When RedRackham returned to the gnoll lancers on Cariae-4 before breakfast, I found that the Carnival was over - the pet experience was only going up one point at a time. Still, Red continued his work on his drake, from halfway through level 40. A little later LordDarth went back to Maargadum Jail in Merac on Hatzring-4; his drake had just reached level 20 before logging out last night, so had three hours or so to go before its next level would be reached.
My preparations for my day out tomorrow were well enough advanced for me to fit in an afternoon playing session today, although the break after it, before the evening session, looked likely to be a fairly long one. Both LordDarth and RedRackham got disconnected over lunch, but afterwards I logged RedRackham back in, this time on Cariae-5, so that he could supply a solo party for SirKit, who logged in on the main computer.
It wasn't a long session; SirKit went out to the sphinx fighters and sphinx speer men, and only fought the elite sphinx speer man once, at the end. He got his new level 60 gloves bloodsealed - and added 19.25% experience, 21 skill points, and 658 pet points. The sphinx types seemed to prefer to attack Kit's drake, and a lot of green herb leaves were used up.
My level 24 rogue on Hatzring, RedRyder, then went out to Dratan, and did the "Not To Be Confused" quest, which meant killing fifteen dark goddesses, or "Ramians". She then went on to Shuraine's oasis to try to get some soft sand - though at her level, and without horse buffs, the sand golems hit pretty hard. There wasn't time to get all ten soft sands needed, but her hatchling got 233 pet points from the session, and she got 20 skill points - plus a little experience that will probably need to be got rid of by a few "suicide runs" eventually.
The evening session lasted the whole length of the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, for Kaerella, my level 34 archer on Katar. As the back room in Prokion Temple was in use, I went to the nearby corridor room, which has a slightly higher ratio of sergeants to axemen. There was a "mystery event" due during the evening, but when it was finally revealed on the website, it turned out to be just a Happy Hour, starting at 8:00pm UK time...a happy hour that lasts for two whole days. Now, that might have been good news, but all it offered was 50% extra experience, which isn't exactly ideal if one is trying to farm skill points. The web page gave its location as Juno, which might have been a reasonable idea, to help low-level people along, but I noticed after a while that Kaerella's experience gain was increased...and Prokion Temple is part of the Dratan map.
There were only minor interruptions to Kaerella's efforts, people who came in, ks'd a bit or fought the other orcs, and then moved along. One rogue did ask for a party, but as they were a good few levels lower than Kae, they'd have boosted Kae's experience gain too much. A number of people were wearing the Uncle Sam top hats, even though they don't contribute any defence. It seems that they can be socketed, though...
Kaerella did equip her drake, since the majority of her targets, the orc sergeants, were green-named, and so managed to add 2031 pet points during the evening, just enough to get the drake into level 26. The Elizabuff was about to run out then... but it lasted long enough for Kae to reach level 35. In all, helped along for much of the time by the Happy Hour, Kaerella added 41.29%, along with 372 guild points - and 533 skill points, taking her past the 17k mark.
The shoutbox had been moderately busy, though I'd only lurked, not got involved. Some people were complaining about their guild master's inability to change the time of a castle siege, and getting annoyed that there were no gamesages or game masters around... eventually Liof and BelovedDude turned up, and later [GM]Yatou dropped in for a while, confirming that they were working hard on the master stones, and that they ought to finish those some time this coming week. They seem to be hoping to cure the bug that is stopping people melding old-style costume covers to their armour during the next maintenance.
RedRackham had kept busy, levelling his drake, and by late in the evening it was almost a quarter of the way through level 41, and starting to get rather hungry. I think that is as far as we go with that drake - I wonder which of my Cariae characters can make the best use of it?
Tomorrow I'll only be able to play, or indeed have the computers switched on, in the evening, so there won't be much more to report on than the Sunday Quiz. Let us hope that that runs smoothly.
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