Wow... What a ride and what a year... 2019 was really something else. Realizations of so many things... Things that matter in my life and personal development.
I think the resume to all it happened was... I needed to breath my air. The one I was taking was borrowed. It was clean and I got cleansed for sure... Cleansed of so many things. At the end of the day I had to be myself. Do what I had to do even if I was trying to deny it. Enjoy what I do enjoy. Go to were I belong, even if that place was empty because I was the one who let it deteriorate for another one with better look.
I'm glad and greatful. I still like all of you, but even then I know to recognize my faults. I also know when others have fault as well. I'm not here to beg for forgiveness anymore.
I probably deserved what happened, but that doesn't mean I have to live in that misery.
So yeah, here I am again. Starting over. Once again.
If at some point we cross paths, hopefully things will go well.
An evening at the Ala Mhigan Quarter market featuring vendors both local and foreign.
Ala Mhigan Market Night returns!
The Ala Mhigan Market Night will be hosted on Friday, November 15th at the Ala Mhigan Quarter of the Lochs (Level 69-70, X:35, Y:32). The event will officially begin at 8:00 PM EST. It’s hosted on the Balmung server in the Crystal datacenter – wanderers from all servers on the datacenter are welcome to come and participate.
Oh god, how much has been? Almost a year!... I can’t believe how the time passes so fast and at the same time how much I’d been neglecting this place.
The tumblr purge did a lot wrong but hey, the place still exists and if there is people checking this, I’m more than willing to answer once again.
I’m so sorry for those who wrote to me and I never answered, I’m doing so right now.
Thank you so much everyone for your love and interest in this goofball.
OC Notes: Hello Anonymous! Garyn appreciates masculinity and strenght mostly. He got use to sharing his life with a bunch of men since very young as part of his daily routine.Budugas where mostly the ones who noticed Garyn since it took a good while for the Oronir to feel a Highlander part of the family.He was forbiden to touch or interact with women in a romantic way, the only woman in his life was his mother most of the time. His very first interactions of descovering sexuality were with Buduga men.I’ll say, very gay hahaha leaded strongly by the standars of masculinity and body building as Budugas do.Thank you for the question!
“Is a bit hot at this season isn’t it? The booze is hitting already. Don’t mind me if I get naked. You can do the same if you want~!”
As a lot of drinks were already taken, the man was feeling the need of getting rid of his clothes. His expression just got even smuggier. He knows what he has and he delivers
PD OOC Notes: To that person who asked for Garyn’s butt, Here it is! It took a while tho but hey, commissions this good take time. I’m very happy with the results.
#SummerFFXIV AN AMAZING PIECE THAT I LOVE BY @lupin_art ILL MISS YOU
“Want a drink? If you keep up they are all free" The smuggy looking man invited at whoever was watching him to purposely challenge a drinking contest. Who knows where could it end when the liquor 'hits the spot' #SummerFFXIV AN AMAZING PIECE THAT I LOVE BY @lupin_art ILL MISS YOU
As a late Valentines' day pic, Garyn and his mother had some time as he was celebrating the new Namazu Year at the Azim Steppe.
A prove that the best love you can have comes from those who love you the most... your Family.
Thank you so much at https://twitter.com/GetOnJBArt for this great piece!
“Hello fellows! The new... or maybe not so new fishing store and other things will be open tonight! at the Ala Mhigan market for anyone interested in excellent products and splendid discounts.”
“Last time I visited the place was really live and full of people but now it looks like Namazus did an entire different thing for our lands.”
“It all started with me training my Yol. He was a bit impatient because the Gales were up and of course… you all know what happens if you are not careful...”
“But just in a moment I noticed a bit spark of light at the end of the plains up in the mountains were all Namazus were.”
“I asked for permission to explore and as it was granted to me I just flew away as fast as I could to find every little catfish trying to organize a party!”
“Who can say “No” to a party, even if we were not invited! and fortunately the Gales vanished in time to move nicely in the wind. Is like the wind knew I was going!”
“We got to see the place, my Yol and me. Everything so full of color and flames.”
“Got down really quickly and noticed so many of them getting ready for the festivities but I still didn’t know what it was.”
“Who would tell Namazus celebrated their festivities so close to ours but not in the same time and place!”
“They explained to me they were celebrating a new cicle on their tribe and with that a new year to come.”
“I asked them if it was about Heavensturn but no-one could tell what that was… and I can’t blame them, I didn’t know as well.”
