User:Poof

The Puppetmaster
After having met Iruki-Waraki and acquired her own Automaton and Animator, Poof has set out to apply her extensive adventuring experience into becoming the greatest and most world-reknowned Puppetmaster. Everyday she trains herself and tests her limits in various jobs and skills to apply her newfound knowledge and experience to her life's calling as a Puppetmaster. Though anxious to increase her power and join the ranks of seasoned adventurers as she has on previous jobs, she's been careful to pace herself so that she leaves no experience point explored to the fullest extent.

The Adventurer

 * Seasoned in all 18 jobs, Poof seeks to train herself as extensively as possible in hopes to truly understand herself, her potential, and her purpose in Vana'diel. While s he's explored the world over and back again, there are still stones to overturn and truths to uncover.  As long as evil tries to compromise the civilized world and the lives of Altana's children, there will always be reason and cause to test herself.

The Fisherman

 * While her childhood fantasies consisted of catching the fish of Legend and visiting every corner of the world to catalogue anything with fins, Poof still seeks to settle down into a life of Fishing. While it is currently just a hobby that's followed her since her childhood, she will continue to train herself in her spare time until she's able to devote more time to it.

The Tarutaru
Born in the rural Fishing village of Mhaura, Poof had aspired to become a master adventurer and fisherman since she was a little girl; mesmorized by the countless stories of heroism and valor she'd been fed by the seasoned adventurers that would pass through her quiet little hometown. When she became of age, she set out on the journey to Windurst to begin her adventuring career, but soon became overwhelmed with so many possible jobs and skills. While she always considered herself a free spirit adventurer that could never settle into a single job, a visit to the Near East and an introduction of the Puppetmaster job has, since, made her realize her true calling. Steadfast, determined, and too stubborn to quit, she quickly advanced among the ranks of all eighteen jobs and has since become quite the accomplished adventurer. She continues to persue adventuring at all angles and down all avenues and strives to unlock her full potentional. Perhaps, if she continues to train herself in all the arts of combat, she will complete Maat's Final Challenge: Beyond_the_Sun.

Personal History

 * My actual name is Ami Hughes but I guess I'm better known as "Poof" or "The Poof" to the FFXI community and Fairy Server; "The Poof" comes from the uniquity that typical references to "Poof" are directed at me. I'm a twenty-six year old gamer born and raised in Florida, but I currently live in the middle of nowhere in Tennessee.  I started playing video games in 1985 on the Nintendo Entertainment System.  Some of my favorite non-SE PC games include Aliens versus Predator titles, Enter the Matrix, and Max Payne.
 * I'm an HFA (High-Functioning individual with Asperger's Disorder) and an inactive member of MENSA; I haven't "quit" MENSA, but I haven't paid dues since I was seventeen. Embattling impaired social development and correlation, I've spent most of my "free time" in front of single-player interactive media.

My Introduction to Final Fantasy

 * I discovered Final Fantasy before I even knew what an RPG was. My older brother and his friends had lobbied my parents to bring a Nintendo Entertainment System into our home and my brother became a subcriber of the Nintendo Power magazine.  Soon, I had become addicted to gaming more than he had ever been and it wasn't long before he would have to hunt down his Nintendo Power magazines in my room.  I was seven years old when he received the Nintendo Power review of Final Fantasy.  He handed it over to me and told me that I could keep it; he had no interest in this type of game.  It was the only issue he had actually given me to keep.  I'd almost memorized every page, line for line, by the time I was able to get my parents to buy me the actual game.  It only took a couple weeks for me to complete it with the basic setup, but I spent the years prior to the release of the North American "Final Fantasy II" playing the game over and over with different job combinations.  The series has come further than I would have imagined back then and I'm grateful for it's success as it has provided nearly two decades of entertainment for me.

PC Statistics

 * Intel® Pentium® D processor 930 : Dual 65 nm fabricated core 3.0GHz CPU with 4MB L2 Cache
 * Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe : Fanless Motherboard build around the nForce4 SLI 16x Chipset
 * 1024MB PC2-5300 : 1 DIMM Module of DDR2 at 667MHz
 * Asus EN7900GTX 512MB : 1 nVidia SLI-Ready PCI-Express 16x Card with 512MB of DDR3
 * Antec Enclosure : Piano Black Advanced Super Mid Tower
 * Antec Neo HE 550 : High Efficiency 550 Watt PSU; SLI-Ready & modular cables
 * 500GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA Storage : Two 250GB drives set in a striped RAID0 array
 * Logitech® G15 Gaming Keyboard : Programmable, backlit keyboard with customizable LCD

Links

 * Articles by Me
 * Puppetmaster Guide by Poof
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