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    After  several nights of resting in Jeuno(i.e. she was logged off),Miraa awakens a humble level 13 paladin wanting nothing more then to go back to sleep. Just as she was preparing to go back to sleep, her linkshell began to buzz with activity. It appeared Alesha, Atavus and Bria wanted to go to the dunes and fight monsters, but they needed someone to tank for them.

    Seeing Miraa was on and awake, they asked her to come join them, Miraa hesitated at first, she just wanted to go back to her wonderful dream of catnip. Her friends knowing her all to well informed them that lizards in the dunes did in fact drop catnip. Excited, Miraa agreed to go with them and got herself ready andstepped out into Lower Jeuno to seek a Teleport-Dem.

    Now having a tank, the other three finished their own preparations and headed out. Alesha helping to show Atavus the ropes set off from Bastok with the young white mage. They would make their way to the Dem crag where they would meet up with Miraa and then travel on to the dunes together. The pair got to the crag without any troubles and quickly Miraa joined them. As the three left the crag and headed to the dunes, they spotted a tremor ram. Miraa cursed her low level luck as she had to let the ram go about it's business and reluctantly continued with her friends to the dunes.

    Bria had been visiting some old friends in San d'Oria and would have to make the trek to the dunes alone. This, of course, would be no problem for the well traveled and brave elvaan. She weaved her way around goblins and orc alike, reaching the dunes without a sign of trouble. Once in the dunes she made her wayto the tunnel and wonderfully found it void of sand bats and made herway to her friends where the four shared a brief snack and then began to hunt for the ever elusive catnip.

    It was apparent earlyon, that where they decided to camp they would have issues withgoblins, it was decided they would fend off the goblins rather thenavoid them and the quartet continued on fighting for several hours.They fought goblin and lizard alike, and not once did the catnip drop. Miraa's spirit began to falter, she could be in her mog house dreaming of catnip, instead she was out getting sand in her shoes, being beat on by lizards and goblins and getting no catnip what so ever.

   Seeing their paladin was beginning to get discouraged, Bria mentioned that she had heard that the crabs in this area had a much better chance of having catnip on them. Excited once again Miraa took off to findcrabs to kill. She first went to the ledge just north of Siren Sands, only to find a large number of Galka had made a pilgrimage to the area and in some sort of ritual where cracking open crabs for their meat. She the proceeded down to the beach itself where many parties where already farming her catnip. Unphased, Miraa decided that the oasis jus teast of the outpost should be empty, and indeed it was.

    The four friends began killing crabs when young Nickster came on the linkshell and asked if he could join, the four felt a dragoon would be perfect to help pierce the hard shells of the crabs and urged him to come quickly. Nickster got himself a teleport-dem and then called his wyvern and set off to join his friends. He made good progress until a goblin decided it wanted his lunch money and took off after him.

   Making it to Selbina, Nickster rested a few moments and headed back out to join his friends at the oasis. Upon arriving he was asked to be the puller as Bria and Alesha had slow times pulling for they had to rest for MP every few fights. Things went well for quite some time, until another goblin saw Nickster luring a crab back to camp and wanted to see what was going on.

    Bria reacted quickly and used her Sheep Song spell, but had failed to notice the leech that had came into the area. Realizing her mistake, Bria quickly headed towards Selbina to hopefully draw the leech away while it still slept. Nickster and Miraa both seeing the leech followed Bria towards Selbina. Alesha and Atavus, however, did not notice the leech was sleeping and remained at camp trying to figure out exactly why the rest of the party had fled, when suddenly the leech awoke and not seeing Bria, attacked Alesha. Shocked, Alesha and Atavus quickly headed to Selbina themselves.

   Nickster having taken a significant amount of damage from the goblin and drawn the attention of other goblins, was unable to make it back to Selbina, and as Bria and Miraa entered the town, the crab and original goblin turned to find the others of the party who had yet to escape to the safety of Selbina. Seeing Alesha right there, they attacked her and knocked her out feet before she could reach the safety of Selbina, Atavus was able to sneak into Selbina as the crab and goblin had their full attention on Alesha.

    Taking a few moments to lick their wounds and heal up, the others stepped out of town in hopes of finding some one who could revive their friends, and much to their surprise, a tarutaru white mage, who was helping a friend of his get some items, was outside and happily raised their two fallen friends. Laughing and joking at their misfortune, the friends began once again to fight crabs and goblins around the oasis.

    They went for a few more hours and still no catnip, then Nickster lured a particularly strong goblin to camp that the group was unable to take. Miraa was knocked out shortly after the party decided to make a run for Selbina. The others where easily able to make it to Selbina and it was then that it was decided to get Miraa revived and head in for the day. Seeing their friend Corilinos was in Bastok they asked if he could outpost warp to the dunes and revive Miraa.

    After Miraa was revived and unweakened, the friends set out set out to leave the dunes for the night. Bria had to return to her friends in San d'Oria, while the othe rfour headed towards Bastok. Bria easily made it home, while Nickster had an unfortunate run in with that tremor ram. Bria brought up that the worms of Korroloka Tunnel were also rumored to drop catnip and perhaps they could try there the next time out. With everyone inagreement, the friends all bid each other good night and went to sleep.