One full month later...

...but yes, I haven't died...well, twice knocked silly while running around as a samurai, mind you, but nay, I still exist. My times are quite...skittish recently, and between a combination of overtime and other menial tasks, the adventuring that I have been doing is quite little. So you get a small blog as well with basically a list of recap things that I don't have much time to describe. Gee, how kind to the journal I am, ne?

1) Went with LoH to kill for Diorite, later came to help kill Genbu and Kirin. Sadly, the other sky days, didn't get to go play with the other gods. ; ;
2) Got all jobs up to a minimum of level 20, a step on the mini-goal of clearing lower level gear from my MH clutter. Not being able to login at regular times really adds to the incentive of just grabbing a small job and soloing or going with a few friends, though.
3) Ran about getting Kazham keys for three people, which proved to be not as time-consuming as I remembered, even going RDM/WHM for the easy teleportation, there are a lot of new people joining Garuda, it makes for interesting times.
4) I was invited to a wedding! This should be great fun, Elianna and Bigpapa are having a traditional Tarutaru wedding, so in the meantime, I'm going to help with a Bachelor's party or something. Hmmm, but where to go for that...Seeing how Whitegate is lag central, unless the Hostel gets separated from that (ie instanced), not interested in that slow zone. Valkurm, perhaps.
5) Did some Hakutaku fighting, and realized that I need to adjust my mules and line things up, so I will probably have to take a whole day just to do that. My MH, ML, and ST are all cluttered. There's a new (at least to me) item called "9-Drawer Almirah" that gives 7 storage spaces each! That's almost double from the cabinet layout that I was using for mine. Maybe if I can gather enough of those for all my mules to have 80 storage, then I can adjust my own setup to assist more with Goldsmithing, a bit of lightning or Fire depending on what I'm crafting at the time.
6) Just last night, had a fun run of Assaults with the old GYS crew, so that brings me up to 10/25 for next promotion, I really haven't been doing those recently, shame on me, I know.
7) Tried to go skilling with Eck for old times' sake, but I fell asleep in the middle of fighting a Steelshell! ><; Orz, sorry about that Eck ><; Thanks for the D2 when you finished it off, I was dead to the world apparantly, thought I'd have an hour left in me with the aid of the drink, guess not.

Respect: {Do you have it?}

Two kinds of news: Good and bad. I'll start with the bad and end on a good note.

Bad: Well, despite having a very under-used blacklist, it grew two nights ago during what should've been a simple enough expedition to Garlaige Citadel to get a couple of coffer keys for two LS members looking for RDM and PLD AF coffers. OK, easy enough, as I can solo anything down there for keydrops if I have to (70 RDM), and the members needing drops were 56 RDM and 67 PLD. CAKE! Well, we go to start whacking away, and well, there is a friend of one members (Bluemage) who is helping someone else (Fightingfurball aka FFB) with the coffer as well, so okay, we disbanded our party and joined up.

It's going well, and Jazz passed the first key drop to Zira, being his usual gentlemanly self, so only one to go, and we get to go through. So we are fighting on, and Bluemage starts solo'ing Hellmines (as BST) while the rest of us were generally working on undead and magic pots. FFB was astoundingly AFK for long periods of time, just in range to be drained by the undead specials, so I took it upon myself to keep a regen on him so he wouldn't die, being the delicate Taru that he was. No keys had dropped, and we'd expended all of our undead, so I pulled a Magic Jug back to the party, using Silence pulls because of their wicked spell skills.

At this point, FFB was mysteriously AFK again, and Bluemage had gotten linked up on two Hellmines, which when he came running over to the party, we of course healed him. I set about throwing Refresh on him as he was low on mp, and a regen to start his healing. Then from healing him, the Hellmines liked Zira, so I healed her which put the hate of one hellmine as well as the jug fully on me. We managed to get the hellmine down, but with the other RDM AFK, doing 3 heavy hitters at once doesn't really give my Blink/SS a fighting chance. To my dismay, I think both mines must've had DoT on them, as my Elemental Seal + Sleepga failed even when nothing was hitting them... /sigh.

So we're starting to dip slightly in HP, and one of the hellmines decided to Self-Destruct. Luckily, my SS ate most of that blow, but it wiped the PLD. Joy. So the BST grabbed a beetle to fight the Hellmine, as the Jug unleashed a nice Burst on me. Damn, no SS up that time, was busy recasting. HP dropped around 71, and I was quite glad the undead weren't there. Had to convert for *HP* when SS dropped next hit, and we managed to Drain/Aspir it to recover a bit to get Blink/SS going again and find the rythym. However, while doing that, I didn't get to silence it. The other RDM was really underlevel for it, and hers weren't sticking well. Poor Zira-san! She did try, though! So then I get it back silenced, and we set about plunking it down, while Jazz re-raised, and we went to a safe spot to recover. While I'm apologizing for Jazz's death and getting everyone healed back, Bluemage notes that he doesn't understand why the Hellmines would've attacked the party. We point out because we healed him to save him from dying. His eloquent reply? "Well I didn't ask him to heal me." Umm....can I get a little respect here, for a person willing to lay down their life for yours since you were willing to help, or even a little thanks? Not that hard, ya know? Just be POLITE!

But anyway, Bluemage had passed lead to FFB, and at this point I was rather just ready to leave them and look on our own for the keys, but they wanted to go open the other gates for FFB as we were fighting another undead. In the process of slamming through this, I've not replied yet, busy holding hate and killing said creature, now that both of them ran off. Joy of joys, the key drops, and I pass, Zira passes, Bluemage passes, and Jazz lots on it, FFB hadn't passed yet, but had congratulated.....Everyone's all /joy and such, as we start heading to the Banishing Gate #1...and someone caught bat aggro, so I Stone 3'd the bat to take hate, and start fighting it...bats aren't really a problem, even when not maxed out, but then.....I see Jazz and Zira looking at me and look to the bottom of my screen to see that the party was disbanded...Yes, FFB DISBANDED the ENTIRE PARTY as he left to do whatever...which apparantly involved walking out into Sauromugue Champaign. Needless to say, the key that he wasn't even involved with getting for Jazz dropped, as he already had one of his own, then he blames Jazz for not lotting (which he did) and then says that oh well, his hand was already on the disband button when it dropped (I find it odd of you to have time to send a full line of congratulations and such 'with your hand on the button' so that you couldn't pass first.)...and Bluemage tried to pick up the blame for him by saying he passed him leader without telling him. Maybe it's just me, but I look at that before I disband...Yeah, that's just me....

But on to brighter news, as I'll go back later and help Jazz with another key..probably tonight.

Good: Did the WAR static again, with the usual Lanoire (NIN/WAR), Valynne (WHM/BLM), me (WAR/MNK), Zirasharia (NIN/WAR) and Alcindor (our SAM/WAR), who dumped the yellow dot of doom on me (aka the leadership of the PT), so I pulled Naoo as a 6th (RDM/WHM), and xp went very well. When Naoo had to go, we had about an hour left, and we got Sis-something (I'm sorry! I think it was Sisstin? Someone can comment correct ^^;) who was another WHM/BLM, and we continued racing along joyfully. I made it from 2k til 30 to 2k 'til 32 in this party, quite pleased with the WAR/MNKness, and will likely switch to either /NIN or /THF. I'm just not online enough to level the MNK past the 15 to keep it up to leveled subjob. that was excellent, only 4 more levels to go! T.T