Thursday 28 May 2009

Out With The Sphinxes

SirDarth got the horse to level 28 this morning, at which point it seemed a reasonable idea to pass her across to SirPerivale, and let Darth do what I had meant to do last time, which was start a new dragon hatchling.  The horse gives enough of an Armour Increase buff now for Peri to be comfortable against the Butchers, as ever the only problem is that they do die after twenty or thirty minutes or so.  Darth, setting aside the pan flute quest that Lorraine offered first, this time got the drake egg quest activated, went to Jajan in Dratan City, and became the proud owner of a brand new hatchling.

Unless Stavanic does actually come up with some incentive for me to train up yet another pet for one of his characters, the plan is to have Peri work on the level 28 horse a little, with a view to that horse replacing Rage's current one when she reaches level 37, and can be sold.  She is level 35 at the moment, but those last couple of levels are pretty long.   The hatchling that Darth has started work on would possibly be a replacement pet for that second horse for Rage, drakes do seem better at picking up loot than horses... or it really would be fun to have one character who could fly about on a mounted dragon eventually!

SirPerivale was already holding a level 37 horse, as yet unmounted; as Basher was online, I suggested that, as I owed him half an Eyes of Spirit accessory, as I'd kept the one that dropped when we jointly killed Kamira (well, I helped with the local Poison Mists and the Death Goddesses Kammy spawned), I could pay him off by giving him this horse - and he thought that was a fine idea.  I assumed he'd want to keep it, so that both BasheR and BadToTheBone could have mounts, but he decided to sell it.  I hope he gets around 300 million for it...

There was time this morning for MistressSabina to do an hour in Prokion Temple, using a triple skill exp platinum super skill pill; the room was available, so she settled in, doing a fair amount of gathering a mob of Orcs there and using Flame Storm on them; the hour gave 419 skill points, which isn't bad as, now that Sabina is level 30, they don't give quite as much skill exp as they used to.  The full session gave 438 skill points, and 980 pet points, so some more of the special skills can now be learnt.

SirPerivale was able to do a little levelling over lunch, as well as Darth, who had got the hatchling up four levels by the time he had to make way for Chuck, but once I was back at the keyboard, it was time to sort out Rage's next set of armour. No crafting was needed, thankfully, just the conversion of Kaerella's old 55/57 healer set.  I did try to skimp on the upgrading a little, but leaving the gloves at +6, moving the hood and boots up to +7, and the shirt and pants up to +11, meant that the defence was only 1 better than Rage's old +8/+11 set.  So, I got the new set up to the same plus levels as the old one, and things looked a bit healthier.  

For the main afternoon entertainment, Chuck and Rage went out to the Sphinx types.  Rage couldn't wear her new boots and hood yet, but she put on the other three pieces - not as smart an armour set as the previous red "lion tamer" suit, I think, but additional protection out there is always useful.  It was generally just Rage and Chuck in the combat party until I was starting to think about taking a food break, at which point Legacy arrived.  So, my food break was rather delayed!  I had by then managed to get the last 14% Rage needed to level up, so was wearing the whole set, and trying to get it all bloodsealed.  At that point, Rage had added 27.41%, 3 skill points, and 1393 pet points, while Chuck was up by 18.61% and 2 skill points.

WhiteMessiah2 arrived just as we did finally take our break; she did join our combat party for a little while, but then a friend or two outside our level range turned up, so she left to party with them.  Legacy left too, so, once my armour had got its full quota of bloodseals, it was time to meld the cover on. I'd got the "schoolgirl" cover set from the Wendy Bear event, playing rock, paper, scissors on Tuesday, so, using four bonus books of melding, all of which just gave +1, I melded the gloves, boots, shirt, and skirt to the armour pieces - and this increased the total physical defence to 1520, very nearly a 10% increase.on what I'd been getting from the previous set.

BatCow teamed up for much of the evening; WhiteMessiah2 did return, as well, and Acheron put in an appearance, with some death-defying mobbing of the sphinx types.  I feel that he really ought to shout "Geronimo!" as he charges forward.  After many near misses and 5% health bars, his luck did finally run out, but he'd had fun, and he'd not actually endangered us, only himself. He is good company; he does actually have a level 19 mage, StormOfStress, in Norcaine, but I don't think we've seen her online much yet.

Talking of Norcaine, Ratel was on this afternoon rather briefly, to say that he'll be away from us for about a week, though he hopes to be online on Sunday evening for the Quiz.  So, MrChuckNorris has temporarily been promoted to guild master, since he is currently online so much.

Legacy, although she is an assassin, decided, after checking with me that she would be able to use it, to buy herself a crossbow, and seemed happy; it looks to me as if a trio of passive skills for speed, attack and evasion won't work for her if daggers are not equipped, so she may have to change her speciality if she wants to continue to fight like a ranger.

Well, by the end of the evening session Rage had added another 38.91%, 4 skill points and 2044 pet points, while Chuck had added 28.71%, and 4 skill points.  Luckily Chuck is still closer to the end of his level, needing 30% compared to Rage's 45%, so he ought to reach level 43 before Rage reaches 53...which is important if they want to stay in a combat party, since ten levels is the maximum difference allowed.  Oh well, if that does become a problem later they'll just have to be in an equal-type party, where a 15 level difference is okay, until Chuck gets back in range...

By the end of the evening Peri's horse had got halfway through level 28, while Darth had managed to get the hatchling through two more levels, to reach level 7.  He is having rather short days lately, with Chuck using the second computer, but he did have a sighting of the Grand Red Dragon early on, a wandering Pandora's Beast killed for him by Rage, and someone, in the evening, sneaking up to kill his Berserker again, proving that leaving him at work overnight just wouldn't be practical.

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