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Work has sucked today, so hard.

I think that something may have gone horribly wrong with 100 pages...

wut??? O.o

do you guys realize this is page 95?!! wow i am so impressed! and chief is off hiding again!! slacker!!

I think my sister might want to go all 4 days. At least she can drag her hubby around the place. Hotel reservation line opens up in two weeks, too! Excited! :D

Poop. :\

I wonder if I can get to 3,000 posts in this thread? I'm going to try!!

Warning: long post coming!

To the adventurers of Garuda:

This thread is to thank all the fine players I had the pleasure of meeting on Garuda. There are too many of you to name... some of you, I remember only through the adventures we shared. Others, I have met you in person as well as in the world of Vana'diel.

Final Fantasy XI appears to be moving forward, but without the world we all call home. Only in an online game can an entire reality be blinked out of existence. Yes, our characters will go on... but without our norms, without our linkshells and, in some cases, without our names.

Yet the memories of Garuda will live on inside all of us, which brings me to the purpose of this post. Until we reach page 100, every post from me will be one of my favorite memories from playing on Garuda. Some will be in-game memories, and others will be about my face-to-face meetings with Garudans in the real world.

I invite everyone to post their memories as well... be as descriptive as you want, but a single line is fine. Let's share our stories of Garuda, the greatest server FFXI has ever known!

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The night I got my joyeuse was a night I will always remember.

It was a Sunday afternoon when we camped Charby for one of my ls mates. His pop was in the early afternoon, and Charby had popped rather quickly. So, a few ls mates (including Pikko) volunteered to return to Sea Serpent Grotto around 11 p.m. pst to begin camping the NM on its next window.

I was excited when the camping session began. We eagerly killed off placeholders, then waited in anticipation for Charby to pop... but nothing happened. One hour, then two hours, then three hours went by. Pikko and another friend passed out, but my other friend -- a thief named Laz -- endured to help.

With just two of us camping though, we needed more help. There were just a few people in the zone, and two were thief and bard. I asked them if they'd mind helping me out, and they came right away, no questions asked. We camped for a few more hours, and still no Charby.

By this time, the east coast members of my social ls were starting to wake up. Several of them came out to SSG to help me, but we didn't really have the jobs necessary to take Charby down safely. I'd been up all night long... the time was around 6:30 a.m. pst now... so I gave my cell phone number to a ls mate so I could catch an hour of sleep. When I awoke a short time later, there was still no Charby... it was about 7:45 a.m.

Finally, at 8 a.m., Charby appeared! We still didn't have the people to take it down, so I popped into my HNMLS (a beloved linkshell known as Demo, you might have heard of it!) to ask for help. One person in the ls said he'd only help if he could lot on the sword... but the ls leader summoned the troops and sent them to SSG to lend a hand! It didn't take long for the folks from Demo to arrive... they formed an alliance with my social linkshell friends, and then the battle was on!

We took down Charby fairly easily, and I got my coveted joyeuse... to this day, that sword remains my most cherished item in the game.

But what really made this night memorable wasn't the imagionary item. It was knowing that, for one night, people in locations all around the globe stopped what they were doing to lend me a hand... to make my day (or night) a little bit better.

That night made me feel proud, and fortunate, to be on this server.

That was my thought at first also, but it was acting all weird. I actually had to exit out back into the server forum and refresh the page to see page 95. When I claimed 95, the post count was like 4598 or whatever, so it was off on posts. My theory? Ghosts.

I have a very vivid memory of leveling in moon with Brotosky's bard (Opo-Opo crown and osode holy sh*t!). We'd been partying for awhile and at some point Brotosky fell asleep. He was one of the first guys with multiple 75s that I knew of, so, I dunno, you kind of give him leeway you know? Plus, he was the brd. Anyway, I'd presume he was asleep for somewhere around 20~30 minutes when his bard finally hit 75. Then everyone in the party was kind of like "Wait? Hasn't he been afk like forever?" It was pretty funny. Weird to think about that stuff now. There was a monk in that party that took off his O Kotes (Another holy sh*t item at the time) because he was drawing too much hate from the pld. Wish I could remember his name, Galka monk, like that narrows it down.

i had no clue about the game at all when i started. my son wanted to chat with me so bought the game and installed it for me.
of course i started with whm not knowing it was not the easiest job in the world.
my son tried to tell me how to trade stuff, sell and set prices on the ah and make macros through chat. to this day i admire his patience with it because i was completely clueless and this game is NOT intuitive.
out in east sarabut i met my long time friend to be, bessie. we have had so many adventures together as scared little taru whms. she got me into my first serious ls, valorandarms.
we went to tarongi in our first party as duel whms at level 8. that party was something. i have detested wars ever since. lol.
we met this awful person who wanted a yag necklace out of the treasure box when the party ended. unfortunately neither of us knew what a treasure box was and she just screamed at us telling us to pass. she was this big hume in a robe leaning over us furiously yelling. i will never get that picture out of my mind. lol she finally gave up and stomped off. bessie and i looked at each other and shrugged. we did finally figure out what a treasure chest was but not till it was too late for that hume lady.

Oh man, I remember that. Sitting in Al Zahbi waiting. There was some pretty decent shout wars that day. I remember the big question being whether or not you were supposed to let the monsters make it to the city or not. Man, the things I wish I would have known years ago. Wish I would have been way more focused on my FFXI career in college!

i am so looking forward to lakshmi besieged. its my first stop for sure!

My officemate broke the lamp by his desk in a fit of rage (ok, not in a fit of rage, he was rearranging his furniture). We only had 1 dinky lamp to live by. It was dark ans scary.

One of my coworkers came in and he's like, "Or you can turn on the lights!" He flicked on the wall switch to turn on the overhead florescent lights and both me and my officemate yelled out, "NOoooo!!" Lights went off again. Then the same guy turned on the lights again!! "Nooo!!"

Then someone came by with another lamp (we just needed a light bulb for the other lamp) and life was good again.

Moral of this story? Overhead florescent lights suck.

There were so many good memories. Meeting Elleanne and Kiljoy in one of my first party in the Dunes. They are still friends to this day 5 years later. Spending hours sitting in my LS just chatting with friends. The first time I entered any zone was magical. This game has been so much to me over the years and I look forward to those same fun feelings with the next chapter.

Annewandering, taking me to the dunes for my first party. Dlot helping my husband and I get to Jeuno for the first time. my first real kick ass party in the sh*tadel. So many firsts. So many more to come.

i remember the first time i came back from jeuno. we ran down through pashhow. there were three of us, bessie, lildelfina. i had never heard of sneak and invis meds.
needless to say we aggroed some gobs by one of the boardwalks when our whm sneaks wore. del and i were being killed but bessie was over there doing something odd. lol she was using sneak and invisible meds.
bessie was sure a lot smarter than we were. :D
those were the days! death and destruction where ever we went! (ours not mobs!)

we did have some fun didnt we thayos! lol i still like the antiendgame ls idea. i am thinking SE is going a bit with this idea too! lots of the big things are going to be small parties or solos even if the speculation is right.

Daffney, before the ranger nerf, absolutely mauling mobs in Eldieme Necropolis while helping me farm a coffer key.

You know what I miss... The accidental MPKs that occur when parties end up with bad pulls and they clear out to the zone, killing everyone who didn't know what was going on.

I know, I have a bit of a mean streak, but it's for a good reason! It just means I get to R3 and I love to R3. :3

I wonder if stray mary was not stray in the past, figure it would of took her time to wander off from the group.

going to the run again!! 96 here we come!

>>dashing past the ah running to find the chocos!!