Today is my last fairly full day of playing until next week, as I have one of my "busy weekends" looming. The usual characters were logged in to claim their Attendance Allowance - though we hit a slight problem when the Cariae server, or at least the busy subserver, number five, had one of its regular crashes just after ten in the morning, UK time. Barbarienne was just coming to the end of her half hour, but luckily by the time I noticed the "disconnected" pop-up, the server was back on, and she was able to log straight back in again. I was glad to see that she didn't have to start her 30 minutes from scratch again, in around 10 more minutes she was finished, with her 10% experience bonus secured for another day.
MistressSabina logged on after coffee for another trip to Maargadum Jail's second floor. A level 33 knight called versku, I think from Finland, wanted to make a party, so I went along with that; RedRackham joined once the last character had finished their half hour, while doing some more pet-levelling. He did get ks'd a couple of times, but kept going.
The 50% bonus to skill exp and experience had finally been switched off, sadly, but MistressSabina ended up adding 16.39%, 62 skill points, and 1030 pet points before it was time to log out for lunch. RedRackham was able to continue to give versku a solo party until later.
It's interesting how many people MistressSabina sees in Maargadum Jail are people that MistressDomina has allowed to "help" her in the Tomb of Theos - it's good that they are getting some skill points, as well as trying to go up a level or two the quick way.
For the afternoon, my level 98 mage Keerella went to the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-5, with a view to getting a few more skill points, and pet points. The place was fairly quiet, with just the level 47 mage Angelicity and level 56 titan XxxTHORxxX there. Thor didn't stay around very long, but Angelicity had a good time assisting me with my kills, and went up by two levels. She was emboldened by that so much that she tried a screaming zombie of her own - but unfortunately there were three rogues around, and they had lured back assorted zombies and weren't keeping them under control, so that, just as she finally had nearly killed her target, another zombie killed her.
This annoyed a level 76 specialist sorcerer, dragonking23, so much that, after warning me, in his well-armoured knight-type form he brought a whole mob of zombies back and, he told me afterwards, did manage to kill off the rogues.
I did pay a brief visit to the ancient grey mummy and anubis spear man rooms, just to see how things were going there. The "agm" room was a lot busier than usual, though there were still a few of them spare. They give Keerella 3300 skill exp, compared to the 990 from a screamie, but do take a while to kill. The anubis spear man room had its ration of two people fighting the spear men, which until the sphinx commanders get their promised experience boost give more experience per kill than anything else in the Tomb. I guess if Barbarienne did want to have a session fighting spear men, she'd need to go deeper in and find a convenient bit of corridor - with Keerella around to deal with any pesky sphinx fighters.
Keerella went back to the screamies after that, and by the end of the session was up by 1.56%, 15 skill points, and 2380 pet points. Angelicity and dragonking23 have been added to Kee's list of friends, after I removed a couple of old names that didn't ring any bells with me now.
I probably should have waited until the evening for Keerella's Tomb session, as there was a "pet event" giving double experience then. As it was, Kaerella on Katar, accompanied by RedRyder there, was in Prokion Temple, and as the orc sergeants and orc axemen are blue to Kaerella, there was no pet experience to be had. The back room was in use, so I was in the corridor room which, while slightly more sparsely populated, does probably have a better ratio of sergeants to axemen.
The session lasted for the whole length of the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, with RedRyder reaching level 28. By the end, Kaerella had gone up by 55.03% and 819 guild points, while RedRyder had added 46.52% and 119 guild points. And they had each gained 384 skill points, taking Kaerella comfortably over the 21k mark for her unused sp stash.
Watching the forum shoutbox, there was a bit of drama, quickly stifled when two or three game masters came visiting, with their ability to remove posts nigh-on instantaneously. One of the shoutbox regulars, Deathowl, had managed to get his account banned, and had made a new similar one to complain. I don't know the details, but it seems that he had been unwise enough to send a message to a GM about one of the longest-serving and hardest-working gamesages, a shoutbox regular, an in-game event regular, and the provider of lots of GS-type in-game events, claiming she was "corrupt". And the GM had come down hard. It's a shame, as Deathowl was sensible and helpful in the shoutbox, but making that sort of allegation is obviously not a good idea. Even if personally I do find that particular GS rather creepy...
RedRackham logged in as soon as RedRyder logged out, so I managed to get some use out of the double pet experience, getting that pale blue horse past the halfway mark in level 35. There was, sadly, no chance of the event being left running for a day or two, with its official end time being followed fairly closely by the weekly downtime for server maintenance.
Will the week's new patch bring some bug fixes, or perhaps some way to get round the problems that socketed items are causing? Will it bring the revamped map for Juno? Will there be some further changes to monster experience, particularly concerning sphinx commanders? Only time, and the next entry in the "patch notes" forum thread, will tell.
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