Last night in EC:
A friendly gnome enchanter (of about 8 or 9th lvl) I got to know earlier told me I could loot a lions tail (needed for my clerics armor quest) near the rangers obelisk. At lvl 6 as a human at night this is a frightening way from the guarded huts in the east and as i got beaten up on the way twice I just have 1 bulb of mana left when >I arrived.
As soon as i finished looting I hear "Eeek - I'm poisoned" and this gnome runs up to me. In my panic I poison cure the lions corpse then target the gnome and see he's on 4% health. I cast cure and he sits down havin time for a joke: "The lion sure feels better too". I have just enough mana for 1 healing and the gnomes still unable to walk at more than crawling pace.
So I use up all my 20 bandages on him (never thought I'd use em), raise my skill to 7 and actually heal him up to 36%! Doing so while knowing that only his meager pet and sheer luck stands between us and a pile of red-conning lions, yound kodiaks and orcs that attack on sight if they stumble near us gave me a better adrenalin rush then anything on FV for the whole last month. Of course I got beaten up again on the way back twice - but my cleric survived and crafted a new part of her newbie armor :)
Did I mention I love playing on a new server?