Tuesday 6 October 2009

Femeia Gets Her Mount


RedRackham had a disconnection just about halfway through the night, but he had still managed to get his horse comfortably into level 34 before that happened. He bounced back before breakfast, swiftly followed by CaptainScarlet, who was still working on his drake. At the moment, I'm not sure who's going to end up with that drake, though it is already at a higher level than JohnWellington's, Galahad's (that's the Auzura-based knight, not the Cariae one with the "Xx" framing), or SirDarth's, so a little moving around may be called for. First in line for the horse would be JohnWellington, who would then become my eleventh Auzura character to have a level 37 mount, which can't be bad, or the twelfth if you include the level 37 dragon that MistressFelicia looks after.

I started a new knight character on Cariae in a spare slot, mainly to get another set of level 30/32 +10 armour, and weapons; I was slightly surprised that the name "SirLancelittle" hadn't been taken. I'd got him up to level five, but there was a disconnection at 9:45 UK time, which would be 1:45am on Aeria's PST, so went back to pet-levelling; RedRackham got back on almost straight away after a single "logged into Randol, but the teleporter NPC wasn't there and dc'd again" thing. And after coffee, well, moving Cariae's XxGALAHADxX on to level 33 seemed like a priority, so he and Karella headed for Prokion Temple on Cariae-3.

Galahad got to his new level, and I was continuing on for a little while, since there wasn't really time for any other expedition in the morning - and then at 11:20 UK time there was a server crash, which as usual kept the forum Shoutbox busy. Gal suddenly couldn't pick up the latest gold drop, and, while the Orcs could hit him, he couldn't do them any damage. It's strange, normally he can just stand there and take anything they can inflict, but in the limbo of disconnection, over five minutes or so he lost 111 health points.

By then Galahad had gained 10.88%, plus 48 skill points and 152 guild points, while Karella had added 5.83%, the same number of skill points, and 23 guild points. Once I was finally able to log back in, Gal spent most of his skill points, so that Wall of Belief is now maximised for his level, and he has the first four levels each of Divine Shield and Uncanny Movement. SirLancelittle spent what skill points he had on the first three levels of Canid Fence, and was accepted as Keerella's apprentice, as she is the character with the "Reputation" to enhance. Kee is currently listed as #26 in the Reputation rankings on Cariae, and that ought to take her up to #25. Lance also took charge of SkrappY, my level 51 Scra-Chi pet, after Karella had replenished his supply of fresh bread.

Over the lunch break SirPerivale joined RedRackham out in Merac with the Berserkers. After lunch, SirLancelittle teamed up with Barbarienne, and accepted a Summoning to the entrance to the Tomb of Theos. It would have been possible to take him straight to Barb after she had gone in, but, in case we had any disconnections, or return visits became necessary, it was safest to let him get the entrance's location onto his memory scroll, and then pay his admission fee.

Once inside, SirLancelittle took up a position not too close to the action, with SkrappY equipped, and started the first of his (150% extra experience) "beginner" platinum blessed irises. Barbarienne started to target the local Screaming Zombies, and off we went, with the very first kill levelling Lance up, probably by more than one level.

The mage GingerBeer, now level 95, was there, and we chatted a bit, it was a while since we'd seen each other. She too hasn't bothered to go beyond the old 85/87 armour set, but then, hers is all +15 apparently. It wasn't long before the titan Krodan arrived, and other people did come and go, including the rogue iLoveRangers, who I've seen in Prokion temple lately - which is more her level I think. Another rogue xXxLitaxXx didn't have much luck, she tended to die a bit and after an hour declared that she was down to 0.00% of the way into her current level, partly due to lag problems.

SirLancelittle got to level 27 at the end of the first hour-long pbi; it hadn't take him very long at all to reach level 20 and complete his apprenticeship. I did get a disconnection for Barb during the second hour, but can't have lost more than five minutes use of the second pbi (not to mention a second admission fee of 300,000 gold)...at the end of the second hour Lance was still a little way short of 29, but it only took 35 minutes of the third pbi for Lance to get to 31, and receive the 30/32 armour set, along with both level 33 weapons and the shield.

Back in town Lance was able to get his six treasure chests opened by Lorraine, getting a good number of Candies and a level 21 +4 sword, which itself isn't as good as the "event weapon" sword he got for completing the Apprentice/Guardian system; he kept the one-handed sword and the shield, but traded the armour and the dual swords across to Karella, so that she can convert them into their rogue equivalents and, once she reaches level 27 be suitably well armoured - though if she is going to go some serious skill point farming then she will need a better weapon than she has at the moment.

For the early evening food break, RedRackham continued to work on getting his horse up through level 34, while SirPerivale worked on his level 20 rare blue horse - and at last FemeiaVraci, Lylja's cleric, got in touch, to take back her horse, which Peri, and Red, had levelled up to 37. The trade-across did take a while, as Femeia had forgotten that as well as a new level 2 pony, she was holding a level 24 horse for Steve, and two pets, other than the "new" types like SkrappY, is the maximum one can carry, but finally she remembered that Steve's horse was in her inventory, and traded it across in exchange for her level 37-er. She was suitably grateful, and I must say with its dark grey colouring the horse, now changed into a mount, looks good. The reason she hasn't been on much lately is that she has lost her home internet connection, and can only get online at work.

I had some work to do, so the break continued for an extra hour or so, which gave Peri the chance to get his blue horse up to level 21. Elvastar got in touch, he had heard about the recent "hacking" of a number of accounts, and had also heard advice to change all LC passwords. I'd come across this too, as it had been a topic in the forum Shoutbox - it looks as if well-known high-level players have been targeted. It doesn't seem to be a security fault with Aeria, though, checking the BBC News website it seems that a lot of Gmail and Hotmail accounts have fallen victim to "phishing" attacks, and had dodgy websites installing key loggers, so Last Chaos account details would be among the information that hackers would be offering for sale on dodgy websites. I can't really see the point of that, as the victims are going to report hacked accounts, and the GMs will be able to freeze them and return them eventually, and hopefully replace lost items - and items stolen and transferred to other accounts can be traced, surely?

Elvastar had headed for Prokion Temple; he's a level 31 sorcerer at present, so it seemed a nice idea to take JohnWellington, level 33 now, there to team up with him, secure in the knowledge that the Orcs would respawn faster than the pair of us could kill them. Elva was having problems with lag, so that text he typed would take half a minute or longer to actually appear. After a while he decided that it would be a good idea to restart the game, so he logged out, and came back into Last Chaos - but didn't actually manage to get back to me before lagging out again terminally.

I teamed up John with RedRackham, who had kept on pet-levelling, for a little while, and then when it became obvious that Elva wasn't going to get back any time soon, brought RedRider in instead, and got her to the Prokion Temple back room for the usual Combat party arrangement. And so that went on until the usual time to settle down, and put the pet-levellers up. RedRider added 12.93%, 72 skill points, and 32 guild points, while in all JohnWellington had added 17.69%, 120 skill points, and 289 guild points.

The servers will be coming down for their weekly maintenance at 1:00am UK time, so RedRackham won't be able to keep working overnight. For some reason the usual "Mad Monster Spawns" weren't run tonight, replaced by a more PvP-oriented thing involving protecting GM Kali from attacks by the other games masters - if a group of level 145 players is going to be player-killing, include me out, on any server!

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