Talk:Iowa/@comment-30537917-20190703121824

I'll admit, I don't deserve that Iowa from Intrepid event at all, since I didn't even go out for search and rescue but merely trying to reach Q for whatever reason hoping it will unlock debuff gimmick for casual, and then went to boss again despite having 0 ammo 0 fuel. It was literally Tanaka handing her to me from FF doing all the damage work to reach A rank Orz

Fast forward to Spring 2019, after 174 visits to node J I finally located and saved Ishigaki, with Fretcher already saved before I even cleared E5 my kandex was completed for the third time in a row, I had nothing else to do, so then... Instead of doing nothing but stockpiling resource again, I decided to run E5 again (cleared on normal) to see if I can get anything decent.

The postclear farm was still quite smooth with random annoying taiha from time to time, and having to spend an average of 4 buckets per run with around 70% S ranks, but was slow and the loot kind of followed Poi's drop rates with most of them being I-19 as expected (my gosh why did Tanaka make her drop all the time?).

I kept going despite so many fruitless runs, all the way until 12 hours before event ended (having to work the next day during the event's final hours), in what was to be my last run instead I got a catbomb at second node, for the first time ever. That  pissed me off a lot, I don't mind having all these farming runs completed without a decent drop but game won't even give me the dignity of finishing my last run!?

I looked at the time, and because I didn't want to take the humiliation, I made the decision that I didn't regret later on: "Why not do another run? I got nothing to lose except a few more buckets and some resources anyway.", last run went normal as usual, and then to my surprise, I only got a single taiha and no chuuha on boss battle, something that never happened before, as usual I proceeded to night battle who got me the Akagi-led friendly fleet (actually she came most of the time anyway, I don't know if that was luck or somehow my fleet had only super FFs and no bad FFs at all), who then proceeded to taiha the boss leading to very easy S rank, then this happened, I was in shock for a few minutes, just before the kill I was thinking "So smooth day battle, it would be nice if Iowa came for this run..."

Welp, otherwise mediocre event became a good+ ending, somehow I hit the 1% (S rank) jackpot and this time I actually aimed to save her, not another fluke, so in the end I did deserve her after all ^^V