Limbus: Temenos Central, First Floor

Ezekiel chose the First Floor of Temenos Central for our Limbus run on Sunday. This is a "second level" Temenos area, and requires an Emerald Chip from Temenos West. For this area, there are 6 mobs on one floor, with a 45 minute time limit, and only one item chest, which appears when you've defeated all 6 monsters. The monsters are paired, similar to the two dragons in Double Dragonian, or Ying and Yang with the Dynamis Lord: the second one gets much stronger when the first one is defeated. Our plan was to fight the first of the pair, getting it down to less than 10% health, then disengaging and sleeping it. The second of the pair would be pulled and killed, then we'd finish off the now-stronger first mob.

We had twelve people show up: Venn, Kojita, Itera, Ezekiel, Ranzz, Lucrezia, Neborin, Thom, Meshe, Thunderbolt (RDM), Ardan, and Tsakiki. First up was the Ahriman/Dragon pair. We pulled the Ahriman first. I think it was Ezekiel who said "watch out for Level 5 Petrify", about two seconds before the Ahriman used it and petrified us all. It didn't last long though, and we got the Ahriman down to minimal HP, and pulled the Dragon. The Dragon was a pain, as they typically are - dispelling food, buffs, reraise, and so forth. We got him dead and turned back to the Ahriman. It ended up killing me and then Ezekiel, but it was close to dead, and there were no other casualties. One thing we noticed is that there was a strong regen on the mobs that we slept, so even if we got them down to a sliver before sleeping them, they'd be back up between 25% and 50% when we got the other one of the pair killed and turned back to them.

After my weakness wore, we pulled the Evil Weapon, and repeated the process with its skeleton partner. The Evil Weapon killed me when we were finishing it off, but no one else. While we were waiting for my second weakness to wear, we got the 20 minute warning, so we knew we had plenty of time. The final pair of mobs were a Pot and a Ghost. The Pot seemed to go down really fast, but when we returned to it after sleeping it and killing the Ghost, it was a bit tougher. I think it was the Pot that had an AOE that nearly wiped out the mages, but no one died, and we won the level.

We ended up with 45 coins for the run, an Ecarlate Cloth (for WAR AF+1) that no one wanted, and an Orchid Chip, which will be needed for our Proto Omega fight. It seemed like a pretty easy run for a "second level" Limbus area, but when we have a full crew of 12, we do have a good team. When we were lotting on the 9 "extra" coins, Venn rolled a 0. I think I'd seen a 0 before on a /random, but only when people were goofing around, never actually lotting on something. Venn, Kojita and I were the unlucky lotters and got 3 coins, while the others got 4.