Sol Endyein

Started off the day trying to help a LS member who has been having a very tough time acclimating himself to both the game and a lot of concepts in general.  Another LS member started to head over to join his party and I changed to SCH11 so that we could participate in the place everyone loves to hate: the dunes.  However, upon my arrival and party invite I noticed he had already filled the party, despite the other LS member still having not arrived.  I dropped out so that she could join and found myself way out in the dunes needing to run anywhere if I wanted to do anything else.  So I tossed up my party flag and figured if someone grabbed me before I got out of there then I’ll stay and level.  Oh, how I should’ve ran off quietly.

Within a minute I had an invite but it took over four hours to accumulate enough experience for one level’s worth.  One level.  On the bright side I never died, but I did get to watch almost every other member of our party do so despite having a PL there the entire time.  Yes, even with a PL there with us we were subjected to constant deaths and so much wasted time doing nothing.  I was honestly a little angry at the party for having wasted my time so, but it did get me to sweep, vacuum, and dust the first two floors of my house while I waited for them to finally do something.

After that failure I ran off to finally get something worthwhile done and hopped back on SMN.  I announced I was going Yag Necklace hunting and had a fellow LS member say she needed that and was going to run over.  Within five minutes of having changed my job and still not gotten to Giddeus I recieved a party invite and took that instead.  I thought I told my LS I wasn’t going out to Yagudo land anymore but I apparently failed (I swear the rest of the day must’ve rubbed off on me) and then felt really bad because she had only been going over there to help me.  I still need to think of a way to make that up, I feel like kind of a dick for ditching her like that.

On a more positive note, that turned into my first trip into Crawler’s Nest and we had a good, solid party that moved nicely.  We weren’t pulling in as much experience as would’ve been nice but I’m always a fan of progress as long as the wheels are turning, so I was happy to finally pull up to SMN38.  Three more levels and I can start thinking about getting myself a nice, awesome SMN-only staff.

On Saturday I got all kinds of stuff done, which made me plenty happy regarding Vana’Diel.  I started off the day popping the NM I’d been trying for ten hours to make appear, a Yara Ma Yha Who of Tahrongi Canyon who dropped a Fasting Ring for me.  That makes for the first time I’ve successfully tried to hunt down and kill an NM for a drop and gotten it, and also means I at last have two MP+ rings even if my other one is still kind of weak.

 Following that up I continued to farm out those Yagudo and got myself up to 100/200 necklaces, so while I didn’t meet my expected goal of finishing off what I need for Norg fame I did then get help in obtaining Ramuh.  Since my Windy fame was up to snuff a pair of kindly souls in the linkshell took him down for me, which leaves me with only one primary avatar missing.

I then got to run through Ranguemont Pass by myself for the first time, as I’d only been there once before when a SMN/BLM led me through for the ice weather I needed for my own SMN quest.  With no map for that place nor the next I ran a little blind through a about the first fourth of Beaucedine Glacier, and then got an escort for the remainder of it so that I could participate in my second Shiva fight.  It was successful thanks to the same helping hands that got me Ramuh, giving me my first of six whispers needed to prepare the Fenrir fight.

Really, quite the successful day for this Hume.

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So I finally got to do some DNCing and it frankly seems like the best thing ever that could happen to me with PUP.  I spent part of Friday night getting this up to level seven and after getting to use Drain Samba I’m totally hooked.  Normally I’m healing or support way off in the back row, so I’ve never even gotten the side effects of it before, but as soon as I get back into DD I am so all over this.  But I really do need to concentrate on SMN, so the only reason I’ll be getting it higher anytime soon is to finally get rid of some of my low-level equipment.  Unless, naturally, I finally unlock COR and BLU which means then both of those would have to go through the same motions… ach.  Ah well, 30 more levels before I can retire DNC will be waiting for me in the future.