User:Mercenaryx

Notice: THE INFORMATION BEOND THIS POINT IS GROSSLY OUTDATED AND EXTREAMLY OLD AND LACKING UPDATES. WHEN READING BARE IN MIND THAT I'M GOING TO BE WORKING ON THIS FOR AWHILE BEFORE ITS BACK UP TO DECENT CONDITION. SOME OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT TO MY CHARICTERS CURRENT CONDITION AND MY OWN PERSONAL OPINIONS. (I.e. I do not hate togs anymore)

so please bare with me while i update/un00bify this page and get it up to good condition. trying to recal memories of my experiences and stories in vanadiel is no easy task, nor is trying to re-read what i've already written and try to spot inconsistancies and changes that need to be made to the already written article. This was simply copied and pasted through my own site, which i made long ago and havent been very faithful in updating because the linkshell the site was dedicated to has disbanded leaving a big heaping pile of unfinished website behind. (its a shame coulda been cool too)

Here I'll simply just put in a nutshell what I have done so far in kujata to get to where I am today incase any newbies wanna take a look or if you're interested:

-Started out as a hume warrior in kujatas Bastok and pt'd with Jarutez (bard) in South Gustaberg until I got to level 3, then he got disconnected and left me. Thats when I began to wander and explore.

-Fast foward: met a trio of newbie players and we all had the same common interest: have fun. we were all sick of leveling in gustaberg and we all wanted a bit of a change/challenge, so we went to great unknown: Konchat highlands. only one of us knew of the dangers that lie there and that was a lvl 15 MNK named lavite(elvaan or hume?). the others were Deathblow a lvl 8 BLM taru, me MercenaryX a lvl 7 Warrior, and Alchamia a lvl 7 warrior mithra. we went out and killed lotza bees and such (obviously getting no exp, but it was fun nonetheless) and even saw our first ram, coincidentally on that note, we also ran from our first ram like the panzys we were. (but then again we'da all died if we didnt)

-Fast Foward: took me the better part of a week but i finally lvled to 10, then my teacher (bless his heart, /salute/ ill miss u materiazero.) came over with his lvl 40ish taru white mage and pl'd me to 11 in deranguf wadi. that was when i had to go. i came back and followed some advice and headed thru konchat highlands again, this time all the way accross it, and ended up in a desert like area : valkarum dunes. there, i cannot speak of the horrors i have witnessed. this is by far the least popular leveling up area in the game in my opinion. many deaths have befallen upon me and my comrads there.

-I hit level 13 and got a little tiresome of leveling and wanted to explore some more, afterall, Vandiel is INSANELY HUGE! and im paying 13$ a month to play so why am i only seeing a new region every 10 lvls i hit lol. so i looked up on alakazam for stuff to do and decided to do a quest. the quest was rather easy but i made it more difficult than it had to be. the quest was picked up in the metalworks in bastok markets and i was to find some slime oil and bring it back. thankfully it seemed that i didnt have to be that high of a level at all to do this one. i did a search on mobs and found the slime thingy that dropped it. the area was Ranguemont Pass and it was a bloody insane distance from where i was but i could get there if i avoided higher lvl mobs. so i headed back to bastok, (listening to a pt member who said my lvl 7 equipment was gimp) and updated my armor from 7ish to 13ish with what little money i had. a friend of mine, kyokuto, (at the time he was using his alternate charicter, Zaen or w/e i dont even remember any more) who was much more experienced than me, decided to join me on my (completely unessasary) journey from bastok to ranguemont pass on foot. we got a good distance, then idk i think he had to log or something. then i picked up another friend who i had already met in the dunes named weetank, and we continued from valkarum to la thine plateau. after about 4 minutes of being in la thine, i had to go and i logged. the next day i logged in and headed toward ronafare, idk what happened but i remember heading all the way back to bastok and picking up another friend who wanted to go with me (another newbie) named rikuanna, turns out the direction i was heading in was in the direction of another main nation, san'doria. which was his home land. he basically wanted to hitch a ride. so we made our way all the way to la thine, then the ronafares, had some trouble finding it but we came upon rangeumont pass, and ... well... when we got in we didnt find the oils (i found out later i missed a tunnel to my right i didnt c thats where the slimes were) and... rikkuanna died due to a multi linked goblin aggro. about 5 of them attacked rikku and cornered him, as soon as i saw it i readied my sword for battle and started attacking them, takeing them down one by one, meanwhile rikkus hp was getting cut down faster and faster, i finally got to the last goblin and he killed rikku before i could get to him. moments after there was one less gob. i was kinda low on health, tried to heal, got blood aggroed by a bat, and it attacked and poisoned me and i finished it off with 10 hp to spare, the poison wore off at 2 hp left (WHO ELSE WANTS SOME!?! lol) so yea that was a cool memory.

