FFXI – Part 37: The Lion Roars

Summary: A heroic sacrifice stops Prince Eald’narche. The conclusion to Rise of the Zilart.

FFXI – Part 36: Ark Angels

Summary: Taking down the five brutal Warriors of the Crystal, five sins embodied. Limit breaking past 85 and 90.

FFXI – Part 35: Skyward

Summary: Questing for the floating island of Tu’Lia.

FFXI – Part 34: Two Princes

Summary: Prince Kam’lanaut betrayed. The path to Tu’Lia, Gate of the Gods, opens. Elder Prince Eald’narche ascends.

FFXI – Part 33: Pilgrim’s Progress

Summary: Collecting eight fragments of light before getting repeatedly stomped into dust by a trio of Anticans.

FFXI - A Note on Changing Pace

A general heads-up on the pace of this series: things will probably slow down a bit.

FFXI – Part 32: Mask DeMasque

Summary: A masked fellow reappears. Siren and a quad of Quadavs stop my progress on two storylines.

FFXI – Part 31: False Prophet

Summary: The next chapter of the Bastok storyline and limit break #5. Maat of Jeuno’s noble work unveiled.

FFXI – Part 30: The Tonberry Queen

Summary: Limit Break #4. Into the Temple of Uggalepih and the Den of Rancor, learning the history between Tonberries and the Zilart.

FFXI – Part 29: The Last Dragoon

Summary: Completing my dragoon artifact armor set. Temple of Tonberries. The glorious story of Erpalacion, the last dragoon.

FFXI – Part 28: Inheritance

Summary: The start of new storylines in the first expansion. Beginning the dragoon artifact armor quests. Cactuar! A son grapples with his father's legacy.

FFXI – Part 27: Rise of the Zilart

Summary: Limit break quest #3. New context for the Shadow Lord fight, as new antagonists unveil themselves: the Zilart and the Warriors of the Crystal.

FFXI – Part 26: Fall of the Shadow Lord

Summary: Attack on Castle Zvahl. The origin and demise of the Shadow Lord. End of the first main storyline.

FFXI – Part 25: Fei’Yin

Summary: Heading north to attempt resealing the unleashed Shadow Lord. (Unsuccessful.) My first Tonberry sighting. Limit break #2.

FFXI – Part 24: Limit Break

Summary: Progress in “Rhapsodies of Vana’diel.” Limit break #1. Preparing to trek out to the Northlands against the Shadow Lord.

FFXI – Part 23: Kupo Curse

Summary: My handymoogle repairs the roofs, but finds her professional and romantic life under threat. A moogly curse.

FFXI – Part 22: Shadow of the Past

Summary: Retrieving the final two pieces of magicite from Davoi and Castle Oztroja. Too late. Fickblix, sweetest goblin. *weeps forever*

FFXI – Part 21: Attaché

Summary: Delkfutt’s Tower to save the Bastok ambassador. Joining Tenshodo. Stealing magicite from the Quadav.

FFXI - A Change and Disclaimer

Hallo!  Next post going up tonight, but I wanted this to be its own post since it formalizes a decent-sized change in my FFXI run-through.

I've tried to play this game unspoiled.  I have.  Looking stuff up as little as possible, not using guides, etc.  It's just too hard.  FFXI simply doesn't seem intended to be done this way.  Some quests tell me where to go and what to kill, which I like! Others I can make a decent guess at.  Others I have no flipping idea what the game is talking about, to a degree that it's not fun to try finding out on my own.

I'm still going to give a reasonable attempt at solving each mission/quest on my own, without looking up where to go or what to kill.  And even when I do look stuff up, I'm going to try to just look at the minimum info needed to progress - where to go or what to kill - and not any story stuff.

But just in general, I'm going to be quicker to look stuff up going forward and less self-flagellating.  Sometimes I'll mention it in my posts (e.g. "Tried looking for this for a while but gave up and looked up what to kill") but sometimes I won't.

Anyway. Disclaimer made. :)

FFXI – Part 20: Jeuno

Summary: Exploring Jeuno. Chains of Promathia intro with Bahamut. Lion is sucked into an alternate dimension.

FFXI – Part 19: A Crystalline Prophecy

Summary: Gusgen Mines. Trek to Jeuno. Through the Atomos/Cavernous Maw. A mysterious crystal in the sky. The terror of love.

FFXI – Part 18: The Tragedy of Cyranuce

Last session of the week. See y'all Sunday!


Summary: The paladin quest sputters. The dragoon quest blows me away on wings of awesomeness. This is FFXI at its best.

FFXI – Part 17: Long Dark Knight of the Soul

Summary: The Mythril Musketeers in Quadav territory. Then I conquer the enemy within to become a dark knight. And by “enemy within,” I mean “the crushing boredom from this awful quest.”