SirDarth continued with the drake-levelling up until noon; by that time the little fellow was level 23, and 2955 out of 4354 pet points along towards the next level, so just about right to be MistressSabina's pet, giving 22 levels of Armour Increase, which adds 170 to Sabina's physical defence. I was intending that SirDarth should start another drake, but, after trading across a drake egg from MistressDomino, I was in rather a hurry, and actually activated the pan flute quest with Lorraine, as that is the first option to come up. So, Darth got a cute little new pony instead, which by half past four was just reaching 100% Sympathy, and halfway through level 6.
There was time in the morning for MistressDomina to do an hour's skill point farming in my favourite back room in Prokion Temple, and, using a (200% extra skill exp) platinum super skill pill and a (50% extra) platinum skill pill she managed to add a massive 682 skill points in the hour they were active - 734 in the whole session, plus 1142 pet points. As usual, as the Orcs are MD's level, the loot drops were good, with plenty of Wendy Bear pieces, moonstone boxes, and the various Hands.
MistressDomino, my merchant mage (and thus not to be confused with MistressDomina), did a little selling of the bear pieces over the lunch break, and also got rid of the platinum harvest boosters that were gained from the Easter Egg event, so I decided to have a look through the available monster combo-type accessories in the Merchant House; I found a necklace which only gave 5% suction of life, and decided that it was worth just about 15.5 million gold asking price.
So, in the afternoon session, MistressDomina didn't need to use the small HP recovery potions, the "suction of life" kept her health nicely topped up. It's not a steady and predictable health recovery rate, just a rather random addition of about 60 health points at a time, but it did the job.
As well as the necklace, I passed fifteen of the Skill Boxes across to MD, and she opened them - there were some platinum super skill pills revealed, which is nice, and also (100% extra) super skill pills and the (15% extra) skill pills or "training spells", as well as a few of the ten-minute scrolls. So, for the afternoon session the idea was to use up some ssps and sps. Luckily the usual room was still available; 417 skill points got added in the first hour (which would have been 679 with the maximum-bonus pssp and psp), and 416 in the second hour, so I was pretty consistent today. The whole of the afternoon session added 896 skill points, as well as 2386 pet points, which were just enough to get MD's drake to level 26.
So for MistressDomina that was, in all, 1630 skill points today, and 3528 pet points. In theory she is about a third of the way to the sort of total for skill points at which most of my characters leave Prokion Temple, but if possible I want to keep her there a little bit longer.
Kaerella did some mining over the early evening food break, for a change, replenishing her supply of quality, imperfect and flawed stones - and then it was time for MistressSabina to come out to play, for at least half a session. As with most Wednesdays, I'd have to log out at around eight UK time, but that still left plenty of time to get things done.
So, the first thing to do was check on any newly available quests - and I found that the first of the two quests that need 10 Soft Sand was now available, so Sabina teleported out to Shuraine's oasis, and settled in to farm the Sand Golems there. They may be yellow-named for her, as they are a few levels above her, but with her mount's attack and defence buffs, and her newly-boosted level 23 drake's Armour Increase buff too, they didn't give her any problems. It took a while, but I got the twenty pieces of Soft Sand needed for this quest and another one, and also levelled up, reaching level 24.
The soft sand does actually have to be delivered to a different location out in the Dratan desert; as Sabina is still 13 levels below her horse, that horse gets hungry awfully quickly, and using the horse buffs had really drained the yellow starvation bar. Luckily, she had picked up a few tool aids lately, so the best thing to do was to return to Randol, buy a few mage-type mining hammers, and go out to the local Juno mine. So, that's where I headed - encountering a Pandora's Box along the way, which dropped five of the top-level physical attack minerals, which are rare and valuable.
So, I used tool aids on the hammers, one after the other, selecting "quality stones" and doing the usual mining chores, getting a good stock of stones to keep my mount plump and happy. I had a new quest to visit Wild Collector Kal, so I fed the horse, and rode across Juno to his location, completed that quest, got the reward, and went back to town. Then it was a matter of feeding the horse up fully, taking the teleporter to Dratan city, and, mounting up again, riding off down the city's main street towards the south gate, to go to the desert location where the quest reward awaited...
And it was at that point, at 7:35 pm UK time, that the server, or maybe just the Auzura-3 sub-server, chucked everyone out. It wasn't easy to reconnect either, there were lots of "timed out" messages and a disconnection or two at the character selection screen, but at last both MistressSabina and SirDarth were able to get back in. Instead of being on horseback, Sabina had her drake equipped... there is often a little "rollback" after a disconnection. But further investigation showed that the horse hadn't yet been fed - and that all the stones I'd mined weren't in my inventory. The quest for Wild Collector Kal hadn't been completed, or indeed begun, and those five physical attack minerals had vanished from my inventory - and in fact I'd only got nineteen of the twenty Soft Sand pieces I'd farmed from the Sand Golems out at Shuraine's oasis earlier, so that was a very biiig rollback...
Well, there wasn't time to do everything I'd hoped to do, but I got the Kal quest, bought the hammers, did the mining, visited Wild Collector Kal, not far from Velpist temple... but there wasn't time to head back to Dratan, so MistressSabina ended the evening 58.28% up, as far as experience goes - luckily the rollback hadn't taken her below level 24 again. Sand Golems don't give as much skill experience as Prokion Temple monsters, about a seventh as much, in fact, as I was below their level, so only 26 skill points got added, plus 767 pet points.
SirDarth got a bit of a scare, later - I found him being attacked by a wandering Pandora's Beast. He's have been dead, I suppose, if the Beast hadn't chosen to attack his pony first. It was lucky I noticed what was going on, Darth was able to make a run for it, and unequip his pony when it was on about 40% health - pets may be expensive to heal, but they take a long time to die, one point at a time.
Darth logged out, and Rage logged in, teleported to Merac Caron, and rode down to battle the Beast. Rather than try Snare, which only works 70% of the time, she used Flame Arrow to start off, which has a rather better success rate, and it was soon dead, dropping 42,600 gold. After that Darth was able to log back in; the pony soon levelled up again, restoring her health to 100%, and everything returned to normal. By my usual log-out time, she should be well into level 11. I really don't know if she will go all the way to level 37, the later stages are rather a lot of work so I don't want to do it all the time.
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