SirGalahad and ColonelScarlet got into pet-levelling action at breakfast time as usual, and kept busy for a couple of hours, until after coffee it was time for Memree and Kaerella to head out to Prokion Temple on Tairen-5. Unusually my favourite back room was in use, so I had to settle for the "corridor room" not far away. Things moved along nicely for the first hour, but one problem with that room is that it is on a main route, and other people sometimes come in and start fighting the limited supply of orcs.
And so it was today, with a knight called EternaTemplarKnt settling in, where there is really only enough respawnings for one player, at least if they have a +14 crossbow like Memree's. After a while Memree went and checked if the back room had been vacated - it had, so Kaerella ran to join her there, and we got back up to full speed.
The corridor room has a higher proportion of orc sergeants to orc axemen - and the sergeants give twice as much experience, but only around 20-25% more skill exp. So, Kaerella gained experience a bit more quickly this time, and in an only slightly longer session than yesterday's added 28.42%, with Discipline getting 71 guild points, taking her past the halfway mark in level 27. Memree, in level 36, added 34.98%, and donated 480 guild points. And they each gained 267 skill points.
The pet-levellers were back in action over lunch, and SirGalahad continued afterwards, while on the main computer my level 59 Cariae-based cleric Kaerella headed for Dratan. I had a couple of quests to finish, so rode west out of town, past the giants and the masters of secret technique, to the arcane golems - the "Managing Golems" quest just required me to kill nine of them. I then rode on to where the wafe bands hang out, as "Disband the Mob" needed me to " Collect 10 Covenants of Secessions from Wafe Thieves
". So, I killed the different types of wafes, such as Wafe Leaders, Wafe Debirches and Wafe Peelers - and found that generally it was Wafe Revertins that supplied the necessary quest item.
Once both quests were concluded, I moved across, using a memory scroll, to the shyer of the two elite sphinx speer men, and settled in. One slight problem was that there was no solo party I could join, so I wasn't getting the maximum possible experience, and skill exp, per kill. Before too long I reached level 60, and the +5 armour set and weapons arrived automatically. Someone recently had assured me that the "Elizabuff" lasted through level 60, and only expired when a character reached 61, but sadly this was not the case - while the icon remained on the screen among my buffs, the effect was no longer active.
I was tempted to start a platinum blessed iris, but didn't want to do that without the "solo party" boost. Luckily before too long when I checked a party had been formed, so I joined up. There was still just over an hour's playing time left, so I started a pbi, which got me through just about 25% of the new level. Kaerella's total experience gain for the session was 34.23%, plus 46 skill points and 1613 pet points; getting the rewards for the two quests back in Dratan City added another 2.62% and 14 skill points.
Kaerella was also able to learn the Cure Resource passive skill now, adding 400 to her total health and 100 to her total mana - and subtracting a total of 889 skill points. Kae does have enough skill points now for all her skills up to level 100, though should she ever wish to go beyond that, there are some rather sp-expensive skills to learn.
The food break was a little earlier than average, so that Rage would be in time for the European-style "Storm the Castle" event on Auzura-4. I stopped in Merac village for a few minutes, so that I could advise people which road to take, and "once you are out of town, the M map will show you the route". And then I teleported down, with a couple of minutes to spare, to find a few people waiting, including JadaMarie, now in the "Trusted" guild, who is a regular at this sort of thing.
[GM]Noboru arrived soon after me, and put up the first of a number of "about to begin" announcements. She warned us that she wouldn't be as generous with the drops as yesterday's anonymous GM had been if we didn't beat the deadline...
The group when I joined it hadn't looked much more impressive than yesterday's, except for a night shadow in the Vendetta guild, but to my relief our ranks were soon swelled, and I didn't have to deal with a whole swarm of male assassinbugs, just one or two at a time. We pressed forward, overwhelming the thorny mantises, anubis archers, jumping devils, barren eises, zamaras... and the anubis spear men went down pretty quickly, while other people were already working on the hell-otuu and the dark harpies. More people must have been arriving, as our progress was pretty swift.
[GM]Noboru added a herd of Cerebril to the courtyard, and I found myself in the middle of them, but luckily they are passive, so let me finish helping to kill a dark harpy before I turned my attention to them. There were also a group of the level 50 blood frenzy-type pandora's beasts, which were, luckily, spawned off to one side. The inner courtyard did have a couple of sphinx commanders, and Rage paused there, after they were killed, to assist with the invisible blood shadow dragon from Egeha - it's always good to, er, "see" it there.
Other people had moved on into the throne room, and were battling a pair of flutons, so the rest of us joined them - and soon the Castle had been cleared of all monsters, with a good five minutes to spare. The GM announced that our reward for the impressive performance would be spawned outside, and soon the tightly-packed circles of loot were appearing in their usual spots. There were so many people there that the circles were picked up at high speed, but Noboru kept spawning more. I doubt if anyone got a huge amount of loot, maybe four or six of each of the goodies, but we felt well rewarded. And Rage mentioned that Kaerella had posted the screenshot of a diminutive [GM]Noboru in the "Hilarious Screenshots" thread of "General Discussion", so she promised to check it out - and later she had indeed posted a comment in that thread, her first LC forum post.
For the rest of the evening I was pretty low-key. SirGalahad got his horse safely into level 34, while I played my level 2 knight SirDarth on Sarissa, getting him up to level 10 by the end of the session. As usual foxes, deer, wolves, berserk wolves, and jaguars were involved - he even took a brief trip out to Velpist Temple to fight a few wandering zombies.
The treasure chest Lorraine allowed him to open at level 10 gave 30,000 gold, so he was able to spend a third of it, along with 10 skill points, to start the Discipline guild there. The idea, if I go through with it, would be to get him up to pet-leveller status, which would also allow him to get the guild to level six. But the next stage would be for Kaerella there to take him on in the Guardian system as an apprentice, and move Darth up to level 20 fairly swiftly. At least he's all set up for that, now, though he is still using his level 1 sword and shield, and most of the starter armour.
SirGalahad had managed to get his horse at least a quarter of the way through level 34 by the end of the evening, so it shouldn't be too long now before Memree can have a mount of her own.
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