Granado Girl: Raven Futel

We Need Your Help To Win! :)

2010-12-27T01:14:00.000+08:00

Hey, who wouldn't want Asoka to be in your family in Granado Espada?

HELP MY FAMILY TO WIN HER! :)

Like the Granado Espada Page on Facebook then LIKE OUR BLOG POST HERE!!

It will definitely mean a lot to us if you could help us get Asoka in our family. I mean, really, wouldn't it be nice for you to help my family expand? After all, it's Mom's birthday today! :)

Happy birthday, Mommy Futel! :)

Revisiting Granado Espada - The Renaissance

2010-11-30T00:00:00.000+08:00

It has been literally years since I last wrote in this blog. If I remember correctly, I was only an expert back then.

Today, I write as a Master level 3.

My name is Raven Futel. I am the fighter of my family - and a sexy one, at that.

Since Mom flew to Poland and back to the Philippines, she still went to Granado Espada so she can see how we're all doing. From various patches, new maps and new factions, perhaps Mom's love for her Granado babies has never faltered. However, she hasn't played with us like the way she did before.

When she entered the world of Granado Espada once again, everything was new; the interface, the world - and believe me, she was definitely in awe. Was it still the world she came to love? This world full of Renaissance stuff? Of course, me and my siblings were there. From little Viki to the maestro Rio, we were there.

My sister Christianne, our scout, and yours truly - we're both donning Dignite Costumes!
And boy, are they HOT!

I still remember that day when Mom sold every equipment we have because she was quitting. It was painful, alright, and even her other friends were sure that they would miss her. But she left my favorite blunt and shield - it had too much sentimental value to let go. Our old family friend, oread, gave it to me.

I remember the day when we turned Masters, as well. My brother Matthieu the Musketeer, and Maestro Vicente Rio was with me when we all turned Masters. It was a great feat, and it was a great achievement. I know for a reason why Mommy never wanted to sell us, or to buy other characters to be in our family, because it is her pride that we have trained from Level 1 up to Masters all by ourselves. We have never bought characters before.

Mom left us in the care of her friend, just before the Renaissance dawned upon the world. I was dressed in my best Dignite Costume, plus wings - I felt really stronger and more confident. Trust me, even with an e92 blunt in my hand, I totally own other people. Oh, how I love that new stance that he gave me.

Today, we traverse into a new world called the Renaissance. A lot of things have changed - from the way the City of Auch looks, to the way families talk to each other. When I last visited the world, I can't stop gushing on exquisite costumes and new features. Hey, we can now send mails to each other - even to offline families! :D and who can forget about those cool medals on top of families' heads? Either way, it is a nice change. Pretty bad for us, though, because since we have quitted, it's as if we are in a whole new world.

Although we do not play as much as we used to, Mom promised herself to visit us at least once a week. I guess she is enjoying exploring other maps which were never there. Hopefully, she'd have time to get new family members for us, as well. Teehee.

I have to read on and explore more about this Renaissance. I bet there's still something wonderful out there somewhere.

P.S.
I have heard about Valeria, and how she'd be able to join my family. Hmm. I think that would be pretty cool. Imagine having somebody as cute as Princess Gabriella, but without her brattiness. Hehehe. I would NEVER want somebody more bratty than I am.

My siblings in the barracks would go crazy.

xoxo,

Raven Futel

Working @ Home with Essays.ph

2009-09-08T23:29:00.005+08:00

UPDATE: Please refer to this site :) for more updates about freelance writing in the Philippines AND about Essays.PH

Sorry, people. It isn't the femme fatale Raven Futel writing now.

I'm writing as Kristine. :)

As most of you know, I was in Poland for the past year as an English teacher. (I guess most of my Grando Espada friends know that since I threw a goodbye party for them before I left ;p) When I came back from Europe, I was in a complete reverse culture shock. (read: crying every day) And I knew that one thing that could make me at least move on with my PH life is to get a job.

So I tried passing my resume to various companies and job websites.

I'm a 2008 graduate of AB Communication Arts in UST, and I did get job offers; both in snail mail and email. However, it isn't in my mindset to work as a call center agent/marketing trainee/medical representative or whatever and however you want to call it.

And then I thought and thought. I scoured for freelance websites and job openings both in the PH and abroad.

..then I stumbled upon Essays.ph.

I told myself, 'Why not give it a try? You're just staying at home anyway.' (And not to mention running out of savings from EU, LOL.)

So I signed up on August 3, 2009. I was ecstatic that finally - woo. I could do something productive aside from chatting with my friends, Facebooking, playing online games and everything else. I got an email that day, as well, saying that I could sign up in the forums. So I did.

Read everything, blah blah...OK, G-Cash, I'll be writer 2..blah blah...rewards, ooo, nice.

Then I went on to see my and check what assignments were available.

I still remember the first assignment I got while I was in the gray team: it was about registry cleaners. Being the techie girl that I am, I typed and typed and typed, but then my laziness crept in...Since I had to produce 5 different versions of each paragraph, on the third or fourth version, I actually dragged. HAHAH. Yeah. Writer's block. But I managed to finish it, anyway.

The second assignment I got was about MIND POWER - and it was better. I watched 'The Secret' with my friends in PL and it was exactly about mind power, so I applied it. I finished 3 assignment sets from Mind Power in 2 days, I think. Not bad.

I woke up on August 12 and checked the Cyber Office.
Woot. Messages. WOW POINTS :P

I was excited to see 1140 points under the name 'krysia' (woohoo) and true enough, it was worth 1140 points. But I wanted more, of course. Who doesn't? :p

So I logged in again, but pfft. I thought I had a bug. I was using Firefox and the images weren't showing up and I couldn't see the reply buttons and everything else @_@ causing me to think that something was wrong because that morning, I was transferred to the red team. (I remember PMing Sir Neil asking about it...then I thought of switching to IE and damn it works.)

Yup, after 6 days, I was in the red team.

I wasn't on probation anymore, woohoo. I could get assignments alreadywhenever I want. :D

I also remember getting three assignment sets about HDTVs, finishing a World of Warcraft (or MMORPG, in general) article in about less than 30 minutes, and writing other sets which I really love in less than 8 hours.

(Oh yeah, cuz I'm also saving up for that quest with rewards: 10 Assignment Sets, less than 8 hours = 1000 points :D I need one more, woot.)

As I type this on September 8, I cashed out a total of 6,000 PHP from Essays.PH. Don't ask me how many articles I've written because it was a lot - but I don't care. It's something that I worked for, anyway. And it felt good. I have been earning my own money but somehow, it still makes you feel like you've accomplished something... you feel fulfilled.

Working for Essays.PH allows me to control my own time (well, except for deadlines) and my own money when I want and need it. If I don't like the assignment topics, then I don't get any. But if I do, well, I can take more than one in one day. Essays.ph made me realize my love for writing one more time, and it gives me the opportunity to further enhance and use my passion for the English language.

I haven't been getting assignments for the past week (or maybe a week and a half) because I was also doing some work abroad which is really time-consuming..but I know I'd always come back to Essays.PH. (Oh sorry, I've just written an assignment yesterday, anyway :D)

Like what the advice bot on top of the Cyber Office always tells me:
We hope we can shape the true writer in you.

And I guess they have already shaped me. :)

Join me @ Essays.PH

Visit www.essays.ph for more information, or you can take a look at our CyberOffice at forums.essays.ph

P.S.
The only 3 revisions that I got were:
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2.) Something was wrong with the zip file @_@
3.) I forgot to change the font, font size and put titles

P.P.S.
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Our Litte Sister in Dragonica

2009-09-07T22:16:00.006+08:00

So, I guess we won't be playing too much in Granado Espada. I personally think we're getting old, too, although Gavin begs to disagree. (Yeah, still the hunk that he is.) The friends that we made in Bach aren't there anymore *sob* and there are too many imba players, and I know we can get killed by just a spacebar.

We don't know yet if we are fully retired or we'll just be going in GE from time to time.

Of course, as we lay back and enjoy our endless vacation outside of Granado Espada, we are also helping our little sister in Dragonica.

Yup, yup. Her name is Krysiunia...but OK. Call her Krysia for short. It's a Polish name. I guess Mom is now Polish by heart (OK, my sisters and brothers are laughing, hahaha)

But anyway, Krysia is an archer. And currently the baby of the family. (Yes, I know. It isn't Viki anymore who's our baby...but still cute as ever.) So there. Krysia has blue hair...yup, that's her on the picture above.

We were earlier doing her own blog in the blogosphere, and it's nice to see how supportive the whole Futel family is.

Granado Espada and Dragonica is both under IAHgames, anyway, so our worlds are pretty much near. Plus we have the same Mom who takes care of us together with her new kitten Bunia ;p

You can check out Dragonica SEA by clicking on Krysia's picture, or by clicking this banner. :D

It's has a nice gameplay...we promise! :)
And it's worth giving a try!

See you in the world of Granado Espada (hopefully, maybe...who knows?) or with my little sister in Dragonica!

Rest assured, the Futel family in GE is still backing up Krysia in Dragonica all the way!

P.S.
You can sign up in Dragonica with your GE ID, then make friends with Krysia...
I swear, she just plays alone ;p

Related Links
Krysia in Dragonica (our little sister's site!)
Dragonica SEA
Dragonica SEA - IAHgames

The Come Back.

2009-08-25T20:34:00.002+08:00

After hibernating for 8 months, the Futel family is back.

Yes, we are back. Or at least we think we are back.

Although there are a lot of things that are new in our world in Granado Espada, particularly that now we are in Bach, our faction is still standing.

With one colony.

It may seem that our old friends have already quitted - but we're still so touched as we were walking around the City of Auch on Sunday evening when Guailan messaged us.

Seems like they do remember us, still.

After Mom broaded to wish everybody good luck for the upcoming colony wars, she then PMd her friends, such as badbadtz, LightRaid, Ixal, KungHumirit, Ictus, BodyOfDesire.

It was so nice to be back in GE, even for a moment.

We're still thinking if we'd really come back.

Why?

1.) We're only a family of 4 Experts - the rest are level 100s to Veterans.
2.) Other families are going to Master @___@
3.) We can get killed with spacebar.
4.) Our equipment isn't strong anymore.

So yeah, we are still thinking. Maybe it'd be nice to play again, don't you think? :)

Nasz zwierzę :)

2008-10-28T08:17:00.003+08:00

Dzien dobry from Poland!

Raven here, typing, as always. Mom's busy cleaning our room here in Poland since we live alone now. Anyways, I type because I am so happy to share to you guys the newest addition to our family.

But before that, a little story first.

Mommy Tin was trying to download the GE Patch for the past week before Thursday in the hostel ~but to no avail. Yes, we had a 1mbps connection, according to Speedtest.net, but somehow it's still slow. Probably the firewall is blocking the downloads. Both the automatic patch and the manual patch and the full client - nie ma. We don't have it. We cannot download it.

So yeah, we were frustrated. Big time.

Anywho, a friend offered to download it for us. Woot. But Mom took her hard drive in the office and tried to patch through the laptop there - and it worked. Who knows? Haha. So then we tried to log in and it works! Yay!

Zapraszamy, GE version 2.9! :D

So, so there.

Then last night, mom's friend came and gave her his pen drive. WOOT.
He downloaded the FULL CLIENT of Granado Espada v2.9 and Mom was so happy that she decided to do something for him in-game.

She told him she totally forgot about it. He told him he didn't forget. Dziękuje bardzo! Woohoo :)

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OK, fast forward. Tonight, before I type this, we got our pet box from the greenhouse.
Yesiree, our pet already hatched! :D

Meet the newest member of the Futel family :D
Read down to see his name :P

And earlier, Mom thought of giving it his friend's nickname since he downloaded a rather huge client of 4.15GBs. We wanted to give it a rather Polish name but WTF...GE's fonts are not friendly at all for other languages. We wanted to name him Aruś, but Arus came out. Because GE, well, it doesn't have ś.

Yeah, see its name? Arus which is supposed to be Aruś. Oh well :)

So we have a little grabber with us now!

Too bad we have to work hard (or buy more) for his pet food :((

*insert frustration to buy Feso here*

Maybe we'll find a way soon to feed Aruś. We need GP or Feso. Badly.

Sigh.

Oh well. He's a cutie waaah especially when he runs. Hahaha. Fluffy.

Cute cute cute cute.

PS. IAH, can you make some pet food available in Vis? T_T

Anyways, as of now, we'll let him hibernate. Because we don't have the money to maintain him. So he might as well be always resting and not grabbing, since his specie is a grabber, which means he loots and loots and loots your thingies.

Oh well.

Goodnight guys. 1.35am here.

Mom is tired and so are we :)

Do zobaczenia! :)

Love lots,
Raven

A Love Story

2008-10-08T06:35:00.002+08:00

She played for fun. He played for fun.

They met in one faction ~ in the world of Granado Espada, in Vivaldi.

So what?

He had other friends ~ rather close friends, in the faction.
And she was too busy proving to everyone that she was a girl.

