音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

時の流れは矢のごとく！！
と、確かなんですね、やっばり。
とりあえずこの時がまたやって来ました、
だから、たった自分のブログに書いていても、
みなさんに
:xmas: 「メリー・クリスマス」 :xmas2:
と言いたいです。

そうだ、ここで来年の抱負を書いてみようとはどうですか、普通より遅く書くなんだけど…
1. 古い古いドイツ語の本を読み切れ、
2. フランス語の勉強にいっそがんばれ、
3. いいTAになれ、
4. より勤勉にラブに働け、
5. おいたままの小説を完成すれ、
6. もっと絵を書いて、
7. 「ドラネス」にもいっぱい楽しんで、
8. もっともっとKOKIAさんの歌を聞いて、応援してあげるっ

…って

今頭に浮かべられるのはこれだけです、
なんだかあんまり弱気っぽいですね…
でもでも、たぶんいつか他の抱負を思い出せられるかも、
だからきょうはここまで。

ちなみに、昨日、この絵に萌えられましたけど…

「零ZERO」の同人（？）作品みたいで、でもカワイイっ！！と思わない？
だって、「みー」「にぱー」「ころす」って、みんな「ひぐらし」からの梨花ちゃんのセリフじゃない…！！
はうぅぅ～なんとか私もこのゲームをやりたいなぁ、今が…

Time elapses like a dashing arrow!!
I know, that's so true.
Anyway, this time arrived at our world again,
so, I just want to write it in my blog,
to everybody,
:xmas: "Merry Christmas" :xmas2:

Oh, well, maybe it's also a good chance to write my New Year's ambitions here, though I used to write it later...
1. Finish reading my super old German textbook,
2. Learn French,
3. Be a good TA,
4. Work harder in the lab,
5. Finish my pending novel,
6. Draw more,
7. Enjoy more on "Dragon Nest",
8. Listen to more KOKIA songs, and support her more.

... like those...

They are the only thing I got in my mind...
somehow they are too weak to be ambitions...
However, maybe I will have other ambitions later, maybe,
so that's all I have today.

By the way, I was attracted by the picture above yesterday...
That looks like a fan-art (?) of "Zero - fatal frame", but, don't you think that's so cute?
You see the text: "mi-" "nipah-" "korosu"... aren't they all said by Rika from "Higurashi"..!!
Hauuu~ Now I wanna have a try to that game...

いま、自分に一分言いたいことはこれです。

「そのままでいい」

なぜ？だって、長く待っているKOKIA「Long Journey ~ Road to Glory」ってアルバム購入特典である「輝白ノ翼」を使える日に、素早く使えてしまう結局、KOKIAさんと違うサーバーを選んでこの翼を付けている姿に、KOKIAさんと合うことができないってこと。

まったく、運がないんですね、私…

実は、前にすでに作成したキャラクターを削除し、サーバー転換し、改めて同じキャラクターでそっちのサーバーにてプレイしようと思ったけど、いろんな調べたあとで、そのシリアルコードが一度のみ使えられるみたいで、今のキャラを削除してもその翼を受け取りません。しょうがない、しかも私は今、すでに自分のプリーストを愛していました。死ぬことなくマスターやアビスモードクリアって、どうしてもこのまま諦めていたくない、削除したくない。まあ、なんとかあまんりにも無理したわ、私が。どうせオンラインゲなんだから、そこに、同じサーバーにいても、他のancoroちゃんたちにあっても、KOKIAさんと一緒にいるチャンスが多くないよ。スーパゲーマーではあるまいし。そして、やっばいつかKOKIAさんと本物の世界に出逢えば最高だと思います。ゲームはただのゲームに過ぎないから、同じく「ドラゴンネスト」の世界にいる限り、同じく「輝白ノ翼」を付けている限り、それだけで、十分だと思います。

「そのままでいい」って、この時にKOKIAさんの歌を不意に思い出して、心がなんとなく温められていました。

歌って、本当にすごいものです。

だから、今朝はKOKIAさんのブログに新しい写真を集めて、自分のlast.fmプロファイルをアプデートしました。

やっば自分の心のなかに宿っている小さな幸せが、KOKIAさんを思う気持ちですね。私は私。せめて、この気持が最後まで変わらないものだと信じています。

だから、どこにいても、そのままで、いいよ。(photo is from KOKIA's blog)

P.S. All in Japanese, and I'm not willing to translate what I wrote. This might just be a piece of random thinking from my heart. However, right now, I'd already begun my holiday mood. (This will be a non-snowy Christmas for me~)

Continue to my previous post, today, my priest reached lv23!

Lv20達成!! // I reached Lv20!

In a main quest at Lv22, you will go to "death swamp" and before that, you need to talk to Argenta, and just before you leave...

