SirDarth got his new pony up to level ten by soon after breakfast time, having worked through the night, which seemed good to me. As coffee time approached, though, as usual recently he had to relinquish his spot, to allow Keerella and Barbarienne to head for the Tomb of Theos.
The team-up was very much the same as yesterday, with Keerella in the lead, using the four hour-long potions and experience boosters while she fought the anubis spear men, and Barbarienne, not using potions, fighting the sphinx fighters. The difference was that, this being a Monday and not the weekend, the place was quieter, and occasionally we had the place to ourselves - while there were times when Kee did have to wait for the spear men to respawn, it didn't happen very often.
The knight elijah did arrive in the morning, and joined the combat party, but ran out of experience boosters before very long, and so had to go off and farm swamp trolls, to earn some more money. She stayed in the party while doing that for a few minutes, but then had to log out. Apparently she isn't just based in Japan, she is Japanese; she prefers the Aeria version of Last Chaos to the local one though. The rogue JustMe7 was around later, and a team of a night shadow and a knight got in the way for both of us a bit.
My duo managed their six hours safely; Barbarienne added 19.51% for her efforts, along with 5263 pet points, which got her drake into level 44. Keerella, using all her valuable boosts, including 221 xpbs, added 135.43%, along with 6057 pet points for her drake, Greedo, and so ended the session comfortably into level 98... and they each added 181 skill points, which was pretty good going.
I had bought a "phoenix ticket" from Roy's merchant mart for ten million gold, which was less than I had been expecting, though elijah assured me later that that was the standard Cariae price now. Barbarienne then put it away in her storage chest... and after the early evening food break, I used the empty slot on Barb's account to make a new rogue, RedRydeR. It seems that "RedRyder" as a name has already been used by someone, as has "RedRider", but making the final letter a capital got me close enough.
This seemed the perfect time to start a new character who, with any luck, can be made into a "phoenix" type. Red levelled up a couple of times in the starter dungeon, which with the 600% experience gain was hardly surprising. Once she was out in Randol, she took the phoenix ticket out of storage, to keep in her inventory - as I understand it, she needs to speak to the phoenix NPC before she reaches level 30, to become the special kind of character, but before then I need to farm as many skill points as I can.
RedRackham, a pet-leveller knight of mine and the guild master of ForceWithin, recruited RedRyder into that guild, and immediately froze her experience gain to 50%, to allow her to get a start on amassing the necessary skill points. As I expected, the "Elizabeth's Enhancement" buff didn't seem to stack with the 600%, but no doubt its boost to one's attack power was still working. Keerella logged back in to become Red's Guardian... and once all that was sorted out, Kaerella logged in on the older computer.
We ended up with Kae and Elvastar out with the sphinx types, as on previous evenings, but Kae only did some sporadic fighting there, and only did one full-on horse buff session, using three experience boosters while killing the elite sphinx speer man, which she otherwise left alone. Despite the low level of activity generally, Kamira did show up - but I wasn't able to deal with her, as a surprise "Storm the Castle" event had been announced by [GM]Darasuum, and Barbarienne was about to get rather busy down at Merac Castle.
This "StC" wasn't a double event, like the other one recently on Cariae, though at the end the GM did say that he had doubled up the monsters for us, and that I believe - there were even two of the invisible blue dragons, blood shadows, in the inner courtyard. I don't think he doubled up the loot, but there did seem a satisfying amount to pick up in the inner courtyard at the end...probably because there weren't a huge number of people there.
RedRyder had been doing her early levels before Barb took over, in a solo party with another of Elva's characters, Thabitha - they were in Cariae-5, while Kae and Elva were in Cariae-4. Red returned to action after the StC was over - but it wasn't long before the other half of the double bill was announced, a low-level mad Monster Spawn, so, as level 9 was perhaps a bit too low-level, Red bowed out, and Karella, my level 27 rogue, teleported down to the usual location. Thabitha was there too, and agreed afterwards that the loot had been good, at the end; the fighting had followed the usual pattern, and Karella actually levelled up.
RedRyder continued after that, going to Velpist Temple at level 10 to fight the wandering zombies, and then at level 13 heading out into Dratan to get Prokion Temple onto her memory scroll.
Despite only having a level 13 crossbow, and still wearing the level 1 starter gloves, boots and pants, Red stayed at Prokion Temple, fighting the level 17 ghouls and level 19 mummies - and by the time I logged out had reached level twenty, with 524 skill points to spend the next time she logs on.
RedRydeR has now completed the Guardian system, which means that she gets the "event weapon", though that is daggers rather than a crossbow. Keerella gets ten more reputation points, which should move her up to number 31 on Cariae's Reputation rankings - unless the healer alisa, a level 165 member of the Outlaws guild, has another success today...
So, how far can RedRyder get tomorrow, the final day of the 600% experience and skill exp event on Cariae? If I take her to Prokion Temple, instead of Kee and Barb to the Tomb, I'll need to maximise all her skills, at either level 20 or 21, which is sure to involve a lot of "suicide runs" to get rid of unwanted experience, once earned skill points are spent. Just how far can one get in one day, I wonder?
Kaerella added just 19.13% out with Elvastar and the sphinx types, along with 58 skill points, and a little gold
SirDarth logged on for a little more pet-levelling in the late evening on Sarissa-4, though he isn't doing an overnight session - for one thing, the last two pandora's boxes he has opened there have released a pair of level 50 pandora's beasts, so he's a little way off to the side from his usual position, with the two beasts prowling around uncomfortably close by. Still, the pony is on course to reach level 13 before Darth logs out, which is good progress.
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