Missions: Saintly Invitation (Windurst Mission 6-2)

We had quite a few people in ClanBEB who needed to do Saintly Invitation, Windurst's Mission 6-2. Some people had already got Rank 10 in other nations, while others of us were on our first path through the Missions. I organized for us to do this Saturday night, meeting at 9PM in Windurst. We were two people short of two balanced parties, and asked Yobun to tank for one party with his PLD73, and Anastasia was the BLM72 sleeper for that party as well. Emith should have done this with us, but real life interfered, and we'll have to do it with him some other time.

It took the usual hour to get everyone ready and we headed off to Balga's Dais to face the crack Yagudo fighting squad. The higher level group went first. Yobun PLD73, Ana BLM72, Midget RNG73, Izan DRG70, Diasuke SMN70, and Muirnin THF63. They made short work of the four Yagudos, killing them in the order WHM, SMN, SAM, and NIN. Our parties were allied, so we could see the party chat as well as the HP bars of that team, and they hardly took any damage, and finished really quickly.

Next up was our team, with Kiki PLD61, Grym THF61, Elboron BRD60, Ryrra MNK63, Wendell WHM63, and Aksukia as RDM7X. We took them on in the same order, and didn't have any real trouble, but it did take us longer, and we took a lot more damage than the first team. Aksukia and Elboron were both on sleep duty. After the WHM Yagudo used Benediction, Ryrra used Hundred Fists and it was down in no time. Next up was the SMN, which manage to use Astral Flow and we were hit with a powerful Tidal Wave. We all took nearly 600 points of damage, but we all survived and Wendell either used Divine Seal/Curaga or Benediction at that point (I wasn't sure and threw on Invincible to get hate back). The SMN was dispatched and we moved on to the SAM. He fell soon after, and the NIN used on us, but it was less than 400 damage per person, and we quickly defeated him as well.

The Yagudo in charge of the contest told us to head to Castle Oztroja to report our victory. I believe we cleared the field in just over 11 minutes. Nowhere near a record, but it was really a lot of fun. Everyone did a great job.

A lot of people had to run off to Dynamis runs, but my whole party was ready to head to Castle Oztroja to complete the mission. Anastasia came along with us to help. First we had to kill Yagudo Flagellants in the upper level to try to get a Judgement Key to open a door to reach the Yagudo we needed to report to. Every time I've been on a coffer key hunts, I've seen a lot of these keys drop, but of course when we needed one, it just didn't seem to want to drop. People were getting tired, but I told them it should be very quick, so they all stuck it out. We finally got a key, and Ana got the door open for us to go into the area for G3. We didn't get the passwords for the trap door on the way up, but after countless entries of the possible words, I got all three correct and down we dropped.

We all got invisible and headed for the brass door behind the ??? spot for G3. The High Priest was making life difficult for us, and finally noticed Ryrra at the door (he has true sight). Anastasia, the brave little taru that she is, grabbed his attention and dragged him away from the door. The rest of us all hurried over, I got the door open, and we ran through safely. Meanwhile, Anastasia warped back to her homepoint in Port Windurst, only to find herself facedown. ><

We talked to the Yagudo and got a key item and a necklace, and we all headed back to Windurst. Wendell gave Ana a Raise 2 before heading to Heaven's Tower. The Star Sybil was happy to see us, and told us we had atoned for our crimes, but that we shouldn't speak of what we had seen. And we're all now Rank 7 (and 40,000 gil richer). Hurray!

New title: Victor of the Balga Contest