ColonelScarlet managed some pet-levelling overnight, and MistressDomino did some useful selling, but at some point both computers decided to restart, which leads me to suspect that Microsoft probably delivered some "critical update" and arbitrarily did an install and restart. Still, the Colonel got back into action before breakfast, and before coffee the horse in his charge reached level 25. Galahad over on Cariae-3 joined in, too, and by coffee time his drake was just past halfway through level 42, munching quality stones with alarming rapidity.
What with one thing and another, I didn't have much playing time in the morning; over on Katar-5 Kaerella managed to get her level 27 experience back down to zero again, but only had time to get about 16 skill points. I was late restarting after lunch too, but Kae went back to the Temple, in a solo party with the Colonel as he continued his pet-levelling. The target was to get up to the 162 skill point mark, as that would let me get the final level of advanced absorption, and the first level of advanced herbalism, and I managed that before the late afternoon food break, along with 40.22% experience and 1464 pet points. For much of the time I was out in the corridor next to my favourite back room, but when it became free I moved in there for a while.
Having those Veterans Day Parades yesterday meant that the usual Wednesday "Storm the Castle" events were delayed until today, with the Auzura version scheduled for 6:00pm UK time, and Cariae and Katar's stormings both set for ten. The Auzura one seemed just right for Rage to contribute to again, but, after Kae had again got rid of her experience, and had a mini-session of 8.77% experience, 37 skill points and 351 pet points, when I logged in over on Auzura as Rage, it wasn't a "Storm the Castle" event that was announced, instead it was a defence of Dratan from invading monsters over on Auzura-1.
So, Memree, my "nothing to lose" level 31 archer, logged in on that sub-server. I did ask GM Stratos if it was instead of the scheduled Castle Storming, and he said that it wasn't, it was an extra thing for Auzura - but what happened to the Storming, I don't know.
Defending Dratan is a little bit different from defending Randol, as the boundary between the peaceful town and the main PvE fighting area isn't right up by the gate, it is perhaps 15 yards further out, and rather difficult to know - if you're firing at a monster and you don't see the damage number float up, or "miss", you are probably still in the peaceful part! Monsters attacked all the gates in turn, but our massed forces managed to defeat them, and then Stratos summoned us to the south gate - where we had to answer a question correctly. Get it right and we'd get Hands of loot dropped - get it wrong and there would suddenly be rather a lot of Flutons among us. It was only the Quiz stand-by about GMs not asking for personal information, so almost everyone typed "2", and the Hands duly appeared. And then some purple dragons appeared too...
This came as a slight surprise, as, to avoid lag while picking up the loot, I'd gone to pretty much a zoomed-in overhead view of Memree. Two or three Flutons did also appear after that - and I managed to get myself killed by typing instead of seeing that one was heading in my direction. But hey, Memree needs to lose experience anyway, and the loot I picked up wasn't bad.
The main evening session featured Kaerella in Prokion Temple on Katar-5 again. When I reached the back room a rogue called gexdeshadows was in the middle, surrounded by all the Orc Axemen and Orc Sergeants, who were attacking her. She was just standing there, so I thought I might as well start fighting; it was quite a while before she returned. in fact. I politely asked if there was room for me too, and she said yes, and we did chat a bit, though she didn't seem much in favour of the way I was banking skill points in the special skills, staying in level 27 by getting killed by the monsters.
By the end of the session Kae had got the 174 skill points she needed to finish the advanced herbalism skill, and even get the first level of epsilon wave processing. She had gone up by 49.33%, and earned 1891 pet points, which had taken her drake into level 18. Quite a few more empty baskets had been picked up, too, which were then, back in town, transferred across to MistressDomino, along with a few moonstone boxes and a heaven stone.
Someone discarded a knight's jack-o-lantern helm in Randol, so that got transferred across from Kae, who picked it up, to ColonelScarlet. MistressDomino got set up in merchant mode, selling a few Hallowe'en candies fairly quickly - but the time was fast approaching for the Cariae version of "Storm the Castle".
So, while ColonelScarlet had a few minutes off, Barbarienne logged on to Cariae-3, teleported to Merac, and used a memory scroll to reach Merac Castle. There weren't many people there; the gamesage ADISA was in "death motion" pose, being an assassin-type rogue; the knight Krokignon was there, and said hi, he still has resisted all attempts to get him to join a guild.
Luckily more people had arrived by the time ten o'clock was reached, UK time, and the actual storming went pretty smoothly. I was partied with the level 41 knight XxSPIKExX and the level 103 rogue Vimto, who I've seen at other events. It wasn't long before the "you've done it!" message came up, and everyone rushed back outside to get ready for the loot, which as usual appeared in tight little heaps. There was plenty of it, I think Barb got 4 skill point boosters, and no doubt the other items in proportion.
GM Kali was also handling the event on Katar-5 at the same time, so didn't really interact much - we didn't get any extra monsters spawned, as sometimes happens. Since Barb had acquired her own jack-o-lantern pumpkin helm for last week in case of invisible (unless wearing such a helm or using an item mall potion) dragons, she was able to kill three pumpkin ghosts while we were waiting around to see if anything else would happen - each dropped a pumpkin, and she got five lucky scrolls and ten effort scrolls, which was a useful bonus.
After that, ColonelScarlet returned, to do a bit more pet-levelling. The horse had reached level 27 by then, so is making pretty good progress still.
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