September 2025
- Boy in Blue
- Old Skool Cool
- Paladin Tad?
- ‘Tis Just a Rainy Day
- Bring on your BEST BOOP!
- Air Cell Swag Obtained!
- Starbird Get!!
- Wishing You a Glorious Day, Friend! ♫♩♪♫
- Overheard While Doing Society Quests
- So Close to Relic!
- Relic Achieved!
- Cold Snap!
- A Wild Allagan Alt Appears!
- Day 1 of Lysander
- Day 2 of Lysander
- Day 3 of Lysander
- What do you mean “Wrong Tactics”?
Boy in Blue
Posted on: September 2
Tad can strut just as much as Amon does when he puts his mind to it!
Old Skool Cool
Posted on: September 4
Today’s Alliance Raid was a chill Syrcus Tower in which someone in our party must have been peeking at adventure plates, saw the link in Tad’s plate to SpotOfMummery.com…. and must have actually went there to check it out (woot!).
This conversation ensued:
‘Tis Just a Rainy Day
Posted on: September 10
What does Amon daydream about when it rains? The better question is… do we really want to know?
Bring on your BEST BOOP!
Posted on: September 10
Wherein Tad gets in a "boop fight" with someone on Tumblr. I wanted to archive the screenshots I made for this, despite it being broken up across commented reblogs.
Air Cell Swag Obtained!
Posted on: September 14
So much PVP, but the cute chocobo patch on the back is worth it!
Starbird Get!!
Posted on: September 15
As many times as I’ve run that dungeon, I have never seen the Starbird drop, much less had a chance to roll on it. Tonight, during a run for relic stuff, Tag got the Starbird!! So excited!
Overheard While Doing Society Quests
Posted on: September 18
Thanks random friend… Now Amon just has to know what despair tastes like.
Cold Snap!
Posted on: September 25
Tad’s in the middle of a cold snap and he don’t care! Such as it is.
A Wild Allagan Alt Appears!
Posted on: September 27
Lysander Azyslis - ‘Zander for short, but only if he approves of you.
- Allagan Summoner by trade, one of the OG mages. Might be a Machinist on the sly. Who knows what else - he’s pretty clever.
- Distantly related to Scylla, of the Azyslis Allagan noble family.
- Perhaps a bit of a foil/rival for Amon as Lysander certainly has Allagan sensibilities when it comes to how he views the world.
He popped up as a totally new OC in my shower thoughts today. After discussing ideas with Scylla-mun, and getting her blessings in using Scylla’s royal family line as backstory, he is now newly on Mateus.
How will he end up as part of the Spot of Mummery story? Hopefully if inspiration holds, I can answer that soon. Just wanted to share a first screenshot of him now that I’ve mostly finalized his appearance!
Sadly, this character slot does not yet have Summoner unlocked, so I have work ahead of myself!
Day 1 of Lysander
Posted on: September 27
Having to level Arcanist from the start has been great fun! It’s scratching that itch that I’ve needed.
Lysander has gone from this…
To this…
Ran over and picked him up some of the brand-new gear at level 15 since he has nothing in terms of pre-50 casting gear. Knocking out hunts, job quests, and a few FATEs along the way - just some chill leveling. I suppose I’ll start some minor dungeon running tomorrow - we’ll see!
Finished the night at level 18 with a much better grasp on low-level Summoner. They’re always changing up this job so often it feels like that I’m not quite sure how it plays now days. So this has been good!
Day 2 of Lysander
Posted on: September 28
Lysander is a level 27 Archanist now!
While I could push on to 30 for Summoner today, I’m not in a rush, and can wait for the reset on low level roulette. Syclla-mun ran through one for me this morning and Lysander gained 4 levels in one go, so it’s well worth it!
It’s going a lot faster than I expected!
I suppose I better think of how I’m going to work up a story for this. :)
Day 3 of Lysander
Posted on: September 29
Lysander is now level 32, and has finally unlocked Summoner!
I spent tonight exploring Duty Support to push him up to 30 so that he could earn his soul stone. I thought I was going to be more like my fellow mage:
But that wasn’t the case. I actually found this more fun than I expected, just chilling through old reworked low level dungeons. Archanist low level plays much, much differently than I remember from expansions past, so I’m somewhat glad I did level it from scratch.
I’m formulating story ideas and hope to sit down and write something soon.
What do you mean “Wrong Tactics”?
Posted on: September 30
I took this shot of Tad as Canopus for the Tactics Ogre Sweepstakes back in 2022. Ran across it as I was archiving stuff for the Spot of Mummery website, and thought it was timely with Final Fantasy Tactics being released today.
Yes, wrong Tactics, Tad. My copy won’t arrive until tomorrow. :(