Saturday 19 December 2009

Without A Clue


This morning it was deja vu all over again, as the saying goes, with 14 Christmas Gift Boxes in the Discipline guild hall, one of which released a platinum drop booster; the newer computer had again recently given up the fight against a shortage of in-game memory. The older computer was still going, though with a very slow frame rate, which made things look very strange when, after restarting the game, Barbarienne returned and began to open the boxes. Restarting the older computer's game wasn't enough, the computer itself had to be restarted before things returned to normal.

There were a number of responses to my forum posting about MacroMej's language. PongoElite confirmed that "he is clearly cursing and using offensive language in Spanish", including "a very offensive term" - "Just ban that idiot, people like him don't even deserve the right to join a community." The gamesage Faenwyn acknowledged the report, so very possibly something will be done, though I must check if there is anything else I need to do.

So, ColonelScarlet headed out to a different location this morning to do a little more pet-levelling - in case ol' Macro or any other ks-ers get to read this I suppose I ought to remain a bit vague about what location he has now added to his memory scroll, but it seems relatively peaceful and out of the way.

It is difficult to work out when events are going to start, as most of the links on the Last Chaos website still don't work. It looked as if a second "Cluedo" event on Auzura-4 might start at noon, UK time, so it seemed like a good idea to be active on Auzura during the morning, to watch out for announcements. So, RedRider, at level 26, logged in to Auzura-1, got the "Elizabuff", and went to Prokion Temple - her first attempt to get in saw her down in the foundations, but the second time saw her arrive safely in the lobby.

The room with the orc soldiers and mummies that RedRyder favoured over on Katar was free, so RedRider settled in there, and even though her armour is only the 25/27 +4 set, didn't have any great difficulties, or at least nothing that couldn't be corrected by a small HP recovery potion. From all the Mad Monster Spawns and similar events she has attended, she had 241 of them, so using a few seemed like a good idea. This Red doesn't have as good a weapon as the +10 level 29 crossbow RedRyder over on Katar has, but things went smoothly enough.

By the end, RedRider was 55.90% of the way through her level, and had got up to 273 skill points. And then the "Cluedo" event - well, just didn't happen. Checking just after twelve, UK time, the website now showed a countdown of fifty-something minutes, for a 1:00pm start - but, hurrying back after lunch, nothing was happening then either and, its countdown completed, the event vanished from the news page.

The first half of the afternoon was filled up with miscellaneous stuff, including reading a rather interesting forum thread about Last Chaos at a general mmorpg forum, which gave some background to the much-lamented departure of [GM]Krash; when I did get back in to LC actively, RedRider headed for Misty Canyon and after sneaking past the elite frenzied berserkers and elite cerberus types, got the location onto her memory scroll, before going inside and persuading a convenient Introducer Camio to help relieve her of that 55.90%. The nineteen deaths reduced the 5 skill points she had left to 3, rather than wiping them out completely.

As RedRider is mainly designed for event-going and teaming with another character up to ten levels higher, there isn't any great hurry about maximising her special skills, it is just nice to have somewhere to "bank" skill points she does earn, so the fact that she needs another 2,760 skill points to do that isn't very important...which is just as well.

I was very good, and fitted in some more work downstairs for the rest of the afternoon - some stuff does have to be cleared out of the way before the Christmas break can start for real, after all. Mages Blaze and MistressDomino did hang out in the Discipline guild hall, generally - whenever a Santa hat was dropped by a Christmas Gift Box, I'd try to bring in the right character to be able to wear it, which worked sometimes, though not every junior character is in the right guild. I'd never done any levelling of Blaze, she was just level 2 - but opening a few boxes soon got her to level 5.

ColonelScarlet did a bit more pet-levelling, and then later in the evening RedRyder went out to Prokion Temple on Katar-1, but it wasn't a very productive session - frankly, there was too much player-killing going on. I was first killed by a rogue called Arelan, who seemed to me to be wearing pretty high-level armour; as ever, I was just busy fighting mummies and ghouls, and attacked for no reason. I went back to Randol and got the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff re-applied, but after the next killing, I didn't bother with that any more. Another rogue called xrogueinhax killed me once, she wasn't in a guild but when she spoke later, it certainly seemed as if she was Brazilian, so that may have been part of the friction between the new nationals and the older residents. The main killer, though, was a night shadow called BoundsWithG, and it just strikes me as pathetic that a character who is at least level 90 should want to go to a place where people from level 17 to 27 or so are busy levelling and sp-farming, and want to kill them. What does he prove by that, other than that he is rather inadequate?

Still, getting pk'd gives no penalty, and RedRyder added 4.83%, along with a useful 108 skill points. A level 21 rogue there, lyijykyna, whispered me when I mentioned that I thought BoundsWithG killing low-levels was slightly pathetic, and we chatted a bit, she was another victim of his - we might even have teamed up if there had been more time left to the evening, but I had to log out soon and she had some time left on her pssp.

After that it was time to keep the guild hall fully manned, so the day's adventures were over. One thing I did ignore today was a special raffle for the upcoming new pet, the much-delayed polar bear that the German Last Chaos has had for ages. Today GMs were exchanging raffle tickets for 10 million gold, 5 heaven stones, 2 lucky smelting stones, 100 chaos balls, or various other things - tomorrow the tickets can be bought for 199 ap each, in a package which also gives you 25 skill or experience boosters, which seems a rather cheaper option than parting with, say, 100 chaos balls, or even 5 heaven stones. It looks as if the pets will come in with the next scheduled maintenance, it will be interesting to see how expensive they are to buy, and indeed to maintain and level. Will they be only for the very rich ap-buyers, or will the whole place be full of them?


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