Sunday 8 March 2009

A Tale of Two Clocks

Kaerella  - March 8th

SirDarth worked through the night to level up Kaerella's drake, and had managed to add four levels, taking him up to level 22, by mid-morning, when the drake, now with the same "SirFrancis" name as his equivalent on the Cariae server, was handed back over to Kaerella.

By then, SirPerivale had restarted the levelling of Ratel's horse, which now gets hungry too quickly to be levelled overnight.  I had to ignore a couple of tempting "Pandora Boxes" very close by, while they could if opened disgorge some gold, it seems in my experience more likely that a level 50 Pandora Beast will appear, and they are bad news for pet levellers.  The horse didn't take long to reach level 27, so just another ten levels to go.

Kaerella headed out for Prokion Temple, with the intention of getting the 10% experience she needed to reach level thirty, but at 11:30 (UK time) she got a disconnection, after adding only about 5%.  It didn't seem to be a full "mass disconnection", but it is suspicious that it happened at that particular time, which is when, usually on a Friday, servers get a restart.  The fact that SirFrancis didn't get hurt does point towards a sharp break, rather than the slow departure, sometimes involving death, of a solo disconnection.

For the lunch break, SirDarth came back on, and joined Peri down among the Berserkers, with the new level 4 hatchling.  As Peri had been carrying this youngster for an hour or two while having the horse equipped, his "sympathy" had dropped down to 73%, so that the buff from three levels of "increased armour (dragon) was also reduced, making fighting a level 34 Berserker very much a touch-and-go affair, and Darth's healthbar did tend to fluctuate.  But as his defence rating crept up from 678 to 680 (78%), and on to 684 (89%), things did become a bit less dangerous.  Someone did come along and kill his Berserker over lunch though, which was annoying, though at least SirPerivale's target Berserker was left alone.

In the afternoon Kaerella returned to Prokion Temple to try and level up a bit, and this she did.  The Sunday "teatime" was scheduled to start at 3:00pm UK time, according to the main Last Chaos website, but of course with our dozy GMs nothing happened - nothing happened at 4:00pm either, but I guess at about half past someone finally remembered to switch on the 50% extra experience gain - it was running when I got back from my food break, and continued until just after half past six.

I continued with Kae until about seven, to get her drake, SirFrancis, up to level 23; the Temple was pretty crowded, but I finally found a room with mainly Orc Sergeants and Axemen.  When I reached level 31 the other types went blue-named for me, so while they still give some experience and skill exp, they don't give pet points.  After that I had to take SirDarth out to where SirPerivale was busy, as Peri was running low on quality stones to feed Ratel's greedy horse, and Darth was the one who was carrying most of the supply of such things, the remainder of the 900 BasheR had supplied as well as Elva's contribution.

Kaerella chose her new class, back at the Master Healer in Randol - she is now an Archer, unlike her Cariae server counterpart who's a Cleric.  There is I suppose the chance that Kae here may change later, but it is the general feeling that an Archer is a lot easier to level up than a Cleric, these days.  Just taking the new profession increased her health from 724 to 1036, and her mana from 951 to 1160, so it is worth doing the change fairly early in level 31, though the first new Archery-related skills don't become available until level 32 has been reached.

Once Kae had allocated her stat points (18 to dexterity and 12 to intelligence), I headed for Auzura-1 in case there was any useful armour on sale there.  I didn't find anything like that, but what I did find was a "Pierce of Wind" accessory for 22 million, which seemed like a good idea to me - it gives 16 to dexterity, and adds 78 to close range evasion, which can come in useful when one is being attacked.

MrChuckNorris headed out to Dratan, and, since he had a quest that involved visiting Shuraine out at his desert oasis, ended up farming the Sand Golems there, to get the Soft Sand for two quests.  At around 7:30 the first announcement for the evening Quiz came up, saying it would start in an hour - which was strange, as the website's page showed the countdown at the two hours point then for the normal 9:30 UK time.  

In the end we discovered that the US has moved its clocks forward today for Daylight Saving Time, three weeks ahead of Britain and, indeed, most of the rest of the world, and the Quiz was indeed, as far as we were concerned, an hour early.  This was a great disappointment for many people, as the shoutbox afterwards attested.  Ratel had had to log out after playing a bit, but was planning to be back in good time for the Quiz, as he really needs those 15 heaven stones to upgrade his armour...as it was, he logged back in just after the quiz finished.

I was online of course, so got to the Quiz safely; the questions were unchanged and all went smoothly, with RAGE and BasheR following me as I moved from one side to the other as appropriate - BasheR did change to following someone else at one stage, but returned for the later questions.

Afterwards, Chuck headed back to Dratan to hand in the Soft Sand, as he'd just managed to get all 20 he needed before the Quiz; one of the quest reward givers was out in the desert, so he killed various foxes and spiders and so on, and then ended up at Prokion Temple again for a while... until I noticed that it was time to log out for the night.


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