They started chatting, she started singing ~ and he started singing.
Till the wee hours of the morning.
And since then she couldn't forget him.

But she didn't know what she was thinking.

She rants to him~ he annoys her.
He teases her ~ so when he stops, she misses him..
Too badly.

He went for a vacation for a week~ and she missed him.
A little too much than normal.

She can't forget his voice~ and the way he teases her that she gets so irritated often times.
But still, she misses her.

One day he comes back, seemingly tired of playing.

But then they met ~ one factionmate's party ~
and she admits it was the best night of her life.

...and she wishes it never stopped.

Things got blurry~ they seemingly fell apart from each other...
But she knew she can never, ever forget him.

What was she feeling? She didn't know.
He was insensitive ~ she thought to herself.
And he admits that he is insensitive.

Until the time comes that she has to leave the country..and she couldn't take things anymore.
She ranted and ranted~ she typed and typed.
She said things straight from her mind ~ to him.
He was speechless.

Yes, she loved him since the night he sang for her.
The way he teased her and irritates her makes her day.
Everything..just everything.

So it seems he loves her too.
Damnit. If she hadn't rant, would he tell his feelings?

Whatever.

Of all the guys who tried~ only him, and him alone got her.

Nobody else. Because she wanted him so badly.
And she knows, and she feels, that he feels the same.

And this time, hopefully,..they won't let each other go.

Ten months may be a long time~ but they'd make time fly.
And by then, she'd never leave him again.

Hopefully, he won't leave her, too.

Come what may.

One thing's for sure: she loves him.

That's all that matters.

Patience and trust :P

And a bit of fun in Granado Espada ;)

The Granado Girl in Poland

2008-10-04T04:19:00.003+08:00

Hey hey! Dzien dobry~ as what the Polish people say :)

I think I need to write something as I haven't blogged anything yet here in my GE blog since I stepped in Poland.

The temperature was a great drop from the usual 20++ in the Philippines to a shocking 8 degrees celsius in Poland. You could just imagine my happiness when I stepped down the plane wearing wedge sandals and my coat + jacket ~ with my breath smoking. You do know what I mean.

Anyways, I am 2 hours away from Warsaw. Currently living in the 4th floor of Academicka 5, Radom, Poland. (read it as akademitska) hahahaha. OH well.

I must say I have really good AIESEC friends and also non-AIESEC friends :D

Yup. Living independently and working as an English teacher :P

I am 2 weeks in Poland as I write this now~ I wish time would fly really fast.

We are making the time fly so fast :)

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Oh here's a GE related story.

I met so many great people in GE. New friends have found places in my life and will never be erased anymore. The person whom I hate so much when he kills me in IOF became my bestest friend ~ considering the fact that he is not from my faction. And the guy who loves teasing me in the faction is the one who makes me happy :)

I love him so much. He's someone I hate but then I love. He's someone whom I love to kick and yet I love to hold hands with. And I am proud to say that I met him in Granado Espada :)

Yes, someone managed to snatch Futel from all those guys in Vivaldi :)

And of course, those guys I love so much, from my faction and from other factions spent a night of drinking and eating and talking with me for my despedida party. I am so happy they came~ it's like I threw a party for them because all my college friends and high school friends didn't come. SO only my GE family came~

But then, I am still happy.

The few minutes with the scooter with him is definitely worth it.
Gawd, I love you. And this time I am NOT ashamed to tell it to the whole world.

I dunno what else to write but I have a LONG blog regarding each and every person who came to my despedida party. xD

I'll publish it soon~

AJA gamers. And keep on making friends in games.

Who knows, he or she might be ur next best friend~ or even love ;)

Leaving.

2008-09-18T09:31:00.003+08:00

It's just a short blog actually.

At 2000 +8GMT September 18, 2008, I will be leaving the Philippines to go to Europe. Wee.

But HOPEFULLY we'll still be playing in Vivaldi.

I'll never forget my GE family :)

Especially one person..

I love you guys :)

The One About Her CumuloNimbus

2008-09-10T21:04:00.002+08:00

Mom got featured (with her consent) in the Granado Espada Gamer Girls thingy month~ lolx.

Well anyways here's the full 'interview' text which she claims she was 'feeling stupid' when she typed those thingies. hahahahaha xD

from http://ge.iahgames.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=815

Family Name: Futel
Server: Vivaldi
Favorite MCC Combination: Fighter, Musketeer, Elementalist/Rio

"How often do you play GE and when did you first start?"
I first started around December 2007. I stopped around February to mid-April because of thesis issue since I was graduating college. I have been playing everyday since then~ and I mean everyday! My laptop only gets its rest during maintenance.

"How did you find out about GE?"
My brother. He said the graphics were like Final Fantasy~ and I tried it out! Loved it :)

"What are the features of GE that drew you into it?"
The rich graphics and the setting. It has the feeling of reality. And oh, the multi-character syste,

"Have any interesting incidents happened to you in GE? Do you think things would have happened differently if you weren't a gamer girl?"
Well, I've met awesome guys who treat me special *drumroll please* LOL, no, not my boyfriend. They really close friends now. I think it would be different if I'm not a gamer girl because then they wouldn't treat me as one of the boys~ they'd treat me as a girl. But as a gamer, they treat me as one of the boys (during rough times) and a girl at the same time. I mean, I can talk to them about almost anything~ and they'd still know their limits.

"What type of gamer are you? Achiever, Socializer, Explorer, Killer?"
STILL a SOCIALIZER. Lolx. The Socializer motto: "No friend undiscovered!" Description: People with high Socializer scores enjoy interacting with other people, forming organizations, and finding cooperative solutions to the challenges within the virtual world.

87% Socializer, 67% Explorer, 27% Killer, 20% Achiever

"What are some of your favorite activities within GE or what is a typical day life for you in GE?"
Typical day? The faction chat or the group chat! It's non stop fun talking to them :) It's like my day isn't complete when I do not talk to them.

"What are some struggles you face as a gamer girl in real life?"
HMM. Struggles. Well I have to prove to them that I am a girl~ that's one. But I think I have proved it enough since they have been with me IRL. Oh yeah, and hiding it from my mom when I go out with my game buddies~ LOL.

HER WORLD

Name: Kristine Clarisse Cruz
Age: 20
Occupation: A college graduate, as of now. Leaving the PH in one month for an Internation Exchange Program by AIESEC going to Poland to be an English tutor

"Have you ever dated someone you met in-game? Do you believe that romance can be found in-game?"
Err, yes I have. Haha. OK, LOL again. I think it can be found in-game~ since you find real friends in-game too. Maybe, just maybe, one of them is a special someone :D

"What is a typical day for you like in real life?"
I wake up usually home alone. My mom in the office and my little brother goes to college. I cook then feed the dogs then I eat, then I play :O or play while doing all of those~ teehee. Other times I talk on Skype/YM with my friends in-game, both from the same faction and/or different factions. Then I play the guitar and sing for them~ Woot :D

"When and how did you first start gaming?"
I am a gamer at heart. Since Family Computer. LOL. I can spend a day playing PSP or playing in Timezone. But for MMORPG, ONLY Granado Espada. Nothing else :)

HER HEART

"Describe a memorable incident that created an impact on your life."
When my mom and dad separated around 10 years ago. Isn't that enough to carve an impact in my life? Since then I learned to be independent, seeing my mom with all my struggles. My friends insist that I am rich, but we are not. :) Maybe my dad's family, but I am not rich. It made me treasure everything I have, and of course to learn things on my own. I've been responsible since then, and the leadership that emanates from me is natural~ yes, it made me stronger. And it made me a better person. :)

"What is important to you in life/what principles or values do you live by?"
Every bad thing has a good thing. As long as you didn't do anything bad to one person; let karma make its way. Oh and smile & laugh & sing a lot~ be child-like sometimes. It helps :)

"Who are your heroes (both in-game and real life) and why?"
My mom for real life. It's not every day you see a beautiful woman raising up two children all on her own :) In-game? I'd go for err, Adelina the Pirate. A female leader, whose family got killed and yet she managed to stand on her own two feet. Now THAT's something.

"If you were a beauty product, what would you be and why?"
A beauty product? err. hmm. Probably an eyeliner. It can make you look sultry and seductive, or ferocious, or simply define your features. It's like me; I can be your worst enemy but then I can also be the nicest and sweetest (LOL) friend you can have. Versatility defined. LOL. Oh and another thing, it's my favorite piece of beauty product~

"And what item in GE would your dream guy be and why?"
He'd be my Cumulo-Nimbus Shield, the lightning series shield. Shield me from all Chain Lightnings of life and still manage to look very presentable~ oh, and never leaves my hand behind. He's always there, holding my hand, all the way~ protecting me from all the harshness of life.

Discuss this here.

Blogspotted!

2008-09-08T18:52:00.003+08:00

Raven here~ wee.

Mom was so pissed off this day >.< style="font-weight: bold;">Yesiree, we've been blogspotted! xD

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to IAH and the staff of Granado Espada~ wee.

Thanks so much! You make us bloggers love the game even more~

This is a nice farewell gift for us~ since we will be off to Poland by next week.

Wee :)

Don't worry - you'll still see us online in Vivaldi :)

See the blogspotted thingy announcement here.
And discuss it here xD

Love lots,
Raven

One Screenshot, One Colony

2008-08-26T16:06:00.002+08:00

Wee~ one of our loading screens got featured, but we didn't win any prizes.

Oh well. At least one of our hard works were featured~ weehee~

And it'll be a bigger challenge to make better loading screens next time, right? :D

Read the winners and see the winning loading screens here! :D

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On the other hand, despite our tired minds and bodies during the Colony Wars the other day, we finally got one colony. Which was supposed to be three actually. HAHAH.

Oh well. We, the Futels of Vivaldi, are happy that we got one colony :D

Behold the Ferruccio Junction~ colony of the Aggressor™

So what if there were 4 to 5 factions against us? :P

At last! CWs in Vivaldi are NO LONGER boring :D weeeeheeee~

Keep up the good work, guys! And please please please cool your heads.

HERE are some tips for you guys:

LISTEN TO YOUR SUPERIORS.
LISTEN TO YOUR SQUAD LEADERS.
KEEP THE FACTION CHAT CLEAN.
DO NOT MAKE UNNECESSARY MOVES.
IF THE PLANS BACKFIRE, DO NOT BREAK DOWN AND START CURSING EVERYONE!
MAKE THE MOST OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE AT THE MOMENT
BE STRICT BUT NOT TOO STRICT
IF ALL ELSE BACKFIRES, NEVER BLAME OTHERS BECAUSE EVERYONE DID THEIR BEST.

It pains to see Mom pissed off after the CW~ even logged out of GE and started ranting to her friends pfffft. Oh well.

All is well that ends well.

Let's just pray for the best next CW and be thankful of what we have now.

See you guys soon~ :P

Love, Raven

It's a Wii Day :D

2008-08-26T15:50:00.006+08:00

August 25, 2008

Despite the stupid weather and the dark skies when I woke up, I still went to Manila to meet up with my other gamer friends ~ my first EB outside my faction. Though I was with Pieter AKA PietMeister and we're both from Aggressor™, I still can't get the thought out of my head that I might be OP. LOL.

So yeah~ Piet and I went to SM Megamall to meet up with Kira [IGN withheld due to Repub/Royalists issues HAHA].

Anywho, we waited for Pyxiss and Roque [Aya and Leo, though Leo only plays Pyxiss now], and stormseek and stormseeks [Bryan and Ria] and then headed off to Greenwoods were we saw hotoshi and Stallios~ woot. Republicans and one Royalist. HAHAHA. ^^v

We were with the Baron faction and the Rebels~ and of course, Aggressors :P

What we did? A day full of Nintendo Wii-ing playing tennis, RockBand, Guitar Hero and boxing. WTF. Now I want a Wii :O waaaaaaah. So sorry about me ranting~ i just want a wii + an LCD projector now. WTF.

Pictures? LOL. I believe Aya and Ria has better copies~ the room where we played Wii was dark and my phone can't handle the noise hahahaha. Here~

Bryan, Piet, Leo & Kira playing Tennis

LCD Projector gaming! OH yeah!!

Leo & Kira getting it on~

Bryan & Piet on tennis doubles~

Yeah, they're having a good time lol ^^

Aya, the original owner of Pyxiss~

Fixing the gedamn controllers for boxing!

Leo & Aya beating the other team~ lol.
Damn imba in GE ~ and imba in tennis, too~!

Other pictures to follow when I get them from Aya. Haha.

Gawd. I felt so small yesterday~ lol. Imagine Pyxiss killing you with LIGHTNING alone ~ NOT even Chain Lightning~ or Frenzied Thunder. WTF. Damn imba :O

Anyways, I forgot to take pics of hotoshi & Stallios oh darn...oh yeah, it's with Aya. Hahaha.

I had a really great time~ wish to play more Wii with you guys! ;)

Till next time~

Gambateh~

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edit.

