He's Crafty

Last night I managed to get the Fei Yin chest key and find a treasure chest to acquire the magic tome needed to finish the quest magic of the north to get the scroll of Tele Zvahl.

I've been burning the midnight oil in the Carpenters Guild in San D Oria lately and managed to get woodworking up to 18.

I reached a wall with woodworking, my next synth is silver arrows, which requires, yagudo fletchings, black chocobo feathers, willow lumber, and silver arrow heads. Silver arrows sell for 3-5K a doz. Silver arrowheads sell for 50k for a stack of 99! So I am now working on gold smithing so I can synth my own silver arrowheads.

Raising Chocobo

Last night I logged on to check on Yellow XIII, the Bastokan VCS told me he took Yellow out for walk in town and Yellow seemed interested in everything. A few days before he lost a race to some cocky NPC's (cut scene onry) and was anxious to try again, so I fed him some gyshal greens and told the Bastok VCS that Yellow wanted to compete against the NPC's again. This time Yellow won! Afterwards I took Yellow for a short walk outside Bastok and read him a story.

The next day I checked on Yellow XIII, he was scheduled to exercise in a group with other chocobos for 2 days, apparently he over did it and he's sick and starving now. I fed Yellow 3 bunches of gyshal Greens and 2 tokopeko grass bushels so he was full but was still ill. I told him the "Happy Chocobo" story I got from those rude NPC breeders after beating their chocobo 3/4 times. And I took him for a short walk out to Zegham Hill, but it didn't help. Before I left the stables I changed Yellow's care plan to rest for the next 24 hours, then listen to music the following 24.

Kweeh

I completed the story that precedes the chocobo raising process and recieved my chocobo egg. Once I finished that I headed to the chocobo stables in Bastok and handed in my egg to the Vana’diel Chocobo Society (VCS) chocobo trainer. The process of raising my chocobo from egg, to chick, to adolescent, to adult will take approximately one month (Earth time). My wife has volunteered to oversee the nursery of our baby chocobo. She will be working with a VCS chocobo trainer to care for our chocobo. The attributes of a fully grown chocobo will depend on the treatment it receives during this time. I'm confident chocobo care services will be knocking on my mog house before the month is up.

Class Reunion

After defeating the NM Galgalim that Uran Mafran summoned I returned to Windurst and obtained Cabuncle's Tear, I returned to Koru Moru who asked me to bring him 4 Astragalos, after getting Koru Moru his astragalos Ildy Goldy arrives and reports on the events with Uran Mafran. Somehow Uran Mafran has cast a spell over his old classmates that erased himself from their memories! Koru Moru asks me to find the rest of the class and see if they remember Uran Mafran.

My first stop was to the Auastery to speak with Fuepepe, then over to the Optistery to see Frakku-Nurakku, then Proffesor Shantoto. The professor tells me I need to find Sunny Pabonny but he left for San D'Oria, when I reach San D'Oria I meet up with Gulmama and he gives me an Ice Pedulum and tells me to go to Fei Yin.

I traveled to Fei Yin with Darcy, Krogenar and a few other members of LotB to get the whisper of frost from Shiva Prime at the cloister of frost and the second peice of Artifact Equipment. We gathered at the protocrystal and I traded the ice pendulum to the crystal and we entered the Cloister of Frost. Sunny Pabonny shows up and warns us not to follow him, he has a strolling sapling pet follow him into the protocrystal, when we follow him in we see Uran Mafran turn his pet sapling into 6 Dryads and sic'd them on Sunny Pabonny. We obliterated the record for best time on that NM battle, I think we were done in less than a minute. Once we finished the AF battle we traveled thru Fei Yin back to the protocrystal, Darcy, Cabanaboy and I defeated Shiva Prime. Afterwards I headed back to Koru Moru to report and collect my Evokers Spats!
On the following Saturday Vrtra and I traveled to the Cloister of Storms and defeated Ramuh Prime for the whisper of storms. Sunday Vrtra and I headed to the Cloister of Tides, not an easy place to get to! I tele'd to Yhoator Jungle, then hiked to the Temple of Uggalepih, navigated the Temple to The Den of Rancor. This is by far the most difficult Cloister to reach as we had to defeat a temple gardian and then use the paintbrush of souls to get thru the secret entrance to the Den of Rancor, once in the Den we had to find a drop down to the lowest level and hope sneak and invis didn't drop as we did. The battle against Leviathan was slow with Vrtra wailing away at it as I kept barwatera and haste up. Leviathan retaliated by casting Spring water to recover around 600 HP multiple times and slow. I had reraise up and decided not to run down the path when we got Leviathan down to 50%, when he used his 2hr ability, Tidal Wave I got hosed so to speak but thanks to reraise I was back in the game. Here is where I made our fatal mistake, I used a ginger cookie and ran down the path a bit too far to keep Vrtra's barwatera up. When it dropped I sarted to run back but suddenly his HP dropped to 0, then the big fella came for me. So I still need the whisper of tides, the hardest cloister to reach and the one most people don't have the fame to get the tuning fork.

