Hello everyone. This would be my first post here on the site. Some of you may know me, most probably don't. I'm a PLD by trade, and I'm orginizing a run to take on the 7 skulls of the necropolis (I'm going for a Gluttony Sword). As it stands now, there are enough people so that we can pop them...but only barely. I'm hoping that this may become an annual money making event, as after the first run, an extra million would be added to the group pool.

When: Friday, March 10th. We well gather in Jeuno at 7pm.
Where:We gather at Upper Jeuno Gate, Then proceed to various parts of Necropolis
Prefered Level: Melee, 55+ Mages, 50+
What's in it for me? Well, here's the potential drops:
Envy Spear: Dmg 47 Delay 435 Str -1 Dex -1 Agi -1 Vit -1 Int -1 Mnd -1 Cha +7 LVL 57: WAR/PLD/DRG/SAM Current Price: 12k-20k

Greed Scimitar: Dmg 38 Delay 260 Str -1 Dex +7 Agi -1 Vit -1 Int -1 Mnd -1 Cha -1 Lvl 60 WAR/THF/DRK/BST/RNG/SAM Current Price: 600k

Lust Dagger: Dmg 20 Delay 201 Str -1 Dex -1 Agi +7 Vit -1 Int -1 Mnd -1 Cha -1 Lvl 51 WAR/BLM/RDM/THF/PLD/DRK/BST/BRD/RNG/SAM/NIN/DRG/SMN Current Price: 300-500k

Pride Staff: Dmg 30 Delay 402 Str -1 Dex -1 Agi -1 Vit -1 Int -1 Mnd +7 Cha -1 LVL 53 WAR/MNK/WHM/BLM/RDM/BST/BRD/SMN Current Price: 500k-600k

Sloth Wand: Dmg 17 Delay 237 Str -1 Dex -1 Agi -1 Vit -1 Int +7 Mnd -1 Cha -1 LVL: 52 WHM/BLM/RDM Current Price: 5k-7k (Sad, isn't it?)

Wrath Tabar: Dmg 45 Delay 316 Str +7 Dex -1 Agi -1 Vit -1 Int -1 Mnd -1 Cha -1 LVL 56 BST Current Price: 700k-800k

Gluttony Sword: Dmg 44 Delay 295 Str -1 Dex -1 Agi -1 Vit +7 Int -1 Mnd -1 Cha -1 WAR/PLD/DRK Current Price: 1.5 million

I will be quartermaster, and all drops (save the first Gluttony Sword) will be pooled, sold, and divided amonst the group. If you have a job that needs a certain weapon, arrangments can and will be made. This is potentially a fairly quick and easy way to make a couple 100k. Blind of the LT will be providing some Silent Oils to help reduce cost for those w/o sneak.

For those of you who don't know about the skulls, here's the info.

A) Necessities:
1 flint stone per person or group of people lighting each candle.

A group, or person, capable of killing a lvl 60 NM skeleton per candle.

Maps for all regions involved (this should be common sense, but you never know.)

Silent Oils / sneak casters (for those groups /
people who would get aggro from lost souls, shadows, and the utukku near pride candle which hates lvl 75's.)

B) Locations of Eldieme Entrances Involved
D-6 (anemone room #1) Envy
G-8 (anemone room #2) Sloth
I-10 (need 2 people for this, to activate
levers) Pride
G-7 Gluttony
F-5 (beaucedine glacier entrance) Wrath
H-7 Lust
H-6 Greed

Look at map linked here for visual: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=553

C) Rules on Skull Popping
1) Each individual candle takes an hour to become lightable again. As you get people to each candle, check to make sure they're all lightable. If not, then you'll fall prey to rule #2. Once a candle goes out, and if one wasn't lit, then you can't pop the NM's until they all become lightable again. That means, tell all the trigger happy people with you to not touch the controller / keyboard until the leader gives the signal.

2) ALL candles must be lit at the same time for the Skulls to pop. There's a timer of about 5 min for the candles to stay lit, so there's no possible way for less than 7 people to do this.

3) Once all the candles are lit at the same time, then all the skulls will pop directly in front of you, in the alcove with the candles. They will then proceed to flay you alive. Take precautions before spawning them, such as buffs, clearing possible undead aggro, etc.

4) The drops are not automatic just because the NM's are triggerable. TH1 or 2 is advisable.

5) The flint stones are not used up on trading them to the Tallow Candles. Most you need is 7.

Here's the original thread at the LT website:
http://lightstemplar.nerdlife.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1232