Across Three Servers

Galahad went safely through the night again, with RedRackham joining him at breakfast time - at least, Galahad was down south with the Gnoll Lancers, while Red was closer to town with the Berserkers. By morning, Gal had gained the companionship of Ribena and SirMoe, knights who seem to be regulars down there. Ribena does it without a red name, which is rather clever of him.

I had considered after coffee taking Kaerella on Cariae down into Maargadum Jail again, but the likelihood of a disconnection on that server at 11:10am or so, UK time, rather put me off, as she could easily die if that happened while she was surrounded by Beast Flyers. So instead, over on Auzura-4, my level 34 specialist sorcerer JohnWellington headed for Prokion Temple, followed by my level 26 rogue RedRider for that Combat party boost.

Double experience and skill exp was safely running, so before the lunchtime log-out John added 27.56% and 173 skill points, while Red gained 19.86% and 166 skill points. A Combat party is useful as it stops Red from levelling up too quickly, and helps John to move on, but I assume the skill exp gained is the same as in an Equal one. Without the other party member being in compass range John would have got a consistent 5500 skill exp per Orc Sergeant, with the double event running; with Red close by he tended to get slightly less (from 4710 to 5692), but Red got the same too. John got usefully more experience, anyway.

After lunch Kaerella went shopping over on Cariae, since Roy seems to have settled down a bit now. Things are still in pretty random order, but I did find a level 29 +15 weapon for 95 million, which seemed like a very good price to me. It was a sorcerer's scythe, but it only cost another 20,000 to convert it into a rogue's crossbow. I passed it across to Karella, and found that while her old +8 Gust Crossbow gave 80 + 47 attack, this +15 one gives 80 + 140, +75, which can't be bad, increasing her physical offence stat from 315 to to 479. A little later I also found a Necklace of Wind giving 116 hit points, 5 magical defence, and 10% suction of life, and passed that across to Karella too, though Enchantrella may also want to use it. 15 million seemed pretty good, more of a price for one with just 5% suction of life I'd have thought.

After spending all but the last 16 skill points she had on the last special skills currently available to her, Karella made a trip out to Prokion Temple and, by dying eighteen times, got her experience back down to the bottom of level 27. A brief experiment afterwards, with her armour back on, seems to show that even the +10 30/32 armour set she is wearing isn't enough to save her from taking damage from Orc Axemen and Sergeants... ah well, maybe that will improve when the set is bloodsealed.

Kaerella took a trip out to Maargadum Jail, and fought the Beast Flyers for long enough to get 5.56% experience and 98 skill points, plus 1389 pet points. There was one visitor, a knight called SirKrackhead, who kindly gave Kae the divine shield buff before disappearing.

After the early evening food break, and its associated pet-levelling, I tried a bit of shopping, this time on Auzura, but failed to find any useful parts of Rage's next armour set. I did see two or three different pieces of it, but only one shirt was even +2, and I'd really like to spend a bit extra and get ready-plussed items. I'd had a message that Zenderfly, or Damor, would be on at about seven, and would like a chat; as I had about an hour before then, I went over to the Katar server, and logged the local version of Kaerella on. The first thing to do was check the Merchant House system for a relatively cheap level 21 "event weapon" bow, and, as the pages did each take a while to load, and things were still in a random order, that took ten minutes or so. I finally found the bow I wanted for 750,000, compared to most other sellers wanting a million or more; I bought a few regular level 21 weapons from the Weapons Trader, made smelting stones, and got the bow to +3, then used three lucky smelting stones from my supply to get the bow to +6.

A fairly short trip to Prokion Temple followed - just long enough to get Kae up to level 21. The guild chat channel of the DarkzerRoughneks was quiet; the guild master wasn't on, though two other members were. Galahad was still pet-levelling on Cariae-3, and I noticed that he was being attacked by a Gnoll Soldier, as well as his Gnoll Lancer. I suspect that some little dear had lured it on to me - I was able to equip my sword and kill it, but it had already killed my horse. Still, getting a level 23 pet "unsealed" doesn't cost much, so I got that seen to, and Gal went back out - this time to the Berserkers. And a little later Kae swiftly logged out, and I logged in Barbarienne over on Cariae-3, ready for Zen's arrival.

Zen did log on as Damor, so I could have been on any of my Norcaine characters, and we chatted about the upcoming "episode two" - Zen suggested that, assuming that like other characters in Last Chaos the Night Shadows have two different career paths after level 31, if we both decided to make NS phoenix characters we could choose the two different types. She also gave me some links to a German forum which had pictures of the new monsters, armour sets, etc, which made for some interesting browsing. Night Shadows have wings that seem to grow larger at higher levels... are they just decoration, or what...?

Zenderfly seemed to think that 95 million for the +15 level 29 weapon had been a good buy; she had bought one for 19 million recently, but that was just because the seller had left a final zero off. She has been busy playing the aeria games facebook poker application, which awards aeria points for winning games and for attracting new players, so she is building up a useful reserve of ap for use in Last Chaos.

As Barb couldn't really do anything while chatting, I switched across to the Cariae, original Kaerella, and headed back to Maargadum Jail, after asking Damor to unfreeze Kae's experience gain. Kae may need more skill points, but, really, she does need more experience too. Zen was suitably impressed that Kae had a full set of +13 armour, but did some checking and discovered that Kae would need a fair amount of further skill points to go all the way to level 100. First of all she said 8,965, which, as Kaerella was about 75% of the way there, wasn't too bad, but after further research she increased her estimate, including the level 100 skill itself, to 11,742. Still, apparently there are some skills which aren't actually useful, so maybe Kae can get by with slightly less.

SirKrackhead appeared again; I assured him that I hadn't been there the whole time. He went to one of the side rooms, after again giving me the divine shield buff, and asked to be told when I was finished so that he could take over. Apparently he pet-levels overnight with the Death Mask Lancers on level five there sometimes. It's good to know that the Jail is still being used a bit, and not everyone power-levels from 35 to 90 or so.

Kaerella added another 5.54% experience...hmm, maybe Damor/Zen reapplied the experience freeze! Kae also got 101 skill points, and 1381 pet points, so the duration of that second visit must have been pretty similar to the earlier one. I tipped SirKrackhead off that I was leaving, and stayed just long enough to give him the Encourage buff before logging out.

Galahad got his horse up to level 24 soon after that, and it looks as if RedRackham, also fighting the Cariae Berserkers, will get his hatchling up to level 13 before it is time to log out tonight. The double experience and skill exp gain continues tomorrow, before falling back slightly to 75% for the first four days of next week.