Project Morgenstern: Part 2 (and some other things)

I wasn't really online much to speak of on Thursday. I arrived for a Limbus run in CS Apollyon with Keri, and we didn't do so hot. It was a learning experience - we got 1-2 coins each for the 30k gil, deathga and our troubles. Friday was promising to be rough, so we cut out early.

After the kind of week we both had, DeAnn and I were in the perfect mood to get completely hammered stay up late gaming. She brought home some Little Caesar's, I brought home some Coke Zero and we both set about getting some BLM experience with Talonshard. It was an OK party - PLD and DRK (who came as a pair), Jarvis on his BLU, Talon on his MNK and Keri and I as BLMs. Experience sat at just over 4k/hr and we were partying in Quicksand Caves on spiders and beetles for a little less than 3 hours. Everyone in the party leveled, even the PLD, who took more than a couple death-inducing Sickle Slashes to the face.

Talon's ISP has some serious issues with Chinese hackers and botnets, and is either unwilling or unable to spend the money for decent security, or unknowledgable on how to set up said security. Instead, they tell all of their paying customers that they must log off and disconnect at 11:30Est... "Sorry Mr. So-and-so, but we're completely inept, so you can't use the service you've paid for after this time every night." At any rate, once he hits that time, the poor guy must log off. He gave us leave, however, to use his character to help me get closer to breaking the latent on the Morgenstern. So DeAnn logged off Kerith and on to Talonshard. She likes to engage in (read: encourage) the sometimes raunchy late-night LS chat. It was weird to see those words next to Talon's name - it was all I could do not to take an embarrassing screenie. We hit Kuftal Tunnel for nearly an hour. I have got to be getting close on this thing.

We ended the night off with a late-night merit party. It was the first time I got to take my MNK out since getting my spiffy new crown and completing the Melee Attire set. With food and buffs, I finally got Shrade to break the 2000 hp mark. Holy +mHP Batman! I took repeated Pecking Flurries from the birds we fought and they never once sent me into the orange, let alone the red. Hell, I only hit yellow twice.

Sky gods are tomorrow. My points are so low that I'm not up for any drops, but that's OK. I need a rebuilding session and I enjoy sky events. Sometime this weekend, I'm going to need to farm, too. Almost halfway done with Lu Shang's, and if I can keep up the pace I've set, I'll have it around Memorial Day.