User blog comment:Artemis Paradox/Monster Hunter, A game of joy and pain... mostly pain.../@comment-1685631-20100721005554

Ok, moment of Joy1: So i was farming G-rank Rathalos in MHFU for his tails(was making Genesis), so I cut off his tail and carved a Rathalos Ruby, Then when I killed him I got a second in the rewards. The next day I do it again and lo and behold, I get two rubies in the rewards. I had like 8 by the end of the week. Moment of Pain1: This happened to my friend. He was hunting a High-Rank Rathalos, and he was failing. Time was almost out(about 10 seconds left) and he had cut the tail, so when Rathalos left he carved and got a ruby. Thats not bad, right? But then, with only 5 seconds left, as he finished carving, a melynx ran up to him, took the ruby. Then the screen said, "Times up!" and he lost his first ruby. Pain2: This actually happened today. I warped to one of my friends, and he was like, this guy wants to rank up, we need to do Jhen! So I was like, yeah!, lets do this. I brought my full Ceadeus Set and Ancient Blade. We were down to the last 5 minutes and the ship was holding out okay. We were rushing to nail it with cannonballs and the Binder whenever it got near. I was all like, yea I'm gonna repel Jhen and we're gonna get some Sturdy fangs! Then, while I was about to shoot another cannonball, my screen said, "Times Up!" Quest goddamn fail. What made it sting even worse was that it was my fault, because I had taken the Antidragon bombs, but never used them because I kept falling off Jhen's back. So that was 800 damage down the drain. Plus, I had failed it earlier that day with some other people.