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(Ups and Downs)

September 27-30, 2008

I must apologize to my growing legion (ha!) of faithful readers - I started a new job this week and their system won't allow Blogger. Even at lunch... And I've been busy training and stuff. So, Yalto, I'll do what I can ^^ (Also tonight's Law & Order: SVU is really distracting!)

Saturday was hours of no invites but I did get some crafting done. Later that night we did get a LS party together: Yalto and Aleu, Dark, and Oniraziel, a high-50's WHM new (I think) to the shell. It would have been awkward having two of us in disco pants but I was summoned as RDM instead. And the 6-month gap in playing the job showed... We had some laughs after Yalto got whacked and then Dark had a little rest. There were some more laughs when it was time for "Kanda after Dark".

Sunday was our Amazing Race party so I only got to play early on. I had a very short Dunes party on SCH that left me about 300 short of 23. After that, the LS gang assembled again (plus Archer). We spent a few hours in the Necropolis looking for a scrap of Ancient Papyrus for Yalto's LB1. Things got off to a rough start when I got Yalto killed. Basically, I walked into a room with a Lich (our target), 2 Mummies and a hellhound just outside. The rest of the crew followed in once I started attacking and what I thought was a link was actually just aggro - most (if not all) of them were under 60 and the Lichs definitely aggro those levels. I should have thought ahead before going nutso with the staff.

I hope I was able to make amends by being the puller. I grabbed Lichs as fast as I could from the three main pop areas and never got a link I didn't want. It took a dozen or so, even with Aleu's TH but we finally got the drop and then I had to split for Amazing Race chores.

Yesterday was more crafting, and then an evening of Campaign with Fhox, Isa and Bene. We did 3 fights but the XP was off. I wonder if fighting out of your nation's territory affects the payout.

Tonight was mostly chatter, plus an escort for a generous tele-passenger called Vividemon (sp). I crafted my way to 19.1 and turned in my second item, putting me 9 points away from Novice and the ability to start banking Guild Points. I also put up a stack each of Linen thread and cloth in a bid to get some of my crafting costs back.

Also, I met Phax. I don't know if he reads this but in any case, he gets a hug - we had an interesting intro in LS chat but in the end we did the /friend thing. Basically, he was playing around in shell chat and at first we thought he didn't hear Aleu's earlier {Mithra} {man}. No, he heard - he's just got a good attitude about in-game versus IRL. I think ^^ Time will tell! I look forward to seeing how Dark and Phax liven things up lol! Enz and Alima are off for now - here's hoping they come back soon!

Oh yeah, Yalto and Aleu get hugs and/or cookies for their stalwart defense of my character - they know what I mean. Of course, this might have to wait until Aleu and I are on Springer hehe!