Well, did the emptiness quest, fully completing it, on saturday. I had went on friday to do it, and though that evne though I checked the ??? once that I was okay, so I chose to stay for a bit longer with my npc. Unknowing that I actaully had to say yes to being finish, to truely finish the quest. So I went back and wondered why my npc wasnt giving me a tactics pearl. Talked to Skaw a bit and realized I should try it again, however it was too late that night and I needed to sleep.
Saturday comes along and I go back in, thankfully all you do is go to the Rendevous point like before and it restarts the quest, you have 45 mins to find the ???. I went to the area, and killed empty for about 30 minutes or so before I decided to fully complete the quest. My npc got 1220 exp upon completion. Went to jueno, talked to npc and she gave me a tactics pearl. I used one charge Saturday, after a failed attempt to level her in Ulegerand Range (I got owned after fighting the second mob In there due to snoll magic aggro ><).
Got a R3 and helped a friend get his Ancient Salt for Opo Opo Crown quest in quicksand caves. Used the tactics pearl to help level my npc a tiny bit while I fought the worms, but then the darn Salt had to drop on the second worm, so.. I kept her out for a while more, fighting more worms and antican, and even a scorpion for kicks, before putting my npc away prematurely so we could leave.
She's still level 45, but tonight I checked Luto and walla, 3rd weapon upgrade is available yay. Also, since its sunday I decided id talk with my npc and see what she said about quests. The Emptiness quest is available again. Sweet. Still have 3 charges on my current tactics pearl.
Now the problem.. actaully finding an Infirno Sword. ><