Thursday 14 May 2009

Zombies in the Evening

SirDarth managed to start early, but SirPerivale got rather delayed, as the installation of AVG antivirus, always flakey, finally threw its rattle out of the pram, demanding restarts every time it updated, and updating every time it restarted.  Eventually it had to be uninstalled, after I'd grabbed its slightly more nag-oriented free competitor Avira.

So, SirPerivale was now down to only about 800 pet points ahead, with SirDarth, who has a higher hit rate, closing down the gap a little - and of course when Peri went off duty so that I could actually play, then Darth started to open up a lead.  Both horses reached level 34 by mid-morning, so that they both get through seven hunger points per five minutes, so it's lucky that both knights have plenty of quality stones now.

SirPerivale did get killed by a Pandora's Beast earlier in the morning, but luckily his horse survived - it just depends who gets attacked first, if the pet-handler is attacked and killed first then the pet will just safely vanish, but if the pet happens to catch the Beast's attention first, then an expensive unsealing of a dead pet will soon be needed.

Around five in the evening, Peri had a visitor - the Grand Red Dragon arrived directly overhead!  I don't think anyone was actually killing the Butchers at any great speed, perhaps if there isn't a more interestingly active place for the GRD to visit, he will actually teleport in to pet levellers.  I did use the trade channel to ask if there were any GRD hunters around, as I think it has a longer range than the normal chat, but didn't get any response.  It was time for Peri to think about logging out, anyway, and for Darth to switch over to the older computer.

One thing that the makers of Last Chaos, usually referred to as T-Ent, seem to have got right in the latest patch is a cure for the "run out of memory" crash bug, as I seem to have avoided that since the latest maintenance.  On the older computer sometimes it would happen after only two hours or so, and a full day's run on the newer computer was unwise, a restart of the game halfway through was, recently, a good idea.

Anyway, after the food break I was generally moving items to MistressDomino, and while Rage was transferring a few things across, I got a message from Razva125, checking on Rage's level (48) and then inviting me to join a Tomb team on Auzura-1.  This seemed like a good idea, so off I went, slightly delayed by having to grab some extra potions, and getting that old stand-by, a crash when trying to load the Dratan map.

So, that is where I spent the evening, in a team that varied between three and six people, plus a few other people who were too low to be in the party without being "capped" - the level 35 rogue Phinas, the titan Soulbeast, the mage MageQueen who went from level 17 to 18 (apparently the player is better known as Titanlord), and a couple of knights.  Quite often it was these low-level people who were doing the actual luring, and they did a good job.  Razva125 is a level 53 titan, who spent a fair part of the evening afk; Zulu was a level 53 royal knight, so while he stayed around I got the Concentration buff.  Brolly was a level 48 elementalist-type sorcerer, while StrongLT, a specialist sorcerer, is level 51 now.  Demona was a very useful level 43 archer, Karoz a level 47 titan, the slightly dubiously-named CmenLover a level 43 titan, Giant7 a level 47 titan, and the last person to join, before it was time for me to log out, was a level 57 temple knight, Ardorblade.

So, we fought the level 100 Screaming Zombies, and we did okay - I often took heavy damage, but was able to get to the left-hand wall before my health got too perilously low, thankfully.  LADYxSERENITY was soloing the Zombies for a few minutes, as archers often do, with a lot of "kiting", but when we were down at one stage to 3 people, I mentioned our levels, and she didn't cap us, at level 53, she fitted right in... so it was just as well we'd been apologetic earlier when she complained that we were ks-ing her.  As I said, we were so used to all fighting the same Zombie, even if we weren't all in the same party, it was automatic....for some of us, anyway!

A number of people levelled up, including Demona and, through the use of a platinum blessed iris and skill boosters, CmenLover.  I didn't - but I did add 81.81% experience, a skill point, and 1212 pet points.  As usual the drops from the Zombies, except for gold, were very poor, I don't think anyone got any armour.  I may have got a moonstone box, perhaps.  Only three people, as far as I noticed, got pieces of the "Bear Wendy" puzzle, and each time it was piece five, the one that I don't have.  Both Chuck and MistressDomina have the other eight, but not that one... so maybe I'll need to return to the Tomb of Theos a few more times if I'm to complete the set.  As usual for such drops, most of the pieces are on sale for high prices in town, from 400,000 gold up to a million or more each.

Since Rage's adventures meant that SirPerivale was offline for about four hours, SirDarth and Ratel's pet horse Hank have now indeed taken the lead, and by late evening were on level 35 - so just this level and the next one to go!  SirPerivale's horse won't reach that level until the middle of tomorrow morning, by my calculations.  It looks as if I won't be able to play until the evening again tomorrow, so Peri will have plenty of time to make more progress.

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