Rank-Kid

Anuka was keen to continue with the missions today, so we jumped straight into them this morning, starting with Warchief Vatgit in Ghelspa. I remember back when I first did this mission with Bellaluna and Fearaun it seemed so complicated, but now it all seemed so simple!



Warchief Vatgit was obviously no trouble, so we slapped him about a bit before finishing up in San d'Oria and heading over to Bastok, where we enlisted the help of Teila and Sirdante to take on the Dark Dragon in the Waughroon Shrine.

We ran up through Palborough Mines and managed to get two Quadav Backplates for the A Moogle Kupo d'Etat missions, so Anuka and I took those (just Giddeus and Yughott to go!), before arriving in the Shrine.

The setup was:

BLM25/WHM12 - Teila
MNK25/WAR12 - Sirdante
MNK20/THF10 - Anuka
WHM25/SMN12 - Me



We thought this would be pretty easy (seeing as Teila used to solo this on BLU for friends), but it all went wrong. Teila managed to Sleep the Dark Dragon, but Sirdante got Bound with Hundred Fists active, so she didn't even hit the Seeker before it wore, meaning Anuka, who was slightly underlevelled, was the only melee on the Seeker.

We eventually got the Seeker down but not before it had done enough a fair amount of damage. The Dark Dragon woke up and started pumelling me, and soon after did that mega HP down move by which point I had no option but to use Benediction on the party, giving me plenty of hate. Sirdante and Anuka took it off me and Anuka popped Hundred Fists, but I had Paralysis active and couldn't get rid of it in time to keep her topped up. She went down.

Teila ran out of MP and popped Manafont, unleashing on the Dark Dragon, but ran out of MP just as it had a smidgen of life left, so I had to keep Sirdante healded whilst she finished it off.

It was far too hard and epic for what it should have been!

After introducing Anuka to her first boss fight (which she loved, despite the death), we finished up, got her Rank 3, and started on the next missions to get Rank 4. We did Castle Oztroja with little difficulty (Anuka knew she was far too low to be doing this so took extra care), and then it was over to Delkfutt's Tower for the annoying mission, A New Journey.

We almost fell asleep climbing the tower, but we got to the top, beat Mimas (I've never got a drop from him!), beat Porphyrion and got Anuka's key, then descended to the bottom to rescue the Ambassador.

With her Rank 4, Anuka eagerly began the Adventuring Fellow quest!