Another Set of Armour

There was the usual bit of pet-levelling for SirDarth and SirPerivale to start the day, with as expected Ratty's blue drake, in Darth's care, reaching level 25, and Peri's horse getting into level 34. But, after a slightly early cup of coffee, assuming that it was a mid-morning one rather than a breakfast substitute, it was time for Darth to loan his armour to Galahad again, and for Gal to head for Prokion Temple on Auzura-4, accompanied by MistressBlaze.

Using the "beginner" pssp and pbi, in the first hour Galahad added 150.57% and 243 skill points, getting well into level 28. The second hour added 108.71% and 210 skill points - I did miss a few minutes when the older computer ran out of memory, so Gal had to log back in, and hurry back to the Temple, but each level is longer than the previous one anyway. The target was to try to get to level 30, and I did just manage that by staying on a bit longer than I intended, so that lunch was slightly better cooked than had been planned. The whole session, then, added 270.65% and 495 skill points.

MistressBlaze added 79.56% experience in the first hour, and 60.58% in the second, since her experience gain per kill went down once she reached level 32; she got 246 skill points in the first hour, but, as that used up her last newbie-type pssp, only 87 in the second - her totals for the session were 151.77% on the experience side, and 376 skill points. And of course we got various bits of armour and other loot.

Unlike the usual sessions, I did actually have both Galahad and MB fighting, even if perhaps Gal did appear to think things over between kills. I have been in parties with people who react just as slowly, though! He kept the Divine Shield buff on MB, and was responsible for picking up most of the loot, but he did his share of the fighting as well.

Ratel had got in touch very early in the morning, at least by Sunday standards, and he was also online just after lunch. I had thought we might take advantage of the afternoon's "Sunday teatime" 50% bonus experience to have Barbarienne and Elvastar over on the Cariae server fight together in the Tomb of Theos, but unfortunately, and unsurprisingly I guess since he does have a family including young children, he was going to be otherwise engaged then... so the team-up, with Elva attempting to get to level 60 for that freebie set of armour by doing some dedicated ks-ing, is pencilled in for tomorrow evening instead. I was able to let him know that his drake had reached level 25, anyway, so arrangements were made to trade it back later.

The afternoon session started with a brief visit to Cariae to set things up for tomorrow - I now have a new level four knight over there, XxGALAHADxX, who is Kaerella's apprentice in the Guardian system, and has got my cat-style "human tribe" pet SkrappY in his inventory. Barbarienne does have some "Summon" books, so should be able to take him to the Tomb when needed. Back on Auzura, Galahad started by doing a few odd quests - and was about halfway through killing the 35 Death Goddesses when the announcement for the two hour "Sunday teatime" event came up. It had been advertised on the website as just 50% extra experience, but the announcement said that it was to be double skill experience...

So, the best thing to do seemed to be to get MistressBlaze and Galahad teamed again, and back into Prokion Temple - though when I looked at the experience and skill exp figures afterwards, it looked more like the 50% experience gain to me. Ratel, however, assures me that it was extra skill exp - but whatever it was, it came in useful. MistressBlaze added 42.48% experience and 205 skill points, while Galahad added 68.33% and 210 skill points, those extra ones being due to the bit of Death Goddess-fighting beforehand.

My food break was a bit rushed, and I left MB and Gal in the Temple room - so the session basically continued there. Gal still needed another 30% to get to level 31, so we just kept busy, and at last we got there, and the new armour set and weapons arrived. Gal had already started using a level 33 sword, it had seemed a good idea to get him one as soon as possible, so MB had donated her spare weapon, the witch-type wand, which Collector Ryu had converted into a knight sword for just 75,000 gold. I kept going slightly beyond the actual levelling-up to get the sword all five of its bloodseals, which were a good selection of small attack bonuses and extra hit rate.

Anyway, MistressBlaze added another 26.37% and 118 skill points, while Galahad added 40.71% and 114 skill points - he missed out on the other four due to another "run out of memory" error and another dash back from town. There was still an hour or so until the quiz, so there seemed to be time to do some minor quests - MistressBlaze's turn to kill 35 Death Goddesses, I must say the trip from Prokion Temple to their area seemed a bit simpler than getting there from Dratan city. Then both MB and Gal had quests in Merac, though as she's two levels ahead she had more of them. They both had to kill Butchers until they'd accumulated 10 "remnants of Berabden" - MB got to carry some messages around too, and slaughter 10 Pilferers and 10 Bandits.

That was another 10.17% experience for MB, mainly from quest rewards, and 8 skill points, while Gal added 7.29% and just 2 skill points. But by then the Quiz was getting near.

Luckily they left the doors open at the Quiz, so that people who got kicked out for getting a question wrong could run back and get back in; it's a few weeks since they did that, but it makes all the difference. More than half the people in the Auzura-2 quiz room got kicked out early on for thinking that the "Quanian's Cave" dungeon was in Egeha rather than Strayana, but we soon saw people running back in to rejoin us.

It was about question 16 that I got wrong, along with about half the other people, but Kaerella was able to get back in in time for question 18, and thus got the 5 heaven stones, as well as the 10 for getting question 20 right - Rage was a little slower to get back in and missed out on the 5 heaven stone question, but got the 10 safely. And we both had got 10 tool aids and 10 moonstones earlier, of course.

After the quiz, SirDarth traded Ratel's dark blue drake back to him, now at level 25, and got his level 21 pale blue horse back; Ratel kindly gave him a hundred quality stones too. Darth also acted as middle man so that Ratel could pass some items between his characters, so Thabitha is now set up with Jacqueline's old set of armour. I assume the plan is for one healer to become a cleric, and the other one an archer. Ratel worked on Thabitha for a while, with Darth providing the "solo party"; he had hoped to get her to level 17, but decided to log out at 16.5. If he has to go back to work tomorrow, after his sick leave for the flu, that was probably sensible.

All this teaming of two active characters has rather cut down on the pet-levelling lately, but by the end of the evening Peri's horse should be around 40% of the way into level 34. I think that, at halfway through level 21, Darth's horse should be just low enough to level through the night one more time, so fingers crossed that that works okay...