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I suppose I should probably update this... It's been nearly a week.

NIN/SAM/RDM/BST static is now 59 (/hurray), and we were parsing ~15k/hr 5-manning birds at level 58. That was pretty fun. Surv (SAM) and the random DRG were destroying birds with polearm skillz. Sim was hitting decent rampages, too.

We have been on a slight exp break following the byakko success. This has been due to the need to farm. On... Sunday? Grenkinne, Survive, and myself did some more Under Observation runs. Nothing dropped, save for a Peacock Charm (Mine). We also did ENM on Monday, and got a Forager's Mantle... our first decent drop in ~12ish ENM runs. Continuing my lootwhore status, I won the lot on it. My Peacock Charm finally sold, and I was able to buy some Cursed Haidate -1, which (using the Dryadic Abjuration: Legs) turns them into Shura Haidate +1. At 2.2M, they are pretty nice pants... that I cannot efficiently wear yet.

Speaking of gear that I need/want: Gren, Surv, and I have been up in Upper Delkfutt's tower the last few days. We have been slowly meriting/farming shields. So far we are 0/3 on Pallas, and 0/6 on Alky. I want the Alky bracelets for SAM, hoping to save myself ~700k. Last night Gren and I went over 2 hours without a single moldy buckler drop. That was beyond annoying.

In order to wear Byakko's Haidate (tp)/Shura Haidate +1 (ws) and maintain a 6-hit, I need to cap the Store TP Group 1 Merit Category. This has also been a focus this week. I joined a crappy merit party, and got nearly 4 merits in a few hours. As of this posting, I need <2k exp to cap Store TP. Woot.

Sim has been sick this week, so our plans to camp Aquarius for him havn't been a reality as of yet. His CoP static, normally on Wednesday, was moved to Friday. I think we will probably join his group to escort them up to the spire. There is also an ENM at the top, so we might be able to do that too. We will probably go as RDM SAM SAM- and maybe get a Toredor's ring out of it. That would be nice. Either way, it will be fun.

Sheep in Antlion's clothing on Saturday night.

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Never again. No more sky! Thursday night marked the last 3 Byakkos per our deal with Revelations. Fortunately for us, we were able to get everything we had hoped to get. We started off popping the 3 Ullis, and farmed Aura Statues while we were waiting. We ended up getting another Diorite, so we stuck around to pop another. We then traveled to Byakko to pop him 3 times. The first pop yielded no useful drops. (1/4 on Haidate overall, 0/3 on the last 3 kills) The second pop dropped Byakko's Haidate and Dryadic Abjuration: Legs (Shura Haidate)!!! Being next in line, I lewtwhored and took both. (2/5 on Haidate overall) The third and final pop dropped Survive's Haidate, and we were able to walk away victorious. (3/6 on Haidate overall). Thanks to everyone in Revelations who came out and killed Byakko for us! Good times.

I am saving up for the Cursed Haidate -1, which cost ~2M. If anyone wants to hit up some BCNM/KSNMs, I am down.

Grenkinne spent the evening in Sacrarium and got Dulce a Swift Belt! Congratulations to her!

Tonight we will probably finish T2 Assaults! Over the weekend we will probably exp/farm/AF, with ENM on Monday. Simkiel will be starting up Dynamis again (Saturday and Tuesday), and will be resuming CoP on Wednesdays.

Now that our sky goals are complete, our focus has returned to exp, assaults, and ENM. Salvage at this point will probably be a distant future event.