... Yay Dyna

Dynamis - Beaucedine last night... well, would have been if we had more than 16 people show up for it. Ended up moving to Sandy, since no one was in - imagine this; people showed up after that! We ended up having about 24 people for Sandy, not too bad. I don't know why, but we always seem to wipe at Wyrmgnasher Bjakdek (first NM) no matter who we have pulling, just way too many links. We tried something new, time-nuking the outside statues, went fine, but there are still way too many mobs that come out as a result. Skipped him, cleared out choco stables then started sacpulling the NMs. Bjakdek went down like a bad date on prom night, then we pulled Reapertongue Gadgquok, the SMN NM. JOY, Hi2u Astral Flow rape! Now, if you don't play Dynamis, or haven't done Sandy this is where I'd tell you that you never have people melee the 3 major NMs in Sandy. Charmga tends to have lots and lots of fun with people who do that. We said DO NOT MELEE THE NMS before we pulled Bjakdek all 3 or 4 times we did - no one did. Incoming big-ass SMN Orc, BLMs are ready to sleep the avatar(t?)... Melees: Pulling out weapons.

What?

The following is the conversation that happened over Skype, between my sister (MNK) and myself (BLM):

Me: WHY ARE YOU ALL MELEEING GADGQUOK!?
Sister: You never said don't melee him, just Bjakdek.
Me: No... we (the officers, I'm unofficially an officer in the LS) said don't melee the NMs. All 3 of them.
Sister: No, you said don't melee Bjakdek!

This is where Charmga goes off.

Me to BLMs: Incoming horde of melees and NM; Sleep em if you can.

Sleep lands on a lot, but one of them is running around with Gadgquok still. Maxion. Our main tank and co-leader of the shell. He's screaming at the top of his lungs in party and LS chat, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SLEEP ME!" so he doesn't run back with the NM to the respawn point. By this time, the BLM group was all dead, there was one lone RDM still alive, with all the melees still napping. Said RDM sleeps Max, melees all wake up after they uncharm, they all sit there and die. All except my sister.

Now, for some odd reason, the NM doesn't go after her, allowing her to contemplate exactly what to do. She decides to go wake up the sleeping, charmed PLD. Now, if you've never been charmed before, I should explain that charmed players are able to be targeted as mobs, but don't follow hate rules. At all. You could weaponskill them and they'd still go after whoever the fuck looked the best to eat at the time. Sister decides to wake up Maxion, saying it'd be better for her to tank the PLD (MNK tanking a PLD.....????) compared to the RDM that slept him.

WTF. Just let him sleep, decharm (eventually) and be a good little girl and DIE, instead of prolonging the inevitable. Never mind that charmed people don't pay attention to hate. So she wakes him up after he was screaming to sleep him. Common sense would usually dictate that you don't want to wake up people who want to be slept. Especially in Dynamis. Insert FULL wipe here, where the RDM, Maxion and Dia (sister) could have stayed alive.

NM wanders back to spawn, people start RRing... and I start bitching at her for making the intelligent decisions to:

#1: Melee an NM in Sandy. This is not her first Sandy run. Every time, I've told her to not melee the NMs. Every other time (but one) she's not melee'd the NMs. \o/
#2: Wake charmed sleeping people.

Now, I admit, it was a little over the top screaming at her, but in my defense, she was trying to defend her actions. I see where lag may have played a role in not seeing Max getting slept, but come on... hitting charmed people is fun in Besieged and all, but Dynamis has an overall goal, and a lot fewer people to achieve that goal. Tanking a charmed person just doesn't happen, they'll just go after whatever seems shiniest to them at the time. I'm just speechless at this point. D: