The usual bit of morning pet-levelling went on, complete with a visit by MrChuckNorris to get rid of a level 50 Pandora's Beast that SirDarth had released - it kindly contributed 50k or so to our funds. SirPerivale's drake looks as if it will be on level 34 for a while yet, but at least it got a third of the way through the level during lunch; Darth's drake reached level 21 in the morning.
MistressSabina made a new attempt on Ajaka Canyon, and, while she got to the far end, didn't manage to kill Blood Mistress Kamira before running out of health. It would be tempting to use a magical defence mineral, but the higher grades of that tend to be more valuable than the reward for completing that personal dungeon.
However, after that Sabina headed for Prokion Temple, and got the 196 skill points she needed, in 75 minutes, to complete maximising her special skills. 1342 pet points were earned, as well, plus 608 guild points. So now the question is, what else do I do with her? As she has her experience gain "frozen", unlike a new character now she can farm skill points, and guild points, for as long as I like... or do I just keep her for Mad Monster Spawns, and other events where it's risky to take a character that is carrying ten thousand or more unused skill points?
I guess it is best to wait and see what the Aeria people have in mind for increasing the skill exp through the middle levels, and transfer the high-grade armour back to MistressDomina, and let her get back to skill points farming instead, before Aeria decide to unfreeze those of us who got frozen before the recent patch stopped guild masters from being able to set people to donate more than 50% of their experience gain to their guild.
Sabina also mined eighteen tool aids' worth of quality stones, for transferring to SirPerivale, and then over lunch Peri and Darth were both at work together on a pair of Berserkers.
Kaerella spent the afternoon with the Sphinx types; TinySickNinja was there for much of the time, but there was no sign of SugaRush. There was a mass disconnection, I think only for Auzura-3, at 3:15 UK time, but we quickly returned. By the end of the afternoon Kae had added 9.11%, and 30 skill points, while SirFrancis had earned 940 pet points.
SirDarth had continued his efforts during Kae's stint, and was joined for the food break by SirPerivale again - but then they both had to make way for the dynamic duo of Rage and Chuck, who went to their usual spot with the Sphinx Fighters, Sphinx Speer Men, and the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, who fight better than they can spell "spear". Ratel joined them, as he'd just logged in, and it wasn't long before MADOC turned up too. His internet connection had gone down completely, yesterday - perhaps literally, as he mentioned high winds as being the cause.
His afk time to eat was a bit shorter than yesterday's; I had immediately switched the party to Combat when he went and sat alongside Chuck, so that he would get a small amount of experience just for being there, and give the active party members a boost, but it is based on damage dealt, so didn't take into account Ratel's stuns and buffs, so that while Rage was doing extremely well out of the set-up, Ratty was getting starved of experience. I switched it back to an Equal footing, and luckily Madoc returned to action soon after that. There was a second mass disconnection while we were there - I get awfully suspicious when these things happen at a non-random time, and this, by my computer clock, happened at exactly 7:00 pm, UK time. We quickly went back and continued.
Norcaine guild member Ghostt, our level 56 specialist sorcerer, got in touch with Ratel, and suggested that we team up in the Tomb of Theos, so the three of us went over there, after stocking up on potions. Chuck however logged out, having gone up 14.69%, enough to take him into level 49, and gained 4 skill points - not that 18,766 is a great increase over 18,762, but it's the right direction anyway. I quickly logged SirDarth back in, and sent him to his Berserker.
The Tomb party did pretty well, though Ratel did die once. He had gone to the wall when his health fell very low, but bravely ventured forth again before his health had had a chance to recover, and paid the price. Ghostt did most of the luring in his knight-type form; he had hoped to be with us for perhaps approaching two hours, but got unexpectedly called away before a single hour was up.
Luckily there was another part-party there, and we amalgamated - the level 56 royal knight Miatet, the level 49 titan DEETITAN, and that rarity, a cleric, the level 56 FrozenSlurpy, who quickly assured me that I didn't need to hug walls when she was there, as her healing was strong, and certainly backed up that claim. It was a great luxury not to have to rely on health potions, for a change. There were some other familiar faces down there too, including SugaRush - so that explained her absence from her usual haunts.
I'd started one of the potions that add 30% to one's experience gain for a day, which helped my figures to move along a little, and it wasn't long before Rage reached level 58 - though, like Chuck's new level, it doesn't bring any new skills or other excitements. FrozenSlurpy sadly didn't stay very long, and then a little later Miatet had to leave us too, with the flimsy excuse that it was 4:00 am where he was. Ratel, Rage, and the two titans continued, though, with Rage doing the luring, and though the place was fairly busy, I don't think we ever ended up with extra Screaming Zombies, just the one at a time that we wanted.
Ratel did ask Deetitan if he had the warmaster titan stun skill Smite, and he admitted that he didn't have enough skill points to get it yet, he'd need to do some sp farming - so he's not as useful as Chuck, then! There's a moral there for us all, I'm sure, having an extra stun in the party would have made things a good bit safer.
Finally Ratel decided that the next Zombie had better be his last, and that seemed like the point at which to call it a night. Madoc mentioned that his wife was calling him, too. So, though I think that final Screaming Zombie was the one that came closest to killing me, that was the end of a pretty good evening. Rage had gone up by 4.50% against the Sphinx types, but added a further (and useful) 10.19% down in the Tomb. Like Chuck she got 4 skill points, while her pet horse, which had reached level 35 out in the open, added 1764 pet points in all.
I must say I'm slightly surprised that Rage's experience gain in the Tomb wasn't more dramatic than that, but it was, most of the time, a fairly large party to share the experience out between, and while the Zombies do give a nice big amount, they do each take a while to kill.
So, Darth was soon joined by Peri down at the Berserkers; a Pandora's Box just yielded 20,000 gold, while a rogue called "meanie" of the Xconics guild rode up, killed both the Berserkers, and moved off. Darth commented "You live up to your name, I see" - and her response was "I saved your life. They were attacking you", which was quick thinking, I must say, heheh. Darth's drake ends the day approaching three-quarters of the way through level 23, and Peri's one ought to be a similar proportion of the way through level 34, so we make progress.
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