Current Training: Rodnus. So much for advanced planning. I hope K'pyn won't mind too much.

Circle test this week: Brutally crushed.

Donations: Meyson Carpent, Fat Alice's hut builder on the Kizmia Island West beach.

Exploration: Tested Wisher Gate and Hatred Hollow paths, but failed to open either. Saw both sparklies though. Unable to see the path at Kizmia's Island west beach. Lost *both* bear cave paths, mere minutes after using both. Then to add insult to injury, I was able to enter McBolie's cavern but not exit at either end, and when an earthquake eventually shook the exit enough for me to squeeze out, I was unable to enter it again. So, it is a clean sweep: 100 trainings with the Hermit and I am finally unable to open ANY of the hard paths. I am very very very frustrated with pathfinding right now.

When I awoke after the chaos storm, I got lucky and got into an Orga Outback raid with a group of 5 great healers and 15 strong fighters. Naturally, I couldn't open the Wisher Gate, although after a bit of staring, I did begin to see the sparklies again for the first time in ages. Well, it seemed like an improvement at the time. The firefight in Hatred Hollow was surprisingly light, and we swept through pretty easily with Tharloch, Veer and Thuja rodding.

I also could see the sparklies at the Hatred Hollow exit path, but once again couldn't open that path. I just don't get out here much!

Since it was my FIRST TIME actually past Hatred Hollow (Ahhh! The joys of being active primarily "off-peak"), I decided I couldn't pass up the chance to talk with one of the advanced teachers in the Trainer Grotto.

I picked Rodnus because so many healers have been grumbling about me being a tough heal (I am sometimes tempted to tell them they need to become better healers, but have so far managed to hold my tongue).

In any case, we did a bit of wandering through the deep Snaggywood and finally ended up in the distant Orga Village. Sadly, I needed to leave to study, but others remained to press onward. It was a great hunt, with plenty of Orga Wraths and Furies, and I even managed to kill an Orga Hemlock that no one else noticed and then claim the entire 48c chest for myself. Whoo! I will be waiting for my next chance to get in on a hunt like that.

I went to the Savanna to help with a rescue, and stayed to hunt and coin a bit.

I found my first cacao pod, and was able to sell it later for 50 coins! I need one of these trees in my own yard.

Later I fell into a vermine trap in the Savanna. I pulled out the Gossamer and managed to slaughter quite a number of them but eventually several Maha started getting in hits too, from beyond where I could reach. I killed one Plains Maha among the vermine crowd, but just couldn't help but get hit again and again. Fall number one of the day, with a lowly vermine getting the final bite. Deadmeat graciously found me and dragged me out.

Later, Coeur de Leon and I were scouting along the coast of Kizmia's Island looking for Kodo, who had fallen to a tidal surge (severe toggle mix up: he was at the Northern Plains beach on Puddleby Island!). Naturally, we found swarms of Giant Carnivorous Plankton, and it was Coeur's turn to fall to annoyance. We did finally clear it out, and with Silky's help vanquished a number of Baltoise.

The waters around Kizmia's Island have become a favorite hunting spot of mine lately, but I seem to have one annoying problem there. Before, I always wanted to go to Dal'Noth island but generally could never find a mystic to open the illusions. Now, I can happily waltz up to Kizmia's Island without requiring a mystic, but over the past few weeks there has been a severe shortage of healers in the Lands when I am awake. So we finish off a couple of Baltoise, then rush back to town to get healed or simply wait for our own self-healing abilities to return us to health, before continuing the hunt. It makes for slow, slow going.

It was the day of the never ending Wyrms. Kodo and I killed four Blue Lyfelidae on Fat Alice's beach (thanks to his recently acquired ability to deflect most of their attacks), when we felt that Cyberbeing had fallen to a Bloodwyrm. We raced to see if we could help get him out, and found the Rocky Cavern full of Wyrms! We saw five Bloodwyrms swarming when Kodo chained Cyber out of harm's way. Once Cyber was mobile again, we set out to thin the herd some. It was complicated by a Sunwyrm nosing about as well. In an epic hunt that lasted almost all morning and included various fighters and healers coming and going, we managed to kill over 10 Bloodwyrms and a similar number of Grey Wyrms. Since there were so many, we couldn't trap and lure, so it was a exciting just attacking the herd in a rush, running outside to heal, and repeating until it was done.

I actually made it to a POS meeting, which turned out to be a Valley hunt. With Veer, Thuja and Achates healing, a group of about 10 fighters raced through the valley a few times and sliced through a very large number of young sasquatches. I saw a couple of 80 coin pelts! Mom did not put in an appearance though. There was only one moment where things looked dicey, when a group of valley cougars and panthers felled many of the fighters. The healers regrouped and Elenis dragged a long string of fallens out of harms way. When all were healed, we found that only one single wounded valley panther remained. Overall, there were surprisingly few valley panthers, and no cobras outside at all. They were all waiting at the east cave when we tried to leave. Still, they were beaten back in time, and all the hunters left in good order.

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