Monday 5 April 2010

SirDarth at the Movies


SirDarth got through the night again safely, and continued all morning, as I wasn't able to do any actual Last Chaos fighting until after lunch. By then the pale blue horse had reached level 31, and so was technically able to be turned into a mount - though as usual I want the maximum possible attack and defence "horse buffs", which means continuing all the way to level 37.

The afternoon session saw RedRyder and Kaerella heading for the back room in Prokion Temple on Sarissa-5 again; we passed the knight TemplarRules fighting orc soldiers on the way to our room, and before long he reported that he'd reached level 24. He doesn't use spaces in his messages, he uses full stops ("periods") instead, which.can.be.hard.to.get.used.to.

We just managed to reach our target of 541 skill points each with the three-hour Elizabeth's Enhancement counting down its final seconds; by then RedRyder was almost halfway into level 35, having gone up 80.26% and donated 873 more guild points. Kaerella had added 52.89% and 132 guild points. And then it was time to log SirDarth back in for a little more pet-levelling.

After the food break, Kaerella spent all her skill points on the final available level of expert armoursmith, the last level of advanced alchemy, and all three levels of expert alchemy - so she just had the gathering and processing skills to work on now. Then it was time to "die off" her 52.89% experience, and get back to the start of level 27 again, so she went to Maargadum Jail, and let the dire spike canines do the job. It was mainly "double deaths", including, as sometimes happens, a death from which she couldn't be revived - but by then the experience was down to 0%, so I just needed to log her out.

RedRyder was able to learn the level 32 passive skill Mind Training now, since she had the necessary 12 stat points in Constitution. Spending 276 skill points increased her magical resistance (evasion from magical attacks) by 25; she also spent 150 skill points on Reinforce 2, increasing her physical attack by 62, which is useful. SirDarth had a pandora's box by him at around that time - this time no beast was unleashed, the box just yielded 50,000 gold.

The main evening session involved RedRyder and Kaerella again. The back room was in use when I arrived, so I moved around a bit, including visiting its mirror equivalent, but it seemed hard to find enough orc axemen and orc sergeants close enough together to keep busy, and after about sixty skill points I arrived back where I'd started, and was relieved to find the back room vacant. A titan who had been fighting in the corridor did follow me in, but pretty soon decided that either the place was a bit high for him, or that there was only room for me, so things proceeded smoothly after that. I managed to get Red and Kae 376 skill points each; RedRyder went up by another 51.67%, and 600 guild points, while Kaerella added 36.15% and got 90 guild points.

Kaerella spent her skill points on the three levels of advanced mining, plus all the levels of herbalism except the third advanced one, and both levels of basic absorption. That experience gain gets RedRyder pretty close to level 36, so this particular team-up won't be able to continue for all that much longer, as they need to be within ten levels of each other for a combat party and Kae can't go beyond level 27 until all the special skills are done... though work on Sarissa will be "on hiatus" when the Cariae server has its special extra experience and skill exp event. I'll be rather busy over there with Kaerella, Barbarienne, and Keerella I guess, especially if experience boosters work properly with the event's extra experience gain.

There was another trivia quiz tonight, in the same vein as the "Sci-Fi" one last week, so SirDarth went along to the Cariae quiz at 9:30 UK time. This was to be a general movie quiz, and I wanted to get at least one question right, so that I'd have a chance to mention that the three PBIs Darth won last time had been lost in the roll-back. As things went, I did better than that; some questions were so hard that nobody managed an answer, others were a matter of being the fastest typist, and I managed to be the first to fill in the ".... and the Temple of Doom" blank with "Indiana Jones", got the remake of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" just from the basic plot description, from a half-remembered trailer got that Paul Blart was the main character in "Mall Cop", guessed "Summer Rental"... I was actually the first person to type in "The Mask", but Kali allowed the person who'd quickly just typed "Mask" to win that one.

So, when the winners were teleported to a far corner of the Juno map, with the elder drakes close by, I did get a chance to say that I'd won three PBIs last week, but had lost them to the roll-back - and another winner, Vimto, mentioned that he'd won some then, and of course lost them, too. We didn't get any "refund", though, but winning four platinum blessed irises is a pretty good reward anyway. Comparing notes afterwards, Vimto only got his winnings for tonight, too. Kali didn't spawn any hands of loot for everyone this time, I assume she could only have done that before moving to the drakes...all the spamming of "comedy" answers and other remarks had probably given her a bit of a headache. And she still had another four servers to go, poor girl...

Meanwhile, of course, SirDarth's namesake over on Sarissa had been busy with a bit of pet-levelling, and by the end of the evening had got Kaerella's mount-to-be past the halfway mark in level 31.

We seem, sadly, rather short of "proper" events this week, like Mad Monster Spawns and Storm the Castle; the best tomorrow can offer is spectating at another GM versus GM battle at the Dratan arena, when two male GMs will face off against two of our fighting females. Oh well, if the lag doesn't get too bad it could be fun for a few minutes. Wednesday just has a small number of people playing "rock paper scissors", by whispering their choice to a GM, so that can, I think, be safely ignored. There was a slight chance of either a MMS or StC on Friday, but only if people voted for that option on the forum... when I looked, a pet experience event was well in the lead.

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