My First Time: Nyzul Isle

I overheard chatter of “Nyzul Isle” in my linkshell.  This, along with any assaults really, was something I was very curious to try. 
I asked if I could join.  They happened to be short a sixth person, so they permit me to tag along.
They planned to do “floor 60”.

With Nyzul Isle, there are 100 floors.  You climb them in groups of 5.  Floors 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 have a small chance of yielding gear.
We began with floor 56, which turned out to be “lamps”.
Apparently there are different variations of “lamps”. For ours, we had to find all lamps and activate them at the same time.  We did this fairly easily, and progressed to floor 57.
Where we had to battle a Psycheflayer!!!

It looked like some experiment gone awry.  Head like that of an octopus and body of…  Well it brought to mind the fleshy undead creatures.  It was bulky with arms and possibly legs that were concealed by a robe.
The creature began to cast Aspir as I sought to set a paralyze upon it.
Edwyth gave us a bartunder enchantment.
Confidant seeing that the creature was paralyzed, I continued with my enfeebling efforts and silenced and slowed it as well! ^^

However, that dirty Psycheflayer had more tricks up its sleeve.
It managed to paralyze Iphi, which Ed took care of, but THEN it cursed and paralyzed everyone but me!
We managed to defeat the monster, completing the objective.

On floor 58, we had to avoid “gears” while hunting down our prey.
I wondered how a gear could wander loose.
Everyone was setting sneak and invisible enchantments on themselves and setting off to hunt.  I followed suit.
When I caught up to my comrades, I saw a little frog…  Casting a mighty spell!  Thundaga III!!
I held my breath and cast silence on the Poroggo Gent and saw Koukennin using his dragoon ability Super Jump.  That made me crack a smile.

The Poroggo Gent is silenced.

Woohoo!

Though my mental celebration was cut short when the thing used Water Bomb. -_-
I tried to cure Opi but my efforts were not enough and he was knocked out.
Dang frog!  For something so small, it sure can pack a punch!
Hoping to stave off another water bomb, I set paralyze on the Poroggo Gent.
Of course silence would wear off of it at just that moment…  Of course it chose to cast sleepga!  But…  paralyze came through and it couldn’t get the spell off!  Yay!
I set to healing the group while Ed raised up Opi.
Iphi dealt the killing blow, but that didn’t complete our objective.
Another frog was out there…

As we were searching for it, I learned what the gears were.  Fortunately they succumb to sleep spells.
The next Poroggo Gent battle was a little more “crazy” since I was trying to enfeeble it while sleeping the gear things and toss cures.  Woo!  Talk about something to get the blood pumping!
This frog was a bit meaner.  It set gravity on all of us and had blaze spikes up! >_<
Which I promptly dispelled.  Edwyth took care of gravity.
With the defeat of that frog, we cleared the objective and moved on to floor 59.

Kill All was the combat cry for this floor.
We battled through many monsters:  Death Cap, Energetic Eruca, Pucktraps…
And moved on to the goal:  Floor 60!

I took a deep breath, not sure what we would face, excited none the less.
While I set buffs on myself, Kou, Iphi and Opi drank down potions called “Body Boost” then slew the Archaic Rampart.
In the distance I saw what we would face.  Hydra.
It had THREE HEADS!
My eyes went wide and I drew in a sharp breath and held it… 

Om shanti shanti shanti.  Focus!  A panicked Red Mage is a useless one!!

Three jaws to deliver nasty bites to my comrades!  Not to mention whatever other special abilities it was capable of!
I found out soon enough.  It used Polar Blast and paralyzed Kou, Iphi and Opi.
Ed and I cured them, and I used some black magic as well to try and whittle down the Hydra’s health.  My mana was tapped out faster then I had expected, which I realized while trying to cast Aero III… xD
However, in the end the Hydra was defeated!!
Unfortunately, the only prize it held for us was a Werebuster.

I was just excited to finally get to do Nyzul Isle with my friends! =^_^=












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