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Deathgnomes Away!
Oct. 7th, 2006 05:22 pmAnd so it's hockey season again, and I am once again taking part in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tolshak's Fantasy Hockey league (The Good Old Hockey Game; this is maybe my fourth year). This year's a little bit different in that, rather than clinging to my old team name of "The Kestrels", I have decided to ring the changes by naming my team "The Deathgnomes". dodgyhoodoo says that he imagines a team full of feral Tarutarus, which is sort of what I was going for. I'm actually kicking some arse this week, which is nice. But the week's not over yet, of course...
The original deathgnome Satomi, however, is not doing quite so well. I've become aware of a particular issue when soloing Tahrongi Canyon which makes my life difficult. The easier creatures won't aggro, but some of them - Canyon Rarabs are particularly guilty of this - will help their fellows. I was beating on a Canyon Rarab despite relatively low HP, and next thing I know I'm being hit from behind by another fucking Rarab. So I had two choices: I could pummel that one and hope I got a decent spell off before it killed me stone dead, or I could cast Bind on it and run like fuck. Next time ... remind me to cast Bind and run. I got killed. Lost a lot of XP. Am not exactly thrilled by this. Still, that sent me home with a packet of grain seeds, which I summarily planted. I was going to go back, but I've been taking the long way to Tahrongi via West Sarutabaruta (over Starfall Hillock, past the stupid Outpost, up to the far end where I still get XP for killing some things, then into East Sarutabaruta and across towards Tahrongi) and random kills filled my inventory so that there wasn't any point in hitting Tahrongi because I'd lose any decent drops I got. Oh well; I'm not really complaining, as killing Goblins and Yagudo for gil is still lucrative and the drops I got on my way out were good.
Been a busier day than most - deathgnoming, went out for dinner fixings, did the washing up and am going to cook later. Kind of wish I hadn't been quite so active, though, as now I am feeling worse. I'll still manage cooking dinner, but it may be a gamble as to whether I eat any of it. Thank goodness for multivitamins, which at least put paid to the whole "you're going to get scurvy and die" fear. Hate being sick...
tolshak's Fantasy Hockey league (The Good Old Hockey Game; this is maybe my fourth year). This year's a little bit different in that, rather than clinging to my old team name of "The Kestrels", I have decided to ring the changes by naming my team "The Deathgnomes". dodgyhoodoo says that he imagines a team full of feral Tarutarus, which is sort of what I was going for. I'm actually kicking some arse this week, which is nice. But the week's not over yet, of course...The original deathgnome Satomi, however, is not doing quite so well. I've become aware of a particular issue when soloing Tahrongi Canyon which makes my life difficult. The easier creatures won't aggro, but some of them - Canyon Rarabs are particularly guilty of this - will help their fellows. I was beating on a Canyon Rarab despite relatively low HP, and next thing I know I'm being hit from behind by another fucking Rarab. So I had two choices: I could pummel that one and hope I got a decent spell off before it killed me stone dead, or I could cast Bind on it and run like fuck. Next time ... remind me to cast Bind and run. I got killed. Lost a lot of XP. Am not exactly thrilled by this. Still, that sent me home with a packet of grain seeds, which I summarily planted. I was going to go back, but I've been taking the long way to Tahrongi via West Sarutabaruta (over Starfall Hillock, past the stupid Outpost, up to the far end where I still get XP for killing some things, then into East Sarutabaruta and across towards Tahrongi) and random kills filled my inventory so that there wasn't any point in hitting Tahrongi because I'd lose any decent drops I got. Oh well; I'm not really complaining, as killing Goblins and Yagudo for gil is still lucrative and the drops I got on my way out were good.
Been a busier day than most - deathgnoming, went out for dinner fixings, did the washing up and am going to cook later. Kind of wish I hadn't been quite so active, though, as now I am feeling worse. I'll still manage cooking dinner, but it may be a gamble as to whether I eat any of it. Thank goodness for multivitamins, which at least put paid to the whole "you're going to get scurvy and die" fear. Hate being sick...