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My days without Flyff: Day 1-3

Only thinking about making this blog post makes it ridiculous. The title of this post has so much drama in it that it's like I'm writing about 'days without arms' or something. It's like I'm writing about another universe, which might actually be true? But I really have to write on my blog, I'll continue updating my blog!

For the past 3 years after starting up my computer I clicked first on the MSN icon and then on the Flyff icon (not always but... mostly?). When I start my computer now I click on MSN and wander around with my mouse. What to click next? It's just a strange feeling, that I forget something. I sound like a serious Flyff addict now but what do you expect? For years I logged on Flyff every day. I said hello to the guild and mostly someone would reply. We would have a chat, about Flyff things mostly, and then hang around in arena or train a character. I spend my time guild chatting and hanging around on Flyff with friends there. It's not a surprise that I didn't quit for a long time just because I was afraid that I'd miss guild chat a lot. That I'd miss the social contacts I have/had on Flyff. I do chat a lot less now... but I'm not feeling lonely (yet). I still got a few people to chat with on MSN.

"It's my second day without Flyff today." I said to Aladdin on MSN yesterday. He was surprised. "Are you quitting?" "Yes." I said. "That's quite sad!" he said. "I'll miss you!" I made a grin. "But Aladdin... We barely talk to each other on Flyff, we always talk via MSN..." After a minute he said: "That's right... But it's still sad! Are you quitting for good? You are coming back... right?" I said that I was probably only taking a break. Unless I'd find a life. He laughed. "No. You won't. I'm your life!" Haha.

Aladdin.

I'm only taking a break, I'm quite sure of that... unless I find a life. But that just won't happen. Tuesday evening I sorted all my items out. I decided I'd train this exp event. I put all my power-ups on my Ringmaster, Neocrohero, so she'd be my support character. I put all my amps on NeocroHero and searched for Vital X and Activation (which is hard now the icons changed! Haha.) I logged out knowing I only needed my Champion set to train. I was totally ready to train. But I felt uneasy. The last weeks I already got torn apart between two feelings. On one side I wanted to train really badly and reach level 140. On the other side I just wanted to quit Flyff. When I searched the reasons for those two feelings I figured out I just needed a break.

The reason of quitting is that Flyff isn't the Flyff anymore that I used to love so much. Flyff changed a lot with the new amps and there are way too many exp events. Really, when were we WITHOUT exp event past months? There's like almost ALWAYS a kind of exp event going on this days, *potty mouth*? Most of the heroes this days are not the 'True Heroes' anymore where I talk about in my stories. When I started playing Flyff, Heroes were real Heroes. They put a lot effort in training up to level 121. They were admired by the other players and they were proud on themselves. The heroes of this days are amp hoes. They complain about exp even though they're using 5x amps. They ask me where Volcano is when they reach level 120. Additionally they're rude, think they're awesome and are annoying. All I can do is turn my head away and try to be ignorant

But now I face it... This is not the game anymore I loved to play. For players like me who never used amps, used the crappiest weapons they could find, who spend days training with low exp and died all the time (and lose exp by that, since blessings cost too much) it's not bearable. You can call me a complainer now, that's alright. I'm being a complainer now. Flyff started to go downwards after the level cap raised.

Training in Volcano.

And of course, I did have good... even great... times after that. The TwilightDentifrice of today really makes me happy. I'm so glad I managed to build such a group again, together with Dino at my side. Having him at my side makes me so happy too, he understands exactly what I'm trying to reach with TDF. Because of Twilight Dentifrice I managed to keep on playing, though I didn't really like the new features. I leveled to 125, used amps for the first time and reached level 129. I got help from someone who had always been a mysterious 'scary' Hero to me, SirSpeedy. Thanks to him I reached level 130 and I became a Slayer. My little NeocroHero got even more powers. Twilight Dentifrice grew and turned into a really popular guild. Since me and Dino actually didn't want that we bound it in, and turned TDF back into what it's meant to be... the group where I belong.

TwilightDentifrice.

But short said, I get so annoyed from the many Heroes around me that I just need a break. The reason I want to reach level 140 now is so I can beat them up in arena. To me... that's a really bad reason to continue playing. I need another reason to reach level 140, and I'll find a better reason to someday. It's a pain that I have to leave TDF behind because of this, but else nothing will change. Things need to change, I need to change, and then I'll come back. If TwilightDentifrice is still there then, I hope I can lead once again. If it's gone, I'll rebuild it.

