FFXI - Cuteness
It is Sunbreeze Fest time! The late summer event. Much to my unending joy, SquareEnix has reinstated the Dungeon Crawl! Yay! My favorite event! It was introduced in the first year of the event (they called it Summerfest that time, and I haven't quite been able to shake that as the name). You partied up with someone, talked to the Moogle in town, and were sent to a high level area with different spells on that kept you safe from detection - the monsters and Beastmen (intelligent monsters, really) couldn't find you to kill you - and you had to find the Goal Point. Your partner was sent to an entirely different location, and you had to meet at the goal, where another Moogle would greet you and give you a prize, which you could then exchange for items in town. We all got yukatas!
Second year (and the third year, which was last year) was an event called "Azimuth Circle," or something like that, where you had to guide your partner to a goal using a really annoying compass-thing. First year we got swimsuits, second year it was yukatas again. I wasn't fond of that game.
But Sunbreeze has other things! From sundown to sunup, they launch fireworks over the towns and play a silly little tune. Lots of people hate it, but I actually really like it, so. (If you would like to listen to the silly music, here it is.)
There is also Goldfish Scooping! The towns with fireworks all have an NPC who sits near the closest pool of water and tells you how. I absolutely adore the one near San d'Oria - my hometown for all of my characters (I love San d'Oria, bagpipes and all). I've heard the others aren't nearly as amusing as wonderful Saradorial, which is really very saddening. He chats a lot, so when you're near him you keep seeing his dialogue scroll across the screen. He says, among other things:
"Come, my children...
Enter the world of goldfish...
Let your guard down and be one with our aquan brothers...
Bask in the bounty that the goldfish provide us..."
WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE?
Also, Mithra are so, so ridiculously cute when they scoop goldfish! Especially the way they twitch their ears, and Hisime especially so, because I have an extreme bias and insist she is the cutest Mithra in the world and yes cuter than even the Mithra that have the same exact model. I have taken a few videos using my digital camera of her fishing! They are not great quality, because it's my computer screen over a camera, but still. Proof of adorableness! (She is wearing her swimsuit! Also, the way she sulks a little when she loses her catch is far more cute than it should be.)
Also, I have a bunch of screenshots. They are all of Hisime fishing, except one of the chatlog, because Saradorial is amusing. (He can be seen in the background of some of the shots - he's got a green-ish name. The person next to me with a light blue name is my friend Aniko! We were in a party together.) (Sometimes she is wearing her yukata and Dorky Hat - not its real name - and sometimes she is in her swimsuit.)
Edit:
Aha! I knew I had seen her name before. It was on Fanfiction.net. Obviously. Now I know. Though looking at the list there, I would've known this a lot sooner if I bothered to check over there more often. I can't help it. It's been overrun with new people who are writing things and I am easily intimidated and don't like crowds. No, not even internet-crowds. Demophobia! Don't you judge me.
May I reiterate, I do not hate or even dislike the influx of new fans. It's the only way to ensure the canon continues to come, at the very least. It's just I am intimidated by them. augh, people. People everywhere.
Second year (and the third year, which was last year) was an event called "Azimuth Circle," or something like that, where you had to guide your partner to a goal using a really annoying compass-thing. First year we got swimsuits, second year it was yukatas again. I wasn't fond of that game.
But Sunbreeze has other things! From sundown to sunup, they launch fireworks over the towns and play a silly little tune. Lots of people hate it, but I actually really like it, so. (If you would like to listen to the silly music, here it is.)
There is also Goldfish Scooping! The towns with fireworks all have an NPC who sits near the closest pool of water and tells you how. I absolutely adore the one near San d'Oria - my hometown for all of my characters (I love San d'Oria, bagpipes and all). I've heard the others aren't nearly as amusing as wonderful Saradorial, which is really very saddening. He chats a lot, so when you're near him you keep seeing his dialogue scroll across the screen. He says, among other things:
"Come, my children...
Enter the world of goldfish...
Let your guard down and be one with our aquan brothers...
Bask in the bounty that the goldfish provide us..."
WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE?
Also, Mithra are so, so ridiculously cute when they scoop goldfish! Especially the way they twitch their ears, and Hisime especially so, because I have an extreme bias and insist she is the cutest Mithra in the world and yes cuter than even the Mithra that have the same exact model. I have taken a few videos using my digital camera of her fishing! They are not great quality, because it's my computer screen over a camera, but still. Proof of adorableness! (She is wearing her swimsuit! Also, the way she sulks a little when she loses her catch is far more cute than it should be.)
Also, I have a bunch of screenshots. They are all of Hisime fishing, except one of the chatlog, because Saradorial is amusing. (He can be seen in the background of some of the shots - he's got a green-ish name. The person next to me with a light blue name is my friend Aniko! We were in a party together.) (Sometimes she is wearing her yukata and Dorky Hat - not its real name - and sometimes she is in her swimsuit.)
Edit:
Aha! I knew I had seen her name before. It was on Fanfiction.net. Obviously. Now I know. Though looking at the list there, I would've known this a lot sooner if I bothered to check over there more often. I can't help it. It's been overrun with new people who are writing things and I am easily intimidated and don't like crowds. No, not even internet-crowds. Demophobia! Don't you judge me.
May I reiterate, I do not hate or even dislike the influx of new fans. It's the only way to ensure the canon continues to come, at the very least. It's just I am intimidated by them. augh, people. People everywhere.