Totally Shafted

Tonight was CoP night as usual, and we had planned to finish off Louverance's Path by defeating four Moblins and a Bugbear in the Mine Shaft #2716 BCNM, Century of Hardship.

We made our way to Oldton Movalpolos and those of us with Snow Lilies traded them to one Moblin NPC, whilst Usagy went to another NPC to gamble his way to the Mine Shaft. Omnislasher had forgotten his Snow Lily so had to run back to Usagy and gamble too. After we'd either traded or gambled, we were Warped to the Mine Shaft and we went over our tactics.

Everyone agreed with my suggestion of who would be soloing who and how we would do it so we agreed a dry run. Inside, we moved to the edge of the arena and targeted our Moblin. I was on kiting duty - I was supposed to kite the Bugbear around until the end. We all attacked, and unfortunately I went in first, so I became the initial target of all the enemies. I was hit by a Banishga II (which removed all my Shadows) and before I could stop somewhere safe to reapply, BBK's Silence on the BLM apparently didn't stick because I got one-shotted by Quake. The Bugbear then went tromping over to the others. One by one people died.



For the second dry run, we agreed that Omni would go in first, and straight after, BBK would Silence the BLM with an ES Silence. This time it worked, only that the party was generating so much hate, I was unable to keep the Bugbear on my toes with a simple Acid Bolt. The Moblins also called the Bugbear to their aid to, presumably removing hate from me regardless and placing it on another member.

It didn't matter though! Our second dry run turned into a successful run, as I joined in on the THF (which Usagy had practically finished off), and then turned to the RDM (which Omni was fighting), whilst Doffo killed the WHM and went to help BBK fight his BLM Moblin.

We annihilated them, and then all ganged up on the Bugbear. We missed the record by a minute, again most likely due to resting and buffing. Just the Snoll Tzar to go and then we've finished Chapter Five!

After CoP, Usagy had to log to prepare a University presentation, so the rest of us finished our cutscenes, then headed to La Theine Plateau to help Doffo camp Bloodtear Baldurf. When we arrived at Holla, we decided to pop the Goblin Archaeologist, and just as we got it to the surface, a passing Japanese WHM popped it from under our noses. We all made it clear how rude that was but they couldn't understand and just responded with "?" - like they didn't know! Grr.