Uggalepih Pendant Run (w/ Legion)

Legion is up and running lately, bringing members from both Sage's Wanderers and Imperial together every Tuesday. Our farming has paid off this past week, in the form of a few fights again the Uggalepih Pendant NM, Golden-Tongued Culberry.

This was a fun fight. Once our RDM (Thayos) popped the tonberry, Galluspit (PLD) voked it and off he ran. And ran. The entire fight involved bouncing hate between our elvaan and galkan paladins. I found it humorous to see such noble pillars of sacrifice and defense running away from the beast, but it worked well in this case. We ran into very few snags, mostly accidental Death spells getting through uninterrupted, causing a quick hate bounce to the other paladin.

We went through three pop items, and got one drop (from the first one, oddly enough). So Verrick has himself a shiny new bauble to hang off his pimp chain. We managed to get two really good screenshots from this run as well. The first was lining up for our success shot:


the second was an accident immediatly afterwards, in which a tonberry popped in front of us, and we watched Atul and Zarovich's diremites beat down the poor ugly bastard. We just passed the popcorn and watched the show.


In personal news, Hell has frozen over. I decided to start leveling ninja so I could have a greater breadth of melee jobs to choose from. Though I am still hesitant about the gil sinks inherent to being a ninja, I can remember why I stuck with it four years ago. I enjoyed it then, as I enjoy it now, and just might take it up to a point I can use it in events. Spent the evening leveling in Buburimu Peninsula with Zadine as a WHM, and three other pick up players. Currently sitting at 18NIN.

Ascending to Sky

Today, I have finally set foot upon the fabled floating island of Tu'Lia. My linkshell has really come forward and taken me through the dangers of the tonberrys in the Temple of Uggalepih and the Den of Rancor. They walked me through and kept me safe as I collected each headstone fragment, and returned the fragments to the Quicksand Caves, even as we were attacked by anticans. They stood beside as Kam’lanaut tried to wipe us mere mortals off from Vana'diel. Finally, they rallied their friends amoung fellow adventurers and managed to put a cerulean crystal in my hands, effectively opening the Hall of the Gods' shimmering circle to transport myself up to sky.

I went exploring my first time up in the clouds. I love the scenic views from Ru'Aun Gardens, and angelic music. I visited both the Shrine of Ru'Avitau and Ve'Lugannon Palace on my journey, and saw many scary and some new things never seen on the surface of Vana'diel. My two favorite parts so far are the waterfalls that drop off the edge and fall to nothingness below, and the transparent floors that leave hexagonal impressions as you walk across them.

Quick hits: Attained Windurst Rank 7 after the yagudo BCNM in Giddeus and subsequent climb up Castle Oztroja, got Verrick a much prized enfeebling earring from an ENM, fought and killed all six prime elementals to get attuned to fenrir battle, defeated fenrir, finally bought my own noble's tunic, spent my first merits on Shellra V, and killed Alexander one more time for Zephiris' win.