Double Edged Sword

Well, I got 20. So I bought Silent Oils.

WHM gets Sneak at 20. I didn't need to buy oils. . . damn it.

I get to Jeuno.

I LEFT MY GAUSEBIT GRASS IN STORAGE!

...

I go to buy one green for each character, I'll start it and use my first hour to go get the rest of my greens from San d'Oria. Well, the singles are too expensive, so I try to buy a stack.

Only I don't. I buy a single freaking green for 12k.

And I go to Brutus...

AND HE GIVES ME THE DAMN CHOCOBO RAISING QUEST! WHICH I HAVE TO FINISH!!!

Jeezuz tap-dancing damn it... I'm hating this game more and more... and I know the "Green" thing was my fault, but ... gawd... freaking license quest should take precedence over chocobo raising... bleh.

{Notorious Monster}

I faced Tumbling Truffle for the 2nd time... and won.

{Fungus Hat}

1/2 on fighting him, 1/1 on the drop. :D

{What's the battle plan?}

Tonight I will take out WHM/RDM+MNK/WAR and just start the long hard road to 37.

I also need to buy a Purple Belt as well as some +MP gear. Maybe with MNK tanking so long I'll actually manage to cap Guard skill.

Restarting on another server has really driven home the nature of FFXI... how there isn't an item you need that can easily be gotten when you need it (I speak here of Purple Belt specifically, but also applies almost universally). Can a Lv7 THF take out Leaping Lizzy? Nope. Jaggedy Eared Jack? Nope.

You need a group of friends or a linkshell to accomplish these things, and what first time player has five people that will help him fight these NMs... and then pass on the multi-million gil item? (Well, Bounding Boots are Rare/Ex, but you get my point.)

Luckily, having farmed rams myself in another incarnation, I know the Purple Belt won't be very hard to attain. Ram farmers tend to shout out "Do you need the horn?" and invite the needy MNKs to lot on the desired item.

AND COME ON!!! What first time level 20 guy would know where to find Gausebit Greens, much less get to and kill the flies that drop it? AND DO IT FOUR TIMES!!!

... bleh. I'm having second thoughts about the duration of my journey here.

{sub} {Job} {Found it!}

Psycoboy (50WHM/25BLM Hume M) met me in Valkurm, and for four days (about 3.5 IRL hours) we hunted crabs, damselflies, and ghouls.

Finally, in the wee dark hours of a Watersday night, the quest was completed.

Dandruffshampoo - 18RDM/9WHM
Dandruffmule - 18WAR/9MNK

Awesome. Time to get busy. DRG awaits...

The Beginning

Achieved 18RDM (Dandruffshampoo) and 18WAR (Dandruffmule) last night.

Now that I'm in spitting range of the Subjob quest, I'll consider myself/myselves legitimate character(s).

Dandruffshampoo - 18RDM, 16WHM, 14WAR, 13MNK, 1oTHF, 7BLM
Dandruffmule - 18WAR, 16MNK + 7 Woodworking

• Outposts - Ronfaure (WRonfaure), Zulkheim (Valkurm)
  

We've been sticking to my old favorite: doing East Ronfaure until Lv5~Lv7, then Ghelsba Outpost Funguars until 13, then Vatgit's Peak or Fort Ghelsba until 15, then down to Yughott Grotto entrance until 18.

The original plan was WAR+RDM to 18, get SJ, then MNK/WAR+WHM/RDM to 30, and unlock BRD+NIN and do NIN/WAR+BRD/WHM for awhile... but I think I'm just gonna do dual DRG. I've always loved DRG... plus I don't have to buy shihei. <_<