FFXIV: Unraveling Hopes

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So you probably guessed but this year’s NaNoWriMo is FFXIV fic! My goal is to get to the start of Stormblood.

Vivienne’s cosplay looks great! Photoshoot forthcoming! I had many moments where I was forced to improvise but I think I captured the five million details well enough. With this massive project done, I can… play more videogames, I feel I’ve neglected them.

I have been replaying FFXIV a bit as I mentioned before, and I have an alt in the middle of 2.x, and I’m noticing a few things I didn’t before – I think one reason why Minfilia chose to help the Domans and not the Ala Mhigans is that there are only so many Doman refugees to take in, their numbers are limited and finite. Ala Mhigo is right next door, so there can always be more Ala Mhigan refugees. (I’m also coming up with new theories and questions about the Echo, so I hope I can keep playing until EW this time.)

You may notice some dialogue is different from how it currently appears in the game. I’m going by how it was when I played it!

Chapter 34: The Void Ark

 

Chapter 35: Unraveling Hopes

“Our unknown third party was simply there… and then not there,” Krile had said about Minfilia’s disappearance beneath Ul’dah. Rinala shivered. She knew more or less all the details – the ‘unknown third party’ was Minfilia, and the place she had disappeared to was Hydaelyn’s side in the aetherial sea, but the way Krile had worded it… was creepy.  Continue reading →

FFXIV: The Void Ark

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Work upon Vivienne’s cosplay proceeds apace! I’m not done yet, though. There’s so much to do! I’m nearly done the main part of the chestplate, but there are so many little details! And then there are the gloves and boots, which have a bit less detail, and I’m still debating if I want to make a helmet or not. I don’t think I will have time before Halloween for a helmet, but for the cosplay in general.

This chapter is a little bit fillery, but hey my characters wanted to talk! Also there are sure a lot of people with swords in the 24-man, but obviously the PLD or GLD characters who are not Achiyo are not tanking.

Also I didn’t consciously decide to write the spooky ship during spooky month, but hey this works out!

Chapter 33: A City in Chaos

 

Chapter 34: The Void Ark

“So how was your honeymoon?” R’nyath asked Kekeniro as the Warriors of Light and Y’shtola appeared around the aetheryte on Azys Lla.

“We can speak of that later,” Aentfryn said. “Should we not begin by summarizing the situation?” Continue reading →

FFXIV: A City in Chaos

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Wow, it’s been nearly a year since I uploaded a FFXIV chapter? How!? I got stuck on these BRD quests but I felt they were important. (also work, yadda yadda, lack of energy, yadda yadda, cosplay yadda)

Gordon Lightfoot passed away since I last posted. I didn’t know his music as well as I should (and I should since 1: it’s gorgeous and 2: I’m Canadian), but I did know it a little bit, and I submit for your consideration Song for a Winter’s Night as a good song for Aymeric shippers.

I’m working on a Vivienne cosplay for Halloween! I tried to do it last year, starting with Cronus, but Cronus is a huge complicated scary project and I was still pretty burned out. I seem to be doing much better this year, I already have the chestpiece cut out of craft foam.

Chapter 32: Thancred

 

Chapter 33: A City in Chaos

“If you ask me, it sounds like naught but a faerie tale,” Guydelot said, folding his arms and glaring off at the gate of Tailfeather. “I’d wager that ‘heavens’ is just a metaphor for a natural phenomenon. We’ve hit a dead end – I say we return to Gridania for now and look for other avenues.” Continue reading →

Europe 2023: Trier

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Cochem

Sorry I’m slowing down on these, I’m running a bit out of steam on them (and I still have three more to do T_T ) (why did I take so many pictures) (help)

Day 11

Trier was one of my favourite places on this trip! There’s so much to see there, but it’s all so close together. The train trip here was nice though I was sleepy. It doesn’t stick to the riverbank as easily as it did lower down on the river, I guess the river was too wiggly here for that to be cost-effective so there were a lot more bridges and long tunnels than the previous trip from Koblenz to Cochem. When we arrived it was still like 11am, too early to go to our hotel, so we decided to put our luggage in a train station locker and go to a museum first. But we needed change for the locker, so we went to the bakery in the train station and bought some buns to get the coins necessary. This accomplished, we walked to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, passing through an 18th century garden on the way. We stopped by the ornamental pond to eat lunch, and watched the ducks and pigeons faffing about. Continue reading →

Europe 2023: Cochem

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Aachen

Day 8, cont.

