Something we may have neglected....Follow

Bumped by a vanishing entity,
So that other's may know of this threads existence.

;_; everyone in the game has gone through this, the first LS we all join will always be the best and the day we dropped that pearl is the day in the game we regret the most. As the number of people equipping the LS dwindle we move on to larger LS's, not realising that they are so large people come and go everyday so that home-ly feeling just isnt there, so now at level 40+ i feel like a loner grinding xp and farming so one day i hope an end-game LS will invite me in.

i wish i had friend's like that....so touching..TT

There needs to be a "Storys of ledgend" part of alla where this, and other great storys, could be up permanantly.

It made me almost cry but on the same hand, it warmed my heart that everything turned out ok. ^^ Lets get some more posts like this! Sure beats the "POL Error/Refund" and "Economy trouble/gil seller" threads. lol ~Aet

I've read this story many times now. Everytime I read this story I tear up again. It doesn't seem to lose its effect.

This thing is ancient, but good all the same.

/cheer.

doesn't matter how many times I see this video... I cry every time...

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/cry

So many people have forgotten the true story of the game! Going on quests and missions to have others that im with say "Hurry up" while I'm watching the cutscene.I am here to play, and save our people!Please remember that we are all here on an adventure and remember the true meaning of what that adventure is!

Wow...this reminds me of why I quit way back when.

When I first started, I remember running around outside Windurst, leveling off of Rarabs and the crabs, watching all the people fish off the side of the cliff as I went. I was a Mithran Warrior named Rorey, and I'd never had so much fun in my life. I remember trying to run around with the mouse, and I remember before heading out to Tahrongi that I figured out how to move around and play without the mouse at all, and how I used that setup for the rest of the game.

Most of all, though, I remember a little Tarutaru Black Mage.

I can't even remember his name, as shameful as it is. But I met him when I was trying out White Mage, and saw him getting beat on by a bee in Western Sarutabaruta. I healed him, smiled, and he thanked me. And then I just kind of followed him a bit and healed him when he got hurt. We weren't even partied. I just enjoying being able to help someone that much. After a few battles he laughed and danced around me and invited me into a party. That was the start, and I don't think I'll ever forget it.

Later, him, myself, and a Windurstian Hume, Devin? Devlin? I just called him Dev...we all started an LS together. It was silly, and had no one but us three, but we had all sorts of adventures. We leveled off of Dhalmel and Maze Makers until 15 -16. We tried to do the subjob quest in Buburimu, but gave up and went to Valkurm later on. We leveled in the Pen for a little while, too. Dev would always be farming for Dhalmel Meat and Hides to sell on Auction, not to mention doing things I considered impossible back then (he really WAS nuts - he'd solo three EM's and win as a low-level Warrior) and the Tarutaru would always be doing something interesting, usually with Dev. *laughs* I'll never forget how he always greeted me with a "Hey Rorrr! ;)" It was silly, but something about it made me feel really good when I logged on, like I had people who cared that I was there around me, despite how little I was able to help or be of use near the end.

See, I leveled too slowly (I logged about 1.5x the hours they did and held 1/2 their levels - still dunno why), and it wasn't long before I was outpaced. They still loved to talk with me, and I enjoyed it a lot as well, but it was hard listening to the two of them chat about Yhoator while I was halfway through Qufim. I eventually left that LS, despite being the owner, and joined another. Later on, I invited them into it as well. Then the LS I had joined turned into a train-station, and I left everyone, including them.

While leveling Samurai, I met someone I really loved to have around and talk to - he was one of the most intelligent and down-right witty people I'd ever met, and I counted him as one of the best friends I've ever had. Once again, it was a three-person LS, and I loved the people, but they leveled over me quickly, and I got bored and frustrated again. That's when I gave him and the other person in the LS all of my things and money and quit, deleting Rorey and cancelling my account after some fond goodbyes.

Ah, well...old habits die hard, and so I'm returning. I apologize for all of that junk that just dribbled out of my mouth, but that story made me realize something. It didn't matter that those people I knew were higher-leveled than I was. All that really mattered to me in the end and made the game fun for me was to help them and see them all happy. I think that's the most important part for me, now that I really sit down and think about it: friends...

I had a similar experience. I started playing this game last October and met a guy from Germany. I was a lvl 3 war and he was a lvl 8 whm. He started healing me when I was injured in West Ron. We played everyday together until around lvl 18. Then I happened to meet someone else who offered to help me get my choco when I hit lvl 20. So from taht point on I started lvling fast and hard whenever I got the chance. I got my choco first, and got to lvl 30 first. Got my Paladin before my buddy. We still talked, but there was no more partying together. I quickly lvled my Pld to 25 before my friend got his Pld also. By the time I was lvl 30, his pld was lvl 10. I decided to change to Rng/Nin. Did the rng quest and the nin quest. By now we were not playing together at all. Now he is a 56 Pld and I am a 50 Rng/Nin. The great thing is last week him and I started over. He is a lvl 8 Blm and I am a lvl 8 Whm. We are taking our time and playing together. I won't make the mistake again. This time we stay together.

I finally got around to watching this .swf... had been reading the posts in this thread earlier and been thinking, "What a bunch of sentimental saps, weeping over a silly little flash movie."

While I was watching it, it didn't really get to me all that much. I found it to be a well written and illustrated, and very personal tale; but I didn't think it was very touching or poignant... at least until the very end.

When those words appeared, "Welcome back to the adventuring world of Vana'diel", I suddenly found myself literally choked up. At that instant, my breath caught in my throat and tears burst from my eyes. It was as if all the emotions I had been holding back, denying to myself, had broken free right at that moment. I made one attempt to rationalize my reaction- "It must be the music. Music is proven to be able to cause an emotional response", but deep down I knew it was actually a combination of the music and the story that had affected me.

The character that I identify with in this story is the tarutaru WHM. I have been playing for more than a year, and my main job is still only level 25. I find going on quests and missions, crafting, fishing, manipulating the economy for my own evil purposes, hanging out, chatting, and goofing off in general to be infinitly more fullfilling than the mindless tedium of leveling. I refuse to join EXP parties unless asked politely, and have decided not to level at all anymore until I achieved rank 3. I'm hoping that like the tarutaru WHM, I will someday meet again with friends that I met earlier in my adventures, but was quickly passed up by, and that I might be able to rekindle the spirit of adventure in them, and go journeying with them again.... /sigh

dead serious.. ive seen this over a year ago and forgot about it.. started tearin up as soon as it kicked in remembering this special message... whomever the author is "I tip my hat towards you" you've found a way to figure it out when so many have become lost over the time..

thanx