Recently I’ve been running into Aurrek a lot. One of the reasons being my wanting to rank up in Campaign. The new Allied Ring is so tempting, so tempting that it could make me move my lazy ass and go out there to help fending off those beastmen in the age of Crystal War. So, I ran into Aurrek many times during Campaign Battle. Hey Aurrek, I swear I wasn’t stalking you at all! (Well, except at Imp camp in Caedarva Mire, maybe. >.>)

So today after looking at the screenshots I took last night, I proceeded to browse my very old screenshot folders too. Miraculously, I found pics from back when I first met Aurrek.It was wayyyyyy back when my brother was still playing. Was in 2008!

I’m turning my blog’s clock back and posting this entry on the day we met him. ^^

Here, the story begins:

That evening, I was running around in Sea Serpent Grotto with my brother for his Artifact Coffer Box. Kimji joined later to help. We ran around in the Grotto blindly, relying on Wiki map, looking for the box in every spot possible, as well as looking for mobs that drop key. After a long time, I ran into a THF who was farming Eyes. Guess what? Yes, it’s Aurrek. After a short greeting, he asked if we need any help, and then neglected his farming to join us, to help with the Coffer Key.

His Treasure Hunter was of great help. We got the Coffer Key in no time!  Now, the hard part is to find the box! This place is a big mess without map to check your position. So, Aurrek ran around, checking pop spots, while the most I could do was standing around being totally lost.After a longggggg while, Aurrek found coffer box and lead us there. SO we gathered and killed the only aggro mob there, which was a Sahagin. And have my brother open the box!

Then, instead of just parting and going back to farming his Eyes again, he tagged along with us, all the way to The Boyahda Tree! For my brother’s next piece of Artifact!

Honestly, I didn’t recall him being there too. I only remember that I met Aurrek in Sea Serpent Grotto during AF coffer hunt. Only after finding these old screenshots that I realized Aurrek had tagged along with us for so long.You see how he treats a complete stranger? ^^ Just wow! I must say it’s this kind of players that make me so fond of this game. Feeling the warmth from their hearts is wonderful. Anyway, we ended up adding each other to friendlist.

Fast forward to 2010, I haven’t been keeping in contact with him. The most we did was waving to each other when we pass in town or on the field. We talked a little sometimes, but not more than just a few sentences, briefly about anything big that was happening such as “I’m now WHM75″ or something like that. But at present we talk quite often. It was funny to find out that he’s actually a very good friend of Cornie. Hehehe. It’s a small world of Vana’diel, eh?

For my recent encounter with Aurrek, check out the newer entries.

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