On This Date in History: 6/13/2008

I just so happened to be wondering yesterday (Friday) afternoon at work "how long have I been participating in {sky}?" So I looked up one of my google docs.

Side-rant
And in case you don't know me, let me just say this: "Worship the Goog". Seriously. Google is awesome. Google has changed the internet drastically in the past several years. If "The Singularity" is ever going to happen, it will spawn from that which is currently known as Google. But I digress...
/Side-rant

So I looked up one of my google docs... of which I have MANY to help me in my trek through FFXI. I have documents that describe my history. I have spreadsheets that track equipment i use on various jobs at various levels and what gear I SHOULD be using. I have spreadsheets that track LS attendance, drops, pop items and points. I have spreadsheets that help determine whether or not LS members qualify for weekly payouts. I have spreadsheets that help us organize Salvage runs. I have documents that list out what my various macros and macro books are. I have spreadsheets for crafting recipies and what levels to do what synths to best save on gil. ... Yeah, I use goggle docs a lot!

I looked in my "FFXI Character History - Khrone" document which I initially created about a month (7/17/2007) after I began playing FFXI (6/14/2007). I used to keep basically a daily detailed log of what I did, but after a certain point, many things in-game become repetitious (ie. sky and dynamis runs, merit parties, campaign battles, etc...) so I stopped logging the random noise and later began to only log the somewhat major happenings of Khrone.

Lol, ok, another sidenote: on 7/17/2007 my first note of the day (so, the first REAL post of this document!) reads "met and got help/gear from Hybridkiller" :-D

Anywho... back the the MAIN point of this post XD: my sky history.

Here's some extracts from my history doc regarding sky (and also a little about my character development to show you how new I was): [text in italics and brackets are notes I just added in here and do not exist in my history doc]

5/19/2008 - applied to Astrumnovae (Dynamis & Sky LS) [my first ever End-Game LS]
5/31/2008 - Completed Zilart Missions 4 - 13
5/31/2008 - Obtained access to Sky
6/13/2008 - participated in my first Sky run; fought and defeated Suzaku and Byakko; no drops for me [this is the item that sparked this post]
6/14/2008 - Progressed to MNK 75 with NIN as SJ [lol I didn't even have a 75 job before my first sky run]
6/14/2008 - broke latent on Knuckles of Trials
6/18/2008 - Maxed-out Hand-to-Hand skill tonight (276)
6/29/2008 - Obtained Key Item: Limit Breaker [means I can now start meriting]
6/30/2008 - Merit: Combat: Hand-to-Hand: Level 1 [my very first Merit. "Mikey's all grows-up!"]

(... then lots of uneventful stuff that I logged, NONE of which was any real progress. Yeah, Astrum sucked the big fat fatty.)

7/13/2008 - completed quest "The Walls of Your Mind" and obtained Asuran Fists weapon skill (with help from Kotahitoa, Fadee, Ruiness and ?F*?) [that last "F" name might have been Fludemon, but I honestly don't remember.]

8/3/2008 - applied to HellsBells Dynamis LS [so apparently Astrumnovae had disbanded by this point, which means no more sky until I find another LS]

...

11/3/2008 - joined lolFail LS (sky linkshell)
11/12/2008 - killing gods in sky tonight with lolFail - obtained Dryadic Abjuration: Body (Shura Togi) [yes, just 9 days after joining, I already got D Body!!! This LS r0x0rz!]
11/13/2008 - bought Cursed Togi for 949,000 gil and obtained Shura Togi
11/24/2008 - killing gods in sky tonight with lolFail - obtained Dryadic Abjuration: Hands (Shura Kote) and Genbu's Shield both by accident [lol, in my n00bness, I must not have passed the items. not like I was going to, or even could, use them anyways]
12/9/2008 - sky - god killing; 10pm - 3am; Suzaku, Sieryu, Genbu x2, Byakko (x1 fail); Byakko x3; Treu and Exion got Haidate; Lux booted for being annoying [lmfao Lux. that's so awesome i actually logged that. and yay Treu for FINALLY getting his first Haidate. yeah... FIRST of TWO haidate. lol]

