Shizuyue Meruri

It's finally here! Final Fantasy XIV (14)'s new expansion Dawntrail is having its Early Access period (after a long maintenance)!

I'm going to be focusing solely on FF14 once Early Access starts. Which basically means most nights I'll be streaming FFXIV on Youtube.

There may be unscheduled daytime Twitch streams for Arknights or Honkai Star Rail but no promises.

Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes will still be on pause as I haven't had the time to make progress on the Steam version. This will be delayed until at least after I'm done with Dawntrail's main story.

PS. I made improvements to the stream schedule template, hopefully it's easier to read now.

✦ Schedule for 24 Jun 2024 to 30 Jun 2024 ✦
⭒ Time in SGT (UTC/GMT +8) ⭒

· Thu (27 Jun) 9.30 PM - Arknights, Clearing SideStory event stages
· Fri (28 Jun) 9.30 PM - Final Fantasy XIV (14), Dawntrail [part 1]
· Sat (29 Jun) 9.30 PM - Final Fantasy XIV (14), Dawntrail [part 2]
· Sun (30 Jun) 9.30 PM - Final Fantasy XIV (14), Dawntrail [part 3]

I got lured back into Arknights again, by the news from Arknights CN's new update. Just in time for Virtuosa's event. By some string of fate, I managed to catch nearly every event to do with Leithanien, even though I take long breaks from the game.

This time round, the story of the Zwillingstürme im Herbst (Twin Towers in autumn) event caught me in an iron grip. In the past few events I would speed the story up by 32X, pray I didn't overshoot and reach the end, then read the script generated in one go. But I didn't for the majority of this event, I couldn't.

One major gripe I had with Arknights' storytelling was with how much they built the world and back-story through lengthy rants and soliloquy of no-name NPCs, and characters talking AT each other instead of holding proper conversations. I understand why it's necessary, but it often went on for way too long for my patience, thus why I use the fast-forward feature.

There is much lesser of all that in this event. I think it helps that Ebenholz, Executor and Viviana all have significant existing history in the game and it wasn't necessary to spend too much time introducing them. All other characters are pretty interesting too and don't ramble unnecessarily for too long.

The twist and turns, the mysteries, the regrets, the pain, the determination of the characters weaved beautifully into a dark tale to tell the story of Leithanien, of its beauty and its darkness, much like their Twin Empresses.

I'm glad I decided to read the story for this event after all.

PS. Once again, Arknights tops the list for my 'I DO NOT want to get isekai'd into this world, tyvm'.

I didn't have much resource so I wasn't sure about rolling for them but here she is!

I changed my profile to say Retired Arknights Dokutah but I went back to roll for Chongyue... But got Lin...

Oh well, there's still time and rocks (and free rolls)

要抽大哥却抽到老鼠了... 不要紧还有时间