Shadow Lord / Rank 6 and prommy's! O_O

I've been a rather busy bee the last few weeks. :)
Kelvena is now a 49 (soon to be 50) Samurai. Took my time for a bit to start the long, and VERY expensive craft that is Goldsmithing. (my poor pocketbook ><) It is now at level 30, and my cooking mule is now level 34 cooking. I will begin hunting my Artifact Armor soon, and hopefully, with some help from nice people, I'll be wearing a full AF set in two weeks or so. :) A few days ago, I finally achieved rank 6 with Bastok. The Shadowlord fight so epic, like the classic Final Fantasy Final Boss fights (though hes not the "Final Boss" by any means). Screens are below.
After that lovely event, I went to Norg, to start "Rise of the Zilart". *squees*
The archangel Tarutaru is just too precious. :P I want that little hat! So yeah, they did a good job at tying the two storylines together. Any other game, and it would have come off as being a cop-out, but it worked here. :)

Followed by all this, I've gotten my second promyvian done, only Mea to go! Then I get to see Lufaise Meadows for the first time. I hear its awfully pretty! The prommy bosses aren't too difficult if you are organized about it. The Holla boss wiped the floor with us our first try, then we raised and rested, tried again, and we hardly lost any hp...no deaths, no one even went into the red. I love prommy's, if I could, I would do them exclusively, they are so dark and creepy.

I noticed a lot of "Real World" propaganda has been seeping into this game...I've come across some of the most ignorant players ever lately. Most of them making really racist/hateful comments... Like the douche in Zuriels party a few days ago, who said "I hate Iraq" and other really inappropriate comments. Zuriel replied...and I love this comment... "It's only the cradle of civilization...." along with a lot of "You're an ignorant/intolerant asshat" replies to his further rant. i wish people would keep things like that to themselves...really...

Oh, and in between all of this, I've been...reading, yes, reading again! Got myself a brand new book today, since I'm almost finished with what I'm currently reading. Finally got my hands on a copy of "The Pillow Book", a collection of entries written by a lady in waiting to the Japanese empress in the 900's. I saw excerpts in my high school english book, that I really enjoyed, but I could never find the book until now. After I'm done reading "The Last Boylen" again, I'll be moving on to that one. (I like history. Can you tell?) After that, I will attempt "The Epic of Gilgamesh" ...cause it sounds pretty interesting...and is one of, if not the first, written story in history.

Uhm...yeah, that's about it for now. I'm awaiting Wings of the Goddess in Nov. ^^ I can't wait to try out Dancer.