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    Mr. Valient was born a few days ago in Bastok as a Thief on the Ragnarok server. The first thing he decided to do after acquiring enough money was to buy a hat, so that he may look like a guy from WWII. Seriously, doesn't that hat look like something a solider would wear when going to war?



    Armed with his brand new hat, Mr. Valient thought nothing in the world could stop him. He demonstrated this by slaughtering a few Quadavs and he leveled up during the process. Good for him.



    This picture has absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Valient's story.



    Well, Mr. Valient was getting a little tired, so he innocently took a nap in the middle of Gustaberg when four Quadavs rudely interrupted him. The number four supposedly represents death in Japan, and to nobody's surprised Mr. Valient was chastised by these four Quadavs. Yes, he died. Poor him!



    After being resurrected, Mr. Valient realized that being a Thief wasn't as great as he thought it would be. Therefore, he became a Red Mage, and also got a huge urge to strip down to his under-clothings and run around the streets of Bastok, which was exactly what he did.



    Mr. Valient jogged on over to the local magic shop, and scared many men, women, and children along the way, probably due to his nakedness. Of course, he didn't care because he was so overjoyed to find out that he could finally cast magic! Upon arrival, he found out that he couldn't cast cure until level 3, and that the only spell he could learn was Dia. Might I add that Dia is one completely useless skill, because the defense-weakening is barely even noticeable! Nevertheless, Mr. Valient decided it would suffice.



    Mr. Valient bought new boots with the money he had left over. Notice how the silver boots resembles stockings when paired with what appears to be a kilt. This was extremely disturbing, and Mr. Valient couldn't decide whether running around naked was worse than this indirect act of cross-dressing. Nobody seemed to want to party with Mr. Valient, not only because he was a completely useless Red Mage but also because of his offensive outfit.



    Well, he went to go bash more Quadavs all by himself so he could gather enough gil to buy the complete armor set and hopefully get rid of the disturbing stocking look. After a couple hours he was still short about 2000 gil so he couldn't buy gloves nor pants, but he did manage to buy the armor. The results is as you see - his legs are even more revealing than it was before. But this wasn't enough to bring Mr. Valient down because he still had his almighty hat!



    Let there be pants.



    During the whole eighteen hours of wanderlessly running around, Mr. Valient found out that he hasn't accomplished a single thing, so he got up off his lazy rear-end and completed the first mission. He was mildly amused by the cutscene, but the cheesy victory music that played afterwards was well worth the trouble!



    Finally, Mr. Valient purchased the entire armor set. Unfortunately, he had to part with his awesome hat in exchange for some metal bandana thing. However, he will never forget his beloved hat, and it's currently stashed away in his Mog House for safe-keeping. Good bye, hat! I salute you!



    To wrap this chapter up, Mr. Valient managed to make it to level 9 or somewhere around there. It was one heck of a task since a lot of these monsters give you a meager amount of experience, but Mr. Valient is still hopeful that somebody will come along and ask him to join their party. Hang in there Mr. Valient, we're all rooting for you, I think!



    More to come!
    WAR20 MNK12 WHM28 BLM31 RDM60 THF21 PLD14 DRK20 BST6 BRD42 RNG16 SAM11 NIN40 DRG10 SMN10

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    Maxim. You best PM me now. XDD
    BLM : 29 / BRD : 41 / WHM : 11 / PLD : 25 / WAR : 14 / DRK : 17

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    • #3
      Lol...that was a cool journal

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      • #4
        nice journal**cough cough crossdresser cough cough!**
        .: Click Here For More Information About Bastok Knights :.

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        Crashpod- elvaan lvl 13 war (deleted him he sucked hard i was just using him to learn how to play the game and make money and stuff)
        Volts- TaruTaru Male LvL 18/9 blm/whm
        Vision- Hume Male Lvl 13 war(/Dragoon when retail comes out)

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        • #5
          hey i dunno that galka behind you there looks more like the cross dressing kinda O_O great journal man gl with lvl 10!
          ~Arc~
          "Est Solaris Oath Mithas"

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          • #6
            Yay, thanks everybody. Here's the second bit to my journal thing. XD

            There goes Mr. Valient again, who is now level eleven! Here he is, pathetically trying to complete the second misson at Dangruf Wadi, which is a place that's filled with goblins and other fun monsters that like to stab you in the back when you're not watching. He managed to get the color changer to turn red from blue/green (which was the objective of the misson) but Dangruf Wadi is one huge maze. Problems arose due to this, especially since Mr. Valient got lost and couldn't find his way back! He tried tip-toeing away but this wasn't enough to get away from the four monsters that ambushed him! Once again, Mr. Valient was murdered by four hostile monsters, similar to the case with the four Quadav. He's been running into bad luck lately! Oh no!



            Nonetheless, Mr. Valient completed his mission. To celebrate, he decided to go fishing in the most appropriate area available to him, the Bastok Mines! Upon arrival, he saw not one but two people already fishing there. This was obviously a popular fishing spot. After an hour of action-packed fishing Mr. Valient managed to reel in two Crawfish.



