Quick update while I wait to draw the contest winners

...and also to say that yes, it's my birthday tomorrow. If you read DeSanggria's latest post you would know that already.

And, thanks to Arcleaumont - not only does his latest post show off his elementalist in her School Uniform, but it was also he who reminded me that I should probably purchase my own School Uniform costume for one of my girls.

I took the fighter costume on his advice and here's what it looks like on my Tuon:


High-Guard Tuon, after classes at Fighter School.

OMG she looks HAWT!

After a few moments of incoherent gushing and thanks at Arc he promptly asked for a photoshoot of my fighter and his elementalist - here's the best shot we got:


School friends Tuon NineMoons and Amelina Arcleaumont.

Also in this picture are two members of the Oraif family, friends of Arc's from CARNAGE faction.

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Now if you'll excuse me - I'm going to stare at my fighter some more ^^

[CONTEST] Running tally of the RNPCs Are Love entries

Share the love for your favorite RNPCs! Go read these entries and, should you find yourself so inspired, please write up your own entries and join the blog contest!

Who knows, you might soon be the proud owner of a pair of Divine Angel Wings! Remember, it's a non-tradeable and non-droppable item that grants the character who wears it bonuses of +5% to Movement Speed and +5% to Attack Speed. You can't get this item anywhere else but from the community-based contests, so what are you waiting for?

Entries so far include:
Thoraine's comment on Emilia the Sage, Comment #1 at the original contest announcement
Gyl of Granadosource's comment on Andre Janzur, Comment #6 at the original contest announcement
Craeon of Granado Espada: Not Merely A Hobby. More Of A Passion's entry on Grace Bernelli, My Online Goddess: GRACE BERNELLI
Fiksdotter of Granado Espada: Fiksdotter's Box's screenshot-comics on Claude Baudez, Fiksdotter's love for Claude
Sinborn/Futanari of Sinborn.everything's entry on Catherine of Strength, RNPCs Are Love - Catherine of Strength
Jadoel's comment on Catherine the Summoner, Comment #12 at the original contest announcement
ellipsis's comment on Andre Janzur, Comment #14 at the original contest announcement
PaNeRaI's comment on Grace Bernelli, Comment #1 in this roundup entry

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The contest is still open so please send in your entries! The contest closes at midnight tonight Singapore time! This is your last chance to send in your entries!

I'll be announcing the winner of the Divine Angel Wings tomorrow!

CONTEST is CLOSED! See above for the winner!

Starting to think I shouldn't reveal my nationality any more....

The following post has elements of indignation, irony, sarcasm, and frustration.

Granado Espada, Cervantes server, anywhere from 2am-onwards. It is past midnight in the Philippines and the lonely roosters warm up their crows in order to start waking people up for school and work.

If you're still awake, then you're likely to be quietly leveling somewhere, hoping to get a chance at some good drops and some serious EXP.

And then, the outrage begins to assault your eyes.

Server broadcasts full of capslock!of!rage and the word "ASA" scroll up on your user interface; people abuse the "@" in order to type out insults; too much Filipino appears on the broadcasts, and by God I'm not talking about polite language at all.

Certain members of certain factions in Cervantes are starting to take their toll on my nerves.

It's these people who make me sick, and violently apprehensive to reveal that I, too, am from the Philippines, out of fears that other people will lump me in with the tiny-minded griefers simply because of my nationality.

I could name names here, but let me just say it involves certain loud-mouthed players from a few all-Pinoy factions. They seem to spend an inordinate amount of time calling each other out with reams of [uncreative] insults, a never-ending game of the [dreary] dozens that you can almost set your clock by.

There's this guy who seems to be actively competing for the title of "biggest griefer" in all of Cervantes, and his nearest competition are actually the members of his own faction. They PK people left, right and center and then boast to the server of such claimed kills, taking even more pleasure out of deriding others.

Anyone who makes the mistake of responding to them on their own terms - i.e. in the same boorish language - is in turn targeted for repeated PK.

Anyone who makes the even larger mistake of winning - and then calling them out on losing - becomes the target of concentrated verbal abuse all over the server, often in the form of the above-mentioned server broadcasts.

Given it's 2,000 vis a pop, these guys apparently like to waste their money playing these silly little verbal games of one-upmanship, taunting each other all over the Cervantes airwaves, recycling the same old insults over and over again.

No one can even get past the childish words to craft gems of insult; I've never even seen anything that approaches, at least, the amusement afforded by the classic

I fart in your general direction! Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries!

[gratuitous Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference]

Given this ignominious situation, I feel much like this,



wonder where the "Facepalm" pose is, and feel very reluctant to say I'm from the Philippines.

These guys went to One Esplanade hoping for fistfights with rival factions, for chrissakes.

I'm starting to think I should find a way to take out the left-side information display on my user interface, so that when I turn off floating text as well, I will never have to watch this inanity ever again.

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Just a reminder to all: the RNPCs Are Love blog contest will continue until midnight tomorrow, 27 September, and I'll draw and announce the winner on Friday, 28 September.

To join the blog contest, simply comment about your most favorite RNPC in all of Granado Espada here: ♥♥RNPCs Are Love♥♥.

Join now and stand a chance to win a pair of Divine Angel Wings.

New article at the Game! blog: launch weekend recap

Granado Espada Launch Weekend Events: Roundup and Recap

Sorry about the Ran Online tag in the URL - I filed the story under several headings because I mentioned the other e-Games titles in the main article ^^

Please check out the article!

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And speaking of articles for Game! Magazine: watch this space for an announcement concerning the November issue! [Big shout-out to Welling!]

Colony Wars update, fashions and fantazzies, and a reminder!

Congratulations to Dominion, CARNAGE, TheRepKnights, Anonymous, and Fenrir factions for acquiring / defending their colonies!

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Just a bit of showing-off, with my main team all in Original-type costumes! [Spent an arm and a leg for those three costumes but I'm not complaining ^^]

Five levels to go and my wizard is going to achieve a fairly serious milestone, woo hoo~!

Must...grind...!

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Please DO NOT forget to join my current blog contest, and stand a chance to win a pair of Divine Angel Wings!

♥♥RNPCs Are Love♥♥

Remember, deadline for submission of entries is on 27 September!