“In just a moment I came back to my home and asked for permission to assist but it was denied to me since no-one else was interested. Tried to convince others to go but no-one listened…”
“I wonder why my brothers didn’t want to pass by…”
“When I was about to ask for other’s interest I was caught by my mother who looked really amused by my running from here and there.”
“She laughed in front of me and made me follow her to her room were she was having a garment I never saw before!”
“She told me it was my ticket to assist! A ceremonial garment to celebrate their new traditions and our union with them.”
“I couldn’t understand much but the fabric felt so soft and well done.”
“With it I just hugged her and quickly left again to my Yol to assist every single party they had to offer… PARTY!”
“At the place I just met lots of others wanting to celebrate the occasion as well. Every person wanted to make their own part as fun as they could and I couldn’t be behind!”
“Tried the Lotery!”
“It couldn’t go worst. Lost so much I couldn’t even pay the fee for the drinks! and they were free!”
“Then went to do some archery but a young Dorthal was there trying to hit the targets... SHE WAS SO BAD! I couldn’t stop laughing as hard that she got mad at me.”
“I can’t help it! It was too funny! The tinny Namazu next to us told me I had to be part of the target as a punishment for being rude and I couldn't believe it!”
“-You jump there and wait with the plate, Yes yes!- He said.”
“I don’t know if I was in too much but I never got an arrow on the target in my hands....”
“I wonder if she just gave up and left... “
“BUT THEN It was my turn! It was great!”
“Even when all the namazus were to scared of me... maybe someone told them I had a great aiming? I think they were just too overwhelmed by my skills!”
“But well, at least I broke a couple of those big targets and got my price. A RIDE IN THE CEREMONIAL PARADE!”
“I couldn’t be more happy.”
“I wonder why my brothers didn’t want to come but... even so, it was one of the best experiences I ever had.”
This is again not an RP post because is being a while since I RP at all so, feel free to ignore this. If you are interested, just check below!
Problems with my account happened and I’m out of Balmung for a while until they open the server again. I still have an alter to play there but is a friend’s account so I don’t plan to use it often, just for RP requested by others for now.
And talking about everything you might ask “What are you doing then?” Well... I’m playing on a server named Coeurl because they are cool... JUST LOOK AT THEM! And because it was a server with some space and time for myself to just cool down and relax.
It’s being fun overall. Met some people... fun people who I don’t really know how to interact with but hey! They gave me the warmest welcome and I’m really greatful with them (If I had their Tumblr(s) I’d tag them hahaha)
So let me tell you what It’s been of me while I am out of Balmung.
Remember I had every single crafter and gatherer on 70?... GUESS WHAT!
THAT’S ME AGAIN! hahaha
I’m not a completionist so didn’t really hurt me a lot changing characters again. I do that from now and then just to refresh my gaming experience.
How much did it take me? You might ask... Or not because maybe you are not even reading this. But if you are and you are interested let me tell you. Starting from zero is a complete experience.
Started with SCH leveling because...
Look at HIM! It’s so adorable <3 with all his hunger of destruction <3 and because SCH has better queues than DPS so having both in one shot was a great deal in my opinion.
Then all the gatherers to 70 which is nothing else but spamming gathers all day until you make it using Grand Company scrolls and doing Collectables now and then.
I did
for Minner and
For botanist.
You might have better ways to lvl them up. I just know the spamming method while watching movies or anime.
When it came to lvl up the crafters of course I finished the story first. It gives a good bonus for all the jobs lvling from there because the lvl gap among them.
Started with CUL because is the one who has the better cross class skills.
And the most important Crafting skill ever... Hands down for
Pun totally intended.
Spent every single gil I had to get CUL to 70. Levequests, Collectables, Daily beast tribes... everything to get it as fast as possible to max level.
From there got all the others to 50 using the crafting clothes I had from CUL leveling. I started with Alchemist because the CP management it has with Trick of the trade and Comfort Zone, then Armorer to get Rapid Synthesis and then Weaver for Carefull Synthesis 2.
From there used every risky Rotation I was able to use following the next logic.
Test how much it progress every Rapid Synthesis and Careful Synthesis 2 with Reclaim active. Fail the craft and have in mind “How many Synthesis actions do I need to use to optimally leave the craft just ready for one more Careful Synthesis 2 and end the craft”
From there I followed the next “Risky” but useful rotation... sadly all by hand.
Muscle Memory
-Use trick of the Trade as much as possible from now on-
Inner Quiet
-Leave your craft ready for 1 more Careful Synthesis 2 to finish it-
- Steady Hand 2 when CP greater than 120 -
Hasty touch (Loop)
- Check at 20 Durability if it’s possible to repair the craft or not -
If possible: Hasty Touch repair and repeat.
