I died three times in a party in Gustav the other night. I have to tell this story, because it's just too good.
We had a singularly goofy WHM named Pinkiepookie. I've probably been prompted seventy times by my LS to put her on the bad players list, but I've lost my taste for that forum, I'd rather just tell the stories.
My first death occurred at a camp on the far side, suggested by said whm. I was standing next to the BLM at the time, and we were fighting Mercenaries, Alchemists, Shepherds and crabs.
At some point the BLM got hit, and a Doom Mage behind us decided to come over and see what all the fuss was about. BLM died first, and I was next.
The THF took off, and after killing the SAM, the Doom Mage went after the THF.
Pinkie somehow escaped death. She raised us all, and while she was sitting, I went go get the THF, who had been killed in the middle of a mess of gobs.
I hit sneak and invis, and found the THF's body; there were gobs and crabs everywhere, so I was running around trying to find a safe place to Tractor her. As I'm doing this, I turn around, and there's Pookie, nary an Invis spell in sight, running cheerily into the middle of a mass of goblins.
I groaned inwardly; naturally all the gobs aggroed her, so she turned around and ran straight back toward all the still-weakened party members, gobs in tow.
She died; luckily the BLM saw her coming and got Escape off, so everyone else survived.
"I don't know what happened!" said Pinkie.
"Gob aggro," I replied.
"But I had Sneak up!"
This happened about eight times:
Sioux casts Refresh on Pinkiepookie.
A minute passes.
<Pinkiepookie> {Refresh} {please} <call12>
<Sioux> It's up.
<Pinkiepookie> Ooops. Wrong macro.
Next death happened while we were fighting an Alchemist. Any RDM that has encountered these probably hates them as much as I do; silence --> dispel. Dispel. Dispel. Paralyze. Silence. Dispel.
So I'm doing this, and Pinkie is resting MP next to me; I see a flicker of pink text while I'm doing my thing, but ignore it until I'm finished. Then I scroll up to read it.
<Pinkiepookie> Heal for me ok I have to do something real quick
At the same moment, someone in the pt says "Heal!?"
Gah. I look up; the tank is in the orange (a NIN tank), and another glance shows me that I have 178 MP.
I throw Cure III on the tank as fast as I can, followed by a Cure II, another Silence on the gob, and there's just enough left for a Stoneskin. I toss it up and Convert; the Cure IV that followed was just one cure too many for that gob. It ran up the hill and smacked me for 0, then turned and hit the tank, knocking him into high orange again.
Wincing crazily inside (the gob was about half dead), I threw a worthless Regen on the tank, trying to prop up his HP without getting myself killed, but he didn't have Utsusemi up, because he'd been chasing the gob up the hill and was probably panicking as much as I was.
The gob hits him again to high red. I'm Cure IIIing, and he gets hit again and dies. And the gob turns around again and kills me.
The party did kill the gob somehow, with me and the tank dead. After a few minutes Pinkie comes back. "OMG WHAT HAPPENED!!"
The third death occured because of a tank death; a Bomb Toss killed him and another pt member, and it pretty much ate the party. I can't tack this one so much on Pinkie, but I can say that after she left the party we got a WHM named Kuro, and later on Moonpie joined my pt as the tank, and we did marvellously. The exp per hour was nuts, and I got to lvl 58 without a hitch.
So my record is about 3. After the third death I was very tempted to leave, and the reason I didn't was because I don't generally leave parties until they break up.