Hour 40 and change

So everyone has gone home, but I'm still fiddling around in this game. I made it to the very last boss in the game (the last one you can actually lose to anyway) but have not been able to beat him. I actually started to try to find some equipment or powers to better challenge the final boss, but with nobody else here it's not really Final Fantasy Race any more.

Without Sandy, or at a bare minimum someone else who had witnessed the race in part, I am left playing video games alone in my apartment. Normally this is something I quite like doing. Tonight is different. I have now been awake for 42 hours, most of which I have been staring at the same video game, a game which a few years ago I did complete. So why am I still playing this game? I know what the ending is like, no one else is here to see it for their first time, and the race is over. Is it to prove that I can do it in one sitting? Actually that is a very tempting reason to forge ahead. Just not tempting enough.

I have to move to Toronto in just over 72 hours, and I have done precious little to prepare for this. Also, I'm not totally retarded. Just enough to have this race, but not enough to do it by myself. I'm going to bed.

So good night everyone. Thank you to everyone who made this the best Final Fantasy Race of all. Thanks for dropping in, bringing snacks and drinks, Skyping, reading here, and for any other contribution you may have made. I appreciate it, and I'm sure Sandy does too. He also appreciates a warm bottle of milk and a good burping now and again, the stupid baby.

- Alex "Your Champion" Leithead

P.S. Undefeated once again!

Hour 35

I think I'm close now. I just need to get myself a Holy spell and I think I may be set. That's at least what I need to pass the next part anyway. So now it's down to running around in circles while I level up.

I feel like I've run out of things to say. I'm kind of just in a grumpy mood now, what with no sleep and all. What a jerk I am. At least there are plenty of people here hanging out, that's nice.

I'm not sure but I think Sandy has basically given up, but I'm also thinking that this may be a clever ploy to surge past me while my guard is down.

Oh wait he's just running from everything. 

Hour 33

I am in some sort of puzzle dungeon, maybe towards the end of the game. It could also be a false ending. I do not know. Sandy on the other hand is still way behind. This is turning into a pretty standard Final Fantasy Race.

I hope I'm close to the end. I'd like to get a good night's sleep tonight so I can get up early to pack up my life. Why am I doing this now? I haven't really been busy all summer, and yet we are doing this only days before I move to another city.

Stupid stupid stupid.

The good news is Dr. Claw has arrived, bringing the sweet smell of hamburger with him. He also brought an actual hamburger. There may be a connection. We also currently have Sandy's sister Christy visiting again, this time without her friends. She still doesn't seem that impressed. Neither am I.

Hour 31

Thirty hours down in the two-man hell we've created for ourselves.

Hour 29

Fresh from my second FF Racer's bath (a generous application of Old Spice) we enter hour 29 of Final Fantasy Race 2009. The race is close at this point I'd say. If ever Sandy had a day to win it would be today. Whether or not he is prepared only time can tell, but at nearly thirty hours, to be this close is exil... exilher... exciting. 

The Beej departed only minutes ago, half joking that he would return with his 10 month old son. If this happens, he will be the youngest attendee in all the years of racing. That's actually not really that interesting, but babies are cool so... yes.

Gotta go! You guys are great. 

I love you.

Hour 27

It is almost noon the day after we started this stupid race. Every hour that passes seems to take about ten minutes. 

Sandy is close behind, but I suspect he may be a little behind in levels. This could be his ultimate undoing, but only time will tell.

Here's another haiku for you:

Dude, a chocobo

I ride it to victory!

Chambambampion

Hour 25

24 hours complete. I would like to thank all of the guests that we have had so far, and I'd also like to thank in advance all those of you who will be stopping by today. You are my rock.

So I'm not miserable or anything, but I am tired. There is a part of my brain that keeps thinking that I get to go to bed in 15-20 minutes. How wrong it is! We stand to be awake for many hours yet. In some ways, I look forward to those hours, because in one of those hours I will claim victory for the sixth time in a Final Fantasy Race. This we all know.

I am much less giddy than I once was, and in game I am exploring something called the Calm Lands. If there is a part of the game later where I climb Silly Billy Mountain then we may have a problem.

It's morning now. Where are you people?