By moving the pale blue horse over to CaptainScarlet, and letting SirPerivale work on the new pony, an overnight pet-levelling session was possible last night, and worked well - the pony was level 13 by the time I was able to trade the horse back, so that during daylight hours Cap was back to working on his pink drake, and Peri worked on the pale blue horse.
After coffee, RedRackham headed out for Prokion Temple; at level 28 and with +4 Radiant armour, he didn't have any difficulty getting to the back room. On Auzura-4 though somebody dashed in there just ahead of him - and looking in, there were already a couple of other players busy there. So, a switch to Auzura-3 was needed, where, luckily, the room was nice and quiet. Red even fought a few Orcs, while he waited for MistressSabina to log in and join him; his health did go down a little, but with a few health potions he would have been okay fighting there, as long as he didn't go too far in and get mobbed.
But after that he left the fighting to MistressSabina, which meant that the older computer didn't get into "run out of memory" territory. He double-clicked the last of his "beginner" platinum super skill pills - but doing that right away wasn't one of my brighter ideas, as we soon found out that 50% extra skill experience was still running from the late night US version of "Sunday teatime" yesterday, so that instead of getting 150% more skill exp that Sabina, he was just getting 67% more than she was.
Still, Red did add 151 skill points in the b-pssp's hour, and 181 in the whole morning session, along with 20.45% experience and 126 guild points, while MistressSabina added 5.55%, 121 skill points, and 152 guild points.
Over lunch, while SirPerivale and CaptainScarlet were back in action in Merac, DeathBringers guild member Samael was asking Peri if it would be possible to swap his level 24 drake, plus a Stone of Shadow accessory, for a level 31 or 33 unmounted horse. For a guildie, that sounded the sort of thing Peri could do, though not at the moment, as the only available horse is the one in progress, which was then only level 26. My feeling was that I'd have to contact Samael when the horse reached an appropriate level, to see if he was still interested.
The afternoon saw RedRackham and MistressSabina back in action in Prokion Temple, as they are the pair best suited to take advantage of the continuing 50% extra skill exp. Without that I'd have been tempted to team Sabina up with MistressBlaze at the Sphinx types, and start her levelling up, but the extra skill points were too desirable for her... and for Red too, as they do mean that the Discipline guild will be able to upgrade a couple of times quite painlessly, which is much better than having to raid MB's stock of skill points, or Sabina's. Now all I need is the guild points, and a mundane level seven guild will be able to zoom up to the dizzy heights of level nine.
Ratel came online and joined the party; he managed a lunchtime trip to Egeha, and was back there again later, bashing the Bogles, and the Apes, and even a couple of Azers, though he needed magical defence minerals for them. I did try to suggest that the arcane golems in Dratan, at his own level, would allow him to make better use of the bonus skill exp, but they give such small amounts of experience that he ruled them out. Still, by the end of the evening he had managed to get up to 200 of the 360 skill points he needs for the final level of one particular skill, but it was obviously slow work, not helped by my cheerful reports from Prokion Temple on the sp that Red and Sabina were gaining. But he ended the evening at 87.5% of the way through level 59, so level 60, and that freebie armour set, is getting closer.
By the time I took my early evening food break, after about a solid three hours I guess, RedRackham was up another 36.24%, 214 skill points, and 224 guild points, while MistressSabina had added 11.69%, 210 skill points (since Red again arrived first), and 266 guild points.
My break was a fairly short one, so Red and Sabina stayed in the room, and resumed their slog quickly - for around another four hours, I suppose. Red reached level 29 before too long, and went up by 54.16%, also adding 370 skill points and 397 guild points. He can definitely afford to upgrade the Discipline guild twice now, with all those spare skill points. MistressSabina did well too, adding 17.04%, the same 370 skill points, and 468 guild points. A reserve of 10.3k skill points isn't huge, but it's bigger than it looked like Sabina would manage, thanks to Red being able to boost what she gained due to his lower level, and the 50% extra skill exp today, which meant 701 rather than 467 today in total, assuming that I'd stayed in Prokion without the extra skill exp running.
It depends whether the extra skill exp is still switched on tomorrow what I do. In theory Sabina could stay in that back room all day, but on standard-rate skill exp I really don't think I could stand it. I may need to log Rage on for the evening session to help Ratel reach level 60 in the Tomb of Theos - though with only 12.5% to go, he can probably manage to reach his target on another trip to Egeha, and get some skill points as well. I think I will have to start off with what may be MistressSabina's final excursion to Prokion Temple, if the skill exp is back to normal, but after that a team-up for Sabina with MistressBlaze, out by the Sphinx types, is definitely on the cards.
There really isn't much to report today, beyond the session details. A rogue called The LastHeros did run into my back room, kill an Orc, and then run out again; oh, and a sorcerer called Meltin did look in. He had actually been against the wall when Red first arrived, not far from the door, but hadn't stayed around. In the evening our Norcaine guildie BasheR had been online, but as neither of the characters I was playing were old ones, or in Norcaine, he concentrated on chatting with Ratel, so I only learned stuff second-hand.
It sounds as if BasheR may be taking a vacation from Last Chaos for a while; apparently there was talk of Ratel logging on to his account occasionally just to keep it active, but that really isn't something to be recommended, as account-sharing, even in the most innocent way, is something the Aeria people don't like at all - Rage was in a rather promising guild where the guild master allowed one of his guild advisers, a trusted friend, to log on to his account, just so that when he was away people could still have their experience frozen or unfrozen... but for that the account got banned, destroying the guild. So my advice was not to do anything that could lead to that sort of trouble.
And, after Cap and Peri were back on the pet-levelling, Samael got in touch again; he had decided not to wait, and wanted to trade the Stone of Shadow and the level 24 drake, which I discovered afterwards to be coloured green, for the horse now, so Peri moved back to Randol to do the trade, and then returned to Merac, and started to work on his new green drake.
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