A readied action leading to going twice in a row?

[AbdulAlhazred]

For this example I'm using the "Gargoyle Rake" which has the stone form ability which it can end as a minor action.

1. Alice and Bob are readying an attack for when the gargoyle ends its stone form. Their readied action is an immediate reaction to the triggering event.
2. When the gargoyle's turn starts, it ends stone form (a minor action), and Alice and Bob take their readied actions. They then move their initiative to immediately before the gargoyle.
3. If it's still alive, the gargoyle then completes the rest of its turn (standard and move actions).
4. Alice and Bob act at their new initiative.
5. Repeat gargoyle's turn, etc.

Its important to understand that this is exactly what happens. There is more too it than this though. The PCs don't really ever get an advantage out of this, except to the extent that the gargoyle burning a turn doing nothing helps them. The gargoyle uses its turn doing stone form, and then Alice and Bob use theirs readying. This is good tactics but not giving any action advantage. Once their actions are triggered the gargoyle goes, and THEN they get their next turns, now in the new turn order. Given that they would have gone next ANYWAY The only advantage here is getting in ahead of whatever move and minor actions the garg was going to use after its attack.

There ARE obviously tactical advantages to ready (and delay now and then), but at the very least you risk getting less actions, 1/2 of a standard action per use of ready on average.