Before I start on what this post is mainly about, I need to update you on a few other things that I’ve been up to.
As I last posted about, I was working on missions for the Star Sybil with an interim and doing a couple for Jeuno. One of those Jeuno missions was a debacle, as I last told you about in this post. I gave you photos of what my girlfriend, Ineyeri, showed you. Well, I was digging around a shoe box (where I toss all my photos until I organize them) and came across one I took.

Death by Archlich Taber'quoan
My deaths didn’t end there, though. I had more ahead of me. I just didn’t know of it at the time. The Full Moon Fountain mission had the same effect as fighting Archlich Taber’quoan. The mission seemed straight forward, head out to Outer Horutoto Ruins, kill a Cardian, head back to town. I even pulled my bow and arrows out of storage for this, but nope. That’s not how it went. It went more like this:
- Accept Mission
- Run to Outer Hurototo Ruins
- Head to where Cardian Notorious Monsters are and pop them
- Pull one of Jack of Batons (BLM), Jack of Coins (RDM), Jack of Cups (WHM) and Jack of Swords (PLD)
- [Pull ALL but ONE to fight]
- Death
- Rest up, leave Outer Hurutoto Ruins and go back in
- Repeat steps 4-6 another three times
- Ineyeri contacts Werdxi to pull a Cardigan with Carbuncle
- I pop NMs for a fifth time and run back
- Werdxi uses Carbuncle and pulls a Cardigan
- We all fight single Cardigan, others despawn
- Cardigan dies… run to door… find out what’s going on… Success
Now, I’m not too good with taking photos while I’m fighting, but Ineyeri, has one of us (dead of course). You’ll have to check out her journal to see it.
Now, with all the things I’ve done on Red Mage, all the deaths I have taken, these last few fights finally took me down to where I was only half way into my level. That’s over 20,000 experience points I’ve lost over time. I could legitimately accept a party invite and be of some use to a party for a lengthy period of time. I didn’t do this. Instead I took some time away from the missions and took part in the Sunbreeze Festival.
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