The pet-levelling started again at breakfast time, with LordDarth heading down into Maargadum Jail once more. After coffee though he had to stop, so that RedRydeR and SirKit, over on Cariae-5, could head back out to Prokion Temple.
SirKit was, at level 27, eleven levels behind RedRydeR, so the party had to be an equal one, and we kept it that way, so that SirKit could catch up a bit, to get closer to just ten levels behind. That meant Red gained experience a bit more slowly, but still got as much skill exp as usual. The back room was in use, so Red and Kit ended up in the corridor room close by, which doesn't have quite enough orcs in it to be ideal, but does have a slightly better ratio of the higher-level sergeants to the axemen.
By the end of the session, RedRyder had added 25.12%, and SirKit had added 62.47%, since the levels he is going through currently are a bit shorter than Red's. SirKit also earned 188 guild points for Cariae's version of the Discipline guild, and they each got 277 skill points, which were enough to get RedRydeR back up over the 21k mark again, after spending so many on skills yesterday.
Over lunch, LordDarth went back to Jail, and got his pet into level 16, so that the cute little pony is now a good big horse. Its Sympathy was now approaching 100% again, too. There was some searching around for the various armour pieces I need too, when I got back to the computer, but there wasn't anything suitable available.
Then RedRydeR and SirKit went back to the Temple. This time, the place was getting crowded, so I ended up in the "mirror" half's back room, which meant that most of the time Red had two orc soldiers hitting away at her while she ignored them - they still give a little experience, but, at level 23, only 2 skill exp. Red and Kit were in a combat party, so RedRydeR went up a bit more this time, adding 33.76%, while SirKit added just 16.64%, and donated 52 guild points. And they each added 283 skill points, which shows that the session was only slightly longer than the morning one. We stopped with Red on 99% of her level, so that a combat party could still be made, with it requiring no more than ten levels between members at the start.
Over the early evening food break LordDarth's horse reached level 17 - but then it was time for the team-up of SirKit and RedRydeR to continue, probably for the last time in Prokion Temple. This time I was lucky, and the back room was free - whoever had been using it had only left recently, as there was still some loot on the floor, including a drake egg, though I think one of the gold drops vanished as I went to pick it up.
It wasn't a hugely long session, as the Sunday Quiz was due, this actually being Sunday, at 8:30pm, UK time. Still, RedRydeR managed to put on an extra 25.01%, quickly levelling up to 39, while SirKit, in the combat party and remaining on 28, added 19.04%, along with 59 guild points. And they each got 275 skill points, so that Red has got back almost all the sp she spent on those three new skills yesterday.
At eight o'clock, though, an announcement came up that, for the next 24 hours, the cap on experience gain was being raised to 500%. This led to much discussion in the forum shoutbox as to what would stack - unfortunately someone soon reported that a platinum blessed iris (200% extra experience for an hour) still wouldn't "stack" with a blessed iris (100% extra for three hours), but 10-minute scrolls giving an extra 50% seemed to work apparently. In theory an "elixir" ought to work too, but apparently there is some sort of bug with that at present, sigh. So, while the announcement might have seemed exciting, it was a bit of a damp squib... and people who thought the announcement meant that there was to be an actual 600% experience event were sadly disappointed.
Some people were disappointed with the Quiz too, as it started with the old "Does [GM]Krash run the 'Pharaoh's Treasure' event?" Us old-timers are used to going for "yes" on that, even though Krash left Aeria Games months ago, but some quiz rooms were apparently a bit literal-minded, and opted for "no", and so got kicked out for giving, in effect, the right answer. [GM]Stratos in the shoutbox did assure us that the question would never appear again, anyway.
Over on Auzura-2, people were vowing to avoid last week's mass expulsion, and I helpfully commented that Dratan does have just five oases in its desert. I think almost everyone got through to the end and got all their prizes, so we at least were happy. There were still some people who seemed to be able to stay in even if they were on the wrong side, so either there is an exploit going on, or it was just a lag effect. I was hoping to see Elvastar, or his knight Ratel, there, but there was no sign of him.
After the quiz I decided to take RedRydeR and SirKit to Maargadum Jail, just to fight the spike canines and dire spike canines on the ground floor. They give slightly more experience to my duo than the orcs now, but a lot less skill exp. It was an equal party, so while Red added 8.52%, SirKit gained 21.21%, levelling up to 29, and earned 74 guild points. They only got 16 skill points each, though. At least fighting white-named foes meant that Red got a few drops, including a hand of the warrior and some bits of armour, which, as often happens in Maargadum, were ready-plussed a bit.
A rogue or two appeared after a while, and an archer, and the area got a bit busy. There was a knight called Romancy who I'm sure was in an armour set beyond the 30/32 set, but, even fighting single canines, or perhaps having an aggressive dire spike canine come in, he did seem to get through a lot of health potions, and not small ones, while RedRydeR didn't have to use any. SirKit stayed well back near the teleporter - but did lose a lot of health once, when someone running back brought a mob of canines with them. When the player teleported out, poor Kit was the nearest person for them to turn their attention too, so he was probably lucky to survive.
LordDarth went back to Hatzring-4's Maargadum Jail after that for a little more work on his horse, but that was the end of the excitement for today. [GM]Kali was down to do a Hide & Seek event later on, but even the first server didn't start that until ten, UK time, and I'm never any good at finding hidden game masters or game sages. There was a strange twist to the event - after you'd found Kali, and got your prize, "you have the opportunity to take off your armor and challenge GM Kali to a fight! If she kills you, you have the chance to win 100 Chaos Balls!
" I love that "if" bit... and how is the "chance" done? All strange stuff! Tomorrow evening there will be a "dungeon run", but it is set for Misty Canyon, and from some unfortunate experiences there back when [GM]Beatrice was battling to prevent the Gate of Shadows from opening, I know that Rage and Barbarienne are both too low to survive there for very long.
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