My pair of pet-levellers set to work early, as usual. SirPerivale was on his horse's final level before it will become a mount, so the horse is getting through quality stones rather quickly - SirDarth transferred 400 of them across, though as his pale blue horse was on level 28 by then, it was starting to get a bit hungry too.
I decided that, while Galahad's main purpose, at least in the short term, may be to supply the Concentration buff that increases the success rate of titan stuns and the rogue Snare skill, and so on, it would be rather convenient to have another new knight, while the special "Player Appreciation Event" continues - and it does continue at least for this week, last night's maintenance didn't have even a minor new patch attached. If the knight had to be level 31, well, I'd just have to see how far getting a red name would cut his bare-fisted attack back. And if this new knight was eight or nine levels above Darth and Peri, that would mean that pets wouldn't get anything like as hungry, and there would be more scope for overnight levelling.
So, before lunch I managed to create a new knight, sharing Chuck's account. I was surprised that the name hadn't been taken, but I moved away from the world of chivalry for a change and, bearing in mind his future red name, dubbed him CaptainScarlet. Gerry Anderson's creation couldn't be killed, and was indeed indestructible - he might appear to die, but would mysteriously resurrect.
Well, CaptainScarlet went out into Juno and did the usual quests for Healer Yabo, killing foxes, deer, various kinds of wolf, and finishing with jaguars. I got him a little way into level eight before the lunch break, just far enough to get enough skill points for the final level of Canid Fence, the passive skill that improves a knight's defence. "Canny Defence"? Who can tell with those wacky Korean translators.
Reaching level eight meant that Cap would be able to team up with SirDarth after lunch, since they would only be fifteen levels apart. I got a disconnection at 12:15, so just switched over to double pet-levelling for an hour or so. While Cap had been fighting the wolves and their chums, it had been Peri rather than Darth I'd kept at work - and, as I could keep tabs on that screen, I used a platinum pet pill, for triple pet experience for an hour. It's always nice to see the pet experience clicking up three at a time, but I only ever do it on that final level.
Cap got some knight armour from one of my storage types, and also enlisted in the Guardian system with Kaerella; he also ran out from Dratan City to Prokion Temple, adding both that location and Shuraine's oasis to his memory scroll. Then he switched over to the older computer, and teamed up with SirDarth, who, once they'd both teleported to the temple entrance, led him, protected by Darth's Divine Shield buff and horse buffs, to my favourite back room.
The Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen are a bit high-level for Darth, but with his armour they don't give him any problems, and the session took CaptainScarlet up to level 18. It got him up to 28 skill points, too. Darth added 44% experience, which can easily be unloaded by some no-armour deaths in Prokion Temple, once he has spent the 28 skill points gained.
After Darth had given him those ten levels, Cap stayed behind his torch in that room, and Galahad came to take his place - and, with a little help from one of the "beginner" platinum blessed irises, by the time I logged off for food, level 23 had been reached, with a total of 101 new skill points in the kitty. Gal kills rather more quickly than Darth, especially if he uses double blades rather than a sword and shield.
For the evening session, it seemed like a good idea to team CaptainScarlet up with MistressDomina - and I suppose it did work out okay, though it was comparatively slow going, and I was tempted to take Cap down with MD to get the Poison Mists on his scroll, and see if his progress was faster down there. However, if we had moved down south like that, there wouldn't have been as many skill points gained; by the end of the session Cap had got his total up another 139 to 240, which when we got back to town was enough for the other necessary pet-leveller skill, Vitality Control, increasing the speed at which his health regenerates, and most of the levels of Uncanny Movement, for increased running speed, and Divine Shield.
CaptainScarlet went up by 129.22% with MD as well, and then, back in Randol and Dratan, including using a memory scroll to visit Shuraine at his oasis, added another 17.79% from rather a lot of quest rewards. Although in an equal party MistressDomina does, at a higher level, get slightly more experience, her total experience gain from the session was only 10.37%, as level 38 is rather longer than level 23 or 24, but 135 more skill points are always welcome.
Ratel's mage Athema was in our party for most of the evening; in fact, she was in that favourite back room of mine when MD and Cap arrived there, though with MistressDomina in range she was "capped", and kindly yielded the room to us. At level 21 that room is a bit dangerous for her anyway, even staying close to the doorway. Ratel hasn't fully recovered from his bout of flu yet, and got sleepy a bit early, which was probably a contributory factor in Athema getting killed at the end of her session.
MistressDomina passed the good mage armour, and +15 staff, across to MistressBlaze, who at level 33 should get more experience from the Orcs when teamed with the Captain, so sending them to Prokion Temple tomorrow will be our plan. However, one of my "busy weekends", and the preparations for it, means that it is probable that I will only have an evening playing session on Thursday...and hopefully a slightly earlier start on Friday, at least, so that I can take advantage of the Happy Hour then.
SirPerivale went back out to Merac, and I quickly started a second platinum pet pill, which added 3117 pet points in the hour it lasted, so that it shouldn't take too long tomorrow morning for his horse to reach level 37 at last. It will take a few hours longer for SirDarth's pale blue horse to reach level 30, but at that point it ought to be possible to transfer it over to Peri. Perhaps Darth will do a little work on Galahad's dragon hatchling, to get it up at least to drake status, then.
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