General: Fun With New-ish Players

We decided that Thalia should have all three of the main Teleport Crystals, and since we had to drag her through Bubu, we thought we should get her the items she needs for her sub-job quest (she's 15 or 16 at the moment). So Grym switched to WHM35/NIN17, and Kiki to WAR36/THF15, and we set out from Windurst.

The sub job items were pretty easy - 3 bunnies got us the wild rabbit tail, 3 dhalmels got us the dhalmel saliva, and 3 bogies got us the bloody robe.

Unfortunately, the second bogy decided to smack Thalia (in a cursed state from the first bogy) before I got my sneak attack off. If I'd known Thalia was going to cast something, I would have provoked instead. The third bogy we didn't let her fight.  

Going through the Dunes, there were so many gobbie trains it was insane. We did a bunch of cleanup, and headed for the Dem Crag. Going back through the Dunes, there were more trains to clean up, but right near the La Thiene zone, a group of 7 goblins over ran us, and Thalia ate dirt again. :-(

After hitting the Holla Crag, we dragged Thalia into Jugner to fight a couple Toughs and Evens to get back a bit of the lost exp, then off to San d'Oria for the night. It was fun showing a new player some areas they'd never seen, but I wish we had been able to protect her a bit better.