When I logged MrChuckNorris in in the morning, some time after SirDarth had started, I took him off to Prokion Temple on the usual subserver, Auzura-3, and found to my disappointment that, it seemed, not enough of those "Shots" packages had been sold - the skill exp was just the regular 5500 per Orc Axeman. Still, since he was there, Chuck started a platinum super skill pill for triple skill exp, and settled in in his usual room - and got 542 skill points in the hour that the pssp was active, 550 in all before he logged out.
Over lunch, however, while SirDarth and SirPerivale were both busily pet-levelling. Ratel's titan, Argoth, was online, and sent a message that the Auzura-4 subserver did have the 50% extra experience and skill exp running, and double pet experience as well. So, Darth swapped across, and found indeed that his horse's pet points did go up two at a time, which is rather useful when the pet starts to get hungry so quickly.
Argoth was able to switch to Ratel and unfreeze Chuck's experience. He was busy in my favourite back room when Chuck got there, so Chuck was looking around for a suitable room or corridor when Argoth announced that he didn't feel too well, and would be logging out soon, so if Chuck wanted to take over the room, he should head back there - which I did.
The skill exp per Orc Axeman was indeed back up to 8250, or 9487 when Chuck started up one of the 15%-bonus "training spells", so the first hour-long pill saw 328 more skill points added, while the second one added 305, the lower number being due to a small computer problem needing a quick log-out and run back. In all by the end of the afternoon, the day's skill point gain had reached 1278 skill points, along with 5201 pet points, which were easily enough to get Chuck's drake to level 32. And, as his experience gain had been unfrozen, Chuck added 282.94% experience, getting him from level 27 to level 30. Not only was he able to use his next +15 weapon, the level 33 Dictator Sword, increasing his physical attack from 546 to 581, he was able to learn the level 30 titan skill Body Crasher, which not only damages the target, it causes the monster to "bleed" for twenty seconds, losing ten health per second. All types of character have to learn their level 30 skill completely before they are allowed to choose which job-path to take - archer or cleric, ranger or assassin, wizard or witch, that kind of thing.
After the early evening food break, Chuck went back for another hour, which was enough to get him into level 31, so a trip back to Randol was needed, to make him officially a Warmaster kind of titan. There had recently been an announcement that GM Stratos was rallying resistance to an undead invasion over on Auzura-5, so MistressSabina fearlessly put in an appearance over there - and despite the number of people in PvP mode, managed to avoid getting PK'd, as she assisted in the demise of some large boss monsters, Helping to kill a Darkmind Terrain actually gave her 40.22% experience; a Blue Dragon isn't as high level, and perhaps her contribution was smaller, but its death just added 11.46%. Not that these figures mean a whole lot of experience at level 8! When the rewards got dropped at the end, by keeping my finger on the "pick up items" key until the red "this item has been reserved for another player" message stopped, I did manage to grab 3 tool aids, 2 skill point boosters, and two heaven stones, plus some potions of haste.
After that excitement, it was time for Chuck to go back to Prokion Temple and use his final "training spell" 15% skill exp boost - only 284 skill points that time, as the skill exp per kill goes down as he goes up in levels above the Orcs. Chuck kept going for a further 65 skill points, in order to get to level 32 so that, upon returning to town, he could learn his first Warmaster (or War Master, either seems correct) skills: Hard Swing, which hits up to three targets with 220% power in a 120 degree sweep, and Giant Body, increasing Chuck's health, or hit points, by 255, taking the total to 2300 at present. There's another useful skill called Smite, with a 70% chance of stunning a foe for five seconds, but I need another level's worth of dexterity before I can get that.
I just managed to get back to town by 9:30 uk time, which was handy as a "Pharaoh's Treasure" event was just starting, with a number of locations announced. The first location I found was just a large group of sphinx soldiers - the second location I got to, courtesy of a memory scroll spot not far away, was in fact the one where the treasure had been, but it had all either been picked up or vanished by then.
In all today Chuck went up from level 27 to level 32, which even with the 50% extra experience switched on was quite an achievement. 454.73% experience gain in a day doesn't happen often, unless power levelling in the Tomb's lower reaches is involved. Chuck added 10,015 pet points in all too - and is ahead by 594 skill points, despite spending 1327 skill points on Giant Body, Hard Swing, Body Crasher, and the Weaponsmithing and Armoursmithing skill levels that become available at level 32. The skill point total did briefly go above twenty thousand, in fact, but from now on it's liable to be downhill all the way.
SirDarth's horse has, thanks to about ten hours of double pet experience as well as the preceding five hours or so, managed to get comfortably into level 33 now. Late in the morning Kaerella helped out by mining some quality stones using tool aids - 40 tool aids, and 40 hammers, meaning 1080 quality stones for Darth. Without that replenishment he'd be running a bit low by now! SirPerivale managed to grab some time with a Butcher too, and his horse is level 28 now.
So, I need to check to see where the next armour for Chuck is being stored at the moment, and I also need to convert his old +15 sword, the level 29 one, into a mage staff for MistressDomina. Yes, now that Chuck is just about to say goodbye to Prokion Temple, it will soon be time for MD to start her skill point farming there in earnest...
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