I hope SirDarth didn't feel too lonely going out to Merac alone this morning, while SirPerivale stayed at home in bed, reading the morning newspaper over a refreshing cup of tea and, no doubt, listening to the radio. Darth worked through the morning - he only got someone killing his Berserker once, a specialist sorcerer whose name I didn't catch.
"Ks-ers, sigh..." I commented, as I waited for a convenient Berserker to respawn. "Tell me about it", SirRenDippety responded, as he'd been nearby and also deprived of his Berserker.
"I thought you were generally on level 5 of the Jail?"
"Normally", Sir Ren agreed, "but there's a ks-er down there. He's decided not to let me pet-level, even follows me from server to server."
"Some people are strange", I commented.
"Claims it's not ks-ing", he went on. "Okay, time to find somewhere new..."
"Good luck."
"Oh, and watch out for ToBeDeleteSoon."
Rage logged in a little later, to do some afk mining, as her stocks of stones was getting a little low. I made the mistake of ignoring a "friends" request from XxSneakxX, assuming it would just be somebody asking for gold, only to discover too late that it was a fellow guildie, but luckily she logged back on later and I was able to get in touch, and chat a bit. A generous type, Ash, she passed me 300 of the "perfect stones" to help me on the pet-feeding front.
So, SirDarth continued levelling his horse, which reached level 30 by lunchtime, and Rage continued mining... and then after lunch Darth moved over to the older computer, and MistressDomina headed for Prokion Temple.
The back room on the Auzura-3 subserver was occupied, and the corridor room had someone using a group of three Orc Axeman just off one end, which MD usually relies on as part of her mob - so she, and Darth to provide a reliable solo party, moved across to Auzura-4's version of the place, which was substantially quieter as usual, so that the room was available. Starting a pssp and an sp again for a 215% boost, MistressDomina settled in to do some mad mob-gathering and Flame Storming, and by the time the two boosts flickered out had added exactly 500 skill points. She continued on for just a few more kills to get her unused sp total up to a nice round 19.6k, so the total gain for the session was 512 skill points, and just 23.18% experience, so probably three more sessions like that ought to be possible, if I can get enough platinum super skill pills out of skill boxes. MD's drake added 993 pet points, too.
After that, for a more relaxing time, my level five sorcerer LordElpus went to visit the foxes and wolves. I can report that, with 50% experience gain freezing, at that level he got (while in a solo party with Darth) 5 (which is approximately 0.18%) experience and 825 skill exp from a level one fox, but just 3 and 330 from a deer; a level two wolf gave 11 and 962, a level three elder wolf gave 18 and 1100, a level four dire wolf gave 28 and 1237, and a level six berserk wolf gave 56 and 1567... so if one stays with the low-level types, one's store of skill points does start to rise. Elpus did reach level six at the end of the session, so I can also report that foxes went down to 4/687 (the 4 being about 0.07% of the new level, though sometimes I got just 2 instead of 4), deer to 2/275, wolves to 9/825, elder wolves to 15/962, and dire wolves to 27/1100. while berserk wolves, now the same level as LordElpus, stayed at 56 experience, and moved up to 1650 skill exp.
LordElpus did go back to town and spend his first 50 skill points on assorted level five skills, and is thus now able to summon a fire elemental, or an earth elemental, though how one gets them to do anything useful I'm sure I have no idea...
After the food break Kaerella made an experimental trip back to the Tomb of Theos, taking Rage along, five levels her junior, to provide a Combat party boost, the way Chuck had been doing for Rage. The place was, however, a bit crowded; a level 33 specialist sorcerer called "dethknight" got himself into trouble for ks-ing one group - I didn't mind when he ks'd me, though, I was glad of the assistance! He died rather a lot of times, though he didn't seem to mind.
After some general all-together fighting against the zombies, I got invited into a group with the level 56 royal knight Miatet, the level 60 wizard ZodiacKiller, and the assassin Stealhassasin, and, despite my usual misgivings, before long we were running down to the Anubis Spear Men and the Tomb's more powerful Sphinx Fighters. The specialist sorcerer Ranveer fought alongside us, though he must have been too low-level to avoid being capped if he had been in the party; towards the end the level 70 royal knight lilDmarvelous came down and joined us, and it seemed that Miatet lost his connection not long after. We didn't continue long after that, as our new knight was having computer trouble, with his view spinning around, and had to log out; we rather thought he was intending to return to us, but we didn't see him again.
We did kill a few Fighters, and even a few Spear Men, though they did take a while - and if, despite the Concentration buff, Steal's Snare failed, then it was quite likely that one of us would die. I only died once, I thought I'd reached the safety of the wall, but the Spear Man disagreed! The others, I'd say, tended to die a bit more often.
When the party dissolved I ran back to the start, and killed one more Screaming Zombie solo - which got my experience gain for the adventure up to 14.33%, plus 493 pet points, but against such high-level foes no skill points of course. Rage had logged out after Kae and the others headed down from the Zombie area, to be replaced on the older computer by Darth; her moral support in the Combat party had earned her 2.39%
So, there was time for LordElpus to continue his skill point gathering, concentrating on the foxes still; I did get a couple more of the valuable fox tails, plus moonstone boxes and a heaven stone. A level 14 sorcerer called Sorcerer7 kindly decided to train me up a bit, though I said that I was really aiming to collect skill points mainly. "Don't worry, you'll get plenty of both" was the response. He certainly moved me along, by fighting sasquatch and werewolves, and even an elder werewolf or two; somehow he managed to make his fire spirit do most of the job! But when he tried a Blood Wolf, well, that was a step too far, he wasn't watching his own health carefully enough, and like many another player of about that level, got a free trip back to town to respawn.
I thanked him for the boost, and he left the party. He'd moved LordElpus up about half a level, and I managed to finish the job of getting to level seven. The foxes are blue-named now, but still give 1 experience and 550 skill exp - wolves are 6/687, elder wolves are 12/825, dire wolves are 22/962, and berserk wolves are now 53/1485. After spending all the 50 skill points from before, Elpus now had a new 32 of them to invest wisely. If he managed to go through the whole of his new level on foxes, that would certainly build up his supply of skill points...
By the time he logs out, SirDarth should have got his horse up to level 31, for the maximum armour-increasing buff, so it's entirely possible that tomorrow that horse may get passed to Peri, after a rather shorter vacation for him than I'd expected. Hmm, maybe Darth could level up the pet drake LordElpus has acquired a bit, at the moment it's only about halfway through its first level.
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