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I'll bump this again :p

This thread deserve a better url!

http://lsstory.notlong.com

Give it to everyone you know who plays this game! ;)

WOW!!! thats a good story (tirauds eyes brim over with tears)

This story is reminds me of how much I treasure the LS that I'm in. I partied as a noob with the leader of our LS who was also a noob at the time, in fact the whole party was noobs. We exped in the dunes for hours late at night. I ran into him while doing Eco-Warrior and he gave me a pearl. Our LS is still holding strong. There are huge level gaps between us. I'm in the 30's, my leader and some of the original members are around 55-60. But we've never let that come between us. We level other jobs just to party together. We help each other, espically our lower ranks climb the ladder. Even as a level 30, I came along with our entire LS to help with to get the mold at Genkai. And even though me and two other level 30s would not use it for months, we didn't leave until everyone had theirs. Nearly all of us have dove into a craft, helped each other farm, get AFs, and ranks. Even as a level 30, I do everything I can to help the lower levels in our LS get their Kazahm keys and fight the dragon. We've had our massive runs of just leveling, but we always take time out to have some fun. That is why I've dropped another pearl I was given and rejected every other offer. We notice when people are out of game and love to chat. We even took the time to have an LS meeting to restructure our LS and make sure we didn't start to fall apart -- and then we concluded with a mass suicide. So if you ever see one of the TruthSeekers on Valefor, I will garantee you will find some of the most helpful, skilled, and fun people in the gave. Here's to ya'll guys!

that is a sad sad story, with a somewhat happy ending..
2 thumbs up..
*sniffle*

Simply, wow.

That's a wonderful story.

I am not a big fan of bumping...but I do so w/o hesitation for this ^_^

That was the best story I've heard about FFXI ever. I now know that I should start caring about my adventures not just going through them like there nothing, maybe that's why I keep starting up new jobs all the time. There's something that I've missed that I need to get to, maybe it's the fact I keep getting things done really early thanks to my LS, like rank 5 at level 30. This story shows that I need to apprecitate (spelt wonr probably) the game and the adventures much more than I do now.

Huh. I didn't even notice the video link the first few times.

Very touching story.

Aw crap. I just had to read it the third time and the tears fell. -.-

Makes me think about a Chinese girl taru who was following me around in La Thienne. I was at that point lvling 10-15 MNK solo because I was so tired of Valkurm partying. I was taking on crabs and as I was fighting I noticed a cure ii cast on me. I turned around after the battle and saw an AF wearing WHM taru. I bowed and quickly moved onto the next enemy thinking about my good fortune.

She followed me again and cured me again. I bowed and thanked again. It was at this point I noticed she had auto-follow on me. Then she /tells, "Sandy?" I was wondering whether she asked me where it was. So I autotranslated, "San Doria.? Where? Do you need it?" I knew she was a lvl 50 WHM, but maybe it was a friend who was messing around on a friend's account and didn't know about the map function.

I kept moving about a bit, and she kept /follow on me. I quickly killed another crab and she cured me again. I felt bad, maybe she was thinking I was desperate for help. So I tried auto-translating "Thanks for your offer, but I'll have to refuse. ^^" I moved on and she said in poor english, "is ok, I like to watch you play ^^"

I was pretty sure at this point it was a girl I had met and the picture of a girl at a computer with a little taru following around a low lvl because she had nothing better to do made me feel real uncomfortable. I must have killed another couple dozen crabs and I kept trying to communicate with her but the auto-translate doesn't help much. She knew a little bit of english and said she was a girl from Taiwan and 22. I told her I was a boy and 23. She asked if I was jp and I couldn't translate Korean. She eventually assumed NA and that I was white. -.- I then started to stop fighting monsters.

I was beginning to feel reallllly uncomfortable at that point. Maybe because there was nobody else in La Thienne. Its not like I wanted her to leave me the hell alone, but I kept hoping that she would say, "I have to leave. My friends need me elsewhere." Y'know, so I would know she wasn't lonely or anything. I started getting a lot of invites at that point, but I declined them all because I didn't want to tell her I had to go and just leave her alone. This went on for a good 15-20 minutes.

Then I saw it in auto-translate. I have no idea why they would put something in there like that. But after contemplating it for a long time, I auto-translated, "Are you alone?"

Long silence. She managed to type, "no... i have friiends." Just like that. I hoped she meant that she was just bored and wanted to help me out thinking I was a new player. But it felt more like she thought I was asking why she kept hanging around me and that I wanted her to go move on. Which is essentially what I was asking. I felt like a jerk, I mean what other response was I going to friggin get?! And then she said, "Sorry I have to go." You have no idea how many times I /tell'd ^^
in the hope that maybe if I had offended her, maybe I could raise her spirits. A couple of "Nice to meet you's" later, she ran on to Sandy.

Afterwards, I thought maybe when I asked "Are you alone?" She was wondering whether I was coming onto her or not and hastily made a retreat. Unfortunately, she /tell'd me later on when I was pt'ing in Valkurm and told me she was coming back to where we were. >< I tried to communicate that I was in Valkurm and that I happened to get killed in a party... again... She kept /tell'ing "I don't see you. I cannot find you" for a good ten minutes. Eventually she said she had to go. ;_;

In the end, I hope it was she who was feeling sorry for me. Maybe seeing a guy with a pt flag up and killin crabs in a lonely spot like the Ephemere made her feel sorry for me.

She seemed so lonely just following me around and watching me lvl a subjob. I wish I could have communicated with her. Gah. Why'd SE have to make these Tarus so cute?! Its too tragic to think of them as being sad! And now I just had to read this story. Man...