うわぁっ、アルゼンタは私をキスをした!! // Kyaaa, Argenta kissed me!!! <3

I was too excited, no? XDD

Another Lv22 quest↓

Umm, that's an alter, literally according to the text.

獅子よ、私はここにっ!! // The boss is a lion... forgot its name orz ... anyway, that's a kind of chimera... ^^; I remember my sorceress died a lot of times in this dungeon lol

私は獅子を捕まった! // However, Cleric is strong, and he won easily!! xD

6ゴールド！「毒の清水」って、こりゃなんだろう…！ // After the lion-stage, I went to sell what I picked up, and... see, that it is!! 6-gold-41-silver-50-copper!!! OMG!!! It says "toxic water being sealed in a transparent glass orb"... no clue... :P

I guess today I was very lucky. I met a gold strongbox twice. The first time, I forgot to take a picture, but this time, I did~

黄金の宝箱！！ // Lots of money~~~ lol

When I only had around 20points of fatigue, I decided to complete today's last quest. That quest requires you to enter the dungeon "Death Swamp" in master mode and clear it by a higher than C rank. Master mode of that dungeon suggests 4 lv21 players entering together. My priest was lv22, and would be lv23 soon. I was lazy to party with more people, and wanted to earn more EXP. Therefore, I entered by myself. Hmm... no fear, I'm a priest! Just like "Death Forest", he would always be fine~

I thought I would die at least once, because my MP was not that much enough. But, well, I was lucky. The monsters dropped several times of "food" that could increase your HP/MP. In the boss-stage, when again I thought I was going to die, I killed a skeleton and he dropped a grape that can increase 50% of your HP/MP!! Oh, lucky, really!

死の沼、マスター、死ぬことなくクリア～ // Passed without dying!

211コンボ、カッコイイです～ // Max combo, 211, cool!!

During the second map of the "Death Swamp" dungeon, I leveled up to Lv23. So I learned a new skill later, the one I had been dreaming for a long time. I loved that skill so much when I was on DN CN!

↓Grand Cross~

そして私はlv23に達成した。新しいスキルがまじかっこいいです。（ ﾟ∀ﾟ ）

So that's today's report, and by the way, I tried to enter "Minotauros Nest" by myself, but... that was too hard to my lv23 priest... I quit in the boss stage because I knew I couldn't win... T_T But I will try it again when I level up to lv24, and get a new set of lv24 rare outfits.

By the way, just before I quit the game, I changed my just-for-fun guild name. Before, I used KOKIA's song "Shizuku no Uta" as the name, because the name I really preferred was "Road to Glory" but the system doesn't allow so many characters... orz However, I suddenly realised it might work if I use Katakana. "ロードトゥグローリー"!!! Right, another luck. I couldn't write one letter more than these name that contains 10 characters!

But I forgot to take a picture... well, maybe tomorrow~

At last, just hope I can go to Saint Heaven quickly, though I don't believe I can do it before X'mas. XDD

The first time when I tried Dragon Nest, I chose a sorceress, but this time, when I'm restarting on DN JP, I chose a cleric.

I have the serial code for the white wings, which is written as "輝白ノ翼" in Japanese. I've been dreaming to have them since I got my copy of KOKIA's "long journey ~Road to Glory~". But... almost half year later, my dream finally came true!

I was not sure whom I should give the wings to, a sorceress or a cleric. Yet eventually I chose cleric. Because... that's a bit complicated, but I just think he would look better with the wings. ... because I more love the character design of cleric... you see... =_= I will definitely begin to play a sorceress when my cleric's level becomes higher (lv 35 or above, I think).

However, I LOVE CLERIC'S VOICE!!! Namikawa Daisuke's voice~ such a sexy voice! =w=

So...
to begin my cleric's growth diary...

When my cleric エレフセヤ♪ (Elefseja) came in Manaridge before Xmas, the small town was already in a huge festival ambience. Manaridge is the best one among all other towns in DN because of the white snow~ btw, I used the same name as that on DN CN, because I'm lazy, and really, really bad on naming males.. -_-b

101214 lv1 マナレージのクリスマス気分

After a quick leveling up to lv3, I walked around in Manaridge, and was excited by Mr. Blacksmith. The Xmas hat fits him perfectly!! XDD

101214 lv3 マナレージのお鍛冶屋さん

To level up to lv9 and go out of the newbie's town is pretty easy. If you have time, you can really do it in one day. However, I finished it in the second day. Here I want to say, the storyline of cleric is so... (I'm not spoiling) so I will only say I like it very much. :P

Anyway, since I was lv9 already and have completed all quests here, time to say goodbye to Manaridge.

