...Right after you left, my BLM friend who was in the neighbourhood ran into me and we decided to kill a few scorpions for fun... and not even 5 minutes later, and you-know-who popped! We rested up and then a normal scorpion popped in our camp. As we were clearing it, I noticed someone using ninjutsu and running towards the NM! I finished our battle quickly and ran to pull Tunnok, but there was a bomb in my way, which slowed me down just long enough for that person to claim the NM.
...As it turned out, the NM had claimed HIM! As I would later discover, this guy didn't even know what it was, but it had aggroed him and his party of 4-5 people. Unfortunately for them, they were not strong enough to take it down. As it very quickly beat them down they called for help, and then escaped. As the CFH-mode vanished I pulled the NM but a couple of bombs were too near and aggroed us, forcing us to escape too. By now 3 LS-mates were on the way to help us out. As we quickly gathered together for round 2, we five got back to the site just in time to see the NM aggro the poor group of 4-5 once again. (I don't know how this kept happening, you only need Sneak to pass safely!) I think they were only trying to get past him to do ZM5 or something; they had no intention of fighting the great beast. This time they didn't even bother trying to fight, they trained it far away and either zoned out or died, I don't know. After some searching we found where they had trained it to. (It moves EXTREMELY slowly and would've taken all day to return to its spawn.) We cleared a safe camp, and somehow pulled it back thru lots of aggro mobs from the crazy location they had run it away to... And finally, we fought with Tunnok. We won, but no drop this time. And fortunately, the only casualty was my NPC Buddy Jugowa, who is ill-equipped to deal with scorpion AoEs... ; ;
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Date: 2005-12-20 06:31 pm (UTC)...As it turned out, the NM had claimed HIM! As I would later discover, this guy didn't even know what it was, but it had aggroed him and his party of 4-5 people. Unfortunately for them, they were not strong enough to take it down. As it very quickly beat them down they called for help, and then escaped. As the CFH-mode vanished I pulled the NM but a couple of bombs were too near and aggroed us, forcing us to escape too. By now 3 LS-mates were on the way to help us out. As we quickly gathered together for round 2, we five got back to the site just in time to see the NM aggro the poor group of 4-5 once again. (I don't know how this kept happening, you only need Sneak to pass safely!) I think they were only trying to get past him to do ZM5 or something; they had no intention of fighting the great beast. This time they didn't even bother trying to fight, they trained it far away and either zoned out or died, I don't know. After some searching we found where they had trained it to. (It moves EXTREMELY slowly and would've taken all day to return to its spawn.) We cleared a safe camp, and somehow pulled it back thru lots of aggro mobs from the crazy location they had run it away to... And finally, we fought with Tunnok. We won, but no drop this time. And fortunately, the only casualty was my NPC Buddy Jugowa, who is ill-equipped to deal with scorpion AoEs... ; ;