It is done. A week solid of ~ 10-17 summons per night and I finally got my stupid Scorchling pet. I'm not going back unless someone I know and like an awful lot decides they want the darn thing.
Siens best be begging hardcore if he wants a hand - he's made a point of disappearing to watch crappy B movies on TV every time I started trying for the pet... he helped all of one night.
"But I thought you had a full groooup," he says. Well, yeah. An hour after starting with 3 people, we managed to fill up for the extra summons. Three of the full group need to head to bed relatively early but are kind enough to stick around to finish off the summons because we HAVE no one else to join us. Thanks.