SirGalahad gave his drake a final session in Maargadum Jail from breakfast time, but after coffee it was time to shuffle all my Tairen drakes around. Rage got the level 37 one from Gal, while her level 35 one got passed on to Memree. Memree's level 29 drake was moved across to RedRyder, and her old level 28 one got traded across to Kaerella - whose level 21 drake moved across to MistressDomino. MD just had a level 2 drake, which at the moment is with SirGalahad, though after the drake-swapping party was over, he went to Lorraine and Jajan to exchange a pan flute for a pony.
All that activity cut down on the available pre-lunch playing time, but Rage and RedRyder did go to Prokion Temple on Tairen-5 for an hour or so; Rage went up by 6.05% and 122 guild points (that actually included the experience from the latest Mad Monster Spawn), while RedRyder added 3.54% and 16 guild points. Red had added 104 skill points, and Rage had added 106.
SirGalahad started work on his new pony in Maargadum Jail at noon; Over on Cariae, XxGALAHADxX headed to Merac then to finish levelling his horse, which took about ninety minutes to reach level 39, which is as far as we need to go there.
For the afternoon, Kaerella, Cariae cleric, headed for the sphinx fighters and sphinx speer men, where before long SilverTwist, the level 44 archer, recruited me into a party. We also got a guildie of hers, a knight, for a while, though despite my best efforts he did die occasionally - going afk near to where the elite sphinx speer man will respawn is not highly recommended as a survival strategy. I thought he said his armour was +7, but he certainly lost health quickly when attacked. Lostinhu, the level 42 archer, got recruited later on, and shortly before it was time for my food break, the sorcerer danjorge was added too. They were talking of moving to the Tomb of Theos, but that's not something I am particularly up for yet.
Before I went to Dratan I checked Roy's merchant mart for the level 62 head armour Kae needed. There wasn't anything ready-upgraded, but I at least found a +5 piece for only two million, and upgraded it myself - so the 60/62 +13 set is now complete, and gives Kaerella about the best physical defence stat possible at her level. Very useful when the elite sphinx speer man comes calling...
During a couple of gaps in the fighting, when SilverTwist had returned to town, I managed to kill the ten wafe debirches needed for the "Sweep the Thieves" quest - I guess they'd been indulging in too much wafe debirchery. The fighting had gained Kaerella 24.11%, and the quest reward from that added another 2.69%. It also added 20 skill points, on top of the 19 earned while fighting. SirFrancis had picked up 906 pet points, less than I'd have got solo, but when doing healing, one isn't doing any hitting.
I did log out slightly early, so that I'd be back in time for the European "Storm the Castle" event on Auzura-4 at five o'clock, UK time. Rage logged in for that, and when I reached Merac Castle with five minutes or so to spare, there were already a couple of dozen people there, and [GM]Noboru was, I think, just arriving. She had been making GM announcements since a quarter to the hour, which certainly helps, and by the time we started, we were quite a large group. So, Rage didn't have to do any tanking, and wasn't nearly killed by anything.
We cut our way through the usual StC monsters, and reached the inner courtyard. There was a Blood Shadow invisible dragon to deal with, after the sphinx commander had been killed... but a pair of flutons in the throne room required more urgent attention. I was using Flame Arrow as much as I could, to do 6k damage or more each time, plus Snare when needed. We were down to the last half minute, battling the final fluton, but we got it inside the distance, finished off the invisible dragon, and went outside for our reward.
[GM]Noboru was certainly generous with the piles of loot, and everyone picked up plenty of the usual goodies. She was probably along, or watching, at yesterday's ill-fated attempt, so could this have been her way of making up for our disappointment then? It also compensated for the tiny amount of loot at the Cariae equivalent yesterday, I suppose, though loot can't be moved between servers.
SirGalahad had kept busy on his new pony for a little over six hours, getting the little chap well into level 8, and with 100% Sympathy reached, before the older computer was needed for RedRyder, to team with Tairen's version of Rage (xRAGEx, as opposed to Auzura's RAGE) for another trip to the Temple.
As was to be expected, the place was pretty busy, and my pair of rogues ended up alongside the mirror version of my favourite back room. On the normal side, I've often used it at around level 23 or so for its mixture of mummies and orc soldiers, but "through the looking glass" the inhabitants were orc sergeants, axemen, and the occasional fighter.
I kept going for the three hours that the Elizabuff lasted, and, as I'd hoped, managed to get Rage to level 39. This meant that the experience and skill exp per orc sergeant...well, to my surprise things stayed roughly the same, still at least 9,000 experience (with Rage still having donated 50% of her experience to the Discipline guild) and around 2,700 skill exp, which is more than a poison mist out in the desert would give. I was assuming that this would be Rage's last Prokion Temple trip - but apparently not.
In all, Rage went up by 14.64%, and donated 281 more guild points to Discipline, while RedRyder gained 9.21%, and donated 43 guild points. They each added 242 skill points. I doubt if the team-up will continue for a whole new level, but it can at least go on until RedRyder reaches level 31, which will probably mean four more morning sessions, or their equivalent.
Back in Randol, I took the opportunity to move the various useful bits of loot my Tairen characters had collected over to MistressDomino, and then sent SirGalahad back down into Maargadum Jail, to his death mask lancer on level five. I don't know if there was a connection problem, but for much of the time Gal seemed to be going through the motions without causing any damage, as if there was a bad lag spike. The pet's experience was stuck on 701/1195 for ages...and then suddenly went straight to 865, and there were some smaller jumps too.
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