Another Cancelled Event

Once again, my time during the day was generally taken up with preparing for the weekend, so any proper playing had to be reserved for the evening. Still, the usual rota of characters put in their half hours online to maintain their attendance bonus, and RedRackham did some useful pet-levelling work with his level 39 drake.

RedRackham does get through the quality stones rather quickly now, however, so his supplies needed replenishing. So, MrChuckNorris did some stone mining with tool aids, and then rode down to where Red was fighting his gnoll lancer, and traded across 800 quality stones, as well as his supplies of imperfect and flawed stones. Such altruism may be rewarded, as I noticed that Chuck's own drake was then a level behind Red's, so he would benefit from an exchange of drakes at some point.

The drake reached level 40 just before the early evening food break, with the usual vertical light show. Once the break was over, though, it was time for RedRackham to log out and MistressDomina to log in, on Auzura-5, and, accompanied by my junior wizard MistressBlaze, head for the Tomb of Theos.

It was a fun session, and a lengthy one. I had been toying with the idea of going to the scheduled event after a couple of hours in the Tomb - it was to be a "players versus GMs" thing in the arena, so I thought perhaps MistressSabina with her witchy skills might be useful. However, it was cancelled on all servers, and we were given a few hours of 75% extra experience instead. bad news for skill point farmers, but useful for those of us in the Tomb. It seems that quite a few events have been cancelled at the last minute in recent weeks, the GMs must be rather busy.

As usual I had plenty of ks-ers, in fact the corridor eventually became a bit like a tube station in the rush hour, only with more zombies. There were a couple of occasions when a higher-level player lured a big group of zombies back on us - no problem for MistressDomina, but something MistressBlaze had to watch carefully for. And sometimes people inadvertently lured multiple zombies, or had to run for their lives leaving a thwarted zombie to wander back.

MistressBlaze did survive these problems, though there were occasions when her health did go down alarmingly. Once when some loose zombies were around she ran back towards safety, but one of the screaming zombies wasn't easily shaken off, it didn't just follow her around the corner, it went right up the steps as far as the teleporter NPC, and only at the very far end, round another corner, was MB safe. MistressDomina hurried back to deal with it; a couple of people did teleport in during the fight, it must have been a bit of a shock to see a screaming zombie there.

MistressDomina had a combat party a couple of times. One of them didn't last long... the other player changed it to a "fellowship", which apparently let her see what accessories MD was using (at least she mentioned the suction of life), and her weapon too, as she admired the staff's +19 stat. MD also let a level 31 sorcerer into an equal party for a while, after he'd pleaded continuously, as he was desperate to get to level 32 and learn the new specialist skills...she even gave him the 100,000 gold he asked for, although he'd already had some gold from having a share in the loot MD had picked up.

Anyway, MistressDomina tried to keep an eye on everything, using the terra spear attack to get the attention of wandering screaming zombies, or ones that were attacking junior members of the group. Things will slow down once MD hits 90, but, in level 89, she went up 46.24% over the course of the session without using any potions or boosters, plus 11 skill points and 3285 pet points. She picked up three heaven stones, too. MistressBlaze went up by 277.07%, taking her past the 90% mark in level 56; she didn't earn any skill points, but, although her drake wasn't equipped for all the time, it added 1316 pet points.

Back in Randol, I traded across my best level 60/62 mage armour set to MistressBlaze, though she can't wear the boots and headgear until she reaches level 57. Perhaps she can visit the sphinx types for a change to get the necessary few percent. She isn't a character with a huge amount of stashed skill points, but it will be useful to get her to at least a moderately medium-high level.

After that, RedRackham logged back on, and went back to a gnoll lancer, on Auzura-4, where another knight I've seen a few times there recently, ecinuj2, was already hard at work. Hopefully I managed enough work today to have a bit more playing time tomorrow, we will have to see how things go.