My Chocobo & The Tenshodo

I have been trying to take good care of my chocobo Souther Star. The handlers tell me that he is doing ok when I seem them. He was finally hungry enough where I had to feed him. I gave him a San D'Oria carrot and it didn't fill him up but he wasn't hungry either. I decided that I didn't want to be fattening him up as a proper diet is important so I didn't feed him the greens I had.

He was under the weather one of the days, but the next day he was back to being a care free chocobo. So far he is still the baby colors of yellow with the little bit of red on the feathers behind his head. He seems to be missing me lately and the handler had me take a hanky to get my scent on it. I will carry it around a bit longer then will give it to my chocobo so he has some feeling like I am there with him.

Lots of people are worried about how strong their chocobo will be. I just want mine to be happy and healthy. Anything that comes additional will be ok with me.

I finished my training as a Ranger some time ago. The training as a ranger in the dunes was mostly uneventful, and I even met some competent people there. I will probably need to train again as a Ranger in the future but for now I am going to concentrate on my Samurai training.

I have been spending lots of my time in Jeuno as it is close to the training area of Qufim Island. I have had a couple good days of training out in Qufim and have increased my Samurai skills. Since my skills have increased I needed to get myself a new katana. It was quite an event. I will have to write down what happened soon, but for now I am still thinking on what has happened.

I also have joined the Tenshodo. The task was really easy for a secretive group of individuals. I was able to get an application form from Bastok and get joined up with no problems. They sell equipment that I may find a use for and their blades are higher quality than those on the street merchants. There is a high fee for these items also, but quality is worth the extra price.

I hope to master my meditation technique soon, as I know many Samurai are able to use it to attack with great strength. I have also learned through the Tenshodo that the Norg Samurai have found some old scrolls that should allow us to learn from some of the past masters to increase our offensive and defensive capability's. There is also some information on how to master one of the skills earlier in a Samurai's training. These would prove highly beneficial to me and I hope that they start training us Samurai in these new techniques soon.

I need to get back to Souther Star, he seems to be fussing... and wanting to nibble on my book. Will write more later about the events that happened.

Samurai, Katanas, Mr. Lost

I have been training kind of hard. There was those couple of days I spent in the tavern, but since I don't remember much of them I won't go into detail there.

Of course I was training out in the dunes. I really don't have to much of a choice. I had some ok training days, a really great training day and some really poor training days. I am finished with the dunes as a Samurai, so on to Jeuno I will go. I do need to spend some time as a Ranger as I think that using that as my sub job will be most beneficial for some time. I also need to look into getting a new katana. Kata, my current katana, has served me well, however my abilities are beyond what I can do with that blade now. I will place it in a spot of honor in my home and work on forging a new blade. At this point I am not capable of forging my own blade so I will need to work with one of the traditional smiths to forge a blade. It is imperative that I am there for the forging process as I need to forge the bond with the new weapon. It is not a tool, it is a companion.

Kint was being mean to Mr. Lost ... Kint seems to be more depressed than normal lately and he is taking it out on everyone else. Ali.... Lost is well... I think still .. um emotionally not there.. I guess maybe not unstable but he is vulnerable. Apparently this Peter guy he met punched him but loves him.... Not sure what that is all about since the last time Ali had any interaction with an Elvaan man he wanted to rip him apart and eat him.. He was Yagaudo at the time but still.

Anyways Ali stabbed himself in the leg cause Shenzi was crying, then it wouldn't stop bleeding and he couldn't cure himself. I suggested he cauterize the wound with booze and a blaze, he misunderstood me and poured the booze down his entire pant leg and set himself on fire. What a mess. Then Kint was trying to get Ali to stab himself in the throat and kill himself. I think I was able to get him to stop, but I still worry about him. He hasn't really stuck to one type of training either. ... .. Maybe I should spend some time with him. I wonder if he would like to go training with me.

Trainers, More Dragons

Lots of new stuff to write about.

I visited more trainers and can now train to be a dragoon, ninja, and paladin. Soli was very helpful in all of these. I am sure I would be struggling very hard with out of all the great help from these friends I have made. It is really nice of them all to spend time helping me and assisting me in my training.

Taytay and Bel even helped when I was helping the ninja guy to get some piece of coral from a crazy tunnel. There was all sorts of strange creatures down there. Soli befriended this huge scorpion thing... It scared me lots... after I got the coral I had to go all the way back to Norg to get the item the guy was seeking. Turns out it was his wife's katana and he wanted to give it to his daughter so that if she decided to be a ninja like her mother she would have it. I almost wanted to cry, it was very emotional.

