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loot and then distribute properly. I didn’t expect much on these rabbits given their low level. Wanting to avoid actually touching the thing, what with how realistic the game made the sense of touch, I just focused on the rabbit and blinked. My intuition was right and the loot screen popped up. I received one copper piece, silly rabbit must have swallowed that, and nothing else. The counter on my quest bar now read 1/40 for rabbits killed. I had also earned 5% experience. At the lower levels getting experience was fast. It wasn’t until you passed lvl 10 or so in most games that you really had to grind to get through levels.
    “We are rich gentlemen! The rabbit had one copper piece cheeked. Hopefully we find three more so I can distribute our spoils properly! How many hit points did you lose Wayne?” I asked.
    “Not too bad. My base is 1300 hit points and I am at 1178 now. If we can maintain single pulls I can do this for a while before I need to rest,” Wayne answered.
    “Yeah, about that. Single pulls aren’t going to be so easy now. But I will do my best without having any snare. TheClaw warns you though, two are likely incoming. If I get three, I will run for the guards,” Dan said.
    “In the meantime, I will take advantage of every break by sitting and regening. But go whenever you are ready Dan,” Wayne said.
    Now would be the time where our earlier efforts would come in to play. There wasn’t a great amount of synchronicity that our group needed with two mobs, but we wanted to make sure that we engaged only the mob Wayne was fighting, but only after he had established aggro on both. After twenty seconds we heard Dan yelling, “Incoming, two baddies!”
    Wayne stood up and got into the same position. This time, Dan had to stand next to him to give Wayne time to get aggro and he lost a good ten percent of hit points while waiting. But once Wayne had established aggro on both, he called for our party to engage, and I again activated my “Follow attack of Naugha” button and began hitting the rabbit. After a few seconds I landed my first Critical Strike and took 20 points off the mob. The wee bunny didn’t like this much and he immediately turned on me and began slicing into my legs. Being at the back side of the rabbit I hadn’t noticed that despite looking cute and fluffy, it had razor sharp teeth and a tinge of red on the eyes. Way to go a little psycho for the beginners AltCon.
    Following my own instructions, I immediately stopped attacking by activating my second icon, “Cease Attack.” I suggested to everyone, since this may occur in these early fights, that everyone make such a button. I was happy that I did. The rabbit ripped into me for only a few seconds before Wayne reestablished aggro, and I waited another five seconds before attacking again. Once the first bunny was dead, and Wayne was down a total of 250 hit points, we started in on the second rabbit. This one had been attacking Wayne for a while and building its aggro against him. My two Critical Strikes did not draw aggro this time.
    “Ready for the next pull,” Dan said after I had looted the rabbits and received nothing.
    “Hold a second Dan. How many hit points do you have now Wayne?” Jason asked.
    “I’ve got 900. Those two took off more than just the one rabbit plus I was poisoned during that fight. I would say I could do this two more times before having to rest for another 5-10 minutes.”
    Now that we had started we didn’t want to slow down. And I could tell Wayne really wanted to continue, so I suggested we keep going. The routine was much the same after that. We killed two rabbits at a time and when Wayne’s hit points got to below 500 we rested till he had full health. The loot continued to be copper pieces for the most part. Once we found a venomous sack on one of the rabbits, likely the source of their poison. We didn’t know what it was for so I kept it in my inventory. Perhaps one of us could sell it or make it