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memories of fire, memories of earth

Saturday’s raid session was ONE PULL, ONE KILL against both Eric and the hippo. Even with everyone getting their tomestone weapons, I got 29% on hippo! That’s a 5% improvement! Then we had the rest of the weekend to work on the phoinix. Apparently, this is where the tier really gets tough. An aside:...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Feb. 8, 2022

the pressure is off

Last Friday, I walked down to the local Walgreens to pick up my roommate's prescription. It was a half-hour walk away—a good workout and a good excuse to check out a new part of town. I didn’t encounter any other pedestrians. The sidewalks were mostly nonexistent or not shoveled, so I either trekked...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Feb. 1, 2022

pandemonium recap episode

Dante’s away this weekend on a business trip, so GANON is subbing again. We spent Saturday’s session redoing P1S (this took surprisingly long) and P2S (we hit enrage twice but didn’t clear). For P1S, GANON kept being out of position on Fourfold Shackles because he couldn’t find his debuff. Eventuall...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 31, 2022

now fall

welp welp welp roommate had his eye checkup and his left eye pressure is up to 39. That’s shockingly high and worse than it’s ever been. A visual field test shows his vision has deteriorated since last summer. No idea what went wrong, he’s been taking his eyedrops just like usual, I guess they just ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 29, 2022

train rides and nacho fest 2022

I had a dentist checkup, so here’s another small milestone: a successful train trip downtown. At the platform was a sign: on weekends, downtown trains board from platform 1. On weekdays after 2 pm, they board from platform 2. But what about weekdays before 2 pm? There was no indication, and no audio...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 25, 2022

its head comes off?! take care!

Dante couldn’t make Saturday’s session, so GANON (aka FANDANIEL1025 the reaper) subbed for him. For this week’s Eric clear, I parsed 22% and had the highest raw dps on the team! GANON parsed 1%, which was not his fault since he was new to the duty and picking up the mechanics on the fly. Also, he di...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 25, 2022

hungry hungry hippo

Many important things to do before Saturday’s raid session: buying crafted 580 gear to replace my 560s, adding materia, buying proper food, getting a good glamour. Glamour is crucial because the crafted 580 set is basically Urianger’s outfit with no pants. I decided a new expansion called for a new ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 18, 2022

these shackles cannot be sundered

Raid time! Last July, when the fire hit, we had just gotten to the disco dancing phase of E9S (Cloud of Darkness). But now there is NEW CONTENT so we’re ditching that fight and moving on to Pandemonium 1 Savage, aka A Random Guy. There’s one change to our roster: KJH has taken Kan’s spot. We aren’t ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 9, 2022

snow squalls

Shortly after I sat down at my computer this morning, an infernal siren blared from every cell phone in the house. I thought it was an amber alert. Instead, it was a winter weather advisory, warning of snow squalls and possible near-zero visibility until 10:30 am. “Guess I’m not going out until 10:3...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 6, 2022

happy new year

Last night, we rang in the new year with style, playing party games with friends: Pictionary, Gartic Phone, Jackbox (job job!), and Codenames. The whole gang was there (except Lopen). Codenames incident of the night: numbers gave the clue “Indy 2” because “crystal” and “skull” were his tiles. Unfort...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 1, 2022

a hiking trip & various joyrides

Back in November, my roommate began experiencing a severe toothache. A dentist told him that he needed to get his wisdom teeth extracted. After a bunch of jumping through hoops, he got a referral to a local oral surgeon and made an appointment for an initial consultation this afternoon. We set out a...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 30, 2021

another peaceful day at home

Today was supposed to be our inaugural trip downtown, since my roommate had an eye checkup appointment. But he didn’t want to go. Like, more than usual. He got no sleep last night, because he was up playing games, and the night before he only got like four hours’ sleep. (A lesser person might have g...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 21, 2021

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