SirDarth went out early again with the horse he is levelling for Bladesrus, and settled in for what was to be a quiet day for him, with a couple of exceptions. The first of these came in the middle of the morning, when another knight was busily killing the local Berserkers and Bandits nearby, and I wondered idly if he was doing it to lure the Grand Red Dragon - it turns out that he wasn't intending to, as when, seconds later, the GRD arrived, he disappeared. I mentioned the GRD's arrival on the guild channel, and BasheR, or at least his level 21 Kamira-luring rogue BadToTheBone, after briefly wondering if Bash should deal with the GRD, decided that Kaerella really ought to give it a try.
So, Darth equipped his sword, dealt with his Berserker, and picked up some of the cash drops which that other knight had left in his hurry to leave, then moved up a bit towards town out of the fighting area - and Kaerella logged in, and rode down from Merac village. Darth gave Kae the Divine Shield buff, while Kae gave herself horse buffs and the buff Mana Shield to increase her magical defence.
Kaerella started with Arrow of Silence, which has a 75% chance of disabling its target's "special attack" skills, triggered an item drop booster, and, using a health potion or two, managed to kill the Dragon before the Cerebrii it had spawned made too big an impression on her health, then swiftly retreated... and once her health was back up, killed the Cerebrii too. So, the expedition was a success, but there weren't any good drops, not even lucky scrolls or a medal of honour - just 24,640 gold, which is a pretty poor return for the use of an IDB.
After lunch, it seemed like Rage's turn for some action, so out she went to the Sphinx Fighters, in a solo party with SirDarth. The level 38 mage Neji arrived pretty soon, and as she seemed to want to fight the same targets anyway, I invited her into the party. She was a good enough player, but strangely didn't seem to take any action when her health got low, which did lead to a death or two over the following hours. A level 41 rogue called Dirk soon joined up too, as did a level 36 temple knight who seemed familiar from somewhere, Ratel, and the level 38 rogue Atheist accepted the invitation as well - it keeps things simple if everyone is in the same party!
Atheist had a rather strange skill, which may have come from a Mall item, or been enhanced by it - she could attack at almost double the range of us regular ranger type rogues, but it had an "area of effect" side to it too, so that often a couple of other nearby Speer Men would start running in too. Still, we generally kept on top of the situation.
The team were doing so well that we decided to move to the Tomb of Theos. Dirk, with a little guidance from me, ran across, everyone else except Atheist had the Tomb's entrance on their memory scrolls; Ratel was advising Atheist to use a potion of haste and a transformation scroll (he confirmed that it was a Bandit one which he himself had used to get to the Fighters), but decided to trigger a one-hour party recall card he had, which made things easy for Atheist - and saved me the admission fee! It came in handy inside a time or two before its hour was up, as accepting the option to move to his location did rescue one from the Screaming Zombie's aggro.
As SirDarth was still in the party, he made use of the Recall too, though only to immediately leave the Tomb and get the entrance area onto his memory scroll - that will save time eventually, and was his second minor adventure of the day.
Before long the level 42 archer healer xXholynessXx was persuaded to come and join us, which with her Slow Shot was good, though she seemed very unwilling to do any healing, Rage used a good number of health potions as well as plenty of the mana ones. I got very good at dashing to the wall when the Zombie turned its attention to me, though I find the left-hand wall, the north side, better than the other - about the only time I sought shelter on the right, I did get to use a resurrection scroll.
So, people did die occasionally, as is to be expected; Ratel rather took charge, and things continued beyond my normal food break time. I'm sure everyone levelled up, some people at a slightly lower level and using an Iris went up two or even three levels, though Neji wasn't around for the whole session; Ratel ended the day at level 38, and has put himself to donating 50% of his experience gain to the guild now, while he farms skill exp with the Poison Mists. Rage herself didn't add any skill points, but did get 1479 pet points - and 112.37% experience, moving her all the way through level 43 and into the start of level 44.
Ratel had to leave, and we decided to quit while we were ahead; a couple of people went back to the Sphinx Fighters, while I headed for the kitchen, and some food. The slightly late break meant that the usual Friday "happy hour" bonus of 50% extra skill exp for a couple of hours wasn't used at all by me, in the Tomb the Screaming Zombies still only gave 1 skill exp each, and for the rest of the time I was offline.
Luckily, just as I was coming back online, a GM announcement came up that we were going to have a few hours of double skill exp, starting right away, so, this seemed like a job for MrChuckNorris! Chuck was logged in, and went out to Prokion Temple. There was actually a titan already in our favourite back room, but he was just standing by the entrance; I did have to kill one orc that attacked him, but he vanished soon after that. A little later a healer from the same guild appeared, and did a little fighting from the entranceway, but she too ended up just standing there - I was just fighting a couple of orcs that were attacking her when she too faded away.
Almost at the end of Chuck's stint, a rogue appeared - and then disappeared, she must have used the Invisibility skill, though if so the orcs that were already attacking her didn't seem to be fooled. As I commented to Ratel, who was solo-partying with me while over with the Poison Mists, if a rogue goes invisible, then attacking any monsters she is fighting can hardly be ks-ing, right? Guildie SsnowboardS came along and farmed the corridor outside; he requested my aid at one stage, as he'd got surrounded by some orcs while wall-hugging, and asked me to kill them.
Otherwise, it was business as usual for the evening there, using the occasional small health potion, and having a health recovery pot active almost all the time. The 15 Easter Eggs I picked up brought in 10 potions of haste twice, 10 herb trunks, 500 gold, 50 gold nine times - and two heaven stones. Strangely, I didn't pick up any other heaven stones, but I did get four "Hands of the Guard", each with an item drop booster, a skill point booster, and a pair of tool aids. I resolved to continue until Chuck's drake levelled up, which it did not long after my usual logging-out time - the same moment that my skill point tally for the evening reached 1000! When I logged out shortly after that, the total pet point gain was standing at 2587, along with 1031 skill points, which definitely means that Chuck is past the halfway mark, on the way to getting his experience gain unfrozen. He has already donated more guild points to Norcaine than BasheR, who probably farmed his sp at a slightly lower level: 38 exploits, at the moment, whatever they are, and 18877 cumulative points.
So, lots of experience for my rogue, and lots of skill points for my titan - a busy and productive day, I think.
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