Well, folks, I have a new addition to the rules, based on last night. You're all familiar with Mama Hissy's rules... they're in my sig. To save you the trouble of scrolling down, they are:
Save early, save often
Save before, save after
The new rule.... save WHEN!
Why? Well, lemmetellya about last night. 'Twas a good night of running around the desert with the former barlock party... I'll call 'em narlocks now, since there are still three warlocks with a ninja, assassin, and ranger to round it out.
I love the gauntlets... those places like the back-and-forth exit area from Ishad N'ha, or the entry part of Dragonspire. I just seem to get tons of random encounters there, and that always means XP.
Well, another gauntlet is the area between the Lost Sea and the desert. Nice, twisty, back-and-forth... and great monsters, too! Jungle lilies, bloodstone griffins and azmodean rocs, dumdee oleohs... my joy knows no bounds.
Last night, my gourkh assassin smelled something. "Red dragon nearby," she said.
RED DRAGON!?!?! WHERE!!!!
No sooner did I say those words than we spied a couple of salads... jungle lilies. We dispatched those... but no dragon near them.
We went in the other direction... a trio of bark horrors... and some more... and some more... nice. Then there was a sand crawler... off with his head. No dragon.
Back the other way... the griffin / roc combo. Another crawler... but no dragon.
Back again... longtooths... raptors... dragonflies... no dragon.
I've now beaten a dozen kinds of beasties, one after another, in the space of just a few minutes. No traces of that dragon anywhere, and I'm now pretty sure that I've gone far enough away from where he materialized that he's now disappeared. I've lost my chance at a red dragon
So... the addition to Mama Hissy's rules... SAVE NOW!
Had I saved *immediately* when the info about the dragon showed up, I could have reloaded and looked around to try to find him. But I didn't, so no such luck
Ya don't see dragons very often.... kinda sorry I missed this one. Perhaps another... later...
Whenever a message like that pops up, save ASAP! You never know where you'll need to go...