-fast foward: after several lvls and delvls (teeter tautering between 15 and 16, happened 19 (Merc curse? :S ....maybe?) times that day ugh, that was a horror beyond belief) i finally after like what? a month? got to lvl 18, and had someone help me get the final item (i got the other 2 while pting) in the mine area in konchat highlands (the skull) to unlock my subjob. Recognition for helping me goes to (almost makes me gag saying his name now, we have tensions between us these days but he deserves credit nonetheless) Superruss. Thank you for your help.

-the rest was a blurr after getting sub job. i dont even remember lvling thf to 10 lol. next thing i remember is as a lvl 12 thf trying desprately to get to lvl 15 so i can take my warrior to 30 and unlock dark knight, that was again, even as experienced as i was, a horror beyond belief.

-i escorted a nice guy named andi or something back to his home country which ive never seen before, from the dunes. on the way over i delvled from 20 to 19 and lost my weaponry and a crap load of equipment, so i was stuck with buying a Xiphios from the mhraha vendor, and equipping a shell shield that was in my bazzaar (omg MERC CURSE!!) and later finally got my lvl 20 back (got a screenshot from this) and then i started to take up a craft "Smithing" which to this day im afraid to lvl now bc i blew thru 100k of moolah syth skilling up to 12 from 7 lol

this is a pic of me JUST after recovering from the second merc curse where i lost nearly all of my armor, and all my weaponry, (cuz with the de-lvl i couldent use any more of those items till i got the lvl back)

-i finally hit 15 and now i needed to get rank 3 lol this sucked a hella lot but as always curkina to the rescue. she helped me thru the whole mission and then i had to go, logged in the next night and got a pt of 4 together (including myself) and 3 other japanese folk, who were EXTREAMLY generous to take time out of their day to help me. although, i hadnt a clue as to what they were talking about rofl. uhh konitcua? but again ty curkina!

- then went back to warrior and headed to jeuno and got my chocobo thingy done

-while waiting to feed the chocobo again i met a couple who were in love and they led me to the next area id be leveling in: Quifm island. (i actually have screenshots of this part of my journey) this is my fave area to level in by far. i lead my first party there, and the party was fantastic. (weee no more leadership phobia!) they fooled around teasing the kracken, and ran around laughing as it lashed out at them visiously, me, i was dumbfounded as to how they can find this to be some kind of game, the girl, a mithra, was a lvl 63ish summoner with literally dozens of summons at her disposal, and her bf, (an elvaan?) was like level 72 Dark knight/Thief (<3>.o shit!

-went to kazam and leveld up to 30 and immidately went to bastok to unlock dark knight, and so i did. and began to level it up all over again. it was around this time that my (now ex)fiance, kaamye, aka myunene (long story about how we met and what not) logged out for the last time before i never saw her again. this, was what i consider, when i REALLY started to consider dark knight my one and only true job/purpose. (badass i know but its true) it pains me now having to be able to see her character run around van'diel and knowing its not actually her at the controller, but her sister, as the real kaamye is enrolled deeply into a university and no longer has time to play.

