Lu Shang's F. Rod.

I have been fishing like mad lately and finally, through all the sweat and all the palm aches. All the stench and all the women (because women like fishermen), I have prevailed!

Testimonial? What? This.. this is nonsense! I asked not for their 2 gil! I did laugh, I'll give them that. [Sense of humor] [Found it!].

Though, in the end, it matters not. I am now the proud owner of the Lu Shang's F. Rod, and thats the way I like it! So, I suppose that is all this post can really consist of, being as how fishing moat carp is the only thing I've been doing the past 2ish weeks. Mwehehe.

Aha!

...I've been doing some fishing lately... moat carp fishing. I did at last decide that I'm going to spend the time fishing the 1o,ooo carp needed for my new Lu Shang's fishing rod. I will consider it an investment of time, and hopefully be able to make good money with it for compensation. I haven't been too worried about leveling my jobs lately. Not sure why, but this damn pole seems more important right now.

In some side info, I've been playing the classic FF games while fishin my fish. I was able to sweep through FF1 in 9 hours 48 minutes yesterday and I plan on beating FF2 either tonight or sometime tomorrow. Death to Chaos, the bring of the time loop!

With fishing, there is cooking.

So, we've gotten pretty far in the field of fish. It's gotten to the point where I almost do nothing but fish. So... I started cooking.

Now, I'm not exactly sure how fishing is gonna get high enough to catch some of the more profitable fishies without investing a lot of time into getting a new Lu Shangs rod. I can't decide on which method... do I fish 10,000 Carp, or do I farm/cook 3.5mil gil to buy one? Decisions, decisions! I know that eventually I'm just going to end up doing a bit of both. Oh well.

Promathia

Promathia has been defeated. It took us multiple runs, with the first few tries including no main

healer; just Meek and I on Black Mage. Eventually, our Warrior (Taz) decided to come back as White Mage and the tables were instantly turned. With the ability to now haste our Paladin (Gray) and cast cures without the loss of nukage, we were able to pull the fight off on our next attempt.

Before all of this (I know I have not updated in a while... but that's what Meek is for!) we obviouslly had to complete all the previous missions. These included, but were not limited to: lots of travel, lots of wipes and lots of arguments.

After my last update we continued as normal doing as much as we could and even managed to get everyone in our party a Swift Belt in the meantime.

For the details, I'll skip the little shit. Here it is, in a nutshell; The Bugbby fight wasn't incredibly hard, but proved to be difficult considering we only had 5 members for it. The same

night, though before the Bugbby fight and after the Pso-Xja maze, our Paladin had to drop party due to over-consumption of alcohol. We ended up completing the fight and doing it a second time for him the next day, after the Snoll fight (which we also only had 5 members for). After all of this we continued to the airship fight... making our way that much closer to Sea, we didn't stop there.

Completing the Airship fight was extremely difficult and took much patience from everyone. We wiped countless times before finally getting down a strat that would work. This ended up being pure epic luck, as the fight caps @ 45 mins and our completion time was 44 min & 48 sec.

Cutscenes were next on our list, a couple-three NMs had some dealing to be dealt and we were off to Tenzen. His ass was whooped, of course, and we entered Sea.

Here is where things got interesting. Our Paladin, this time played by Lord, was drunk. We barely survived the 9 NMs we had to run through and slowly made our way up the Palace putting us onto mission 8-3. We rested, regrouped and knocked this out the following day along with the defeat of Promathia himself.

As for my fishing - it has been going great.

I've been making a small but steady income of gil while being able to skill up on higher capped fish now that I have reached the 30s. Currently, I'm sitting on Fishing 36 and Cooking 29. Once fishing is around 50-55 I'll jump into cooking a little more often and try for 84 ASAP in order to cook higher quality foods with the fishies that I pull up.