The perils of Ranger studies

I decided to quickly leave the library to verify Stylunk's correction of how it handles female Fen'neko hair dying and got pulled into an adventure.

At first it was just Gremlins, Eirian, Mork, and myself heading to the Basalt Passes (I'm not sure if this is the official name) on Metz. Seems that Mork wanted to study Ancient Greymyrs in order to get the full family bonus on Earth Elementals and had been working on it for quite some time.

There's an Ice Greymyr in the 8th-circle Fighter's Test, but you can't just study the Ice Greymyr and get 100% of your Gossamer bonus on it. There's actually a Captured Ice Greymyr in the test which means that you need to study other beasts in the same family in order to get a maximum of 50% of your Gossamer bonus with 5 studies. Ice Greymyrs are in the Earth Elemental family and there are very few of them which is why Mork wanted to study Ancient Greymyrs.

At first it went well and we made our way to the Basalt Passes with little difficulty. Then there were two greymyrs and a bunch of Twilight Wendecka and Gremlins and Mork went this way and that and both fell. I grabbed Eirian and fled to the cove only for her to have to leave.

At that point Stinkfist came on and I asked him to help. Baffina came along with Brahtz at her heels and then Eirian decided to come back. We slowly made our way to the Basalt Passes. Very slowly, even though we had more people and another healer. We made it to where we fell and I grabbed Gremlins and Mork and Brahtz and was heading south for a triumphant chain run victory when disaster struck. Suddenly there were Twilight Wendecka all around me and since I was too close to a wall there was nowhere for me to run to. I then fell and decided to depart along with everyone besides Stinkfist and Mork.

It went much better this time as we lured the Twilight Wendecka out and managed to kill them. Mork was difficult to raise but a potion got him up. Stinkfist was more badly fallen so Baffina got Great Pumpkin out of the library. I wondered why she couldn't have done that for Mork, but didn't say anything. Finally we could focus on the reason for the trip in the first place, Mork lastying Ancient Greymyr.

I directed Stinkfist to use Disable in order to make it easier for Mork to hit. The first greymyr didn't go smoothly since Stinkfist killed it even though it was on yellow. He was pretty surprised because he had his Bloodblade on Control mode. I reminded him that he did have 900 darkus. I also should have reminded him that yellow health is a huge percentage range so it could have been barely above red health, but I forgot.

With that lesson learned we lured the second greymyr and this time Stinkfist used Disable when it was at green health telling Mork to hit it right after he did. Stinkfist hit, the greymyr was surrounded with blood, Mork hit it, the greymyr fell down, and finally, victory.

It looks easier than it was.