Both SirPerivale and CaptainScarlet pet-levelled overnight successfully, taking full advantage of the double pet experience - so that by coffee time this morning Peri's level 6 hatchling had been transformed into a level 19 drake, and Cap had moved the pale blue horse on from just short of level 26 to 70% of the way through level 29. We were not alone in our favourite spot in Merac, the titan XXRoidRageXX and an archer called LaLeLou had also taken up residence there by then.
After coffee, however, I decided to take Galahad (that is, GALAHAD, to give him his official name) and JohnWellington back to Prokion Temple, to take advantage of the double experience and skill exp, as well as a little bit of the double pet experience since Galahad did have his drake equipped for most of the time, just taking it off whenever it got attacked.
First, however, John spent some of his skill points, learning the self-buff Stone Skin's five available levels for 163 skill points, which increases his physical defence by 170 for ten minutes (even if there is a slight bug in it which sometimes makes a sorcerer go invisible), plus all five levels of the level thirty skill Ice Spike for 228 skill points, hitting a foe with 510% of the power of a regular attack and slowing them down by 25%; that is the skill one must learn before being allowed to become an Elementalist or a Specialist. Adding or topping up the passive skills Cursed Soul (increases magical attack), Defence Shield (increases magical defence), and Vital Mastery (increases maximum health) got the total sp spending spree up to 912 skill points.
On the way to Prokion Temple John was able to get the quest for collecting Orc ornaments, and immediately complete it as he had already picked up enough of them - that alone added 3.37% experience. Once he and Galahad got there it was an uninterrupted session in our usual back room, and by the time lunch was getting near, John's total experience gain for the morning had reached 36.18%, he'd gained 186 guild points, and he'd got back 203 of the skill points he'd spent. Galahad added the same number of skill points, 27.83% experience, 189 guild points (being one level higher he gets slightly more experience per kill, but completing level 32 takes more experience than level 31), and 2902 pet points, which got his drake into level 27.
Over lunch Peri's drake reached level 20, and Cap's horse moved on to level 30, but it was soon time for MistressDomina and MistressBlaze to head back out to the Sphinx types on sunny Auzura-4. MB did manage to find and do a message-carrying quest in Merac, just involving a trip to Owl Village, adding 0.74%; she is now set up to do a Gnoll-killing quest too when convenient.
The assassin-type rogues SnapDragon and JohnnyDepp were also there for much of the time; Johnny was there when I arrived, and SnapDragon turned up soon afterwards, but I can't say Snappy did a huge lot of fighting before deciding to move on to the Tomb of Theos. Eventually Johnny decided to go shopping, I'm not sure if that involved Randol on Auzura-1, or her local supermarket. I had the place to myself for a while, and then a knight and a titan, Kopiteus and Executtor, arrived. They went around the corner, so didn't crowd me very much, and supplied the occasional Divine Shield buff in return for Haste.
By the end of the session MD had gone up 20.78%, with the double experience on offer being cancelled out by MB's presence there, with her drake adding 1758 pet points. MB did rather better percentage-wise, going up 74.14%, which meant she reached level 41; they each got 4 skill points. MB could now use the level 45 staff that MD is still using, we just need to wait for MD to level up to 53, and be able to use the level 57 one she is already carrying.
The food break was extended a bit as a friend dropped round, but with the double pet experience still going on, Peri's drake reached level 21 then. I noticed, when I got back to the screens, that MortimerJones's titan pet-leveller XXRoidRageXX was lying dead on the ground - I don't know how that happened, unless the Berserkers are hitting just that little bit harder at the moment, but I'm glad I wasn't around when he found out... After that there was still time for MistressDomina and MistressBlaze to return to the Sphinx types for a while, before the Quiz; luckily the double experience, skill exp and pet experience kept on rolling for more than the 24 hours we might have expected.
I found that Kopiteus and Executtor were still in action, and expressed admiration for the length of their stint, but they assured me that they had been away for most of the time, and only recently returned. So, MD and MB got to work again; and when MistressBlaze finally reached level 42, ten levels below MistressDomina, I changed the party type to Combat, so that, while MB as a non-attacker got a smaller share of the experience, MD got more. It must have been at about that time that the event bonus finally ended.
MistressDomina added 18.79%, while MistressBlaze added 45.07%; they each added 3 skill points, and MB also got 1460 more pet points. But the Quiz was approaching, so it was time to head for the Auzura-2 Quiz Room, where Ratel was waiting.
There were a couple of questions I was slightly uncertain about, and I think we did lose a number of people along the way, but Kaerella, MistressSabina, and Ratel all made it through to the end safely, with our tool aids, moonstones, and heaven stones safely in our inventories. I asked Ratty afterwards if he'd sold his, knowing that he is low on cash after that disastrous "upgrade event", but he said no, he was saving them for the next upgrade event... that seemed a bit over-ambitious to me, but he quickly went on to explain that the idea would be to sell them then, as people tend to pay up to twice as much for heaven stones when such an event is running.
MistressDomina and MistressBlaze returned to the Sphinx types, only to find the place so busy that it was difficult to find any monster to target - one group in particular were taking not just the Elite but everything else that spawned in that vicinity. A level 42 rogue called MonaLott was soloing close by me, and we chatted a little. The announcement came up that "MortimerJones's party" had won the "Betrayal" event that had been running, involving guiding a GameSage back to town on a PvP-enabled sub-server while fighting anyone else who wanted to take charge of her, and I commented that, at level 140, he probably didn't need a party, he could manage it solo.
I didn't stay beyond 9:30 UK time as I'd arranged with Ratel that one of my pet-levellers would add his new pet-leveller-to-be Leopardknight to his Friends list then, so that he could pass over the 500 quality stones outstanding from the pet-levelling arrangement we'd had. So, MD added just another 2.90% and 246 pet points, while MB, back in a normal Equal-type party, added 8.87% and a skill point. MistressBlaze has now taken delivery of the 45/47 mage armour set, she just needs to wait for MD to level up before she can have the level 45 mage staff to go with it.
SirPerivale took delivery of the quality stones, which should come in handy as his supplies were getting low. He offered to help Leo level for a few minutes, partying against the Berserkers, but Leo had been busy in Velpist temple, taking full advantage of the +4 armour set Ratel had made for him, and was very close to level ten, which was his immediate objective so that he could go into merchant mode. He also mentioned that I should remind him to return the level 29 +13 weapon he'd borrowed a while ago - I wonder how that compares, attack-wise, with all the level 33 +10 weapons we all have now?
So, Peri headed for the Berserkers alone, just to pet-level for the rest of the evening, where he was soon joined by CaptainScarlet. Peri's drake should be most of the way through level 21 by log-out time; Cap's pale blue horse should just about reach level 31 by then. Regular, one-point-at-a-time pet levelling seems a bit slow now, after our day of twice that speed.
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