Here's our group pic after eating. HAHAHA. Woot~

l-r ~ Pieter, Tin, Pot, Jhao, Kira, Ria, Bryan, Leo, Aya

Til next time! ^^v

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More pics from Aya's Cam! Wee :D

100 Facts about Tin

2008-08-22T15:24:00.004+08:00

This is what boredom brings~

As I level my dear Seanne and Rio in Bahama Swamp of Darkness, with the help of Cath, I answer stupid surveys so as not to be so bored~ pfffft.

Sometimes I wish I was a student again.
I wouldn't have to be bored everyday. Pfft.

ABOUT YOU:

001. Real name: Kristine Clarisse Lopez-Cruz

002. Nicknames: Krz, Tin, Tin-tin, Krizzie

003. Married: No duh~

004. Zodiac sign: Capricorn

005. Male or female: Female

006. Age: 20

007. HIGHSCHOOL: Angelicum College, QC

008. College: University of Santo Tomas, Manila

009. residence: Bulacan

010. Hair color: Now? It's semi-brownish *_*

011. Long or short hair: Shoulder-length

012. Smoke: When I'm pissed off :O

013. Drink: Occassionally

014. Available: Yeah.

015. Are you a health freak: Err, not much.

016. Height: 5'6"

017. Do you have a crush on someone?: Yeah

018. Do you like yourself: I think..??

019. Piercings: Three ear piercings.

020. Tattoos: None

021. Righty or lefty: Righty

FIRSTS :

022. First surgery: Nope

023. First piercing: I was a baby back then *_*

024. First best friend/s: Paw

025. First award: Err, best in English and Math?

026. First date place: Date? Who did I date? *_*

027. First pet: Err, Doggie

028. First vacation: Boracay? Baguio? Demmit.

029. First concert: First concert I attended? err, in CCP complex pak

030. First crush: err nvm =_='

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating: Nothing. I'm hungry. Really.

050. Drinking: Iced tea.

051. lying/sitting: Half sitting on my bed, almost lying down hahaha

052. Im about to: err, Alt-Tab back to GE.

053. Listening to: Without You Here by Goo Goo Dolls HERE

FAVORITE'S :

054. Food: Pasta :O

055. Drinks: Iced tea

056. Colors: purple, pink, white

057. Numbers: 5 and 27

YOUR FUTURE :

058. Want kids: Of course.

059. Want to get married: Err, yes? but if there's no one decent, a baby would be fine :O

060. Careers in mind: singer/songwriter hahahah

WHICH IS BETTER? :

068. Lips or eyes: eyes

069. Hugs or kisses: hugs

070. Shorter or taller: taller

072. Romantic or spontaneous: spontaneous

073. Nice stomach or nice arms: arms

074. Sensitive or loud: aw gawd. i dunno :O somewhere in between

075. Hook-up or relationship: relationship, of course. but if it's only a fling, then so be it~

076. Do you prefer PDA rather than in private?: err, anything's fine with me :D

077. Trouble maker or hesitant: Trouble maker :O

HAVE YOU EVER :

078. Kissed a stranger: yes.

079. Drank bubbles: ack.

080. Lost glasses/contacts: yes.

081. Ran away from home: nope

082. Liked someone younger: yes?

083. Older: yes,

084. Broken someones heart: yes :(

085. Been arrested: no

086. Turned someone down: yes pfffttt

087. Cried when someone died: yes

088. Liked a friend: yeas

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. In yourself: yeah

090. Miracles: yeah
091. Love at first sight: err, no.

092. Heaven: yes

093. Santa claus: yes

094. Sex on the first date: err, yes?

095. the more you hate, the more you love: haha. yeah :D

096. Angels: yeah

TRUTHFULLY :

097. Is there one person you want to be with you right now? yes

098. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at a time? agh. NO.

099. Do you love someone more than yourself?: yeah. that's why the past 5 years were stupid~

100. Do you believe in God? yeah

HAHA~ okay so you guys know me already. I think. Oh well.

This is what boredom brings. PFT.

New Loading Screens :P

2008-08-16T14:09:00.002+08:00

Here's a set of new Loading Screens that we've done~

Wee! Enjoy :P

{so sorry, mom got lazy in putting captions to others...lol :P her copywriting skills were sleeping that time when she edited...LOL}

Which weapon would you want to use?? :P

Buffs Galore! Dun you just love Rio's buff?

Err, what's with the caption, mom?
Haha. Issue:O LOL

If you wear this pistol with a rapier, people will ask where you got that e92 main gauche. hahahahaha :P

Diego's Art Nouveau

2008-08-14T23:41:00.004+08:00

Mom was in the mood for some Photoshopping :D

So we made an entry to Diego's Art Nouveau! :)

Read the mechanics here. See the entries here. And discuss it here.

Of course, we wouldn't pass the chance to post it here in our blog, would we? :P

Thanks for the wonderful screenshots and editing, Mommy Tin :P ~ you're the best!

Our entries are shrinked to 800 x 500 so it won't lag your internet connection that much ~ but the originals are still here, 1280 x 800 :)

Enjoy ;)

Matthieu my brother musky, Seanne my brother elem, and me ~ the femme fighter in Idge's hat and my Daemon Sword :O

One of my favorite screenshots. Why?
Because I got blue rings! :P

Haha, an accidental screenshot during CW.
Yeah, go team! :)

I got Bai Hu in our family! Wahahaha!
See how I kicked Takahashi in his face :P

Ack, this was for the photostory. But it's still nice, right?

And another one using our faction's pics!

So that's it for now! LOL. Mom's kinda tired editing and we're helping Bai Hu reach Veteran too. XD Hell, he's one heck of an imba guy :O

Now to get Feng Ling ~ wee. Irawan & Bai Hu should LOOOOoveeee Feng Ling in our family ;P

weehee!

Bye guys!

Love lots,

Raven

My GE Family: The Aggressors™

2008-08-07T12:42:00.002+08:00

Mommy being one of the girls in the faction [and sometimes even being the FL] makes her prone to a lot of teasing and name-callings in Vivaldi.

Especially when she haven't shown herself in the faction in real life :P

But then everything changed when she first showed herself in the GE Event in Trinoma :O

LOL, I'll do some Q&A between me and Mom :D

The Aggressors in Trinoma: Friendships both in-game and in real life.

Raven: Yo mom! What made you show yourself to ur factionmates in TriNoMa?

Tin/Futel: Pft. It was actually all planned that I'd be meeting up with Paw (the one in the picture beside me) and then I'd be dropping off to see these guys but pakkin' ADMINISTRATOR [see picture] teased me the night before and said that I was the same as ARBAB (who's GAY) so then i got so pissed and I swore I'd show myself to them :O

Raven: Haha. Yeah you were so mad that night, they were all telling ADMIN to stop. So how'd it go?

Tin: Well I was in TriNoMa early, got pissed with SO MANY people, had lunch with Paw in Jack's Loft and met up with the guys in McDonald's. They were shocked to see me there, and Drey (morbid angel) even commented I was so tall..

Raven: So?

Tin: Duh~ i was actually just with Paw. And then we went to the garden or something where the picture was taken, we talked there, fooled around and went to McDonald's in Mindanao Avenue where we talked and talked and Orville (Oliviera) was definitely sounding as if he swallowed a megaphone and everyone was laughing :D i'd never forget the laughs that night.

In TriNoMa, topic? Granado Espada. LOL.

Raven: and then...?

Tin: I went home duh~ and played again. And now everyone believed that I really am a girl >:) nyahahhaa.

Raven: So the next EB was when?

Tin: There was this one day when oread, morbid angel and I bought stuff in the E-Games office in Makati City..,they're two of my closest friends in the faction, actually. Or maybe because we three are always online?

Raven: So that's why when you broad Futel, the name oread comes along...

Tin: No, no. That's a misconception. You see, oread is a close friend of mine, only :O hahaha.

Raven: So does that mean you like someone else in the faction?

Tin: (silence) next question please, my dearest femme GE daughter.

Raven: Fine. Can you give one word for every factionmate you've met?

Tin: Sure.

Raven: Your FL, Daemonic.

Tin: Short? [peace, my literally little brother] (laughs)

Raven: oread.

Tin: a kid :O if I leave him in the middle of Commonwealth Avenue, he's a goner.

Raven: morbid angel

Tin: long hair :D kinda reminds me of the VCO commercial

Raven: Peavey

Tin: Santana! Heck, he plays lead guitar GOOD.

Raven: kuun

Tin: mokong. Never fails to make me laugh :D

Raven: eresperitum

Tin: highschool. LOL. Hello loooooooove (laughs)

Raven: ADMINISTRATOR

Tin: err, a teaser. haha. oh and hot-headed when it comes to PK-ing.

Raven: Mom. One word.

Tin: oh yeah, sorry.

Raven: Oliviera

Tin: Bouncy! Hahaha. Bouncing baby boy. Nyahahaha.

Raven: Bucha

Tin: Err, a gentleman. Not much of those nowadays. Calling all ladies!

Raven: Santibanez

Tin: Barney!!! HAHAHAHA. Now I lol'd

Raven: Why barney, mom?

Tin: Never mind. You dun want Coco [Santi] to stab you, do you?

Raven: Yeah duh *mutters something*

Tin: What is that, Raven Futel?

Raven: Err, I said, Novelonio

Tin: tall :O

Raven: Arthro

Tin: Silent.

Raven: Who else, mom?

Tin: Dunno. Are those all?

Raven: Yeah I guess. Anyways, you guys bought Bellem's Card in Makati?

Tin: Yeah, and played in TimeZone and ate Jamaican Patties! :D

Raven: And then?

Tin: Well the next EB was Peavey's birthday bash. Along with Admin's and morbid's.

The Aggressors in Villa Nova

Raven: Yeah, they asked you to sing?

Tin: Well yes, apparently. Though it was pakkin' FAR. Haha. I sang some songs but naaaah, I hated how I sung because I didn't know the lyrics of the Game of Love, but it was still fun.

Raven: You were the only girl?

Tin: Yeah. This time I went alone without Paw. Though I went to Jed's (my HS friend) house party after 12am. It's not kinda okay seeing a lone girl in a bunch of boys lol..

Raven: (laughs)

Tin: Hey seriously duh~ I went to Jed's house and stayed the night there.

Raven: So any highlights that night?

Tin: Well, yes! Daemonic sung HAHAHAHA (laughs)

Raven: OMFG. Seriously?

Tin: Yes!

Raven: Zzz me wanna see.

Tin: Oh here. Watch here >:)

Raven: Yay!!! Any videos of you singing, Mom?

Tin: I think. But i won't post the link here~ duh. Find it somewhere else.

Raven: And pics?

Tin: Here :D

Raven: Why do you consider them your friends now?

Tin: Because they are my friends. Heck, i can talk to them, they can make me laugh and definitely pick up my day when I'm down. I told you, GE is my sanctuary >:)

Raven: Yeah, often times you'd broad in Vivaldi or rant in faction chat about how much you miss...

Tin: SHUSSSHHHH.

Raven: (laughs)

Tin: Go back to barracks already.

Raven: Aww mom, you're no fun. I'm interviewing you see.

Tin: Go shu shu.

Raven: Pft. No fun. (stomps off)

HAHAHA. Okay, so I shushed my daughter Raven away. Anyways, I am so happy I was taken into this faction because they all became my friends. Whether they call me Tin, Auntie or Mama, it's fine by me cuz I know, even if I maybe playing in Europe, my GE family will always be with me~ one connection away :)

See you all in-game :)

Tin

Mommy Futel is leaving the Philippines!

2008-07-30T22:20:00.002+08:00

Mom just got word from AIESEC in Radom, Poland...

and she got matched to have her internship in Poland! :)

Woot~

so we are off to Europe in September~!!! :)

Dun worry ~ we'll still play and see you all in-game :)

Wish us luck!

The Futel Family~

We Won Free ABS again :)

2008-07-25T13:47:00.003+08:00

Thanks to the Girl Gamer's Blog Challenge by CM Veya, we won free 20 Adelina's Booty Searches again :)

Wee~

Thanks for the challenges and events! Keep on doing such to make gamers such as us more excited and more active :D

+++

On a side note, Raven and Catherine are now EXPERTS. Woo~

So proud of my babies :D

And Matthieu my muskee is 9% away from being Expert~ woottt~

Vicente is Vet now, as well :)

Grace, Andre & Emilia are all level 8x

Irawan, Viki and Christine the wiz is level 100

Woot~

:D

See you all in-game :)

Blue Rings???

2008-07-21T19:40:00.003+08:00

July 21, 2008
Around 1AM..

Krz here. I let off my babies rest for a while~ they're probably tired grinding. As you guys all know, we are members of the Aggressor Faction in Vivaldi...and I know I'm not the only rose among the thorns but I was the first to bond with them.

They all became my brothers. Lol.

So this morning, my Faction Leader & good friend, Daemonic, asked me something..which led to one thing to another.

And guess what happened after the conversation. Pft.

