Granado Girl: The Futel Family in Granado Espada SEA

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~

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 >_ . NEGATIVE barracks bug. Some peopl...

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 wh...

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...

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, R...

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 ...

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...

Mom's head is heating up >. 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 col...

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. I t'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 ...

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 th...

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 T hanks 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 haha...

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 S...

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 su...

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? B asically, 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? E rr, 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? Y ou 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, righ...

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 &...

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...

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 - an...

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...