Despite our first train being late, it was fine: our second train in Cologne was late too. We only had a few minutes in Cologne, though, not enough time to visit the Cathedral again (which I had previously visited in 2012), but enough time that I could walk to the end of the platform and get some new pictures. Though we got off the first train precipitously enough that Tharash forgot his waterbottle. : ( But he resolved not to worry about it (probably seeing how upset I get whenever I lose things : P). Continue reading →

Europe 2023: Aachen

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Bruges

Aachen was really high on my list of places to visit for this trip, because I’ve seen the Cathedral there in several documentaries (my favourite being The Day the Universe Changed, Episode 2: In the Light of the Above, which discusses the impact of rediscovering Greek and Latin scientific and philosophical writings on Western European thought). Also, we used this video to help us plan the trip. So here we go! Shorter post this time because we were only here less than 24 hours.

Day 7, cont.

We got on the IC (inter-city) train to Brussels where we changed to the high-speed ICE (inter-city express) train. It was a very high speed train because however fast I guessed it was going from looking out the window, it was probably going about 50% faster than that. (A high-speed train later in the trip was going about 240k/h, which it said on the screen that announced the upcoming stops, so it was really booking it. North America could never.) There was a really cute black baby on the high speed train, but he was a wiggly little boy and when the mom walked away for a few seconds to attend to some luggage I had to keep him from squirming out of his seat and running after her! Eventually she got him to sleep. Continue reading →

Europe Trip 2023: Bruges

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Amsterdam to Antwerp

In an effort to not make you scroll forever while reading, I’m making many images smaller in this post, click them for larger. (It doesn’t help, you’re still going to scroll forever.)

Day 5

We started the day by going to the local bakery across the street from Tharash’s apartment for a loaf of fresh bread. It was very popular in there, people lining up out the door to get their bread and buns and pastries, and smelled amazing. Then we went to the grocery store for cheese and cucumber, and I also requested some crackers as a snack. This was when I discovered that Tuc makes crackers that aren’t just plain salted crackers, so I got bacon crackers omg. They do use real bacon so they’re no good for vegetarians, and they are very salty. I loved them so I was sparing with them and they actually lasted until I got home again since I didn’t eat one every day. (My local Dutch import store sells paprika-flavoured ones!) Continue reading →

Europe Trip 2023: Amsterdam to Antwerp

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Hello! This year’s ridiculous adventure took me to Belgium and Germany for three and a half weeks, wherein I saw a great many things, ate a lot of food, drank a lot of alcohol (by my standards), and took a lot of pictures (nearly 3,500, plus 500 from Tharash, though I’ve narrowed it down to about half of that (these are just mine and have not been edited in any way)), so these posts are going to be very, very long as usual. But here we go. I kept a careful journal on my phone to refresh my memory, so I’m arranging things by day like in my notes. Continue reading →

Ashara clubbing

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I’ve been working on a project to draw Murlesson during all the stages of his life (part 1 will go up to the end of Devil’s Due and I’m almost done that) because I wanted to see all his different costume designs. After I posted the outfit for date night, Tharash said he was a little disappointed not to see Ashara’s outfit too. Sooooo since I am pleased with the outfit I designed for her, I drew it! Can you blame Murlesson for falling harder than a Kaminoan on a high-gravity planet >.>

Figure was traced from some random stock image from a google image search.