MistressDomino had a pretty successful time selling stuff overnight, though I'm still a bit shakey on the new price levels, things either sell out within minutes or are still there in the morning. The slight problem is that there don't seem to be any +15 level 65 or 69 weapons to buy at any price at the moment, though there was a +14 one which was a bit higher than I'd want to go for a +15, even now.
SirDarth was out pretty early to do some levelling on that horse of mine, but it looks as if that particular job is now suspended, as Bladesrus got in touch to transfer his level 27 horse across for some levelling, as agreed. The only problem was that, by then, the afternoon session had begun, and MrChuckNorris had started his first platinum super skill pill, so I was a bit distracted, not wanting to lose any more playing time for Chuck than necessary.
Bladesrus came out into Merac to deliver his horse; he joined the party so that he could find Darth easily, after resetting the horse's skills so that it would be possible to trade him across. He also sensibly passed over 350 quality stones, and the gift of a +3 level 37 Holy Sword - with the promise of ten heaven stones when the job is completed. He will be away for eight days now, so that gives Darth plenty of time to level the horse up - he'll be on a drilling rig apparently.
So Darth swapped over from having his horse equipped to having Blades' horse equipped, and I concentrated on Chuck again - during the exchange and the chat I'd taken my eye off him a bit, and when I did look Chuck's health was mortally low, not much more than 100, and he had to run from the mob of Orc Axemen and Orc Sergeants, praying that he could get to a safe bit of wall before taking another hit. It was a darn close-run thing, and took some recovering from.
The next time I looked at SirDarth, it was he who was lying dead - my first thought was that somehow a couple of nearby Bandits had been aggravated, but of course Blades' horse wasn't giving any Armour Increase buff to him, as his skills had been reset. So, it was a matter of taking him back to the Animal Trainer in Randol, and getting a nice, comfortable 26 levels of the skill before settling in with the Berserker again. Darth lost 0.01% experience, and possibly a single skill point, so that didn't matter, but I must try to remember about resetting skills and so on.
So that Darth's own horse doesn't lose any great amount of Sympathy (as it would if it was in Darth's inventory while a different pet was equipped), that animal was traded across to Keerella, who is just a "mule" type character over on the Auzura server, as opposed to the Cariae server's level 90 mage.
Anyway, as you've probably gathered, my titan MrChuckNorris had a busy afternoon in that upstairs back room in Prokion Temple. It was probably just as well that he wasn't using that second pill for an extra 50%, just the "pssp" giving triple skill points. That interrupted first hour yielded 473 skill points, while a better second hour managed 555. Continuing on for a few minutes after the end of the second pssp meant that the total skill point gain for the afternoon reached 1108, while 2083 pet points also got added.
Chuck opened eleven Easter Eggs, but all he got were ten each of gamma wave energy, green herbs, and (three times) potions of haste, four 50 gold, one 500 gold, and a tool aid - so nothing approaching the 900,000 gold or so I've been known to sell the eggs for. But one can only collect a single egg per outing - the remaining unopened one has been moved across to MistressDomino now.
Before the food break, back in Randol, Chuck decided to prepare for the next time an "old school treasure hunt" is announced, by updating his memory scroll to include locations close to the four corners of the Juno map, so that he ought to be able to get to most announced coordinates pretty fast. As the scroll only has five slots, he has overwritten Velpist Temple and Shuraine's Oasis - but kept Prokion Temple, of course.
Rage was still doing a little mainly-afk mining when Ratel logged on, and suggested a team-up at the Sphinx Fighters. He hadn't been there before, so Rage went first, so that she'd show the location as a party member on the map. He asked if he could add a royal knight friend to the party too, which, with their Concentration buff, was fine with me - it turned out to be xXAcheronXx, who of course both Rage and Kaerella have teamed with before. I advised Ratty to use a transformation scroll, a Harpy maybe, so that he could nonchalantly stroll past the Masters of Secret Technique that had done for Rage a time or two, and I think he took my advice, as his initial appearance seemed a trifle small, and there was a small whirlwind effect before he was fully revealed in front of us. A Goblin Scout scroll perhaps?
Acheron had a couple of disconnections early on, but otherwise things seemed to work okay, prompting suggestions that we should relocate to the Tomb of Theos and take on the Screaming Zombies. To my mind, that's a bit "Wow, we handle these level 12 Sasquatch pretty well, let's go and attack the level 109 Sphinx Commanders next, shall we?" Acheron tended to get a bit enthusiastic on the luring/attacking side, and quite often we got not just the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, but a couple of his friends too. My policy on such occasions was to take the friends one by one, and let the two knights keep the big guy busy!
Ratel did die, but as he doesn't carry a huge amount of skill points (more like 135 I think), he didn't have much to lose - a little later Acheron managed to die too, which, given his rather endearing recklessness, seemed fair enough, I was thinking...but seconds later Ratel went down for a second time. I need to impress upon him the need to hide behind the fence at the back when the going gets tough. The generous amounts of experience the Sphinx types give had, at least, enabled Ratel to reach level 35.
I remembered I had to make a brief phone call, which turned out to be a rather long phone call, and when I got back Acheron had gone off to eat, and Ratel had moved back across to the Poison Mists, so I took on a few more Sphinx Fighters and Sphinx Speer Men solo, before it was time to head back into town. In all Rage had managed to add 48.87%, so she too does rather better experience-wise against foes of that level than Kae does. 1025 pet points got added too.
So, it was good to be able to team up with Ratel again; we did it a few days ago against the Poison Mists, I know, but that was just being in the same area, mainly, rather than fighting the same targets. His defence buffs are certainly useful, as of course is his "Shield Strike" stun skill, which I see has a 75% chance of success, so slightly better than the 70% on my Snare.
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