SirDarth did attempt to do a bit of pet-levelling on his current pony overnight, but, with another disconnection on Auzura-3, and later some passer-by killing his Berserker and thus just leaving him standing there for an hour or two, it wasn't particularly successful. Still, progress was made, so that the pony reached level 13 as lunchtime approached.
MistressDomino was also trying to sell stuff, and did reasonably well, though the experience boosters didn't sell, there must have still been people around selling them cheaply. In the later part of the morning I did some moving around of items between characters, so Darth took some time off and MistressDomino got a restock of some items.
It was probably lucky that Darth wasn't down in Merac for that half hour or so, as when he got back there was a level 50 Pandora Beast perilously close by - so he immediately logged out again, and Rage rode down and dealt with it. The drop was 42,400, which more than covered the expenses involved I guess. After that, Darth returned, and settled back in.
For the afternoon, after a hint or two from Ratel, Rage logged in, and headed for the Sphinx Fighters. Ratel join her almost at once - and ZODIAC, the level 39 titan, and xXAcheronXx, the level 39 royal knight, turned up there pretty quickly and joined our party. Ratel reached level 39 before long, too.
A rogue called SugaRuSH was also fighting there solo - Zodiac was the first to notice that she was afk and being attacked, and we managed to save her a couple of times before she realised what was happening.
It was a pretty long session, and it was still going on when I logged out to go off in search of food. Zodiac was away for a while as he had to go shopping, but CrownedSalvation took over the titan duties. Ratel did have to leave, while Acheron went off to help a Polish friend, Sopel, I assumed he was just helping him to level in Juno, as Sopel was a new knight character, only level 3, but eventually Ache asked for help, saying he was nearby, but with a few Sphinx Fighters in the way, and checking the map, there he was, so we moved across, and cleared out a Fighter or two. So, Sopel may well be around the lowest-level character to get to that location without the use of Recall. He stayed in the party, and quickly put on a few more levels.
WhiteMessiah2 got in touch, and her arrival seemed like my excuse to leave. She's about seven levels ahead of me, so, rogue-wise, I left the team in good hands. Rage had by then gone up a total of 39.60%, and added 1347 pet points; still not a single skill point though, while they give nice experience the sphinx types, when one is 18 or 19 levels below them, only give 1 skill experience per kill.
By the end of the food break, SirDarth's pony had become a horse, as they do when they reach level 16 - and by later in the evening, level 18 had been reached, so things are moving along nicely there.
The evening session was a bit broken up. It did start with MrChuckNorris heading for Prokion, but he ended up in a not ideal corridor; guildie Legacy, a level 28 rogue, dropped by for a while, which made things slightly more crowded. Chuck just used a double-sp super skill pill, and got 358 skill points from the hour...so it was probably just as well he didn't use the more expensive triple-sp platinum variety. He stayed on a little while after that, and even went into our favourite room when it wasn't being fully used... the total skill point gain was 381, along with 1059 pet points, so not very dramatic, though it did get him to a total of 15k unused skill points.
After Kaerella made a brief trip to the Sphinx types, only to find the place too busy, it seemed a good idea to give MistressDomina an outing, so she headed for the orcs in Prokion Temple. I wanted to see if her armour would be good enough still, after the recent changes, though I downloaded and used a pack of five chaos smelting stones first to upgrade it by one per piece... and it did seem to be okay, though I'd not guarantee it for use in the back room without the occasional use of a health potion, as the axemen and sergeants do tend to come in as a big mob sometimes.
Skill point gain seemed a bit slow, I must say, though hopefully that will improve when the +13 mage staff is replaced by a +15 one... which will have been made out of Chuck's current sword, courtesy of Collector Ryu. Still, I think MistressDomina will need to use a number of Mall-type potions if she is to farm her skill points at an acceptable rate.
Anyway, MD added 801 pet points, and 101 skill points, enough to be able to get the third level of Expert Weaponsmith, and then levels two and three of Basic Alchemy. Yes, she is still in the process of maximising her special skills, sigh...weaponsmith and armoursmith take 690 sp each, plus more when a character reaches levels 32, 42 and 52, while alchemy takes 447.
Ratel has started a couple of new characters, this server's version of Leopardknight and a healer called Thabitha, so he spent the evening working on her. In an effort to work out how the "one-third chance of success" with an ordinary smelting stone actually works, he upgraded her level 5/7 "Breeze" armour set to +3, and kindly passed it over to a level 2 healer of mine, Barbarella, after use, on the feeling that nobody would be much interested in actually buying it. Only three of the pieces had reached "able to use bloodseal gem" stage, even though Thabitha's levelling has been reduced in speed to 25%, to help her gain plenty of skill points as she goes.
So, a fairly varied day. Who knows what tomorrow will bring...?
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