We've been doing Apollyon SE for the past two weeks or so. For a change of pace, we decided to give Temenos North a try. It's the first time any of us has stepped in there - including Gruive's "special guest", Haplo.
Attendance Roll: Marzanna (WHM), Drargen (DRG), Alvar (THF), Ronin (BRD), Haplo (NIN), Vashanti (RDM), Lenor (NIN), Gruive (BLU), Solonuke (DRK), Igneusnex (DRG).
Temenos North consists of 7 floors, guarded by different races of beastmen. Each of the beastment can perform 2 hours corresponding to their job type. The most annoying thing would have to be the fact that you can only open one box out of the three available for each floor.
The first floor contained Moblin mobs - RDM x4, WAR x2. We decided to wipe the floor with all of them.
The second floor contained 4 Giant mobs - MNK, BST, RNG, WAR. We weren't up for chunky giants , especially when one of them can charm your party members, so we took down the portal mob and moved on.
The third floor contained Sahagin mobs - MNK x2, DRG, WHM, DRG. We were running out of time, and fast so we popped the time box on this floor.
The fourth floor was when things got really hairy. The mobs we were up against Demon mobs - BLMx4, SMN, DRK, WAR. Considering the fact that The majority of the party were "meatheads", I wanted to avoid mobs with potential AoE 2 hours like Manafont and Astral Flow. But the demons were surprisingly squishy, so we attemped to clear the floor.
Obligatory Drargen death:
Of course my fears were realised....
Pwned by Astral flow. This would become the main theme for the rest of the night.
We were running out of time fast. With only 5 minutes to spare we decided to fight the remaining SMN mob while weakened and managed to open the time box with 1 minute to spare.
Fifth floor was a piece of cake: 4 Antican mobs - RNG, PLD, BLM, WAR. Not much of a threat at all. We wiped the floor and took the time box.
The sixth floor was probably the most "fun" out of all the floors. Tonberry mob x8 - SMN and THF x3 coming down in pairs, BLM and NIN trigger mobs. All our favourite mobs on one floor.
Fun.
We were doing OK until someone walked into the last THF and SMN tonberry pair. We had no choice by to take down the NIN trigger mob to get another time box. Of course we were totally expecting everyone to die to Mijin Gakure, so my group hid until the little creepy blew up (along with everyone else).
No time to fight the last two tonberries so we sneaked past them and proceeded to the last floor where 5 Goblin mobs were waiting for us. DRK, RDM x2, BLM x2.
No sleepga = deathga.
No win, but good first-time effort for all. Good job everyone ^^
Casualty report: Everyone, multiple times.
Loot report: 3 ancient beastcoins for all except Lenor who decided to forfiet her share for the Plaited Cord. 5 ancient beastcoins for the pot next week.
Today we are joined by: Spierz (BLM), Gruive (BLU), Jojax (RDM), Snoop (PLD), Kariko (DRK), Stinkypuppy (WHM), Lunakitty (BLM), Tamahiyo (RDM), Arroh (PLD), Igneusnex (DRK), Lenor (THF), Marzanna (BRD), Vashanti (RDM), Kysuke (NIN), Bigawkward (MNK).
I ran on ahead so I missed most of the drama, but apparently Igneusnex managed to drown himself at sea on the way to Temenos. This is the aftermath of his recovery. Vashanti was kind enough to resuscitate him. Tamahiyo almost got eaten by a shark on the way to Temenos too. Aren't large-group treks fun.
It's the first time any of us has stepped into the halls of Central Temenos. Floor 1 looks like it was invaded by mobs from Xarcabard. We had 45 limits to mop the floor with the Ghost, Dragon, Skeleton, Ahriman, Weapon and Magic Pot. Sounds easy enough - especially with 15 people.
Kysuke discovers the joy of being lv 74 as the Ahriman decided to spam Lv 5 Petrify.
Overall it was a pretty easy-going run. Everything died without too much drama... for once.
