They had a quest for me to prove my worth, I had to rub some ointment on the nearby towers and that was it. I was rewarded with a pair of sprinter's boots for my trouble. After doing that I can't wait till i do more quests but for now I need to visit other areas...

To be continued...

Visiting the past, part 1

A normal day gets interrupted by the news of strange portals that looks like mouth across Vana'diel. Daeana and I decided to investigate the matter and notify the autorities about it. We found one near Bastok but after a while we decided that that one wasn't working at the moment. News reached us that there was one in Sauromugue Champaing and it was swallowing any adventurer that got near it. We arrieved at the portal and as soon as Daeana got near she was swallowed by it ,took me by surprise and it did the same to me afterwards.


A swirl of color, strange floating thing and falling to the abyss was what I remember when I recovered. I found myself in a place that resembled Batallia Downs but it was weird, there were fortifications and towers unlike the place I'm used to see. Right there it hit me, Daeana and I were separated, I had to look for her. While I searched for Daeana I noticed a strange colored tiger, I had to fight it ofcourse. It wasn't that hard but I can tell monsters here are a bit stronger than in other places.

I kept looking for Daeana and passed near a tower, then suddenly a bunch of Elvaan royal guards passed by me and began attacking the tower doing Banish II it too, after they had their fun they all warped out.
When I was near Rolanberry Fields I heard a familiar voice, Daeana was shouting to me to grab my attention, seems like she was alright. We began to look around the area, looking at all the structures and war machinery too, then we decided on going to Garlaige Citadel.

When we reached Royalberry Fields we saw a pixie, it was really cute and engaged in battle with a little tarutaru Blackmage. It seemed the little mage was having trouble, the pixie has magic resistance, so we helped him. He was very thankful.

We continued onward to Sauromugue Campaing and I had the feeling i was followed, when I looked back this little mandragora was flapping it twigs around me looking at me with this expression of amazement. It was really weird.

We finally reached our destination, when I enter the citadel I was surprised to see that it was a military bunker. I managed to gather info and now I know about the war between the beastman and the people of Vana'diel, the citadel is a strategic point in the campaign. After helping on an attack on the citadel Daeana and I decided to visit the other strongholds. We were told there was one in Crawler's Nest and The Eldieme Necropolis. We visited Crawler's Nest, wish is not that different from what I remember, there I talk to a tarutaru that say I should join the Cobras an organization for the Windurst campaign, he gave me an invitation for me to give to someone in Windurst. Next we head out to The Eldieme Necropolis, while we were on our way I looked to the sky and just noticed the strange comet. Looks like an evil omen.


The Necropolis didn't looked like a place where the undead roam but still looks like a tomb. Here we were attacked by the Orcish horde. Poor Daeana got knocked down a lot. I looked around and saw a couple of undead elvaans and stopped right there, went back because I wasn't ready for fighting at the moment. On my way back I saw a strange barrier, I wondered what is that used for. Soon after Daeana decided to stay and help the ones in the Necropolis, I wanted to go to Windurst and join the Cobras...
To be continued...

Arrival at Jeuno

I arrived at Jeuno and I began to look around, just checking what was different. I quickly found nothing much has changed. That doesn't mean nothing caught my attention though. In upper Jeuno there is a dancer troupe taking all the attention, everyone that was there was in a trance looking at them dance. There was a mithra and a galka dancing, yes a galka. The galka was not trying to do fancy moves like the mithra beside him but he was doing his moves gracefully. If they are doing this to convince others to join the troupe and become dancers too I can say they are doing a great job because I think dancer will be an interesting job to train. I can't see myself in the role but I'll see how the job in when Krile decides to train it, she trains all the jobs.


After I had fun with that a new linkshell member needed some assistance with a quest. She needed a Giddeus key but there was no one to help her. I wanted to meet this new member in person and jumped at the oportunity. Here name is Tala and she was a cute Whitemage. The quest didn't took too long I used my thief senses to find the key. She was very happy, so was I because I was able to help her.

Journey back home

The air is hot and suffocating, the burning sun cracks my skin. Each step I take going through the desert gets more difficult to take. While I travel I can't help think of all my friends and my Linkshell I left behind. All the thing we did together, the friendship, made me stop and think very hard.... right there I decided to postpone my journey and not endure the scorching heat and go back to my LS and friends, back home.

First thing I did was to visit my beloved town of Windurst. Not much have changed except that the grass got taller. Someone need to order some cardians to trim down the grass.


