Monday madness. I had to work late for a STUPID meeting and didn't get home until after 6pm thanks to all the traffic from the lemmings that have real jobs and regular 9-5 hours. I had planned a farming trip to Cazic Thule for 7:30 to 10:30 with Drayal, Irislilly, Eillial and two players to be named. The goal was to get more Tae Ew blood so that Aryllyian could try again to make a Tae Ew Chain Tunic for me since the whole Skyshrine thing didn't work out for the chain class people.

I get on a little after 7pm following dinner with Jess. Drayal, with his typical impatience is on me immediately: who are the others, where is the tank, I am holding this camp myself, come quick. Arg, I immediately stress. But, i found a paladin and a bard at loose ends and get them headed to CT all the while I am running there myself. Bianca had too much homework to play, so I actually had to run rather than get ported (*gasp*).

Also, we are now compressed since Krushh scheduled GoB to do the Hedge Maze event in PoN at 9:30. Aryllyian and Iris are expected there. I would also like to go, but it is limited to 18 peeps. Surely they will run it a few times.

This is where the madness begins. We now only have about an hour and a half. Still, no problems, right? I got two drops in two hours with a much less powerful group. Well, no. Drayal takes a dirtnap early, then we get trained, then the MA goes AFK for 10 minutes. Drayal keeps pulling warriors, not casters (who drop the blood). Grrrr.

We leave. One blood. /sigh. I am doomed to never have the AC to hang in the higher end game. Off to PoT to setup for the hadge maze event. In the end, there are 21 people, the event has a limit of 18. I don't make the cut. But, no one really says as much, nor is it clear that this is only going to be run once. Once it does, I melt. WTF? I raid my ass off for the guild and some punk 55 wizzie that has been AFK for 6 months shows up and gets a slot ahead of me? This smacks strongly of last week where a 60th level rogue reguilds right at the start of a HoT raid and wins chain arms, the first I have ever seen drop in HoT, over me as the only other roll. All within our policy, but I got frustrated then too. BAH.

I get into a long tell session with Ary because he is the only person on who might even remotely care. Well, this is the bottom. Now he is mad at me for flipping out (yes the Ary of deguilding twice in a month). As it turns out, he had been farming CT ALL DAY ALONE and had 13 blood. He sandbagged me and pretended to not know anything when I showed up. As is turns out they (he and Iris) were going to surprise me with a tunic, but they couldn't get it done before I got online, so were going to do it later. Now, I feel like a COMPLETE ASS. This game has driven me to MADNESS. Time to cool off.

Bianca is done homework now and to cool off we go get her Corrupted Deepwater Barracuda from the LOIO. That bastard has evaded us twice before in a long and boring camp. But, this time we are armed with EB items and the knowledge that the fish is an ANIMAL so our fear spells work. This allows us to solo them and kill twice as many to get the tainted to spawn. Success after an hour of swimming. Convienently, this happens right as the PoNB raid breaks up. So it's off to meet Iris and Ary and attempt another chain tunic.

I had to buy the metal and molds for it and got 5 sets knowing (now) that he had 10 blood. We were going to succeed dammit. And he did, on the first try even. YAYAYAYAYYA FINALLY a real Velious class tunic. Check it: Tae Ew Chain Tunic.

I need some fresh air....