101215 lv9_1 行ってきます、マナレージ

Go across Crystal Rain, I was going to Kyadirakku (forgot how to spell the town's name, orz)

101215 lv9_2 こんにちはクリスタルレイン

To be honest, that was not hard to level up to lv15 either! And I made it in the same day with the unused weekly FTG! ♪♪ By the way, I haven't died so far! Cleric is strong!!!!!

101216 lv15_1 レベル15達成

Finally, time to get an advanced job! Of course, I would still be a priest! I love this class, and another reason for me not to be a paladin is that paladin always fights closes to monsters, hmmm, not my favorite~ xDD I got the gift from system, a 7-day outfit.

101217 1 lv15_2 転職1

101217 lv15_3 転職2
Looking from back, you can see the cupid wings better~ :3

As what I planned, the time to obtain "輝白ノ翼" for my cleric finally comes! However, there was a side story. I typed the serial code for several times, but the system said the number was wrong. I was confused and... when I stared at the number again, I suddenly realised, that I might have confused "0" and "O", because the font. The result? My hunch was right... orz
But I was really excited by the wings! So beautiful!! Waahhhh~~ *faints*

Also, I was going to join a guild, but because the guild inventor hasn't been online and I was pleased by my wings, I decided to get my own guild -- even only to enjoy seeing its name!! You know, KOKIA's song, one of my favorite.

"雫の唄 / shizuku no uta".

101217 lv15_4 輝白ノ翼、ギルド誕生

Soon I leveled up to lv16. Time to change my items, all were rare-ranked!!!

101217 lv16_1 装備も揃えなくちゃ

With those new rare-ranked items, I was going to challenge a hard mode by myself. Before entering the dungeon, I took a glance at my wings again. Ohh, I saw information about how you can get it -- buy KOKIA's CD! Superb! XDD

101217 lv16_2 輝白ノ翼の説明にて、KOKIAさんの名前があるよ

Level 16. I suddenly wanted to challenge something I hasn't ever done before -- to challenge the abyss mode by myself when my level is only one higher than the recommendation. So I tried the dungeon "死者の森 / Death Forest", whose abyss mode suggests 4 lv15 players playing together. I entered by myself, at lv16.

Annnnd, I DIDN'T DIE!!! I think I was lucky enough. The monsters dropped meat and herbs for several times. If not, I thought I would die. When I was killing the boss' last blood bar, my own HP was rather low, and I even heard the system sound effect, the heart beating... Because I muted all sound on DN CN, I never knew that until that time. Cool~ :P

I also got 3S rank! Oh, yes!!

101217 lv16_3 一人で死者の森アビスクリア

Before I end this post, here is another funny thing. Because of lag/bug, I was blown outside of the map... see the green arrow that indicates where I was... I could see the map but couldn't enter it... orz

101217 lv16_4 変なところに連れて行かれた orz

Oh, I forgot mentioning one thing. When you reach lv10, you can join the "Goblin Fight" -- to fight with 300 goblins and earn lots of EXP points without using FTG. I didn't do it before, but now I decided to join because I can level up more quickly. When I was below lv15, my best record was around 150, but after my job changing, I could manage to win!! Another fact, before when I gave it my first try with my sorceress or archer, none of then could manage to win at lv15... Have to say it again, cleric is strong, really strong!! XDDD

You know, from my last DN playing post, which was in the middle of October, I began to play a cleric in Dragon Nest CN and found I really like that class. I do love being a sorceress, and I do love sorceress' amazing skills, but the huge disadvantage of a sorceress is she tends to die easily... or maybe because I'm not good at controlling, but so far as I know, my cleric apparently dies for less times than my sorceress. Well, talking about the appearance, I think the character design of cleric is better than sorceress. Hmm... at this point, I love archer's design but I don't enjoy being an archer that much. -_-

Anyway, I'm going to report my new experience on Dragon Nest JP from now on!! Don't talk any about how to go to DN JP, you can get the answer by googling. What I want to emphasis is that DN JP IS MUCH, MUCH BETTER THAN DN CN! Believe me.

First, you can revive for 5 times for free in each day, which is 2 times more than CN ver.; second, DN JP does not give you free cash shop items when you level up frequently like CN, but they do give you a pair of small, Cupid wings for 20 days. That is not bad at all. However, to be honest, I didn't enjoy those free cash shop items got from CN ver., because they are limited for a very short times (not more than 5 days, except a few others); third, there are less hackers on JP, but on CN, you can see some players keep posting message about hacking and other rubbish advertisements... really hate it; fourth, people on DN JP are more polite, I've just partied with some players yesterday, and I experienced the kind atmosphere a lot (don't party with them if you don't know Japanese, my advise here xDD); fifth, on CN, they have a system called "dragon eggs", at first I thought every region has this, but now I finally knew that is perhaps CN only! You can get copper/silver/gold dragon eggs/talons randomly, and if you get a 3S rank, you will have the chance to get diamond eggs. But, the problem is, talons to open gold/diamond eggs can only be found in the cash shop... gosh, they use this way to earn money (though those eggs may have more rare/epic items), and for non-real-money players, those eggs are absolutely rubbish... I hate this too. I can't enjoy a rare weapon or something else when I get a 3S rank... :wai:

