There's nothing like switching the monitor on in the morning and finding one's pet-leveller still faithfully toiling away, to get the day off to a good start, and so it was this morning. After coffee, it seemed like a good idea to work on one of my soon-to-be pet-levellers over on the Cariae server, so XxGALAHADxX logged in over there, and finding a back room he could call his own, was soon joined by Karella for a Combat party. Like RedRackham, he had two of the "beginner" platinum blessed irises left, so I triggered the first of those, and off we went - with Karella also bringing out SkrappY, my level 51 Scra-Chi type pet, so that some pet experience would be gained.
Yet again the Cariae server had a breakdown at just after 11:10am UK time - the Orc Sergeant that Gal was fighting was down to 10% health, but suddenly stopped taking damage, and indeed its health began to regenerate. It was the usual "account ID already in use" error when I tried to log him back in, but after ten minutes or so things got back to normal.
Karella, just standing in the corner, wasn't affected, so was waiting when Gal got back. His pbi had been within a minute of running out anyway - it had given him a 45.79% experience gain. I continued there until lunchtime, and in all Gal added 56.44%, along with 88 skill points, while Karella got 10.49% and 85 skill points since she arrived a little later.
I had a slightly early lunch, which was lucky as GM Xandamere announced one of his "night-time" Mad Monster Spawn sequences, which started with Auzura at 1:00pm UK time. So, Memree, who is my regular character at such things until it's her turn to farm skill points (she is at the bottom of level 31, with only one or two skill points unused), used her memory scroll to go out there - and used three more of them to return after getting killed. But it was fun, and the loot was relatively generous, so more skill point boosters, item drop boosters, large attack and defence potions, tool aids, and the small HP and MP recovery pots, got picked up safely. I had asked the GM in the shoutbox to include start times in his announcements, and he did, which was nice; he also told me that he couldn't spawn heaven stones, the advice he'd been given was just to spawn the usual "Prize hands", the Protection, Bravery, and Of The Guard types.
Cariae was at the end of his sequence, and as it seems generally you only get the MMS announcements on the appropriate server, it seemed best to take Galahad and Karella back to Prokion Temple, where Gal used his last beginner pbi, which gave 37.09%, a bit less than before as the majority of it was in level 34. The whole afternoon session gave him 49.49%, and 75 skill points, while Karella got 18.68% and the same sp.
The Cariae MMS started at 4:20pm UK time, and Xandamere was suitably impressed by the fine style with which Barbarienne and the other Cariae players despatched the monsters - it only took 27 minutes. There was just one time when Barb got poisoned and had to run for safety, otherwise it was pretty much plain sailing. And then it was time for food, and a little bit of Auzura pet-levelling.
Instead of my Cariae dual sword-wielding (now) level 34 knight XxGALAHADxX, fighting the Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen in my favourite back room in a Combat party with my level 26 rogue Karella, I switched across to Auzura-3 - and it was my level 34, dual sword wielding knight GALAHAD, in a Combat party with my level 24 rogue RedRider, who did the business. Well it makes a change! RedRider went up by 23.76%, so is pretty close to level 25 now. and got 139 skill points, helped along by the tale-end of the Sunday "teatime", which had started at least an hour late because only Last Chaos GMs can switch it on, and they hadn't arrived in the office on time. As GM Xandamere is a more general GM, he wasn't allowed to start things. Galahad added 21.58% and 142 skill points.
Gal did have a visitor, a knight called daAragon, who brought a lower-level titan friend, Steevo5, with him, and stayed for a while - we had just about enough Orcs to go around. He returned later, but when he saw Galahad still there, he decided not to encroach on my territory, probably because his companion this time, an archer, was a higher-level player than Steevo5. I was able to tell him that the Auzura-4 room was also in use, as I'd been chatting with Elvastar, Ratel's sorcerer, and knew he was there. Ratty himself has reached level 73, and abandoned Norcaine, or at least passed its Guild Master position back to his titan Argoth, joining a more active guild called HonourBound.
Ratel was thus in Auzura-5 for the Quiz, with his new guildies; I assume he did okay, as we didn't have any problems on Auzura-2, and Kaerella and Rage both got the full set of prizes. After that it was almost time for the Zombie Invasion, hosted by GM Kali.
Memree went out to Berbank Mill for that, and did die once - a player-killer rogue called SchmuseLady was the culprit. I did take a screenshot a little later of us fighting side by side, with her no longer in "pk" mode, but still with the skull & crossbones sign alongside her name to denote the kill. There were way too many zombies for us, both Screaming and Ancient Screaming, and Apes, so we didn't manage to kill everything inside the deadline. Kali did spawn some Hands, but as there were still zombies on the loose, it wasn't possible to pick up very much. Still, we kept going, and managed to clear the infestation out.
Katar didn't manage to do as well as Auzura, which did at least manage to get rid of the final zombies about five minutes after the deadline. My level 10 Kaerella there got up to level 11, which is a slight shame as it rules out the Guardian system for her, but I'm unlikely to play there enough to get her to level 20 inside the system's allowed time anyway. I may well have picked up enough gold now to be able to get a level 13 bow next time. There was terrible lag there, I had to relog once, as well as getting killed a time or two. This time when the consolation Hands were spawned there were way too many Screaming Zombies still around, poor Kaerella couldn't get near the goodies without dying.
The Cariae version was also a failure, though Barbarienne got a little gold and went up about 0.04%, which for her at an event is pretty good. I tanked quite a few Apes and Screaming Zombies, though with the Ancient Screaming Zombies, and their poisoning skill, I tended to let a close-up player keep their attention, while I acted as artillery from a safer distance. This time I didn't see any Hands at all, though I may well have been fighting slightly too far away to see them spawned.
And that ended the evening, except for a little pet-levelling - not an overnight deal, though, it's time the computer, and the modem, had a little bit of rest. CaptainScarlet's horse is level 28 now, and RedRackham's drake is level 35.
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