Deathgnome Grows Up
Aug. 23rd, 2006 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianThat was amusing. Today, Satomi Deathgnome discovered Giddeus.
Giddeus, for those of you not familiar with the game, is this ... canyony sort of area somewhere off West Sarubataruba (closest start point: Windurst, from whence originates our little Deathgnome). It contains, so far as I can tell, Dirt Eaters (worms, basically - worms that can cast the first spell I ever learned, namely Stone, and do so while you're trying to heal, the fucks), Giddeus Bees (like Bumblebees, not much worth my time anymore), and Giddeus Pugil (those fucking fish again). Oh, and Yagudo. Lots and lots and lots of Yagudo. Who turn around and cast Banish or Dia or Poison on you while you're down to 56 HP and still trying to heal from the last two Yagudo fucks you just had to kill. And generally come out of fucking nowhere. It's rather disturbing. However, I did manage to make it out of Giddeus alive, with several chunks of metal ore and various other wonderful little items. Must go back at some point. It was aggravating but I didn't die once!
So I went back to town and did some shopping and trading and suchlike. Bought a new pair of mitts and some bait. Sold some grass cloth, some leather, some silk thread and a cornette I've been hanging onto for weeks. Traded three Crawler calculi to that Mithra out by the dhalmel pens and got my 600 gil. Discovered I need more beehive chips for the Mithra at the apothecary. Did some fishing. Then headed back to the Moghouse where I intended to look and see whether I had an extra beehive chip or two stashed in there before logging out for the night. However, just before I hit the zone point, I decided to have a quick look and see where my EXP was at; I'd started the night at something like 1300 and wondered how long it'd be before I got to level 13. And I saw the following:
EXP: 2971 / 3000
Yeah. 29 points between me and level 13. Two kills maximum.
Fuck that, I'm headed for Sarubataruba again. Offed a Crawler and a Goblin Weaver, levelled up, then decided that even if I didn't have Signet cast, I'd still off the two Crawlers I bumped into on my way back to the zone-in to Port Windurst.
...And didn't even get EXP for them. Low-level Crawlers don't earn me EXP anymore.
...meep?
I mean, what do I have to kill to get EXP anymore?
Giddeus, for those of you not familiar with the game, is this ... canyony sort of area somewhere off West Sarubataruba (closest start point: Windurst, from whence originates our little Deathgnome). It contains, so far as I can tell, Dirt Eaters (worms, basically - worms that can cast the first spell I ever learned, namely Stone, and do so while you're trying to heal, the fucks), Giddeus Bees (like Bumblebees, not much worth my time anymore), and Giddeus Pugil (those fucking fish again). Oh, and Yagudo. Lots and lots and lots of Yagudo. Who turn around and cast Banish or Dia or Poison on you while you're down to 56 HP and still trying to heal from the last two Yagudo fucks you just had to kill. And generally come out of fucking nowhere. It's rather disturbing. However, I did manage to make it out of Giddeus alive, with several chunks of metal ore and various other wonderful little items. Must go back at some point. It was aggravating but I didn't die once!
So I went back to town and did some shopping and trading and suchlike. Bought a new pair of mitts and some bait. Sold some grass cloth, some leather, some silk thread and a cornette I've been hanging onto for weeks. Traded three Crawler calculi to that Mithra out by the dhalmel pens and got my 600 gil. Discovered I need more beehive chips for the Mithra at the apothecary. Did some fishing. Then headed back to the Moghouse where I intended to look and see whether I had an extra beehive chip or two stashed in there before logging out for the night. However, just before I hit the zone point, I decided to have a quick look and see where my EXP was at; I'd started the night at something like 1300 and wondered how long it'd be before I got to level 13. And I saw the following:
Yeah. 29 points between me and level 13. Two kills maximum.
Fuck that, I'm headed for Sarubataruba again. Offed a Crawler and a Goblin Weaver, levelled up, then decided that even if I didn't have Signet cast, I'd still off the two Crawlers I bumped into on my way back to the zone-in to Port Windurst.
...And didn't even get EXP for them. Low-level Crawlers don't earn me EXP anymore.
...meep?
I mean, what do I have to kill to get EXP anymore?