BCNM blues.

So, I've been leveling SMN for a while now and I've noticed a few things:

1 - Having 2 smn in a pt is awesome.
2 - You can still use Blood Pacts while Main Healing. I don't know why everyone complains about it so much.
3 - Every summoner that isn't Pasquale has both Astral Rings and Carbuncle Mitts.

While the Carbuncle Mitts may never happen, I decided to do something about the Astral Rings.

I head over to the AH in Lower Jeuno and check the price of one Astral Ring.

Pasquale sighs dejectedly.

{Hmm.} Over a million gil. {Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.} I checked my gil, hoping it had multiplied over night. It hadn't. Looks like I would have to earn one the old fashioned way. Buy gil. Do the Wings of Fury BCNM and hope for a drop. I buy some lvl 20 gear and I'm off to sunny San 'doria (sorry if its wrong, but I hate that place).

I met Ants and Qix-something (sorry I forgot how to spell it, hes in my linkshell, I feel like a total ass) outside the Gate where we roll to see who goes first. Ants wins, pops his orb, and aaaaawwwway we go!

Three adventures, set on treasure. Three winged spawns of Satan blocking thier way.

Round One:

I send Garuda in while Ants tries to charm one of the other bats. Somehow I managed to get hit a lot and almost die. Qix vokes leader bat and they start fighting. Ants' charm fails, and he is fighting and running for his life, til he can try again. I pop a 'Cure' on myself.

{Hmm.}

Garuda can't keep hate at all, which leads to my sudden and rape-like death. Ants soon follows in my lead, and within minutes we are all dead, in a heap in front of the gate.

Round Two:

Qix had forgotten to get a new orb, so round two was cancelled.

Round Three:

Ok, we head in for our final battle. Tensions are high, as we totally sucked the first time in. Ants managed a Charm! Right after Charming the bat he used his two hour. Success! I send Ifrit in against another bat. He fared much better than Garuda. Everyone was fighting something, so now it was party time.

Pasquale uses Astral Flow.
Ifrit uses Inferno.
The bats all take a lot of damage (easily in the millions.)

Ifrits bat dies and we turn our attention to the boss. Qix and Ants' bat are wailing on it, while I rested up for another awesome Inferno. One min later I used it, and the boss was dead. Yay!

Now all we had to kill was Ants' charmed bat, who was still very much charmed.

Ants logs and the bat uncharms, but niether Qix or I can attack it for some reason. Within seconds its health is at full. I summoned Ifrit and he was able to attack, and all Qix could do was ranged attack. It took about eight minutes to kill that fucking bat. Victory was ours!

I eagerly run up and open my chest:

Pasquale obtains a piece of crap.
Pasquale obtains a used boot.
Pasquale obtains scraps of paper.
Pasquale obtains nothing. Absolutely nothing.

After selling the crap I made about 6k gil, which woulda been ok I guess, had I not spent 20k on pots and ethers.

/sigh
Pasquale sighs dejectedly.