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| I hate when they use Mysterious Light. |
past few days have been largely dedicated to leveling Ninja and we're in the home stretch. We spent Thursday and Friday working off Empress Band charges in Lower Delkfutt's Tower, getting about 1500xp for each circuit of two Magic Urns and the four gigas patrolling the large room.
I camped Nue two more times and didn't get anything from him two more times. It's getting personal, but I really can't get too worked up about it since I don't technically
need to quest my own Brown Belt until I have the Black Belt items in my hand... and what are the odds of that happening?
Neyla spent Friday evening in the Sea Serpent Grotto with Crookedmidget and some others, killing sahagins and fighting NMs behind the different doors. Crook sent me a /tell asking if I wanted to join them for some carnage, but I was getting ready to log out at that point.
The only major thing I have to report is something that happened Sunday morning. Nearly a year after the release of
Treasures of Aht Urghan, I finally took part in my first Assault.
Otak, Zoner, Veresko, Apu, and Aimartaru were hitting the undersea ruins and asked if I wanted to join them as Beastmaster. Naturally, I jumped at the chance to swing an axe instead of keeping people alive from the back row. I'd used the Runic Portal when I went there for a merit party with Quieren, so I was spared having to ride a chocobo.
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| Cthulhu called and he wants his look back. |
undersea ruins are set up as 100 floors, each with a different goal that lets you move up. On one floor it might be killing everything that moves, while another may have you killing one monster or just Notorious Monsters. Having so many NMs in one place is interesting, and we killed Bomb King, Jaggedy-Eared Jack and Asphyxiated Amsel one run.
We were stumped on the first run by a floor requiring us to light five lamps because we couldn't figure out the sequence and ran out of time. We did a second run and got about the same distance. Otak wanted to make a third attempt but realized we had to stop for Limbus. The Assault was fun, and it's definitely something I'd like to explore down the road.
Limbus was fine, netting three Ancient Beastcoins from the Temenos zone with all the elementals.
In ENM news, our new Ninja Ghaleon finally joined us weeks after becoming an official member. He uses the same character model as Hadafal, leading to many jokes about long-lost twin brothers. I'm not going to ask which one is the evil twin. I won the lot on the Geist Earring.
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| Neyla killed this poor dhalmel in Bibiki Bay. |
fast forward to today's visit to Bibiki Bay for Ninja Leveling. Neyla and I were at 34 when we arrived, and nearly all dhalmels, birds and bunnies were Tough. I'd used my Empress Band before I logged out Sunday night, so I got double charges out of it. When Neyla's turn came, he burned off a charge and did an extra 1500xp, and he'll do the same tomorrow to catch up.
At this pace, we'll complete our Ninja subjobs on Thursday and we'll be damned happy to be clear of it. I'll be on vacation visiting my parents next week, so we'll have to set up some Royal Jelly runs or something to get our Utsusemi: Ni scrolls when I return.
In other news, RedGirl's mental Receptivity hit Average today and her Discernment should get there in the next day or two. I've been taking regular walks and should have the story for Gallop soon. Then I can spam stories at her until she learns that and Treasure Hunter. I toyed with retiring her, but I think I'll go ahead and switch her to a physical regimen to max her out before she retires.
