** Back-up your data **

For the past few weeks, I have had a nagging feeling that it was time to update my monster hunter back-up. Sure Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is going to be here very soon, and yes, the plan is to make the back-up before we do the transfers. But, I can wait. Well......

Bad news happened, but not to me. Ghost, a member of our weekly monster hunting group informed me during our bowling league that he, "will be starting anew with MHFu." When I questioned him as to why he had decided to go that route, after all I am doing a full transfer, and the 1250+ hours has a great deal to do with my decision; he said it was because his memory stick was corrupted!

Now thanks to ShadyGuyJMV, we all have back-ups. Well, at least Shady, Tommy, Vlask¥. and I do. I have been meaning to get him to make back-ups for both Ghost and Angel for a few weeks, but once we were together...other events took precedence.

He is taking the news much better than I would.

On the hunting front, every dog has his day. Shady and I were trying to get Ghost to come over so we could begin to level him, so we decided to do a Daora quest in the town.........IT WAS AN EPIC EXPERIENCE!

After gathering in the town, we headed out to confront the monster. Shady is using his Lao-Shan cannon and wearing Genesis Haku, I sported smolder and donned my Supreme Mizuha.  I was lagging behind hording a few extra ballista when the dreaded, "ShadyGuy is done for."

What? He explains that Kushala wind tunnelled him twice while he was trying to get a ballista shot off. I smirk and confront the beast....Three ballista hits (one knocks it out of the air) and a wind tunnel throws me back. I scroll through my healing items deciding on which to consume when....."You have fallen unconscious."

Love that bumpy cart ride back to camp. Quickly, I consume the supplied max potion and eat some rations and head back. Once again, "ShadyGuy is done for."

Not the best quest results.

Of course, we immediately went after it again. This time, twenty-some minutes later, Shady launches a dragonator attack that fells Kushla.