Ginger Pet

So Me jane is no longer a citizen of Ascalon. Ginger Pet has taken her place. Still no Doors name. You won't be surprised to hear that she has reddish hair.
She's a necro. A necro is a char with dark powers. Poisonous green skills to suck your enemy's blood. No pet, but a necro has the power to transform the corpses she, or anyone else made into an army of monsters. The downside of this is that you're very busy keeping them alive, otherwise they collapse with a big blurb.
Ginger Pet does a lot better than poor Me Jane and reaches even the end goal, the much desired status of level 20. The Guildwars world turns out to be a lot bigger than expected. After the unhospitable Ascalon comes a winter's landscape. True, the snow is always there but so is the sun. After that a tropical rain forest an a desert.
By the time I make it to the desert I've found someone to chat with on a regular basis, Pret Aporter. He's not French, as his name would suggest, and he chats the way you would expect, considering his name. Monty Python like nonsense. I love it.
In the desert something called Ascension turns out to be a hurdle you just have to take. First there are three difficult missions to be done and after that your doppleganger awaits you. One of these missions, Thirsty River, turns out to be a big obstacle, for Pret too. We are waiting together for a new chance to do it, after some total wipes. A warrior has joined us, but apart from the 'hi' after joining no further warrior messages appear in the chatbox.
Pret: he's the lonely silent type, a true warrior
Pret: let's all hide behind him when the things get going and the things get rough!
I am recruiting, but I hate it so I ask Pret to take over.
Ginger: I don't like to be on top
Ginger: of the list
Which leads Pret to make some remark about his pants. Too tight all of a sudden?
Yeah, it's like you've suspected all along, there's a lot of flirting going on in online games. Even though you can never be sure that this sexy fighter is of the gender he of she claims to be. There's a lot of boys and men around with a female char. My nephew, for one, has a blonde babe, even called something with 'blonde' in it, just because girls are invited to join groups a lot more than boys. And it's materially profitable too, because he gets presents all the time.
Anyway, Pret and me are kidding around for some time, because Pret is not the quick inviter either, I gather. When we finally head out, we fail grandissisimo again. Pret is a master at dying, or so he claims.
When I finally make it, it's not with him. It must have been with some pple who know what they are doing at this one, because when you don't, you're doomed to fail. It requires a lot of patience, because the mobs respawn every two minutes. So if you don't wait for the right time to attack, you're facing a real bunch of them.
I have already done one of the other ascension missions. That one also has a timer. Mobs keep coming up while a NPC called the Guardian is doing a ritual, and he's taking hs time for that. In the meantime you get bombed as well. So you have to split up, some guarding the guardian, others going out a bit farther to kill mobs and possibly kill the big bomber worms, while a monk is doing his best to keep everybody's health up during the bombing. Every mission has bonus parts too, but I can't imagine how anyone ever manages to do the bonus of this one. It's hard enough as it is.
The third one, Elona Reach, I don't do myself and I never will, with any of my chars. Some missions you just hate and this is one. Some players earn their living by doing missions for other pple. So you hire them and you go along, but all you have to do is chill out at the starting point, until your human hench finshes his rounds. Some players are not comfortable just sitting there, so they want to get along after all, but those hired players hate that. It's just slowing them down.
In theory you could get to level 20 without ever doing any mission yourself. Apart from the last part of Ascension, of course. Nobody but you can fight your doppleganger. This doppleganger has the same skills as you so you have to outsmart him/her by taking just the right skills with you.
It's Gingers time for the final part of Ascension. She's had one try which did not last very long - in my view - and Pret comments that at least it had taken some time. I had been chatting with him all along, assuming he was somewhere very different from where I was and only then I notice he's been standing next to me all that time.
Pret announces he's going to consult the internet, see how it's to be done. With success, apparently, for when I hear from him again he's made it to the next part, Dragon's Lair. I follow his example and find out a necro should take skills with her which drain away health from yourself. My dopple will be using them and wear herself out, but of course I will not. Even so, it takes me some time before I find myself at the Dragons Lair too. A weird, icy cave, full of just ascended pple. Tingling sounds all around.
Finally I do that one too. You have to get throug a number of regions, each with his own kind of mobs and special effects. One of those is that you find yourself lying on the ground every time the earth shakes, unable to do anything for some time. It ends with a huge dragon, that gets very pissed by the idea you're there to steal her eggs. Slaying the dragon is the bonus, but it will take a long time before I can enjoy the fine sight of her lying on the ground with her legs up in the air.
So, Ginger Pet is doing better than Me Jane, but I'm still not very happy about her overall performance. Soloing isn't easy with her. My nephew offers to give me some training. According to him I should be able to slay at least six minotaurs on my own. I am not. He has a strong monk - at least that's what he says and I'm not pro enough yet to know if his monk really is any good. Well, the training did not help much. What I learned from it was that I don't like being watched while I'm trying to do something that's supposed to be easy. Too bad I did not remember that lesson long enough.
I don't delete Ginger, but I try a monk. Tried to call her Joan of Arc, or something like that, but that name was already in use in multiple variations. I don't remember what she was called instead. Something with sister. But it turns out I do not like monking at all. It's a heavy responsibility; team members tend to get cross when they think you're not doing your job well enough. So I delete Sister what's her name and create an elementalist instead. This kind of char uses fire bolts, or icy ones, or earthly means to knock the mobs down. I call her Three and Some, because I reckon I've had about three chars up till now.
(to be continued; see earlier posts for the parts before)