There is someone I would like you to meet as she will be my new in game travel companion from now on. 

The person who played Pinhohmomo decided that after playing for years on the Shiva server, the time for her had finally come to give FFXI a rest :'( As she is a good Flemish friend of mine, she gave me her account details ^_^/

Every non rare/ex item and every gillie that was on her character went to Clip who distributed it amongst the people in LunaAmbrata who needed it.

Pinhohnmomo is a level 75 WHM and BLM, level 71 RDM and a level 68 BRD; but with that crazy Novio girl as partymember at Mount Zhayolm, I am sure momo will also reach 75 soon enough >^;^<

Cindy, if you read this…
I'll take good care of Pinhohnmomo until (I hope) you decide to come back

As it was only a matter of time… 

I met Ocean in Mount Z and got an invite from her to duo some puddings. Since I find myself in LunaAmbrata practically all the time when I am online, my Japanese has improved enormously and it was great putting this in further practice with Ocean during our pudding squishing. Apparently we had about the same ridiculous TNL number for 75, but since we were enjoying ourselves so much we decided to go for it ! 

Although I am sure neither of us expected it to happen that night (we had both left our Thunder IV scroll in our Moghouse), the both of us managed to hit 75. Then after we exchanged friendlist requests, she went to bed as it was already 8.30am for her. We really had totally lost track of time in our common goal of getting 75 and we just had tremendous fun in doing it, because everything went so synchronized, smoothly and easily.

Noooooow, what to level next? Well it will be Bard or Corsair for sure, haven't been able to decide between those yet :/ but first… yes… another break perhaps?

Bon, while checking all the /bazaar people again in Batalia Downs, I came across a Speed Belt. Although vastly overpriced, I was actually about to hit the "buy"-button, but when I asked for some opinions of friends in my linkshell (Flintstone), they all went the usual: "Vero crazy~".

Moreover, some of the Flintstoners took the initiative (why don't I ever do that??) 
and assembled a Swiftbelt-run-party straight away.

Of course in all my excitement, I once again forgot to take screenshots -_-; but with the permission of Isadora (who also got her Swift Belt in that same run), I could use one of her screenshots here.

Out of the Four times we fought the NM (3xHume-1Mithra) with ease and managed to get three belts. Although the droprate on this belt has always been proven to be very sucky, it is rumoured that they increased the droprate with the latest patch (the same in which they also moved the Speedbelt to KS99). Oh by the way, there was no TH amongst us either… We were down in that dark Sacrarium hole there for about 90 minutes of which the main part consisted of getting fomorhate.

Thank you so much for your help guys and from keeping me on spending a ridiculous amount of money on a bling bling item.

Well I have postponed the following post long enough,
it is time for me to get it over with and make it stop paralyzing any further posts.

About a month ago one of my dearest in game friends, Arislan,
decided to throw the towel into the ring and leave Vana'Diel for good~

No, I am not going to write down some requiem for him, but I just want to thank him for giving a deeper meaning and more than I expected to find in this "game". You see, it's not about the virtual items nor the so many repeatable missions and quests, but in the end, all you will have left are the great memories, experiences and emotions that you shared with your friends. Here in lies the only real value you will carry with you, after SE decides to permantenly put all the servers down to sleep.

Arislan, words can't describe how grateful I am to have met you and please believe me when I tell you that you'll be in my heart forever~

With his departure, Valor officially disbanded. This linkshell has been my escape and safe haven for almost three years, so es really tut mir leid to see it dissolving. As a tribute and to give people some notion of what Valor was about, I copied the Valor Manifesto to a dedicated page on my weblog.

Everyone knows that with this continuous hot weather, people not only 
drink more (eat less) and are having more difficulties to get asleep at night,
but the urge for …uhum… more and deeper intimacy also rises exponentially   

This is really not so different in Final Fantasy XI,
au contraire, even when dead, people can get really close

After our charmed Lestath got hit by a sweet Thundaga III of Arislan during the Lamia 13 Assault,
I didn't hesitate for one second to take advantage of the situation. MmmmMMmmmmm

This one I can really explain ! 
It seems that Mitru found it necessary to install magnets in his subligarstraps.
That way My Flame rings got attracted to his leg AFTER I died.    

This picture was taken just moments after the real intimacy between Lestath and me had taken place.
I tried to screenshot the real deal, but you must understand that it is very very hard
to press the screenshotbutton in under 0.14 seconds.