August 26, 2013 – Aleczan's New Diary (FFXIV: ARR)

***This entry may contain story spoiler, especially for those who haven’t done the quest “The Ul’dahn Envoy” yet.***
***หัวข้อนี้อาจมีการสปอยล์เนื้อเรื่อง โดยเฉพาะสำหรับผู้ที่ยังไม่ได้ทำเควสต์ “The Ul’dahn Envoy”***

Here comes yet another jeweled statement (well, 2 of them, to be precise) found in NPC dialogue. This time, it is by the Flame General Raubahn Aldynn.

“In remembering all we’ve lost, we’re reminded of what we still have.”
“And should your path be barred by man or beast, strike fast and true, for victory belongs to the bold.”
– General Raubahn Aldynn –

Ah well, due to many real life stuff happening at once (e.g. sister and brother-in-law brought 2 nieces over for a visit, family dinner, family shopping) today I got almost no dose of FFXIV at all. Also, the servers have been wonky of late. Not only that the Duty Finder server was quite broken, rendering instance raid dungeons and most of special instances for class quests and main scenario quests inaccessible, but after several maintenance, the servers in general were still congested and unstable.

When I got home and my sister’s family left to head home, I came back to my room to check on the game and all servers were running. Bravo! I thought. But then I kept getting spat out from the server while the screen said “Now loading” after I selected my character. They said they are limiting the numbers of players to log in on each server. I guess I came too late to get in. XD

Instead of to keep trying and failing and getting upset in the process, I decided to get up from my desk and do something productive. Since my speakers went short circuit and died since 2 weeks ago, I was using my dad’s iPod’s speaker (portable, small, and crappy) temporarily just so my computer wouldn’t be completely mute. Dad asked if I wanted to use his old set of stereo speakers, but I said no thanks, as they are bulky and seemed like a hassle to connect. Now, it was time to go back on my words and take the offer. So I went to grab those speakers.

I left the game on while I was sitting on the floor to figure out which wire goes where. And…yep, sure enough, after a certain minutes of being idle, it automatically started playing End of An Era => A New Beginning movies.

WHY……… WHYYYY!!!!!!!!!!?

Through my crappy temporary speaker, I heard the chanting lyrics. On my screen, the heart-clenching scene went on. The song Answers, along with these movies are my weakness.

“To all of my children in whom life flows abundant.”

“Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe.”
“The land’s alive, so believe.”

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“Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken.”

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“Tell us why, given life, are we meant to die.”
“Help us in our cries!”

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“Answer. Answer. Answer together.”

And yep, sure enough my room right then suddenly became filled with dying moogle noises / stuttering nannygoat / drowning dodo / sneezing chocobo / or whatever noises they were. I am not easy to offend and I don’t get mad at the crippled servers, but this, THIS, I cannot bear! SE are you picking a fight with me!?!?!!!! Ahhhh all the feels! I can’t. I just can’t.

//emote weeps in a corner of her room.