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Okay, I know that I should really write more about everything that’s happened the past week, but right now I’m too gleeful, wait that’s not the right word — oh well, it’ll do — because what happened just now was

REALLY AWESOME. REALLY, I SWEAR.

Well.

I’m level 57 on Flyff, to which everyone says “Allen, you level too fast. ;_;”.

I’ll talk about that in the next blog. >.>

Magician skills are proving very fun. I decided early on that I want to become an AoE Elementor, so I’ve capped Int at 50 and I now put all my points into Sta. Because of this, I have 3250 Hp unbuffed, which is an okay amount, able to withstand a few hefty blows. I really can’t wait until I get my first AoE attacks.

The quests in Flyff are very rewarding, especially the “office quests” which give a person 20% on the level they become available. These are basically quests where the NPC says, “gimme monster drops, lol!” except that the monster drops are a bit rare. Since I had skipped a few types of monsters in my bouts of leveling, I decided that I had better go back and collect these monster drops.

But anyway, that’s all just a bit of background knowledge.

I went to Small Drillers to collect the “40 Droils plz, kthx” that the quest NPC wanted. In my inventory, eight droils sat looking wimpy and alone. Slaughtering the drillers, I soon had 18… 25… 35.

BOSS MONSTER DETECTED!!!

(Seriously, that’s what the game screams when a “giant” spawns.)

Iepiat: o rly?
Iepiat: As if I didn’t notice the huge monster that just LANDED ON MY FOOT.
Iepiat: Thanks for the warning!

The Giant Driller loomed monstrously, smirkingly proud of being level 63. Even though I’d never fought a higher-leveled giant, much less one that was six levels above me, I was confident that I could kill it. After all, I had 3250 hp. I was strong. I had pots. I could take it.

Changing from wind elemental attacks to ground attacks, I claimed the giant before anyone else could. It only hit around 850 in a normal attack; the potions I held healed me 975 Hp each. This would be so easy. [1]

I had the driller down to forty percent of its health. This was going smoothly. The giant would damage me and I would use a potion. On the potion button would appear the customary “wiper/timer” sort of thing, signifying the two-to-three second period of time in which no health potions could be used. A few seconds later, I would get hit and pot again. The giant might hit a critical hit on me, but I would be back to full health in three extra potions. All the while, its health was going steadily down.

Then, out of the sky, the carrion feeders landed. [2]

There’s always a crowd that appears when someone starts fighting a giant. Most times, they’re not there to help. What looked like an acrobat and a bow jester appeared, dropping from their boards. One of the fools pulled an ‘aggro’ Small Driller towards me so that I would take more damage per second. As if this was a predetermined cue, the giant took the opportunity to land three crits on me, in a row.

Dead.

The customary box appeared. [3] It offered the choices of Lodestar or Lodelight, giving me a choice between spawning in town or at a user-chosen continental spawn spot. I picked Lodelight, hoping that I would spawn in the same continent as I had died in. This proved to be the wiser choice, for I spawned (with three percent less experience) close to the giant. I mounted my broom and took off north, back to the giant driller and the bow jester who had taken it.

He had gotten it from forty percent health down to ten percent in the… thirty seconds I was out of the game? Wow. He must have been a really high level. Dusting myself off, I took up a spot near the giant and jammed my attack key down. [4] I stood there for a few seconds, red pulsing up my screen as the game rejected me. What was I waiting for?

Critical hit!

Iepiat: Can you say… IRONY?!

Since the critical hit had knocked the bow jester down, I had automatically stolen the giant from the guy! Stolen it back, I should say! The bow jester tried his earlier tactic, pulling another ‘aggro’ driller toward me, but it was too late. That giant was weak, weaker, DEAD! The drops, of course, were terrible, but what did I care?

The drops were mine. I had killed the giant. I had won! [5]

And to top it off, the bow jester had somehow died.

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Oh, and I visited Silver in Mia afterwards. Fun stuff. ^^