Camping Out

Sure, I camped Notorious Monsters.

Very, very few of them.

I camped Mee Deggi for O.Kote when I was broke.

I camped Stropers for Archer's Rings when I was broke.

I camped Argus for the Peacock Charm when I was broke.

Are you starting to see a pattern? If so, welcome to poverty.

I only camped NMs out of desperation. When I was badly in need of money. And I never got any drops.

Does that mean I only killed a handful of Notorious Monsters during my gameplay?

Fuck no. It just means I'm a lucky son of a fuck.

I'm 4/12 on Leaping Lizzy.

1/1 on Valkurm Emperor.

2/5 on Jaggedy-Eared Jack

2/9 Tom Tit Tat

1/1 Shikigami Weapon

Also Panzer Percival, but I just murdered him so he didn't feel left out.

None of these NMs I ever camped. I had always been running through the area and spotted them unclaimed.

True, there were some NMs I camped for rare/ex pieces like Cargo Crab Colin or Aquarius. It always seemed like crabs had the stuff I wanted. But even then, it was a high drop-to-kill ratio.

I stopped camping once I started up beastmaster, and I never regret it.

NM camping was always so... Boring. Especially when other people were always there, such as Spook. Or that other Yagudo that isn't Mee Deggi.

However, there was one NM that has eluded me to this very day. What is it, you might ask? Some HNM? Some NM with a mega complicated pop requirement? Is it Bigmouth Billy?

No. It was fucking Stinging Sophie. The bee in North Gustaberg.

Stop laughing.

Seriously. Stop.

I camped that bitch several times. Aside from Leaping Lizzy, she was one of the first NMs I ever heard about in the game, and I was determined to murder her. But I never even saw her pop. Not once.

This wasn't about the sweet dagger she dropped. This was about something more than that. Something on a deeper, cosmic level we both shared in another lifetime, bound by fate, nay, bound by super-destiny. So near, and yet so far. Just... Barely out of reach...

Also, I wanted the dagger for when I decided to level thief.