The Jig is Up!

I don't have time this morning before to work to write up last night's FFXIV Story Time, so I'll just leave you with this until later 🙂 Kasul and I doing a jig in front of Castrum Meridianum, as we prepare for the penultimate (their words!) encounter in the story of the fight against the … Read more

Life Begins at 50!

It's tough to be so close to 50 but not actually BE 50. I figured I'd better work on that. Sunday morning I used a combination of roulettes, hunting logs and fates to bridge that gap. The level 50 quest was suitably wonderful, and goddammit if I didn't feel like a member of the Sultansword … Read more

Garuda is (not) Dead.

It took a surprisingly low number of stupid fetch-this quests to get to the point where we could meet our new challenge: defeat Garuda, the primal of the Ixali bird people. Though Garuda herself looks like a bird-moth hybrid, so maybe a bug crystal got mixed in with all the wind crystals used to summon … Read more

Taking Leadership

I've been wondering lately if we play classes in MMOs that reflect our own personalities, or if our personalities (in game, at least) are shaped by the classes we play. I consider myself pretty much a loner in real life, but I don't enjoy soloing in MMOs; I never have. What I really did like … Read more

The Chronicles of Spellborn, Reborn?

The Chronicles of Spellborn lives… sorta… I took some time to get the beta client for The Chronicles of Spellborn and connect it to the fan-run server this morning. All you can really do is just run around the main city, but dang, how I would love to see what Spellborn would have become if … Read more