Immortal Sentries

After my initial visit to the Empire of Aht Urghan, I had not been back, instead I've been working on SMN. I decided to revisit Aht Urgan Whitegate. When I arrived I went to Salaheem's Sentinels and recieved my first mission as a mercenary. Naja Salaheem handed me supplies and told me to bring them to any of the staging point thruout the Near East Lands. While in Aht Urghan I met up with Darcy, the leader of LotB, he offered to help me reach one of the Staging Points. We traveled thru Bflau Thickets to Ma Mool Ja to one of the Staging Points. I returned to Aht Urgan reported to Naja Salaheem and was granted merc rank.

Uran Mafran and the battle for Kukulcan's Staff

I set out to get Kukulcan's Staff, the first piece of SMN artifact equipment. I traveled to the House of the Hero in Windurst Walls. Carbuncle spoke in riddle about a great deception and told me to go to Bastok. In Port Bastok I spoke to Juroro and Ildy Goldy. After a short chat Ildy Goldy handed me a Earth Pendulum and told me to travel to the Quicksand Caves in Altepa Desert. Within the Quicksand Caves, Krogenar and I made our way to the Cloister of Tremors. I activated the Earth Pendulum and we were transported to the same dimension that I had fought Titan. Apparently Ildy Goldy had followed us in because as we arrived in this strange dimension I saw the little Tarutau run up the ramp to where the Notorious Monster Galgalim waited for us, but instead a taru mage by the name of Uran Mafran stood there, as Ildy rushed at Uran Mafran he warped away and Galgalim appeared. Krogenar sent in his pet and I send in Garuda, Galgalim fell fast to the relentlessness of Courier Carrie and Garuda. After the battle ended we reappeared in the Cloister of Tremors and Darcy joined our small group, we rentered the strange dimension this time to fight Titan Prime. We were fighting him again to capture the Whisper of tremors, one of six whispers needed to unlock the battle against Fenrir, the Avatar of darkness.

Staff Sergeant Tryptifaeris

I reached lvl 28 fishing, and traded in the apropriate fish to pass the lvl cap test. I am now a novice rank fisherman and have begun collecting guild points towards RA/EX fishing items like the apron, secret maps showing the best fishing spots around Vana Diel ect.
I also reached lvl 50 SMN and am about 1500 away from 51. In preparation I have begun purchasing elemental staves with the gill I've earned fishing up hundreds of nebimonites. So far I have the Dark, Light and Ice staves, with the matching avatar these staves not only increase the avatars power but they have the inate ability to increase the avatar perpetuation.
I also dropped the 300K gil for the WHM scroll of Erase, and will be buying the tele Zvahl scroll soon as my Nebimonites sell.

Return to Promivion Dem

Tryp rallied the LotB troops to once again attempt Promyvion Dem spire. My PT consisted of Domantas (BST), Luner (BST), Aarron (BST), Kimoni (BST), Drust (SMN), and myself (WHM).

The trek to the top of the Spire didn't go as smoothly as the last time I died twice but luckily I had my reraise earring. When we reached the forth floor we made a mad dash to the zone into the spire. We go over the anima plan, setting up 3 teams of 2 to use their psycho & hystero anima in unison against the NM Progenerator.

We enter the battle arena and set our plan in motion, we fought hard but regretibly couldn't win, the Progenerator was victorious with about 10% HP left.

After this disapointing loss I met up with Almightylock and Arcee from the Fallen LS and helped them with a NM fight on the Selbina-Mhaura ferry. Unlike my previous battle in promy Dem this fight was [too weak to be worthwhile].

The Pirates Cove

After completing the Talekeeper mission my next mission for Bastok was given to me by the Mithril Musketeer Naji, outside the President's Office, he asked me to travel to the pirate hideout of Norg and rendesvouz with Gilgamesh. Once I reached Norg , Gilgamesh tells me to find an Adaman Ore and askes me to retrieve a Frag Rock from Ifrit's Cauldron by defeating a NM Salamander. I round up a group of BST from LotB and travel through Yhoator Jungle to Ifrit's Cauldron, this is a very dangerous place, especially for mages! The path to the NM is crawling with bats and volcanic gasses that will aggro me at the first cast, if the gases explode they can do over 1200 points of damage to everyone standing around. We reached the area where the notorious monster was located, I threw the Adaman Ore into the spawn point and the Magma (a bomb) and Salamander (a lizard) poped. After we defeated the bomb and it dropped 6 frag rocks, I returned to Norg and gave Gilgamesh his Frag Rock.

Looking for Kris in the Dunes

While fishing up nebimonites on the Selbina-Muhuara ferry I ran into Ppuffy from LotB, during our tryp he acquired the pirates chart needed to spawn the Mecurial Kris battle in the Valkurm Dunes. Once we arrived in Selbina we met up with another LotB member Swizzle and headed to the spawn point to trade the map to a ??? in the surf. Once we traded the map 2 NM's Notorious Monsters) came in from the sea and attacked, a clipper, a pugil and a Kraken once they reach land we each concentrated on one, Ppuffy and Swizzle called on their CC's and I summoned Ramuh. This battle is capped at 20 so once we began I was stripped to my jammies O.o, during the fight other local parties dropped what they were doing to watch the fight, I summoned Ramuh and used my 2 hr job ability Astral Flow and watched as Ramuh unleashed Judgement Bolt....those fish didn't stand a chance! Once the battle ended a treasure chest appeared on the beach, inside we found an Albatross ring, some H.Q pugil scales, and a bone calamary shell (bait). Regretfully the elusive dagger, Mecurial Kris was not inside.