I had to go all the way to page six to find this thread again. I guess everyone on the server has been rocking lately. ;)
Well, everyone...except Charlene. -_-
I would ordinarily laugh this off, but it's the second time in as many days this has happened, I'm seeing a trend, and it really, really sucks. I'll do the general rant in a minute.
I'm standing about in Jeuno tonight, flag up, when I get a tell. I reply that yes, please, I would like a party; I join, and it's Charlene (THF/NIN), a nice Paladin, a Ranger, and a moment later the esteemed Kyotokombat appears in the party...a NIN.
There's some ???'s from the party, I was busy buying food and didn't comment.
Kyoto politely bows out a moment later, and not long afterward the RNG drops. {I'm sorry} {Party}.
o.O, I think, but settle in to wait, I'm not in a hurry. Exp is exp.
A minute or so goes by, and nothing is happening; I glance at the party list and discover to my confusion and annoyance that Charlene dropped leader on me.
"Uh, no thank you," I said essentially, giving it back to her.
Kyoto appears again!
"Keep the Paladin," he says, "you don't need me," and he drops.
Charlene meantime is saying odd senseless things like {please} party {thank you}.
I look at the party list again; she's rank 2. At level 64.
I look down again, and Charlene has tossed leader on the white mage!
He disbands the party, and I don't blame him. We never got out of Jeuno.
I don't know if Charlene was drunk, couldn't speak English, bought the account, was a gilseller, or what. But steer very clear of her, she's a delevel on wheels.
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The reason I went digging through for this thread, and am so anxious to post about this, is that this is the second time in two days this has happened to me.
In a party the night before, the leader whined that she didn't feel well and would someone else take leader? before the party was even full. A moment later she tossed leader on me, with a 'hehe'.
I invited a sixth member and handed leader back. (Same girl went afk later in Bibiki, got aggroed by a train some fool pulled into the zoneless tunnel behind us, and never did come back, just laid there dead with a Raise II on her. We disbanded.)
If you want to start a party, FINISH THE PARTY. Do not dump leader on the first person to accept your invite!! In Qufim I wouldn't be surprised, but we're talking about people that are level 64 and 65...what in the world. This is a really ugly and obnoxious trend, and it needs to die.
Edited, Wed Jun 22 04:43:13 2005 by Sioux