After checking my moghouse and get all my documents in order, I was going to visit Jeuno but there was one problem, I gave all my gil to Roninhiroishi. I spent a couple of hours searching the Windurst fountain in hope I could find some gil there to catch an airship. Good thing there was a guy in need of some assistance and after doing some errands delivering goods I got enough to afford a ticket. With a smile in my face and new renewed vigor I go to Jeuno in hope I meet up with my Linkshell and friends very soon. All I have to say is: It's good to be back!

The journey of rebirth

There is a time when Galkas has to return to the place where he was born. Galkas are immortal but that doesn't mean our journey through life doesn't end at some point. My time in Vana'diel has come to an end, I'll go in my journey of rebirth and I can't say how long I'll be gone, or if some day I'll come back. One thing is for sure I enjoyed every single day, hour and minute I was in this world. A world where I met great friends, friends which made my stay more enjoyable. I make this entry so that if my memory gets wiped clean, somehow I get my hands on this journal, read the writing, look at the pictures and remember what I did and with who I was at the time, because I don't want to forget.

I remember how I wanted to be a dragoon, because like so many people I thought having a wyvern as a pet was cool. I had a lot of fun, I had a lot of free time on my hands too waiting in the dunes getting a nice tan.


I remember doing mission 2-3 with some members of the Radical Dreamers, Houzukimaru, Hyorin, Yukimu, I was impressed by the Shadow dragon at the time.

Getting help from Flotsam on mission 3-3, here is Flotsam fighting the three stooges. The poor taru got knockdown on my account, but still got the job done.


Meeting Hiroishi in north Gustaberg after been banished from San d'Oria, good thing for him because that place is terrible. He started as a Warrior but soon learned the way of the Samurai, his Elvaan ego increased ten fold afterwards.


Doing silly stuff in unexpected places like the time we spent in Korroloka tunnel just killing stuff because we could, I never forgot that day.

Becoming a Paladin to help others in everything I could.

Went to some nice places like the waterfall in Miseraux coast.

And did some cool mission like the last Bastok mission with the group you see here.

Reached the skies with a bunch of MoogleArmy members.

Got attacked by nasty creatures too.


The last thing I did was joining a party as a Beastmaster and have fun with my sheep and reach the level I could wear my last piece of artifact armor.

Just want to say to all the people that knew me.... Thank you. Thank you for been there in good and bad times. Thank you to the MoogleArmy linkshell for letting me be a part of it. And forgive me for my abrupt departure. God speed and god bless, hope to see you soon one day....

Rampaging beast

I recently learned the axe technique Rampage while fighting bats and beetles in the Garlaige Citadel. Its really cool, I do double the amount of damage than my others axe skills and it will get better as I get stronger!

Not alone anymore

Not a lot has passed in this last couple of days, I keep training as a Beastmaster battling goblins around the world with the occasional random monster from the area. I got invited to a group a couple of times and its surprising how many people don't know anything about the Beastmaster, for the most part I go alone having a lot of fun. Something caught my attention, lately more and more Beastmasters are roaming around the areas that I go to. Its cool that they are fellow Beasmasters training, not cool having to compete against them. I better take a break and get some things done for a while, like getting my artifact armor or training as a Whitemage so I can have my abilities up to date. I haven't use Whitemage as my subjob for a while and I have noticed its better for certain camps. It's better if I get those things done now so I don't have to worry about that later.

Becoming a Beastmaster

A couple of days ago I help a fellow Galka Chriseh defeat a notorious monster in the Sea Serpent Grotto for a very nice sword. With a couple of MoogleArmy members and CetraSanctuary adventurers we got the job done. But what caught my attention was watching this Beastmaster charm a kraken to do his bidding, and I said to myself that is pretty good I should try to do that.So I started to train as a Beastmaster, going into the wild and try to charm the monsters to fight other monsters is not that easy. Take a while to get the hang of it but for the most part is a lot of fun. I was looking for a new job and I tried Monk but it was too dull for me. Not saying is not a good job, for all the monks out there, but with Beastmaster I have to be on my toes because so many things can go wrong. Like when you are fighting lizards and one shows up close to you and decide to gang up on you.
Its a job for the patient person and I've been enjoying it a lot, can't wait to be stronger and do some wild things as a Beastmaster.

Garrison

The nation of Bastok needed adventurers to protect their outpost from a legion of goblins. MoogleArmy rose up to the challenge.Defending the mariners from the goblin assault was a hectic experience but we managed to protect the outpost and got rewarded for our efforts. We had a ton of fun and I hope we do it again.

