I was either up slightly early or slightly late for a Sunday morning, depending on whether the clock was on yesterday's GMT or today's BST; SirPerivale wasted little time in heading out to the Butchers, anyway, and was able to report to a suitably impressed WintersVoice when she logged on that the pony had reached level 13; by logging-out time it had just reached level 18.
SirDarth was able to get our own horse up to level 32 fairly early on, before Kaerella took over for a little under an hour before lunch, during which she added 9.86%, plus 4 skill points and 271 pet points at the Sphinx Fighters in Dratan. The main thing was to see what bloodseals Kae could add to her new armour pieces; these things are slightly random, but, with the new gloves already adding 2 to long range physical attack, 37 to long range physical hit rate, and 1 to all types of physical attack, some more good extras were welcome.
In the end, the Mending Shirt added 7 to hit points (health), 4 to physical fortitude (constitution), and 1 to all types of physical defence, while the skirt added 1 to attack, 10 to magical resistance (which increased the "magic evasion" stat from 149 to 159), and 2 more to physical fortitude.
The afternoon session started with Kae soloing the Sphinx types, but then CZLoarie insisted on joining the party, even though at the moment she is 16 levels below Kae and therefore "capped" for low experience gain. After a while Corbenik got in touch, though - I was in favour of joining him on Auzura-4 and thus leaving Loarie behind, but he came to me, and it did make a reasonable excuse to leave the Loarie party.
CZLoarie did mention that she had a "drop hack", which seemed something to be wary of, but she didn't explain further, and we didn't suddenly start to get good drops, and indeed the amount of gold per Sphinx Fighter seemed unchanged. But teaming with Corbenik certainly went a lot better, and by the end of the session I'd added 21.92%, 6 skill points, and 672 pet points.
Corbenik was hoping to get a Tomb party together, and we did in fact move across to Auzura-4 to make one. I understood that we would be joining three other people, so I should register and accept Recall to get there - but it looked, when I arrived, like a total of three of us, not counting the Recall-giver who was level 86 and thus capped us wildly, so wouldn't be staying in the party. What's more, we weren't at the start of the Tomb with the level 100 Screaming Zombies, it looked to me like a room deeper in, with the Anubis Spear Men, and they are level 106 boss monsters. Great experience, sure, but they'd only have to sneeze and characters our level would drop dead.
So, I made my excuses and swiftly logged out, taking a slightly early food break for a change. SirDarth went back to levelling the horse for a while, so no resurrection scrolls were needed or used.
After the break I did log back in as Kae; the first order of business was to help SirPerivale, as the Grand Red Dragon had been killed rather close to him, and the person who'd killed it hadn't killed the Cerebrii that spawn when its health-bar is down about halfway. So, Kae rode out to the Butchers, and managed to clear them out. They are passive, if protective of each other, but hey, Peri felt happier with them out of the way. Corbenik wasn't online, so I couldn't check to see whether he'd gained lots of levels or not.
Kaerella did head for the Sphinx Fighters briefly, but the Sunday Teatime bonus of 50% extra skill exp was running, which doesn't do her much good, so I decided to switch to one of my sp-farming characters, just until the teatime bonus ended.
So, MrChuckNorris headed for Prokion Temple, and was lucky enough to find the first upstairs room off the corner of the central rectangle free, with its fine selection of Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen. He set to work - and, well, they forgot to turn off the 50% bonus, so he continued all evening until Quiz time, getting exactly 1300 skill points, thanks to the bonus and the Blessed Rewards. Even that many doesn't max out all his special skills, however, he still needs the higher levels of herb and stone processing. His drake got up to level 25 towards the end, adding in all 2981 pet points. He didn't gain any experience of course, but his contribution of guild points to Norcaine rose satisfactorily.
Ratel mentioned how busy the Temple was, but I didn't have any trouble, just people running through, until a titan called Arroc turned up, and decided to stay. Luckily he gave up after a while, but he wasn't much of an advertisement for titans.
Kaerella and RAGE went to the Quiz on Auzura-3; BasheR and Argoth (Ratel's titan) were on Auzura-2 I think, though after its past problems that's a sub-server I don't go to for the Quiz any more. The questions were the usual selection, in the usual order, so all went well, and everyone got their Heaven Stones.
Well, after that it was too late, by British Summer Time, for any more adventuring, so Kae's brief evening session had just added 1.25%, a skill point, and 41 pet points - her totals for the day were 33.03%, 11 skill points, and 984 pet points.
I noticed after the Quiz that the people who shout out "buying all HS at Moonstone statue" or wherever were offering as much as 700,000 gold each, so maybe the price on the Auzura server is starting to rise. I've got plenty in stock at the moment, though Kae will have to use a few soon on her new headgear and boots to get them up to +3. As usual a lot of people were expecting an upgrade event after the Quiz, but there were no announcements of such a thing before I had to log out.
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