User blog:Bigpaulc/Where is My Friend's Pawn??

Hello everyone,

I imagine this is a very newbie-ish question but please forgive me:

I cannot find my friend's pawn in The Rift. We both bought the game at the same so as to play along with each other's pawns. I've created mine and have been wandering around outside the encampment doing local-ish, noticeboard-ish quests, I've hired other pawns in the Rift and, when I stayed at an inn, found my pawn had been hired by others so I'm pretty sure the problem is not at my end.

Do I have to add my friend from my PSN friend list to a friend list within Dragon's Dogma, or something? (Seems unlikely...)

Can I only hire my friend's pawn when my friend is online? (Seems highly unlikely...)

Can I only hire my friend's pawn after that friend has stayed at an inn, or done something I've not thought of? (Seems maybe likely-ish...)

Or...

Has my friend messed up and simply failed to save/upload her pawn, maybe by creating it when playing offline, or something like that? (Seems pretty likely, knowing my friend...)

Anyway, cheers.

If anyone's interested, my name on PSN is bigpaulc and my (mage) pawn is called Aislinn. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Cheers.