The two hours of double pet experience lasted until after midnight last night, as far as UK players were concerned; I managed to keep CaptainScarlet levelling his pony until the event had finished, and SirPerivale, on the newer computer, was able to keep going with Thabitha's white pony through the night, meaning that by the time Saturday had dawned, it was a tall, handsome white horse.
There was time after coffee to take MistressSabina back to Prokion Temple, after she had reclaimed my best 30/32 armour set, and the newly-bought necklace, from MistressBlaze. For a change the Auzura-4 version of my favourite back room was available, so Sabina settled in there for an hour, using another super skill pill, and the last of the 15% skill pills. The experience gain was 19.01%, along with 817 pet points and 299 skill points, so that was very slightly better than yesterday, and shows that the appearance then of MrBean123 didn't make much difference.
Sabina will level up, reaching level 32, before the next hour in Prokion Temple has reached its halfway point, so the skill points gain will go down, especially as we will just be using a psp then, for 100% extra skill exp; she will be able to learn the first witch-type skills after that, which will be interesting.
After lunch, both Peri and Cap had to make way for MrChuckNorris and Rage, for another three-hour trip to the Tomb of Theos. As using a double-experience Blessed Iris for three hours gets as much experience gain as using two of the rather more valuable triple-experience Platinum Blessed Irises for an hour each, I decided to go for that - for both Chuck and Rage. Rage used crit potions and adrenaline as well, and still of course had the week-long extra health and mana booster active.
All went well; before very long a knight called BOLDWYN arrived and asked to be allowed to "ks", and he stayed for the rest of the afternoon, which, since he could give the Divine Shield and Concentration buffs, increasing my armour and the chance of success of both Rage's Snare and Chuck's Smite. Like BeachNutt yesterday, he was a member of WritersGuild; it was only when another member of that guild, a lower level archer called LilTang, briefly appeared and asked to ks, that I realised that Boldwyn was actually level 61, and so could have been inside the party all along. So I quickly invited him in.
Boldwyn has, he told me, reached the venerable old age of sixty, and apologised if he didn't reapply buffs quickly every time, but the meds he has to take do make him a little light-headed. He has tried to interest his grandchildren in playing Last Chaos, but I guess that something GrandPa does wouldn't seem cool...
Anyway, Chuck easily reached level sixty, and received the +5 armour and weapons - by the end he had reached level sixty-one too, after going up 222.29%. His drake added 1194 pet points, while Rage's added 2131 - a ranger's crossbow scores hits more often than a warmaster's sword! Rage's drake reached level 37 during the afternoon, and Rage herself, in the course of reaching level 72, added 80.24%. There weren't any skill points to be had, though.
That leaves MistressDomina out of party range with Chuck, 16 levels behind, so something will need to be done about that. Anyway, Chuck seems to have spent a lot of skill points now, including 889 on the five available levels of Magical Counterforce. As this skill increases his attack speed by 12% and increases his magical defence by 50, the investment seems worthwhile. The new +5 armour would give him 83% of the defence his current more highly-plussed set gives, and the +5 sword would give 67% of the attack his current +15 sword gives, but heck, you can't argue with "free"...
The evening session was a little less hectic. MistressDomina will have to do a bit of solo adventuring for at least a little while, and started off with a trip to Merac, to see what new quests had come up - and, as expected, these mainly took her to Maargadum jail. Getting five skins from the spike canines didn't take long, but obtaining ten beast hearts from the beast archers, beast scythes, and beast flyers took quite a while. Still, the beast scythes were MD's own level, so did at least give 1100 skill exp.
After finishing the quests and getting the rewards, which included some moonstones and physical attack potions, MistressDomina went back to the Jail for a few more minutes, but progress there was pretty slow - so it seemed like a good idea to head to Dratan, and go west out of the city to visit the Giants, which are level 52. It helps that they are outdoors, so that horse buffs can be applied and re-applied, and really they seemed no more difficult to kill than beast scythes. so MD may do a bit of slogging there. The whole session, including quest rewards, had only added 8.59%, along with 43 skill points.
Thabitha, Ratel's healer, has, it seems, decided that she doesn't just want her white horse boosted a bit, she wants it made into a level 37 mount - so full marks for forward planning there. CaptainScarlet's first reaction was that some substantial bribery would be needed, we are after all talking of a mount that could easily sell for 500 million gold or more, and, after some thought, Thabs decided to offer me a platinum blessed iris, and even had Ratel bring it down to Cap in Merac as payment in advance. He traded it across to Cap, and an ordinary blessed iris too, which seemed like a nice bonus - only afterwards saying that the BI was for passing on to Thabitha.
So, Thabs came down and took the BI, and headed for Prokion Temple, where she hoped three hours of double experience would get her close to level 31, and the free +10 armour and weapons set. She reached level 29 before too long, but decided that she wasn't going to make it to 31 while it lasted, and, as she wasn't going to have much playing time tomorrow, needed to use that platinum blessed iris, for an hour's triple experience, as well.
So, rather than have her waste valuable BI time, Cap chivalrously volunteered to visit her in Prokion Temple to pass the PBI over...easy come, easy go. Cap stayed around and fought alongside Thabs for a while, in the hopes that that would increase the speed at which she gained experience - and the Divine Shield buff would have helped a little too, she does get hurt pretty quickly by the Orcs.
Thabitha wasn't in the back room, which was probably wise, but in what I call the corridor room; I think having Cap there for perhaps twenty minutes did help a little, but Cap's red name does cut back the power of his attack, which when pet-levelling is the idea, but, with the +10 single sword, he was only hitting the Orcs for about 180 per hit. Galahad would have been a better choice, but CaptainScarlet is the one who had to go there to pass the PBI over.
So, Cap added around 10% experience I think, and 33 skill points; as his experience gain is set to 50%, the Discipline guild gained 63 guild points, which puts him in second place for guild point donation there, behind MistressSabina's 11,439, and ahead of LordElpus's 2. But then, LordElpus, "Token Sorc", is only level eight...
In the end, Thabitha got to 46% of the way through level 29 before the blessed iris ended, but by then it was gone 10:00pm UK time, and the decision was made not to use the PBI then, as there was a danger of some degree of falling asleep, and a keyboard doesn't make a very good pillow. Can Thabitha get to level 31 before maintenance time on Tuesday evening - and if she doesn't, will there be another week of the "Player Appreciation" event, so that she still gets that armour? We will all find out together, I guess.
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