Tuesday, November 25, 2008
NineMoons's Last Stand: 2008's Best Posts
NineMoons's Last Stand, Part 1: The best posts from 2008
JANUARY
NineMoons at POGS 2008
Grace Bernelli and the Art of Dying
FEBRUARY
Dekaravia Owns Cervantes
The 2nd GE PH Bloggers' Meeting
World Premiere: Not Another Love Story Ze Musical
MARCH
For Love of the Game
FFA Grand Finale: The Philippines Rocks Machinima
Post-FFA Rant
NineMoons's First Anniversary
NineMoons Moves to Carracci
Not Another Love Story, all versions
GE PH Community Heroes
Tribute to the Ladies
APRIL
NineMoons's Convention Guide, Part 1
Dom1nation II: Cosplay and Factions
Dom1nation II: FFA Winners, GE PH Community Heroes
Dinner with RCM Hrin
MAY
I Believe in seaGE
GVCs Rant, Part 1
GVCs Rant, Part 2
JUNE
Takhisis Faction Anniversary EB
The Five Servers of SEA / ANZ Granado Espada
GE Hangaroo, Version 1.0
Introducing Granado Espada to Gamers
JULY
Introducing Granado Espada to Non-Gamers
GE Hangaroo, Version 1.2
NineMoons at the IGN.com Vault
50k Hits
If These Girls Played GE
NineMoons Makes Vet
SEPTEMBER
NineMoons and the One about the GE Gamer Girls
An Adventurer is You!
GE PH Mini Community Meeting with CM Aethrin
Vetting a Musk
GE PH First Anniversary
NineMoons's Convention Guide, Part 2
GE PH Black Party
The One About The Faithful Granado Espada Blogger
OCTOBER
NineMoons as Faction Leader: ShenAnCalhar
A Gamer Girl's Lament
e-Games Hosts the GE PH Gamer Girls
The Two Servers of SEA / ANZ Granado Espada
Presenting the NineMoons Family Grabber
Game! November 2008 Features GE Gamer Girls
Five Hundred Posts
Now is your chance to relive with me my memories of this year in Granado Espada. Please comment away!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friends and More at the Granado Espada PH Black Party
Now, THAT'S what I call a Birthday Present!
NineMoons Marks Her 26th Birthday~!
Pictures and After-Action Report: The Granado Espada PH Black Party
[There will be pictures in this post - lots and lots of pictures! I'll be resizing them so as not to completely kill your browsers dead, but it's well worth it to wait while all the pictures are loading since they're pretty much integral to the story. In fact, as I often do for these after-action reports, the pictures and the captions ARE the story. Hope you can stick around to wait for them, since they're quite worth it.]
The single best part about going to gatherings such as the Black Party is, of course, meeting and greeting a whole lot of people, making friends, and taking photos! The honor I received this year was that now people were asking to have pictures taken with me ^^ Never had that happen to me before.

Rivendel attempts to log in to Granado Espada.

Ditto for Covenant faction leader Blacksword.

A proper picture of Sigrid and NineMoons.

Covenant faction from Carracci, take 1.
[I left temporarily because I wanted to try setting up a faction of my own, and doing the Faction Lv 51 and 52 quests. As things stand, I've had to postpone setting up until after the Server Merge.]

Nate Reclusion and Sigrid.

RoseChavez and NineMoons.

NineMoons and Whiteships a/k/a Feng Ling.

RoseChavez, NineMoons, and Santoss.

Xei and Artaxerxes.

Covenant faction from Carracci, take 2 - with CM Aethrin.
To friendship, the Power of Trinity, and Granado Espada~!
Pictures and After-Action Report: The Granado Espada PH Black Party
Now, THAT'S what I call a Birthday Present!
NineMoons Marks Her 26th Birthday~!
Next Post
Friends and More at the Granado Espada PH Black Party
[There will be pictures in this post - lots and lots of pictures! I'll be resizing them so as not to completely kill your browsers dead, but it's well worth it to wait while all the pictures are loading since they're pretty much integral to the story. In fact, as I often do for these after-action reports, the pictures and the captions ARE the story. Hope you can stick around to wait for them, since they're quite worth it.]
In order to celebrate its first year since commercial launch in the Philippines, IP e-Games piggybacked onto a Globe Telecoms event, hosting a Gaming Arena area on the first floor of the SMX Convention Center, the pet exhibit center of the SM Mall of Asia. The Gaming Arena boasted about a hundred or so PCs, and was intended to host the games being promoted that day: CABAL Online, Top Speed, Dance Battle Audition, and of course Granado Espada.

The Granado Espada banner at the Gaming Arena.


