So my little halfling 3rd level ranger couldn't find a group this morning and so decided to go out on his own. Now he is set up to be able to solo a little bit and he is specced out against reptiles (favored enemy, all the enhancements so far). Well I decide to try to Rescue Arlo's on hard. I know I am going to have to take most of them by ranged rather than dual wielding.

Luckily I have been shopping in the auction house, if any of you have noticed any level 2 arrows being bought out like mad that was me! Everything is going fine until I am trying to escape after freeing Arlos. There is a mob of kobolds with 2 Shamans ahead. I drink potions, wand myself up, and on a whim eat a ham another player had given me from his "rain of hams". I am picking them off but I don't have precise shot yet so I can't hit the shamans. The little kobolds are throwing themselves in the way to protect the mages. Then uhoh rolled a 1 and I am held, the mob storms in, blows rain down on me unmercilessly, and I guess just for spite the second shaman throws up the black cloud (some fog spell right I forget). I go unconscious, then miraculously the wonderful taste of ham hits, boom I am up.

Now back at the keyboard I was already lamenting my failure and looking at the screen I was amazed to see my little dude stand up. NONE of the kobolds saw me, I throw on sneak, walk over to an alcove and heal. Now I'm mad and pull out my dreaded reptillian bane arrows and manage to take out the shamans! YAY! The rest of the kobolds go down in a flash.

/Salute to the Djinn of the Wishing Cake, the Devs, and too the all important Kargon, without whom I never would have survived to see daylight again!