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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Assassin rogue Astarion on top of this really means I have two ranged damage nukes and it is great to be able to take chunks out of enemy hp bars, and Karlach can mostly sit in melee to threaten any enemies for Astarion's sneak attacks. Can't wait to get to act 2 where Shar's temple gives him even

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And also, ranger Tav is insane with damage. Lvl 4 Shadowstalker ranger with the Harold crossbow, sharpshooter and Dread Ambush active means Tav is usually one-shotting anything with less than 25 hp and one-turning anything else with the normal attack right afterwards, except for bosses.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Act 2 also has a moderate amount of stuff in it, especially if you have Halsin with you. Unfortunately act 3 feels the most comparatively bare compared to the other acts. It's not bad exactly but it feels like the game does lose its momentum a bit by act 3

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I forgot just how much stuff there is to do in BG3 act 1 alone. The crèche, the grove, the underdark, grymforge, the goblin camp, Ethel, Waukeen's Rest, and so many other smaller things spread throughout it. 15 hours into this play through and I still have to go kill Ethel and do the underdark.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You'd be surprised just how many people sided against Gale and supported Mystra just because he was a man abused by a woman, especially when BG3 was newly released

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also still can't get over how mundane she looks too. I've seen 20 Mystras irl in the last month and no she doesn't have to be a model but it's weird to have a god as imposing as Vlaakith and then we get Mystra who looks like any random Karen

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm replaying BG3 and I've decided to romance Gale this run and tldr is I can't believe that there were/are people who say that he abused Mystra rather than her abusing him. Minsc even says they hide young boy wizards in his home country away so that she won't find them.

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because I'm a spreadsheet sicko, I made a little cheat sheet for the various noun/adjective forms FFXIV uses for people and places. I'm sure I've missed some, but these were the ones I was able to quickly find in the lorebooks and the wiki! 🔗: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Noun and adjective pairs for the people and places of Final Fantasy 14.

People:
Au Ra Auri
Elezen Elezen
Hrothgar Hrothgar
Hyur Hyuran
Lalafell Lalafellin
Miqo'te Miqo'te
Roegadyn Roegadyn
Viera Viera

Alternate names:
Drahn Drahn
Dwarf Dwarven
Eldite Eldite
Elf Elven
Elvaan Elvaan
Galdjent Galdjent
Hhetsarro Hhetsarro
Hume Hume
Milalla Milalla
Mithra Mithran
Mystel Mystel
Ronso Ronso
Shetona Shetona
Tonawawta Tonawawtan
Viis Viis
Xbr'aal Xbr'aal

Places:
Ala Mhigo Ala Mhigan
Alexandria Alexandrian
Coerthas Coerthan
Corvos Corvosi
Doma Doman
Dravania Dravanian
Elpis Elpis
Eorzea Eorzean
Eulmore Eulmoran
Garlemald Garlean
Gridania Gridanian
Gyr Abania Gyr Abanian
Hingashi Hingan
Ilsabard Ilsabardian
Ishgard Ishgardian
Kholusia Kholusian
La Noscea La Noscean
Limsa Lominsa Lominsan
Nagxia Nagxian
Norvrandt Vrandtic
Othard Othardian
Radz-at-Han Hannish
Ronka Ronkan
Sharlayan Sharlayan
Thanalan Thanalan
Thavnair Thavnairian
The Azim Steppe Steppe
The Black Shroud Shroud
The Rak'tika Greatwood Greatwood
Tuliyollal Tuliyollan
Tural Turali
Ul'dah Ul'dahn
Yanxia Yanxian

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I want to fling all liberal centrists into the sun. Now, let's think about if this is a threat that I will personally fling tens of thousands of people millions of kilometres into space to burn to death in the sun, or if it is an exaggeration and not something I could ever actually do. 🤔

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you also respond this way when a random gay kid says "kill all straight people" or is this tactic used only against trans people who criticise cishet liberal centrists in any capacity?

