"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[TattersailNightwish]

I tried two times the first night I encountered this - switched to easy mode the second time.
After the second time I quit for the night.

But I honestly think the reason I did was that I had a two and a half hour babysitting the logon queue before that. I was honestly just plain tired after that, and a bit of a headache coming on.
So after that crap twice (I really don't like when you're forced to play someone else, and I didn't like the whole getting-my-character-possessed thing), I just wasn't having any of it.

I did not babysit a queue for 2.5 hours (dc'd three times during it) to have THAT thrown at me.
I did take screenshots of where I was when I:
1) found the out-of-gas mech
2) found the tank of gas
and was able to set waypoints the first time I tried it last night, and succeeded.

BUT - last night, after another two-hour babysitting marathon, I made sure to get done the crafting/gathering/turn-in type things ASAP once I logged in, in case this duty threw me over the edge again.
But it didn't - finished it the first time. Thank goodness we didn't have to real-time crawl at the end though...