For some reason, some people actually liked the plants going berserk and taking over everything. The Gardener was one of these individuals, and Grugo was sent to stop this man before the chaos plants took over everything. It seems he was successful, and got a free bird out of the deal:
Shuriken wanted to eat the bird, but Grugo wasn’t having any of that and kept the avian safely away from his tiger.
Figuring it had been a while since he had gone to church, our hero went to visit Archbishop Leucoryx and see what he was like. But alas, Leucoryx seemed a little crazy and was more about killing people than anything else. So Grugo stole his stuff and left in a huff:
(He also got a Dammah and a Leucoryx blueprint around this time, but that’s not interesting enough to post.)
But Grugo was enjoying the Mardi Gras celebrations, and went to a puppet show. The puppets were nice enough to give him a costume:
Sadly, the costume did not fit:
Another attempt at tasteful discussion about local issues turned into bloodshed in Dammah’s office. Grugo really figured that some building inspectors should take a look at the knife throwing portals that just seemed to pop up all over the place now and then, but satisfied himself with some mediocre loot instead:
Now, you might be wondering why I bothered posting this image. Well, if you carefully compare this screenshot to the previous ones, you might notice something interesting.
You see, Grugo was feeling tired. Very, very tired. The kind of tired that usually tells you, “Hey, maybe I should log off and stop Realming now!” But alas, Grugo kept playing. His reaction times were slow, and his awareness was steadily fading. At one point, he was fighting a Lost Sentry and was so out of it that he got armor broken and then tanked the entire blue/green shotgun it fires, only surviving death because of his Heavy Protective Matrix. For some reason, this wasn’t enough of a deterrent, and he kept playing.
Heading into Oryx’s Castle, Grugo yawned his way through the hallways to the Stone Guardians, and dispatched them quite easily. He quickly reached down and snagged a defense potion from the ground, placing it in his inventory in exchange for what he thought was just an extra hp pot. He then carried on, fighting Oryx 1 and Oryx 2 before proceeding into Oryx’s Sanctuary.
It was at the end of his fight with Dammah that Grugo finally realized his mistake; that hadn’t been an hp pot he had dropped; that was his Fury Flail. It was long gone at this point, and there was no going back to grab it. He sighed, shrugged his tired shoulders, and somehow made it through the Oryx 3 fight unscathed before going to bed.
With that sob story out of the way, I do believe it’s been a while since our last edition of the
QUEST FOR DBLADE
That’s not a dblade.
Now, Grugo was steadily getting better and better at Oryx 3, and at Celestial phase in particular. He could now reliably make it all the way through the phase, oftentimes only by taking one or two hits (a noticeable improvement from before). As such, his odds of completing a given O3 run had risen well above the previous 25% chance to more like 90%, and he was starting to rake in the exalts at a much faster rate. It was around this time that he finally got his next tiered item upgrade:
Happy that he was finally winning at Realm again, he checked the stats on the armor. They were pretty good, though the armor turned out to be unslotted. He compared this to his T14 armor with a relative defense boost, and found that the T14 armor actually gave him +4 def compared to the T15. So much for upgrades!
Hopefully the next tiered item upgrade is a better one:
Yep! Unslotted, but still beats the old T5 hp ring.
OSanc white:blueprint ratio is now 5:12!