Well, my birthday's coming up and I really didn't at all expect to receive what I got last Sunday. Here's the story: My dynamis linkshell Fullwipe was scheduled to do Dynamis-Bastok last Sunday. I really didn't need much from bastok, seeing as how I already received my Sorcerer's Tonban. So I put Samura in my comment and sat myself in Bastok. Before you know it, I see people talking in the linkshell that another linkshell already went in.... So somebody suggested that we do Dynamis Xarcabard. I checked the zone and it was clear. (woo!) So I gear up my samurai and head out to Xarcabard. Once I get there, I AFK myself and go eat dinner. I come back around gather time and there's literally nobody at the zone. Funny how the words "Dynamis - Bastok" makes nobody want to go. I check people's comments and see that there are 5 other people lotting the black mage hat, so basically, it's a dice roll. It approaches enter-time and we only have a measly 27 people in the linkshell. Hell, the leader wasn't even on. ;; When it was all said and done, we enter an hour late into Dynamis Xarcabard with not even enough people to do a city run. We go in and amazingly do pretty well for only having 1 whitemage. We kill a few mobs and get a Dragoon-head drop. We didn't even have TH4, so I was pretty surprised. We then move onto the powerful demons needed to spawn Dynamis Lord. Out of those demons, we got a Paladin and whitemage drop. It's kinda funny though, I always see dragoon or paladin drop in dynamis xarcabard. x.x After we killed the demons, we went farming for AF. We spent a good 1 hour of farming until someone messed up a pull and wiped the zone. ;;

So at this point, I thought we were done with the run and I was about to leave to help peeps out with Chains of Promathia Missions. But there was that small chance that my hat might finally drop, so I stay. So we slowly get back up and get rebuffed before fighting somemore. There's maybe 30 minutes left in Dynamis and all we do is kill hordes of demons. I was half-dozing off and randomly, out of nowhere, the Sorcerer's Petasos drops! The instant it dropped, I woke up. I've seen the hat drop many times, but I'm always unlucky when it comes to lotting. The last time, I lotted the lowest on it and didn't get it. So, I'm not really getting my hopes up, but I wait for other people to lot. The following lots are 251, 141, 435, 543, and 648. I keep waiting, seeing if anyone else is going to lot. Then I just stare at the treasure pool for a second. I needed to beat a 648 lot to get the hat. I push the Cast lots button and pray for the best. Before you know it, I see the message:

I had won the hat. I was telling people on vent about it and I was so ecstatic with joy!!! Before you know it, I get so many congratulations /tells left and right. I was praying to God that my internet wouldn't crap out or my computer die on me before it dropped (because it has been known to do that ;; ) At this point in the run, we were wiping and there was nobody left to fight. Before I know it, it finally drops.

By the time I got my hat, the alliance was practically all dead, so I had to wait to get d2'ed before I could equip it. I couldn't be a happier tarutaru right now.