Business As Usual

SirDarth began his work on MistressSabina's hatchling in the relatively early morning; SirPerivale also continued work on his horse for much of the time, though gave way to MistressDomina after coffee, so that she could head for Prokion Temple for an hour or so before it became busy.  Darth did have a slight surprise when he first teleported to his usual Berserker spot - the Grand Red Dragon was close by, but luckily nobody attempted to fight it, which might have led to fiery breath and assorted Cerebrii in the area.  Peri had a surprise too, as Butchers run out of health in around 30 minutes when he fights them, he often has to finish off a nearly-dead one and home in on another, when I check up on his progress, and the first time I did that today, the dying one dropped a heaven stone for him.

MistressDomina found the favourite back room uninhabited, so was able to use a 100% super skill pill and a 15% skill pill for an hour, bringing in 397 skill points; the whole session added 444 of them, and 1090 pet points.  After Peri took the computer back for the lunch break, she continued with the afternoon session, using the same two pills; the first hour added 407, and the second added 388, slightly reduced by a phone call.  Continuing on for a little while afterwards, again, brought the afternoon's total up to 853, plus 2385 pet points, which took MD's drake safely into level 23.  The only interruptions came from a rogue called Italia, who would come into the room and then attack an orc or two, but usually left pretty soon or hugged the wall for a few minutes, then fought some more.

Peri's pet-levelling stint over the early evening food break brought the horse up to more than two-thirds of the way through its final level - but then it was time for Rage, my level 49 rogue, to have at least a brief outing.  I headed for the Sphinx Fighters of course, where the rogue TinySickNinja, often seen giving advice in Randol, was at work with some of her friends.  Things did get a little crowded; it seemed that a Tomb party was mustering there - though they had enough rogues apparently.  The place seemed a bit empty when they all left., but soon after that, Rage's pet horse levelled up, reaching level 34 now.   There is no great point in taking a pet horse past level 37, so that will be another prospective mount, and another dragon hatchling for SirDarth to level up a bit, as a replacement.  It seems to me that, apart from developing a valuable mount, a drake is the best pet to have, they do seem to be better and quicker at picking up items, and less likely to get stuck.

Rage just added 6.88% experience, 2 skill points, and 306 pet points, before I headed back to Dratan City to spend her horse's new stat point on a slight armour increase.  I met xXArcheonXx there, a level 22 rogue, who turned out to be Acheron's newest character, and a member of the TrueGamers guild already, the same guild as TinySickNinja - who had raised the possibility of Rage joining that guild, before getting sidetracked into banter with her friends.

As the Elite Speer Man was getting ignored, I decided to give Kaerella an outing there for a change - and there is always the chance, when one logs on, of a friend issuing an invitation to something more exciting.  Not tonight, though, so Kae just farmed the Elite, and a couple of the regulars between its spawns.  Jacqueline came online, and I was suggesting that a higher level pet, with more of an Armour Increase buff, would help her in Prokion Temple.  SirDarth could boost her pet for a day or two.  Jacqui seemed to think this was a nice idea, but in the meantime asked for assistance in moving her pets around so that she had the highest one currently available, rather than Argoth, so I logged in my storage-type sorcerer, LordElpus, for that, before Kae returned to the Sphinx types.  It wasn't a hugely long session she had there, adding just 7.98% experience, 20 skill points, and 705 pet points.

Jacqui reported that she'd used her 15 heaven stones from the Quiz successfully... well, upgrading a couple of items by three or four without breaking them!  The borrowed weapon is still one plus ahead of the bow she upgraded, so she'll continue to use that one, unless I need it back.

MrChuckNorris had a similarly brief adventure, out in Dratan desert with the Poison Mists; he seemed to be gaining experience about twice as quickly as Rage, despite fighting monsters only around 3 levels above him, and added 11.03% experience, 13 skill points, and 350 pet points.  Rage hadn't had any plussed drops from the Elite Speer man, but the Elite Poison Mist did at least drop a Chaos Skirt +1.  Chuck tends to just put ordinary armour loot into the Merchant House at three or four thousand above the sell-to-npc price, so that, with the deposit involved, he doesn't make any useful extra amount of cash, but the things sell quickly and hopefully find good homes.

So, all my main characters except MistressSabina saw at least some action today - Sabina missed out as her pet is currently with Darth of course.  The hatchling changed into a drake, and in all went up nine levels today, getting well into level 19 by the time things close down around here.  As for SirPerivale's horse, well, some progress has been made, in the times when the newer computer hasn't been hosting Kae or Rage or Chuck or MD, and we are now about three-quarters of the way through level 36.