SirPerivale and CaptainScarlet didn't make a particularly early start this morning, as I didn't wake up until the alarm went off - but once the computers were up and running, they went off to Merac and their usual Berserkers. They had a full session right through until after lunch, as it was time for my big monthly food shop, so that by the time some actual playing was possible, Peri had got the pink, or mauve, drake up to level 26, and Cap had got his pale blue horse around 80% of the way through its final level.
The main priority at the moment is to get my titan, MrChuckNorris, up to level 62, with a second priority being to get MistressDomina up to level 60. Then Chuck will be able to wear his new level 67 headgear and boots, and pass over his previous ones to MD so that she can complete her current set... and when she reaches level 60 MD will get a freebie 60/62 +5 set, which may well come in handy, though I'm not too keen on upgrading a second set to a more comfortable level, it gets expensive.
The afternoon session was a bit like yesterday's - except that MistressDomina and Chuck were in an Equal party, and MD wasn't using a pbi, or any other type of booster. The assassin-rogue MonaLott was there for a while, and reached level 43; Chuck and I buffed her, and she sometimes supplied a Snare to keep the Elite Sphinx Speer Man still for me. Then there was a level 29 titan called Rafael, who decided to unofficially team up with me for a while - it was lucky I wasn't using a pbi or anything, or that much "ks-ing" would have been a bit annoying, but one had to admire his enthusiasm.
The mage Nourc appeared a little later, of the Moon guild; to start with I assumed she was sp-farming, since she was gathering and despatching large groups of the Sphinx Speer men and Sphinx Fighters, plus the Elite sometimes, but since she had to be at least level 70 as she was using that level's Chaos Nova skill, that didn't seem quite viable. She told me after a while that she was trying to attract Kamira, which explained things...though if she is as high as level 77, which she may be, judging by her armour set, she is a bit high to get good drops from Kammy I'd have thought.
MonaLott did return towards the end of my session, this time with a fine array of expensive pots, meaning that she could attack bigger groups, but I think, just as I was logging out, that she did actually die, though with assassins it is hard to be sure as they have a "Death Motion" skill that looks the same. In all MD added 11.63%, and 996 pet points, while Chuck got 8.15%; they each got 11 skill points.
My food break was fairly brief, since the Auzura "Mad Monster Spawn" was due at five o'clock, UK time. GM Stratos seems to have trouble setting his alarm clock (that's 9:00 am in Aeria's time zone), since things didn't actually get under way until gone half past. I sent my level 31 cleric Memree there soon after five, but after finding nothing happening, she went back to town, bought thirty healer-type hammers from Geres, and went out mining, to use up thirty tool aids, many got no doubt from previous MMS events.
The MMS did finally get going; Elvastar, Ratel's sorcerer, was there, and I saw MonaLott too, still with those expensive pots active, and of course plenty of other people. As usual we didn't get the place cleared out quickly enough to get any heaven stones spawned for us, but Memree did pick up 17 more tool aids, 11 large attack potions, 9 large defence potions, 6 item drop boosters, and 8 skill point boosters... perhaps roughly 25 million's worth of stuff? Elva reported that he died rather often, though, curiously, Memree didn't die at all for a change, and added a little over 2% experience, and even a skill point - not from the level 130 types, but from the regular monsters there such as the level 27 Blood Wolves.
Captain Scarlet had been pet-levelling while Memree was at the MMS, and finally got the pale blue horse to level 38. So I was able to transfer it across to MistressDomino, my recently much under-used merchant character. Memree traded 750 of her newly-mined quality stones across to Cap, and then Cap traded a blue pan flute across to SirPerivale, in exchange for the level 26 (and 833/5639) pink drake. Peri then did the quest, if one can call it that, to turn the blue pan flute into a blue pony - and then headed out to Prokion Temple, to lose the 59.76% experience he had got from his work levelling Leo. Thirty deaths didn't take long there, and with other people not picking up their gold drops, he was able to get a bit of cash too in between deaths.
I had a little work to get through after that, which meant that MD and Chuck only had about a 90-minute session back with the Sphinx types. I did have slight hopes that using a 30% experience boosting elixir for an hour might get Chuck up to level 62, but we ended with him still 2.32% short. He did manage to add another 7.48%, so I'd say another 40 minutes of that type of party are needed. MD added 8.88%, and on the skill point side they each added, um, 8, strangely enough. MD's drake got 907 more pet points.
So, we are within striking distance of Chuck's new level, and after that we can return to moving MistressDomina up a bit, and hopefully getting her to level sixty before too long. The usual weekly maintenance is due for 1:00am, UK time, so no overnight pet-levelling is possible, but Cap and Peri can at least put in their usual couple of hours. That won't get the drake to 27, but the new pony should at least reach level 3.
Steve's healer, GuildHealer, was in a solo party with Cap for a while; she went to the Sphinx types at level 29, and seemed surprised that she got killed. Still, Steve being Steve, he got her up to level 31 there, and then headed back to town to choose her job, cleric or archer. I was chiding him for not farming skill exp in Prokion Temple while he could, but he would rather farm it on the level 65 Bogles, apparently. A shame that we can't freeze experience gain completely now, at 50% freeze he won't be Bogle-compatible for all that long.
It looks as if the "Denial of Service" attack is over for now; after all, if you threaten a company with crashing its servers, you don't just need to demonstrate what you can do, you need to show that you can stop doing it if you want to, as well. We can hope that it was just some hacker who was annoyed at getting his account banned or something, and now feels that he has proved his point - but the odds are that what we went through over the last few days could easily recur
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