San d'Oria
In our first night of adventuring, we revisited some highly nostalgic areas!
We chose San d’Oria as our starting location, previously we had both played out our time in Bastok mostly, and a little in Windurst. So this was a bit of a change for both of us.
We followed the introductory quests, I was surprised how good they are now! Got handed a nice exp boosting ring, some gil, some exp, given a (very) basic introduction to the game.
After doing our own things for a while we met up and decided to go ahead and do the San d’Orian mission that sends you into King Ranperre’s Tomb. Now, remember that neither of us have played the game in a good few years – I was quite impressed that I managed to remember my way around inside. Having said that it did take us a while to remember where exactly the place was in the world…
Once inside we realised we didn’t really have much of a clue what we were doing. We killed mobs all through the tunnel, eventually finding the tomb we had to click on to trigger the cut scene. We thought that was it, so killed our way back out again… While chatting along the way we decided we must of missed something, so Alex did a bit of digging and we realised we were meant to kill some Ding Bats for a drop as well. These guys apparently only spawned at night, so that’s why we missed it. Fuckers. Who does that?
Trees. Grass. Rabbits, somewhere...
So, slightly annoyed, we turned around and went back through the tunnel, again.
We were happily killing Ding Bats and skeletons along the way when we came across the area the Spook spawns, unfortunately he took interest in us before we could run away, our low health made some more skeletons take interest as well.
Splat.
We decided to give up at this point and come back another day.
So that was our first evening back in Vana’diel, we ended up around level 10 which isn’t bad going all things considered. I highly doubt there will be any dunes parties for us… But you never know…