Galahad got a disconnection fairly late in the night, but still managed to get his horse up to level 35, and indeed halfway through that level. Katar's Kaerella did attempt to sell things overnight, but at 100k each only managed to shift seven candies, so that was hardly worth doing.
Unlike Katar's Kaerella, who was begun before the "player appreciation event" started to put the "beginner" items into new characters' inventories, ColonelScarlet did have the beginner platinum blessed irises, platinum super skill pills, and resurrection scrolls to use, so it seemed about time that he got some use out of the pssps. That meant that he went to Prokion Temple alone this morning on Katar-5; instead of joining him, Kaerella bought a couple of mining hammers, and went out to mine some quality, imperfect and flawed stones, while also providing the Colonel with a solo party boost.
I just managed to squeeze in two hours before lunch, during which ColonelScarlet added 70.05%, helped along by the continuing 50% extra experience gain; sadly the 50% extra skill exp gain didn't stack with the pssps, but at least it meant that with him at level 31, Orc Sergeants, instead of giving the normal 4400 skill exp, or the 6600 with the 50% boost, gave 1100 skill exp each. The first hour added 208 skill points, the second hour, which did have to include a couple of quick trips downstairs to the kitchen, added 207 more, and the morning's total was 419. 2069 pet points were earned as well, taking the pony close to the top of level 15.
After the pet-levelling over lunch, both Kaerella and the Colonel logged back in. The Colonel first of all went to the Master Knight and became a temple knight, which increased his health a bit. Then he went off to Prokion Temple again, and once he was safely settled, Kae logged in too and went back to her mining. The first pssp's hour saw another 214 skill points gained, but just before that hour ended the Colonel levelled up, so the next hour just brought in 183 skill points. Still, there was time to continue beyond that, and as there wasn't a pssp running, Kaerella teleported over to join him in that back room.
A level 22 knight called FuEnTe1 asked if he could join our party, which, as it was the Combat type, was fine with me, it might have decreased our skill exp gain a little, but it would have boosted the general experience. Kae was able to heal him a bit when needed - now that she is wearing her new armour, standing near the doorway isn't any problem, if an occasional Orc Axeman attacks her she can easily kill it, though she was tending not to do more than necessary, to avoid the older computer running out of memory. A rogue called nomaster also came into the room, but didn't say anything.
By the time I had to log out for my early evening food break, ColonelScarlet had gone up by 81.68% and 457 skill points, and the pony had become a horse, going all the way through level 16 and getting to the start of level 17. FuEnTe1 had levelled up, too. Kaerella's time there had gained her 4.77% and 40 skill points.
After the break I returned, but the knight Arvenia had taken up residence in the Katar-5 back room, so I moved across to Katar-6, and settled in there, with Kaerella joining the Colonel. FuEnTe1 did get in touch, but he didn't seem to understand the idea of me being on a different sub-server, perhaps his English isn't too good... though I may have been more than level 23 on my first character on Last Chaos before I realised that one's character could log in on any of the sub-servers of one particular group.
The session wasn't a long one, as at 7:45pm the announcement came up that the Epic Event was going to start on Katar in 15 minutes; I just had time to get Kae the last of the 179 skill points she needed to complete Expert Armorsmith before logging out. ColonelScarlet had added another 37.82%, 88 skill points, and 828 pet points, while Kaerella had gained 9.27% and 84 skill points.
Galahad logged back in for some pet-levelling, and Kaerella switched to the main machine, and logged in on Katar-5 for the Epic Event, joining up with LordDarkzer and a knight guildie after spending those skill points. After a minute or two a dozen or so clones of the teleporter NPC from outside Prokion Temple were spawned outside Randol's north gate, and everyone piled through into Prokion's lobby.
Our task this time was to save Beatrice, and capture three stolen pieces of her soul, by clearing out the monsters from three specified locations. While I repeated the event on Cariae an hour later with Barbarienne, it was my Katar level 27 archer Kaerella who seemed to have a better time of it, and saw more of the action. Since I'd spent that 179 skill points, Kae had nothing to lose, and will indeed have to return to Prokion to die 33 times to get back to the start of level 27 once more before the next Combat party with the Colonel. Kae did die once, due to a random blow from some passing Cube Guard - and again after the end, just as a quick way to get back to the start.
Kaerella rushed about Prokion Temple, joining in to help kill lots of extremely high-level monsters, and even got to the final room where Beatrice had been discovered; we had enough high level people there for the odd Patriarch Botis to go down pretty fast, and soon the event was concluded, and we were victorious. Some generous hands of loot were spawned right there in the chamber, followed once we'd picked everything up by a second wave. Loot drops were also announced back at the start, so I used the express method to get back to the lobby by annoying a nearby monster, and was able to pick up a bit more loot. So, a satisfactory outing, with some reasonably useful screenshots to add to the appropriate forum thread. Kae actually added 9.11% experience, and, as she killed quite a few of the regular local monsters to stop them distracting the top-level types, 25 skill points.
In contrast, Barbarienne didn't have that inspiring an event. It started a few minutes late, for some reason, and generally the press of the monsters was such that she didn't get very far from the starting area at all. That was helpful in that it meant that when she took damage, it was easy to run back to safety and do some self-healing, but it did mean that she never got near any of the announced locations, or the room where Beatrice was returned to us. There may well have been loot spawned in that room, but I didn't see any announcement of any loot Hands back at the start, and a few people who'd used potions and resurrection scrolls seemed a bit put out that they had done all their hard work for nothing.
Zenderfly got in touch, and seemed surprised that a level 101 archer shoudl be in Prokion Temple. "What are you doing there?" I replied that I was "Fighting a level 119 Cube Guard", and paused briefly before explaining that I was at this week's Epic Event. She asked me to trade her Scra-Chi pet AutumStorm back to her, so I returned to Randol while other people were still mopping up the last of the high-level monsters. It was just as well I did, as I was hit by some monster of other and given a debuff just as I logged out, and when I respawned Barb's health was at about 30%, so I had to check her skill point total to reassure myself that no last-second death had been involved.
Zen mentioned that there is a minor "bug" with the pumpkin ghosts; if while wearing the jack-o-lantern helm you see one, and then mount your horse and take the helm off, then dismount, you can still see the ghost, and attack it - but not do it any damage. In theory that could be good for pet-levelling, but I'm sure someone else would come along and kill the pumpkin before long
After that, it was time to send RedRackham out to do a little more pet-levelling with the Gnoll Lancers, alongside Galahad. Galahad's horse was safely into level 36 by then, while Red's hungry drake is starting to make inroads into level 41 now. For some strange reason Auzura is scheduled to have its Epic Event last, at 11;00pm UK time, or midnight for our Continental friends - if I'm awake enough, I might go along, and report back tomorrow.
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