Expanding boundaries

Ran Kazima and Torchielle yesterday, while Honeygun sulked …
Did some light running around — cleared out a couple of old missions for Kazima, while we got our duoing up and working. Then Margie suggested we look at helping Dr. Awesome …
Ended up in a big group of 8 on the “find Patient Zero and the cure to the Vahzilok Plague” mish. Everyone was exemped down to 15-18 or so (K was at 15, T was at 16), and …
… lots of purple. A bit of red, but lots and lots and lots of purple. Masses of abominations, eidolons a-plenty. The dangers of 8-man teams.
Good teams, though. Cobalt, Healing Rayne, Granite Rock, the good Dr., a few others. In a battle like that, deaths were inevitable, but Torchielle managed to avoid it (Kazima did not). And there was lots, and lots, and lots of XP.
Kazima went from barely 15 to just into 16 for the evening. Torchy went from a half-a-bar-of-debt into 16 to a bubble short of 17.
Good fun, good play.
I’ve been noodling with ideas of how to do a decent rotation of characters, to make sure our “mains” get most of the exposure, but we get some time in with the others. Trouble is, we already had two pairs of mains. Now it looks like we might end up with three.
Regardless, I plan on keeping an eye out better on the chat lines for groups forming up. Duoing is fun, and our best pasttime, but the social aspect of larger groups and exemp/SK stuff is not to be dismissed.