I was busy again in the morning, though not as busy as I'll be tomorrow all day, sigh... but at least that meant that SirDarth and SirPerivale could quietly get on with their pet-levelling work. Darth was training SmokeinTheKush's blue drake, to get it from level 16 to 20 - and Peri was still training my own drake.
The afternoon session belonged to MistressDomina, though when she arrived in Prokion Temple, not only was the Sergeant-rich corridor room in use - so was "my" back room. Luckily the two people at work there were Ljubimka and kurenaji, and as they'd come in when I was already there, well, I could come in when they were fighting, yes?
After a while I accepted an invitation to join the party - and a little while after that the rogue, kurenaji, left, presumably from a disconnection. He didn't come back, I gather he may have headed for Merac instead.
Ljubimka told me that the rogue kurenaji was her brother; he was 14 and she was 12, and they live in Serbia. He was level 29; the healer Ljubimka was level 26, though did reach level 27 during the session. She did die twice, it's a difficult room for healers, but as she mentioned at one point that she only had 228 skill points unused, she can't have lost too much.
Ratel had kindly, after reading recent blog entries, unfrozen MistressDomina's experience, so 31,117 guild points remains as her total guild point contribution to Norcaine, just behind Chuck's 31,723. So, perhaps helped by being in a party with someone (or two) a few levels lower, the experience gain for MD was 24.56%, along with 975 pet points and 142 skill points.
SirDarth had got his Berserker ks'd mid-afternoon by a rogue called DeathSpEED, but was soon back in action - Deathspeed and a friend were trying to lure the Grand Red Dragon, and it didn't take them long to succeed in that. Darth quickly hurried over to the far side of the clearing, followed by his faithful Berserker, so I was able to watch the action from a safe distance.
I can't say that I'm sure of the outcome, they certainly got the GRD's health down enough for the Cerebrii to spawn - and a rogue, if of an assassin, blade-wielding persuasion, can fake death by using the Death Motion skill. Hopefully matters reached a satisfactory conclusion, at least the Cerebrii had gone when I moved back across a bit later.
PineAppleExpress, alias SmokeinTheKush, got in touch at the end of the early evening food break to ask if her blue drake had reached level twenty yet, and I was able to say that it had; the four levels had only taken 38 quality stones, so that must have been slightly under sixteen hours of work for Darth. He's holding on to it at the moment, as Piney is levelling a hatchling up a bit for a friend and, with the mount as well, doesn't yet have room for the drake, but Darth has re-equipped the pony whose career had been temporarily halted at level twelve. It had only lost 9 Sympathy while the blue drake was equipped instead, so that wasn't going to take long to restore.
Rage logged in briefly at the start of the evening session. The first thing to do was to check who was online in the DreamingRequiem guild...but for some reason the "manage guild" window, to check who was online, wouldn't open. And then I noticed that Rage didn't have a guild name over her head any longer...
There is a bug that sometimes causes people to be "kicked" from a guild, and I was assuming that was the most likely explanation, since I didn't think that Rage had done anything particularly annoying. Nobody in the guild who was on my Friends list was online, so... something to check into further later in the day.
MistressDomina returned to Prokion Temple, and this time had the back room to herself. Before too long xXArcheonXx, who is on MD's Friends list, and one of the two DreamingRequiem guild advisers, got in touch... to tell me, when I said that I'd seen that Rage wasn't in the guild, "Nobody is, only me and XxAcheronxX."
Archie did some more investigating, and discovered that XxAcheronxX, the guild master, had had his account banned - I think I had commented that letting his friend Aszune, the other guild adviser, access his account was risky that way, but it was convenient if Ach wasn't around for Aszune to be able to log in to freeze/unfreeze people's experience gain. So, knowing that a guild was scuppered if the GM position was inaccessible, Aszune had kicked all the members, except Archie as she couldn't kick a fellow guild adviser, and left... all very swift and efficient, but a bit hard to follow!
So, Archie will be trying to get as many people as he can back into his old guild, which Rage was in, along with Galldora and, as a GA, chaos ranger. Unfortunately he logged out for the night before MD could be replaced by Rage, at the end of my Prokion stint. Talking of which, MistressDomina added another 20.71% during the evening, and 206 more skill points. Her drake reached level 33, in the course of gaining 1316 pet points.
Ratel recruited a new member to Norcaine, a brand-new mage called Adrina who went from level one to level seven during the evening, with Ratel already having applied the 50% experience gain freeze. She seems to know what she's doing, and was suggesting that MD could stay longer in Prokion Temple, if she parties with someone a few levels lower. So maybe my "empty" titan Cyborg, currently level 20, may be useful here. I'll have to run a little experiment tomorrow.
Well, it is a shame about DreamingRequiem - the second guild with Rage in to perish that way, through the guild master being banned. We had some good high-level people, and others moving up well, so I was expecting Rage to be in on a few Monster Combo parties before long, and other interesting team-ups. But at least we can, most of us, go back to the guild that Archeon merged into DR. I don't think he will be inviting Aszune, though. So, all is not lost.
SirPerivale's drake had reached level 32 just before making way for MistressDomina's evening session, and should get at least a tenth of the way through the level before log-out time. SirDarth's pony should be well into level 15 by then, so is liable to grow up into a horse fairly early tomorrow. Not a mount, that's still a long way away, but a horse looks more impressive than a pony, as a companion.
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