Ratel's sudden disappearance last night was caused by a power cut just after he reached the Giant Larvae, he told me when he logged in this morning. Annoyingly, while his character was left helpless in-game not only was he killed, his pet was killed too...and he lost 2.5% experience.
SirDarth and SirPerivale started their pet-levelling duties at a suitably Sunday morning kind of time. The titan called Greg was again close to SirDarth, and once again lying on the ground dead, it doesn't seem as if titans are designed for this sort of duty. When he was down on level five of Maargadum Jail yesterday, Chuck did try out the pet-levelling set-up there, fighting a Death Mask Lancer without a weapon equipped, but his health started to go down steadily, so, although he must be about the right level, it just wouldn't work for him.
Rage used her memory scroll to go to the Akane Giants, which are four levels below her and now green-named. She rode along, past the Masters of Secret Technique, to the level 59 Arcane Golems, and the Elite Akane Golem, and farmed them for half an hour - partly to see if they would drop anything useful, but mainly to finish levelling up her horse, which only needed 525 pet points to reach level 37. The drops weren't much good at all, except for one level 56 manual, and the Golems hit hard enough for as many small health potions to be used there as against the Sphinx Fighters, it seemed.
Still, the horse reached level 37, so that meant that the mission was accomplished. Back in Randol, Rage traded the horse over to SirPerivale in exchange for the level 34 one he had been levelling, and gave this one the maximum armour buff and three levels of attack enhancement. Peri traded the level 37 horse across to SirDarth in exchange for the level 31 drake, and Darth then turned the horse into a mount - his mount, at least until a dragon becomes available! MistressSabina traded a drake egg across to Darth, who then did the quest to get a new hatchling, via Lorraine and Jajan.
So, for the lunch break, SirPerivale was set up with the Butchers to level up the drake, and SirDarth went back to his Berserker, to start levelling up the new hatchling, which is intended to be Rage's next pet, after her new horse reaches level 37. Generally drakes are more useful as pets than horses, they pick up loot more easily and don't seem to get stuck as often.
Ratel meanwhile had reported a nearly-successful visit to the boss spider Baal, out in the Dratan desert...which means that he got Baal down to about 20% health before it was time for him to respawn back in town. I don't think I've ever fought Baal - I once was teamed with someone who did, but I don't think I did anything beyond provide buffs or healing - but Ratel, well, he has a thing about that particular big fat spider!
The afternoon session was MistressSabina's, for a trip to Prokion Temple. Ratel's titan, Argoth, was already there, and indeed in the corridor-room with the group of Orc Sergeants, which is probably the best place for him to be at level 32. The "back room" was in use, so I ended up in the "statue room" just off the main central square with the staircases up.
Argoth was complaining about a player called Pixie who didn't seem to understand that his room was already occupied, by him - and I had a similar visitor who didn't seem to notice that I was there, a titan called 23KILLxJOY23, but he didn't seem to be killing fast enough to slow me down much, and I wasn't using any skill pill.
MistressSabina reached her 6000 guild point target, and spent them, and a million in gold, on the "Guild Message" skill, which is needed before one can do guild size "expensions", so called, I imagine, because they expand the possible membership of a guild, but are expensive. In all Sabina added 286 skill points, 876 guild points, and 1952 pet points. And then it was time for the food break; the "Sunday teatime" bonus was only a double drop rate, which seemed just to mean higher quantities of gold being dropped, so wasn't worth sticking around for the full two hours for.
After moving loot across to MistressDomino, it was time for Rage and MrChuckNorris to head out to the Sphinx Fighters (and Sphinx Speer Men); the place was already pretty busy, with SugaRush, TinySickNinja, and more - BatCow arrived just after I did, as well. Succubus2 was there, but had gone afk I think, probably after teaming with Tiny for a while.
The server had been getting a bit laggy; the merchant house was slow, and each time I logged in a different character there had been a "black screen" instead of Randol for a few seconds; with the quiz also due, people probably hadn't wanted to risk the Tomb of Theos and a possible disconnection. But Rage, buffed by Chuck, settled in, and was killing the Sphinx types in the usual efficient way.
But then lag struck, and the Sphinx Fighter Rage was battling started to act strangely - not moving and then "having moved", and another one came in on her. She couldn't do anything, and the scenes shown on her screen and Chuck's were quite different. I decided to move Chuck in to fight as well, but they were both losing health, and I soon decided that the only safe thing to do was to log them both out. When I logged them back in in Randol, Chuck's health was barely above 300, so one good hit away from death, and Rage's health was below 50% too, so I had made the decision just in time.
So I stopped them at that stage. Rage had gone up just 4.57% today, about a third of it with the Arcane Golems - they'd also given her 24 skill points, though, being close to her level. At the Sphinx types she'd added 2 more skill points, as had Chuck, who'd gone up by 7.59%.
SirDarth went back to hatchling-levelling for the rest of the time before the quiz, which allowed the little fellow to reach level 8, while Barbarienne, at level 8, went out to the Jaguars to get Geres some more necklaces, and reached level 9 easily enough. A Pandora's Box dropped five of the level twelve magic defence minerals, which may well come in useful.
The quiz itself was a bit of a fiasco, just about everyone got booted out on the second question, thinking that GM RaccoonPD was the mastermind of the "Jenga Event", whatever that is. And when we tried to get back in, we got the "It isn't time for enterance of O.X event." message, leaving a lot of unhappy people milling around in town.
Lag was still bad; I managed to log SirDarth back in to continue his hatchling-levelling, but my attempts on the newer computer just got me the black screen instead of Randol. After perhaps a quarter of an hour, though, Barbarienne did get in, and was able to do some more Jaguar-killing, and then went out to Velpist Temple to get its entrance (or maybe "enterance") onto her memory scroll. She got to level ten right away there, and went back to town about 80% of the way through the level - the idea being to join the Discipline guild and get her experience gain frozen, until such time as I want to enrol her in the Guardian system and zoom up to level twenty.
At level ten Lorraine will open a character's first treasure chest - and Barb got lucky, she was given the level 13 +4 Blue Jade Scepter, rather than Candy or gold, so she has a useful weapon for her future endeavours. Not that I need to level up another healer, but hey, it's good to be prepared.
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