Quests and Rewards

Since MistressDomina reached level 90 yesterday evening, there was a new skill for her to learn from the Master Mage back in Randol this morning, when she logged in for half an hour for the "attendance allowance". Level six of Mana Flow "permanently increases maximum hitpoints and mana through the study of magic", for 625 skill points. It only added 10 to each, or about 0.3%, but one day it might make all the difference - I suppose! After getting that, MD headed out to do a little mining, to top up her supply of quality stones.

There was one of the too-frequent "Cariae crashes" at about 10:15am, UK time, so Barbarienne was disconnected halfway through her thirty minutes; by the time I noticed, the server was running again, so she was able to complete her time without any further problems. Someone reported that the people in merchant mode in Randol were unaffected, which often happens. As he was on Auzura, RedRackham, doing a little pet-levelling, was unaffected.

After coffee, MistressSabina logged on. Her first two goes on the "course B" Lacarette Wheel gave her only a couple of potions of haste, but, after restarting it, she did manage to get a rejuvenation potion and two item drop boosters. Five attempts per day is all one can do at a cost of three tokens per spin, after that it increases to four tokens. After that, she headed for Maargadum Jail, and its second floor.

The session in the Jail lasted until lunchtime, and MistressSabina went up by 12.08%, while adding 60 skill points and 1722 pet points. And then, while RedRackham continued his pet-levelling work, it was Rage's turn to put in 30 minutes, out harvesting green herbs.

MistressBlaze had three new quests waiting for her in Dratan, involving the arcane golems, masters of secret technique, and wafe debirches. So, during her half hour, she rode out to the west of the desert, and fought her way through the masters of secret technique, to reach the arcane golems. Then it was an easy ride to reach the various kinds of wafe. At MB's level, 57, the wafes aren't easy opponents, as they do team up against a player, but, thanks to the horse buffs and one medium health potion, MistressBlaze got the necessary kills - and rode across to the usual sphinx fighter and sphinx "speer" man camping site. She already had that on her memory scroll, but this time she rode on to the less public location of the second elite sphinx speer man, and got that location onto her scroll as well, even killing one sphinx speer man before leaving.

It wasn't a long session by any means, and from the fighting MistressBlaze just earned 1.27% and 9 skill points, along with 71 pet points - but adding in the quest rewards meant that in all she went up by 10.06%, 55 skill points, and those 71 pet points.

That left around two hours for MistressDomina, Kaerella, and the polar bear cub to go to the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-5, to see quite a few familiar faces. As usual things got pretty hectic there - a level 122 sorcerer actually brought us big groups of zombies, and a few mummies, to deal with, as he was bored with trying to level. As ever a few of the lower-level people did die occasionally, usually because they tended to stand in places where screaming zombies can spawn, but things went relatively smoothly, and for a change the polar bear cub didn't die, even once.

Kaerella generally just stood there, in the combat party, though sometimes when a large group of zombies were nearby she would, for safety, unequip the poly, and use her bow a bit. By the end she'd added 4.38%, while the polar bear cub went up by 189.33%, getting well into level sixteen. MistressDomina added 13.64%, and 1714 pet points - and both she and Kae gained 3 skill points.

For the evening, it was time to celebrate Kaerella on Katar's new-found freedom from Prokion Temple and its skill point farming, so she cashed in all the quests she had done, getting their rewards, and did everything else that was outstanding, including a long-delayed trip out to Wild Collector Kai in Juno. In Merac, she got a quest to kill ten highlanders, so combined that with a relatively short session fighting the four elite frenzied berserkers on the approach to the teleporter into Misty Canyon. She logged out briefly after that - so that ColonelScarlet, the guild master of Discipline on Katar, could take the opportunity to unlock her experience gain from its 50% freeze.

There were various minor messenger-type quests in Merac Village, too, and in Dratan City Kaerella got the quests which involved killing the poison mists and brutal deer of the desert, so rode down to where they hang out. It's quite a long ride from Prokion Temple, as you have to follow the main path and can't cut across the hills - but I found when I was killing the deer that I could see the top of Prokion temple quite close by.

I don't think I've ever farmed the brutal deer of the desert for any length of time before, but, after I'd completed the two quests, I stayed with them. They died pretty quickly, and, being Kae's level, gave the full 2200 skill exp...so I stayed there until Kaerella levelled up, reaching 39.

Reaching the new level opened up a new quest from Magician Kihan out at Owl Village in Merac, just involving killing a few gnoll soldiers, so once that was done, and its follow-up which just involved a visit to the Great Magician Minearm back in Merac Village, I decided that Kaerella might as well get the entrance to Maargadum Jail onto her memory scroll, so rode down there. I did have a very short stay inside the Jail, on the second floor with the spike canines etc...but then it was time to draw the session to a close.

In all, thanks to all the quest rewards and the lengthy time with the brutal deer, Kaerella went up by 113.28%, adding 313 skill points and 1488 pet points. RedRackham had kept on pet-levelling through the evening, too...his drake reached level 34 before the end of the session.