Turtle Kill (sort of)

In case you didn't know I have two wonderful sons aged 19 months and 4.5 years for a previous relationship and I get to spend several days a week with them. All is good, except they gave me the current crud that is floating around daycare and I didn't sleep at all last night. Sinus hell, I am particularly susceptible to sinus issues anyway and having a programming/managerial job, I may as well stay home if I have to take drugs. I just can't work with a fuzzy head.

So...here I am awake at 7am, drooling on the keyboard, writing an email to work telling them I am not coming in today. That done, I decide to see what is going on online. I had left Balinvar up selling in the Bazaar. Well, he made something like 1500pp overnight! Yay me! I am also reminded that we have a handle on the Lodizal spawn in Iceclad. So, I bring up Bianca and port out there and check. 2 or 3 peeps in the zone, not turtle. Well, it's early, I sit there and hit track once a min while reading email and boards in another window (I loved the new windowed mode).

Well, time goes by and boom! A turtle appears. Well, cool, I have never seen it even. So, I put out the FFA call in guild chat, port Bianca back to the Nexus to pick up people and take Finavar in to watch Lodizal. No one close to the turle as I get into range, it is 100% health and pathing along. Then it stops near the water and sits. So I hang out a discrete distance with Finavar while grouping up folks in the Nexus with Bianca.

Then bozo the lizard shows up (an unguilded Iksar monk named Caball) and agros the turtle and pulls it right to me. Ouch! Damn turtle double for 280 and stuns, nice. Fortunately, I am SoWed and Leved and I manage to get out of range. I am trying to save Fin, port with Bianca and update the guild in guildchat all at once and doing nothing well. Eventually, I get a group in with Bianca. I take Finavar in for a closer look and see a dead turtle, damn.

Except, the person (people?) locking the corpse is Tinv! Where the hell did he come from? Also there is Aryllyian, Drayal and Eillail all former EE members. Bouncing around whining about KSing is my Iksar friend. Apparently Caball and his buddies have been farming Lodizal for the last several days and have taken exception to competition. The rules for FFA are cutthroat, but clear. Agro is not enough, you have to have him engaged with sufficent forces for a kill and kiting him around with a monk does not count. They know this, but complain anyway. Although, they do decline to /petition it since they know they would lose.

As to the circimstances of the kill, Aryllyian, Drayal and Eillail we apparently camping the spawn, invisible on the other island. They didn't know I was even there until I showed up with help. After all was said and done, I got the map piece I needed for the Eyepatch of Plunder quest and Bianca got an EB ring. Yay and many thanks to Tinv and Aryllyian.

So, I got to see the turtle and got some turtle loot, so all is good.