all made up with nowhere to go

I accidentally gained two levels doing a sidequest in The Last Remnant, and I think that that actually helped a bit with the final portion of The Seven!

(Also I was expecting a part of it to be difficult-ish, and it wasn't at all, which was a relief as three large fights (two of them actual boss fights) without saving is incredibly mean, and if I'd have died at that point, I think I would've screamed and thrown the controller out of the window).

(Thankfully, that did not happen).

( spoilers! )

Then I did the next boss fight after that (oy, seven boss fights in a row is blerrrrrgggghhhh), but that went way easier than the preceding six. Which was something of a relief.

I feel like I am near the end of the game now. I don't know for sure, but I sort of hope I am, just from the POV of finishing a game. I've been trying to beat this one for nearly six months, this is ridiculous!

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Jackie bought me a present!

We both drink herbal teas (she more than me, and it's the only kind of tea I will drink). Last week when I was at her house, she was telling me about this one she bought that smells exactly like fireball jawbreakers*. She made me a cup of it, and it was lovely.

Anyway, I went round there today because I needed to get out of the house, and I also took her some chai teas (because her kids drink it as well as her, so there's never any in, but I had some spare). It turned out she'd bought me a whole box of the fireball teas! Which was really nice of her!

(She thought it was hilarious that we swapped teas).

Which was a nice thing, because I've had a fairly bad day for one reason and another. Which continued to get worse when I thought my phone had reset itself! It hadn't, luckily. What it had done was switched to the guest account, all by itself (I think I put it back in my pocket without locking it) and I didn't realise it. I was all set to write an angry email to Sony, too! I don't know why my phone has user accounts - it seems like a really weird thing to me. I sorted it out, eventually.

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*I suspect these are a UK only sweet? I used to love eating these when I was a kid. Fireballs are my faves, then the sour ones (I love sour sweets). These are gobstoppers with bubble gum in the middle. Though they never stopped my gob for long.

I am sure that Square-Enix employ a guy whose purpose is to sit there and say, "You know what this game needs? More bosses!"

Yeah.

In other news, I finished FFXIII yesterday! I only died once on the first version of Orphan because he cast Death on Lightning and, uh, it killed her. The post-story gaming is kind of weird, but I'll possibly post about that another time, when I've played a bit more of it.

I reeeeeeeeally enjoyed it. I didn't know if I would, but I do. The music and some of the locations remind me of X, and I think that's a part of it. And the scenery, OMG THE SCENERY. Even people who hated the game said the scenery was amazing. IT IS. I love running around, just taking in the scenery (and some of it, to some extent, reminds me of where I live which, if you saw where I lived, you'd think I was cracked). The game guide suggests activating as many waystones as you can to zap around Gran Pulse easily, and I'm all, "Why would you? This place is too awesome NOT to look at!"

Currently hunting marks and finding it 100% more entertaining than XII (opinions may change once I get access to the Fault Warrens and/or have to fight an Oretoise).

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Mum is so totally in A Song of Ice and Fire, and it is adorable. She misses the TV series already. She's been reading A Game of Thrones and is on the verge of finishing it. I had to request her A Clash of Kings because she wants to know what happens next.

Adorable, I tells you, adorable*.

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God, I haven't uploaded anything or looked at anyone's tumblrs in forever, and I feel bad about it (not that I don't have sketches to upload; or even stuff to take photos of, but...I dunno, I want to get and make stuff! Which is what I have been doing in this forever that I've not been posting stuff).

I guess maybe I will do it when a) my camera battery has charged and b) I stop feeling like drek (yay period pains!)

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*I rarely ever get to see my mum being fannish about anything, and that's definitely how I'd describe her actions at the moment, even if she wouldn't.