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trans person: *makes hyperbolic statement born from frustration at the systemic and political mistreatment of trans people* White liberals: I have been attacked! I am being threatened by this totally real threat that could totally happen! There could never be any context I'm deliberately ignoring!

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trans rights are AI facial scanner rights! 🤪 AI is nowhere near being sentient no matter what chatgpt tries to get you to believe. When AI is capable of experiencing sentience rather than just mimicking it based on human interactions, then we can worry about "AI rights"

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't even want to think about Zadnor's duels atp I get these aren't meant to be easy or just given away to players (except when they are as low-chance drops from their fates/CLL) but can we do better than one potential attempt every over-an-hour?

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I already have every other Bozja note except for Lyon's and of course CLL has never dropped that one so the duel is the only reasonable way I have of getting it. But I can only attempt it once every 70-90 minutes in the span of a 3 hour instance even when I am the only person in there.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And you bet your reraise with an 80% chance to activate won't actually activate even one time to save you because you got snap-shot in the wrong place due to lag So 30 minutes to an hour of setting up only to lose it all in 5 minutes and then be unable to do anything for another hour.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bozja duels are incredibly fucking annoying. 20+ minutes of farming magitek to spawn a fate, 5-10 minutes to kill the fate, ~10 minutes to kill the CE (without getting hit and it goes on cooldown for 1 hour whether you survive or not), all for one attempt at a duel which also goes on cd for 1 hour.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Idk if they ever buffed the drop chances on the skirmish field notes or if I just got very lucky tonight but either way, I hope this keeps going because I want that al-iklil mount

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Now it's just Lyon's and Savautoir's field notes and I'm hoping the latter will drop from its skirmish instead but I'm gonna have to fight Lyon because no one really does CLL these days. I know I can cheese the duels but I only had one chain spell and I blew it in Aces High 😅

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After not getting Dabog's and Velibor's Bozjan field notes ever since Bozja first launched, I got both of them tonight, back to back. And Dabog's didn't comes from the Aces High duel (I actually failed it 20 minutes earlier), it came from the Murder Death Kill skirmish which is very rare.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It'll probably take a while because I royally screwed up Aces High tonight because I haven't done it in like 3 years, but it's possible and if it's possible then I can do it. Ideally before Evercold maybe

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

So I've decided that I'm going to try and get the al-iklil mount from getting all of the Bozja/Zadnor field notes. Bad news is that I have about 10 left to get. Better news is that 6 are from duels and only 4 are random fate drops, I'm max level in there, and tanks with bloodsucker can solo anything

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The first coffer was in the south east forest wirh lvl 15 mobs but the 2nd was on the edge of one of the walls of the Abandoned Ascent tower where every mob is levels 26-28 and you're stuck at 20. Ninja's hide definitely saved me more than once there

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FUFFLES @nicandragon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I may be delusional #FieldsofMistria

An illustration of Terithia and Elsie from Fields of Mistria. Elsie leans heavily against Terithia's shoulder, looking at her with half-lidded eyes. Terithia is speaking and glancing away shyly from Elsie.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

it's to help a friend or maybe do Forked Tower one day

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So I got two gold coffers from the same pot in south Occult Crescent tonight. Each gold coffer gives 1600 gold currency and by coincidence, I still had two gold-locked jobs to buy so I was able to get them both without chaining mobs for hours 🎉 Now I never have to go back to south horn again unless

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

caused an actual problem? Yeah, I'm not jumping through the hoops of obtaining and providing medical documentation for DID of all things.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'd rather have them think that it really was just a random oops rather than an unexpected symptom flare of a very stigmatised/misunderstood mental illness. Obviously if this becomes a pattern from now on (gods forbid) then that's another story, but one time in 5 years where this stuff