-my paradise linkshell broke up, it wasnt anyones fault /cough/TOGS/cough/ o.o im sry i have no idea where that came from! so i found a linkshell ive been looking for for a long time: "MercenariesForHire" (get it? mercenaryx? mercenariesforhire? yeah im a real rp badass sometimes) and loved it, then later i got booted by another asshole almost as bad as togs, Beri, idk if it was the owner of that charicter at the keyboard, or their wife/husband or w/e but whoever they were im pissed at them. they booted me from the linkshell from saying Shut up. XD wtf ppl say worse things than that and they dont get squat. beri said everyone wanted me kicked from the linkshell, but i did extensive research and did all my homework and found out that (s?)he was a lieing sack of shit. we argued and ended up blisting eachother. he/she dared me to get onto the linkshell and they'd kick me off on site if they saw me again. i considered this and decided to get on only when beri was off. i told oni, the linkshell leader about this, and he said he had no clue about these tensions between me and beri, (god damn why does he/she hate me so!? i barely know them and he goes and kicks me without warning or indication he will do so >.<) but when i asked oni if he'd do anything about it, i guess he was either busy, or didnt care, bc he didnt do squat to address beris pet peeve with me. so due to what m4h DIDNT do i was getting a bit pissed. i got another ls from (sry to protect the reputation of this person im not gonna mention their name upon the request they asked me a long time ago, and i still uphold that request) and logged on one day, was bored again, so i decided to go continue the chocobo (aka now the bst quest) and i wanted to know if id survive against the kracken as a mid 40's lvl dark knight (after the jungle i hit Gargaliage citel (sp) and this was prolly the second worse (next to the dunes) lvling area in the game IMO. it was so annoying.) i asked a couple times, and got yelled at by cirrus (whom i origionally thought was a cool player) and he told me that the "purpose of a linkshell isnt to ask ppl for help." wtf? doh! yes it is! i said ok ill just shout spam my questions to ppl from now on, and you wont have to deal with it, so i can get yelled at by you or ppl who hate shout spam. good choices i think. so i got yelled at and i threw my hands up in the air and said u kno what w/e fuck you all ive had enough of m4h im outta here! and tossed my ls. they deserve it. the minute i got back to jeuno i shouted for a (guarenteed, ppl always are looking for members lol got it on my first shout) new linkshell so that i could use it incase i ever need help, and a VERY nice bunch of ppl came to my aid. -then i needed to get rank 4 and with a hella lotta help from curkina, i finished it with no problems whatsoever. -i joined ChildrenofThantos as my new main linkshell and it was very nice. no assholes in it period, (cough/togs,beri,cirrus) nobody was mean in this ls unlike the last two. as i progressed i was lvling drk in qufim one day and someone was helping their linkshell leader recruit more members, i dont quite remember the name of the player, only that he nearly shoved the linkshell in my face. i was going to toss it but i said hey, i need a backup linkshell so wth, ill do it. im glad i kept it, this is now my current main linkshell, er... ONLY linkshell. (the name of it was yes you guessed it, DestinedFuture, and what a future it brought me) later one day in the altepa desert i logged in (now a lvl 40ish drk GOODIE! but i delvled and relvled several times kinda pissed me off (MERC CURSE!!!!) my ls was broken. i was like o.O wtf? why did the leader break childrenofthantos? it was an awesome ls! good thing though because i had brought my secondary ls, equipped it and began anew (the members barely knew i was a member of it till i had it for like 5 weeks and thats when CoThantos broke) just like to say i .<), then i had to get my rank 5 quest done, which took me only 2-3 days, but was annoying. HEY it rewarded me with a kick ass airship pass, YAYY no more op warping then running to nations!(which btw i have all the op warps from the main naitions to jeuno plus the lvling areas iv been to except merphated mountians, and altepa desert, i highly sueggest this in lower lvls HIGHLY!! to get around.) and i also did a garrison, i also had a mercenary gig that i put on hold for a long time (and i was making my customer impatient and uneasy about my promise to finish what i was going to do for him, because he already gave me the money to do it.) that i still had to do. -it took me about 6 minutes to get the first two items of my 50 cap quest, -took me 2 months to get the third item XD DAMNIT! thanx goes out to the pld who i dont kno that well who helped me with the first two, and my rl friend who i dont c that much anymore curkina for helping me with that gruleing third item as well as her sam friend. thanx for tryin anyway demot, twice nonetheless. lol -jarutez helped me get my af weapon thanx man u rule! -got my magicite mission done thanx to yet another nameless charicter i forgot his name >. UPDATE!!!!!!(1/22/07)

-Ok so now I'm in the lower lvl 50's of being a DRK, i solo skilled up my scythe from gustaberg and I went and took the leveling up party path from there to valkarum dunes, quifm island ect. ect. i managed to skill it up to about 118, then had a skill up party with luzzu and i think it was luffy, and i died, lost my lvl, (at the time i THINK i only delvled from 51 to 50 so >.> no merc curse, this was a normal de-lvl)

-Luzzu fell asleep mid way, and we had to leave him in gargilage citidal. I didnt skill up even once that night.

