Prizegiving Time

It was another early start for SirDarth, working on giving Ratel's pony a boost; he had asked to have it back when he logged out last night, which seemed a bit strange, but was dissuaded from that, letting Darth continue.  We have loaned him another pet to use while this one is with us, so there can't really be a problem.  And, after being hard at work most of the day, the pony became a (level 16) horse just after six in the evening, which was handy, as Ratty logged in just after that and I was able to pass on the good news.  By the end of the evening, with any luck, level 18 should be in sight.

MistressDomina managed to fit in an hour with a (100% extra skill exp) super skill pill in the morning, in the usual Prokion Temple back room, and managed 407 skill points, which was a remarkably good score.  Continuing on afterwards for a few minutes got the total up to 478, plus 1400 pet points.  MistressDomino logged on to receive the recent loot from MD, Chuck, and Sabina, which included lots of Wendy Bear pieces, and then set up in merchant mode over the lunch break, taking 5.3 million in gold just from selling the pieces - at 50,000 gold each, that was over a hundred pieces.

For the afternoon, MistressDomina continued her skill point farming; as she is currently out of stock of the skill pills, super skill pills, and platinum skill pills, she moved up to using the (200% extra) platinum super skill pills, which meant that the first hour brought in 582 sp, and the second hour 573 - the entire session netted 1170 skill points, along with 2048 pet points, which were enough to promote her drake to level 27.

We did overlap a bit with the Friday "happy hour", which was 50% extra skill exp, and sadly that didn't stack with the 200% extra from the pssp in the way the 50% from the psp would.  But, as soon as the second hour was over, MistressDomina logged out, and MistressSabina, the esteemed guild master of Discipline, logged in, and headed for Prokion.  As she was level 25, she didn't head for the Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen - the Orc Soldiers and Orc Fighters were more her speed.  The fighting wasn't difficult, really, even though Sabina's "Dark" armour set is only a mixture of +4 and +5 items - the 5% suction of life helps of course, while a small HP recovery potion is often useful.

The "Happy Hour" ended rather promptly, unfortunately, but by then Sabina had added 196 skill points, as opposed to the 130 or 131 she'd have got normally, and gone up 85.19% on the experience side, taking her into level 26; 1113 pet points were in the bag, too.  And then it was time for the usual food break, so Kaerella logged on for a little mining.

Afterwards, the next item on the agenda was getting MistressSabina up to level 27, so that she can wear the whole of the next armour set - an armour set she will borrow from MistressDomina, who I guess will go into temporary retirement while Sabina takes her place in that back room.  With MD's armour and staff, Sabina shouldn't have any problems there, even though her skills aren't as fully up to date yet.

So, Sabina went back to Prokion Temple, and continued with those Orc Soldiers and Orc Fighters.  The Orc Soldiers were green-named now, but still gave reasonable amounts of experience, so it didn't take too long to slog through level 26 - 81.44% experience is what I gained, along with a further 104 skill points and 946 pet points, and of course a few pieces of the Wendy Bear puzzle picture.  Sabina is now level 27, and ready for the new armour, and for the Orc Axemen and Orc Sergeants.

That left time for Rage to head out to the Sphinx types.  I met another rogue there, BatCow, who was level 37. She knew me, as her titan Zodiac had teamed with me not so long ago - but she's given up on him, he does not have enough skill points, and is building this new rogue.  We teamed up, until she reached level 38, and nipped back to town for her new skills - and had to log out soon after.  I continued for a while; an archer called ckdk12 wanted to team but was only level 32, so had to be content with being allowed to "ks" a bit, and hopefully gained some experience that way.  By the end of the session I'd just added 17.13%, 3 skill points, and 625 pet points.

I'd been eager to give Rage a little outing, as I had been a bit extravagant earlier - I checked the merchant house system and found an Eyes of Spirit accessory for 550 million, as well as more expensive ones, and thought that was a reasonable price for something that is so useful for a bow-user, with its boost for the hit rate and close-range evasion.  So, I bought it, meaning that Rage is now using two of them - and a little later I spent another 65 million on a Stone of Shadow as well.  Rage will have to share the pair of "EoS" with Kaerella, but they make her a formidable bow-wielder, for sure.

There had been a competition on the Last Chaos forum, with the first fifty people to post a screenshot showing all nine parts of the Wendy Bear picture in their inventory being awarded prizes - and tonight was when GameSage TygerMyst was handing out the prizes.  So I had to make sure that MistressSabina was on Auzura-5 at ten o'clock, UK time, standing around hopefully in Randol.

And I continued to stand around for more than twenty minutes before TygerMyst finally arrived - she'd been delayed at work, she said, due to an incident to which the police had had to be called.  My prizes turned out to be a health stealer and a mana stealer, neither of which I think I've actually used yet on Auzura, though back on Cariae at high levels they certainly were useful sometimes.  I do already have plenty of them, but it's the thought that counts, and the pair of them are probably worth at least, oh, five or eight million, something like that.  So, worth the wait I guess.