In which there are a lot of 3-headed doggies, and I use MAB on a melee job for the first time

Lets see, there has been so much that's occurred since my last update here!

For those wondering, Train Adventures hasn't ended, just been on hiatus for a bit as there are a few other personal art projects that I've been working on, one of which includes a mini-series named My Girlfriend is a Gamer which was featured in the virgin issue of Reasonably Priced Comics #1, which can be found here. Asides from that work and final exams have been pretty hectic which extended my original hiatus for longer than I originally intended.

I have a few sketches planned for the next few pages of Train Adventures, but likely won't be able to finish them until after E3 Expo, which I am lucky enough to attend this year ({excitement}!)

FFXI has also changed *A LOT* since my last update. There is too much to cover and it almost plays like a different game now so I won't bore you with meticulous details about all that has been added with the new expansions. It is enough to say that FFXI has gone through some radical changes but it has been for the better and is now much friendlier for casual players.

Yes, it is easier, but if you sucked at the game previously, you still suck at the game. It has become "easier in the sense that it only takes a few competent players to get things done, as opposed to a full alliance of people of dubious, varied intelligence levels.



So today, thanks to the integration of multiple ??? to forced pop nms, we decided to kill us some Orthrus, a nasty, giant, fire-breathing, three-headed puppy.

Except we decided just one nasty giant fire-breathing three-headed puppy wasn't enough.

We decided we would fight THREE.

...AT THE SAME TIME.

YES.

It was a lot of fun, being my first time brewing multiple nms at once. Although I didn't have all the ideal atma for the job, with Atma of Gales, Atma of the Full Moon and Razed Ruins (tossed it on as I didnt' really have anything else appropriate), Aeolian Edge was averaging a decent 9-10k damage each time, with 8-9k additional damage from Scission SCs. I wish I had thought to record it or at least take some screenshots, but really from my vantage point it all I could see were a lot of black puppy paws.

Got another 2 shiny Jewels of Ardor out of this puppy genocide and several Claws and Stones of Ardor for the others as well.

While we were there also killed Amarok a few times and Bogul Noz several times, managed to get 4 body seals for my newly leveled Black Mage, finished Kari's Dancer body, finished Gara's Paladin Body and Beastmaster hands, finished Elfi's Blue Mage hands, and also got a few Corsair body seals for Art and some Summoner hand seals for Pumpkin. Bohgo was also kind enough to come help and smash things with his Empyrean gun.

Best of all the zone was virtually empty today so we had a great time plowing through mobs without having to deal with the crowded disaster that tormented us last time. While we were waiting to brew Othrus a second time a group that arrived shortly after our first pop were kind enough for wait for us to finish as we were utilizing all three spawn points which became the icing on the cake for the run.

All in all a very productive day!

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TL;DR I'm alive! And playing the heck out of the new FFXI!
Look for the next updates for Train Adventures to happen in mid-late July!