            Here's Mr. Valient fishing on one of the many bridges in Bastok, only this time he's alone and didn't catch anything. Better luck next time!



            After losing all his bait and breaking several fishing rods, Mr. Valient realized that fishing probably wasn't the right career choice for him. The Goldsmith guild seemed very popular in Bastok, so Mr. Valient strolled on over there and began synthesizing right away. Like most things Mr. Valient tries to do, this ended in failure as well. However, a pleasant surprise was waiting for Mr. Valient...



            Surprise! An Elvaan named Yoyo messaged Mr. Valient and asked if he would like to join his party to go leveling up! Mr. Valient was overjoyed and instantly accepted. Here he is along with the rest of the party.



            After a long run, the party made it to the Highlands. Mr. Valient still couldn't figure out why these nice people wanted a Hume Red Mage in their party, but he was too psyched up to give it a second thought at the moment.



            Here's the rundown of the group's jobs, going from left-to-right: Zincwhite was a thief; Cockroach was a black mage; Yoyo was a black mage/bard; Romu was a white mage; Mr. Valient was still a red mage; Ricker was a dark knight/ranger.



            Here's Mr. Valient casting Water. It looks like he's ready to give the Goblins a hug. How silly of him.



            The sun began to rise. Notice how Mr. Valient has his back turned away from the glaring rays of sunshine since they were blinding him.



            Here is Mr. Valient's first level up in the party! He's now level twelve, and was bombarded by the niceness of the Japanese players when they said "Congratulations" all at once. It was a wonderful feeling, and it made Mr. Valient forget that he was the useless Red Mage who was the only person doing 5 points worth of damage to the monsters with every hit.



            Things were going well until somebody died! Can you tell who it was by looking at the picture? Yes, sadly, the TaruTaru perished.



            Luckily, the homepoint that everybody saved at was near, so they all ran toward him and met up with the TaruTaru shortly after.



            They ran back to their hunting spot to find three goblins roaming around the camp fire. Here's Mr. Valient and friends contemplating whether or not they should attack them.



            Mr. Valient and company won! Part of it was probably because there were only three monsters and not four - every time Mr. Valient fought four monsters he died. After a few more fights, the party ran back to Bastok and disbanded. Mr. Valient will never forget the fun time he had with the party, assuming that he doesn't get clunked over the head with a giant rock thereby erasing his memory.



            This picture has absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Valient's story.



            Now that things were back to the way they were, Mr. Valient took another shot at creating items at the Goldsmith, and unlike his first attempt, he managed to create a Copper Ignot! Yay for happy endings! More to come.

            WAR20 MNK12 WHM28 BLM31 RDM60 THF21 PLD14 DRK20 BST6 BRD42 RNG16 SAM11 NIN40 DRG10 SMN10

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            • #7
              Ah! So fun to read!!

              And it's kind of a cooky writing style, considering you use no pronouns for "Mr. Valient" whatsoever...Keep it that way!

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              • #8
                very cool journal, one of the best so far, keep it up!

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                • #9
                  haha Max, that is classic... I am sooooo jealous now >_<.

                  Jeez, if only I would get off my lazy *** and import... oh well, cya tomorrow Maxim

                  RpgWizard

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                  • #10
                    Yo Max is that ps2???

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Terikan
                      very cool journal, one of the best so far, keep it up!
                      Naah... I thought StarvingArtists' was the best....but this one i spretty good two. Lost of good screenshots and how Maxim uses his words in a unique way. Keep it up

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                      • #12
                        Aye! keep up the journal man we all appriate it even though its not the best you post more often and trust me your good i love the journals!
                        ~Arc~
                        "Est Solaris Oath Mithas"

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                        • #13
                          Whee. Thank you, thank you.. And Kaiketsu, I'm playing it on a computer. I know the graphics aren't very good, but it's the best I can get out of an ATI Radeon 7500, and either way I'm happy with it.

                          Also, I've made a dramatic change if you haven't noticed already. I've made the screenshots smaller since the original size would kill my friend's server, and it also creates more load time for non-broadband users so hopefully this change isn't a bad one.

                          Without further mindless babbling, here's the third segment of my journal.

                          Well, a lot has happened since the last time we met Mr. Valient. First off, Mr. Valient was invited into the Neo Gundun LS, but unfortunately, like all things Mr. Valient gets associated with, Neo Gundun is going to be exploding in a few weeks. It must be Mr. Valient's bad karma once again - such a shame. With that put aside, what kind of mischief is Mr. Valient going to get into this time?



                          Now that Mr. Valient could communicate with other English-speaking players, he quickly got acquainted with none other than Comrade Donnovan! Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan wanted to travel to San Doria, each for their own personal reason. Comrade Donnovan needed to complete his sixth mission, and Mr. Valient had nothing better to do. That's quite a personal reason there, Mr. Valient!



                          With the long run through Gustaberg put aside, Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan made it to the Valkrum Dunes. They were in pretty high spirit, and nothing goes better with spirit than a heavy dose of ignorance...