Behold Matthieu my Musky in Outrage and Raven my Fighter with Blue rings...

Whadahell.

OK, so being an FL for a day (or rather, 18 hours as I type this) had made me think of somethings that should be thought of.

It is a big responsibility. Though I know my little brother Daemonic will still be FL in mind, body and soul, it is our family's name which is at stake and linked with our faction now. People literally stop in Auch to see, who is that with blue rings...PMing me what happened to Dae or sth like that, and of course, being surprised when they learn that I am a girl.

So what if I am a girl..? Doesn't mean I can't be FL.

It's just like back in college..wherein I get to be appointed, assigned or pushed into power by other classmates to lead them, to guide them. I think it is in my natural self to be the eldest sister to everyone ~ and I think it shone through even in GE. Some even call me Auntie Futel. Others call me Ate [big sister]. It's their choice, actually. But yeah. Pak.

Well anywho, I'll return the Faction Leadership to Daemonic, in time.
Let's see what will happen now that a girl tries to run this faction.

Wee~

Earlier today, VanDidos asked me about the Mission, Vision, Principles & Motto of Aggre. Lol. I laughed. I know she was joking but well, I typed away anyway not minding what I'll type.

VISION: To bring back the former grandeur of Aggressors; to bring honor, dignity & fun to each and every member, and to form real friendships beyond anything else.

MISSION: To rake imba-ness [lolz] and imbue it to every Aggressor; to bring out the best potentials of their every character in every raid, in every battle, in every war; and to form real and loyal friendships in real-life events & occassions

Err..PRINCIPLE: Fun, loyalty & friendship - all rolled into one.

HAHA. Demmit. I can't think of anything more. Oh well.

Here's to a trial of Futel being the Faction Leader ~ with sparkly blue rings.

Pft.

See you guys in Vivaldi :)

[and i hope you dun eat a girl FL alive *_*]

GAMBATEH~~~

The Royal Rumble

2008-07-16T00:21:00.003+08:00

It's a rainy day and Mom was getting bored and so were we.

You'd probably be wondering who the new NPC is outside Bahia - the Royal Rumble Manager. Well yep, it's a new game in Bahia which is like Royal Rumble in WWE. LOL.

Rules are simple enough - you defend yourself. Woot!

It opens at 12pm, 4pm, 8pm and 12am for 20minutes.
Come to channel 1 and bring 150,000Vis with you if you wanna join :D

Sure is fun for those PK-lovers in Vivaldi! LOL.

So if you LOVE to PK in IOF, GO HERE INSTEAD..

SO at 4pm earlier this afternoon, she brought Cath, Matthieu and Me in Bahia Island channel 1. We spoke to the Guard (who looks like Cortazar, LOL)

OK, so were were required to pay 150,000 Vis. Pft. There you go. LOL.

Anywho, at 4pm, we saw another family inside. Killed his scout. Poof. Gone. Then he killed us three. Oh well~ turns out to be kaiserblitz :P you're imba, dude. HAHA. He said sorry anywho. So, that's fine.

Anywho. Mom decided to try again this 12am. Guess what? We were the only persons there for like 10 minutes. Pft.

Then the beacon appeared in the center~ bam, bam! Poof. Out goes the Warrior's Symbol which gave us THESE. (BTW, the beacon looks like a Colony round thingy lol, you know that?)

Weird looking crowns which float on top of your head - THE WARRIOR'S SYMBOL. A necklace which gives you additional 2AR/DR woot~

BTW, it doesn't apply to Catherine's dolls soooo go figure :P

Anywho, getting the necklace surely added stats, like if your a Vet you'd feel like an expert even for a moment~ lololol.

The map is small = you can run and run around. LOL. See?

Anyway, we were waiting until there came in another person (an FL with Black wings, LOL) because he has blue rings and firewalled us~ heck only Cath survived (I dunno why, pft) but was RIPd (or was it Zero-in?) to death. Pft.

Anywho, he got the Warrior's Symbol from us.

Oh well.

So much for trying it out~

Yeah, the strong will remain and the weak will perish.
I'm not that imba, you know :P I just got my first e92 last night, heck!

So i didn't have the chance to see the PRIZE which is supposedly 2 pcs of level 100 chips.

Oh damn. That's worth 60m, in Vivaldi :O

woot~

Oh well. We'll have our time. Maybe not now :)

But it sure is a nice way to PK people legitimately~ yar~!!! :D

Go imba time!!! XD

Imagine if you're expert and you get the symbol and you get additional 2ar/dr plus you still have your necklace for Gavin's quest OMFG that would be pwnage!!!

LOL. me and my dreams. Oh well.

ENJOY RUMBLING GUYS! :D

Love, Raven

A [Short] Love Story

2008-07-09T23:53:00.002+08:00

Krz here. LOL.

CM Veya's Challenge here made me think of a story that is seemingly taken from my own life. Don't ask who Andre is and don't ask who the guy is.

But the makeover part? LOL. Well, I got thinner, got contact lenses and got longer hair. While he, on the other hand, went from a rather chubby childhood to a fabulous gentleman who can really wear nice corporate clothes and can flash a killer smile with his dimples.

Are they my GE babies' daddy? Hmm. Yes ^^v right Awie?

Anywho, I asked Matthieu and Raven to do the poses for me.
Editing, of course, is done by yours truly.
Enjoy this simple photo story :)

I do hope that when you see this, a song plays entitled One Love, my own version of Acel Bisa's song from the OST of Spring Waltz :)

Set in the serene bridge in Rio Albi, a simple story of friendship that led to love happens~

V 2.6 - The Requiem & Rio Dear

2008-07-08T14:58:00.001+08:00

July 3, 2008

As mom downloaded the whole 200++mb patch and encountered a lot of installation and patching issues upon the coming of Requiem v2.6, we were agitated :D

Haha.

See: The game doesn't patch in Mom's laptop but it patches in her brother's PC BUT she can get in v 2.4 and play and there are new things all over. But the version still says 2.6

Oh well.

Next day, she used her brother's PC to finish patching, copied in her external HD and voila!

Hello Granado Espada v2.6 :)

As Darkness Falls, True Heroes Emerge.
What a tagline.

Anywho, here's the poster taken from the official GE website :)

Sorry if it's cut and cut. Seems like IAH cut it in parts and blogger can't connect it without spaces in between.

Anyways, here are some thingies that we noticed inside the game.

FONTS are changed. Yep. It looks like this font but it's smaller but it definitely has serifs like these. But the smileys which gamers do such as >_< >.< doesn't quite look good anymore lol.

NEGATIVE barracks bug. Some people have 8/4 barracks slots :O whoop.

DISABLED missions. We tried going to Spotlight/Interchange 4 only to find out that whoop~ disabled. Hence, we lost our missions. Sigh.

REPUTATION resets. Back to square one. Oh well. Try talking to Leonardo Expresso and he'll give you Total Nutrition (Event), pretty much like Election Compensation Potions and Mystic Ampules but they aren't tradeable.

SO MANY Glaziums. When we first got in Granado Espada, we were told that we were paid by the cabinet then boom~ hundreds of Glaziums to trade for pioneering weapons with higher AR/DR bases :) Too bad Epic Glaziums - to be traded for level 100 weapons/equips - need Mystery Powders to work with. Oh well..

TRANSFER of faction leadership. Haha. Now if our FL gets tired he can pass it onto one of us members~ not that I'm saying I want him out. but I think those factions which are disbanded already should've waited for this one instead :O

NEW GROUP chat. So you want just to chat with other people without necessarily using PMs or squad chats? Worry no more~ chat addicts, chat your heart away XD

and of course..

GETTING Vicente. So what if he sounds horribly Mexican? Aye~ and Reggae Bon Bon~ I still think he would be nice in our family~ woot! Another brother. Hey not bad ^^ and I heard he's a total imba...hmm..need to recruit him.

But it's kinda expensive. Lol. Must get Bellem's Card. HAHA.

Err, Mom?
are you buying?

Oh well.

Good thing we are nearing to be experts now.

I'm currently 108, alongside with Cath while brother Matthieu is going 107. ^^

Seanne is now a Veteran, and so is Christianne. Still have Christine, Viki & Irawan in level 100s.

And Andre in 76, Bernelli in 71 and Emilia in 45.

Now a level 19 family~

Sigh. Mom trains us real hard. And spoils us too *_*

I sure hope we can save up enough for Expert Scrolls soon enough..

See you all guys in-game!! :D

Love,

Raven Futel~

Why play Granado Espada?

2008-06-27T15:30:00.003+08:00

Hey.

For one, I wouldn't let my Granado Babies blog about this one since it needs my own personal point of view.

A lot of people in-game and in real life have been asking me why I chose to play Granado Espada - considering the fact that I am a 20-year-old girl who just graduated college.

Well, I think the girl issue is more prominent here :D

Anywho.

I come to tell all of you that I have been a gamer since err, Family Computer. lolx.

Kidding aside, I have been fond of RPGs with great storylines and stories of hatred and love and romance and vengeance. Yes, the Final Fantasy Series.

I first played Final Fantasy 7 in the old and first Playstation (yes, the gray one?) and I fell in love since then. I cried when Aeris died. I swooned over Tifa & Cloud. I fell in love with the story of Sephiroth and everybody else. I laughed at Cait Sith. Argh.

So Final Fantasy 8 came and I fell in love even more. So sorry but, I love Squall's and Rinoa's love story that I still remember when I came to Disc 3 wherein Rinoa got stuck in space and had to press eject, I cried because of two things. 1. I didn't want her to die and 2. our PS' lens broke.

I waited a year or even more and played again. Over the PC. Woot~ finally.

I must admit FF8 was my very much loved Final Fantasy. I loved Eyes on Me :)

Next was FF9 - I played it over our PC too. Thanks to PS Emulators. Although I was irritated seeing kids (Zidane and Dagger, LOL) running around like crazy, I still had a good laugh and I still loved the FF series. Memories of Life, remember? :)

FF10~ whoa. Now we had our PS2. Haha. Bro and I wasted like 4 to 5 DVDs of FFX because it breaks - don't ask me why, duh. LOL. Yup, I fell in love with Yuna and Tidus too, and this was probably the FF that I've had the OST. Haha. So I know, by heart, the lyrics of Suteki Da ne (Isn't It Wonderful?)

Then FFX2 - who would've thought that Charlie's Angels would be crossed to FFX? Woot~ hahaha. Don't you just love Yuna's Trigger Happy? XD

I skipped FFXI. Sorry :D

FFXII - I came back with Vaan, Ashe and everyone else. The city of Rabanastre, kingdom of Dalmasca~ sigh. Such great graphics. Really :) I wasn't disappointed BUT I couldn't remember much BECAUSE the next Final Fantasy installment was embedded in my head..

Before FFXII, I watched FFVII Advent Children. I must admit this was the most popular FF there is - considering the fact that they did Dirge of Cerberus and even the Turk's game for cellphone.

Advent Children happened after Final Fantasy VII. So the stories are all connected. And everything got me crying >.<

So sorry. I really am a crybaby. I admit that.

Anywho, I swooned over Cloud - my God. He was handsome :O I must admit Hahaha.

Then just a few months ago, Crisis Core (for PSP) was released. WAHAHAHA. I finished it in hours. And true enough, the ending?

I was left sobbing and crying. The hell.

HAHA. :))

Now I understand why Aeris wears Pink all the time with that ribbon on her hair. Waaah. Sigh.

In between Final Fantasies, I've played some RPGs too. But the only thing that stuck inmy mind was SHENMUE, for Sega Dreamcast. LOL. It has a nice story, set in HongKong. And a seemingly real gangster world - with twists of love :D

Anyways, what's the connection of these things to GE?

Well for one, I wanted to play something that is close to reality - unlike Ragnarok's small characters. I want something, err, real. So when I saw GE, I knew it was a game worth trying.

And playing, mind you.

Granado Espada is the same as me connecting with my Final Fantasy love. With the same hunky hunky guys players, RNPCs (I love you, Gavin ^^) with a twist of real friends, it's really a game to play. I mean, a girl like me can easily learn playing MMORPG with this - and yup! It's my first MMORPG. Hehe.

So there! GE for me is like Final Fantasy connected to the Internet. Haha.

I love Final Fantasy, and I know I love GE, as well :)

God bless, GE Gamers & Final Fantasy lovers! :)

Ta ta!

Krz

A Visit From GM Lorenza

2008-06-22T12:35:00.004+08:00

June 20, 2008
Friday

It was a boring afternoon as Matthieu, Catherine and I were grinding in Bahama Marshlands (of course, in hopes of getting another level 100 weapon and/or a Snail Skin).

Anyways.

A notice suddenly came up and the GM greeted us and we greeted him/her back.

Woot~~ not all though. I mean, some families were picking on the GM.

Mom, and our family, on the other hand, just laughed it off since we find blaming the GM funny because we know that GMs do not have the power to increase drop rates or EXP rates or something like that. GMs are only there to discipline and monitor - nothing more, nothing less.

