Shadow Infiltraitor advice wanted

[Dalgar the Great]

So I'm making Fetchling Summoner(shadow summoner) 3/Bard (archeologist) 2

The concept is a sneaky, manipulative guy who can use illusions or talk his way out of situations with his eidalon as backup just in case and for fighting situations. I don't see my guy as the musical sort so that's why I went archeologist. Bard is for skills and rogue abilities. This is for a home game with the rest of the party being a palidin, a blaster sorceror and a skirmisher fighter.

[Reynard_the_fox]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's a really, really bad idea to multiclass a summoner. I would pick either summoner or bard and stick with it. Since you already have two melee guys and all 3 of your teammates only have 2 + int skill ranks/level, I would go bard.

[VRMH]

A trained attack dog might be more useful as "combat backup". Or just buff the rest of the party, and let them handle it.

[Dalgar the Great]

Ya, I thought it would be bad. Was just wondering if there was a way to make this work. Well, time to go roll up a bard.

[Daelen]

For a sneaky manipulative guy, what about the Sandman bard?