There was some more drake-levelling for RedRackham in the morning, starting from breakfast time. After coffee I started by buying up some of the level-specific platinum blessed irises on the various servers, on the feeling that this week's special offer making them just a single aeria point each is a pretty unbeatable deal, so that my characters all across the game ought to have a supply ready. There is a "tiered spender" event going on this weekend, with a master stone available for every 5,000 aeria points spent; how far I would go with that rather depended on whether or not there were any good "buy one, get one" BOGO offers later in the day, I decided.
If I did get a master stone, which is an imaginary item, a bit of a "tooth fairy" deal, you leave the weapon under your pillow and a GM sneaks in while you are asleep and replaces it with a weapon with a higher plus, what would I have it applied to? It can boost a +15 item, such as Keerella's mage staff on Cariae...or it could boost a +14 item such as Kaerella's recently-bought bow on Auzura...
There was time for a rather short morning session after spending 150 aeria points one by one, so Kaerella logged in - in this case, my level 29 archer on the Tairen server. After getting the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, Kae headed, of course, for Prokion Temple. The "corridor room" in the mirror half with the level 25 orc fighters might, I thought, be useful, but I found that they gave roughly as much experience as skill exp, which meant that Kae's experience rose a bit more quickly than I'd like, so I moved on to an orc soldier place. Since they are just level 23, Kae, while getting less skill exp per kill, got around four times as much skill exp as experience, which seemed like a good deal.
By the end of the session, Kaerella had just added 3.54% experience, along with 13 guild points for the local branch of Discipline. plus 94 skill points. Her sp-farming is in its early stages as yet, unless I start using platinum super skill pills and skill point boosters it will be many many hours before she can leave Prokion Temple behind her.
For the afternoon, SirKit logged on, got his Elizabeth's Enhancement buff on Cariae-5, and headed for Dratan. He had quests to kill ravenous larvae and masters of secret technique, so teleported down to the larvae's headquarters, which he'd cunningly added to his memory scroll when visiting the rough jaguars of the desert. It wasn't very far from there to where some of the gelatinous "masters" hang out (I imagine they must be very popular at parties, with their secret technique), so it didn't take long to get the necessary quest items from them. The reward for the two quests added up to 5.20% and 28 skill points.
Then it was a matter of heading for the sphinx types. The regular camp site location was fairly busy, so I moved along a bit. Kit was able now to wear his new level 60 gloves, but he still could take some fairly heavy damage, particularly from the sphinx speer men, who must be the monster with just about the longest-range aggro in the game. The location with the second of the elite sphinx speer men was a bit dominated by the elite himself, front and centre, so Kit spent most of the afternoon based at the other end of the cut-through. By the time the early evening food break loomed, the totals for the afternoon were 31.69%, getting to just halfway through the level, plus 63 skill points and 1044 pet points...which got his drake into level 34.
For the evening, I logged in with RedRyder - this time the Sarissa version, who was on level 38. She doesn't have masses of skill points, so, like SirKit, she'll need to be choosy about the skills she gets. Previously she had been teamed in Prokion Temple with Kaerella, but it seemed time that she got out of there, so she went out and about, doing the available quests. So, in Merac she she fought gnolls and gnoll lancers, and highlanders, and blood frenzies and doom slayers, and then after she levelled up there was a quest to kill gnoll soldiers too. In Merac, she had to run down to the poison mists, and their neighbours, the brutal deer of desert...all in all, it made for a pretty varied session. While RedRyder didn't have a horse, I saw to my relief that my Sarissa pet-leveller, SirDarth, did have a level 37 horse ready for her.
So, RedRyder reached level 39, and added 50.89%, plus 72 skill points, 42 pet points and...40 guild points? It was time for Discipline's guild master on Sarissa, SirDarth, to "unfreeze" her experience gain, so he did that, and then traded her horse across to her, which she immediately made into a level 37 mount.
On Auzura, MistressDomino checked Roy's merchant mart, looking for a good level 85 mage staff for MistressDomina. It being Sunday, the pages were rather slow to load, but I found a Judgement' Red Devil Staff +15, a green-named, five-seal one, for 750 million, being sold by MistressWarlady. So, that weapon now has a new Mistress! This weekend's special "master stone" event means that, as I stocked up mainly on two-for-the-price-of-one packs of experience boosters (the offer returned today), I qualified for two master stones... and in the end I decided that MistressDomina's new weapon would be the ideal recipient of the extra upgrading.
The Quiz was approaching, by then. There had been the regulation 30-minute notice, but now, at a quarter past the hour, with just 15 minutes to go...the doors to the quiz rooms weren't open. Our poor overworked GMs can't remember everything, i guess, but Pimorez, the gamesage in the shoutbox, managed to pass the message, from numerous people before I got there, along, and the rooms were opened just in time. Kaerella on Auzura-2 was able to tell the assembled throng around the domain merchant that the message had been passed to the GMs, and, when MistressDomino managed to be one of the first to enter, Kae could tell everyone that the doors were now truly open.
The questions were the usual set, so just about everyone got through to the end safely, as long as the event's relatively prompt start didn't take them unawares. Kae passed her prizes across to MD, and then they both logged out, with their job now done. It was nice to attend as Kaerella in the 85/87 armour set, though to reduce lag we always remove our armour during the quiz itself.
Afterwards, I logged in on the website with the MistressDomina account, and filled in my "contact us" details, to ask the GMs to do their master stone magic on MistressDomina's J
udgement' Red Devil Staff G5 +15, copying the example given so that I said "
I qualified for 2 Master Stone +1 upgrades, please apply them both to my staff". The first time I sent it I got a red "failed to send message - please try again at a later time" advisory, so I filled the form in again, after checking to see that I hadn't received an email acknowledgement, and sent it again, with a note at the end that I had already tried to send it once, but got the "failed" message. That was probably the best thing to do, as while I did after a few minutes get two auto-responses, I only got one proper email with the details I'd given. Even though the auto-replies were only five minutes apart, the ticket number had gone up by 28, so the tickets are flowing in pretty quickly at the moment.
There wasn't time for any more fighting action, and in this heat I am not at my most dynamic, but RedRackham got back into drake-levelling action for the final part of the evening, with his drake now starting to move through level 36. On the newer computer, I logged SirDarth back in, over on Sarissa-4, since he had got a level 15 hatchling under training, I'd noticed when he traded the horse across to RedRyder. As he'd done his pet-levelling before the change to a character's unarmed attack speed, he hadn't been to the gnoll lancers before, just bandits and berserkers, and Maargadum Jail, known on the Merac map as "Evil Dungeon". So, Darth ran down the road to the gnoll area, stopping to kill any triangle balls that presented themselves, and got that location onto his memory scroll. He was hitting too hard, until I unequipped the accessories that added to his strength, or "physical prowess", and his gloves, which had a bloodseal adding four to that. That meant he really was attacking bare-handed, but it got his attack down to 18. I wonder if the old nemesis of pet-levellers is still prowling on Sarissa? I'll have to be careful to keep an eye on things if Darth does any more regular sessions down there.
The shoutbox had a bit of a crisis as ten o'clock, UK time, approached, with someone spamming extremely long copied-and-pasted messages into it, usually of the various player ranking lists, using names like "youcantbanme" and "GMsuckmy--", but [GM]Stratos intervened quickly. The attack came back with two more accounts with similar names, and the last time I looked "lmaogayboygabe" was spamming, let's hope that something can be done to stop people messing up what is, really, a rather important channel of communication for us.
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