Out of Context (03)

Attention all FFXI players!

I need some seemingly random ideas from you, if you would be so kind as to help. I've been trying to start a webcomic for quite some time now, and aside from n00bcorner (a completely random, story-less comic, sorta like Cyanide & Happiness), I haven't managed to get anything going.

I've tried using LEGOs, but didn't want to jump through the pages and pages of legal loopholes... nor did I want to pay to rebuild my LEGO collection. I tried drawing for a while, but my artistic skill is... lacking, to say the least. It's not what it used to be.

And then it hit me. Folye's FFXIMV can create the characters for me... then all I have to do is fill in the backgrounds. Holy carp on a stick, Batman! It's an idea.

The comic will feature my linkshell, DeepSecond, and most prominently those Argentos, Dawezy, and Kintrra figures you're always reading about. Other actual members of DeepSecond will appear from time to time. Because I want the comic to follow a less realistic story, it will veer away from actual in-game events (that's what this blog covers, mostly) and into a more fantastical approach. Actual game missions and quests will be used, and the storyline will be touched, but there will be random curveballs and unexpected twists that could never happen in the real game.

I was thinking of filling out the rest of the "main party" with created characters, giving me the opportunity to play with the Model Viewer a bit more.

I bring this up here, however, because I was curious as to how many of you would be interested in making the cross-server jump and allowing me to have the creative liberty to use your characters in the comic. I would never do so without your permission, which is why I ask.

Realize that by allowing me to borrow your characters, their personalities may stay in tact, but their lives on their own servers will be null and void. (No, I won't make any of them fall in love with anyone, so don't worry about that.)


Discussion for the comic without a name can be found HERE for anyone who is interested in joining in the topic as it evolves. I'll probably run a list of potential names in the thread in the next couple of days.


In game news, Argentos is now a level 43 White Mage and knows all six Teleport spells, finally has Haste and Erase, and is kicking tail with Dawezy, Kintrra, Reyvn, and Koshimu in a somewhat static party for a few levels. Swish.

Telewhoretation, Here I Come!

{{OOC note: I added a couple of my regulars onto the link list. I'll have to try to read yours more often!}}


This morning was amazing. In one swift motion, I gained the scrolls for Teleport-Altepa and Teleport-Yhoator. After some extensive studying, I have now memorized their information and can teleport myself and others out to those locations at my every whim!

See, it all started last night when I was out in the Altepa Desert looking for items in the Quicksand Caves. Kintrra called me up on the linkpearl to see what I was doing, and after I told her, she rushed out to help. Upon stumbling over the first cracks in the ground, I found what I was looking for, just like that! It was quite convenient, so I rushed back to return the item when I discovered that a teleportation scroll might be my reward. Curious, I looked into other scrolls, and found that I could obtain a scroll for the Elshimo Islands just as easily.

Kintrra came with me to Kazham, where I met another friar who had another request. He needed a slab of marble, and I was told those only came from lizards. While I didn't quite understand how a lizard could produce marbles, I didn't argue it. We were met in Yuhtunga Jungle by a friend of ours, Reyvn, who helped us slay lizards for nearly an hour. When the marble finally dropped, I jumped on it!

I returned all of the items I had collected to all of the people who wanted them, and then I had to wait. Between the deciphering of ancient texts in San d'Oria to the statue being made for the man in Kazham, I had some time to kill. I grabbed some items for Bluffnix and he expanded my pack again... and then he offered to do it again with a new set of items! I also met an Antique Collector in Port Jeuno by the name of Imasuke who offered to give me a map of the Belkfutt's Tower if I helped him acquire a Kaiser Sword, so I gladly hunted down Weapons until I had one to give to him. Another man in Ru'Lude Gardens, Radeivepart, offered a map of the Castle Zvahl in exchance for a Flame Degen. Again, I gladly accepted the challenge.

By the time I was done with all of this, I realized that the items I had left in the hands of men in San d'Oria were probably complete! When I returned to the Church, I was awarded a scroll of Teleport-Altepa, which I promptly began studying while running to the Blacksmith's Guild to collect my trophy. By the time I arrived in Kazham with the statue, I had already memorized the information from the first scroll and was the awarded with my second!

It was an excellent day's work.



Here is a snapshot of Kintrra, Reyvn, and me hunting lizards.
Here is a snapshot of the roll I made to acquire my coveted marble!