SirDarth kept busy with the current horse, which reached level 32 during the early evening food break. As for the level 23 one he'd previously been working on, before Bladesrus handed his across, I traded that across from Keerella to SirPerivale, which seemed more sensible, and Peri managed a little work on him during the lunch and later breaks. With Peri's +3 armour and shield and 22 levels of the Armour Increase buff, a physical defence of 781 is quite comfortable against the Butchers, though unlike the Berserkers, they do tend to die after twenty to thirty minutes of bare-knuckle attack. The horse did reach level 24 just at the end of the second food break, so that was even better.
The afternoon seemed a suitable time for my level 27 titan, MrChuckNorris, to use a couple more triple-sp platinum super skill pills in Prokion Temple, though as it happens things didn't go entirely smoothly - well it is the weekend , so there are more people online. The titan I'd seen briefly last time, ZODIAC, a member of SneakyFreaks2, was using my favourite room when I got there, so I went back to the square room with the statues for the first hour, where Chuck managed 575 skill points. After that I went back to the other room, and settled in there - but unfortunately Zodiac returned after a while, and, despite Chuck being on a pssp, wasn't willing to leave the room to him solo. This meant only 489 skill points in the second hour, but Zodiac did have the habit of not picking up his loot, so Chuck's drake kept busy picking up extra stuff, including a couple of bits of armour as well as gold drops.
Initially Zodiac accused Chuck of speed hacking, which seems strange as Chuck's accessories aren't particularly good, so his hit rate can't be all that unusual - but luckily he changed his mind after a few minutes, and was good company later on. He was approaching level 33, so may not be in Prokion Temple for many more sessions... the Poison Mists, or even the Sphinx Fighters, beckon.
Including the usual after-pssp continuation, Chuck added 1179 skill points, as well as 2432 pet points. The fourteen Easter Eggs opened did include a heaven stone, ten potions of haste (twice), a "magic stone" accessory (it may have had no properties visible, but apparently next time one logs in, the properties are revealed), ten herb trunks, 500 gold, seven of just 50 gold - and finally a platinum harvest booster, which apparently is like a regular tool aid, but gives three times as many stones, or whatever.
After the break, it was time for Rage to head out to the Sphinx types again; the level 41 archer Archers and a level 41 titan CrownedSalvation were teamed up there, and let me join the party. It wasn't too long before Acheron turned up. "He's good company, if a little rash" was my comment, and he lived up to it. I don't blame him for Rage's death, though, that was probably something to do with the lag we were experiencing. It was unusual, typed-in text took a number of seconds to appear... and that is probably something to do with the mass disconnection on Auzura-3 that came along later.
Archers the archer didn't actually stay too long, I think she may have died on one of those occasions when we ended up fighting four assorted Sphinx types at once; the lack of a healer, and Slow Shot, rather put paid to Acheron's ambition that we should relocate to the Tomb of Theos.
CrownedSalvation left after a while, and Acheron brought in a friend, a level 39 rogue called Sorenity - an assassin, with blades, rather than a crossbow-wielding ranger like Rage. So, I had to keep on with the luring, when it wasn't Acheron running forward into aggro range of a few, but the second Snare skill was very useful. We added a level 38 titan called Razval25, though not as quickly as we'd have liked as there was a strange sorcerer there that I definitely didn't want to add to the party.
He was asking the level of people's pets, and offering rather low prices to buy them, and saying that he'd got a pet to level 29 in two days, and he could get my level 32 pet horse to level 40 in a couple of days if I passed it to him... and then later he said he was level eight, so what he was doing out there I don't know. Definitely not a person to lend a high-level pet to, even if, I suppose, that pet-levelling had been on a different character.
Anyway, a "Dark Goddess" turned up, with the name of Barewolf - someone else using a transformation scroll to get there! Unfortunately, he had to do it twice, because just as I was clicking to add him, in the form of a level 34 knight, to the party, that mass disconnection I mentioned happened, at 8:46pm UK time. As the game doesn't save itself every second, there is always a slight "rollback" effect when we get a "dc", and Jacqueline complained about a loss of some recently-gained experience... so even if Barewolf had had time to add the location to his memory scroll, he'd have lost it again. There had been a mass spawning of Pandora Beasts a few minutes before, which might have had something to do with the lag and subsequent disconnection.
However, I think he must have done what my titan guide had advised me to do when he led Rage there, and saved his progress every few minutes, as soon after we were back there, he arrived again too. He joined the party; Acheron had to leave not long after, but we continued for another 45 minutes, tackling the Elite Sphinx Speer Man slightly less often and with fewer of his friends. I was about to say my goodnights when Sorenity mentioned she needed only 2% more, so continued for the necessary few more kills before leaving. I did apply horse buffs before I left, but I don't know if Sorenity, Barewolf and Razval25 continued there at all.
Rage had, again, not added any new skill points, she has been on the same total for the last four sessions, but 1150 pet points got added, and 39.14% experience, so we are comfortably into her current level, 44, now.
One reason I was fairly prompt in logging Rage out was that two hours of double pet experience had been announced; Darth's pet's points were clicking up nicely two at a time, and it seemed a good opportunity to let Peri's horse also gain the extra benefit. The GMs did announce that the first subservers of each group had a pet-levelling statue in the Randol arena, but I prefer the Butchers and Berserkers - the arena is a PvP area, so that people there could easily get killed, and, worse, have their pets killed by some creep. "The statues are there for training and levelling pets. Do not destroy them. If I catch you doing it, there will be punishment", a GM message read. "I am not above banning an entire guild for interfering in my events. Think about that before you take action. If you are attacking a statue without a pet out, I will consider it an attempt to ruin an event run by a GM."
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