Interesting adventure tonight: my drop rate’s been quite favorable lately, but the cloak I chalk up to extraordinary incompetence upon the part of my competition sitting on their asses while I realized macros with non-single word auto-translate lines don’t work in English and claimed by actually chasing the NM down and engaging it; bad enough that five years later Moldavite’s still being camped, I’d decided to try my luck right after the big update but not much longer. A week, I proposed, watching for his ToD during two episodes of Law & Order every night (which I guess’ll change soon, too, now that I’ve decided to dump cable), but otherwise I’d live with the reduced likelihood of resist from INT+2 instead of the higher damage.

No one’s in the zone when I search it, but a couple of Japanese LS mates arrive before I can. I tell the BLM66 he can have it first, then join them to help. Half an hour later, two others log in, an indication if any that the window’s open. Mysticmaker shows up out of my view, they grab him and I /comfort my new friend. The 日本語 chatter afterwards reveals they didn't get the earring. I shutdown, at least content with my gesture of generosity.

All this discomfort lately, however, would keep me awake, so I decided to check in after reading about Stargate Worlds—I’m leaning towards the “Archeologist” archetype—and trying to discern, unsuccessfully, from DISH Network’s website how a newb customer such as myself obtains said dish even to access their network, much less buy into their HD DVR. The NIN & RDM duo who just got claim are again present but motionless as if AFK, and minutes later, it pops in front of me. And they weren’t kidding about the effect of engaging (or throwing a Paralyze at the mob) with Treasure Hunter, even with II subbed, because there it is in all its lowercase glory. No S/S.