PCs! Lots of PCs!
Unfortunately all those PCs wound up becoming so much dead things. How ironic that a telecoms promotion that was supposed to extol added connectivity via both computers and mobile phones wound up providing an extremely inadequate Internet connection to this whole lot of computers. The lack of a reliable Internet connection had several repercussions for the event; the biggest casualty was this:

The Granado Espada PvP go-round, and any other tournaments that the other games might have wanted to put on, was unceremoniously bricked because there was no actual connection. Too bad since the GE tourney was supposed to take place on the Test Servers! I can only hope the PvP teams found the rest of the day at least as eventful as the tourney would have been. At least everyone who registered for the tournament was given a prize ^^
There was no PvP, but there was a lot of People Meeting People, in many cases for the first time, and in a few cases after a long time! Here's one of the surprise participants at the rest of the event: Sigrid!

[With thanks to Alex Crosse who took this pretty cool candid shot of me and Sigrid talking.]

The Black Party kicked off in earnest with the Trivia Contest, hosted by Grantoza and CM Aethrin.
[The telecom company also did not provide microphones, so we had to make do with that megaphone - and that prompted several rounds of jokes about being right back in Granado Espada, what with the game having Megaphone items to talk to an entire map at once, and the Microphone item to talk to the entire server.]

Part of the crowd that hung around the stage to join the Trivia Contest. Is it any wonder they were crowded so thickly when the prizes included video cards and such?
Lucky me to win one of the major prizes at this Trivia Contest; details here.
After a break, during which this cake was revealed and eaten with much relish, Aethrin got back on stage [I hope he enjoyed his chunk of the cake!] to hand out certificates of appreciation to the GE PH bloggers for, once again, going above and beyond the call of duty to keep the community informed and up to date with the game's latest developments.
As the certificate itself says:
For [their] stupendous efforts in chronicling events, news and features pertinent to the Granado Espada community.

The first group of bloggers honored: from left to right, Fiksdotter, Blacksword, Christus, CM Aethrin, Sigrid, and Southernsky.

The second group of bloggers honored: standing, from left to right, Churvanesska, Welling, CM Aethrin, Mena, and Artaxerxes. Kneeling, well, that's me [NineMoons].
Other bloggers were called but were not around, including Ogasawara and Craeon. [Craeon, that's the second certificate you've missed....]

The fan art competition drew a few contestants, and the prizes were won by StreyCat and Serpentes [a/k/a Hahaziah].
As a parting shot at the close of the Black Party, CM Aethrin suddenly yelled, "Okay, everyone who showed up in black, line up in front of the stage!" One scrum later, people walked away carrying GE mousepads [with Pirate Adelina on them] and other random real-life goodies. Whiteships a/k/a the lovely Feng Ling cosplayer snagged a limited-edition shirt, to her joy, after she'd been unable to buy anything in her size. I also got a shirt - but was able to trade it to Blacksword in exchange for his GE lanyard!

My parting photo: the Carracci crowd what attended the event, in what will likely be the last picture of this group under that name! [Since in two weeks' time Pachelbel and Carracci will cease to exist and instead become the single server Rembrandt....]
[Next Post: Friends and more - and pictures of us eating that cake!]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The latest costumes from kGE, and the banner for the GE PH Black Party!
From this and this at doratomo.jp, the latest eye-candy new costumes that will be coming in as part of the Version 3.0 Third Civilization updates.
I got a few pictures of the lot, and there are better ones at the doratomo links plus this thread on the SEA / ANZ GE forums.
Have to assume that there are part and parcel of the "Rose" set of costumes. Remember from here: the female fighter's costume in this series is called Rose Camellia, and the male wizard's is Blackness Rose.
Now, we're missing the following costumes in this series: Male Scout, Male Musketeer, Female Wizard, Female Elementalist. Those, we should be looking forward to in the following days....
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And here's the banner for the GE PH Anniversary Black Party, upcoming this Saturday. Here's the linky to all the events taking place then.
Eee trivia, I really wanna join that!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
A Picture Says A Thousand Words.
There you have it, straight from RCM Hrin.
[You're not all going to the pre-release tournaments for MTG: Shards of Alara, are you? ...I've left my own Magic days behind me. I miss my Sliver deck.]
Let's all see each other at the SMX Convention Center on 27 September 2008 for the anniversary celebrations for Granado Espada PH!
[I started the original thread, here. My thanks to Hrin for answering even though she was very busy defusing yesterday's crisis.]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Celebrating ONE YEAR since Granado Espada PH Commercial Launch! - Fireworks by Outcasts Faction
Previous posts:
Fireworks Round One
Fireworks Round Two
[WARNING - picture-heavy post, please wait for the screenshots to load.]

Here's Outcasts Faction's fireworks tribute to Granado Espada PH!



Kudos to Southernsky and his faction for putting this one together!
It's been a treat putting together this player-organized in-game event to mark such an important anniversary. Thank you so much for joining in! And please, don't forget to send in your screenshots so they can be featured here too!
Mabuhay Granado Espada PH!
Celebrating ONE YEAR since Granado Espada PH Commercial Launch! - Fireworks Round Two
Previous post:
Fireworks Round One
Next post:
Fireworks by Outcasts Faction
[WARNING - picture-heavy post, please wait for the screenshots to load.]

We promised fireworks in the City of Auch at 12 noon and 6 pm - and here are the 6 pm screenshots from Carracci and Cervantes!


