Today was scheduled to be one of those days when I'm busy downstairs, but at least that gives my hard-working pet-levellers plenty of time to fight their Berserkers. SirPerivale took the overnight slot, so that by breakfast time that new pale blue pony had reached level 10, and 100% Sympathy. I saw that Lylja's cleric, FemeiaVraci, had been in touch, probably a little before 6:00am by UK time. "I can't stay now, maybe I'll log in later, I don't know"...
RedRackham rejoined the battle before breakfast, moving Kaerella's drake, SirFrancis (a name he shares with his Cariae counterpart), through the early part of level 35. CaptainScarlet was having a well-deserved rest; normally he would be online rather than Peri, but Peri is the one that Lylja and Samael can contact, since he is in their guild, and I would rather have liked to be able to trade their mounts to them.
Having SirPerivale online did pay off, in that Samael came on a little before eleven, UK time, with a change of plan. It seemed that a friend had given him a handsome grey horse called XxEmOxX, at level 32, and he was asking if Peri could get it up to level 37 for him. So, on CaptainScarlet I traded across the level 33 horse for him to use for buffs meanwhile (with a request not to mount it), and took the level 32 in its place. Cap then headed to Merac to start this new task; XxEmOxX was already about 5700/9457 of the way through the current level, so not far from level 33, at least.
The pet-levelling continued throughout the day, with SirFrancis moving slowly through level 35, and CaptainScarlet working on XxEmOxX - it has been ages since I pet-levelled a pet with a name, I'm sure, and suddenly I'm working on two of them. EmO got up to level 33 easily enough, but of course each new level is longer than the one before. A level 28 pet isn't halfway to level 37, I see, as far as acquired pet points go.
After the early evening food break, though, I was able to get a bit more hands-on, and logged LadyJane on, so that she could move up a few more levels and thus be a useful party member in Prokion Temple. SirPerivale could have continued where he left off, but at level 17 LJ was high enough in level to team with Memree, who is level 31 - so it was a two-healer team that set out for Prokion Temple.
As a healer, even with +10 armour Memree doesn't do too well in my favourite back room, so we settled for the "corridor room", since its Orc Sergeants are a bit more widely spread out, and there are less Orc Axemen. Since she now has a level 33 drake with all 30 levels of Armour Increase, though, with it equipped and giving her an extra 250 physical defence she didn't have to use Self Heal very often.
We'd managed to get there safely, with Memree using party heal a time or two, but unfortunately parking LadyJane against the wall in the main room didn't work. The Orcs ignored her for a while, but then they attacked, and before Memree could heal her, she slumped to the ground, lifeless. Still, experience is gained quickly there, at her level, and she wasn't then carrying many unused skill points, so it didn't seem worth using one of her "beginner" resurrection scrolls. The run back from the Temple's lobby was a bit tricky, but with a few stops to Self Heal and a single health potion, LJ made it back, and found a safer bit of wall in the narrow bit of corridor before the place widens out.
It didn't take very long to take LadyJane up two levels, during which Memree added 18.29% and 29 skill points. Once LJ was level 19, our options were a bit wider, though as she is on the same account as both JohnWellington and SirDarth she can't team with them. Galahad (on Auzura we're talking GALAHAD without any extras) however, at level 33, was now in range, so Memree helped LadyJane to get to our favourite back room, and left her safely there, logging out so that Galahad could log in, make a new party with LadyJane, and hurry to join her.
So, the rest of the evening was spent in getting LadyJane up a further four levels, so that her total experience gain for the evening was 595.64% - plus a less-than-stellar 166 skill points. Once we were finished she spent her skill points in Randol, did a few message-carrying quests, was recruited into the Discipline guild by MistressSabina, who also cut her experience gain to 50%, and logged out. She had got her "event weapon" bow for successfully reaching level 20 in the Guardian system, and now stands ready, like RedRider, to assist my early to mid thirties characters in their endeavours.
Galahad himself added 15.56%, and another 154 skill points, a figure that was slightly helped by the use of the one remaining red-and-white training spell type skill pill he had in his inventory, adding 15% to his skill exp gain for an hour. The more skill points he has, the better his future potential, not that I have any great plans to take him far. There are occasions when a Royal Knight, with his Concentration buff, can be useful, though.
RedRackham was able to head back to Merac after that, followed soon after by CaptainScarlet, who actually encountered Ratel at the warehouse chest, and complimented him on his fine-looking shield... which, come to think of it, is kind of scarlet. SirFrancis should reach level 36 before log-out time tonight, though XxEmOxX will still be at least six hours away from level 34.
So, the pet-levelling for Samael didn't quite end up as planned, but I had started working on that horse which is currently on level 33 anyway - I can always use another mount. There was no further sign of Lylja or FemeiaVraci when I was able to log SirPerivale on briefly, the DeathBringers guild continues to be very quiet. I suspect that GuildHealer, alias Steve, is being kept away from us by his parents at the moment, but no doubt he'll bounce back.
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