And the writing continues

[owlmoose]

I got a last-minute tap to write a backup gift for ff_exchange, and it is now posted! "Political Considerations", a story about Ashe and Balthier and how they might manage to negotiate something of a life together, written for the lovely lassarina.

Five thousand words, the bulk of which were written in three days. And now there are other stories crowding my brain, waiting patiently, and not so patiently, to come out. Not just FFXII stories either, although there are certainly a share of those. I do suspect that this story single-handedly doubles the totally number of words I've written for FFXII. I suppose it's time to admit that I might actually be in this fandom, instead of just lurking around at the edges of it....

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[peachespig.livejournal.com]

Well, I just got done with all the rails after going into the palace and am back at Rabanastre. All my new friends have left me. I went immediately and took care of the Thextera I had postponed fighting before, and then went off to the Clan headquarters and got showered with praise for all the things I'd killed. So I've got that going for me.

I'm definitely having a good time. It pushes the right buttons for me to enjoy an RPG — story is fun enough, but also the combat is enjoyable, and even things like equipment management I am into. On some RPGs I've tried I just charge through the story and don't pause to notice what I'm equipping because I'm not interested. But on FFXII I spent a half hour or so at a merchant's somewhere in the dungeon, carefully spending gil and allocating LP for the 3 characters I had at that point. If I'm happy to sometimes spend time with the story and sometimes running around buying equipment and sometimes go grind monsters, then the whole experience is better. And either I leveled up a little more than expected at the beginning or I'm just paying a lot of attention to the combat, but all fights have been very easy, even bosses.

I do like Balthier. And Vaan, well, he's the sort of character that can be very annoying in these sorts of stories, so I'm happy that he manages not to bother me at all. :)

Will probably run around town a bit more, maybe do some mark hunting, before I let the story take me wherever's next...