For actual proper playing, I was always only going to have an active evening session today, but I could at least get the assorted characters their thirty minutes each of playing time during the morning. MistressDomina started off on the older computer, before letting RedRackham take over there for some pet-levelling, and the newer computer worked its way through the others.
In the afternoon, I let ColonelScarlet on Katar-4 do some pet-levelling of his level 39 pink drake, while RedRackham continued his work on Auzura-4 - and sending ColonelScarlet out was a bit of a mistake, it turned out, because when I checked on him, some evil little scrote, probably serina's local character (the mage of that name, last encountered on July 1st doing exactly the same thing, is on Sarissa), had lured a big group of aggressive gnoll soldiers onto the Colonel. Sadly the drake was already dead, though ColonelScarlet's health was keeping up pretty well... a trip back to Randol was needed to unseal the drake, costing 404,586 gold - almost all the gold he had.
RedRackham had a successful time, though, and got his pale blue horse to level 37; he was also carrying a level 39 drake, so switched over to working on that for the rest of the afternoon. Since I couldn't keep a close watch, ColonelScarlet logged out - and SirGalahad over on Tairen logged on instead. He had a level 8 dragon hatchling, which could do with a bit of a boost; Gal doesn't have a red name though, so the gnoll lancers weren't for him, instead he needed to head for a death mask lancer on level five of Maargadum Jail on Tairen-4. Before he logged out, he got the hatchling up to level 10.
The computer had to be restarted, the antivirus decided, so that ended SirGalahad's session. After things were sorted out, I decided to log in Barbarienne on Katar, a level 10 healer, to check something out... and that was, how teaming up a level 10 character with Kaerella, on level 38, would work, in Prokion Temple, as someone in the shoutbox had recommended that sort of party. While having Kae fight an orc sergeant within range of where Barb was standing did give some useful skill experience, it seemed a bit risky - and, although Barb of course was "capped", she did start to add experience quite quickly, and I'd not want her to go above level ten without bringing the Guardian system into things.
Kaerella did add 0.75% and 13 guild points, plus 10 skill points, but generally Prokion Temple is probably a bit too crowded for one to be able to rely on fighting orc sergeants within range of the lobby. Still, it was an interesting experiment.
My mage Keerella logged in on Cariae-5 next, and made a solo party with RedRackham, since he does exist on both Cariae and Auzura; he headed out to the gnoll lancers to work on his level 41 drake. Kee headed for the Tomb of Theos; after a couple of screaming zombies, I did check out the ancient grey mummy room, but it seemed rather crowded, and, while the skill exp is, as previously mentioned, good there, this time it seemed to take even longer to kill a mummy, and Kee took rather a lot of damage while doing so.
So, I returned to the screaming zombies, which die comparatively quickly. From six to eight o'clock, UK time, we actually had double experience and skill exp, which was great, recently it has always just been 50% extra. The place was fairly busy, and I got a few requests from people who wanted to "ks", to get a bit of experience by attacking the zombie that was focussed on me. I had a couple of archers, a specialist sorcerer and a rogue at one stage; the archer PablossPL stayed the longest, and used a platinum blessed iris or two, so levelled up a few times. I always warn people not to go too far forward, as the screaming zombies can respawn in the first few yards of the corridor, not just in the main room, but people always seem to end up in the dangerous area.
Angelicity was there for a while, soloing the zombies, but the mage Materia had quite a long and successful session, going from level 36 to 42 she told me - she was a phoenix character, her main is level 106, and she had not just +15 armour, but a large polar bear pet, which gave a good stun to use... she had a fairly large jaguar pet too, though she wasn't as successful using that.
There was a general mass disconnection on Cariae-5 at around 8:30, UK time - a rather unusual one in that it was pretty much instantaneous, rather than leaving characters standing around for a minute or two before finally getting the bad news. Logging back in was trouble-free too, no "the account is already in use" delays - very strange. Some people apparently found that they were glitched and couldn't join a party after they logged back in, as they were "already in one"... Kee had a blank second party member showing, but when RedRackham logged back in (without a blank second party member) he didn't reappear there, the blank stayed blanked out. Kee hit the "leave party" option, and then they were able to remake the solo party, after Red registered for it.
Angelicity went off to farm some skill exp rather than return, but PablossPL got back to the Tomb even quicker than Kee did, and we continued for another hour or so. By the end, Keerella had added 3.20%, 29 skill points, and 3092 pet points, which shows it was quite a long session. PablossPL had tried to give Keerella a reward for helping her, but, while I'm happy to get a few health pots or level six minerals, what she tried to trade to me was 95 level 12 magical attack minerals, which seemed to me to be way over the top.
Checking my email, I had some good news to finish the day with - the master stones I'd qualified for had been safely applied to MistressDomina's staff, over on Auzura. Her g5 level 85 staff is now +19, and has, for its attack stats, a quick look showed me, 545 + 1308 +50, compared to Keerella's +15 one which gives 545 + 879 +50 - MD's magical attack stat is now 2427, compared to Kee's 2059. I looked at some items that Roy's merchant mart has for sale, and MistressDomina's level 85 staff is actually slightly better than a level 109 +14 one, which gives 755 + 1120... though a level 109 +15 staff would come out ahead.
Cariae's RedRackham continued to level his drake, getting it almost halfway through level 41, though it gets through quality stones at an alarming rate now. When Red was heading back to the gnoll lancers after the disconnection, a titan called Daygoro asked him about ks-ing, which for a pet-leveller means someone deliberately coming along and killing your target monster, so that your character just stands around doing nothing until you return to your keyboard, which can be hours later. "Someone is going around in Merac killing our pet-levellers and their mobs", he reported, and went on to say that for about the last two weeks someone has been going around Merac three or four times a day, doing this. I'd thought that Cariae was a pretty safe server for pet-levellers, but apparently not... Daygoro is eager to find out who is doing it; I do hope that the evil serina hasn't trained up a character on Cariae to join her others, that would be bad news.
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