Well, it's always a relief to get one of my "Busy Sundays" out of the way - it's five weeks until the next one, so, although there are other distractions, I'll be able to concentrate on Last Chaos a bit for a while.
The day started early - but only because I'd left MistressDomino in merchant mode overnight. I checked on her progress, and saw that she'd got about 46 million, including selling three Easter Eggs, and then logged out, and switched off the computer and the modem for almost exactly twelve hours.
When I got back online, just about the first thing I did was get both SirDarth and SirPerivale up and running as pet levellers - but when I got back from eating, they had both been disconnected. Ah well, at least they'd done about 25 minutes each before losing the connection.
For once, I don't think it was a problem with the Last Chaos servers; my local connection seemed not to like having been offline all day, and in the end, restarting the modem seemed to sort things out, but it was all very strange, I think I must have had a tiny trickle of a connection, as Darth did manage to log in again, and, while Peri just got "timed out" messages, he appeared successfully in Randol - but a quiet, empty Randol. First the place was entirely empty in one direction - Geres and the other NPCs near him were there, but Storekeeper Bianca, the Animal Trainer, etc, just weren't to be seen. A few players stood around near Geres and company. On a second attempt, the spawning area was pretty full of players, but all standing there doing and saying nothing. So, "connecting into a disconnection" would about cover it.
It took a while, but finally all was well again; SirDarth returned to his Berserker, and MistressSabina headed for Prokion Temple, and a convenient room full of Mummies. They may be four levels below her, but still give 3300 skill exp each, and as boss critters a useful bit of experience too.
Jacqueline was in the Temple too, and in the solo party, closing in on level 28, and still complaining that she had to spend more time healing herself than actually fighting. It wasn't a long session, though, as soon Jacqui was reminding me that the Quiz was about to start. So Darth and Sabina logged out, and Kaerella and Rage logged in, and headed for the Auzura-4 Quiz Room.
There was talk of the Quiz Room doors being closed once the quiz started, but I think people were managing to get in again. The questions were the same as last week's, and by now we were all starting to get the hang of them. The Barren Eise has six eyes, the Spirit and Quanian's Caves are in Strayana, game masters won't ban you for refusing to give them personal information, but will do for sharing an account...many of the answers are indeed common sense. Rage and Kae both got the full set of prizes, the tool aids, moonstones and heaven stones, and they both logged out safely. Knowing the disconnection possibilities with so many people online, it was sensible to log out and "force" the game to record the new additions to my inventories....a disconnection, incorporating a rollback to before the prizes were given out, would cause riots, but it could happen.
And of course logging back in was the problem - well, not logging back in, one could easily enter one's account name and password, choose the server and sub-server, choose the character to play, and watch the bar for Randol-loading go to 100%, it was after that when one found oneself staring at a black screen. SirDarth got in fairly easily, but MistressSabina didn't. And then Darth got another disconnection after only a couple of minutes with his Berserker.
Darth's next session lasted a little longer, but he, and Sabina, who had got in finally, got another disconnection a bit later. By now, despite the delays and disconnections, Darth's horse was approaching level 37; it wasn't worth sending Sabina out to do anything, but she could stand around in town casually, hoping to be able to take the newly-finished mount, and lend Darth her hatchling for a day's levelling to boost its level a bit.
MistressSabina's short session earlier in Prokion Temple had added 43.09% experience and 80 skill points, giving her 108 unused skill points - enough for the fifth level of some skills, though I opted to wait until she has the 151 needed for Mage Armour, and keep other fifth levels for later. She also will need 120 skill points for guild upgrading, but that can't be done until she is level 25, so she needn't start saving up for it yet. 729 pet points got added too.
Anyway, Darth's horse made it to level 37 - and 200 pet points beyond, as I got distracted by a contest on the forum which meant I had to take a screenshot of Sabina, with her inventory open to show the Wendy Bear pieces, then process the shot, upload it to PhotoBucket, and post it in the forum. Darth and Sabina then exchanged pets, and Darth went back out with the level hatchling for a last few minutes, while Sabina mounted the horse, and got the attack and defence boosting skills up to their maximums.
So, despite the disconnections, black screens, and other problems, the Quiz at least went well, and the horse is now a full-strength mount, so not a bad evening all in all.
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