I suppose I should talk about the new wyvern hanging out in my home. After we defeated Cyranuce, the guy that was corrupted by a dragon, Rahal wanted to kill the wyvern that had hatched from the egg I had found. The wyvern flew over to me and he thought it was going to attack me but instead it befriended me and it apparently has a holy seal that is special. This seal apparently marks it as a special wyvern that is good. I guess there is good and bad dragons. When Rahal saw this he decided the he should not kill it and I should keep it and train with it. I had to name her and decided that Delphyne was a good name. She has been sleeping most of the time, occasionally she gets up and I feed her but she is sleeping alot. Once she is ready I will take her out and train with her.

I am beginning to think that old geezer was wrong about trusting people. I have found that believing in your friends and placing trust in them gives you more power than trying to do things all by yourself. I know I would have never advanced this far all by myself. I still don't trust them uppity royal schnooks at the Chateau, but as far as adventurers go most of them are trust worthy. Some are a bit daft and maybe stupid at times but still they are nice people.

Mr. Lost is still cranky as ever and he has stopped with Samurai training... I had hoped it would help him find an inner peace. He is now training as a beastmaster which I must say is much more fitting for him than Samurai. I mean he was able to make friends with those mean rams. I wonder if he still has Omega or if he found the ram he sent away again.... I don't think his beastmaster training will help him any with his anger control issues though. Lately I have been pretty short with him.. but he argues with everyone I really wish he would stop and get along well with everyone.

I helped Bel with a mission he was given from the Windurst Consul. It was very similar to mine and we found that strange eye thing and dragon again. It was very easy to complete.. I still wonder if that dragon really could be an ominous sign.

Taytay and Soli went to one of them Dynamis things last night.. I was scared for them. What if they didn't come back alright... I hear it is a scary place where the beastmen have control. They did come back ok though and I was happy that they survived the trip. Thats all I will write more later... I wonder when I will be able to read what is in this book.

Journeys.. Job Trainers

I spent the evening in Norg in meditation. When I left my trance almost a whole week had passed. I was surprised by the amount of time I had spent in meditation. My mind seemed clearer than it had ever been. I went back to visit Jaucribaix, he thought I had forgotten about my reward, I had been gone for so long. He started to talk to me when Gilgamesh arrived, Jaucribaix seemed surprised to see him.


Gilgamesh thanked me for the hard work of acquiring the materials needed to craft the blade. They hand make their weapons it allows for a connection to the blade, an understanding they say. He told me of the Samurai how they connect with their weapon. He presented me with a gift, the blade that was made. This blade was named mumeito, it was impressive. I graciously accepted it from him, honored that they would accept me into their ranks. I could say nothing to him to show my thanks, I only bowed.

He was gone as quickly as he came. I was left with the mumeito and the ability to now train as a Samurai. There was nothing left for me to do here but head back to Kazham.

I had heard that there was others that could also teach me about new jobs. So I headed out to the different towns to talk to the locals and see if I could find some of these people.

My first stop was in Jeuno. There I visited the beastmaster I met when I helped the sick chocobo. His son was sick and needed some roots from a plant in Qufim. I headed out and was able to find the plants. I was followed by the beastmaster and his chocobo that he had abused also came to help and dug up some of the roots. I think the beastmaster learned more from me than I did from him but I am able to train as a beastmaster now.

My second stop was in Bastok, there I found a Galka that had mentioned a Dark Knight. I went into the mines where he was reported to be. I successfully located the Dark Knight he gave me a Great Sword "Chaosbringer" and told me to satisfy it's thirst. I killed many creatures with the blade (more like blunt piece of metal) and traveled to Beadeaux when the Dark Knight said he would be. There he had informed me that I had already learned all that was needed to start training as a Dark Knight.

Finally I made a trip to Windurst, there was a ranger there I had heard of. Once I arrived I was told to go and find an old sabertooth and bring back some bones. This was supposed to teach me some lesson about nature. I found the cave and this old animal was dieing. I did not have to wait long for it to expire. I grabbed the bones and took it back to the ranger who told me that the hunter uses it's fangs to hunt, and when it dies all that is left is the fangs. I am not quite sure what she is talking about since there is more that is left. There is the memory of the deceased, their influence on the world. She seemed naive but maybe after spending some time training as a ranger I will understand what she meant.

That was all for my travels, as it took a number of days to accomplish all of this. I still have some more people I need to seek out about training. Maybe soon I will be able to do so.

Dragons and Level30

I woke up just inside of Kazham, my back ached, I had trained till I passed out the day before. I made great progress and had increased in strength quite a bit.