So when this stupid IDeaD from Vivaldi began testing the GM's patience, we were laughing because he really looked stupid in all of Vivaldi.

FYI: Mom had an argument with IDeaD some weeks ago regarding our faction. She told her to fix his English before engaging into a heated verbal argument with her. Then POOF! She blocked him. No more PMs :D

Anyway, back to the GM. Here's a job description of a GM AKA Gamemaster from an article in Yehey! News - stated by GMs themselves.

...he serves as an organizer, arbitrator and enforcer of rules, reprimand violators and cheaters of the online gaming community. He does that by using special characters and special abilities like teleporting to players, summoning items and browsing player logs to help them in moderating tasks. Generally, he is the gamers' bestfriend...[in an ideal sense, their roles are essential to the game because they are the ones who maintain the equilibrium]," said Allen, an online gamer.

By : Tech Times Online | The Manila Times | 26 June 2007
from http://www.yehey.com/News/Article.aspx?id=168772

So there. Take in mind that GMs are not in charge of those damn EXP and drop rates that everyone is ranting about in Vivaldi that day. Zzz. So darn stupe.

Well that afternoon, IDeaD literally tested the GMs patience that a notice went like this:

God. Some people literally are pains on the neck.

But then everybody began saying thanks to [GM] Lorenza and for the buffs that my factionmates and we had to ask what buffs. Zzz. Then that oread said he got the buffs and the GM was so fast and so on...

So Mom broaded.

When we went back to the Marshlands, and suddenly there was fairydust around us and we were shocked to see that we were buffed with Hrin's Touch for 600 Seconds and to see [GM] Lorenza standing next to us. Cuuuuuute!!!

Yeah, I know. Mom was shocked so she forgot to press pots. Zzzz.

Anywho, it was our first time to see a GM in Granado Espada. Teehee. And a fairy, at that :)

Here's a closeup picture taken from http://animedesho.animeblogger.net/?p=2239
Woot~~ cute indeed! :P

Now we know that fairies do exist in Granado Espada ^^v

Enjoy playing, fellow gamers! And please, do keep disciplined already :)

Love,
Raven

Mommy broke my Camisa >.<

2008-06-16T14:14:00.003+08:00

I dunno what's gotten into her yesterday but I guess it has something to do with Daddy. Because she just started enhancing all our Elites.

2 Elite Mustang Striders to +5
Elite Elementalist to +5
Pizarro to +5
Vampiric Edge to +5

but the last one, the only one left...my Elite Camisa de Soldado HP18% Up...

now that was the only thing that broke >.< I know, I know, I feel bad too because I now wear a level 92 +5 Bone Frame Armor and my DR is down to 50 without my shield but still..*Sigh* Something good will come.

Hopefully.

I miss my armor >.<

Calm Maintenance Day

2008-06-12T13:28:00.002+08:00

It's a calm, long and boring maintenance day.

Since GE is down, my sisters and brothers and I are lazying around the house, sleeping and playing with Cath's dolls, or joking with Viki.

So boring.

Anyway, Mommy just received an official match from Europe - now she'll be leaving in 2 months for Czech Republic. An internship for 10 whole months.

So does it mean that our family will be gone in Granado Espada?

Never.

Mom might not login that much but we surely will still be in Vivaldi :)

She'll be working so she can spoil us some more. LOL :)

3 hours to go before servers are up - maybe enough time to take a nap.

I have so much stories to tell - about the Poison Yard, the Secret Temple and of course, the Capybara Plantation. It was my first time to be in such Super Fights, and of course, it was a really FUN one :)

I'll blog again some other time when my brothers and sisters are not bugging me.

And when little Viki stops giggling. Along with Tary, our family pet :)

Love, Raven

Mom wins 30 Free Adelina's Booty Searches! :)

2008-06-11T13:55:00.004+08:00

May 30, 2008

Meepoktah opened up a thread in GE's official forums about Premium Item Bundles Suggestions for players to suggest so that they [IAH staff] can get insights on what packages to suggest to the IAH Management.

"Throw me your Premium Item Bundles Suggestions and the top 3 selected by us will win 30 ABS searches each, " he wrote.

So Mommy, being the compulsive forum responder that she is, suggested the following packages.

E.E. PACKAGE
50 x E. Boosters
50 x E. Tranquilizers
1 x +5 Impervium Normal
1 x +6 Impervium Normal

Clan Package
5 x Barrack Slots

My First Vets! Package
1 x 30 days Field Manual
1 x 30 days Expert Combat Manual
3 x Barracks Slot {which she forgot to change into 3 x Veteran Promotion Scrolls}
20 Triumph Fillers

Anyways, when Mommy opened her email on June 4, she saw 3 PMs from Kaioujin, another IAH staff. Turns out she won 30 free searches because one of her suggestions were chosen as top three! Woohoo! ^^

The E.E. Package was chosen :)

Thanks to you guys for the free searches! :) and for considering our suggestion ^^

Now if only Mom didn't use her searches that day because we all feel stupid because we only got trash >.<>.<

Anyways, thanks to IAH still. Do keep up the good work in making players and your management bonded harmoniously ^^

Love lots,
the Futel Family

access the thread here >>
http://forum.iahgames.com/ge/showthread.php?t=39285

Getting Viki AKA Cedie ^^

2008-06-04T16:33:00.009+08:00

Hello! :)

It's been a while since I last blogged. Mommy was busy grinding us all.

We are now a level 17 family, with 10 characters in 2 barracks.

So who are we now and what level are we? :)

Raven (me) the fighter - Vet 28.xxxx%
Matthieu the Musketeer - Vet 17.xxxx%
Christianne the Scout - Vet 00.xxxx%
Catherine the Summoner - Vet 30.xxxx%
Irawan - 100
Seanne the Elementalist - 95
Christine the Wizard - 86
Viki - 88
Emilia Guilano - 40
Grace Bernelli - 40

Hahha. So there. But I won't be ranting and raving about my other brothers and sisters - instead, I'd be blogging about the baby in our family: VIKI! :)

Remember that cute little boy I was telling you about? That is him. :)

So cute! With his big brother Matthieu right there, Viki now serves as the youngest one in the Futel Family. Spoiled by their Mommy, seems like it ^^

He is now a part of our family: we lovingly call him Cedie behind his back, because he looks like that cartoon which Mommy used to see when she was a kid.

Anyways.

Getting Viki made my head (and Mom's, too) hurt so bad. Why? Because it was long and tiring and really can get your head heat up. But in the end, it is definitely worth it.

Seems like Grandfather Ulrik cannot let Viki go just that easily. A test of the pioneers, as we see it. Have to prove that we can take good care of Viki hehe.

So what do you have to do in order to get Viki?

A lot of people already forget how to get this cute little boy who lives in the Strange Hut in El Tejado Verde (our former colony, sigh). But I'm here to freshen up your memory. Weehee :)

Who is Viki?
Viki is the grandson of Ulrik, the most powerful summoner of the Royal Vespanolan something. Or so they say. He is friends with Dr. Torsche (that guy with the weird hairdo who lives in a mansion full of robots - yes, the father of Catherine).

What can Viki do? What's so special about him?
Well, Viki can use both the Fortitudo & First Aid Stance, so he's like a scout. However, with the use of caliburns, he can summon gigantic things who will help you fight till they crumble to the ground! How does a Treasure Golem fighting for you sound? Or maybe that cute St. Bernard pet of Viki - Tary! :) Oh they're absolutely adorable ^^

Is the uber-long quest of Viki worth it?
BUT OF COURSE! Do you still have to ask that? Zzz. He's a cross between Catherine (with the exception of 10 puppets) and a Scout, who can resuscitate you or Intensify your attack. Cool huh? :) Definitely worht it!! :)

OK, stop the yadda-yadda. How do I get Viki's Character Card?
THE QUEST CAN ONLY BE ACTIVATED ON WEDNESDAYS.
And only if you are level 72 and above.
Why? Because Torsche goes to their house for a Picnic on Wednesdays. Yep, Visiting grandpa Ulrik and baby Viki and little doggie Tary. So come only on Wednesdays. You can finish the quest whatever day, though.

Viki's house is the strange hut in El Tejado Verde. Be sure that you are level 72 and above when you get the quest, and that it is a Wednesday. Talk to Dr. Torsche, then to Viki. After which he'd be asking you the latest trends in the city. Now go to the city (we went to Cite de Reboldeux for ours) and then go talk to a boy and a girl. They'd tell you about a certain robot and a certain chocolate.

Now talk to Diego about the robot. He'd ask you to hunt 20 Wildboar's Molars from the Wildboars in the Cathari Falls, 20 Laminated Jezebelnium from the Crate Octopus in Jezebel Glen and 5 Roboten Jewels from the Phobitan Warriors in the Tetra Ruins. (All Quest items)

Then head over to Diego, give the materials and voila! A robot to give Viki.

Now the chocolate..

Who else to go to? Lisa Lynway! Talk to her and she'd tell you to hunt 300 pieces of Cabosse from the Phobitans in the Tetra Hills. This is a MISC item, so you can buy it off the Market Manager if you want to. After which, bring it to the Cabosse Lady, head back to Lisa and you have your chocolate :)

Then bring the Robot and Chocolates to Viki! Weehee! :)

Then an event will happen - defeat the spiders, Cherlyn & the Treasure Golem!

Go speak to Ararat, Viki then Ulrik.

Ulrik will then ask you to gather materials to Fix Up Ararat! Yes, this is the start of a very long journey to get Viki >.< Go to the Reboldeux Stone Pit to hunt Hornets for 100 Transnyx Jewels, then to the Ferrucio Junction to hunt Larval Dragonwasps for 100 Koenig Jewels and finally go to the Cathari Falls to hunt for Little Comodo for 100 Sterten Chrome

These are all quest items.

(At this point, my family stopped the quest and resumed it after 1 or 2 weeks. Sigh. It's really painful in the head, I tell you.)

Anyways, resuming the quest, we finally bugged Christine the Wizard to finish hunting in the Stone Pit, Junction & Cathari Falls. After which, she returned to the barracks with the items and Matthieu, Catherine & I resumed the quest. We talked to Ulrik and well, grandpa doesn't seem to stop giving us things to do T.T

We went to El Tejado Verde to hunt Lightning Gavin di Gavi for 100 Molythea Block, Tetra Hills to look for those Rouge thingies for 100 Fire Cube and finally El Lago de Tres Hermanas to hunt those Slash thingy men for 100 of Block (something), all of which are quest items.

(So sorry, forgot the exact names ^^)

Then we went back to Ulrik! And now here comes the HARDEST part of them all.

We have to get an Enhanced Heart (or something) for Ararat and the Mamund so Ararat can be totally fixed. WTH. Now our head was spinning.

To get the heart, we talked to Dr. Torsche in his lab. Yup, the Mansion's Grand Library. And then we were asked to hunt regular items, 100 Otite Pieces (common drop in the mansion), 20 Strange Cogwheels, 20 Strange Springs, 20 Strange Clocks, 20 Strange Tubes and 20 Strange Hinges. These are all REGULAR ITEMS - you can all get them by destroying robots in the mansion but they are quite rare drops. If you have a have a hard time getting some, do what we did: buy in the market manager ^^ sure, we had some clocks and other stranges but we lacked around 5 of each or so.. so BUY if you want.

Go back to Dr. Torsche and you will receive the heart.

Now here's another part which made our head spin.

Travel to Pradera de Ceniza to hunt for the VIOLENT GEHCOS. It's a miniboss in the map - but if you're doing the quest at a high level, you'd have no problems at all. It usually spawns near the entrance to Thuerenginwald or the upper part of the map, entrance to I-forgot-the-name-of-the-place. WTH. Anyways, the MAMUND is a RARE DROP. We had to kill the Big Dog (as we sarcastically call it) four times before the Mamund dropped.

The Gehcos respawns every 15 minutes. Mom's friend told her that the Mamund will have a higher chance of dropping if you let the Violent Gehcos attack you first. So use Provoke, then use Skills to kill the big dog. Hopefully you will get the Mamund after that.

Go back to Ulrik and then an event will happen: just go there and attack Cherlyn and the Hill Giant. After which, Talk to Ulrik, and then Grandpa & Viki will be talking and Viki will be placed safely in your family's hands :)

Whew. Wasn't so bad after all. ^^

OK, I've used VIKI. But where is his other stance, the Castis?
You need to do another series of quests for this one. Though it is shorter than the first one (if you have Vis.) It could get irritatingly LONG or irritatingly EXPENSIVE. Your choice.

Go to El Canon de Diabolica. Talk to the Stonepit Worker (right side of the map) using Viki as your leader. Choose the second option.
You'll then be teleported to an event in which you need to kill Cherlyn once more and the Treasure Golem. Whitwew. Seems like the red-headed sorceress wouldn't give up that easily. Pft. After killing the Treasure Golem, click on the light. You'll receive a piece of the Treasure Golem. (or was it Takion's? Damn I cannot remember >.<)

Go to El Ruina Memoria (referred to as the splitted land) then go to the left side of the map. See where we were here in this picture. Just run around till a quest triggers, then choose the option to start the mission.

