GAME LOG IX
Game: Final Fantasy 14
Day(s):
November 4, 2015 Approximate times 10:30pm-1:30pm 3 hours
November 6, 2016 Approximate times 10:00pm-midnight 2 hours
November 8, 2015 0915-1015 1 hour
Hours of Play: 6 hours
Progression: Leveled up to Level 5
11/4/2015 approximate times 10:30pm-1:30am 3 hours
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| Stuck between a rock and a hard place |
After my last session only getting to level 1, after many hours of play, I started this session hoping to find some of the main story quests so I could level up faster. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find them on my own. Luckily, Almira Rae, a friend of Shannon’s, helped me out a lot. She showed me how to find the Archer guild and how to use <POS> to show where I was. (This came in handy later) Almira Rae also helped me learn how to kill squirrels,, etc before she headed off to bed. I continued a bit with some fighting, but I ended up stuck between some rocks and and evil-looking tree came and ended up knocking me out.
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| Knocked out! |
Fortunately, Mitsuki Lunam was online and must have figured out that I was unconscious. She contacted me and I used the newly learned< POS> to get her there, and she healed me. At the end of this gameplay, I finished two quests: Way of the Archer and Population Control and while doing so leveled up to level 4!
11/6/2015 2 hours
This Session I spent about an hour just trying to figure out Discord. After much assistance from classmates and my older son, we finally got it working and ready to play for the in-game class. I stayed online a bit and played and I leveled up to level 5, but I ended up getting killed by some evil fly and was lying unconscious somewhere in the Central Shroud when I logged off.
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| Unconcious again! |
11/8/2015 0900-1000 1 hour
When we last left Ambria, she was unconscious, having been killed by some giant bug fly looking thing. Therefore my gameplay began by returning to Gridania. Actually, my game play began by my searching online forums to see if I could find out what happened to my clothes. I somehow, during the last session, lost my pants/leggings or whatever was on my legs before. I lost them when I was trying to do the “Passing Muster” sidequest where I was support to assemble a respectable set of equipment. Somehow while trying to do that, I must have hit a wrong button and now I am in underwear! I’ll never “Pass muster” now! I remember Danni complaining about this very thing, and now it seems I am also in that predicament.
I know it is just an avatar, but I really feel stupid running around in my underwear. 
I decided to see if I would find a player who might be able to help me with this predicament. I found two players sitting on a bench, I waved to each of them in succession, but no response. AFK, I guess. I went wandering around, and I noticed how there are much fewer people playing the game at 9am than in the evening! I couldn’t find anyone to ask my question that want’ either AFK, or running really fast, working on a quest. So I thought I'd just go ahead and work on a quest in my underwear and hopefully I’d run into someone while I was doing that.
I decided to again try the “Passing Muster” quest, after having looked online for a hint about where to buy the items that are needed. I have no idea if I CAN buy the items because I don’t know if I have enough money, but I headed there just the same. I used the map (I’m getting little better at that) and started traveling towards the Central Shroud. I came to a gate and tried to go through, but I wasn’t able to. I clicked on the guards and found that I wasn’t allowed to use this gate because I was still an “untested adventurer”. Now I see the advantages of leveling up! I guess the only way I can get there is to teleport. I went try that, but OH NO! My teleport spell was no longer listed on my hot bar. I have no idea what happened to it. Did I lose it when I was knocked unconscious? Wait a minute, maybe I still have it, but it just isn’t on my bar. I checked the character traits and low and behold, there it was.
I need to
ask someone about these bars and how I should equip them. I happily tried to teleport to the central
shroud, but was told “Unable to teleport.
Insufficient gil. Sigh. I don’t even know what gil is, I feel like a
traveler in a different country, not understanding the language. Is that why it
was missing from my hot bar?
I decided to travel back to the Aetheryte Plaza in Gridania and
try getting there that way. I’m not sure
how I was previously in the Central Shroud but apparently I am not able to get
there via Aetheryte now. I wanted to do
to Bentbranch Meadows Aetheryte, but that wasn’t one of my choices. I couldn’t use teleport either because of my
lack of gil, which I had since googled and found that it is “gold”. I was sort of stuck, if I didn’t have enough
gold to teleport than I certainly wouldn’t have enough gold to buy some pants. I guess I have to find a way to get gold in
order to continue and buy some pants!
Things I learned these days:
1. The social aspect of the game is crucial to learning it. If I hadn't had the help of many classmates and Shannon's friend, I'd probably still be standing in New Gridania at level 1. The expertise of the others both in learning the aspects of the game, healing me, and learning the technical aspects of getting set up on Discord, were indispensable to me. My original question in the log about "do people not like to talk to Noobs" seems to be answered, because many people came to my aid over the past few days. Maybe this was just because they knew me IRL, so I may still explore trying to talk with others who do not know me in game to see how that goes.
2. Even though in your brain you KNOW that the avatar is just that, an avatar, it is still very hard to separate the fact that it is a fictional character when you are walking around in your underwear! I really, really do not want my character to still be in my underwear during the online class, and so I hope to discover a way to remedy this before Wednesday.
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