Chocobo power

The other day I was on my Culinarian, heading from Aleport to my friends’ camp, Novv’s Nursery in Sahagin Landbase. I planned to buy some groceries over there. But before I reached the store, a weird stranger sent me a tell, asking if I could help them kill their Hunt Log targets.

My first thought was like…..WTH? I’m a cook. What? How?

I had a mind to politely tell them I’m on crafter now and I’m on an errand and cannot help. But I got curious as to who and where the person was. So I asked “Where are you?” thinking maybe they saw me riding a chocobo past them and decided to send tell. The person, however, invited me to the party instead of replying, and immediately changed zone to Upper La Noscea, to Oakwood. This means they couldn’t have been anywhere near me when they initiated the conversation.

Perhaps they searched everyone in the map and my name came up first.

I wondered whether the person would notice that I wasn’t a DoW or DoM, so I rode my chocobo to meet up. Nope, they said nothing about me being a cook.  XD  Which was amusing. I decided to roll with it and summoned my chocobo, thinking I would let her kill stuff for us.

The person jumped in and attacked a Beetle. But WHOOPS!!!! It linked with 2 wolves because my level was too high and they ganged on that person. My frypan swing speed felt so slow and it took me a while to whack all 3 enemies with it to steal enmity. But the person lived and we continued, killing several beetles and wolves, all died in one hit once my chocobo started attacking. Then the person said thanks and I left.

I didn’t want to seem mean or finicky so I didn’t ask them why they chose me and whether they realized I was on crafter. XD But that incident was so amusing I had to write about it.

By the way there was one time while I was mining a Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil from Unspoiled node in Hammaelea when I noticed a THM getting killed by a Coblyn. I engaged with my pickaxe and hit the thing once, but it wouldn’t die. In that split second I saw it trying to use an AoE move and I was like OH SHIT I can’t save this person. But my chocobo rushed forward and pecked it to death because I hit it and she entered battle mode (good thing I always leave my birdie on Free Stance instead of Healer Stance) LOL. Chocobo saved the day! That person thanked me and /bow and/kneel and stuff. It was funny I imagined the stare from my chocobo, because she might be thinking “Why you got thanks? You did nothing, me the hero.”