Last night I fired up my 'puter to persue my favorite pasttime, Everquest
(bet ya didn't see that coming!).

I'm camped out in the windmill of the lake of ill omen, so I shout once for
a group, and then proceed to wander of to the skelly ruins. There's a group
of 2 rangers and shaman there whacking on things and the shaman spots me.
He runs over and asks if I'm grouped. Since I'm not yet, I join them in
their destruction of the undead in the area. Things proceed nicely.
Everyone is happy to have a bard and are thoroughly impressed with the
increase in effectiveness of the group, but then one of the rangers decides
to leave.

We figure we'll still be ok and I pull out my claw and silvery axe instead
of my dual gnoll hide lariats which I was using before. Things continue to
be good until the shaman decides to pull a skelly and two come. Of course,
this valley has lots of wanderers, so we pick up two wanderers also. The
ranger peels off one mob while I start tanking (ack!) one of the skellys
(and one of the wanderers of course) and the shaman blasts the other skelly
to oblivion. Things are looking bad as I get down to a little less than two
bubs, so I flip on Selo's and start running circles around the group while
they finish off another mob. The shaman and ranger med and heal while I
keep the last two mobs busy running in circles. Then we manage to polish
everything off. This was really nice. Both the shaman and ranger were duly
impressed, but then the ranger and shaman both had to camp out.

Things have been going great this night, so I decide to look for another
group, and find a rogue to partner up with. We move over to the back
entrace of the Sarnak fortress, and I use lament to pull one of the two
sarnaks at the entrance. We proceed to demolish this recruit (I love
rogues!). And continue to pull a couple more singles. Things are still
going great, we're finishing up another recruit when another player runs out
of the fortress and starts yelling for help. We proceed to finish our fight
and just as this recruit dies, bam, we get trained by a sarnak adherent and
pet. I get nailed by a darkness spell and end up dying.

I proceed to remem my songs, grab a spare drum and truck it back to my
corpse. The rogue asks the other player why he trained us and his response
was that since we didn't help us, he figured we should go down with him. I
was floored. We were already engaged, and he thought we should turn to help
him??? I guess I should have logged off sooner. :(

Gilgurth
Bard of 25 Winces
E'ci