What goes around...

It had been kinda slow on the paladin front the last couple of weeks. I couldn't get a party for the life of me, and my decent ammount of gil I had stashed away was slowly decreasing. When asked by a fellow lower level Paladin on Wednesday for assistance getting her Gluttony Sword, I agreed, remembering the kindness that another Paladin had shown me (and by that I mean gave me one to borrow... >_>).

So, heading down into the Necropolis, seven of us gathered around the necessary spawn points and I chose the Skull of Lust, since it was one of the easier ones to get to. After killing all the skulls, I was rewarded with a new title of "Skullcrusher" and amazingly the Gluttony Sword dropped along with the Wrath Tabar axe. We decided to let our PLD friend off and just give her the sword, and the rest of us would split the axe for a nice 100K each.
It felt nice to help someone out for a change, but I was still kinda depressed about being forever stuck at Paladin72. A few days went by, and on Friday I had had enough and decided to try to go farm to kill the time, and possibly get some crappy experience points. As a joke I put my seek flag up since it had been of no help the past several days, and amazingly about 5 minutes later I get a party invite to Bibiki Bay. A few hours later I was just a shy 800 exp until 73 when the party dispanded. A Chocobo run from Sandy to Bastok, a few mobs, and a Crawler's Nest Escort quest later, I was Paladin 73! The long road to engame armor was over!

I danced around in my new Adaman armor for a little bit, and after deciding that the Adaman feet really do suck, I decided to go to bed. On Saturday I was abducted by my girlfriend, and went over to her house. Seeing as how I had just hit 73 it dawned on me that I could now lot on gear in sky. Asking politely, I was allowed to attend sky on the condition that a backrub was to be given at a later date. (Ironically, she wanted to do Beiseiged later that night, and forgot about her backrub... >.<).

Anyway, we had two new Paladins show up to sky, and being higher level than I was, they were told to tank above me. I still got some tanking in, tanking three of the seven fights of the day, and was lucky enough to get a Martial Hands Abj. drop! Once sky was over I ran to Sandy and traded in my recently purchased cursed armor and the piece of paper to recieve my Koenig Schaller:

I also tried to get my hands on the M. Hands Abj. drop, the W. Feet Abj drop, and the W. Legs Abj. drop, but alas none of them dropped. Still, I was very happy to finally have a piece of Sky gear.

A few days later, my dynamis shell finally decided to do a Dynamis-San d'Oria run that I could make. Now, not only did I need this last run to have all four initial cities cleared, but I also wanted the AF2 drop. As luck would have it, the very first drop was the Valor Gauntlets, the very item I had wanted for quite some time:

In addition, we got the clear, meaning I have now completed the first four dynamis cities. I can now head up to the Northlands for more fun (and death?)

All in all, it was a good week. Hopefully things will keep up like this, and before long I will have all the armor I want for PLD and can move on to my other ingame projects. (^.^)v