General: Random Musings

Grym and Kiki want to get Grym's MNK and Kiki's THF both to 25, since at 25 MNK has accuracy and hand-to-hand bonuses, and THF25 has flee. Grym hates partying with random people, and it would have been hard to both be in the same party anyway (too few people LFP to put together their own), so they headed to Bubu as a MNK22/WAR11 - THF21/NIN10 duo to fight clippers. It seems so slow, since they have to rest for HP every 3 or 4 crabs, but they got 4.5K exp in something like 3 hours, which is better than some exp parties they've been in, so maybe they can keep it up until they're both 25.

Funniest moment: Kiki's 20 exp away from 22, and she accidently targets a leech instead of the snipper that Grym's targetted. Fortunately they were able to zone to Bibiki Bay safely, with the snipper and at least two leeches running after them.

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A coworker of mine has started playing, so late Friday night Kiki went to meet his WAR12 in the Dunes and lend him some new gear to replace the level 7 leather that Quincy had lent him. He was in a party at the time, but they moved camp, he lost them, and they booted him. So after raising a few people in the Dunes, Kiki dragged Ernan off to the Holla Crag for the teleport crystal, then took him into San d'Oria to buy some maps. He hadn't even been through the tunnel in the Dunes before, so he got to see some new territory. The trip to San d'Oria also gave him the chance to visit his moogle and the AH. Then Kiki dragged him back to Selbina, where she left him.

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Saturday evening, Thalia needed her Kazham keys, so Grym and Kiki met her in Bastok, where she'd just finished her Mission 2-3 Dragon fight, and quickly got a key in Palborough. We actually got two keys in a row, and shouted to see it anyone else needed one, and there was someone hunting keys for their daughter (Launa and Hersheys), so we allied and Hersheys got the key. We headed back to Bastok, grabbed a Teleport-Mea from Snowmanb, who also gave Kiki a pearl for the Windurstian EF linkshell, and Thalia headed to Windurst to complete her mission and get Rank 3 while Grym and Kiki headed to Giddeus.

On the way, Launa passed Kiki on Chocobo, so I asked if they were heading to Giddeus, and they were, so they joined our party. Grym got both keys pretty quickly (and a bird whistle off one of the NM yagudos). Hersheys already had her Ghelsba key, so they left us, and we headed to the Grotto with Thalia. We actually got the key in the lower level of the grotto, so that was really quick too. I think TH2 does make a difference with those key drops.

Thalia complained about how lucky Grym and Kiki were to have BLM levelled high enough to use warp and to have Rank 5 to use the airship. I pointed out that luck had nothing to do with it, and it had more to do with the fact that Kiki's playing time is over 61 days, while Grym is fast approaching 90 days. You can accomplish an awful lot in that amount of time. He countered that he'd been playing for months too, but he's talking real world time, which includes long stretches where he hasn't had internet access.