I feel like such a dingdong
I went out on the live battlefield today, creating my own game and inviting anyone in that felt like it. Act 3, Pally 21. I had only been in Act 3 once before, with a group, and I didn't have a clue.
Sure enough, while busily squishing spideys, someone showed up asking for an invite and I complied and zipped back to town, my pockets bulging with odds and ends. I had maintainence to do, and I noticed that my Quest-O-Meter was saying to "see Akara" (or whoever the head of the mercs is there). She started giving me a long speech and I didn't want to be rude and make the newcomer wait so I clicked through it. And of course, up popped the little icon on the top left. Which I assumed was whoever I had invited to join my party. Doh.
So we run off to Travincal or whereever and I'm having a ball running around with this "other Pally" who is following me (whoa, talk about heady excitement, I was the 'leader' for a change) everywhere I went, blasting things with some fiery attack or another. We rushed through the streets, I was leading my own glorious party, bad guys and guylettes were falling left and right. In my enthusiasm, I sent several messages. Funny, he never responded.
Oh well, probably the silent type, I thought. But I couldn't ask for more in a party partner. None of this darting off down some dark corridor and disappearing halfway through the Black Marsh as others have done. He was always there when I needed him!
This went on for about five minutes. Suddenly I got a clue when I clicked the party screen to find out what level he was and there was nothing there.
I don't know if these 'true confession' posts are allowed. If not, delete it. I have already paid a sufficiently high price by drinking the Permanent Reduction to Ego Potion.