Nineteen Levels

I didn't do any actual adventuring in the morning; what I was generally doing was preparing SirKit for his awfully big adventure in the Tomb of Theos, which was due to start after lunch. I found some platinum refining stones on Cariae, in storage, and after opening a couple of dozen, was able to give SirKit the +1 and +2 ones he'd need to get his 70/72 armour up to +15. He bought some of the 1 ap platinum blessed irises, for level 61-90 folk, and MistressDomina transferred her supply of experience boosters across - Keerella contributed some platinum adrenalin and crit potions.

Once Kit was sorted out, there was a little more loot transferring, both on Cariae and Auzura, and then MistressDomino on Auzura-5 went into merchant mode. There weren't any suitable sets of leggings for MistressDomina in Roy's merchant mart, to complete her 85/87 set, but one does need to be prepared... and MrChuckNorris will need a new sword, and new armour, before long too.

MistressDomino quickly sold her hundred chaos balls, even at a price almost 20% higher than on Cariae; heaven stones seem more expensive on Auzura than on Cariae too, so they were selling slowly but steadily at 3 million each, rather than Cariae's 2.45 million.

After lunch, however, MistressDomino had to log out, as it was time for SirKit to head for the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4 and start his "power day". Kaerella went with him; as she was level 87, to his 67, she couldn't have a combat party or anything, but it seemed useful to have her around for the Encourage buff, and any necessary between-kill healing.

In fact, there wasn't a solo party available for Kit to join, so he did form a solo party with Kaerella; once he'd used the 24-hour platinum refining stones to make his armour +15, and increase his dual swords from +15 to +16, fighting the screaming zombies didn't generally hurt him at all, or if it did his accessory's "suction of life" took care of it, so Kaerella stayed back out of compass-map range, and Kit just ran back to get his Encourage buff renewed every twenty minutes.

Fighting the screaming zombies, using as well as the platinum blessed iris a platinum adrenalin and a crit potion, was speedy, but used a lot of experience boosters, almost a hundred an hour in fact. The first hour used 98 xpbs, getting SirKit up 403.22% from level 67 to level 71; the middle hour of the afternoon used another 97, to add 297.41%, so that level 74 was reached - and the third and last hour of the afternoon used 98 xpbs again, for a further 241.07%, taking Kit well into level 76.

It was unusual for me to be melee-fighting there, instead of using a ranged attack to pull a single screaming zombie out into the corridor, but Kit did okay, and seldom had to fight more than one zombie at a time. They did like to nibble his drake, however, and it seemed at times that I was getting through one green herb leaf for every other zombie. I'm afraid I was a little short with the assassin PerziaWolf, telling her to "go away", after she seemed to "ks" me on a couple of kills - she was in fact trying to help, and somehow her assistance didn't reduce the experience I got from the kill. She may have already been out of range of my apology, going deeper in in search of someone more friendly to assist.

After the early evening food break, the session continued. It didn't take long to reach level 77, which meant that the party could be changed to a combat-type one, and Kaerella could come forward into range. That did add a useful boost to the experience per kill, which had been a little over 54 million in just a solo party - but after two or three boosted kills, getting more like 60 million each, it seemed like time to run down to the ancient grey mummies.

The run there was easy enough, except that Kaerella, following, got stuck on a couple of corners, as she doesn't run anything like as fast as SirKit. Still, the room with the "agms" was nice and quiet, with just an elementalist sorcerer, TheApt, and his spirits, busy in one corner. As the ancient grey mummies are passive, and don't eat pets, SirKit started to fight them, while Kaerella just stood in the middle of the room, doing any necessary healing between kills, and giving the Encourage buff when it ran out. Kaerella gave the buff to a friendly archer called Abigale too, but she didn't stay all that long.

The mummies gave at least three times as much experience per kill as the zombies, as they are bosses - but they also took a long time to kill. During that first mixed hour Kit got through just 43 experience boosters, while going up 200.70%, reaching 78; that was followed by a pure mummy hour with only 26 xpbs used, for 174.12%, so that we were now in level 80. 28 more xpbs got Kit up a further 168.87%, well into level 81.

An assassin in the Valhala guild, Sp1ke, was helping a group of three night shadows - well, mainly one of them, I think the others were probably just along for the combat party bonus. The night shadow in question left as soon as he reached level 91, with a view to doing some skill point farming I think, and the other pair left soon after, so Sp1ke very cleverly and kindly spent a few minutes knocking the health of all the ancient grey mummies in the room down to around 10-20%, using some clever skill to disassociate himself from them...maybe it was just Death Motion, though a green light seemed to be involved. So, Kit happily killed them, in not much more than a tenth of the usual time, but getting the full experience, so that moved things along for me dramatically. It meant I used 41 experience boosters in the fourth hour of the evening, and went up by 211.01%, getting me to the start of level 84 - and he stayed until I was 60% of the way through that level, so that the fifth and final hour of the evening used a further 47 experience boosters, and added 210.68%, which meant that SirKit ended the evening having reached level 86.

Kit had been able to use his new green-named, five-sealed +15 level 85 dual swords once he reached level 85, so that helped to speed the final hour's kills up a bit too, with his physical offence stat rising from 1685 (including the temporary boost from the prs making the weapon +16 rather than +15) to 1991, or 1994 after he put his new stat points into strength.

So, during the afternoon SirKit had added 941.70%, plus 2902 pet points for his drake, which took it into level 36; during the evening Kit added in all 965.38%, 2 skill points, and, helped along by the "Creature Carnival" double pet experience for an hour or so, 7406 pet points. Kaerella did attack and kill one ancient grey mummy, without any pots, just to see how long it took, which was quite a while, so that boosted her experience gain, which was otherwise just from the combat party bonus - she added 9.74%, 2 skill points, and 110 pet points.

SirKit is nearly at his target level of 87 now, which would allow him to wear the new 85/87 armour set I've not yet bought... so one more "power hour" tomorrow morning ought to be enough, after which maybe he and Kaerella can have an equal party down there for an hour or two, so that they both gain a bit more experience. He certainly went through the levels very satisfactorily today, and while 476 experience boosters, plus the pots, were quite expensive, zooming up means one avoids having to buy the75/77 and 80/82 armour sets, so things do rather even out.