General: Odds and Ends

Friday evening a week ago, Grym and Kiki dragged Splinte (WAR41) through Delkfutt's Tower for her Mission 3-3. Splinte got aggro a lot earlier than I would have thought (I think it was on the 5th floor), but it was an easy trip up with her THF61 and PLD61 escort duo. Rank 4 for Splinte, who then ran off to do the NPC quest as soon as she could.

Later that evening, most of the 55+ crowd in the linkshell headed to Bostaunieux Oubliette to take on Bodach, the NM for Charcole's quested weaponskill, Asuran Fists. We had to fight a bunch of leeches along the way. It seems the leeches in the Oubliette have an AOE drain effect, which was pretty hard on the alliance. I was actually worried we might not even make it to the spawn area for the skeleton. However, we were fine, and killed it relatively quickly.

Next we headed to Beadeaux to get a Warrior testimony for Daden's Maat fight, but that dropped really quickly, so we didn't stay there long. It was too bad, as I was getting really good staff skillups on the Quadavs. Kiki got a Paladin testimony to save for her Maat fight as well.

Finally, a bunch of us headed to Quicksand Caves to kill Spelunking Sabotenders for Star Spinel. This is a rare/ex item required for the Crying Over Onions quest in the Star Onion Brigade series, and the reward is a Star Necklace, a rare/ex level 59 necklace with +3 CHR and converts 15 HP to MP, so it's really good for BRDs, and useful for others as well. The quest is also required to continue on in the series, so needed to be done. We had 4 people needing a star spinel (Kiki, Diasuke, Elboron, and Grymalkyn), and several people helping us (Yobun, Charcole, Itera, Wendell, Ryken). We managed to get the four we needed, but the last one took longer than the first three, and Grymalkyn was ready to give up on hers, especially when a duo showed up and started competing with us for the Sabotenders. Elboron got killed at one point when we were fighting a scorpion and he pulled hate with a Curaga just in time to get Death Scissors for nearly 800 points of damage. :-(

Elbo, Grym, and Kiki headed back to Windurst to complete the Crying Over Onions quest, received their Star Necklace rewards, and started the next quest in the series, Wild Card.