                          Yes, you guessed it. They had no clue that the enemies were extremely difficult here. Mr. Valient was the first to go down, despite the fact that Comrade Donnovan was taunting the bat and taking twice as much damage as Mr. Valient. It's sad, really. You can't help but wonder how somebody can die so quickly.



                          Comrade Donnovan finally fell and got a quick taste of the sand below him. Mr. Valient has been eating sand for nearly half a minute now, and wasn't finding it very tasty. Although you cannot tell by looking at this picture, Mr. Valient is actually enjoying himself, and is humbly humming annoying songs like "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles to pass the rest of the fifty-nine and a half minutes left before revival. Luckily for Comrade Donnovan, his ears have been plugged up with sand so he didn't have to tolerate Mr. Valient's humming, which also meant that he wouldn't have to roll over and die a second time.



                          However, help was on the way! Arman-san, a level 39 white mage, happened to trip over Mr. Valient's rotting corpse just in time to revive both him and Comrade Donnovan. Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan explained to him about their journey to San Doria, and Arman-san offered to escort them to Selbina! This journey isn't over yet, folks.



                          Comrade Donnovan died for the second time and leveled down. Of course, he was revived again thanks to the ever so kind Arman-san.



                          Well, they continued running to Selbina and avoided hostile monsters along the way. Arman-san led the group since he was obviously the only one who knew where he was going and what he was doing.



                          Once Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan entered Selbina, Mr. Valient was so grateful that he decided to give Arman-san all his money, which was precisely 3201 gil. For a level 39 white mage, this must have been the equivalent of pocket change.



                          Here they are, saving at the local homepoint so that if they died again their journey wouldn't have been in vain. Useless fact: Vanity is Mr. Valient's middle name.



                          Mr. Valient decided to take a look around town, and also gave fishing another chance while pondering about how he and Comrade Donnovan was going to get to San Doria.



                          Suddenly, a boat floated on to shore. This gave Mr. Valient an idea - travel to San Doria on the ship! He presented his plan to Comrade Donnovan, and they both went aboard the ship, neither of them knowing what was in store for them.



                          This picture has absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Valient's story.



                          The inside of the ship was a small, cramped up room. Everybody kept their distance from Mr. Valient because he began humming that annoying Beatles song again, only this time he replaced the word "Submarine" with "Ship".



                          Mr. Valient passed time on the dock by fishing some more, and rudely ignored Comrade Donnovan. Fishing requires all of Mr. Valient's attention since it's a concentration oriented sport. Comrade Donnovan threatened to chuck a huge rock at Mr. Valient's head and erase his memory if he didn't fork over his rod and bait, but before Comrade Donnovan could do that the boat arrived to its destination.



                          Something wasn't right. Mr. Valient closely examined the city he was at, and realized that this wasn't San Doria at all - it was Mhaura. Mr. Valient introduced his head to a wall shortly after discovering this.



                          Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan took the next ship back to Selbina since the monsters outside of Mhaura were too tough.



                          Now that they were on the ship again, Comrade Donnovan proceeded in chucking rocks at Mr. Valient, and borrowed his rod and bait while he was unconscious. This was the highlight of Mr. Valient's day since he saw many cute Chocobos floating around his head prior to the actual passing out.



                          Well, Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan returned to Selbina and then ran out of the Valkrum Dunes and into the Plateau, which was extremely huge by the way. It took at least twenty minutes to get from one side to the other.



                          It began raining. The rain drops might be hard to see but they're there. This was the first time Mr. Valient saw a change in the weather, and he totally flipped out when he saw it. Mr. Valient is easily amused.



                          They managed to get out of the Plateau safely. At Ronfaure, Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan met an Elvaan guard who let you set Homepoints, however, it was at a price. This was Mr. Valient's first encounter with in-game racisms. He's positive that if he was an Elvaan, he wouldn't have had to pay anything at all, but this was not the case. Nevertheless, Mr. Valient is not one who gets offended and paid the enourmous price of 200 gil.



                          After hours of running and getting lost, Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan finally made it to San Doria. This is where they temporarily split up, since Comrade Donnovan needed to complete is sixth mission and Mr. Valient wanted to mingle around the city.



                          If jay walking was a crime, Mr. Valient would be in prison right about now.



                          Mr. Valient and Comrade Donnovan met up for the last time in the middle of South San Doria before going their separate ways. This has been one of Mr. Valient's more eventful journeys, and traveling with Comrade Donnovan has made it all the more enjoyable. A thousand thanks to Comrade Donnovan. More to come!

                          WAR20 MNK12 WHM28 BLM31 RDM60 THF21 PLD14 DRK20 BST6 BRD42 RNG16 SAM11 NIN40 DRG10 SMN10

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                          • #14
                            dude cool nice journey! do you and donnvan have plans for a pt in the future good idea for a story me thinks and why is neogundan breaking? oh yeah SWEEEEEEEETTTTTT JOURNAL!!!!!!!! keep coming man
                            ~Arc~
                            "Est Solaris Oath Mithas"

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                            • #15
                              The happenings on FFXI must be pretty awesome. I'll share my clan's adventures...once the NA version arrives anyway!:mad: Cool journal...better than a Tolkien book!

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