General: Saturday Afternoon in Castle Zvahl

Saturday afternoon, our BRD60/THF61/PLD61 trio headed off to the not-as-scary-as-it-used-to-be Castle Zvahl, hoping to find a treasure chest for each of us for one of the song fragments we need for the Bastok quest, A Test of True Love. We brought out our NPCs and fought our way to all of the chest spawn spots. We found the first in Baileys, just after we were on the second part of the map. We made Elbo take that one, then decided to head to the Keep and fight things as we made our way to the different spawn points.

We had a fun time fighting all the easy prey beastmen as we made our way through Baileys and then the Keep, and we found a second chest in the Yagudo room in the Keep. Grym took that one, and we kept on with our search for a third. We had cleared out the Quadav room not too long before the next chest should have spawned, and decided to wait there for a few minutes, in case it would spawn there. Grym wanted to see how well double mambo would work and pulled a Quadav from another room, and a bunch of its friends followed. Then we had respawns in our room joining in the fray. It was chaotic, and I thought we were going to kill Elbo (he kept using horde lullaby on the horde), but luckily we made it through the rumble alive. And the quadavs scarcely touched Grym with the double mambo.

We then worked our way through the Keep chest spawns again, then back to Baileys. We checked every single spot except for one (on the first map by the south stairs) with no luck, and rather than fight our way over to that one, Grym used Tonko and ran over to check. Sure enough, there it was. Elboron cast invisible on Kiki and she ran off to open it. Yay! 1 song fragment down, 2 to go.

It was a fun afternoon, and we picked up over 2K exp while we were at it (also used our Empress Bands for a 50% boost). One of the golbins we fought dropped a gold ingot (120K), and we got a bunch of crystals, some Kindred and Beastmen Seals, and a variety of scrolls and other items. Kiki now has over 60 KS, so it's time to hire some BLMs for Desert Swarm once or twice.