Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in Kikika and Co.'s LiveJournal:

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
7:25 am	Anzanna job changes! Yes, my final character has made the transition to second class and is well on her way to becoming a battleforger! Here are the pics: ( Before and After ) More updates as and when I can get access, since I'm moving house and may be without decent internet for up to a month ^_^ Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 21st, 2004
2:03 pm	Making up for lost time Yeah, I know, no updates in a long time. The real world encroached upon my playtime for a bit ^_^ Anyway, first news: Yashinta has job changed! Here are the before and after pics. Before: After: I'd heard that the job change test wasn't particularly taxing, and it wasn't. I changed at job level 45 rather than 50 because I got impatient! It meant I had to do a bit of travelling around to visit some NPCs, as well as a bit of zombie-killing. The hardest part of the test was actually the quiz at the end, which I had to have a few goes at. Oops ^_^ Anyway, the Amatsu update has meant that levelling Yashinta is a lot tougher, but I'm loving the priest skills! Soon the day will come when I can attempt to solo Baphomet :P The other bit of news is that, with the extra slots, I also have some new characters! I have an assassin, Sinestri, and a Merchant, Anzanna. Pictures have been uploaded on the info page, and here's a screenshot from Sinestri's job change: The assassin test really did drive me crazy! It took me longer than any other job change test I've done so far. The quiz was quite tricky because some of the questions were badly phrased, and the NPC who signs you up for the quiz was a moody git - I tried to talk to him when another thief was in the room and he teleported me to Clock Tower 4, where I was promptly killed by Owl Barons! Finally got through the quiz and on to the killing-things test. You NEED Stone Throw for that bit of the test, believe me - I fell through so many holes in the floor you wouldn't believe it. Finding all the right monsters to kill in the time limit was stressful too, but I finally got there with only a few seconds to go! The last part was the easiest, but also the most maddening - there was an invisible maze with two ways out, and I spent ages wandering around trying to figure out where the route was and which one was which, but I got there at last and have been having fun wandering around the Toy Factory with her. More updates as and when they come up! Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 17th, 2004
5:28 pm	Glast Heim Humour In a place where it's very easy to get killed, it's nice to see players injecting a bit of humour into things, even if it is a bit infantile! Made me giggle, at any rate ;) Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
10:47 pm	Melchizeda's next! Melchizeda turned Crusader on Friday night, so now two of my characters have their second job classes. Hooray! This test wasn't hard either, and was actually easier than the knight quest. I could have gotten away with not taking the test if I'd brought a Hand of God and a Chivalry Emblem with me, but seeing as I didn't really fancy my chances against any of the monsters that drop those (very rare) items, I just went for the standard test. I'd collected all the items I was likely to need beforehand; easily done with a full support acolyte. The only part of the test I was worried about was the "kill things" part, because someone had told me he'd died while taking it because he got mobbed by four ghouls and a mummy, but that didn't happen at all with me; you just walk down a corridor and monsters just appear, a couple at a time, so it wasn't hard. The quiz was far harder because it tested your knowledge of lots of things. I didn't get all the questions right, but fortunately it doesn't seem like you have to. I got 9 out of 10. I don't know what the pass mark is though. So, I made the change, and have been enjoying having a massive sprite with lots of HP. I even got to kill Wanderer last night with Tikel's alchemist, Marinia. Just wait till I get Grand Cross, is all I have to say! Anyway, here are the screenshots: Before: After: Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Monday, May 31st, 2004
12:27 pm	I'm a knight! So, it was Kikika who made the job change first. I didn't go to job level 42 after all, due to a combination of impatience and realising that I could afford to take a couple of skill points out of my planned knight build. The test wasn't particularly difficult; certainly not as bad as I was expecting from having read other people's accounts of it. The item-gathering was something I'd done in advance, the quizzes were pretty straight-forward, and I really don't understand how people can manage to fail the part of the test that requires you to just sit there and not kill anything! The battle stage was tougher, but I managed to get through it despite a few hairy moments; the Dustiness in the first two rooms put me to sleep, which ate into my time limit, and the Steam Goblin would have had me if I hadn't have brought lots of red potions and grape juice! Anyway, I got through it, and here are the pics: Before: After: Melchizeda will be next! Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
