Eventful day, quickie post

RNG, RNG, RNG, seems like Ranger is the only thing my FFXI life is about anymore. That's not totally a good thing (my mules have had nothing to sell for days -- no cash is flowing in!). This morning I tried to solo it to 15 in time for the party, but had to do laundry so stopped at 14.5-ish. No worries! The mostly LS party in Kor-whatever Tunnel was an amazing success (much love to Ai for suggesting it!). We got 4 levels in less than three hours. So ding RNG 18!

Tomorrow we're going to try to get together and party again. Chip, Niala, Aurian, and Ceh, I left you messages on-game which you'll probably see before this. Draque and Ai already know. Yes, that does give us seven people. :/ We'll deal with numbers once I know who can make it at all.

Aurian and I looked good together! (Ha ha, no it's not that picture, A!) While elf RNGs have a cooler stance (they hold their bows sideways), humes don't look shabby at all!

I saw a new NM to add to my collection~! Morion Worm! (I hope he's not a fake NM like Stomper Chomper is!) It's cool that he's a different color than normal worms -- NMs should look different!

After the party I was mostly brain dead, so I did RL work and just sort of peered at the game now and then. When evening came I did a few quests here and there, then decided to do something bigger! Burn some seals! (Non-players: Mobs sometimes drop beastman seals. You use those to buy objects which let you in to special fights -- BCNM (burning circle, named monster) fights. BCNM fights tend to be highly deadly, but can have some big-money rewards.)

I had 300 seals, so I decided to do BCNM 50 - Treasure and Tribulations twice. It's straight forward: You enter the BC and see three chests: Small, Medium, and Large. Two are a mob which will likely eat you for diner, one is a real chest full of okay, good, or outstanding stuff.

On my first try I picked the right one! Yay!


Not only did I pick the right one, I got lucky! I got the DRK ring! Okay, so it's totally useless (level 50, no DEF, Latent Effect: Weapon Bash +10 -- that's it!) and I'd never use it, but still! Yay!

On the second try my luck didn't hold. How embarrassing. Killed not just by a box, but by a small box...

But I really expected to die twice, so even one win was great!

Sleepy, sleepy now.

Eventful day, quickie post

RNG, RNG, RNG, seems like Ranger is the only thing my FFXI life is about anymore. That's not totally a good thing (my mules have had nothing to sell for days -- no cash is flowing in!). This morning I tried to solo it to 15 in time for the party, but had to do laundry so stopped at 14.5-ish. No worries! The mostly LS party in Kor-whatever Tunnel was an amazing success (much love to Ai for suggesting it!). We got 4 levels in less than three hours. So ding RNG 18!

Tomorrow we're going to try to get together and party again. Chip, Niala, Aurian, and Ceh, I left you messages on-game which you'll probably see before this. Draque and Ai already know. Yes, that does give us seven people. :/ We'll deal with numbers once I know who can make it at all.

Aurian and I looked good together! (Ha ha, no it's not that picture, A!) While elf RNGs have a cooler stance (they hold their bows sideways), humes don't look shabby at all!

I saw a new NM to add to my collection~! Morion Worm! (I hope he's not a fake NM like Stomper Chomper is!) It's cool that he's a different color than normal worms -- NMs should look different!

After the party I was mostly brain dead, so I did RL work and just sort of peered at the game now and then. When evening came I did a few quests here and there, then decided to do something bigger! Burn some seals! (Non-players: Mobs sometimes drop beastman seals. You use those to buy objects which let you in to special fights -- BCNM (burning circle, named monster) fights. BCNM fights tend to be highly deadly, but can have some big-money rewards.)

I had 300 seals, so I decided to do BCNM 50 - Treasure and Tribulations twice. It's straight forward: You enter the BC and see three chests: Small, Medium, and Large. Two are a mob which will likely eat you for diner, one is a real chest full of okay, good, or outstanding stuff.

On my first try I picked the right one! Yay!


Not only did I pick the right one, I got lucky! I got the DRK ring! Okay, so it's totally useless (level 50, no DEF, Latent Effect: Weapon Bash +10 -- that's it!) and I'd never use it, but still! Yay!

On the second try my luck didn't hold. How embarrassing. Killed not just by a box, but by a small box...

But I really expected to die twice, so even one win was great!

Sleepy, sleepy now.