Much accomplished..

Last night I got quite a bit accomplished. I got home early because I had to leave work early for a doctor's appointment, and just decided to stay home afterwards. When I logged on, I decided to complete another Treasures of Aht Urghan mission, which just involved me talking to Naja to get a cutscene.

As bad as it may sound, I really don't know whats going on with the story because i've always been in a hurry in the past scenes to do something else, so i've never read what has been said. The most I remember from this, is that there is a puppetmaster dressed in white, and that I'm going to help her accomplish something for the Empress of Aht Urghan. So now I believe i'm on mission 12: Royal Puppeteer which I will hopefully try to tackle this weekend.

After completing my ToAU mission, I decided it was time to go after the final quest for my NPC fellow Epilleve, which would require me to go to Fei'yin and fight a BCNM50. I made my way there as my WAR/NIN figuring it would be good to have a DD and have ninja sub. When I entered Fei'yin, I noticed that Miser Murphy was hanging out and stayed clear of him because the last time I had run into the zone, he had killed me within minutes before I knew what the heck was attacking me.

When I entered the BCNM, there was a little cutscene where the bad guy turned into a demon called Vassago and me and my NPC went forward to cut him down. The fight was really easy, and I just had to make sure that right before the mob would use his special move "Blighted Gloom" that I would have to run away and let my npc deflect the move with "Blessed Radiance". Well this happened twice successfully, and right when he went to go use his move for the 3rd time I was going through my menus to get ready to weaponskill him so I wasn't able to run away in time, and me and my NPC ended up taking quite a hit, but I finished him off with my weaponskill. So after that, I headed back to Jeuno to talk with Luto.

I decided that since I still had some time to spare, i'd finish off "Chameleon Caper's" quest (I think thats the name) so that I could get the tactics manual: Might, that could teach my NPC the job style: Fierce Attacker. A friend of mine from LS, Alianne gave me a hand in completing the quest which involved me having to take the airship to Windurst to talk to a tarutaru NPC, and then back to Jeuno which seemed like a lifetime. Then I had to run to Lower Delfkutt's Tower and get a few more cutscenes before fighting a magic pot, which I could of soloed but because Alianne had been giving me a hand I let him join in on the fun as his THF. The more the merrier right? Finally, I got my Tactics Manual: Might and taught my NPC the new job style. Then because Alianne had previously done this quest and obtained the Tactics Manual: Endurance, we swaped and my NPC Epilleve also learned Soothing Healer which is currently what her style is now set to. So now i'll keep around the manual for any LS member that needs it because they are re-usable and tradable.

And so to finish up the night, myself, Xean and Timwakefield went to go do Final Bout BCNM50 again. We'd gotten about 1.8mil the last time in drops, and so we hoped we'd make good profit again.

The first run unfortunately was a wipe, because Xean's pc had some lag. It was funny though, after Tim and Xean died, I was still alive and had the mob down to 1% HP, but he got in the final hit. So me and Tim home pointed, and made our way back to Palborough Mines where Xean waited for us to raise him. I went as my WHM because I figured it would be quick to go to Bastok and change jobs.

We also had Alianne stay around as Corsair to see if he could renew our 2hrs, because the secret to winning this BCNM is for everyone to 2hr as this ensures a guaranteed win (as long as there is no lag ^^;) but unfortunately it only renewed our abilities.

So we waited for our timers to go down so we could 2hr again on our second run, and just as expected, it was an easy success. We also managed to get good drops on this run, including Spiked Finger Gauntlets which go from 500-700k. And because we split our drops, we'll each get a share of this. Then on our last run, we also had an easy success and this time only got maybe 300k in drops, which wasn't too bad. We also managed to set the record too!

Now all we need to do is farm up another 50 seals so we can do this again. Its always a blast to be able to do BCNMs with friends, you never have to worry that if you screw up you'll be flamed or harassed but instead you can feel safe knowing everyone will laugh about it later, because everyone's doing it to have fun mostly. And besides, we did end up getting decent drops for 2 orbs so it was well worth it.