I cunningly left SirDarth levelling his drake last night, so that the weekly scheduled server maintenance would stop him before the drake starved; MistressDomino was in merchant mode in Auzura-1 as well, trying to sell my remaining stocks of the Wendy Bear pieces. I did happen to wake up briefly at an appropriate time, so was able to restart Darth for a couple more hours of overnight work after the maintenance break, and I also got MistressDomino back to work too.
The Wendy Bear event is, we find, continuing into a fourth week, which is nice, as it meant that, while she didn't sell very many pieces before maintenance, in the restarted session Domino sold a hundred of them, which at 25,000 gold each does start to mount up. I even sold the 33 tool aids I put up eventually as well, at a newly reduced price of 39,500 each, so MistressDomino's finances are significantly improved.
The morning continued SirDarth's work, taking the drake a good way into level 28, while after MistressDomino sold out of all but two of the nine Wendy Bear pieces, SirPerivale went out to the Butchers in Merac as well, and succeeded in getting his horse up to level 32.
The afternoon session saw Rage and Chuck visiting the Sphinx types again. It wasn't long before the level 53 rogue MaskReturn, a member of the elite "Vendetta" guild, came along and joined the party, so I switched it from Equal to Combat, making Chuck's presence in the party an asset rather than a drain on our experience. MaskReturn was complaining of lag there, and did die once, courtesy of the hard-hitting Elite Sphinx Speer Man - she had a skill point restoration scroll on, but mentioned she'd lost 3% experience. She must have got that back and more from our session, though.
Once she left I went back to Equal, and by the time I logged out, after today's special "pool party" event was announced, Rage was up 9.99%, and Chuck was up 13.30%; they had 4 new skill points each, and Rage's level 36 horse was up by another 689 pet points.
The "pool party" event involved MistressSabina (and plenty of others) riding around Juno to certain locations, and generally finding that other people had got there first and killed the monsters infesting the waters - however, the actual party location after that was the place in the northeast where the waterway ends, and a large fish swims aimlessly around - not far from the drake valley. I got there in time for the loot to be spawned, but there were so many others also there that I didn't manage to grab any large number of item drop boosters, skill point boosters, large attack potions, tool aids, etc, but then it was just a bit of fun.
While SirPerivale and SirDarth were both busy pet levelling, Stavanic arrived with his new knight character JudgeGhis, and traded his level 9 dragon hatchling across for levelling to 18 or so. He didn't have any quality stones available yet, however. I lent him the level 28 drake that Darth had been working on, since he wanted to still have a pet to give him a buff, though as it's currently eight levels ahead of him it will get hungry a bit quickly. Still, it's better than having the drake unused in Darth's inventory, gradually losing sympathy.
This being Wednesday, the usual early finish was looming ahead, but there was plenty of time for MistressSabina to go out to Prokion Temple. Luckily there was no competition for that favourite back room of mine, and during the hour with the 115% boost I added 333 skill points - staying on a while got the total up to 369, along with 1152 pet points. The skill points meant that Sabina could learn the final level of Expert Armoursmith (179 sp), and the first five Weaponsmithing levels (151), as well as the third and final level of Yellow Herb Processing (34). Meanwhile, Discipline's tally of guild points moved on by 574 to 4194 - another four sessions should get us enough for that "Guild Notice" skill, which is needed before the size of the guild can be expanded.
There was just time after that for Chuck to visit the Master Titan, his skills trainer, and learn the level 44 attack skill, War Stamp, which can damage up to five adjacent enemies, decreasing their movement and attack speed (327 sp for the five levels), as well as the level 41 passive skill Focus Mastery 2 (148 sp for the one level now on offer). He still needs some more stat points in Constitution before the passive skill Defend can increase his long range evasion, though. There are a couple of new skills waiting for the next time he levels up, I see...
My attention may have been elsewhere after that, but SirDarth did manage to continue levelling up Stavanic's hatchling, so that it was on course for level 13 by the end of the evening. Darth opened a Pandora's Box, only to release a level 50 Beast... and then he opened another one, and got another Beast, which proceeded to chase him back towards town. The most I could do was relog him in to Auzura-4 instead of Auzura-3, where he was able to continue; and a little later, I was able to log Rage in briefly to deal with the Pandies.
The first of them that Rage killed dropped 109,600 gold, which was nice... the second didn't drop anything, and then I spotted a third nearby, which again dropped nothing. Well, now that Rage is level 56, the level 50 types are blue-named for her, so that would make good drops rarer. Rage spotted a further unopened Box, but that just released a level 30 Beast... and there was another of those just round the corner. So, an eventful couple of minutes. I suppose in future it will be Chuck's turn to deal with Merac's Pandies; he is only four levels below them now, after all, but I suspect he'll need to have some health potions handy.
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