Assault on the Senses

All said and done, today was pretty successful. I began the afternoon farming as THF in East Sarutabaruta, and thankfully my inventory filled up pretty quickly. I was heading over to the Horototo Ruins near the Spini pop, and lo and behold, there he was, totally unclaimed. I took him on and got the Mist Silk Cape (3/3 with THF now, 0/2 as WHM) and entered the Ruins.



Inside, I made my way through to Beetles’ Burrow and found Maltha, the NM Slime who drops the Rare/Ex RNG Body Armour, Trailers’ Tunica. Although I already had it, it’s still a worthwhile fight as you can also get Slime Oils from her. The Tunica didn’t drop, but a Vial of Slime Oil did.

I then went through the big doors up into the large square room filled with Goblins. I headed through the secret door in the southern wall and got a Horototo Chest Key off the first Goblin. Just as I turned to leave, of all the places, behind me was the Treasure Chest! Inside I got around 900 gil, but I’ve got the Axe worth 30k before a couple of times. Still, I was very happy with the luck I was having!

I logged out for a while, but then logged in at 8pm to do an Assault with the Linkshell. I’d hoped that more would want in, but in the end Akashea, Kellie, Teila and me headed off to Lebros Cavern to try Excavation Duty, supposedly the easiest Assault. We couldn’t do it because the walls took too long to destroy as a four, but we had fun and got a good feel for it.



After the Assault, we noticed that Besieged was at six, so we returned back to Whitegate and entered Besieged. It was the Troll Mercenaries, and because there were so few people in the area (around 270), the lag was minimal and you could see just how many monsters were in the area. I had never felt so scared in Besieged before! You couldn’t move for aggro, and poor Kel and BBK got blown up a few times. A few Generals fell, but they eventually retreated and we got 1,000 xp, except poor BBK who got 500 because he wasn’t quite 60.

After Besieged finally finished, Teila and I arranged an uncapped Periqia Assault, Seagull Grounded, where we had to escort an irritating Elvaan prisoner through the Periqia dungeon whilst killing everything en route. We managed to complete it with no real danger to anyone, but it was a complete pain in the butt trying to escort the prisoner without him trying to make a break for it!