8:25 pm	Levelling race! Right now, all three of my characters are around the same levels. Kikika and Melchizeda are both base level 50 and job level 37, while Yashinta is base level 51 and base level 38. It's at that stage where you begin to wonder... who will reach their second job class first?! I doubt it'll be Yashinta since I'm levelling her right up to job level 50, but Kikika's changing at job level 42 and Melchizeda's changing at job level 40, so it's pretty close between those two. It's tempting to think that melchizeda will change first since she has a lower level to reach, but there again Kikika's that little bit stronger. And then there's the difficulty of the individual job change tests to consider! When it happens, pictures will be taken and posted. Current Mood: silly (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
7:14 pm	Juno! Yes, Juno arriveth. Took me absolutely bloody ages to get all the files and caused a lot of hair-pulling and wailing, but oh, it's been worth it. And the thing I like best right now is ABSOLUTELY the new SP regen. It makes it far nicer to be a support acolyte. Right now, I have established that in the time it takes for me to fully regen my SP now (406 SP), under the old system I would only have regenned 25 SP. This is a much, much nicer system. Whereas previously I could go into Payon 3 or Pyramid 2 but would have to sit near the entrance and run back out to regen as soon as I killed one monster, I can now near enough solo on both those maps, with the odd short sitting session to regen. It's doing very good things for my experience points; I've gained half a job level in just under an hour and a half. Considering my level, and how quickly I lost SP before Juno, that's a very nice thing indeed. It's been a long time since I could gain levels that quickly. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
3:02 am	Silly people... So there I was, wandering around near Morroc and levelling on Hodes. Eventually I got conscious of the time, so I went back up to the warp, sat down and started to create an AFK chat box. Just then a mage comes up to me and says hello. I say hello back. The conversation then goes thus: Him: "How do you equip cards?" Me: "Just double click on them." Him: "OK." =pause= Him: "It isn't working!" Me: "You have some slotted gear, right?" Him: "No." I shook my head in disbelief and explained to him that you need weapons and armor with slots in order to equip cards, and also tell him that he has to check whether or not his cards are for weapons or armor, since I suspect he has no idea. At that point he decides to attack a steel chonchon, an attempt which swiftly backfires on him and he gets chased around the screen. I catch up to him and quickly dispatch the chonchon. He says thanks, I say no problem, I go to sit down and create my AFK chat box, with the simple, apparently self-explanatory title of "AFK". I step away from the computer. I get my purse. I come back to the computer, and see that the guy has joined the chat box despite the "AFK" title. I'm just wondering what he's playing at when he sends me this message: "What does AFK mean?" How he managed to become a mage without picking this stuff up is beyond me. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 11th, 2004
5:09 pm	Pushing the limits of my patience... You know, I can handle KSers. I can handle looters. I can handle skill abusers. No, I don't like them, but I can handle them. One of them pisses you off, you go "grrr" at them and move on. What I can't handle are people who do any of the above with a bad attitude. I just got Holy Light last night, which acolytes can only get once they reach job level 30. Tikel suggested I use it on Greatest Generals, being that they can't move by themselves and Holy Light is the only skill acolytes get which can attack rather than defend or cure. So I thought I'd try it out quickly this afternoon, since in my experience Loki is at its quietest at this time of day. So I found a lone GG and started hitting it. My SP ran down, so I sat down to regen and put up a text box indicating as such. In the time I was there I was passed by ONE mage (who gave me repeated thumbs ups), ONE archer and ONE knight. The knight entered my chat box and said I was "tying up" the GG. Now, I find that a tad ridiculous since it was hardly the only GG on the entire map and it's not like many people who would have been capable of killing