Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

And getting revenge on the elites that slaughtered you by going back 35 levels later and killing them in your underwear.

( Don't believe me? PICS. IT HAPPENED. )

In conclusion: we make our own fun. ^_^

(The Dreamwidth icon comes from a fortuitous bit of timing which resulted in ( pandas cuddling on conjoined griffons: )Sadly, now I can't find the exact screenshot I used.)

Edit: The "showing off my elvish" tag comes from a /silly the panda girls have: "All these new cultures are so confusing! Today, someone complimented me on my 'padonkadunk.' What is that? Elvish?" As you can see, my girl does have very nice Elvish. ^_^

An OBNOXIOUS personality, to be precise. :D

"He" is a male worgen warlock, named for Viper, the most ill-tempered member of the Lucky Thirteen. Unlike Waveform, my worgen druid, who hated the entire time she was in Gilneas, Víper is having fun. Víper is gleefully running from place to place blowing things up (he's a destruction warlock, which means All The Fire Spells, and since darthneko started Crossfire, a worgen mage, with me and we're still getting triple xp bonus for playing together, Víper is also seriously over-leveled).

Víper was not thrilled with his starting gear, which he said - and, yes, I am quoting the imaginary person - made him "look like a priest". He is even less thrilled with the lovely blue ensemble he is presently wearing (though he says on Crossfire it looks hot).

( Really, I think you can see why he feels inadequate next to Crossfire. )

He is slightly mollified by the fact that Crossfire has died multiple times, even though it kind of makes him feel like he should be following her around like a large, surly, fireball-throwing guard dog. This doesn't stop him from laughing at her when it happens, mind you. Also, she's LITTLE, he says, in this vaguely horrified "my whole cohort was pretty much the same size wtf" tone. Not as little as she was when they were human, but still. LITTLE. Which is odd for me as player, since when playing female worgen I've never had the impression they were small (female humans are small, female Pandaren are small, female worgen, not so much).

So, yes, this is what I am reduced to: full-on RPing my TF OCs in WoW. And I'm having a blast.

Edit: If any WoW players are wondering, the Guild of Awesome design uses the Gilnean flag instead of the worgen symbol because I, personally, think the worgen symbol is stupid and lopsided, and I'm the primary player of worgen in the guild. So when darthneko was working on the design, I said, "please can has Gilnean flag?" and she said "can has!" and there it is, all nice and balanced looking at the bottom of the design.

Having replayed the end bossfights in KH2 (which is possibly the longest sequence I know of? Or at least has more stages than Kefka's whack-the-tower thing), I'm kind of wondering- what in the world is the dragon-ship thing? What is it meant to do, how did it happen?

Also the throne thing is kinda odd, what is all that about. :|a

So, today* darthneko cleared out all but 70 gold from our guild bank to buy the third guild storage tab (500 gold). Then she and I hauled our pandas out to Northrend.

By the time we were finished, we stuffed enough gold back in the bank to buy the fourth tab (1000 gold), with 200 gold left over. Also, we are only five levels away from getting to go to Pandaria. We are hoping to find slightly more panda-friendly armor there, as gear designed for six foot tall, ninety-eight pound elves just looks silly on pandas.

Edit: ( Some screencaps behind the cut. )


*yesterday, technically, but I haven't slept yet

And yet, as I read "many similar groups, always made up of four humans and an animal, have existed," in the Wikipedia article on Scooby Doo! Mystery Inc, I couldn't help thinking, "the Ghostbusters are made up of four humans and an animal ghost."

If I thought I could sit through two seasons of a Scooby Doo reboot, something might come of this.

Updated panda banner.

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Guild of Awesome.

So possibly darthneko is designing t-shirts for our World of Warcraft guild.

Considering it's a guild with four active players (about...3/4 of the members are darthneko's and my alts), the fact that the guild hit level 7 a week ago and is most of the way to level 8 is either impressive, or says something about the state of our social lives. I choose to find it impressive.

Someday, I will remember to make myself a WoW icon. Edit: And so I made not one but THREE WoW icons.

( doop doop thinking sorta grumbly )

On another note! I've been sort of playing along with moogle_university- I didn't get through FF3, to my complete lack of surprise. My impression from the first playthrough was not that great and the second did not exactly improve. Though I guess there's some interesting stuff to play with in it? What is the deal with the Ancients, seriously. On the other hand, all the time stuff gives me headaches, I'm pretty sure no one was actually trying to make it make sense. Not gonna think about it too hard.

I want stories about the Warriors of the Dark, though. I'm not always much for stories of cycles (breaking out of that is sweet though), but I think this could be neat.

FFIV is basically magic after playing FF3, I've got to be honest. Even the deal with Baron itself is hells of more complex, and the kid who asks Cecil if he's a bad guy! That's pretty cute, and I do like that you start off with Cecil looking like that, even if he is dumb as a rock. Then you have the rest of the world and Mysidia and the parts the Crystals play (sentient crystals! yesssss I have no idea what they're actually doing but I don't really worry about it that much). Although Troia is… um. Look, I'm glad they tried to have a women-centric society, but it… didn't really get pulled off that well. Sigh. … I don't think the dwarves were developed much more, really, and Troia doesn't… get a lot of plot really but. It would've been nice!

The difficulty took kind of a weird curve, I think- at one point I was muddling along going '…am I overlevelled? I think I may be overlevelled' and Edge only died once on Leviathan. …And then I hit the Sealed Cave and suddenly everyone needed to be healed between fights just in case the next one was two Chimeras each with an urge to use Blaze. Good times! The Lunar Subterrane is worse- it was kind of manageable until I got to a chest with a fire-based dragon and lost a few floors of progress. So uh not finished with 4 just yet. Sometime soon!

Odin is so much nicer in 4 than 5, man. I think he has more HP, but considering the lack of a time limit, not so much a problem! Gosh I also want summon stories, those are cool.

Started on 5- not that far in yet, though, which is a shame. Lenna seems kind of formal so far, but checking with the SNES translation… I think that probably I was getting her mixed up with someone. :|a And I know the GBA translation is technically the better of the two I have, but on the other hand I've never really been big on Yoshitaka Amano's art for it. It doesn't quite gel for me- I tend to read FF5 as comedy more than anything else, and Amano's art seems kind of more serious. Though some people've noted that the second world has kind of a lot of crap going on there so! Man.

…really though FF5 is basically the breather between 4 and 6. … Well, mostly. …and then we get 7 and 8, which. I guess I'll see!

Further note: so uh hs_worldcup is going to be a thing I guess? May's well try I guess… :x It'd be nice to talk with people and do things, just. Well. oh man signups are open now oh man. WHOOPS.

And finally: eeeeee mail that mail is coming hell yeah /o/!