Dreamland Nightmare

The time came around again to attend dynamis with Ruthaal's group.  This time it was in "dream lands".  Dynamis Valkurm.
I met up with the group behind the outpost.
Ruthaal was no where to be found.  I didn't really want to go without him there, but I wasn't about to turn tail and run either.
The leader was asking what drops people wanted.  A lot.  I hadn't planned to choose anything since this was only my second time going with them.  At the same time I wondered if she kept repeating herself because I had yet to answer.  So I finally said, Red mage, it is the only job I have at 75.
That started chatter about support jobs.

Do you have dark knight?

A knot formed in my stomach.

No... I have black mage, white mage and ninja...

Why not dark?

Well... I... It was suggested strongly to me not to train dark knight...

Who told you that?!

...because of the level cap increase...  black mage support will get stun so...

Well that's stupid!  You won't even be able to get that spell with black mage until the cap is 99.  That is a ways off yet.  Whoever told you that must not like you much.

I'm sorry... I... I'll work on it for next time...

Sub Black Mage then.

As I walked to Selbina to change my support from white to black mage, I thought about last time I had trained Dark Knight.
I didn't want to go through that again.
Shagrath wouldn't be around to save me this time...
The knot became a sharp pain and I doubled over, clutching my abdomen.  My knees fell into the sand.

Get it together!

I changed, and ran back to the outpost.
We got into groups and entered using the enchanted hourglass.

Once inside, it seemed like a repeat of the last time, only with cacti.
I ran around using sleepga and sleep.  It seemed the melee were attacking two different creatures.
There was talk of some fly that should have been pulled…
I wasn't sure what else to do and there wasn't much instruction being given.
Eventually I did see the fly.  They were able to slay it.
Then all of a sudden all my enchantments wore off.  Including reraise!!
I began to re-cast blink, stoneskin, refresh and phalanx, knowing they would be needed for whatever was pulled next.
However, while I was resting, all but three of us had moved camp.
We could rest at next camp, the leader said.
So off we ran looking for them.
I was wishing she had said that before taking off.
We found them and soon after, another slew of monsters had surrounded us.
I desperately tried to sleep, but again it seemed more then one thing was being hit, and subsequently woken up.
Again, I was face first in the sand.
One charge on my reraise earring.  I didn't even want to get up.
After all the monsters returned from whence they had came, I did raise up.
There was shouting.
Then the leader shouted something about too many people trying to get her attention to talk privately.
Someone else saying we didn't have enough people and shouldn't have attempted this.
I fished the hourglass from my bag to see how much longer I would have to endure the beatings and bickering.
It was then that I heard the leader screaming about no more events until she decided to set one in linkshell message.
And then she yelled the words I had been waiting for.
“Just break glass!  We are done here!”
Not that I wanted to abandon anybody, but I wasn't White Mage.  Nobody likes an "R1" when there is "R3" to be had.
I saw everyone dropping or smashing the glass.
That's all I needed and I pitched mine at the wall.  I didn't even wait for the broken magical seal to eject me from the battlefield.  I cast warp, and with a whoosh, found myself back in Port Windurst.
Then I pulled the linkpearl out of my ear and let it roll off my fingertips as I stalked through archway leading into the residential district.

I had no desire to be around such bickering and anger.  I wondered how Ru put up with it.
My head was throbbing as I stripped down, then sunk into the fountain.  The wounds from the last time hadn’t even healed yet…  I couldn’t even look any longer.  I simply pitched my head back, closed my eyes and tried to let the warm water soothe me.














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