If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
I had a relatively frustrating night in EQ2 last night, but it was a frustrating night of my own creation. I got home and was pretty worn out after my first day back to work and I also am feeling the hauntings of a possible cold coming on, so I wasn’t in the best of moods.
When I logged out Sunday night, I was about 40% away from hitting level 42, so I figured that would be an easy mark to hit last night. However, as I logged on and looked at my quest journal, I realized that I simply wasn’t in the mood to go hunting.
So, I decided on a cheap method for gaining the experience I needed. I would go exploring!
Patting myself on the back for my intelligence, I set off first for The Feerrott. I had a couple of quests there that didn’t involve killing… just roaming around. I figured I could bust those out and then head off somewhere like Lavastorm or Everfrost and get some discovery experience to finish off that level.
Funny thing about those exploration quests… they all start off easy and safe and tend to lead you to areas that are a bit more dangerous. And, if you are like I was last night and only doing those quests with half of your attention, you tend to not remember where that see invis mean-ass named son of a bitch was that smoked you the first time and you run right smack into him a second time.
On the third encounter with him, you start to realize that maybe, just maybe, he roams a wide area.
After the forth time, you swear to yourself that you will just run the next time.
After the fifth time, you realize that running isn’t the best solution when the area is PACKED with aggressive heroic mobs and you swear that you will cast evac the next time.
The sixth time, you sit there wishing that you hadn’t burned evac a few minutes earlier because you were too lazy to run back and decided to use evac as a short cut.
The seventh time, that sum bitch is burned into your mind and you just KNOW that you will make him pay repeatedly at some future date. Revenge is good… oh yes it is.
The eighth time, you vow to burn that zone to the ground. Who needs so many rutting trees anyway?
The ninth time, you start to wonder why you are still working on this quest. Why not go ahead and head off to another zone for discovery experience and just come back to finish this quest at some future date?
As I smiled to myself once again at how smart I was being, I headed off to Lavastorm… chuckling at how long it took me to decide on this course of action.
I ran about 10 feet into the zone and was horribly murdered by some passing bastich or another.
I sat there glaring hate and murder at my screen for a bit and made a vow to myself… the next time I’m feeling that way going into a gaming session, I’m going to enjoy a nice quiet evening in the tradeskill instance.
Of course, with my luck, I’ll get my sleeve caught in the tailoring loom, get sucked inside, and die to multiple thousand needle puncture wounds.