After which you would be fighting with Cherlyn, the Treasure Golem and Takion. You can choose to kill Cherlyn outrightly or fight with the two summons. It's fun fighting them though - like what Matthieu, Viki & I did. ^^

Anyways, after the battle, talk to Grandpa Ulrik in El Tejado Verde. He will then ask you to gather materials so Viki can summon the Treasure Golem and Takion.

You will need 200 Bulks of Gold, 200 Copper Pieces, 100 Golden Fruits, and 100 Mega Aidaniums. Golden fruits can be harvested in Ustiur Zona Tres, Copper Pieces in the Stonepit. These are all REGULAR items so you can buy it off the Market Manager, if you want. Mega Aidaniums are kinda hard to farm, and it's kinda expensive if you need 200 pieces of it >.<

Go back again to Ulrik. He will ask you again to gather some more materials.

200 Bulk Coals, 200 Bulks of Silver, 60 Mega Aidaniums and 50 Philosopher's Stones, all regular items under the MISC tab.

WHAT? 60 MORE MEGA AIDANIUMS??!!

OK SO THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE QUEST HERE.

You see, when we brought him Mega Aidaniums, he didn't accept it and kept on asking us for more materials. Seems like he needed MEGA ETRETANIUMS instead of Aidaniums this time. I guess Ulrik was being forgetful already, ^^. Anyways, bring him MEGA ETRETANIUMS instead of Mega Aidaniums and that should do the trick.

Thanks to Vergonze for helping us with the Etretaniums and oread for the Philosopher's Stones.

REMEMBER: Always talk to Grandpa Ulrik using Viki as your leader!!

You'll receive the Castis Stance Book after this quest.

Now double click on it using Viki as your leader, provided that he mastered Amicus & is above level 16 and he will learn to summon the Treasure Golem, Takion & Steel Ararat!

HOW COOL IS THAT?! ^^

Anyways, we hope that this mini-guide had served its purpose. Though it has been written again and again, it's a nice way to refresh it so that new players getting Viki would be guided :)

Take note of the last one for the Castis! ETRETANIUMS! :)

So there you go. Hehe.

I guess I must be off to grind again and again and to take care of my youngest brother Viki :)

Yes, Viki, you look as cute as Daddy who is currently having problems with the NTLDR in his computer. Sigh Dad, just have it reformatted already.

LOL.

Bye guys!

Love, Raven

Vivaldi's Login Issues

2008-05-26T17:03:00.002+08:00

Mom's head is heating up >.< ooh no, no, no.

Since the Colony War last night, our family has been experiencing login issues.

~~TIMELINE~~

May 25
Around 5pm - Irawan, Catherine & Seanne
Grinding their way to become vets in Topolo Durga & Island of Fire Zone 2
Cannot enter Channel 1, but channel 2 works fine.

Around 7pm - Irawan, Catherine & Seanne
Buying & selling in City of Auch channel 2
tried changing channels but got stucked
logged out, then tried logging in
said that our account was logged in in another computer - it may take 3 minutes to log-in again.

~~waited patiently~~

Around 7:55pm - Raven, Christianne & Matthieu
Tried going in City of Auch channel 1
got stuck in the barracks
logged out and waited and waited.
Tried logging in my brother Nutrients' family's account
worked fine in both channel 1 & 2
*sighs deeply*

During Colony War - 8PM to 10PM, Raven, Christianne & Matthieu
warped to El Tejado Verde, changed channel to channel 1 - success!
got the colony - weehoo.
Colony war ends - Aggressor got 1 colony.

Around 10pm - Raven, Christianne & Matthieu
went back to City of Auch channel 2
calmed down CrewOfAngel because of the scamming issue
shopping in the Mall of Auch
tried going to Thueringen Lakeside and changed channels
stucked when tried entering City of Auch

~relogged~

Waited to relog, went in City of Auch channel 2
Warped to Port of Coimbra channel 2, changed channels successfully
Warped back to Barracks to get Catherine the summoner
Tried entering City of Auch channel 2 - unsuccesfully!!!

~relogged~

tried entering Auch channel 1, unsuccesful again!

~relogged~

tried using my brother's account, Nutrients
entered Cite de Reboldeux both ch1 & ch2, no problem
Futels >> bummed

~relogged~

1AM to 2AM
tried entering Auch channel 1 & 2 - to no avail

switched to Nutrients - can enter without any problems.

~slept~

May 26
10AM
tried logging in Futel - zilch, zero, zap.
logged in Nutrients - went in.

Mom's going crazy.

5:32PM, May 26
Cannot enter using Futel
Cannot enter using Nutrients

WHAT IS HAPPENING waaah

We want to grind - especially now that Irawan and Catherine are Veterans :(

WAAAH.

Bring us back to Granado Espada :(

Mommy is so frustrated right now already :(

Feeling empty.

2008-05-23T20:33:00.004+08:00

Krizzie here.

I can't let my babies blog for now...I mean, I want to type this myself since they have nothing to do with it. They cheer me up - but I do not know why I feel so sad for the past few days.

Because of the rain? I dunno.

Anyways, most of the time I leave Seanne, Irawan and Catherine grinding by themselves. I just look at them from time to time and resume my work.

It feels a lot different when I grinded my three first borns, Raven, Christianne and Matthieu, without a Combat Manual, all by myself. And finishing quests in between. And spoiling them with the best equipments and weapons that I could afford.

But now, I leave Cath, Irawan and Seanne by themselves, with a combat manual. Although I still do spoil them with Elites & ++ weapons, still, it feels a lot different now.

I don't know.

The past few days, I have been down; I feel empty. I don't know why. I know that whatever I am feeling now isn't connected to Granado Espada, and in ways, GE helps me alleviate whatever I am thinking now.

I must be paranoid.

Most of the time I stare at blank spaces. My days are comprised of me being home alone, and my GE. Heck, I live in my room already. The sunlight rarely touches my skin, I barely even touch the gates of our home.

Why do I feel this way?

This question I cannot even answer myself.

I must be off.

http://ravehelluvahgurl.multiply.com

TEAM GE SHOULD LEARN PROPER PUBLIC RELATIONS.

2008-05-20T17:35:00.008+08:00

Mom's going crazy.

First, up to 4pm.

Then 5pm.

then now, 10pm?

Oh gawd.

Pwnage.

IAH Games should learn to give out game service news which are NOT extended.

THEIR FIRST GAME SERVICE NEWS SHOULD BE UNTIL 10PM IN THE FIRST PLACE SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO KEEP ON EXTENDING. IF IN ANY CASE THEIR WORK GETS DONE EARLIER, THEN IT'S A PLUS FOR THEM TO SAY THAT SERVERS ARE UP AND THEY ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

It's more frustrating to read game service news full of extensions. Really. It pisses off gamers. Like Mom. :(

Look at it this way:

They could give a release that Maintenance for today will take a full 20 hours IN THE FIRST PLACE. Then they can give a release that IT WAS FINISHED EARLIER than expected so that gamers aren't exasperated.

Right? Right.

It's a better press release for them - and better feedback.

That way, stakeholders will say that OH, TEAM GE IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF TIME - THEY DO NOT EXTEND, instead of saying I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE MAINTENANCE IS ONLY FOR 12 HOURS - IT WILL EXTEND MORE.

THAT'S A BETTER WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR EXTERNAL AUDIENCE.

Sigh.

Press release. Oh you do not know proper public relations >.<

I guess my Mommy Krizzie has taught us well regarding public relations since it's her course in college.

Now most gamers are frustrated. Other families are pissed off.

Oh team GE, why don't you consider our family's suggestion? >.<

XOXO
Futel Family of Vivaldi

Maintenance for 12 full hours. Sigh.

2008-05-20T10:17:00.005+08:00

How shall I help? :D

Catherine Torsche here. But since my father told me I can join the Futels, my name is now Catherine Futel. I summon puppets for the family - with Walter, Lloyd, Sasha, Helena and Victor. I use the stance called Marionette. I never attack enemies and mobs - my dolls do it for me. I was only Level 1 when the Futels took me in, but now, with Irawan, I am halfway to become a veteran - at level 50 :)

That's Seanne, Irawan (behind) and Me, grinding in the Tetra Ruins. ^^

A solo picture of Irawan - I admit he is a cutie, the Muay Thai fighter :)

Raven said I could blog for now. I guess she'll be letting Irawan blog the next time. So this is blogging - it's a fun change from controlling puppets.

It's our rest day. But not on the usual day.

Maintenance was set today for 0400 to 1600 hours. That's 12 whole hours. Mom (wee! I have a Mom ^^) turned off her laptop at around 3am this morning, whitwew and just turned it on now so that I can blog. Raven and the others are resting - and so am I. Drinking chocolate from Lisa Lynway and that yummy Ferruccio bread near Cite de Reboldeux. I hope Sir Panfilo can cook Carbonara for us. I've heard from Sir Andre fantazztic things about Sir Panfilo's cooking. Being away from the civilization for years, I do not know what it is like living outside the mansion. But thankfully, the Futels are happily showing me the ropes.

Family love :)

Anyways, logging into Granado Espada the past few days was hard - Mom was always frustrated whenever we get stuck in the barracks, or we get stuck when we warp out of town. Then we'd be disconnected from the server, which will then require us to relog but then the server would tell us that we have been logged in into another computer.

Oh what is happening?

Technology really sometimes can blow your head >.< See, Channel 2 displays CONGESTED instead of the usual GOOD.

See this bug? Sigh. The Enchantment Chip Exchanger looks like a Coca-Cola Vending Machine that Irawan, Me & Christine (the wizard) couldn't resist fooling around with it.

Anyways, we do hope that the login issues will be fixed after the loooooong maintenance. Yup Mom can rest and so does everyone else, and we all hope that Granado Espada will be fixed when we get back this afternoon.

Oh I want to tell a story.

Yesterday, we dropped by the PVP officer in the City of Auch and chanced upon a factionmate's family Vergonze. He gave Irawan his Mystic Gaiters (nice one! :D) and a pistol.

Which makes me conclude: there are still some nice people in Granado Espada.

I could've sworn Uncle Claude looks cute doing that pose. Teehee.

Mommy gave away our family's Claude Card - but that's fine. Claude said it's OK too. Actually, Mom traded Claude so that I can join the family - Claude Baudez for Cath's pelvis. Whew.

Uncle Claude, as we fondly call him, now rest in other families :)

Vergonze, oread & alth loves using Uncle Claude. Mom thought otherwise - he might hoard all our Chocolate and Ferruccio Bread. HAHAHA. Though we see Uncle Claude everyday, roaming around the City of Auch so we don't miss him and he doesn't miss us :)

Why, just the other day Raven, Matthieu & Christianne dueled with Uncle Claude! XD

Seanne, Me, Irawan & Vergonze's family XD
Doesn't Uncle Claude look cute doing that peace sign? Hehe.

Anyways, I gotta run now. My puppets need to be fixed so that we'll be ready for grinding by 1600 hours later! :)

Walter, come now! XD

XOXO, Catherine

Colonies are not measurements of a faction's strength.

2008-05-18T22:09:00.005+08:00

I believe I've summed this blog in the title. Pft.

We just got back from the Colony Wars in Granado Espada - and boy, are we exhausted. Though Matthieu, Christianne and I are already veterans, we still have a long way to grind and go and get before we can be truly pioneers. I mean, strong pioneers.

Tonight's colony wars are one good example.

A few days ago, IDeaD messaged us regarding our faction, Aggressors. He said that our faction is weak - which I totally disagreed.

Mom even made fun of IDeaD's english - boy, was she ever mad. Mommy blocked IDeaD in GE so that he cannot message us anymore.

True enough, PKs, Colonies and such are not the measurements of a faction's strength.

Say hello to the Treasure Golem: [Tried to] Defend the Colony of El Tejado Verde!!

Why do you join factions? Because of the colony buff? The family buff?

Mom joined Aggressors because of MEETING NEW FRIENDS and HAVING FUN.

Isn't that the main reason why you play MMORPGS?
To have fun and enjoy and meet new friends?

When you PK someone from another faction...do you feel that that faction is weaker? Think again.

It pisses me off that I hear a lot of people against our faction. Yes, we may not be the strongest, the richest of the factions in Vivaldi, but we definitely are one of the happiest - or the most fun. I mean, our faction practically cannot live a day without saying hi to others.

It's all about the enjoyment, the fun - not bad-mouthing other factions.

And now as the colony wars end without us even having a single colony, (say bye to the colony buff!), that wouldn't change the way we talk or treat each other - we are families within a family - the family of the Aggressors.

Colony Wars Result: No Aggressors this week >.<

Anyways, it's just for a week *sigh* We can manage with it. Right guys? :D

Cheer up, dudes. Hehe. We'll be fine without a colony for a week!!! XD

Now let's all grind to be experts like alth!! AJA AGGRESSORS!!! XD

GODBLESS guys!! :)

Good game! ;)

Love, Raven

Grinding to be Vets & Making my First Elite

2008-05-18T11:54:00.005+08:00

I AM A VETERAN!!!

