MistressDomino's overnight selling didn't actually last all that long, as Auzura-1 had a disconnection, but she did take in almost fifty million in gold, mainly I think from selling some Chaos Balls. SirDarth was able to take over quite early in the morning, and on a hunch I logged him in on the Auzura-4 sub-server. I knew from last night that Auzura-3 had lost its "double everything" event early due to its server crashes, but that didn't mean that the other non-PvP sub-server had been similarly hit.
And indeed double pet experience was still working on Auzura-4, so Darth settled in happily there. I would have logged SirPerivale in on the older computer to join him, but that computer had been switched off overnight, and when it was switched on again, I got the "a network cable is disconnected" error message. Luckily when I later took the step of briefly logging SirDarth out, and switching off the modem for a minute, then switching it back on, the cable miraculously reconnected itself, and Peri and Darth were both able to get some pet-levelling done.
With Darth switched to the older computer, and having checked, by Peri killing a Butcher, that the double experience and skill exp were also still running on Auzura-4, there was just time in the later part of the morning for MrChuckNorris to head for Prokion Temple again for about an hour. I would have preferred the widened-corridor room with almost entirely Orc Sergeants, but a Corleone member called JohnnyDepp was busy there, so Chuck settled for our usual back room. 15.80% experience got added, and a useful 141 skill points, so that despite having spent skill points to get the level 30 and 32 skills, his unused skill point total is now at an all-time high; 936 pet points were gained too, two at a time.
Following the usual leisurely lunch break, after a few minutes spent moving loot across to MistressDomino, there was just time for MistressDomina to try a couple of hours in that favourite Prokion Temple back room, to test out her armour set. On top of the double skill exp, she used a couple of those 15% "training spells", so that the Orc Axemen gave 12650 skill exp, and the Orc Sergeants gave 11385. The first hour yielded 384 sp, and the second added a further 403; by my calculations that's the equivalent on average of 171 skill points per hour without any boost, so not as speedy as Chuck... and, if anything, more small health potions were needed than when Chuck was at that level and just wearing +4 armour. I think I'm going to have to use a couple more chaos smelting stones there and see what difference they make, leaving the gloves, circlet and boots at +10 but moving the shirt and skirt from +11 to +12. MistressDomina added 794 skill points in all in the session, and 3912 pet points, which took her drake well into level 22.
After SirPerivale did some pet-levelling again over the early evening food break, during which my horse reached level 32, by popular knightly request it was my rogue, Rage, who appeared for the evening session. Acheron was in touch straight away, with a plan for us to join with a slightly higher level assassin and go to the Tomb of Theos, but when the condition of the Tomb was checked, we found it was set to "hard", at which point very sensibly the assassin decided against it. Acheron and I headed out to the Sphinx Fighters and Sphinx Speer Men instead, on Auzura-4 naturally after I'd told him that the "double everything" was still running there, but, despite logging out and restarting the game, he had crippling lag, and after a few minutes died from it - he went forward in his usual daring way to attract two or three of the Sphinx types, but he never returned.
The party did gain a useful level 40 archer, Francesca001, a member of an Italian guild, with slightly limited English I think - and Ratel, who was also level 40, agreed to join us after Acheron left. So, we made a pretty good team, and it was useful to have a second bow-wielder and some healing, though strangely Francesca never used the obvious skill, Slow Shot, which an archer normally gets at level 38. She did die at least once, but made it to level 41 before she had to leave us. Ratel, who is normally so good at protecting the more vulnerable party members, blamed lag for his inability to stun at the vital moment, though he wasn't suffering from it as badly as Acheron had.
Ratel reached level 41, and briefly returned to town to learn the Shield Strike 2 skill, which increases Shield Strike's chance of successfully stunning a foe to 80%, and the time of the stun to 15 seconds, instead of the earlier Shield Strike's maximum 75% chance and 12 seconds. We continued for the rest of the evening, and by the time we ended, Rage had just reached level 48. In all, Rage went up 84.13%, and got 4 skill points and 3124 pet points, so a pretty good session. Strangely, when alone there and soloing a Fighter she got 440 skill experience - but when a level 40 character in the party was in range as well, she just got 2.
Before we'd started, Rage did get another invitation to a Tomb party, but it was taking place in Auzura-1; I did check there, by killing a Fox just outside Randol, and that subserver didn't have the Sunday bonus still running. They didn't seem inclined to move to A-4...and I didn't see the point of doing without the bonus while it was available. Ratel had been looking for a better weapon for his archer Jacqueline to use, and asked me if I thought 25 million was a good price for a +10 level 29 weapon; I however remembered that I did have a +13 bow not being used, so I was able to lend that to him, or to her, instead.
The bonus did continue all evening, on A-4 at least, and very useful it was today, even if it does mean I am trying to fit in rather more playing time than usual, not to mention starting the pet levelling with SirDarth as early as possible. Ratel's pale blue horse, which he calls Hank in honour of the blue, bouncing Beast in The X-Men, certainly benefited, ending the day more than halfway through level 30. Hank will soon overtake the horse that SirPerivale is working on, which is currently about a fifth of the way through level 32. I expect someone at Aeria will soon notice that Auzura-4 still has the bonus running and switch it off, but we'll have to see what things are like in the morning.
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