Sunday 1 August 2010

An Evening Session


The double pet experience, at least on Auzura, continued for a while after the end of the "Creature Carnival" last night, and RedRackham was able to get his drake comfortably past the halfway mark in level 40 before logging out.

That, however, was the last computer-type activity around here until Sunday evening, when the main priority was to get as many characters as possible their half-hour "attendance"...if, that was, the later start to my LC day meant that their 10% bonus hadn't already expired. So, it was with some trepidation that I logged MrChuckNorris in on Auzura-5, to see what message he would receive.

Luckily, logging on around ten hours later than usual didn't phase my valiant crew, and they all managed to get their attendance bonuses sorted out in the usual way, with some standing around in town while I ate, and generally caught up on things, and others managing a bit of mining or herb farming. MistressSabina even managed a session on the second floor of Maargadum Jail with the spike canines, dire spike canines, and two-headed canines, for a little under an hour, and got 9.90% experience, 47 skill points, and 577 pet points.

But then it was time for the Sunday Quiz, so MistressDomino and Kaerella logged in on Auzura-2, as has been their habit recently. There was no sign of Ratel and his colleagues Argoth and Liezl this time, but things ran swiftly and smoothly for us, though as usual there were reports in the forum shoutbox of problems - though I don't remember any previous reports of the question box not appearing, leaving people on the wrong side when the (invisible) countdown finished. Kaerella traded her new moonstones and heaven stones across to MistressDomino once the event was over, and then MistressDomino logged out, to be replaced by RedRackham, who headed off to Merac to do some pet-levelling.

Kaerella stayed online for a few more minutes, as she hadn't quite finished her "attendance allowance" half hour. In fact, with the usual after-Quiz lag, the message that she had qualified took a few extra minutes to appear, but the time passed quickly enough - Kae equipped her polar bear cub, and I just watched it do its animation, sitting down and wiping its face with one paw, then standing up and looking ready for action, with a silly grin on my face.

I'd remembered not to acknowledge the "timed out" windows that RedRackham got, so he had logged in slowly but surely, and by the time Kae logged out and MistressSabina logged back in, things were improving. There wasn't time for a very long second session down in the Jail, but Sabina added a further 5.68%, 26 skill points, and 320 pet points, so she is making reasonably good progress down there.

I was also a bit active on the shoutbox, hopefully "helping" Giovanna_X with some answers, and indeed filling in for a while after she left, until Pimorez, thankfully, appeared. But once he was in charge, I was able to tiptoe away, and concentrate more on finishing this blog's day.... which, as usual, ended with RedRackham busily pet-levelling. By the time the computer needed to be switched off, the drake was more than two-thirds of the way through level 40.

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