The overnight pet-levelling didn't entirely work out, as a disconnection came up at around the three hour mark. Rather than restart the game, it seemed like a good idea to give the computers, modem, and connection a rest until morning - and SirDarth duly restarted his work at around breakfast time, with still perhaps six hours of work to do before the pale blue horse reached level 37.
After coffee, Keerella and Barbarienne headed for the Tomb of Theos again, for another six-hour session. Like yesterday, Keerella took the lead, on the newer computer, but today the strategy was different, and Barb didn't just stand in the corner with SkrappY equipped, occasionally doing a Heal if needed - she fought too, with her drake equipped.
This could have slowed down Kee a little, certainly there were times when I didn't keep using Terra Spear as much as usual; Kee was on the newer computer, using the four potions and experience boosters, but she must have been killing just about as quickly as 208 xpbs got used. That probably means that there were less people competing for the anubis spear men today; certainly there were times when the room was busy and I did have to wait for a respawn, or even kill a sphinx fighter, without an xpb, just to keep busy, but there were times when I had the room to myself, or was only sharing it with one other spear man killer.
Barbarienne concentrated on the sphinx fighters, without using boosters or potions - I don't know if it was a fluke, but the one time she did fight a spear man, early on, she came very close to getting killed, which shows that the potions are useful, with the extra armour from the power potion, as well as boosts to attack power and speed. It was sometimes handy to have Barb able to take on a sphinx fighter that had decided to attack Kee while she was battling a spear man, but generally she kept busy, though with little pauses when the sphinx fighter died. Over the six hours Barb just added 18.40%, but at level 101 that can't be bad for a freebie. Barb's drake gained 5257 pet points, and her activities helped to boost the amount of skill experience gained, so that both she and Kee added 161 skill points.
Keerella does now actually have enough skill points for the first four levels of the level 70 skill, Chaos Nova, which she has previously passed on...or maybe some more recent skill levels would be more useful, I must investigate.
Kee went up by 158.45%, with her drake adding 6078 pet points. It was a close thing as to whether she'd reach level 97 or not, her potions had ended their countdowns when she was on the 99% mark, but their "overtime" lasted just long enough, which made a satisfactory end to another marathon session. Well, we do need to take full advantage of the 600% experience and skill exp running on the Cariae server while it lasts, right?
The level 103 knight elijah had been around before, and kindly given me a few magical attack minerals and Remedies; and today she had a combat party going, so Kee and Barb gave up their own one, and joined, well, hers, since elijah made plain in the party chat that she was a female, based in Japan. Some of our combat party were in the commander room, with the rest of us with the anubis spear men. I got the impression that the commander room was pretty busy - I still think the spear men are better for me, for quicker levelling... and if I do use more xpbs per hour, well, I don't have to use a health stealer, which probably costs as much as five boosters. And I don't have to walk nonchalantly around the middle of the room, trying to tempt a sphinx commander to drop down on me from the ceiling...
After the eventual early evening food break, it was time for Kaerella to have her turn, outdoors in sunny Dratan's uplands with the sphinx speer men and (outdoor) sphinx fighters. But first Kaerella had three quests to do - two of which she had got the openings of before, but they had been "rolled back". So Kae rode down from Dratan City, past Prokion Temple, to the Temple of Forgetfulness, or Forgotten Temple, carefully getting its entrance onto her memory scroll, since, as with Prokion, it is possible that the teleportation inside may misfire, leaving you only with the options of logging out or using a return-to-town scroll.
I took things pretty carefully; legendary slayers have a strong magical attack, and the local spiders are protective of them, so I did them in two goes, moving back outside to re-apply horse buffs when necessary. So that was the legendary slayer quest done, with seven heads gathered - and also the quest to gather spider webs completed, as well. I had to re-buff then and run further in, to "slay 5 hadian brothers", which turned out to mean that I had to kill five curd hadians, and five twin hadians as well. By not hurrying, and waiting for ones in less dangerous positions to respawn, I managed to complete that quest too - though I don't want to get the quest rewards until just before the end of the current event.
Elvastar was providing my solo party, and had already moved to the sphinx types, so that when I arrived he was fighting them, though even in his knight-type sorcerer form he was avoiding the elite. He soon had to go afk to help get his children ready for bed, though, so, in our combat arrangement, just sat in a safe position, at level 61 boosting the experience I got per kill nicely. Even after Kaerella levelled up to level 69, each elite sphinx speer man still averaged more than 4 million experience, or 16 million or so with an xpb used.
Kae's brief outing to the Forgotten Temple had brought in 3.69% experience and 18 skill points; the main evening session provided another 106.22%, plus 97 skill points and 1306 pet points, with 71 experience boosters used. But at 8:15pm, UK time, it was time to get ready for the Sunday Quiz.
SirDarth had been at work pet-levelling on Sarissa-4 while Kae had been on; they were replaced by MistressDomino, and the local Kaerella, on Tairen-2, while Elvastar and LeopardKnight went to Cariae-2's quiz room. The quiz had the usual questions, though there was a glitch just before halfway, which Elva confirmed afterwards was the same on his server. One question came up, and two seconds later was replaced by a different question, the now-obsolete one about [GM]Krash being in charge of the "Pharaoh's Treasure" event. We all went along with the "yes" answer, since that used to be true, and survived (though the doors were open, with latecomers and people who'd been kicked out running back in)... and then there was a gap of a couple of minutes before the questions resumed.
Anyway, we all got through to the end, and received our usual rewards, with [GM]Kali apologising for the glitch. Kae traded her moonstones and heaven stones to MD, and then they both logged out, with SirDarth logging back in and returning to Merac on Sarissa-4, and my Cariae cleric Kaerella going back to Cariae-4.
Luckily Elvastar was available for a combat party again, and quickly joined me at the sphinx spot, while on his other computer LeopardKnight was trying to get the best possible price for his newly-acquired heaven stones. This wasn't a very long session, as I needed to log out at around 9:40, but Kaerella added a further 40.40%, which was enough to get her into level 70, and 42 more skill points, while using another 29 xpbs. Back in town, she was able to spend 1450 skill points on her level 70 skill, Mark of Despair, which acts like a mall-bought damage booster in that it doubles the damage of the next attack. So, despite adding 157 skill points this evening, she ended the day down by 1293. Still, it is an interesting skill to get, and makes a change from all the healing ones.
Right at the end of the session, SirDarth got the pale blue horse to level 37, so once Kae had logged out on Cariae, her namesake on Sarissa was able to log in, and get the horse traded across from Darth. She then mounted it, so is yet another Kaerella who rides a pale blue horse... After that, Darth went to Lorraine and Jajan with a pan flute, and got himself a brand-new pony to start training.
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