For the second night running, double pet experience was promised for two hours starting at 10:00pm UK time, and once again it was rather late starting, possibly half an hour late in fact, but one can forgive such doziness by the Aeria people, if they also forget to turn the bonus off at the end! I'd got SirPerivale on the older computer and CaptainScarlet on the more modern one, which itself will celebrate its first birthday before too long, and, as things were getting late, I left both of them at work. I managed to check after a few hours, and, seeing that the older computer had, not unexpectedly, run out of memory, just switched that one off, and fed Cap's horse some quality stones before returning to bed.
CaptainScarlet was still bravely pet-levelling when I checked at a more reasonable time for a Sunday morning - and, noticing that the pet experience was still going up two points at a time, I quickly got the older computer back in action too, and SirPerivale was soon out in Merac again.
Thabitha was online fairly early, working to get to level 31, and used that platinum blessed iris for triple experience for an hour - but after coffee she reported that that still left her with more than half a level to go. So I volunteered to log Galahad in (that's "GALAHAD", should you wish to send any Item Mall gifts to him), my level 31 royal knight, and join her in Prokion Temple, an offer that Thabs quickly accepted.
Galahad certainly hits harder than CaptainScarlet, who continued levelling that white horse meanwhile. Thabitha was in the "corridor room", where the mobs of Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen aren't as large, and, after checking and finding that the back room was already occupied, Galahad settled in there too, with his +10 twin blades carving their way through the Orcs at a good speed...faster at killing than Thabs, who does have to spend part of her time healing herself, even though she gets through the small healing potions quite quickly too. So, by noon we got her to level 31, and she was able to put on her new +10 armour, adding about 100 to her physical defence stat. She decided to continue for a few more minutes to get enough skill points for a particular skill.
It is always suspicious when I get a disconnection exactly on the hour or half-hour, and it was exactly noon when I stopped doing damage; before long the "disconnected" window came up, both for Galahad and for Cap. Unfortunately Thabitha was away-from-keyboard at the time, and thus unable to try to defend Gal's level 25 drake as, in-game, Gal just stood there helpless. When I logged back in, it cost 105,000 gold to get the dead drake "unsealed", sigh... but otherwise it was a useful session, Galahad added 39.29% experience and 108 skill points, plus some useful pet experience. It left him on 99.05% of the way through level 31, so he would very soon be able to learn the level 32 Royal Knight skills.
Thabitha had got the 151 skill points she needed, anyway, and back in Randol took the plunge and became a cleric. Not as easy a healer-type character to solo as an archer, but now that she has that armour, there's no further rush, so she can take her time and farm the skill points she needs.
With the double pet experience there was no huge incentive to hurry back from lunch, since Cap and Peri were taking full advantage of it; the white horse had reached level 28 by then, and Peri's horse was on level 18. I assumed that the double pet experience would get turned off when the Sunday afternoon "TeaTime" bonus, 50% extra skill exp, started, at approximately 3pm - but it actually continued for another seventy minutes after that.
MistressSabina, guild master of Discipline, quickly logged in to set Galahad's experience gain to 50%. Galahad then logged in, and easily got up to level 32 by claiming a quest reward from Healer Yabo; getting all five available levels of Concentration, which improves the chance of the player it is cast on's skill, such as Smite or Snare, actually working successfully, and the first three levels of the passive skill Two Weapon Fighting, quickly got through his skill point reserve. So, off he went to Prokion Temple, where the back room was now free. he stayed there for about half an hour before the 50% skill exp bonus started, and for the two hours as well; at level 32 the Orc Sergeants gave 7117 experience and 3850 (going up to 5775 for the two hours) skill exp, and the Orc Axemen gave 2888 experience and 2750 (going up to 4125) skill exp, so for the whole session Galahad added 28.50%, and 344 skill points.
I logged Galahad out, and was just getting SirPerivale ready for some pet-levelling while I had my food break, when a knight in the guild CaZadores, "CRisTi", came along and killed CaptainScarlet's Berserker, and JebediahJones's, nearby, too. And he did it a couple more times... and then had the nerve to say "pls 1 mil", presumably so that he'd go away and stop bothering us. He killed the Berserkers of SirPerivale when he'd arrived, and the other two regulars at that spot, Koolyo and lololol123, but eventually gave up and went away.
The evening session as usual had the Quiz right in the middle, not allowing anything particularly lengthy or ambitious, so MistressDomina went out to the level 52 Giants and level 53 Akane Giants in the Dratan desert , and then across to Maargadum Jail again. After a while I decided to go down to level five there, where I fought the level 44 Death Mask Lancers (passive but protective of each other) and level 47 Death Mask Soldiers (aggressive), taking care not to annoy any level 48 Beast Crawlers, with their strong magical attacks and protective nature. I did get a pair of +2 level 42 boots, but I think it is the level 47 and 52 ones that are rare, these are just "uncommon".
But soon it was time for the Quiz, so MD logged out, having only gained 5.65% experience, 31 skill points, and 660 pet points - and Kaerella and Rage joined Ratel's sorcerer, Elvastar, in the Auzura-2 Quiz Room.
The quiz went well for us, with very few people getting kicked out along the way, so that the ten tool aids, ten moonstones, and five plus ten heaven stones were safely acquired. I must remember that teleporter Nadil is in Lust Trum tower, and that the cost of renting a certain weapon is the higher of the two options - and hope that they don't start thinking up any new questions to ask us...
When the Quiz was over, they announced a sudden hour of double experience and skill exp, so MistressDomina hurried back to level five of the Jail and continued there. One player was in such a hurry that they didn't pick up the loot from killing a Death Mask Soldier... so my drake tidied the place up, and I gained another heaven stone. As it happens, only minutes later one dropped for me in almost exactly the same place. The Soldiers and Lancers also dropped a couple of level 41 weapons, both sorcerer scythes, one +3 and the other +4, and by the time the announcement came up that the hour was over, MD only had three inventory slots empty.
A further 7.67% experience had been gained, plus 48 skill points and 498 pet points - I think I must have been using Terra Spear for a quick kill more, which would tend to cut down on the pet experience gain. If MistressDomina can only manage about 4% experience per hour there, well, it will take another nineteen hours to reach level 46, which seems a bit slow...
Well, after that it was time for SirPerivale to get some more pet-levelling done. His horse did reach level nineteen before logging out time, while CaptainScarlet's (or Thabitha's) white horse was moving through level twenty-nine by then.
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