Last-Minute One-Shotting

Last night I logged in around 8 with the thought of doing a little farming, T-Ting and possibly hanging with the Brigaders. Fresh from Tuesday’s 5-1 run for Kitty and one other (Stoik didn’t show), I was worried Fhox would try to start 5-2 tonight and I wasn’t going to have time.

However, Fhox wasn’t on and the rest of the crew on were doing their own thing. So I went ahead and farmed up a set of Test Answers and returned to Jeuno to auction them and wait for T-T action. I got a couple runs and then decided to go PL in Valkurm.

I rode in and checked the Oasis and then the OP for parties. I thought I had found one at the OP pulling flies and proceeded to dismount. Then I saw their PL, Ibbit, whom I somehow missed on my way in. >< So I walked to Siren Sands (nobody) and then Whitebone Sands. Still nobody. There were supposed to be upwards of 20 people here according to the search window. I hoofed it to the secret beach entrance and found a group there working on gobs.

I immediately began throwing out the Cure IIs and located their leader, Cupofjoe. He was one of three Taru mages in the group, and for some reason, he appeared to be AFK. He didn’t answer my question about him minding my help, and he wasn’t casting. So I kept on PLing figuring he’d come back. I repeated my query just to be safe.

After about 5 minutes, he did return and said it was fine. I think possibly he was waiting to see if I was going to demand money before responding. Maybe, just a hunch. In any event, we got to work and it wasn’t long before they realized it was time to find bigger fish to fry, literally. In fact, one member said out loud to “ask” which was soon followed by their puller asking if I’d go to the beach and help them with pugs. Of course I said sure and escorted them down.

Once on the beach they went straight for pugs. I think they might have read my guide because it seemed, by word and action, that they were choosing their first targets carefully and their vokers weren’t constantly pulling off me. One of their BLMs even started meleeing, but wasn’t hitting very often.

We did this for a little over an hour, enough for Cupofjoe to hit 20. When I had said I was getting ready to leave at about 10:15 he asked me to stick around for about 1,200 XP which would probably happen anyway by that time, give or take a few. On what was planned to be the last boss for me, he gets hit hard, and then the pug finished him with Screwdriver (about 158 damage he said). I believe BOTH my Cure IIs landed and I think he actually got hit 3 times in a row, but his HP bar looked pretty full before the TP finisher.

I Raised him and was willing to get him back to 20 but luckily he had enough of a buffer and stayed 20 post-Raise.

Things went really well and I think everyone leveled. With just that one accident (I never did figure out what he did to get so much hate!) it was a really nice PL party and I told them so, complimenting them on working well together even on links and for good voking. I also thanked them for letting me hang with them.

I really need to keep a better eye on my skill levels because I did lift Healing a couple points, but I don’t know how many. I need to try to estimate skillups per hour so I can figure out how long it will take to cap Healing, and possibly Divine when I start leveling myself past 55 again.

After we split up I went back to the Ruins and grabbed a second set of Answer Sheets and a dagger (in like 10 minutes!), warped back, and put them up before logging.