How Chaos saved Christmas.. or at least a Lambda Trial

This is a short story about how you, yes you, maybe even you can make a difference. Also an apology to TA for having his first Lambda be less than ideal.

So a call goes out in JU, Lambda followed by BAF forming. I've reached a new level of boredom so I decide what the hell I'll join. I stop killing myself long enough to log out and log in to my most survivable character, my SS/FA/Mu brute, Chaotic Flames. I head to Pocket D and join up. We've got about 10 people so far.

The League Leader, name withheld because I feel like it, says he's never lead a trial before and asks if anyone else is willing to lead. Another person pipes up and says they've lead a few and I comment about how I use to lead them all the time when trials were new. League Leader sends me a tell asks if I'll do it. I accept as long as he does the recruiting.

Our 15th and 16th players joining have never run a Lambda before, (hi TA, Dr. Havok!) SO I try to quickly explain the process. "Kill some robots enter a door, kill some more robots, kill some guns". LL passes me the star and we Queue up.

Lambda starts and all is going fine we clear the outside, enter the doors and I attempt one of my usual strategies. 'Team 1 go right team 2 go left" only 3 members of team 2 go left everyone else follows me. *sigh* We clear the courtyard and climb/jump/fly up to the guns. I and two others start heading counter clockwise while the rest goes clockwise. My group of 3 struggles to take down 1 gun starts on a second and I give up and go run off to where the other group is. We finish the guns without incident.

Here's where things start to fall apart. We enter the facility and start beating up the robot, "Beat up a robot then WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS TA HAS NEVER DONE LAMBDA BEFORE" I command. we beat the robot and I notice TA and friend haven't made it inside yet I go back out and someone enters a door. Dammit. I guide the two newbies into the facility and people are starting to get antsy since I haven't assigned doors. I quickly say "team 1 acid team 2 nades, gogogogo" followed by trying to quickly explain what we're doing to our new guys.
Time is ticking.
My team enters runs to the center containment unit blows it up. I say in team chat "Someone else lead I don't know what route you guys like to take" No one steps up. Time keeps ticking. I decide screw this and run back out of the center and start my preferred route around the facility from right to left. Get to the first unit. We're falling apart people are dying people aren't together. I start attacking it get it to a sliver and die again, I've already used my rez so I hospital. I run back in with TA following me and quickly apologize that I can't really go leisurely anymore. We're down to like 2 minutes with 5 nades and 2 acids. This isn't looking good.

I pop a few purples take down our 3rd unit. More time phew. run to the next one more time.. We hover between 1 and 3 minutes left for the rest of the phase quickly taking out all remaining units with me leading the charge. Around our 5th one of my team mates sends me a tell "This is going horribly" I reply "No worries, we're fine" and proceed to show that we are indeed fine as I blow up the 6th unit.

So that's how Chaos saved a Lambda Trial. out of time so I can't tell about how we nearly had mob overload becuase of not enough acids being used and still manged to pull together to get Marauder down with like 4 minutes left.

So Props to the league and sorry it didn't go better!
-CC

Been there, done that... except NOT quite so successfully. I seem to be cursed to run Lambdas in which folks can not understand how to use temps or give them to folks who will.