12/9/2008 - Google Spreadsheet created for tracking LolFail Attendance and Item Drops [yay me! in all honesty, this LS would have died a LONG TIME AGO if it wasn't for this tracking document]

1/22/2009 - Sky - Byakko - Obtained: Byakko's Haidate
3/5/2009 - Sky - Seiryu - Obtained: D Head
3/7/2009 - Zilart Mission 14 - Divine Might - Completed; Obtained Bushinomimi
3/10/2009 - Promyvion - Dem (cleared)
3/10/2009 - Began CoP Chapter 2 [yeah, still not even close to getting sky-warp yet]

But that's about it. Oh! I guess I can add this past Thursday's item:

6/11/2009 - Sky - Kirin - Obtained: Kirin's Osode [yay! my very first Osode!]

Something else I just realized: all of this time and effort I have put into this sky LS... and I have only obtained 4 items. Ick!!! Well, then again, they ARE pretty big items. And I guess I can't really use anything else anyways, since MNK is still my only 75 job. lol

I kind of wish I had logged other somewhat-major happenings like "Sush has finally said he is not coming back to the LS and not giving back the LS gil or items he has", "I am now the sole-person responsible for taking attendance" or "Zal and Shiiga taking a break [or announced they weren't coming back] so Lilmama and I are apparently the de facto leaders of this LS" etc.... But I guess all of that never actually happened on any specific date; it just kind of happened over a few weeks' time.

But anyways...

Happy First-Sky-Event Anniversary to Khrone!!!

wow... and I didn't realize until about 30 minutes after posting this that tomorrow is Khrone's 2nd birthday! Yeah, look up at the top of this post where I said "I began playing FFXI (6/14/2007)". lol

Go go 2-year-old Tattooface!!!

Always do everything you ask of those you command

Well, lately it has finally occurred to me that, no matter how much I deny it or try to ignore it, I am most definitely a commanding leader in Relentless Sky LS. lol

I started off just joining this LS (back when it was called lolFail) just to get a few much-needed pieces for sky gear. I had heard that this LS was spamming sky like madmen, so I'd be able to get it quickly. 9 days after joining, I had already gotten my D Body!

I kept sticking with it, going up to sky for 5 hours a night, 4 nights per week, because I needed Byakko's Haidate and the gil to pay back everyone I had borrowed gil from. After a while, it seemed like the leader (Sush at that time) was getting burned-out from the administration side of running an LS, so I did what I could to help him out. I began taking attendance every night. I kept track of what items dropped from what gods. What items were sold, and to whom. What items could be sold on the AH to go towards the weekly payouts.

Oh yeah, weekly payouts back then were also given to anyone who attended sky and obtained ... what was it... 15 points? Basically, you needed to be up there for 2 full nights. (The rule was later adjusted because too many people were abusing the system. They'd show up for a Kirin burn, which might take an hour out of their evening, but they'd still obtain 5 points.)

Well, long-story short ("too late"), I've still been going up to sky basically every single night, for the entire night. My attendance and experience have put me in a position of leadership. A position I did not want to take up, but it has none-the-less been forced-upon me. If I quit, I have no doubts the whole LS will crumble within a week or two, because no one else is up there as often as I am and no one seems to have the patience and diligence I have to take meticulous notes and attendance.

I actually WANT to quit this LS sometime soon (it takes up too much of my time... and it's SUMMER damnit!), but before I do that, I want to make sure someone can take up the reigns of what I have been doing all this time. I really don't want the bad karma of being the reason for the destruction of what once was a great sky LS. Shiiga recently gave me admin access to the DKP, so now I am taking attendance, keeping track of drops, and keeping track of points. Lilmama keeps track of who has what pop items, selling gil items on the AH, and contacting/collecting from sky-gear buyers.

ok, now I'm just blabbering on about nothing... /sigh
I need sleep.

This will be continued in a later post...