Second Lieutenant Kiki

We still have our regular Monday evening assaults going, which has been really a lot of fun. Every once in awhile we team up with the TU assault group when both of us are a bit short, and that works out pretty well too. As people have been gaining in the ranks, we've been doing more and more of the higher leveled ones, especially when we can get people a new rank every week by doing 5 assaults that are new to them. I still haven't done any ranked Sergeant or higher, and missed out on a few of the Corporal ones recently, when I was with the TU group and the BEB group did 4 of the Corporals.

I'd gotten enough points to get the promotion quest for Second Lieutenant, and did that a few weeks ago. It was easy, but it was "expensive", since I had to keep giving Naja's bitch coins for my training sessions. I passed with flying colors and opened up another set of 5 assaults.

The new-to-me ones I've done since the last time I wrote about my assault progress are Demolition Duty, Building Bridges, and Counting Sheep. For Demolition Duty, you have to escort an automaton around to several blocked gateways, which he will clear, but a crab will spawn and try to kill the automaton. There are also imps running around that will aggro the team, but overall, it seemed fairly easy. Building Bridge we had tried before and timed out, but my second attempt was a success. Counting Sheep was an easy win, but I think full points would require a lot of luck. For that one, you have to dig up ore to get coins from a Qiqirn NPC, which you then use to pay another Qiqirn NPC to lead a Sheep to safety.

We gave the SP level Escort Professor Chanoix assault a couple of tries this week, but failed on both. For this, you have to escort an NPC that you have no control over, through a zone with skeletons and ghosts. We tried using sneak to avoid aggro ourselves, but that didn't completely work, and we tried having Carbuncle out to aggro all the mobs, but since the professor has an unpredictable route, that didn't work so well either. If we could manage to stay snuck and just cure-bomb the professor, we might be able to do it, but it still seems pretty tricky.

Last week, we decided to give Nyzul Isle Investigation a shot. I was the only one in the group of 6 who'd done it before, so I was nominated leader and keeper of progress. Since I had 1302 tokens from previous attempts, it made sense. My old Nyzul Isle static disbanded before they modified the assault, so I was curious about the changes. They definitely seemed to make an improvement, though it could have just been random luck on the floors we got on our first run. We ended up with two Eliminate All Enemies floors, two Light All the Lamps floors (which were incredibly quick and not at all annoying), and one Eliminate Specified Enemy floor. We finished in plenty of time, and took our exit at level 5, where I saved progress, so I can use 500 tokens to start us out on level 6.

Our second run was more like I remembered, and we wiped to a pudding boss on the second floor. I think we'll try to do one Nyzul run each week, as long as people are game. It'll be fun to see how well we can progress.

New title: Second Lieutenant