SirPerivale's drake did manage to get up to level 33 last night, though each level gets longer than the previous one - and every other level the pet gets hungrier, too. SirDarth's pony has now become a horse, and indeed reached level 17 by the late morning.
After coffee I was able to take MistressSabina along to Prokion Temple again, with the target being 149 skill points, and to reach 2000 unused guild points. I did in fact manage to get 190 skill points, so as well as finishing the energy processing skills, Sabina can now process flawed stones. That means that only the processing of imperfect and quality stones is left for her on the "special skills" side, I think.
1030 pet points were gained - and 571 more guild points, which meant that Sabina had the 2000 needed for the "Expension of the number of guild members" skill, level one, which also cost 100.000 gold, and adds room for five more members in the Discipline guild. The next step would be to move the guild itself on to level seven. 550 skill points wouldn't be a problem, or the 2.5 million in gold... but getting together 18,000 guild points would be liable to take Sabina a month or two. So, maybe it's about time to return the mage armour to MistressDomina and let her get on with her skill point farming.
However, that doesn't mean that Sabina can't log in for special occasions like "Mad Monster Spawns"... and maybe the "Storm the Castle" event that happens on most Wednesdays. I did at least take her down to the approach to Merac Castle after lunch, so that she could add that location to her memory scroll.
However, the main afternoon session was Kaerella's, fighting the Elite Sphinx Speer Man and his colleagues. SugaRush arrived soon after Kae got there, but didn't stay all that long, and otherwise the area was quiet, except for one knight who gathered together a whole mob of the Sphinx types, generally stirring them up - my theory was that they liked his aftershave. By the end of the session, Kae had got pretty close to level 64, adding 13.22%, along with 1113 pet points and another 39 skill points.
The Wendy Bear event has continued into a fifth week, so I expect the price of the pieces will drop even lower. As the school uniform costumes last 30 days, the first ones will start to disappear soon, I wonder if that means people will be able to be given another set, or whether it is limited to one per character? The dates for the event given in its description say it would run for two weeks, but those dates are from 2007... But the pieces are still dropping, and the NPC who plays "rock paper scissors" with you in exchange for a set of the nine pieces, Sharoyan, is still in Randol.
As usual on a Wednesday, the evening session was a bit short, as I needed to log out at 8:00pm, UK time, but Rage and Chuck went off to the Sphinx types, accompanied by Ratel. We had hoped to head for the Tomb of Theos, but BatCow was busy in the arena, and Ghostt wasn't going to be on very long. Maybe it was just as well, as Auzura-3 suffered a mass disconnection soon after that, which would have been annoying if one had just paid 171,000 to enter the Tomb.
So, it was up the the Elite Sphinx Speer Man and his cronies to entertain us. SugaRush was also there for most of the time, but left the Elite to us, on the general principle that he's not worth the extra time and risk if you're soloing. WhiteMessiah was around for a little while, but it was a second temple knight, like Ratel but level 49, Dragon33, who came into our party. There weren't any deaths or any particularly highly dramatic events, just the occasional time when one inadvertantly got not just the Elite, but a couple of others, attacking at once.
Ratel mentioned that the old Norcaine guild over on the Cariae server has seen some changes, with a new character succeeding Itura as guild master, and some of his less important characters kicked out, which, if they were experience-frozen, is a bit unfortunate. Apparently my characters have survived the cull, though. On Auzura, his healer Jacqueline is in trouble, as she wasn't fully frozen when the change came, only donating 25% of her experience gain to the guild, so, at level 28, her chances to gain skill points before leaving Prokion Temple are rather diminished.
Rage just added 8.92% to Chuck's 21.93%; they each got 4 new skill points, and Rage's current horse gained another 978 pet points. So Rage is almost 70% of the way through level 57, and Chuck is more than halfway through level 48. If they continue to team up, Chuck is likely to level up first, though Chuck won't be going on any Tomb trips yet. He doesn't actually have the entrance to the Tomb on his memory scroll yet, although as it happens SirDarth does. It doesn't matter too much if Rage does gain a level or two over Chuck, as they can still team up with a fifteen level difference - though it's handy to have them ten levels or less apart so that there's the option of switching to a combat party.
One objective, however, is for Kaerella to get through another level-and-a-bit to reach level 65, so that she can start using a level 69 bow - so that her old level 65 one will be ready to be transformed into a crossbow for Rage, for when Rage reaches level 61. I don't have a level 61 weapon, so Rage is still using her level 57 crossbow. Anyway, as it is +15, it continues to get the job done pretty well. It's a shame the transformation of armour and weapons ceases above a certain level, because while it lasts it is very convenient.
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