Mission interruptus

Margie was not in a good mood last night, after a long drive home. So she was ready to dive into CoH to get P-Siren up a level (to 18), and, at long last, get a travel power.
We had several Skulls mishes in KR, all of which ended up conning grey (for Velvet; green-blue for Margie). We got pretty skilled at simply bypassing mobs on our way to the mission goal.
We eventually went to a Clockwork mish Velvet had, and that was more like it. Everything was conning basically yellow for me, with the occasional white cog and orange cannon knight. “Good eats,” as Margie is wont to say regarding high XP. Though the mission was merely to find a clue (somebody’s trophy, lost to scavanging clockworks), we ended up going along, clearing stuff …
Margie dinged about 2/3 of the way along there, which was good, because, just as we got into Final Battle with Steampunk, the big clockwork boss at the end of the mish …
… Margie discoed. Hard. Couldn’t get back in. Couldn’t get onto the web. Couldn’t shut her machine down. Power cycled, and still wasn’t seeing the network. I ultimately intervened and got her back online, but I’d been forced, once my bubble went down, to take down Steampunk, which ended the mish. (I suppose I could have run away from him — should have done that.)
The result was not only did she not get a bunch of XP for both mission end and boss kill, but it prevented her from rejoining me afterwards (to clean remaining clocks), since the mish was over.
She was not pleased by this. At. All.
She did, however, go off and level and take (ta-daaah!) Teleport, which was the point of the evening’s exercise. She did some practicing, and can now zip across zones at full speed, which will be nice here on out.
I was just glad to have a chance to whomp on some “enemies of color.”
The whole process ran way, way late (like, officially into the Wee Hours) (especially when I still had to set up a backup on my notebook). Later than I’d intended, but I definitely wanted Margie to get that level in.