The older computer stayed on for a few hours last night for RedRackham to continue his pet-levelling, while the newer machine, with Galahad, kept going all the way through, though Gal did lose his Gnoll Lancer for a couple of hours, I think. It was strange, nobody ks'd, as he didn't get a small share of experience and skill exp, and there wasn't an "attack blocked" message either, as would happen if a tree got in the way. I guess the Gnoll Lancer in question just reset itself back to its normal position, something the Treants used to do sometimes.
I did manage to find and install the up-to-date drivers for the newer machine's sound card, so no more "quiet day" problems. It looks as if I may not have got entirely the right drivers for the video side of things, though; Last Chaos is fine, but I tried Guild Wars briefly, and got a rather colourful "double vision" effect, as the drivers are 3D...so to play Guild Wars I will need to wear old-fashioned red and blue-lensed glasses, I think, unless I find an option somewhere to switch the effect off. There was yet another new "important" update from Microsoft, meaning that the computer needed to be switched off yet again for that to be processed.
Anyway, there was time in the morning for the level 21 healer version of Kaerella over on the Katar server to take a trip out to Prokion Temple to fight Ghouls, Mummies, and even the level 23 Orc Soldiers. The double experience and skill exp event was still running, so Kaerella managed to earn 71.74% experience and 155 skill points, which got her up to level 22, and allowed her to max out Party Heal and get Mana Shield up to level four. She bought her level 27 circlet and boots, so is now wearing the complete 25/27 armour set; I put one of her supply of lucky smelting stones into the merchant mart system at 16 million gold, it would be useful if she could get enough cash to buy a +10 30/32 armour set, and indeed the level 33 bow to go with it.
For the afternoon the Kaerella in question was the original one over on Cariae, my level 48 cleric. First of all I went to the Cariae-3 Maargadum Jail, but the rogue killthemasses was busy in the central area of level three; she did suggest a Combat party, but I don't think we could have found enough critters to keep both of us busy. Kae went down to level five and killed some death mask soldiers, death mask lancers, and even the two beast crawlers at the far end, but while they gave slightly more skill exp per kill, the kill rate was slower, so I switched across to Cariae-4, and had level three to myself. Damor had "unfrozen" Kae now, so she added 14.52%, meaning she is almost halfway through her level; 130 more skill points were earned, and 1613 pet points.
Back in town, browsing the merchant mart I found a level 53 +15 titan sword on sale for 170 million, which while not exactly cheap, is perhaps slightly below average. Barbarienne had to log on to buy it, as she has most of the gold, and she spent another 500,000 to convert it into the level 53 cleric wand. She then traded it across to MistressDomina, my Cariae merchant mage, along with recent loot, and then MD traded it across to Kae, in exchange for her recent drops - except the two heaven stones she had picked up in the Jail, which went into storage. Once Kae reaches level 49 she will be able to use that wand, and she also has a level 57 one, also +15, in her inventory. As her current armour set is +13 I doubt if I'll attempt to replace that with the 55/57 set, though it might gain a cover for 30 days, to add +1 to each part, if I continue to play her enough to make that worthwhile.
The evening session starred SirDarth, my temple knight. After finding the back room of Prokion temple busy on both Auzura-3 and Auzura-4, I went across to Cariae instead - Darth is there too, the original one, though not quite as far advanced, level-wise. Still, he was near the top of level 33, and I had a level 23 character available to form a Combat party with him, Karanne, so things proceeeded on Cariae much as they would have on Auzura.
Actually, there are differences; as an old character, Cariae's SirDarth doesn't have the 30/32 +10 armour set; instead he wears the 35/37 set, though it, and the shield, were only +4. However, I had some spare lucky smelting stones, so boosted all the bits up to +6. I'm sure that still isn't as good an armour rating as the +10 sets, but it was good enough to thwart the Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen, at least with a shield equipped. Darth had been carrying a +15 level 37 weapon, a crossbow, so I converted that into a single sword - so while his armour may not be as strong as over on Auzura, he has a pretty good physical attack.
After a while a mage called NiGhTWiSH barged into the room, and started fighting the Orcs, which was a bit annoying. I don't see why she wanted to share the room, she was using a crit potion, and both a beginner pbi and beginner pssp, plus some minerals etc, so I'd have thought she would have wanted the room to herself, on some sub-server.
When her boosters ran out she left - but a few minutes later she returned, still not saying anything. She had changed her costume, previously it had had a "gang" type cover - and she had also left the EternalDawn guild. Luckily this time she didn't stay very long. My only other visitor was JustRoguin, a rogue, who only stayed around long enough to ask if I wanted to sell my level 37 weapon. I wonder if she knew it was +15? The glow for a +15 weapon is different from, say, a +12 one, not as solid a blur but a more electric effect.
Soon after SirDarth started his session Damor logged in for a chat, but didn't stay very long - the lure of Aeria's online poker application perhaps. Zen seemed a little puzzled by the way the experience donation of Kaerella had changed, it seems that that was a trifle buggy, though I don't know if that means it was slow in reacting to a change. She kindly 50%-locked Darth's experience gain, to give him a bit more time to gather skill points, which he sorely needs.
By the end of the session SirDarth had added 78.81%; he had gone up from level 33 to 34 within minutes of starting, though the Combat party remained in place. 435 skill points made a rather substantial addition to his sp reserves. I'd stayed on just long enough for Karanne to reach level 24, so that a new Combat party will be possible next time; she had gone up by 97.25%, plus 431 skill points, so ought to be able to learn a new skill or two.
There was just time to head over to Katar-5 for a "trick or treat" event which involved searching for game masters or game sages scattered, apparently, throughout Juno...though I didn't find any of them! Perhaps it was just as well, the deal was that when you found one you had to say "trick or treat", after which you'd either be given a treat - or some nasty monsters would be spawned on you as a trick. So, prizes - or death. Kaerella did actually manage to do one very minor quest she had outstanding, along the way, though just as she approached the reward-giver, Border Guard Tamon, the sub-server crashed. To quote GM Krash in the shoutbox, "ARRGH!"
It took a couple of minutes for the sub-server to come out of "maintenance" mode, but some more hurrying around once Kae had logged back in didn't find me any reward-givers. After that it was time to hand over to the pet-levellers. Galahad's horse is a couple of hours away from the top of level 28 now, while RedRackham's drake has powered its way into level 22.
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