Sky Sweep (almost)

Last night in Sky we decided to head up a bit early. Good thing too. The forces started to gather around 7:15pm EST and surprise, Zippy pops. Within 5 mins, Faust is up. So we start to head up to Faust which is a sure thing. No tanks were here yet but he was just sitting there. Vagus makes the judgement call to pass on Faust and try to pop Ulli. In the past, Ulli has been a bitch. We've spent 7 hours one night killing statues with nothing but a crap load of Light Crystals, Mythril Ore, and about 4k xp to show for it. As we reach the top floor, we see Jokerr is there, and at first I think he's camping it but he's actually in an XP party. I run across the spawn point and start killing statues... and within 3 kills Ulli pops. Some nights things just go your way. Grog does a great job of keeping hate, (until Bloodraven arrives and is just too uber for their own good) but we take Ulli down. Onto Faust. We escape, get back to Faust floor, and that stupid statue is still looking from side to side. No claims! This was about 8:15pm EST at this point. Ulli dropped about 8:00pm. We get to Faust, Alag is watching no one pull him, and Grog tanks like a beast, everyone does their job. Summerstone is ours... Onto Despot. This was the interesting fight of the night. We hit Despot camp and Masamune is there, but no one else from RK. As soon as the Envy Army rolls in 20 strong, Masa decides to relocate. We start pulling our Dolls, and just as things are looking good and we're setting up SC's and chatting away...


BOOM. Yup, this was the final seconds many of us saw before we saw the dusty ground of the entrance to the Shrine. This is the exact second everyone who could have stunned realized, "Oh darn, should I have stunned right there?" I knew it was gonna happen when the doll started floating for 2 seconds and no stuns came. I was either gonna get a pic of someone saving the day, or of us witnessing the Big Bang up close. Well, we all had good seats to a fireworks display. Just happened to be right in our jaws. As soon as 14 of our 18 fell to the ground, someone said, "I bet Despot is up now, we made a sacrfice to the Sky Gods." Well, sure enough, *pop* Despot pops about 10 feet away. We do a massive raise, boot the waeaklings, and our tanks get to kiting. Speedgirl did an incredibly good job considering she's never been with us up in Sky before. We had no deaths on Despot the NM, though I did get a cool shot of one of his special attacks.

With Despot down and a Gem of the West in tow, we start on our way to Zippy when Ristin shouts, "MG IS UP!" "MotherGlobe Found it!" so we all make a bee line to MG. We get there and only have 1 BLM. Grog pulls and goes down right away, (I don't know what that was about), and within 10 seconds Luda is down too. So I'm thinking, "Oh great, BLM + tank down, this should be fun" but the LS reorganized, we got up whoever went down, and after that it seemed an incredibly easy fight. Maybe it's just that I'm in the back lines casting away whenever while the melee are up there taking all the damage. Either way, MG went down and we got our Springstone. Onto SteamCleaner.

Well Sen came up and since I do Steam Cleaner with him most of the time we got a party together of me, Sen, Whitenine, Dragosal, Luda, and Zicdeh. Let's just say Whitenine knows now that cure 2 will cause a Magic Pot to return the favor with a Firaga III. Anyways, one we got to camp RK was there... ugh. So Sen regroups us to the other side of Shrine. I spend 20 mins just staring at this...

When Sen sees that RK is gone I'm informed by one of their LS members they just got SC, so we escape and head to water. Upon arriving there guess who claims camp 5 mins earlier? Lineage. We head to the telepad room to get our ghetto camp, and after about 10-12 pots... Ro Maeve Water! As we head back to the Olla room Lineage is still farming water. Suckers. Luckily they were nice enough to not only step aside, but to even leave the room. Surprising considering the animosity I sometimes see in the Sky/HNM LS's. We destroyed Olla, and got our Winterstone and called it a night. And what a great night it was. We never spent more than 20-25 mins camping a NM. We got no weapon drops, but we did get all our pop items and things turned out extremely well for our 1st Monday farming run.

Kirin Tuesday! x2? Maybe!