Sea, and back home

I had my first failure of a CoP BCNM fight since 2-5, but I'm still not really counting it, because it wasn't a failure due to a lack of planning or skill, but rather a member that fell asleep at an inopportune moment. I noticed someone shouting for 7-4, the Tenzen fight, in Whitegate, and decided to join up. The party leader was a RNG, and he had already recruited a DRK, as well as a NIN. I got Brian to jump in and help out, on WHM.

Things did not look to be very good initially, as the DRK and I shared the following words as we shouted for a sixth member.

DRK: Shout for a DD. We have a BRD and a WHM.
Me: Actually, shout for a DD, BRD, or WHM.
DRK: No, we need another DD!
Me: I can come as BRD or DRK. Andra can come as WHM or BRD. Between the two of us we have any two of the three slots covered. So we can shout for any job.
DRK: Just shout for a DD...

And so on. Eventually we did get another DD, a WAR, and trudged up to Tavnazia. After going over our strategy, we entered the BC only to see that we were 5/6. The WAR never entered. We shouted at him for about five minutes, but got no response, and so we decided to try a dry run with just the five of us and no 2hrs. Surprisingly, we got him as low as 40%, and I'm pretty sure that had we blown 2hrs we'd have killed him with 5/6. We wiped, and waited for like ten minutes outside the BC until the WAR finally woke up again. We entered with him, blew our 2hrs, and proceeded to leave Tenzen wondering what we'd done to his asshole ^^. Just under a four minute fight.

So, now I have sea, and have actually managed to collect my first obi (thunder). I certainly plan on getting 8/8 obis as SCH will be my next job to 75. I can solo farm any organ I want on BLM, and Brian gave me access to Camille's account (Camille hasn't been playing recently) for me to use whenever he's not needing it for an event. Duoing makes the organ farming go much faster, and I'm not terribly far from a dark obi as well (can you say Dynamis?)

My other goal for the time being is getting RDM up to 37, as having BLM at 75 without a RDM sub is crazy gimped (although, I must say, I think SCH is a worthwhile replacement for it). It has languished at level 11 for forever, but wielding Miori as a PL I hopped into the Dunes today and cranked it up to 16 over the course of a few hours and a very mediocre party, saved only by the fact that we had a PL.

RDM is basically useless in the early levels, but I figure I can make up for that by brute PL force.