it had come past (ie the solitary mage and the solitary archer). Then suddenly the GG moves forwards and kills me. As mentioned before, GGs can't move by themselves, so someone had to have used a repel attack. Sure enough, the archer who had been hanging around wandered over. I was pretty sure he'd used arrow repel since he was doing that nasty thing of calling me "sweetie", and saying I got "pwned". As a side note, why anyone thinks that saying someone else got "pwned" makes them look like anything other than a retard is truly beyond me. This guy was especially not helping his case as he was doing that moronic sit-stand-sit-stand-sit-stand nonsense. Figuring that this guy really was an enormous moron who was more likely to engage his ego than whatever brain he might have, I said to him "let me guess, arrow repel?" "Yep!" comes the response. And at that point I took a screenshot which included both him and the conversation we'd just had and told him he was being reported for skill abuse. The punishment for skill abuse is a ban of a minimum of five days. That makes me feel somewhat better. Often the biggest weakness of Ragnarok, and any other MMORPG for that matter, is having to play with other people. Current Mood: irritated (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
12:17 pm	Why nobody likes Peco Peco knights There are a great many stereotypes and misconceptions about other players in Ragnarok. Swordsmen are all bots, archers are all KSers, acolytes are all weak or have unlimited SP that they'll gladly use to heal people who can't type properly. They're not fair, of course, such is the nature of stereotypes, but they do have some basis in truth (apart from the unlimited SP thing). Most job classes are aware of these stereotypes and do their best to avoid that kind of behaviour, and the only job class that doesn't seem to want to do anything about its reputation is the Peco Peco knight. Apart from one decent person who offered to tank Melchizeda on Creamies once, Peco Peco knights have given me no reason to shrug off their stereotypes. The botting factor doesn't bug me so much, but nine times out of ten, if I'm levelling in Payon Dungeon, it's the Peco Peco knights who kill-steal from me. As such I've developed an overwhelming suspicion of Peco Peco knights, especially if they start behaving erratically while I'm attacking something. I was levelling with my partner (Tikel) in Payon and we started attacking a Smokie. There just so happened to be a Peco Peco knight nearby. I kept one eye on him because of my natural suspicion, but then he started walking around in circles near us before eventually settling just beside Tikel. That kind of behaviour sets off every alarm bell in my head, so I said "don't even think about it." At that point the Peco Peco knight said he was level 61, could walk around there all day without taking any damage and didn't get any experience from killing monsters there. That does kinda beg the question of what the hell he was doing there in that case, but I decided to leave that be and apologised. And the response I get? "stfu, I don't need to ks you." Charming. Tikel said he was probably fed up of people assuming he was a bot or KSer. I was aware of that, that's why I apologised when I was corrected. But if someone apologises to you and you tell them to "shut the fuck up", you really think they're going to still feel sorry for holding preconceptions about you based on your job class? I sure as hell didn't. It's not like the guy had anyone to blame but himself anyway, since there is no reason in the world to walk around in circles and then sit down next to a complete stranger, unless you're planning to KS. Not all Peco Peco knights may be bots or KSers, but they do all seem to have their heads rather firmly shoved up their own asses. If a job class doesn't want to help itself out, then I don't see why I should give it the benefit of the doubt. Current Mood: annoyed (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004
10:14 am	Spotted in Payon Dungeon last night... It's the Payon Dungeon Santa Hat convention! Current Mood: sleepy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
1:32 am	Why Newbies Are Fun. Taken from my partner's account. As you can see, she has a pet Munak named Lei Lei. Note what the newbie has asked in the chat box at the bottom. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
8:51 pm	Introduction Occasionally interesting things happen to me while playing Ragnarok Online. I usually put them in my regular journal, but since I'm not sure that anyone else on my friends list there actually plays it, I became mindful of boring them. So, I've created this. ( My characters! ) OK, that's all for now I think. No idea how regularly I'll update this, just depends on how much fun stuff happens while I'm playing ^_^ Current Mood: content (Comment on this)