The main reason that I wasn't very effective was due to the fact that I didn't have any Gil to buy items. If I had the Gil I would have bought some Hi-Ethers. This would have made me able to get Mp back and Cure myself. WHen I died that was the main problem with my groups failure. I had pulled the hate off of Meretrix, sorry if I spelled your name wrong Trix, and that caused me to die early in the fight, and I also used my Scroll of Reraise before we got into the fight. I wasn't thinking, Maior said that Buffs would have to be recast once inside and I never thought about Reraise being included.

Again I would like to Appologize to my group for my failing to cure correctly and not thinking. The only thing I can say in my defence is that I havent ever done one of these, however, I now know what to do and I won't make the same mistake, hopefully. :)

I'll chime in from the second party's side of the alliance. I felt the trip up the crag went very well, and traveling in an alliance is *definitely* the way to ascend. Other than the sacrfice at the top ^_^
we made it relatively quick. After seperating into 2 teams, we attempted the boss first. We were very much in control of the fight essentially the entire way through, but the one time we lost hate it cost us dearly. I kept drawing his hate towards me and Firewing. We kept our mages back near the entrance seperating them from the mob as much as we could. After a near fatal blow (down to 11 HP)I quickly activated one of my X-potions. During the activation time, the mob took off after our Whm. Arb attempted to voke but was unable to get him away, and I was unable to voke until the potion activated. Within those few seconds, he had taken out our healer. Shortly after this, we reached 50% of it's health and we called for our anima. Before I could even activate mine, I was knocked out in one fail swoop. Arb and Ava kept up a galliant battle doing their best to save each other's life at just the last moment. The two of them battled down till just a sliver of HP remained before finally falling. Had we been able to save the Whm in time, I believe we walk away from the fight successfully. Luckily in our group, there was no venom being spewed and everyone cheered Arb and Ava down to the wire. We all knew exactly what went wrong and had we had the supplies, we definitely would have waited and tried again. We started off with one non-LS party member, but by the time we reached the summit, they had already equipped our pearl and joined right in.

I'm very sorry to hear about the other's adventure. Amazing how one person can really kill a good time. That's why next time we need all of our LS mates. ^_^ Now that a good portion of us have experienced a trip through, we will all be better prepared. I know my next trip up will be successfull, and I would gladly have back the same party members. Everyone kept their cool and made the time a lot of fun.

So the question is: When do we do this again??!!!?!? :) :)

sounds like i missed all the fun

I am at fault for my groups death. I am used to partieing and keeping the members health near to full. I did not know that I should have been using Cure 1 instead or making sure everyone was at full as much as possible. And I also used my Scroll of Reraise outside of the boss area, this leading to me dieing and not being able to raise anyone else. Furthermore, I didn't have any Hi-Ethers, I ran out of MP and couldn't Cure anyone much. After I died the group fell apart.
In addition, to my failing to realize my role correctly in the group, I noticed that the SMN of our Group wasn't doing much while we were ingaged with the boss. At the time I thought it was just some lagg on his part, but now I realize that he was concentrating on bashing other members of the party instead of doing his job. Another point if he had some SUGGESTIONS he should have discussed it with the party before we went in and not sending /tell's to the leader after we began. This way we could see how he was going to work with the party and found a substitution for him.
Having Natashab in the party was a good thing in my opinion because we RDM's can do many things for a party, such as back up heal, nuking, or melee fighting. It's a shame there are people that play FFXI who can only criticise instad of giving pointers like the more advanded people on our Link Shell, but theres not much that can be done.
I would like to point out that the failure had NOTHING to do with Natashab. In my opinion most of the blame can be placed on the SMN who thought it was more important to criticise other people instead of helping the group.

I am sorry for just leaving the way I did. I had just had it with the things that where said to me and about me. I really like this linkshell and I just want to fit in and have fun.

Thank you for apologizing but it is not necessary and I would like to apologize to all of you.

Thank you having me and letting me be a part of the Clan of the Angry Monkey!!!