Now, enough complaining. What have I done past days? It's surprising how many time I got now to do other things now since I refuse to start Flyff (time to write silly blog posts per example). I actually got myself quite addicted to Sims 3. Why, oh, why. It's such a silly game but I spend past days running around with Ricky in the Sims world. Got myself too many babies, been running into mummies in Egypt and got myself a villa at the Nile.

Last days it's also quite sunny outside, so I've been enjoying the sun too. I've been practicing guitar, pat the cats, reading and daydreaming in the sun. I've been too lazy to play on my Xbox since I'm at a boss in Deus Ex (my newest Xbox game). I don't look forward to get spam killed at that boss, so I didn't play on my Xbox past days!

Real table and soccer ball (and real empty lunch plate).

Real cat.

Real trees.

Real chickens.

If I wasn't sitting in the sun or playing Sims I was just chatting. So far I didn't have any withdrawal symptoms yet. We'll see how this continues...

Ps. If anyone reads this that doesn't have my e-mail, feel free to ask Dino or another TDF member for my e-mail adress so we can stay in touch!

Tower Siege Relapse , exciting victory!

When Koby asked me to join Tower Siege with his guild I really wanted to, though leaving TDF hurt a little. This Sunday 3 guilds gathered at the tower manager of Flaris: Relapse, UNIQUE and Requiem. We weren't sure who was going to win, but we were sure it'd be very exciting.

And it was exciting! We entered tower and gathered. The Blades, including me, ran to the end of the halls to start there. The AoEs spread over the first halls. We got buffed and were ready to fight.

It went so fast that I forgot to take screenshots. As soon as the monsters appeared we started to attack them. I kept my eyes on the counter on the left that showed how many monsters each guild had killed yet and I noticed we went from last place to first place, to stick at second place. When the monsters were almost killed I ran to the mid-boss. It appeared and got killed in no time. We got teleported to Asmodan's room and used a few of our self-buffs, then Mihael ran to Asmodan and we ran after him. The most exciting part of the race was about to start. We couldn't see how far the others were in killing it so we just tried our best.

Thanks to the AoErs the annoying spawning flying monsters died before hurting anyone. It went smooth. But... Who was going to win?

When our Asmodan his HP bar was white I felt like we were going to win. It'd be very awe full to lose at that point. But... We won! Victory! Hooray!

The guild was happy, I was happy. It was a fun experience and I was glad I had the chance to join. A smile and off to bed.

The Colosseum, easy mode

When I was using my YJ Rihito in arena soopy (a knight) talked to me. She was looking for people who wanted to try Colosseum with her on easy mode. I agreed and joined with my knight.

She managed to gather a few people and we entered the Colosseum. I was surprised to see Maria, but it was fun to have her with us.

The first few monsters were really easy. I was barely of any use (well I wasn't anyway since my Ranger has an AoE build).

But then Rex Gpotato appeared! Soopy panicked a little but me and Maria tried to make her understand we'd have to kill it anyway. If not now, then later. It was part of the line-up of giants. We started to kill it.

It went well till the gPotato reached rage. Our fighters didn't have enough HP and died one by one.

We tried a second time. Everything went well. We also had to kill a flying giant, was quite funny. This time gPotato didn't appear but a level 90 giant! We died and gave up. It was a fun experience!

Some other screenshots...

Fusse being very honest here.

Having fun with noobs. Where are those good times?

Hat the woman abuser and more

I'm not really sure what happened but... I called Hat a woman abuser and he ran away from me, scared I'd kick him. I ran after him and we walked through flaris a little. Later Akio joined us and we ran to Mars Mines. When we were there and Akio went to bed me and Hat weren't really sure how we got there. Fun times.

Where is Hat?

At the bridge in Flaris we jumped off. Seth was too scared to jump, or something.

There's a quest in Flaris where you have to gather 5 pieces material from each continent. When I was finishing all quests that were going on I decided to finish this one too. It brought me to many places and told me another story about Madrigal (one I already forgot about). Now I finally know what some NPCs are for.

Landed with my wings on this branch, accidently! Skills...

When I was finishing the Catacombs quest with Sean I flew for the first time from Shaduwar to Darkon 1, 2. It was kinda cool to see the view. It was less cool to know my flying was pointless, I had to go to the fountain in Flaris.

Next part of our quest was doing Kheldor.... Yeah, we decided to not do it yet.