My Cariae-based pet-leveller Galahad (or XxGALAHADxX, if we are being formal) went almost all the way through the night before the computer decided to run out of memory, so that his new pony went up from level 2 to level 11 - and, after a pre-breakfast restart of the game, by coffee time the pony was level 13. RedRackham had joined him out in Merac at breakfast time, to continue his horse's slow progress through level 36.
The announcement was made in-game of the continuing double experience and skill exp, reminding me that it would be a good idea to log in a character who could do with a speeded-up boost, so Kaerella logged on on Cariae-3, and headed for Maargadum Jail and its Beast Flyers; she used to go there a lot before I switched my attentions to Auzura. The only trouble was, I soon discovered, that the skill exp was only up by 50%, not 100%, so that a level 46 Beast Flyer gave 1320 skill exp instead of 880. I'm not sure that the regular experience figure was even up by that much, and someone in the forum shoutbox later reported that the Sarissa server wasn't even getting the 50% extra skill exp, so a bit of a mess there, I'm afraid.
Still, before getting reminded that we were getting dangerously close to the usual Friday server reset/crash time, Kaerella did manage to add 2.38%, and 43 skill points, while SirFrancis moved on by 942 pet points. After that Kae headed for Cariae-4 Randol for some nice safe shopping, and spent 25,000,000 gold on a Necklace of Earth giving 8 defence, 93 hit rate, and, more importantly, 5% suction of life, which ought to go some way towards counteracting the damage that the Beast Flyers do to her. It's very handy to have the "Merchant House" trader Roy back to make finding such items easier.
Galahad had kept busy, as well as supplying the solo party Kae needed, so his pony reached level 14 before lunch. Sadly both he and RedRackham got ks'd over lunch, losing possibly as much as an hour's worth of training - I suspect a character called "blueboy", just because he apparently said "hey", and some of the sneaky little rascals do like to check that they don't get a response before rushing in and killing the Berserker a pet-leveller is working on.
For the afternoon, RedRider teamed with JohnWellington for a change - still in Prokion Temple, though. The room on Auzura-4 was in use, so John had to move across to Auzura-3 before settling in. Sadly, the promised 100% extra experience and skill exp was still not with us - but Aeriaks1lent came into the office, and the shoutbox, at about 3:15pm UK time, which would be 7:15am way out west, and I lost no time in asking him to turn the full event on, which he swiftly did.
So, John had about an hour of the double stuff before it was time for my food break, which helped him get up to level 34, adding in all 35.34% and 188 skill points, while RedRider got 22.22% experience and 184 skill points. In theory there was an event in Juno in the afternoon on Auzura, "The Cleansing of Randol", but I never saw any announcements about it.
Over the food break, RedRackham got his horse to level 37, so was able to switch over to working on his level 8 hatchling, which reached level 9 before he had to log out. Galahad meanwhile got his pony up to level 15.
After the break it was time for my level 48 cleric Kaerella to go back down to the third floor of Maargadum Jail and fight the Beast Flyers on Cariae-3, with her new necklace equipped to give 5% suction of life. This did certainly stop her having to use Self Heal so often, though it was still needed sometimes. Luckily she had a good excuse not to spend the entire evening there, as this week's "Epic Event" had been announced, so she logged off a little before eight, UK time, having gone up another 7.29% - and 129 skill points. Still, if about two hours at double speed only gives 7% or so, it's going to be a long level, if we continue there in the Jail. Kae did pick up three heaven stones during her time there, which was nice.
It doesn't look as if, again, Auzura is getting this chapter of the "Epic Event", though the "Cleansing of Randol" thing earlier may have been similar. Katar was the first server to host the event, and it was on Katar-2, a PvP-enabled server, for reasons that became obvious later concerning the ongoing story. My level 20 archer version of Kaerella there allowed herself to be recruited into a party, and indeed her guild DarkzerRoughneks, by LordDarkzer, a level 42 archer; Arrowfighter, level 26, was also in the guild party.
There were various spawnings of monsters, including many varieties of Cube Guards, outside both the west and north gates of Randol, and we all got to die a few times - Kae here had spent all her skill points, though, and the experience from the monsters we had a hand in killing must have just about compensated for losing the occasional 3%. Actually, about half my deaths were due to pk-ing, which seems to me to go against the spirit of such events - the mages BegForMercy and IXIXIXIXIXIXI, and the rogue SilaciouS, were the ones who killed me.
After a while GM Beatrice appeared, the heroine of the saga, ready to save the day - or not, as she swiftly went into pk mode, and darted around the area, shouting about "traitors", and killing people - mainly the red-named ones, I think. The saga will continue next week, while we at least got the satisfaction of killing all the monsters, and picking up some useful drops from the hands that were spawned.
Cariae-2 was the next venue for the event; I did start off as Barbarienne, but, after managing to run back into town at a little below 50% health, I decided that it would just cost too many resurrection scrolls, so the later part of the event I left in the hands of a convenient level 23 archer of mine there, Karanne, who doesn't carry any spare skill points, and was right at the bottom of her level too.
There was some pk-ing going on, but less, it seemed, than on Katar; I did notice some members of the pk-happy "Enraged" guild speeding around, though. They of course couldn't speed around as fast as GM Beatrice, when she arrived. The event ran a similar course to its Katar version; as a chapter of the "epic" it was a bit inconclusive, but we can hope for better things in times to come. Karanne got to pick up some useful items at the end, anyway.
After that, well, Galahad, who had been pet-levelling on the older computer all evening, continued, so that the horse he is working on reached level 17 before it was time to shut down for the night.
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