This day started out pretty boring. I sat around town for quite some time not able to find a suitable group to head out with. Ok, I couldn't find any group. Eventually I got an offer to join a group of adventurers heading out to Yhoator Jungle. This would be my first excursion to this area.

After all of the party members arrived we hopped on Chocobos and headed out. Once we got to the area we found a little cave to setup camp in. We were slaying the Mandragora of Yhoator. Progress was slow but steady.

While I was out hunting Soli wanted to know if I was still wanting to see about taking care of the monsters that is terrorizing the Yagado. I informed him that I was and would be ready shortly. I had hoped I would reach the skill level of 30 before we headed to take care of these monsters. Unfortunately luck was not on my side as the group I was with decided to disband short of me learning the required skills to be considered 30. I was close, but close doesn't count.

I left to go and meet Soli in Windurst. It is a long ride from where I was and it took me some time to get there. Everything was ok however since we didn't have everyone together and Bishmonten was still tired from some earlier event. I went out hunting for some bee hive chips since they sell well and some silk thread while I waited. Traydon had shown up in the meantime and was going to help us out also. Eventually we were all gathered and ready to head out.

Everyone finally made it to Balga's Dias where the monster was reported to be. There was this odd burning circle thing there. Apparently the key I had got many days ago was to be used on this thing. It was quite scary. Reluctantly I used the key, and we were teleported to another area, time, dimension... I really don't know. The area looked the same, dry, dusty, sandy overall reminds me to much of the dunes. Walking alittle ways down you could see something different though the area changed.. There was this lady taking on the monster and it summoned this ugly dragon. She decided that we could handle them and left.

We made a battle plan. I was to sleep the dragon then we would focus our attention on the eye thing. Once it was defeated we would take care of the dragon.

I inched forward just close enough to cast a spell on the dragon wanting to stay as far away from it as possible. My spell went off with out a problem and the dragon fell asleep. In rushed Soli, Bish and Tray they started pounding the eye.. I ran up to assist them and was able to get regen in on one of them. Almost as soon as I finished casting regen the eye was dead.. Well, I thought, he was weak surely this dragon will be much more difficult.

The dragon woke up and started lumbering towards me, it gave me the chills. My companions were quick to engage it. Once they had it's attention I looked to see who was injured and needed to be cured. I cast a cure and drew my sword and ran up to start attacking the dragon. I was still 10 paces or so from it when it stopped moving and slammed to the ground defeated. Surely this was joke for as ugly and big as this thing was it was weaker than the Mandragora that I was hunting earlier. I kept an eye out for some trickery but the dragon disappeared.

The odd adventurer that interupted me earlier when I was in Bastok showed up again. She was surprised to see a dragon. Apparently these creatures had not been seen since the dark lord or some such was sealed away. She was very disturbed by what happened. I wasn't sure what the fuss was about, this dragon could hardly bother a single seasoned adventurer. I didn't want to dawdle, just in-case there was some pressing issue and I headed straight to the consul in Windurst.

He was just as surprised as about the dragon, and wrote a report for me to take back to the homeland. He said it was urgent and I need to get the report there quickly. I had been planning to help one of our new members but I noticed that Soli had already headed out with him and left us behind. I was sure Soli would take good care of him and decided I should do what the consul had asked and get this report to my homeland quickly.

I asked Tray if he would send me to the Telepoint in La Theine. He said that he would help and came out of the residential area in his bathing suit, not seeming to care. Before I could even mention that maybe he should put some more clothes on he had already whisked me to the telepoint. I waved and ran off towards San D'Oria.

I walked through the gates, it had seemed like ages since I had been back home. I quickly headed to the Chateau to report to Halver. I handed over my report and at first he seemed shocked. Then he said that it could not be possible and I must be imagining things, but concluded that my mission was a success. I swear what is with those close to the royal family, they seem to always be more stubborn and stuck up than the rest of our race. I wanted to smack him but decided against it and left.

I headed back out to Kazham, found another group of adventurers and went back to killing Mandragoras to relieve my frustration. Before I knew it I had already passed the skill level of 30. Our group disbanded and I headed back to town. Once in town I rented a chocobo and headed to see the Samurai... For now I am tired of writing and must get back to my meditation.

Mr. Lost and my book

The last couple days I had been worried about Mr. Lost... He hasn't been communicating over the pearl. When I asked him what was going on he mentioned something about another experiment, that he was fully a hume now and he has a mechanical spider "omega" .... He said that he was wanting to be a dragoon before he came back.. I am not sure what happened.

Anyways.... I am not sure how to exactly word what has happened... It was quite a surprise.

