I'm far from Captivating

Last night was a sky raid. We started with Olla, then headed to Genbu. He dropped A. Head and Kabuto. I always feel bad for Genbu, he's such a joke to fight and dies so easily. We moved over to Seiryu and I was able to witness something amazing while fighting him... When Seiryu used Hundred Fists Winraf didn't invincible and he solo tanked through it's 2 hour. He got down to 200HP once but for the most part he just stood there and let it whack him for 30 seconds. That's the beauty of a D. Ring, Shadow Ring and Shadow Mantle coupled with an Aegis. Truly something to behold. We got got D. Head, W. Hands, and Kote from the dragon, and then over to Suzaku where we got D. Hands and Sune-ate. We were headed to Byakko but AD was doing like 5 of them so we were lucky in that our "contracted member" logged in.

I had never known this but there was an agreement from this taru WHM that he wanted W. Legs. He "contracted" IRON to do two Kirins for him, and we could keep any and all drops except for the W. Legs. Sounds good to me, so we popped the 1st and took it down in record time, was like 30 minutes or so. Dropped Osode, Pole, and D. Body. Sucks for him but we just got a free Osode. We waited 15 minutes and popped the second one. Same story different chapter. Took him down in about 30 minutes and he dropped another D. Body and two O. Ingots. The taru was probably a little upset, but I'm sure this guy bought the seals since when I checked him he had the most amazing gear, including relic club, Triumph+1, and a HQ Errant cape...

Then he let leadership know he had a third and final set of seals. Damn boy, he came prepared. We popped Kirin and he decided to Astral Flow while we were fighting Byakko and it hit pretty much everyone. While we tried to recover he summoned Suzaku. We had a near wipe, I think 20/25 people died. We slowly raised and sac'd to keep him up in the middle, and when we were out of weakness we were able to kite the bird and take the cat down. Once we started in on Suzy it was smooth sailing, and when Genbu died Kirin was at about 85%. We got our brickwall (aka Winraf) into the alliance and that sob straight tanked Kirin on PLD from 85% to 0%. It was really one of the most amazing things I ever saw. We took it down quickly and to the taru's dismay (not to ours) we got another Osode and Quake! So when it was all said and done we had 3 Kirins, 2 Shura Togi's, and 2 Kirin's Osodes and didn't use a single seal from the LS vault. Not a bad bounty.

By this time AD was done with Byakko so we headed out for our final 2 fights of the night. We got 2 D. Legs and a D. Log from the 1st Byakko (wtf) and on the second we got E. Feet and a B. Hide. Ended up going 0/2 on Byakko's Haidate and it was the only god gear that didn't drop last night, but still it was a successful night all in all. I got screwed on my Astral Flow though when we took down the 2nd Byakko... see pictures below, they speak for themselves.

Astral Flow for fun

then

Good way to end the night, 2 Astral Flows, 1 hits for 62 damage and the 2nd is paralyzed. Whoopee!