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

things had moved on and it became apparent later, as is the nature of DID. None of that's an excuse, it is a *reason* for why I had such an uncharacteristic lapse in judgement that has never happened a single time before at this job. But again, I'm not outing myself wrt DID to anyone at my job.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But it's like... I have dissociative identity disorder. I literally forget who I am way more often than I would like to, so it was really only a matter of time before memory issues that severe caught up with me at work and I was entirely unable to realise that anything was off until well after

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Like when people ask "Why did you do this" half of them don't really want to know *why* you did something despite them literally asking you why. Instead, they want you to immediately apologise and give no further context or reasoning behind events.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But I've learned so from many other times in other parts of my life that a lot of people (often neurotypical and mentally healthy) see adding context or reason to a situation as actually trying to make excuses for what happened.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But there's still nothing I can really say to even attempt to explain why this happened because anything other than "Sorry, it was my fault, I'll be more careful" will 100% read as an excuse And I wouldn't be trying to escape accountability, I'd be trying to provide context about why this happened.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

At least today's supervisor understood just how rare something like this was (as in, this was the first occurrence in almost 5 years working here) so she didn't hammer it in much and mostly just gave me the standard "Be more careful next time" so the overall response could have been a lot worse.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Even if firing someone for their mental illness etc is illegal here, an employer can just fire them for something else and avoid being sued for discrimination. But yeah, DID fucking sucks sometimes, especially because the amnesia can occur on its own without switches even being necessary

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My work doesn't know I have DID because I'm not telling my bosses or supervisors or anyone who controls my employment and/or income that I have one of the most misunderstood and stigmatised mental illnesses that exists.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So how do you explain to your work that your very stigmatised mental illness is the reason you failed to do something important, without it sounding like an excuse. Almost every other time, I've been able to mitigate the impact of DID and dissociative amnesia while at work but not this time.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Omg why is this viper int'ing in content no one's done for 10+ months" -the healer who I, the red mage, had to pick up off the floor at least twice Idk, maybe don't talk like you're hot shit if you're just gonna die

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh and I also saw a dancer in another Windurst run who was somehow 8th on the enmity list. They had less enmity than me, the sage. I don't even need act to know that something was not working with whatever they were doing because dnc should be about 4th or 5th in enmity

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If I can effectively solo heal the alliance raids because my co-healer has to be asleep at their keyboard sometimes, then surely two present healers should be able to have enough resources between them to spot heal one dps

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes dps do just drop before you can heal them but that's different from letting your dps sit at critical health for 5-10 seconds before major incoming damage. You're spending way more mp by raising them than you would simply from putting a tetra/lily, druochole/diagnosis shield, etc on them.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And in Windurst, I had to Vercure myself to try and survive the next raidwide because the healers didn't even toss me a regen after I took a single vuln stack. I could only get to 50% with vercure spam before the raidwide hit and I died. But then everyone else died later and I had to help them up

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've truly been seeing some of the healers of all time because of the final "Do everything" relic step. Sphene normal during Aethertithe, both healers let me sit on 30% hp while I was taking 6-8k damage per dot tick and I inevitably died after about 10 seconds of not being healed.

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Occult Crescent really is that kind of casual fun. Not mindless fun because you still have to lock in for the critical engagements, but fun that doesn't demand the same constant focus as what savage/ultimates do

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My static is starting to see Idyllic Dream in M12S and uh, what the hell is this lmfao

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And honestly if she asks me to pet sit again, I'm not sure if I'll agree. It was already a lot back when it was 15 cats and one diabetic, blind dog

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just needed to get that out because I saw a facebook post from her where she had the 4th and latest dog in the photo with the other 3. The newest dog is a cavoodle, two are maltese, and one is a lovely mastiff cross who is so careful of her size with the cats and the smaller dogs

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So the animals are fine but do you know how much work it is to look after that many animals

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FalconsQuill @falconsquill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The animals are genuinely well cared for, none of them are neglected or stressed, but she has to consider her own limits because she's over 50. Most of the cats live in the backyard which is cat-proofed with a few cats being inside only and the dogs being going between both during the day.

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