-unlocked pld later on out of sheer boredem, then accidently unlocked bst midway through finishing my chocobo raising quest. (i also unlocked pld to increase my CQ points over sarubuta to help bastok take control over it for a ls event, but the plan never succeeded due to the lack of participation of attaining the area)

-a few weeks ago i got claim on LL, but i was exping a new job at the time with my NPC (i was 6BLM/3WHM XD) and i smacked it with my club faster than the campers could voke it because it spawnd RIGHT where i was resting, talk about right place right time! but needless to say, first it raped my NPC, then it picked me apart. The campers were nice enough to raise me though. I knew i didnt have a chance against it but at i HAD to try because this was probably going to be the first and very last time i'll ever get to fight this thing.

-im now raising a baby chocobo, and named him DestructionX so that he can be identified as mine. Hes a male, and hopefully he'll grow up to be a badass black chocobo. I'm logging everything that happens as i raise him, any conditions around the times and dates i raise him, and any new developments that happen. I think that maybe the way your chocobo looks when it grows up is determined by a combonation 3 factors, 1. the way you raise them(i.e. listening to music enhances mental effects) and how faithfully you do it every day(make a commitment) 2. the state and % of the moon phase when you take care of them, and 3. the elemental day of which you raise them. so im trying to raise the bird always on Darksday if i can help it and up until this point ive managed to take care of him on that day about 80% of the times that i come to visit him. (i forgot to the last 3 days o.o;;)

-I decided to go back to using a /thf sub instead of /war. Because i learned something i didnt origionally know about sneak attack. What i thought was that sneak attack will give you a guarenteed critical hit from behind IF THE ATTACK CONNECTS. What i didnt know, was that if you manage to successfully use sneak attack, the attack will ALWAYS have 100% accuracy. and incase you didnt already know DRK's LOVE accuracy. So i experimented with /thf and gave it another shot in my next exp party and i have to say, i was quite pleased with the massive damage i was inflicting. So if i'm to use /thf again, that means i have to lvl it up to ungimp it before i can use it again. Unlike WAR where that job was already lvled to 30 and i could just sit back and be lazy and keep lvling DRK. so far i got my thf from 25 to 28, AND last visit to kazam, i managed to find an alternate route on foot that you can take to get from yhator jungle back to kazam. its a LONG ass path and you may have to take quite a few detours but at least this way, (considering you dont get aggro along the way. prisim powders ) you dont have to kill yourself to get back to kazam, nor do you need to bring a warp item. (i did but i moronically forgot you need to be lvl 36 to use warp cudgels and i was only lvl 28 i smacked myself for fkin up my plan how to get back)

-i now have op warp available to me from bastoks metal works to any place in vandiel that lies on the way to bastok, windurst, and sandoria, from jeuno (i.e. sarubuta, ronafare, gustaberg, valkarum, jugnar, marshlands, merphated mountians, bambiru peninsula,) i also have ones outside of that including quifm island, and the yungatunga jungle. (that last one is pratically useless because it zones me right in front of a crap load of strong monsters, one even twice the size of me that could cripple me if im not careful)

-lvled RNG to 5 or 6 (cant remember) for the hell of it i only had about an hour to kill on the game so i didnt feel like going LFG.

-skilled up marksmanship roughly 10 skill ups with my drk in kazam due to boredem and lack of speedy transportation.

-currently in kazam trying to attain lvl30THF

(ill post any detailed interesting/funny stories of my travels, adventures, mishaps, and drama that has happened to me in the past in detail upon request)

stay tuned for any sort of adventure updates, if i feel up to the task. lol

Cool ppl: Materiazero (rip charicter data ; ;) Kyokuto Farakato Rikuanna Jarutez Demot Luzzu Curkina

(several nameless players who i didnt remember what their names were im sry ; ;) the pls who put up with my (MERC CURSE!!!!) and got my lvl back

Onikami (just cuz hes a funny bastard, man hes halarious)

The M4H member who gave me my last fond memory of holding my sides laughing till i cracked a gut when he said the quote "ITS MORPHIN TIME! OMGWTF!" rofl god i cried i was laughin so hard

Cirrus (only cuz he helped me get an item in ordelles caves, ty man, but ur still an asshole for what u did to me on my last night of M4H)

Kasunuaku (BIG TIME HELP with my gobbie bag quest as well as pling me and... i cant name them all)

Gorax (cuz... hes gorax)

Questa (cuz....shes questa... and a gs weilding drk/thf like me! =D)

and remember u guys rock!

annnnd now time for discredit:

Beri Sephrin or w/e his name was Dragontamer aka firevulcan Togs Togs Togs Togs Togs Togs Togs oops sry did i hear an echo? and all CGF's

MercenaryX 18:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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