Fireworks in Carracci!

Fireworks in Cervantes!
I repeat: this is a player-organized in-game event. We're still waiting for news on any real-life official celebrations.
Sorry about there being no Pachelbel or Vivaldi shots. [I don't have families there.] And there are no Caravaggio shots in this round because I guess people were busy?
Also, if you're in Carracci, please join us again at 9pm as Outcasts Faction, the last all-Filipino faction in the server, puts on its own fireworks display in Auch!
Mabuhay Granado Espada PH!
Celebrating ONE YEAR since Granado Espada PH Commercial Launch! - Fireworks Round One
Next posts:
Fireworks Round Two
Fireworks by Outcasts Faction
[WARNING - picture-heavy post, please wait for the screenshots to load.]

We promised fireworks in the City of Auch at 12 noon and 6 pm - and here are the 12 noon screenshots from Carracci, Cervantes, and Caravaggio servers!

Just before the festivities, my team in Carracci poses for posterity with the slogans over their heads.

Fireworks in Carracci.

Fireworks in Cervantes.

Fireworks in Caravaggio.
I repeat: this is a player-organized in-game event. We're still waiting for news on any real-life official celebrations. But for now, please join us at 6pm for the second round of fireworks, and send me your screenshots to be added here!
Sorry about there being no Pachelbel or Vivaldi shots. [I don't have families there.]
Mabuhay Granado Espada PH!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
GE PH First Anniversary - Mark your calendars, it's 15 September!
[Clicky the links to remember!]
[Looking back, I feel torn between Oh, how far we have come, and how much has changed! and The more things change, the more they stay the same. I wish I could reconcile those feelings.]
Anyway, tomorrow is September 15 - so Fiksdotter and I have come up with THIS:

All members of the Granado Espada PH community are invited to join us at 12 noon and at 6pm! We hope to see you there!
Also come and join us at the forums thread I put up to celebrate the occasion: Granado Espada PH Fan-Organized Activities: FIREWORKS IN AUCH!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Carracci Factions: Faction Anniversaries!
It's nice to take a break from crusading, and writing this post is pure pleasure for me.
Faction # 1: This week Destiny Faction is celebrating its first anniversary! To celebrate, here's a link to a machinima video made especially for the occasion by seaGE's Master Machinima Director, Darrick, who as the Reclusion family is one of Destiny Faction's stalwart members and officers.
Watch the Destiny 1st Anniversary Video here!
Best wishes and more power to Destiny Faction!
Faction # 2: Also this week - specifically yesterday - Takhisis Faction hit its own first anniversary! There were broads aplenty - some of them were from me - and we also managed to get FL Fiksdotter and several other members online for this celebratory screenshot with Republican leader Simon Ayende:
I'm the Feng Ling next to Simon. And it wasn't till I looked at this screenshot that I realized that MAN, my favorite martial arts girl is, well, short ahahahahaha.
This shot also features Xei with the very first White Baron in seaGE, Fiksdotter and one of his main teams, and several other members of TK.
Live long and prosper, Takhisis Faction!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
After Dom1nation II: swag and links ^^
When I emptied my backpack after Dom1nation II, this is what fell out:

My very own, SEALED Granado Espada Limited Edition Signature Box [G-Points and Emilia the Sage intact]. This one is 9361 of 9999. Thanks to Ms. Sheila of IP e-Games, and to the Dominguez PR peeps ^^

My blog anniversary present from Hrin! It's one of the limited edition 2008 Granado Espada diaries, straight from South Korea ^^ Read more about it here.

I'd been looking for this jacket for literally a year and was more than happy to plunk down my hard-earned money to buy this pretty Granado Espada jacket for myself ^^ It looks quite nice on me.
I am also given to understand that the Granado Espada PH Community Heroes should be receiving permanent costumes as their in-game prizes for their heroism. I wonder how many each of us are entitled to, and how long before they're loaded into our accounts?
[I'm not even sure if the prizes and tokens from the Tribute to the Ladies have been distributed already!]
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Other bloggers' links and coverage of Dom1nation II [to be updated as the blogs are]:
Fiksdotter: Post E-Games Domination~Dominated!
Mena's three-part series:
Part 1: The Morning Journey (and Woes)
Part 2: Dragon Rides, The Community, and a Quest!
Part 3: Awards, Secrets Revealed and a Dinner!
Artaxerxes: Domination II Fever!
pCM Veya: Aftermath: e-Games Domination II
Sigrid: E-Games Dom1nation: G.E. Aftermath!
Christus: Outcasts Dominates!!!
Reclusion: Domination II the D-DAY!
WyvernitE: E-games Domination II: The Next Level of Online Gaming
Blacksword: @ Domination II
VonRoulema: E-Games Domination II Review
Hahaziah: E-games Domination II at SMX~
stormseeks: E-games Domination II
RCM Hrin: The One About Philippines - Domination II
Thursday, March 13, 2008
FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
[Relevant thread in the forums here.]

Thank you so much for all your support ^^