As I type, I am a vet now. Matthieu and Christianne are close - 80++%.

The Island of Fire really made grinding easy. Weehee :) Thanks, CrewOfAngels, Daemonic, Oliviera and those who were willing to squad us in Zone 1 & 2 :)

Grinding love: The Island of Fire Crabs & Starfishes

Thanks also to Jean, Angela & Rose CrewOfAngels for lending us their Elite Equipments XD

Elite Kaladbolg & 2 Elite Mustang Spiders! Thanks, sisters :)

Raven, Matthieu, Christianne, Jean, Angela and Rose

Err, I forgot who these are but one of the families here is oread's family ahahaha

Anyways, everyone's prepping up to colony war. Just now, Mom had us run around the New World to save warp points in key colonies. Teehee.

Oh yeah. Mommy crafted our family's first Elite - an Elite Camisa de Soldado for me!!! :)

I love you Mom!! You're the best!!! XD

Next in line is an Elite Striform and Elite Laranja e Preto! Weehee!!! :0

Happy happy days ;)

*now we're broke hahaha because of the Vet scrolls - pft. Only 100M++ left sigh*

anywho, the end of chipping my Camisa is a +18% HP up. Wahahaha.

Thanks to Tatilla who crafted my Camisa for me :)

Now we have to save up money again. Weehee XD

Happy happy!!!

See you in tonight's colony wars!!!

Love, Raven

A Fashionista Day ^^

2008-05-14T21:20:00.005+08:00

I do not know what has gotten into Mommy but she spent a LOT today, both in-game and in real life :D

But I'd blog about the in-game instead.

In chipping, enhancing, enchanting and shopping, we spent I guess around 60m or something like that. But then in the end, we still decided to stick to our former duds. HAHAHA.

Why? Because those we bought from Andre Janzur, enhanced to +5 and given stats were err, lower than my current Knights of the Templar and Christianne's +6 Ring Mail or +5 Rescue Knights Suit.

It was only Matthieu who changed his look - trashing the +5 Striform to a +5 Corsair Rosso :D

He looks so formal. Haha.

Oh yeah, and I had a bob haircut too!!!! WEEHEE!! Finally Mom, you decided to get me a new haircut and haircolor!!! XD

So what did we do with those things?

Mommy played photographer and we are her willing victims (ho-hum, Mom) so here are the results XD

On Raven: +5 Gladiator's Armor and Gladiator's Hat
On Christianne: +5 Capezzolo de Pericolo and Pericolo Hat
On Matthieu: +5 Corsair Rosso and Corsair Hat

On Raven: A brown bob cut hair and +6 Knights of the Templar
On Christianne: Plait, braided hair and +6 Ring Mail
On Matthieu: Shaggy hair and +5 Striform

Weehee! Hey Mom, you take nice shots huh XD

I know what you are thinking - editing these into wallpapers? HAHA. You must be kidding. >.<

Anyways, we gotta run - we just woke up from a day of sleeping since it's very bed weather and it's nice to sip some coffee with this kind of weather, stuck in bed. Good thing it's MAINTENANCE DAY till 5pm.

But it's 5PM! WAHOO!!

We're going back in Granado Espada :D

Have a great rainy day, everyone!!

Hugs and love,
Raven

+5 Rescue Suit or +6 Ring Mail? | [Trying to] Get VIKI! :)

2008-05-14T10:22:00.004+08:00

*Sigh*

It's been sometime since I last blogged here because my sister and brother hoarded my blog.

Hehe. Nope, Matty and Christianne - I still love you both.

I'm really not a selfish sister >.< style="font-style: italic;">shopping spree in MOA > MALL OF AUCH. HAHAHAHA >.< style="font-weight: bold;">+5 Knights of Templar, +5 Rescue Suit with 14 HP%and bought Matty new pistols - Claude Baudez Niques (2 of which was apparently broken by Vicente Rio the Enchantmentor, ho hum)

But then Mommy's in-game twin sister, CrewOfAngels, gave her a +5 Ring Mail Def 15, Evasion 14.
Me & CrewOfAngels' family ;)

Now even Christianne is confused. Weehee.

But see this > the DR of the Ring Mail is higher than that of the rescue suit. Maybe cuz it's +6? :D

This one?

Of course, now Christianne is using the +6 Ring Mail because of the higher AR and DEF but then don't you think the Rescue Suit looks much cuter? Haha. Whatever.

Even I have some new duds c/o the ScofIeld family >.< a +6 Knights of Templar 15Def.

People in Granado Espada have been so nice to us. It's good that we get along with a lot of people, have fun and make new friends.

That is the important thing, right? :)

Hey, which brings me to one thing: we stumbled upon this strange hut in our former colony, the El Tejado Verde and we found that CUTE BOY WITH THE CUTE DOG inside! Wee!

Asked around and seems like we can only get the quest on Wednesdays - so we returned there this morning and talked to Dr. Torsche and Ulrik, and of course, Viki the cutie boy >.<

Apparently, he was asking too much things >.<

True enough, the quest is loooooooong and irritatiiiiiiiing BUT BUT BUT we are willing to do it just so Viki can join our family!

Oh cute cute Viki!! You are worth our hardships and trips around Granado Espada :D

I just wish we can have you in the family soon :o

So I need to go back to hunt materials for a toy for Viki.

I'll blog again some other time - and I hope by then, we already have Viki with us!

I'll let him blog if that happens! :D

Take care!!

Love, Raven

GPoints in the Philippines!

2008-05-13T12:34:00.002+08:00

I get to write this time! Yahoo!

Christianne the scout here. As you all know, my dearest brother and sister have wrote in this blog - now Mom told them that I get to write this time! HAHAHA.

I just want to share some thoughts when Mom topped up a hella lot GPoints last week.

As you all know, Gpoints, or GP, the currency in Granado Espada for Premium Items are very expensive in the Philippines T.T (Don't ask me why; that's just the way it is.)

Cards range from 50 pesos to 750 pesos.

GP Equivalents

50 Pesos - 750 GP
100 Pesos - 1800 GP
300 Pesos - 5800 GP
750 Pesos - 18000 GP

So obviously the higher you go, the cheaper 1GP=peso is. Here's the computation of 1GP to Peso and vice versa.

50 pesos >>> 1 peso = 15 GP or 1GP = .067 pesos
100 pesos >>> 1 peso = 18 GP or 1GP = .056 pesos
300 pesos >>> 1 peso = 19.33 GP or 1 GP = .052 pesos
750 pesos >>> 1 peso = 24 GP or 1GP = .042 pesos

Also, the higher you go, more and more Adelina's Booty Searches are credited to your account.
For those who don't know, Adelina's Booty Search is an online flash game in which you can luckily find rare items and equipments :)

280 GP - 1
750 GP- 2
1800 GP - 3
5800 GP - 10
18000 GP - 15
35000 GP - 20
70000 GP - 30

Italicized ones are not available via E-Pins and Physical Cards in the Philippines - only through credit cards in online shops if you really wish to buy them.

That's the only downside of Granado Espada in the Philippines :( I wish they can give us physical cards or E-pins for the 35k or 70k GP. Sigh. That would really make a difference to everyone.

But then of course, until Thursday, May 15, 2008, there still are bonuses for GPs 750 and 1800.

So it's
50 pesos = 750 + 250 GP + 1 Enchantment Booster + 2 ABS
100 pesos = 1800 + 700 GP + 3 Enchantment Boosters + 3 ABS

Don't you think that's awfully sweet of IAH Games? :D

So now, it's WISER to top up 6 x 50 Pesos or 3 x 100 Pesos rather than buying 1 300-peso Card.

Why?

See this:
50 x 6 = 300 pesos
1000 GP x 6 = 6000 GP
6 Enchantment Boosters, 12 ABS

100 x 3 = 300 pesos
2500 GP x 3 = 7500 GP
9 Enchantment Boosters, 9 ABS

300 x 1 = 300 pesos
1800 GP
10 ABS

So which one would you choose? More ABS or More GP & Boosters?

Pick now!!! :D
AND BE SURE TO TOP THEM UP ALL BEFORE THURSDAY ENDS!!!

It's just that it's so haaaaard finding 100-peso cards now >.<

Anywho, I guess Mom will top up again this week - before Thursday. Weetwiw :D

Buy more 100-peso cards :D teehee.

Have a great day everyone!

Be safe!

Christianne

Colony Wars Congrats: Mother's Day 2008

2008-05-11T23:52:00.007+08:00

Haha. Matthieu the Musketeer here.

For a change, lemme blog here in my spoiled-brat-of-a-sister's blog. Mom spoiled her too much, really, just because she's the first-born girl?

Grr. Whatever. OK, sorry, Ma. Happy Mom's Day *wink wink*

Lemme type sum things as Raven grinds and Mom waits for Dad's call. Hey Dad, uh, can you like, hurry up calling because Mom's going crazy.

'Nuf of that.

We had our first colony war - in the family, that is. When we were with the Dark Knights, we were never active in going to CWs - and ever since khant got into an accident and never logged in GE again, we never tried owning a colony.

So obviously, the girls were excited to go to CW. Heck, Raven, being the leader that time, pressed the wrong buttong and bought 30 pieces of High-level Valkyrie.

Sheesh. Mom's head got dizzy haha I just know it.

So yep, we had our first colony war with the Aggressors. Too bad my sisters and I are only Level 79 - we can't help much but to summon the Valkyrie and let Christianne Resurrect the other players when we were attacked in El Tejado Verde by those Intruderz. (literally)

We got El Tejado Verde. Wee. But only for an hour.

Who summoned the treasure golem? Viki, of course :D
Hitting the Colony during the first half hour of the CW, El Tejado Verde

After which, we defended while the others warped to Lago Celeste. Ho-hum. Defend, defend. It was boring work - or so we thought.

Then THEY CAME. Waah. Like Mobs. Changed channels, I assumed. I was always dead - and so is Raven. Christianne was almost always the one left alive, and she kept on resurrecting everyone. Good job, sis.

AS ALWAYS, LAG IS INEVITABLE. Pft. Before I know it, I'm already dead. *sigh*

Whit-whew. Find me and my sisters!! :)
[Tried] Defending the faction colony in El Tejado Verde

But the force that came was too much :( and LAG was HELLISH.

Say Goodbye to El Tejado, Aggressors!

Yesiree, we lost our colony in El Tejado Verde T.T

And I really thought we couldn't get any colonies this week - waaah.

But as they say, there are A LOT OF THINGS that can happen in the last minutes :D hehehe.

We ran towards Lago Celeste - but then GE was bugged, we hanged and then MOM ACCIDENTALLY ERASED THE WARP SLOT IN LAGO CELESTE.

Oh yeah right, Mom.

So in the last minutes, we weren't there to see the action T.T

How sad.

So much for the Valkyries. Grr.

Anyway, results of tonight's Colony Wars are here:

We got Lago Celeste as our colony. I thought our COLONY protection BUFF will be gone this week ahahaha.

Kudos to our Faction for occupying a colony this week! :D

Well done everyone! *applause*

Too bad a lot of people cannot log in - 5 minute delay. Bummer.

Whatever.

Oh hey, wait, Mom's sleepy already. And it seems like Raven is fuming because I used her blog HAHAHAAH so what big sister. It's OUR blog though.

Mom's sleepy because Dad still isn't calling and it's like HE IS DRUNK.

Oh Daddy, Mommy's gonna punch you. HAHA.

So long for now!!! I'll see if I can type again here soon!!

Matt

Using Combat Manuals

2008-05-11T10:11:00.003+08:00

Because Mommy doesn't have anything to do other than wait for her intership abroad, manage her online business and play Granado Esapada, she was topping up G-Points for us so we can use combat manuals.

What are combat manuals?
Basically, combat manuals are items which increase your EXP as you grind. There are three kinds of manuals: Beginner, Average and Expert. They increase your EXP by 50%, 80% or 100%, respectively.

Are combat manuals expensive?
Err, it actually depends on your preference of expensive :) Teehee. No actually, they are not. With 1-day Combat Manuals, you get to grind all you want at a low price of only 200 GP for the Average and 320 GP for the Expert. Not bad for starters huh?

How are they used?
You simply open up your Premium Items window, click to Misc, then double click your Combat Manual. You'd instantly have a buff of your manual.

You click on the Combat Manual in Misc and you'd have the buff on top of your character's heads. Easy, peasy, right? :D

So there you go. Mommy has been buying us Manuals since last week, before had her vacation and we rested for a week and we're leveling like crazy. Teehee. We are currently Level 77 as I type this - and Matt is hella strong now. Must be because of that +5 Twin-Barreled Revolver +3 Atk Rating

Mom sure got lucky in Chipping :)

So if you want to level up quickly, I suggest topping up now and trying out combat manuals! It really makes a difference :)

If you want to buy GE load for 50 or 300 pesos, please e-mail my Mom (see her profile) and she can buy some for you - payment to be made via G-Cash.

