CoP - And so it begins...

So I to prepare for our new late night CoP static last night I bought a 4 stacks of light crystals and went to town on some distilled waters. Made 4 stacks plus 10. Cost per stack was 2880 and figured I would supply any who needed for the mission @ cost. It actually took me all day to make use four stacks because I took a muscle relaxer and for the live of me couldn't stay awake. Eventually I headed to Tav and logged out ready to go.

Luckily I had enough gear from all my other jobs to gear ninja pretty decently for 40 cap and didn't need to mule. Also Monday we just did Under Observation so I had all my ninja tools as well. Speaking of which we got both a utsusemi: ni and a Peacock Charm. So that pretty much averages us out to maybe 50k a run. Seriously we were owed this. lol. Anyway back to the matter at hand.

I logged out for a while to take a break once I made it to where I thought we were going to spend the night doing a CoP mission. Logged back on and decided to go mess around at test my skills as a Ninja since it had been a while since I played it other than Under Observation which for those of you that don't know the strategy, it is nothing like how a normal Ninja should act. So I solo a fish no issues ok let's try a slime. Slower fight of course but still doing ok. Then I get a /wave from Itaz. Sweet things are going to get started soon. He makes macros for white mage and tosses me a a couple cures.

This point I figure people will show up soon so to expidite the process I pull up the map and refresh my memory on how to get to the minotaur and start making my way to the whereabouts of the the afore mentioned beast. (The minotaur has a draw in ability that allows one person to make the trip and everyone else can wait at the entrance.) Celess joins our party as I am half way to the the location. Then I notice it party chat. Kc wait!. Um.. Ok.

Oh by the way Celess is the one that needed this mission and is the person we are currently trying to catch up to Kyzuf which in turn will catch up to me. Then the 3 of us will in turn catch up to Laa and complete CoP.

I go off on a lot of tangents when I write in my blog. Oh well. So back to the story. "Wait!" So I wait as Celess explains why SE should stop support for the ps2. I'm kidding I'm kidding. Please don't hurt me Yev. I think your one of the few people that read this thing anyway. But apparently the mission didn't register on his ps2 but did on the pc. So we did not have to do 2-3. Everyone kind of starts to think they are off the hook and can do more pleasant things with their night than CoP. Haha wrong. Well Lp got off the hook. But the others were not so lucky. I sprang into action and informed everyone that like or not we were doing Mammets instead.

Grumbles insued yet everyone came along. Itaz had to mule off of WHM and back to NIN which he was on the day before. I really felt bad but not much I could do to help that. Besides not forcing everyone onward. Where's the fun in that? Laa also had to mule to BLM but was a much quicker process for him since his gear probably wasn't spread over a multitude of characters as Itaz later told me his WHM gear had been so made muling a difficult process.

The rest of us were still ready to go on the jobs we had already had geared up. Celess got all of the CS's done. So while we waited for Itaz we decided to go farm some scales. We needed two. It tooks us two mobs to get that. Slightly un heard of. So with that done we waited for Itaz. By that time he was done muling and not far off. Once he arrived we headed to the BC area. Unfortunately for some reason Celess didn't make it through one of the portals so a giant scale was wasted. At the same time Laa d/c'd.

It was mildly annoying that we had to go get another scale but shit happens it's part of the MMO world. To my suprise the 3rd Firedrake fought that night also drops a scale. 3/3 is just ridiculous but I won't argue. It helped out time wise tremendously. Anyway Laa logged back in and we started our trek to Monarch Linn. Then Itaz d/c's. Someone mentions that he is going to get aggro and die when he logs back in. I hoped not. Then Itaz logs back in catches aggro and dies right in front of us. I wasn't sure what to do I froze up and I kept hoping he would use mijin and explode hisself as not to lose any experience.

Yet it didn't happen and we watched him die. = (

He reraised up and we continued on our trip. Made it to Monarch Linn w/o issue and Itaz explained the strategy and then we proceeded to follow through with it as most Blue events do. We kept the core facts then improvised as situations occured. Overall I think we did a great job a few deaths but no exp loss in CoP BCNM's so yay for that. I almost made it through without a death but on the last mob I ran out of shihei and had to use a toolbag. Then watch it change to DRG. First thing that popped into my head was hurry lock it there. So I did. Unfortunately this also happens to lock my ability to do anything for a short period of time. Long enough though to watch my hp drop to 0.

Still everyone else was able to hold on and defeated the last mob. Then everyone were free to go. Yet I roped in Celess and Kyzuf to stay up and get some more missions done. We climbed the mountain killed a some overgrown weeds and watched as Celess traveled all over vana'diel to finish getting cs's.

Then it was time for chip farming. It was late already and I knew we shouldn't go without a healer. Yet it is me and I do have this thing for doing the oppisite thing of what my brain tells me to do. So we go. I inform Celess that if we go down a floor we most likely are going to end up headed back to our HP unwillingly. Apparently Celess is as crazy as I am because I get done saying this then he follows me down the hole. When will people learn? Don't do as I do, do as I say. Otherwise I will likely get you killed. We actually did defeat quite a few beasties but as I knew would happened we ended up hitting the cement.

Still overall a very acomplished night. So next week the most we will have to do is farm a chip before Diabolos but I have faith that will get done before hand as well. Anyway I should go to sleep. I did sleep all day but I still need rest before I work later today. Oh and I am still hoping to get on BLM soon. I really think tomorrow's the night.

EDIT: 40k short of being a millionaire again. Which will last until less than an hour after I log in tomorrow most likely. Also I forgot to mention I npc'd the Holy Water and made a slight profit so not all was lost =). Also lightened the blog up a little and hopefully made it easier to read.