Earlier today I was trying to find a group to do my HR4 urgent when I came into a room that was doing the High Rank Powderstone delivery quest. I wasn't sure if this unlocked anything interesting or not, but I figured we have to deliver 4 stones, and there are 4 of us here, so this quest should be easy!
Everything started out normal, I do some mining, get a couple Ancient Shards, we capture the Rathalos that spawns during the mission, now all that's left is to deliver the stones.
I'm not sure if perhaps he misread the quest description, but one of the guys drops out shortly after the Rathalos fight ends. The second guy drops as I'm delivering my second stone. I drag my self all the way back down to area 9 to pick up a third stone, figuring that the one person left has been running along the delivery path for a while, so this should be my last run, right? Nope. I guess none of the other people in the room were prepared for handling this kind of quest. So I had to spend the better part of half an hour delivering all four damn stones myself. I would have been better off doing this quest offline, at least then I'd have cats to cover me from the smaller monsters.
But the Desire Sensor looked down upon my toils, and found pity in its heart: a Rathalos Ruby in the capture rewards, and a Worn Spear from the Ancient Shard. (I main Lance) There is justice in this world.