How to draw a crowd in East Ronfaure (S)...

Our first order of business Wednesday was to travel up to Fei'Yin and get the Ice Fragment for Zilart Mission 5. This just involved some traveling, no fighting or anything, so I changed to WHM and teleported Almeth and I out to Vahzl so we could start the long, boring run through Xarcabard and Beaucedine Glacier. I decided to wear the pieces of my AF that I could, the hat is pretty damn stupid looking to be totally honest. I never see people wearing the hat...go figure.

I know it's kinda dark...but seriously, is that not the most retarded hat you've ever seen?

Making our way to the headstone was a piece of cake...I'm finally getting WHM to a level where everything isn't going to one-shot me, so that's nice. There are some angry weapon type mobs directly in front of the Cloister of Frost, but it's easy to sneak by them. At any rate, we got our fragment and moved on to our real goal of the evening...some serious Adventuring Fellow leveling...

{Recall-Jugner}{You can have this.}

I love the fact that the chocobos in the past are black, it just makes them look meaner...

When we got back to San d'Oria (S), I quick changed into DNC, and half heartedly talked to the Campaign Evaluator...I have been kinda lazy lately and haven't been doing Campaign shit, so I was shocked as shit when instead of telling me I sucked and to go die in a fire, they gave me the next medal, the Sterling Star. I really think they made a mistake, but hey, I ain't gonna complain...

"You sure you don't have me confused with someone else??"

After that surprise, Almeth and I headed out to East Ronfaure (S) to get started killing Ladybugs like mad. The plan was to start off with our Signal Pearl, then as soon as that was completed, to pop our Tactics Pearl over and over until that was spent as well. It worked out damn well, I would say.

We started off in the same spot we'd been doing it before, on the eastern side of the zone about halfway down. There was a BLU there killing ladybugs by himself that started crying about how we were killing all the mobs and all that crap, so rather then tell him to fuck off, we decided to move over south of the fortification, and it was the best thing we ever did. Since fighting 6 at a time was no big deal, we decided to up the ante, and the efficiency, and just pull as many as we could find...

Raka and Fhig, just before the mass Ladybug extinction of 2009.

We started off a little slow, only fighting four mobs in this picture...


...then we started getting crazier and crazier as the night went on. I think there's 9 here.


It was ridiculous how many Ladybugs we had at one time...at some points, they couldn't even path correctly so they'd just kinda fly in circles around each other.


This silly bitch thought some stupid Noisome Powder would stave off it's annihilation.


I did still have to Curing Waltz from time to time...nine of these guys hitting for 30-40 each really adds up.


Dancing Edge was enough to pretty much put one down completely, and Almeth had plenty of opportunities to do it...


It was funny as fuck in the game, but really, this would be fucking terrifying if it happened in real life.


People running by gave us some funny looks...

Towards the end of the last charge of our Tactics Pearl, we'd actually started to attract a crowd of people watching us fight all these Ladybugs at once. We had so many, that they were popping as quick as we killed them, so Almeth would just run off and grab more as he saw them while I just kept working on the ones we had. Good samaritans, on their way to Campaign, stopped to ask us if we needed help, but a few people actually stayed just to watch and chat with us while we fought. I mean, really, how often is it you see a couple people fighting like every Ladybug in the zone at one time? When our Adventuring Fellows despawned for the last time, a few people /cheered and /laughed, and everyone waved goodbye. It was a good time, and it was kinda like we were performing for people. Fun stuff ^^

All told, we each got our NPC's a couple levels (level 43, woot!) and came away with 15k worth of Ladybug Wings each...a nice bonus in itself. Almeth and I headed back to town to turn in our loots, and at about that time GodzillaX showed up to hang out with us. Almeth elected to hang in town and work on some campaign ops with his Ninja, while GodzillaX and I ran off to do some Campaign battles. I should have come out as my WHM, but my DNC is a little behind Almeth and Amedelie so I decided to try and catch up instead.

There was a ton of people doing Campaign tonight...as soon as the battle ended it was like a mass exodus of people sprinting for the Campaign Arbiter.


GodzillaX helps me tear down the enemy fort in Pashhow Marshlands (S), meanwhile this slug thing is really freaking me out. I ain't never seen that shit before...


Some random person getting owned by an Orc...they were kinda pissed off today, but there were plenty of us to handle it.

Although GodzillaX bit it at one point (sorry pimp, I tried to save you!) it was a pretty successful run. I got a little closer to Amedelie and Almeth, and came away with a good amount of Allied Notes as well. I've got 30,000 so far...only 140,000 more (and 4 more ranks in Campaign) and I can pick up the Cobra Cap set; it looks like it'll be really hot for Dancer. I can't wait...

{See you again.}{Good night!}{/wave}!