Current mood:	exhausted
Entry tags:	einherjar

Odin #7 - Ripped up w/ Ease
Well first, a little diversion from FFXI related stuff to just announce on here that my baby daughter was born this past Friday, July 3rd.  So things have gotten really different around here and that's partly behind the delay in my posting lately, but it's all super worth it!  :D

Odin #7:
Originally we were supposed to do our 7th Odin last Wednesday, but I wasn't able to make it last minute and I wasn't able to make arrangements with people who were comfortable running the show in my absence so we pushed it back.  Normally, we'd go to Einherjar on Sundays, but since it was a holiday weekend we decided we'd get a solid turnout on Monday night instead ... sure enough we did.  31 out of 38 with access showed up, giving us our most attended (and easiest) Odin since our first.



There I am as COR assisting the RNG team again.  :P  We only had 2 RNGs this time, but a whopping 4 SMNs and lots of SAMs and WARs, so this Odin was a breeze.  I also overcompensated on healing and support since we had more deaths than I like last time and it worked great.  Fomors blasted a few people (including me on the last set), but all-in-all we had a really smooth kill.

Drops were exciting too!


Woot!  Our first Martial and Aquarian Body Abjurations.  Up until now, we'd only seen E., P., and H. Bodies... so a little variety is nice to see.  Our 6th Odin specific item in 7 kills is pretty hot too.  :D  Our 3rd Helm, so the LS is getting really horny.



The folks above were the winners of the drops... only H.Hands were completely free lotted.  I'm really hoping that SE changes the drop rate of abjurations in the regular chambers, since we're seeing as many bodies as other drops so far ... and we really need some Neptunal.  D:

Other Stuff:
Not much else to report FFXI-wise since my last post.  We did a Salvage on Monday night with Superfesty in our group, but we're taking a bit of a break from Salvage to coincide with the vacation the Linkshell is on.  We did well, but timed out on the damn boss because we took too long on the way there (my fault), but the group is doing well killing all 10 gears on the way to LBC so that's good.  We don't need too many 25s from LBC yet, but hopefully Arra starts dropping more.

As alluded to above, Immortality is on a summer vacation for a couple of weeks to recharge the batteries and to give people a chance to do what they want for a few weeks.  We've done this the past few years at X-mas and in the summer and it's worked out great.  We tend to always have a few people that never show back up, but they'd likely drop off the face of the earth either way, so no big deal.

I doubt I make many posts here while we're on break, so I'll be seein' ya.  :P

Quotation of the Day: "Figures" - Wodie, after seeing A.Body drop for the first time after he changed his wishlist.