The 300-peso card is only for 290 pesos! Buy now! :)

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHER'S OUT THERE! :)

ENJOY YOUR DAY WITH YOUR FAMILY! GOD BLESS! :)

Love, the Futels of Vivaldi

Gorgeous Girl Gamers | Getting Irawan

2008-05-10T23:03:00.003+08:00

My Mom's a feminist - and I guess it was passed on to us, her Granado babies. Whenever we're in Granado Espada, I'd always be pissed off whenever people call us pare, tol, dude et al whenever we pass by. Matthieu doesn't seem to mind it though - of course duh, he's a guy. A male musketeer. But Christianne and me? Spell irritated.

That's why I was so happy - Christianne and Mom, included - when Ictus from the Hellraiders Faction messaged me when we were looking for an Acceleration ring. And she called Mom "MISS" instead of "PARE" or "SIR" Wee! Was Mom surprised.

No she isn't looking for our dad - our dad is in Valle Verde. She was just looking for rings to give to Christianne the Scout.

Mom's a spoiler. Since we got rich. Ho-hum.

I guess Ictus read our family's profile when he was messaging Mommy. LOL.

Anywho, since Mom doesn't do anything much, our family willbe joining Veya's Challenge to make a name & slogan and/or layout for the upcoming Girl Gamer Site of Granado Espada. Wahoo.

It's about time that girls be given voices, too! I mean, really, we've had a lot of harassments in online games whenever Mom plays because they always think that Mom's pretending to be a girl.

Darn it.

Now you guys know that games are meant to be played by girls, too!

Kaboom. :)

Mommy's entry is at http://granadogirls.blogspot.com though the layout now, well, she'll be changing it by tomorrow. We can't edit it now because the freaking system of Google recognies too much activity from this IP. Sigh.

It's a good thing to know that a lot of GE gamers are girls - like my Factionmate WyvernitE. I mean, Mommy can be girlish and all but still be able to play.

Woohoo. Girl power.

Take that, Matthieu & Seanne! Teehee.

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We finally got Irawan in our family! Wahoo! Oh he is soooo cute. I so swear :D Now Cath has someone to be with her when she grinds - it's gonna be Matthieu and Cath and Me and Irawan.

How sweet :D

I'll be tanking Irawan while Matty tanks Cath. Haha. Sweet.

Oh stop rolling your eyes, Mom. Hahaha.

I know you got Irawan because you find him cute, too :) plus the fact that he is strong and quiet but manly and has gorgeous abs and a face that isn't as tough as Gracielo. Heehee.

Mom spent so much on getting Irawan - so we better help him grind and grind!

Oread, our factionmate, made Irawan into a Vet for 5 days. *sigh* how I wish we can be like that, too :(

Someday, someday.

I have faith in you, Mommy :)

Happy Mother's Day!!!

OMG with that Spirit Steel Stone!!!

2008-05-09T21:08:00.007+08:00

OMG OMG OMG OMG I cannot believe that the Steel Spirit Stone costs THAT much. Waah. Mom was soooo overwhelmed when she started broading - and we all thought that it only cost us like, around 50 million Vis or whatever but what the heck...

Axenstar messaged Mom in-game and he began lecturing her on how rare the SSS is...While me and my brother and sister ran around the City of Auch while thinking of what to do. So Axenstar told me that the minimum offer is a whopping 500 million Vis - yeah, I know Mommy was so shocked that she began seeing VIS in her eyes (hahaha, yeah right Mom.) So there we were, sooooo freaking shocked of this SSS. Wee.

So the story: You break a rare item to get this rare item. Wee. Here's taken from the swordofthenewworldwiki.com ;)

Q: Where can I find Steel Spirit Stone?
A: Throw an Elite 84 Steel Series item into anvil and you'll receive a Steel Spirit Stone.

Q: What is Steel Series?
A: Steel Series is a rare Elite 84 weapons. Pizzaro, Dragon Hunter Bayonet, Shaft Hammer is not a Steel Series weapons.

Q: Where can I find Steel Series?
A: You can hunt Steel Series recipe from HellBreaker.

Alright!! I do get how rare this item is. Sheesh :)) Obviously, even the recipes are rare. Oh well.

Faruggio (this I spell it right?) offered 660 Million right away, and then our freaking factionmates bugged us to make an Autodeal of 1.2b which Mom made into 1b and into 800M since there were 2 others broading for an SSS.

Anyways, because our freaking factionmates were bugging us and obviously fooling around with Mommy, we gave the SSS to Faruggio for 660 Million Vis plus and Expert Scroll. Not bad really, since Mom sold the scroll for 170Million Vis. Whoo.

Of course, we just had to take a picture with the family who got our SSS.

Say cheese, handsome guys :D
Take good care of your Knuckle thingy whatever you'll be crafting with the SSS :)

Now that's a lot of Vis to spoil us with, Mommy :) weehee.

True enough, she spoiled Christianne the scout this time. Haha. Don't ask me why but yeah, she bought 2 Laranja e Preto from Andre Janzur and she got them both to +5. Nice going Mom! Haha. Bought chips, too. Wee! :)

Oh yeah, this is the last picture of Christianne wearing the Blue-Feather Hat because Mom gave her a new hairstyle - a Plait braided white hair :))

Wee.

A family in Auch tried dueling with us - because he thought we were all wearing Elites! Elites?! Err, Elites? We only have Andre Janzur's fantazzzzztic dudzzzz~~~~ :)

So now I am the only one who doesn't have a new haircut. Hey Mommy, hello? Can you please bring me to the parlor soon and give me a new hairdo?

How come hairs for female fighters seem so rare? T.T I want!!!

Anyways.

Mommy's now selling Christianne's another +5 Laranja e Preto.
You can PM us in-game for offers or post comments here, if you want.

As I write this blog, we are now Level 74 - wee! Nice grinding :) Mom sleeps while we grind - yahoo. I hope in no time we'd be Veterans, as well.

Anyway, Mommy's currently thinking if she'll top up a 300-peso card or a 750-peso card. That's 5800 GP vs. 18000 GP. Ho-hum. Obviously she wants to have the best possible price. Darn. I don't know with you Mommy, but I'd definitely go with the 750-peso card.

Because I want another set of Lucifer's Wings. Or whatever. Teehee :)

Cmon Mom! Buy some for my brothers and sisters too! :)

Oh Mom's calling me already. I guess it's back to grinding. We had the afternoon off because Mom went shopping for her eBay account. She's saving up for something - I just know it.

Till next time! Ta ta!!

Follow your dreaammmzz and fantassiezzzzz~~~~~

Love lots, Raven

Free Adelina's Booty Searches!

2008-05-09T06:34:00.005+08:00

As all GE players know, logging in since last week was hell. See this: As we transport back to the Barracks, GE hangs up - then you'd ended up logging out, only to find out that you cannot login back...darn. Client says you'd wait up to 3 minutes but heck, my Mom tried waiting for almost 30 minutes to log back in :( Whatever happened?

I cannot believe Mommy woke up this early to go to Adelina's Booty Search - last night's logging in was terrible. I guess everybody was trying to log in to Adelina and find her booty and use their free 20 searches. Kudos to IAHGames for giving us free searches!

But obviously because of the influx of players playing ABS last night, everyone had errors...hehe. So Mommy decided to wake up early just so she could help us find Adelina's booty.

The only downside is that Mom didn't get anything much - pft. A couple of Soul Crystals, 10 Hermes Potions, Elites etc etc. Sigh. No Prized Booty. So she used her brother's account - and searched for 20 more. Teehee. Hey, he told her that she can have it - yehey! So there.

She got one Spirit Steel Stone using the Nutrients Family - my cousins, and more Elites. Wee! So now Mommy has to ask her brother to login to his account so she can have the items in-game for us.

Weehee! :)

Anyways, Mom recently bought me a nice, nice suit of Camisa de Soldado and its matching cap from Andre Janzur, the most gentle and beautiful gentleman since the chever-chorva ~~~beauuuuuutifuuuuul fantazzziiiieesss~~~~ tee hee. I love talking to Andre - he reminds me of a lot of beautiful gentlemen my Mommy knows. Mommy had it +5 and DEF 19 Up, Movement speed 7% up, so I can still run and run :)

As for my brother Matthieu, I told you he had a +5 Striform DEF 15 Up and Evasion 10 Up. He looks nice in it, really. Christianne, on the other hand, is still waiting for Mom's new duds. I know she'd be buying some from her, as well.

See us? Wee! :) Matt had two +5 pistols - and Outlaw and err, a level 72 Pistol with 3AR. Cool huh? :) While I had a +4 Excalibur and a +5 Cross Guard. Not that much though, I mean, it may not glooooow like the nice gloooooows but it does it job - and it's pretty powerful too :)

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We are now currently griding in the Rion Prairie - Mom leaves us all by ourselves most of the time. Why the Rion Prairie? Because we're doing this quest for Andre Janzur for his fantaziez and dreaaaaamzzz~~~ weehee. We need 150 White Feathers from the Cockatrices that run around. I know that there are lots in the Bonavista River but they tend not to spawn when we kill them. Pft. The Rion Prairie is better because there are more mobs - more EXP points for us three while we hunt and grind :)

We now have 112 out of 150 - we need just a few more! Wee! Hold on, Sir Andre. In time you'd be with our family, too :)

The first male (?) RNPC to be within the Futel Family! Weeehee!

I guess Mom has to buy additional Barrack slots for our growing family - so we can have Adelina, Gracielo, Andre, Irawan, Viki and the others who want to join our family as we travel across the New World! :)

One Barrack slot costs 1,100GP (We'd need to top up to get those - wee!)

I know Mom wants to extend our family soon - maybe not now. We'd need to be Veterans (Matthieu, Me and Christianne) first, before she lets others join our family, as what she has told me:D

Extending the family -weehee! Just in time for that cute boy neighbor of ours in the strange hut, Viki and her cute dog!! I want!

I know someday Viki and my brothers and sisters will be able to play with each other around the New World!! :)

As of now, I guess I have to stop typing. Mommy's sleeping again, so I guess I should let her rest..

Till next time!!

Love, Raven

First Blog!

2008-05-08T18:40:00.000+08:00

Weehee! Finally! My mommy Tin made me a Blogspot account. Apparently, she erased her other blogspots so she can focus on my own Blog! Yay!

My brothers and sisters will be so jealous! (Though I believe they'd be typing their own blogs using this account, ho-hum, so consider it a whole blog of the Futel Family.)

Anyways, I would like to introduce myself. My name's Raven and I was born a fighter - literally. I started pioneering alone in the Cite de Reboldeux around December of 2007 in the server of Vivaldi and then I was joined by my brother Matthieu, the Musketeer and my sister, Christianne, the scout. Matthieu shoots while Christianne heals and I, of course, slashes. Teehee.

I have tons of brothers and sisters in the barracks like Seanne the Elementalist, Christine the Wizard...oh and we have some friends who are with us, as well. Grace Bernelli, Emilia Guilano and Catherine the Summoner. They help our family much and I consider them sisters as well :)

Of course, Mom still loves her first-borns, don't you Mommy? Teehee.

Currently as I type this, I am level 72. Wee. Mommy made us stop playing for the past months when she was struggling with her graduation requirements. (Yeah right, Mom.) Haha. Anyways, we are back on track and grinding like hell. Weehee. We need to work hard to become veterans so that we can help our other brothers and sisters who are waiting for us in the barracks.

Here's my latest picture - obviously, Mom spoils me too much. I have a +6 Screaming Blade - a sabre and Lucifer's Wings. Weeh. But I have lots of +5 Equips with me - for me and my brothers and sisters. She recently made me a +5 Field Plate Mail - I do hope my brothers and sisters aren't that jealous though. I'm the fastest runner in the family, I wonder why the Enchantment Merchant always give my equipments Movement Speed bonuses? Hehe. Whatever. But then I know Mom's making me strong so that when I'm a veteran already, I'd help them be Veterans as well :)

Mom's spoiling Matthieu and Christianne too, though. Heck, she just bought a +5 Formal Suit for Matthieu by Andre Janzur himself. Pft. Now he looks so spic and span. With his Shaggy Hairdo. As for Christianne, she's simply herself in her +5 Ring Mail and the white hat from Andre Janzur :) OF course, Mom just wants the best for us.

Back then, we were affiliated with the Dark Knights Faction - and my Mom was one of the few girls. Hehe. Along with Mopo and the others. But I guess when khant had his accident, the faction started disbanding...and we also left the faction just before my Mom went to Palawan last week.

Now, we are with the Aggressors Faction - together with my old factionmates. It's a good thing they still know and remember us, and my Mommy as well :)

Anyways, I gotta go for now - need to grind and grind especially since my Mommy bought us a Combat Manual so we can level up faster! :)

Till next time!

Love, Raven