Best Duo Ever

Neyla and I logged on a little yesterday to try some Campaigns, but we just weren't in the mood. Neyla died almost immediately in Sauromugue and quickly gave up to hit Gustav to camp that Goblin NM for the Ortheus Bow. He's been toying with leveling Ranger, and figured having the bow would be a strong motivator. It was just one of those days when neither of us felt like playing. I logged out and spent the rest of the evening having a Smallville marathon.

On the positive side, this morning Otak sent me a link to a new pic at her DeviantArt gallery of me and Neyla on our respective Beastmaster and Red Mage jobs. I think I look significantly more badass in this one than the last, so I'm happy.

"Best Duo Ever," by Otak.

Falsey

Falseprophet

I do very well against this Campaign NM in Grauberg.

was in Campaign today and partied up with me and Neyla awhile. I hadn't seen Falsey in ages, so it was good to hang out with him. He was playing back when Neyla and I first started.

We didn't do anything spectacular, other than Campaign. We had a nasty moment in Fort Karugo-Narugo when some douchebag Paladin tried to solo a Shadoweye Gnat near us and died, which doubled our trouble and got us killed. Falsey had slept the gnats before he went down, so he reraised and dashed off. A Summoner who'd been fighting beside us popped up and quickly raised Neyla.

Wyvern Retirement

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Fighting in Passhow Marshlands [S].

was a little late logging on yesterday, so Neyla was already doing Campaign battles when we partied up. I was on Dragoon, inching closer and closer to 75. In fact, I was only 600xp away from it when we stopped doing the fights for another round of key farming in the Necropolis. I'm happy to say we finally got the damned key.

We went around popping coffers and working on Neyla's Dark Knight AF this afternoon. The Monastic Caverns weren't bad, but the Necropolis coffer was a headache. We had to enter through the glacier to find it.

Oztroja was also annoying because an AF-seeking Bard was up there by himself, unable to get through the door on his own and clearly hoping we'd open the door so he could dash through and claim the coffer. Neyla wasn't in the mood to compete -- "He has two strikes against him," Neyla said. "He's elvaan and he's a Bard." -- and warped out, so we focused on the other stuff he needed. The Bard logged out soon after.

We hit Beadeaux to farm some Quadav Mage Blood from the Topaz Quadav. Actually, we hit it twice because we made some job changes when we saw they were Easy Prey to 75s. I think we killed a dozen before the item dropped. We followed up by killing Dark Spark and then returning to Oztroja to pop the now-accessible coffer.

I also did my Campaign ops to ding 75 on Dragoon, effectively retiring it.

In other news, I dropped six merit points into another Strength upgrade. The next one requires nine points. That'll take me awhile.

They Are Stubborn Pricks

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Neyla and I farm a coffer key in Davoi.

addition to our Sunday escort, Neyla and I went farming for his Dark Knight AF coffer keys today. The yagudo in Castle Oztroja were very helpful and didn't even make us clear out the entire top floor before handing over what we needed. Davoi was a little more annoying, but only because we eventually gained a little competition from a Ninja.

But the necropolis again... oy. I want to go on record and say the Haunts, Spriggans and Tomb Mages and Warriors are stubborn, selfish pricks. We looped around that circuit several times and never got a key. I popped an Empress Band when we started and we'd burned through the charge before giving up in disgust.

I don't know what's in the coffer that they're so keen to keep us out, but it can't be that great.