However, the disadvantage of JP ver. is it's more troublesome to launch the game, and stuff in the cash shop is more expensive. xD

Much of complaint already... Okay, back to my topic... what I want to write is actually my recent experience on DN JP!!! I guess I'll do it in my next post. :P

From my last.fm profile, you can see I've been playing arcane/Annabel's album "Seisai no Astraia" for a lot of times. I love this album, and I've found another real healing voice.

Annabel. I knew her from Higurashi series, but I really paid more attention to binaria, where she and Yanaginagi collabed. Finally, I was interested to get more her own music, so I got this album.

This is a conception album, yet I did not really understand the world of it and some backgrounds. I just enjoyed the music. From the title, it is supposed to be a very ambitious work. However, the first half of the album, yes, and no for the second half. For me, the second half is rather warm and cosy. All tracks have a good connection to each other. You'll not think anything that does not fit into the entire setting of the world. From slow to fast, or relax to intense. This album is really different from those average doujin music, I mean, they are excellent. The melody can make you comfortable and relaxed. This album fits a silent rainy or snowy day, you stay at home and enjoy the music with the serenity.

I'm really lazy to write something like a review; I just STRONGLY RECOMMEND this album. Each track is worth to be loved. Yet I still have my own favourites: track 5, 10, 13 and 14. especially 10 and 13, I have been looping them for times. … and… because I loved track 13 so suddenly, I tried to record it…

Ohh, to sing a slow and gentle song is so difficult!
But…

P.S. Just got Akiko Shikata's 2010 concert single and the songs are good!
I've figured out how to connect to Dragon Nest JP, so I will be able to use the serial code of the white wings I got from buying KOKIA's "long journey" mini album!!!! Oh Yeeeees!! :clap:

Hmmm…. Long time no blogging… :down:

However, as you saw, I've changed my blog template again, to the new "whitish butterfly" theme. I know that's a stupid name for a blog template, but that was what I thought up at the very moment…

The reason? I was kind of getting bored with my faint blue template, and still believed that a white template is always perfect since it's clean and neat. Later, when I was strolling on lastfm, I saw someone's profile having a link to her website, and that was a web material site. Ohh, yes, I got inspired and drove myself crazy to make a new template.

I love this template, but the only problem is, my small netbook can only show the middle area, which the side vertical butterfly decorations are not visible due to the small screen… lol

Another thing, using emoji, was always what I would like to spend time on. I love to use some – not too many of – emoticons while blogging, however, that was not easy to link each one in terms of html code. So I found in someone's blog, in which using a java script to enable the convention from code to images, and that's what you see now in my blog, I've installed the gray penguin, pesogin, in my blog. Welcome, pesotan~~ :yes: I first saw that penguin since 2005 or around, but didn't know more about it, and I was happy to find out the real name now~!

– and I'm not regretful anymore that converted from MyO to Blogger! Oh, well, I'm still an Opera user, you see~ :tea:

The last thing. I really love Dragon Nest! I know I've said that before, but just want to say it again. Currently, I'm 4 levels to go to the ultimate lv40, and I did enjoy a lot. I more and more want the NA version launches, and… oh, I wonder where the person got the information, but I just saw on wikipedia, they said DN's NA version will be released on Jan-27, 2011…

!!! is that true…?

Anyway, I'm looking forward that. I'll definitely play again even from the very beginning. This time, the classes I will try are not supposed to be changed a lot. Basically, force user, priest, and bowmaster (now, I'm play a bowmaster at lv20 sometimes). I've made my warrior becoming a swordmaster, but I guess I have to drop this class. I really don't like melee yet being a warrior you have to stay close to monsters… which is too hard to control for me… so as the fourth character, I might try an element lord! I love mages sure enough! :teruteru:

Oh, I forgot to say…
GARNET CROW is gonna release a new album!!!
"parallel universe"

Limited version

Regular version

However, why this design reminds me the world of Oz? XDD

According to their short message (shown on their homepage), this album will definitely give you a happy feeling. It will also be another trying for them to gain another style. Sounds good, I'm looking forward it (I don't know if to buy it though, depends my own feeling later :P).

Also, during KOKIA's winter concert, "winter rose", they will release a memorial trump…

Ohhh, I WANT IT!!!!!
Yet it must be a good at the live house... T__T

However, in the end of this year, I just wish I can post more and finish most of my German textbook~! :P