Lost memories

I apologize for the lack of updates but I have a good excuse of it, I had an accident while I was working with alchemist materials for my promotion for Lance Corporal rank. As an alchemist was not a problem for me when it comes to mixing and getting results, but there was this elvaan trying to do the same with the unstable materials and the wrong mixing of those caused a highly dangerous chemical explosion. The force knoced me back and I hit the back of my head knocking me unconscious. When I woke up I couldn't remember a thing of what I have been doing for the past days. The Aht Urgan medical team did a great job with their weird hypnosis method they performed on me to recover my memories, it worked.

I remembered how Aricelia, Bermont, Jeangallo and Roninhiroishi helped Krile defeat Jazarzat for a mission.
We traveled to Nashmau and the boat was attacked by a huge sea monster. Some adventurers killed it though and made fish kabobs out of it. When we got to Nashmau and our orders were to investigate the rumors of a pirate ship in the Arrapago Reef but we didn't had the chance to do so, monsters attacked us.. *coughjeancough* along the way and knocking us out ending the mission.
More and more memories flowed through my mind. One with Jean, Krile, Bermont and Flotsam on a panty raid in Sacrarium. Killing fomors for subligars for a quest to get some nice equipment, but any of the subligars we wanted dropped. Only the Dark Knight one dropped and like 3 of them, too bad Aricelia wasn't with us.
I remembered the massive gathering to help Houzukimaru with his Gallant Surcoat fight in Davoi and Larien's White Mage fight in Fei'Yin both a great success.
And last but not least, how Hiroishi and I helped Reza and Krile get their moldavite earrings fighting the notorious monster in the Labyrinth of Onzozo. After all that I remembered to beat up the incompetent elvaan for all the trouble he caused me, but after I saw he haven't recovered from the accident and had scars all over his elvaan face I felt bad for him. I was promoted to Lance Corporal because I did my job even though and alchemist lab exploded which made me happy.

Is pulling that hard?

That is the question of the day as it seem any damage dealer able to do so won't do it when the time comes. I mean been a DD ain't that hard you just wait for the monster to come to you and attack it.... well for some jobs that is. One of the reasons I don't see myself taking Monk to max level is that frankly there is not much to it. Don't get me wrong Monk is a great job but I like more active jobs. Why not jump to the opportunity to mix it up from time to time to lure monster see if you can keep the chain up. Granted you can messed your party up with a bad pull and I'm guilty of that too but least sometime people should try it. I guess someone got on my nerves last night...

Houzukimaru's Limit break fun

Last night Houzukimaru needed help on his limit break quest. Jeangallo, Aricelia, Hyourin, Mercades and me helped him on this. Was a fun time after all the monsters aren't that hard. Even the crazy Redmage Jeangallo tried to fight one by herself, but she was taking so long we had to help her out. Congratulations Houzukimaru.

Kuftal tunnel menace

Last night I've decided to unlock the latent ability of a dagger I have. My friend Roninhiroishi was available and went with me to Kuftal tunnel to help me. We were doing great making some light skillchains when a notorious monster showed up. Guivre seems to appear each and everytime I'm doing this, he knocked me down and ran around the area taking everyone who stood in its way. Jeangallo, Arcaus, Bermont, Bassetto and Cyaan where in the area and we tried to fight him, but other monsters in the area decided to join the battle and messed it up for us. We lost the fight and some other adventurers defeated it, but it was a fun night anyways.

Thank you, Moogle Army!

Very special thanks to the crazy Redmage Jeangallo for getting me a Hakutaku eye cluster for my Optical hat. She really didn't have to but did it anyway. Thanks to everyone who assisted on the killing of Hakutaku too. You guys are awesome.Now I have to wear it even though I didn't want to, it's a great piece of equip I just didn't liked how it look.

A new nation to serve

I've done a lot for the nation of Bastok but after all i have done they make me work at the mines all day where the bats bug me when I'm working.I couldn't take it anymore and decided to leave for a better place. Farewell Bastok, was great serving you but it's time to move on.
I arrived at Windurst and pledged my allegiance to them. It's a nice change of scenery from all the bricks and machinery of the industrialized Bastok. The chirping of the birds and sound of the water is very soothing and I'll enjoy it even more when I need to take a break from adventuring.
This place is so magical even the little Tarutarus float around...