Both Galahad on Cariae-5 and SirDarth on Sarissa-4 had successful overnight pet-levelling sessions, so that by morning Gal's drake had reached 35, and Darth's horse was halfway through level 34, so that was a satisfactory result to wake up to.
SirDarth's horse had reached 66% of the way through that level when it was time to log off from that server, and restart over on Hatzring-5 - so that LordDarth there could have a morning session.
LordDarth started by getting some quality stones, which he'll need when he reaches pet-leveller status. He had acquired 42 tool aids, so he bought 40 knight-type pickaxes from Geres, and went out to the mine north-east of town, where 41 pickaxes, including his original one, yielded him a useful 1,107 quality stones. He used his one knife to gather 27 green herbs, as well.
Having remembered to get the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, Darth teleported to Randol, where the quest reward for getting five cracked axes added around 9% experience. As he'd now got both the quests that involve killing desert spiders, he teleported to Prokion Temple, and then killed a few spiders nearby, to get those quests done, before going in.
LordDarth had managed to join a solo party, but when he approached my favourite back room in the temple, he found it was occupied - by another party member, GregoryHouse. So I quickly got off his radar, and went to the nearby corridor room, where the orc sergeants, and a few axemen, were ready and waiting.
The idea was to get Darth to level 29, so that he'd be able to equip his level 33 +10 dual swords - and we got there safely. Darth had added 74.86% in all, and gone up by 127 skill points.
There was a little time left before lunch, so MistressDomino over on Auzura had a look through Roy's new merchant mart stock, in case someone was selling a "b5e" +15 piece of the 85/87 rogue armour set that I could afford. I was a little bit tempted by a hood, selling for 450 million... it didn't have evasion bloodseals, instead it had four offering a little extra defence, plus a fifth that apparently decreases mana consumption by 30%.
Galahad continued the drake-levelling on Cariae-5, and as lunchtime approached, SirDarth on Sarissa-4 got back to work too, until it was time to begin an afternoon session.
My phoenix rogue on Cariae-5, RedRydeR, was able to form a solo party with Galahad and, while he continued to work on levelling his drake, Red headed back to Prokion Temple. The session was a slightly short one, but Red still managed to add 6.81% and 79 guild points, plus 317 skill points. Red was now a quarter of the way through level 35, so this bit of sp-farming is slow going, but teaming her with a lower-level character once we reach level 36 should speed things up.
The reason for the afternoon session's slightly early end was that I wanted to be back on for 5:00pm after the food break, as the "tea time" bonus of an extra 50% skill experience for two hours was due to start then. It seemed to me that RedRydeR was best placed to benefit from that, so she returned to Prokion Temple. This time the place was rather busier, and the back room and corridor room were both in use. With Red's level 37 +15 crossbow, the "mirror" back room didn't seem to respawn its orcs fast enough, so I ended up in an axemen and sergeants room just off the central upstairs gallery, so that, if I ran out of orcs there, I could get a few from outside.
The "tea time" started a few minutes late, and I think it ended a bit early, but the extra 50% skill exp, adding on to the extra 100% from the Elizabuff, did mean that for ninety minutes or so the orc sergeants gave 5500 skill exp instead of 4400 (on a base of 2200), and the orc axemen half that, so it was useful. I continued on for a while after the event ended, and RedRydeR ended up with another 8.56%, moving her on from a quarter to a third of the level, 100 guild points, and 488 skill points, making it a pretty worthwhile session.
After that, Galahad finally logged off, with his drake three levels higher than when he logged on yesterday, and, over on Auzura-4, my level 71 archer Kaerella and my level 64 wizard MistressDomina made an equal party, and spent some time, unboosted, with the elite sphinx speer man and his cohorts. Kae added 2.23% and MD added 3.83%, and they each added 11 skill points, so that was a bit minor, and shows that Kae has rather outgrown that particular spot. Next time MistressDomina goes there, she'll be back to doing her own fighting and using health potions, with MrChuckNorris to assist.
I would have stayed longer, but a "hide and seek" event was due on Katar-5. SirDarth took the opportunity to log in on the older computer, on Sarissa-4, and do a little more work on his horse, which ought to reach level 35 before close-down tonight, while, on Katar-5, Kaerella, who is level 32 there now, logged in.
The "event" was very peculiar. It was announced on time, and the announcement was repeated a few minutes later: "Is everyone ready to hunt for treasure? There are 12 spots on the Juno map. 11 of these spots have monsters and 1 of the spots has monsters and treasures! Be sure to look carefully everywhere you go. Don't waste time though, the treasure" ... and the message was left uncompleted, though I assume the treasure would vanish if not picked up.
So, I rode around Juno for thirty minutes, but only ever saw one monster, a fluton, which I avoided. If there were eleven other spots, well, I didn't find them, and neither did the two people that I was, after a while, in a party with. On the feeling that the GM involved would have moved on to Cariae-5 by 9:30, UK time, I logged out. There had been no announcements of the location coordinates, or that the treasure had been found, making it all a bit of, well, a non-event, not in the same class as a "Pharaoh's Treasure" adventure.
Oh well, at least Kaerella had a chance to open a few Pandora's Boxes as she rode around. One dropped ten small health potions, and another dropped 20,000 gold, so things weren't a total loss - and it is quite fun to gallop around Juno, even if one has no idea where one should be going.
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