Dragon's Aery: Shiva's Premier Friday Night Club

It was one of those days where you feel like you got a lot accomplished. We were missing several key jobs for Oreo last night, so we decided to hit up Fafnir. We had a pretty good turnout, but it wasn't long before every level 75 player on the server was in that tiny little pond waiting for the dragon to arrive. The botters kept killing off the flies so that they would respawn right on top of the window, making it difficult to safely claim. Not that I could have seen it pop anyway. There were way too many people in there for my poor old laptop to handle. He popped 4th or 5th window - I lost count. It was kinda weird: our leader announced he had spawned in the NW corner of the room (where I was) but I couldn't see him. He didn't pop on my screen until I was right under him, and when I backed away, he despawned. Talk about uber lag.

Between windows, I cleaned up a little bit, and fooled around with a model viewer and PSP. The result is the cool blog avatar at the upper right of Shrade's WHM/NIN setup. ^_^ I've been a party tank a few times as WHM: it's a lot of fun. Too bad the pic got a little fuzzy in the resize, it looks cool full-sized though. Eventually I want to make a forum sig with my healing and tanking WHM and MNK setups.

After Fafnir, Demetrion and Rhykar joined Kerith (my wife's character) and I in our hunt for the Ophiuchus Subligar. It's the item needed for the Gaudy Harness reward from the quest Brygid the Stylist Returns. It's a nice body piece that boasts a CHR boost and Refresh MP effect - perfect for BST/WHM. After four kills, one dropped. Keri is such a sweetheart and let me have the first one. We'll have to go back down and get another for her. I ran back to Bastok to find out what gawd-awful combination she wanted me to wear before giving me the choice of rewards. All I have to say is Gambison and Velvet Slops do not go together... Can't wait to hit 50 and wear this!

DeAnn's sister and her husband just started playing a few months back, and were online last night, so we met up with them in San d'Oria and got the Guide Beret for inviting Eldrin (Tristan's character) to Shiva. Also helped with San d'Orian mission 1-3. Keri and I were not allowed in the BC, so not so much helped but plowed the way. I imagine, if we ever can get our schedules to line up, that leveling together would be nice, especially through the dunes... -.-

After that I went back to Jeuno, thinking I would just call it a night. When I warped in there were no less than three people looking for teleports. I did that for a good 10-15mins and made about 30k on that. Yay for more Moat Carp monies!