Working Overtime

Well I just finished the last of my calculations for one of my classes and I am semi energetic on tea. It's pretty late and I'm having trouble sleeping so I thought...what better way to put yourself to sleep then to write a little confession. Those always require some form of energy.

So here it goes. Ahem...*cough*. The confession that I have to make is that I enjoy watching other people react and eat dirt in campaign. Now hear me out before you throw rocks at me. Nine out of 10 times in campaign I am often disgruntled with the other peeps around me. Either you have white mages who whack away with their clubs and don't cure the person who is tanking the mob, or you have some lousy DD or tank who can't turn the mob for crap but is killing your monster anyway. Don't get me wrong, I realize its campaign so we all have to share mobs...but it wouldn't hurt if you could from time to time grab hate so the thief who has been tanking for 4 minutes can catch a quick breath and use some bolts to regain life or get her utsu timers back up.

There are however, indeed those moments in which I feel blessed and lucky to be fighting along sides people who know what they are doing. Although it is always nice to do campaign with friends, I always get that little smile when some stranger is actually kind enough to throw a cure my way. I feel like saying..."thank you and great job being awesome." In fact, there was a taru rdm who I campaigned next to for over two hours and he kept me alive over and over, making sure my hp never dipped too low. Despite thanking him over and over, I never got a reply. But thank you Onimoon. You definitely got a gold star in my book. A second one for being one robust little taru rdm.

Anyhoo, back to what started this. Like I said before, from time to time I get disgruntled with some fellow adventurers who are fighting besides me and I'm admiting to finding pleasure in watching them run away from a NM or a mob they somehow "magically" got aggro from. That brings me to a little trick I learned a long time ago which can only be done with thief. Should you have hate from a mob that aggro's from sight and use hide, the monster will then go after the next person who has more hate. But what should happen if the thief uses hide and was the only one to touch the mob? Ah, the monster then insteads aggro's the first player it sees. Whenever a group of people either don't cure at all or are just not pulling their weight, I often grab a mob (NM if there is one avaliable) and run it into the crowd and then use hide. As I stand there invisible and out of harms way, I cannot help but laugh like Shantotto as I watch people scatter as quickly as possible to the new threat, and people falling one by one as the NM chases down as many victims as possible.

Is what I do considered mean and rude? Probrably. Have I ever been yelled at for doing it? Amazingly no. Although Ichrius wasn't too happy when I took him down with me that one time. Will I continue to show strangers the wrath of my mischievous ways? Of course! I mean all thieves gotta have their revenge one way or another. Oh ho ho ho~.