Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Final run for ISLS

Sky has finally come to an end. It's been a long time coming, we've been short on members for well over 6 months and few of the people we got in that period stayed for long, but I'm grateful for those who did stay to the end. And thanks to Xarp, and then Nem for keeping the shell going for so long.


For our last run, we started early (with a grand total of 3 people) to get a stone from Despot and pop the 2 Ullis we had. As more people logged on, and friends came to help, we had 6 by the time Despot popped and 8 when we did the 2 Ullis.


Here I am casting blizzard on Ulli's groin.

We had enough pop sets for 1 of each god, and an extra Byakko pop set because we wanted to make sure we got our last member his Haidate.

So we went from Suzaku > Seiryu > Genbu and finally to Byakko, nothing amazing dropped aside from a few gil items that went to helpers. I failed to take any screenshots of our last few gods because I suck.

Haidate dropped on the first Byakko, and because I was the only LS member without any by this point, I was encouraged to take the second pair if they dropped (better than letting it go freelot with nobody around to buy). Even though I hadn't got a job leveled to wear them, everyone felt that I had earnt them anyway, which was a nice gesture from them :)
Unfortunately the gods of FFXI (Byakko specifically) didn't share that sentiment and a second pair did not drop. Oh well, if I wanted them that badly I would have leveled a job and lotted them a year ago. If they had dropped, I probably would have only leveled BST anyway (SAM or WAR would have pretty much made DRG obsolete as my DD job).

We finished off with a last Kirin burn with the help of the other LS I forgot the name of. No W.legs dropped AGAIN, which is probably Kirin's way of saying FU and GTFO. He's such a dick. But at least we managed to do all the gods + Kirin for our last run for some sense of completion, even if it wasn't all done by merit of our LS alone.

We gathered in Aht Urghan's teahouse place as a final goodbye thing.


Much fun and silliness was had with fireworks and rice cakes. So at the end of the day, I got 9 hours of free time per week back AND +1 inventory space! On the other hand, I never got to try out Fields of Valor in sky :(


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