Twist of Feiht

After the conclusion of the Phase 10 match (Ape won again), I logged in and immediately got an invite request to rep someone. Luckily, I was still in the Dunes from the previous SMN party and was only one square away from the new camp. A few minutes later and I had been swapped in for Omegix (sp). Again, we have a PL so I mix it up with summons, melee and enfeebs.

Early in the party Serro asks me for a raise in the Dunes but I had to decline as we had already started. I shouted and our PL takes off! My LS mate got the raise he needed but I never meant to divert our PL for it...

And then the deja vu kicks in. I think this fellow was the same PL I had a few weeks ago in Saromugue fighting weapons. Both Sedge (Scholar) and I had to cure quite a bit, and there were too many deaths. Remind me to check my log and compare names...

Anyway, we work our way through gobs and lizzies at the G-9 rock camp and move to the crab camp after some dings. Even with the PL, some of the pulls are rough. Our NIN puller, Feiht, would take extreme damage if her shadows fell before the DRK could voke off her. But despite the challenges, we're gatting pretty good XP and having a few laughs in party chat.

Then the PL starts complaining. He seemed annoyed about a delay as we switched camps, and made random comments about doing us a favor and that he couldn't or wouldn't control the gobs. He mixed his english with Japanese that I wasn't able to comprehend much of. At some point he said {Summoner}ですね～ probably referring to my meleeing. He never followed up and no one else cared.

He disappeared a couple of times only to return. Eventually, during some more bitching, Feiht and someone else (Sedge?) thanked him for his help but told him to go if he felt the urge. And he did not long after. Weird. But wouldn't you know it Feiht brings back a snip and a second gets aggroed in somehow. 4 dead, leaving only me and Sedge. We both opt to change in Selbina and split the raises.

We each took two partiers and I helped a neighboring party in which Drewsapocalypse was seconds from death. When I cured him, their mob stuck to me and they finished it off. I was able to raise their fallen comrade then, with appreciation and apologies from Jason and Drew.

As Sedge and I returned, I asked him if he wanted me to PL instead and he said I could but that I'd miss out on XP. I told him I was happy getting to 15 and that I didn't have a lot of time left and wanted to get the level back for whomever just deleveled. On returning, we let the rest in on the plan and I told them I would try hard to "suck less". See if you can guess what happens next!

I started off great, escorting Feiht on pulls and hasting when I could. With only 5, on what were certainly IT's, pulls were scary. Feiht especially gave me palpitations any time a snip or gob got through the shadows.

After one pull, when I thought the group was resting, I commented that our previous PL had been right on one thing - not voking once the mob was locked onto the PL. As I'm typing all this trying to be helpful and encouraging, I see "Feiht was defeated by the Goblin Leecher".

Ni~i~ice. I never saw her leave and since I can't touch-type, my eyes were off the screen during my mini-lesson. Argh!!! So now I have to eat crow, raise Feiht, remove my foot from my mouth, and hope I find some way to live this down ^^ I stayed 10 minutes longer than planned to make sure Feiht got some good XP and Sedge got his level.

Honestly, they were all good natured about it, laughing when I said I was still ahead of the other PL on "deaths allowed". All in all, other than the miscue on that pull, I think I did a proper job PLing. But I will have to update the guide: "Pullers like to take off when the PL is not looking."