I finished with the consul, who was angry and yelling.. *another story* heading back to my house to get my equipment to go out and train when I heard Mr. Lost's voice in my head.. It was odd.. I was thinking of him when it happened. He was seeing how I was doing if I was any better than the other day. I let him know that I was doing pretty good and it was odd to hear his voice since I was just thinking about him. I was out slaying more orcs when he said that he had something to tell me.

He was concerned that I would laugh at him. I told him I would not, but didn't press him to tell me what he wanted to. I guess he decided it was ok to tell me... He wanted to let me know that he had feelings for me. This was quite a shock and I wasn't sure what to say for a while. There is something about him.. I don't know what, but something there that draws me to him.. Even when he was a Yagado, I am still not sure why I wasn't freaked out by it when he first told us.

I am not sure if he feels this way because of how I have treated him... I haven't felt sorry for him but maybe compasion.. Anger.. frustration.. He has been directly influenced by my people experimented on for who knows what reason. Would he have had a normal child hood? did he have parents? I feel that he could lead me to some answers about my own questions.. my parents, where are they? What happened to them? What involvement to this secret organization do they have?

I am still not sure why.. but I told him about my parents about my book. How the pages look different depending on who is looking at it. That when I look at it, the letters... are of some unknown language. The blank pages that always seem to be there. I let him know about some other things that I dare not even write... If they were to be discovered it would severely hinder what little progress I have made. I believe that for now we have an understanding, and some of the same goals. I do hope my trust was not missplaced..

As far as training goes. I was able to increase my skills as a white mage. This is partially thanks to Soli for coming to protect me in the dunes. It was very nice of him to come and do that. I hate to have him waste his time doing things like this since I should be able to fend for myself and have the group I am with protect me, but yet again we had a few people that I question their existence and what the Gods have planned for them because they were quite worthless in what they did. I better get back and check with the consul I am sure there is some other odd job for me to do. Apparently till I finish this mission they have given me they think they can just order me to do whatever waste of time job they want.

The Dunes... Again

I went out to the dunes as a white mage to try and train some. I spent a long time playing in the sand with nothing happening. Finally I had decided that I should go ahead and no train on my own and that is when I finally got an invite to join some adventurers for training.

When I joined up with them I noticed that we didn't really have anyone that could get beaten up on by the creatures. Well I decided to give it a shot and see if we could slay some lizards and increase our skills. There was another white mage in our party and I thought that we should be able to handle some semi tough creatures as long as we stayed away from the big ones we shouldn't get horribly injured.

For a short period of time we had a very skilled white mage helping us also and everything seemed to be going ok. After a few minutes however the white mage and one of our party members had to leave. We replaced this member with a paladin that was under skilled and couldn't provoke the creatures to attack him. He took his time getting to us, getting lost and being chased by monsters. When he finally got to our camp we killed two creatures and then he said he had to go.

This group was turning out to be a mess, but we continued on. Soon we had a red mage joining us. Great, I thought, now someone will actually be able to lower the mobs skills.. I was so very wrong. See up until now I had been trying to cast some of my spells on the creatures like dia, poison, paralyze, blind so that it would be easier to kill. However I had to be casting cure at every possible opportunity to keep the dark knight we had alive.. The other white mage... well lets just say there was something wrong with him.

I don't want to go into him to much cause it might make me crazy again but let me cover some basics. He had less mana than me at a level higher (thanks to me having black mage as a sub job) but he wanted to cast protecta about every 2 minutes even though it had not worn of anyone yet. For the start of the fight he would do nothing till the dark knight was low on life then would cast cure II using up most of his mana and getting the monsters to attack him. When I brought up the fact that he may not want to be so over zealous with the cure II and just try and use Cure to keep him alive by casting more frequently he seemed to think this was a bad idea and getting the monsters to attack him was fun. I had to stop myself from bashing his head in with my bronze mace. ...That is enough of that I am getting angry again already....

So back to enfeebling the monsters.. I figured with a red mage here he would take care of that.. Well the red mage apparently thought he was a fighter since he had a warrior sub job. So I guess he didn't need to enfeeble the lizards. At this point I started to get alittle crazy.. I fell to the sand and started holding my head. I blacked out and don't remember to much after that. I had been talking to Mr. Lost and he sent his mechanical spider Omega to come and help me... I don't know how he came to have a mechanical spider but when I awoke I was back in West Ronfaure.

I dusted myself off and decided that was enough of spending time in the dunes for awhile so I went back to the orc's outpost to slay some of them. They are dirty creatures and I can't stand them.

The training was slow but it was consistant. I was able to get up to rank 12 as a white mage. I believe I have decided to get to 15 as a white mage before I go back to training as a red mage. This should allow me to get to rank 30 as a red mage with out having to go back and train white mage again. I miss training as a red mage......