Birthday Weekend

What a blur of a weekend! I had to work late on my birthday, but "working late" still puts me home before DeAnn. We decided to get Peng's for dinner, and made it online with all the kiddos fed just in time for FNLE - KSNM 99 Horns of War.

This fight pits an alliance against a Behemoth-type monster. In Final Fantasy XI, Behemoth (and his big brother King Behemoth) serve up a constant stream of TP moves and cast a nasty AoE high damage spell called Meteor. To win, the tank needs to run this monster up and down the hill while keeping hate and outrunning TP moves and Meteor. Meteor can be interrupted if hate changes midcast, so all the BLM's and melee start in on him when he starts casting. Drops can be very lucrative and one of them in particular - the Behemoth Tongue is needed for the Black Belt quest. We won 2 of the 3 runs, but no tongue. :P

The next day, Captsassypants got a group of SMN's together with Keri and I and we SMN burned Contaminated Colosseum. I'd been wanting to do this one for a while because it drops the Morgenstern (aka WHM's Destroyers.) We lined up 6 runs, and won them all handily. Morgenstern dropped on 3 of them, so I got one! Now time for me to unlock it. It takes 500 WS points to do so - I foresee me living in Kuftal tunnel for the next week and a half. All told, each member made about 100k in good money drops, random junk and loose change. Not bad for 30 seals that were just taking up space.

The main event Saturday was Kirin. It's the culmination of many weeks of hard work hunting in sky, and has a lot of really nice drops. I'm hoping that someday I can get a Kirin's Osode. We did 3 Kirin runs and Osodes dropped on 2 of them, along with some money drops and tons of Shura body pacts. Shura for everyone! It was the first time I had ever been in the party when Kirin died, so I also got a spiffy new title. After Kirin, I used up a coffer key to get the other map for sky that I've been needing.

Our LS has Dynamis-San d'Oria tomorrow, and I'm also hoping I can burn through the rest of my insect ball bail and get some of the money from the KSNM's to trade in more Moat Carp.