We suck, it's all your fault!

Drama on the high seas. Bismarck server dead ahead, ETA, 1 single Aspi window. Ok, enough stupid talk. Today was a day of mind numbing video game playing. I leveled on my WHM for a while, which was fun because I had put it off since before my break and I wanted to finally wear a damn Nobles. Got it to 60 on a weird party. Started off WHM, BRD, PLD, MNK, RNG, RNG. We had the damage but no hate control and after each Sidewinder a RNG would pull hate and get the crap smacked out of them because they just had to sub WAR for the STR/attack that comes with WAR sub. Well without ninjitsu they would get smaked for 200 damage and that meant curing the RNGs as much as the damn PLD. After an hour both RNGs had other things to do, and we ended up replacing them with another MNK (taru) and a lolDRG. The last time I leveled with an lolDRG was WAYYYYY back in Bibiki Bay on my RDM (prolly June '05). All I remember is the lolDRG saying all anyone thought he was good for was making Light with a DRK. Well, except for the fact I had to tell this lolDRG to Call Wyvern after the 2nd pull, he did not only amazingly but our kills went about 5x smoother. No one spiked hate and caused major curing needs. It was just steady xp from mobs that gave 220+ on Chain 0 and 340 at Chain #4 and #5. After a few hours we all got a level and a half cleared, and when the PLD pulled with me having 63MP and died the MNKs 2 houred and kill the Colibri. People said they were tired, the (Japanese) BRD said it was 5:25am JST so we all headed out. I grabbed Reraise II and made some new gear choices (Healer's Mitts over Magna Gauntlets as well as Raven Beret over Gold Hairpin. Going to head back to it and hopefully get it to 62 so I can wear my Wood M Ledelsens

I then went and solo'd on SMN for about 45 minutes, making about 3k with my XP ring and getting the XP back I lost when we fought Timmy. Was easy stuff, if only I could use Empress Band more often. After I releved I did a quick Limbus run where we cleared ApollyonSW and got THF and RDM and 2 coins. We had Assaults planned to finish but some people did Waughroon Shrine KS30 runs. I went off fishing, getting no skillups but enough Bhefhel Marlin that one of them, when cut open, had in it a Pirate's Chart. This is the trigger to enter the fight for Mercurial Kris but I'm really in it for the Pelican Ring or the Albatross Ring. More to come on these developments.

Finally, the good stuff. Drama. It's what makes the world go round. I ran through 2 Mamool assaults and then helped 4 people get ToAU missions 11-15 done. When we finished the final CS we headed out to Aspi and that damn turtle popped 1st window! Some Japanese LS got it but they lost claim almost instantly. We were voking/spamming from the possible claim when it popped, and it got claimed by us. Then the /shouts, /says, and general whining and complaining ensued. We didn't get MPK'd, nor did we try to MPK anyone. We didn't hear from a GM and in the end we really didn't do anything wrong. They could not hold claim on the mob. It's like if Nid popped and 5 people cast stun on it. Should I be angry and act childish to the players who created more hate on the mob when it popped, and thus got the claim? Of course not. We made short work of Aspi, and in the end A.Body dropped. I sent a tell for it but I'm behind all the RDMs and BRDs in the shell. Even though I have RDM, because SMN and BLM are my mains, the RDM-main and BRD-main members get precedent. The Dalm went to Poundkake, and he'll definitly put it to good use. Now he's our giant Garka Christmas Tree. We had an official tree lighting ceremony when he got it uncursed in Sandy.