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So in the not so distant past at an undisclosed time, I went and decided to go camp Argus for the first time, because I thought it would be a worthwhile experience and I had the ToD. Here is my story:
I go an hour early to be on the safe side I dont do much, but chat on LS look for campers to start entering maze etc. This is the beginning of an overal theme: not overly exciting. The first to show up was the camper who got the last Argus pop at an undisclosed time. His name was Darth, now Darth is a nice guy, gave me a lot of tips to camping Argus and in general that were very helpful. As I told him when we were talking that I at least wanted to come out of this a better camper and with an idea on how to camp Argus succesfully.
I was on PS2 which I prefer to play on when I'm not in my dorm, I dont like taking screens on ps2 so Ive decided to illustrate to you some of my experiences. Here is the cave I was in for 13 hours:
Thats basically what you look at (among menus) for 13 hours.
At around an undiclosed time I decided its time to take a 2 and a half hour power nap so if it did pop I could estimate its tod if not in my log, and if did not id be refreshed while Darth (who never went to sleep only dc'd about 5 times) would be feeling tired and sluggish.
My gamble paid off to a degree, I was more rested and Darth was feeling tired. We oftened compalined of our hunger for it had been 10+ hrs since either of us had eaten. So after my total of ten and a half hours and Darths 13 hours the "jk Argus campers" NM popped. A random PLD got it...and died, Darht fumbled over his flee macro for awhile, my widescan didnt go that far but I figured that was up, and hey I'm scared of leeches. They link, they dont have eyes yet attack you, they are cute bubble things.....of pain:
My journey into the Maze was a tiring one that I probably will not do repeatedly in fear of my health, but besides Argus not popping (which I saw as very possible), I enjoyed myself to a degree (masochistic as it may be) and was proud I was able to stay that long while remaining sane and fully capable of effective camping (I took a nap for a possible long run benefit I was still pretty awake at the time).
Until another day...........................Argus.
Or as Darth and I so ironically asked one another late into the window "do you sometimes forget the name of the NM we are camping, because I do" to which I replied "yeah I've been having that problem, i know its short and starts with an A then it takes about 10 seconds to click".
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