First Post!

Hi. I'm a Kilye.
I've been playing FFXI since the 8th grade... yes, I am a hardcore nerd.
And I'm going to write about it.
First of all, I play the jobs
White Mage
Red Mage
Summoner
Scholar
(Yep, only 4 75s in about 4 years of playing!)

And it annoys the hell out of me when people fail... seriously
and since I have all the time in the world considering my departure from Vanquish
why not write!

I started off in a small shell called MagesStar
made wonderful friends, and it was my home for a loooong time...
but when my best friend, Dragance, was removed from that shell, he explored other opportunities in FFXI.
One of those being "endgame" -
I personally had never been interested, but I had always been interested in spending time with him!
Anyway, I'd just sit and wait for him to be done killing whatever he was killing... why he took 3 hours to kill it, I had no idea, but that was okay.
But one day! This friend of mine said that his LS needed a WHM (my only job at the time, level 68 AF and RSE WHM, go!) at this thing called... behemoth.
Since there was a super sweet person who now refers to me as "his daughter" there.
I received a pearl to the linkshell, Vanquish.
I didn't know what Vanquish was. I didn't know anything about endgame. I just thought it was nice that I got to spend time with my fabulous friend!
Did I mention the fact that I also loved him to death?
My old linkshell, MagesStar, which was now MagesStarTwo by now because the leader had accidentally dropped the original, was quite frustrated to see me go. I think I lost a few friends until they calmed down. They were edventually happy for me, but boy did it take some teeth pulling.
Anyway, my first day of Vanquish we were off to kill this beast called Fafnir. What's a Fafnir? I don't know. Drag even told me we might be fighting Nidhogg. It was all gibberish to me.
It was Father's Day, and I soon learned what a Fafnir or a Nidhogg was. We had a small team, maybe 12 people - which honestly, was big to me, but yeah, small team. Luck turned our way, and hey! We won the claim. On Nidhogg. I guess that he is Fafnir's daddy. Everything was going perfectly fine until one of our members pulled something called a Darter. It's a stupid fly with annoying wings, and they also link about 5 others. They suck. So, dealing with those and a rather angry dragon at the same time is a much difficult thing. I was trying my best, but I don't think that it was physically capable for us to survive. I don't really know.
Anyway, we wiped. Happy Father's Day! What a wonderful first experience with HNM, but I honestly had found it fun, and although we did wipe, I got good comments. That was exciting!

I continued on with Vanquish forever after that. We camped Fafnir and these other HNM called Behemoth and Adamantortise and their daddys, too. It was great. We'd get people stuff, have fun, and most importantly, show that dragon who was boss! Yay!
The shell edventually broke due to our leader, Deevo, needing to take a break.
We formed into two different shells then, VINTAGE and Zion.
VINTAGE was lead by an elf (all elvaan are referred to as elf, and elfs is my way of saying elves) named Lorikete. He was in way over his head. I joined that shell, as I thought most of my friends would too. It's a shame I hardly knew anything about anyone in Vanquish then. Well, VINTAGE lasted about a month, maybe two. Then Lorikete quit. Then my friend Drag quit... I went back to Zion, and my "online parents" (Kingkai and Cyndel) as I soon considered them lead that for a while. Something happened to them, though, and this amazingly compassionate guy named Packer took over the shell. There was nothing better as we reached heights not even thinkable in the original Vanquish. We also switched back to the original shell name and color. Before we knew it, we had a wall of Dalmaticas and gear dropping at such an alarming rate we needed new members to keep up with all the stuff we were getting! Yeah, life was good.
Time and time went on again, and some new SH were appointed to try and help Packer out. He was getting tired of leading everything, which was totally reasonable.
The new SH, Grok, Grizzfunk, and Ellatrix did a good job. They knew what they were doing, and they did it well.
We got more stuff, we made more people smile.
We also made Kupo cry.
Man, those were the times.
Sometime in December 2007 Omen asked Vanquish for a merge.
So we did that. We had like 50 billion members, and a kill team for any HNM on all the time.
We got everything. Holy God, I'd never been in a LS that demanding.
It was insanity.
But... this new amazing linkshell's ways weren't cutting it for me. I edventually left Vanquish, for the first time.
I posted an application to the shell Magitek, the only other big shell I'd apply to - ever. I think I was accepted, but alas, a good friend by the name of Grizzfunk convinced me to try Vanquish again because it was my home, and he also promised me that things would change.
Things did change.
It was good again.
Not amazing, but good.
We did Salvage, Einherjar, Dynamis, Limbus, HNM (every kind of HNM), and I did Assault on the side. Boy, was I a busy girl!
After a while a SH got to be too obsessed with his power, and started abusing it.
Many people were treated wrongly, and I grew rather sick of it.
Packer was too stressed to do much about it, and finally gave up leadership.
About a week later, he asked to be a SH again, which was granted.
Maybe about another week later, my friends and I did a Salvage run without said SH afore mentioned.
And now we are no longer members of Vanquish.
One person was too important to a shell to lose 8 members. (Kronis, Jinyna, Packer, Stammer, Grizzfunk, Grok, Shredder, Kilye (me!))

Ah, darn.

Now I regard Vanquish as the new "Kupo" and reside in a linkshell with the 8 removed called OuterHaven.

It's cool.

I also chill with my old friends in MagesStarReborn.

(It's Reborn now because the guy who dropped MagesStarTwo quit and we needed another leader!)

But not Rosaire, because he drives me crazy!

Anyway, that's my life story. Go WHM!