8-1 complete and through the dunes

Went from RDM16 to RDM20 today, thanks to a dunes party that for most of its length had no fewer than three powerlevelers, including my dual-boxed Miori. I only left because I dinged 20 and was gimping xp, and though I'm sure that the others would have wanted me to stay (since by then Mio was the only PL left) the xp had gotten very slow.

I was actually making what I thought was going to be a very brief stop at whitegate to sell off a little gear when I saw someone shouting for 8-1. I joined up, knowing that 8-1 was not at all difficult for a pickup party, to see that I was in a French party with a great setup, three BLMs including myself. Contrary to the usual stereotypes, these guys were nice, accomodating, not the least bit stuck up, and spoke good English, though I conversed with them in French as much as I could as {I can speak a little}. They complimented me on that and we got along great.

With me still dual-boxing Miori, we dusted the NM's with no problem and I am now the proud owner of a Tavnazian Ring. Woot.

That same group was going to do 8-2 tomorrow, and invited me along. {Yes, Please!}

On a down note, though, from my harvest (which was last fucking week!) I have had exactly three stacks of platinum nuggets, sell, and have been undercut yet again. When I harvested they were going for 27k a stack. I was undercut to 25k, which stuck, and had to repost at 25k. Now some asshole has cut it down to 23k. If it stays that low, that's going to cost me a couple 100k of profits from my latest harvest, which in terms of volume was one of my best ever. I'm approaching my second crystal feeding and frankly need to unload these suckers, but it's not looking great so far.