Nope, you're fine doing that. Although a shorter battle only netted you a level, it's still better than nothing! Plus, if you're going for Espeon/Umbreon that's getting added to as well!
Also, I've made a decision and I'm going to drop my character out and just GM here. With the other RPs I'm in, plus GMing this and writing the chapters, I'd like to see myself focusing more on writing the story than trying to RP with it, when I already have great RPers bringing it to life for me! Maybe I'll pop in my character every now and then, but for now Geoff Sekara is dropped =P Which also means we have another slot open if anyone wants to reserve it!
Also, I agree, 10 is the best =x
its gonna be kinda weird to not have the person who started and is GMing this not actually be in it. Its a shame but at least your character will be appearing every now and then. I can understand why you want to drop out with all of the other rps and everything else. Also if we are talking about evolutions, its pretty obvious who Riolu is going evolving into, but WHEN he evolves will be a surprise
Well that's also going to be a surprise to you =P I'll be the one to tell you it's happiness is high enough to evolve, and then at any point from there on out you'll be able to evolve it.
...You can go on without me; I really don't want to be the cause of this dragging down. x__x