If not possible:
Ingenuity 2
Great Strides
Innovation
Steady Hand 2
Byregot's Blessing
Careful Synthesis 2
It’s not hard to apply but until we get macros with variables (AKA Never) we had to do it by hand.
It had an 70% HQ rate so, I consider it pretty good against the “Safe Rotation” that Guarantees 15%HQ rate.... Not a fan.
It took me 3 days non stop to get each of the to 60. I have to thank every person in the FC who kept cheering me up and talking to me on Voice Call so I didn’t go insane.
Special thanks to @reksblanc @kitakaze-mugenkagami @suwanbuwan @berrodtherapscallion @caedsblog @CERINA’STUMBLR @viktor-harlenk @SERGEI’STUMBLR and so many others.
Now it’s time to lvl every single battle class which will take me.... way more than this... but Hey... Gil is important so, starting with crafters is always a good idea for me.
This is fully OCly but related to all of you who play with me.
Well! It was a tradition for me back then and even in the worst moments of my life I still continued doing this so.
FOR THE FIRST TIME my old year speech IN ENGLISH! \o/ How old am I now lol never imagined to do this in this language. Even now Spanish kind of feel foreign for me.
Anyways, so... This probably might sound a bit over the top but for me it felt like that so you will stick with me for this hahaha. After a couple of years of having terrible experiences and even worst outcomes; when you try everything On any alignment as good, evil, lawful or chaotic and everything in between (YES WE ARE NERDS SO ALSO WILL WRITE LIKE THIS LOL) and nothing results the only escape is to accept and resign but in this place I found not just an amazing amount of good people but also a new chance to start over.
Probably for a lot of us a game is not more than just that. A place to enjoy ourselves without any repercussion. For me it turned into the only habitat of "rehabilitation".
I have a lot of people to mention here with special thanks but this time the MVP of these whole achievement of going through 2018 were all of you, specially @astraladvent
I have not enough words to thank you about this, and also no gil to donate and do some kind of retribution but what I can give in exchange is my disposition to always try to help as much as I can.
As this new year is coming and new things are arriving with it (AKA ShB). I will try to meet you all again as soon as possible but for now Have everyone a rest of me XD (Unless you hit me for RP and I will for sure show up)
Thanks again for being so awesome.
Let's continue building friendships and dumb conversations on Voice call.
((A commission for @almos-accurate with a bit of drabble by yours truly, featuring his character Garyn and a mysterious Ala Mhigan mercenary! Thanks much to Garyn for commissioning me! ))
((PD: Copy and paste from the @Barascrawls post. Support the artist!))
Adventuring and traveling always brought with it perils and profit; risks taken for rewards given. Garyn understood this and lived by it on the day to day, often times between his hunting, fishing and leatherworking. At times he found himself in some corner of the realm taking a rest from the day’s labors. Inns were perfect for that. There, he often met with kindred souls, those who struck out from their homes for fortune.
There, he sometimes allowed himself a different kind of risk, a different kind of adventure – for who could know if the grizzled Ala Mhigan mercenary across the bar was looking at him as potential company or potential bounty? There was but one way to try and find out. A round purchased, a conversation started. Innuendo toyed with. Knees and thighs brushed.
One thing neither Garyn nor his new Ala Mhigan friend could deny was the dull ache of yearning – for companionship that most men like them craved. They both knew that neither of them could provide a permanent balm in that regard, but for that one night, they could indulge each other and banish the need for a time.
Who made the first move mattered not. The hasty last swig of their drinks, the scramble for equal payment in coin for a room with a bed and bath, the nigh feral mutual ravaging once the doorwase closed…their intimacy in that moment was a sensual violence. Pent up desire unleashed in an explosive whirlwind of flesh, voices and the sounds of what may have well been a pair of feuding Aurochs in the room.
Such was not a new or strange event for either man. With any satisfying encounter there was a memorable window – for Garyn it was a hazy, steam-addled tangle of muscles and tongues, ringed by the coarse scratching of beards and the pleasure that the Ala Mhigan had very willingly allowed him to explore to its deepest potential. It was a moment before he found himself tossed to the ground and assaulted in a manner that made him cry out even to the Eorzean Gods.
As with all such trysts, the morning found them twined – but not for long, for a new day of work awaited. The departure was civil; further expression of yearning was very rarely allowed. Yet, they knew that if they were ever to end up at the same inn again, the pretense of drink and conversation was no longer needed.
