Two Tomb Trips

There wasn't time for any active play in the morning, but I at least managed to get everyone their attendance allowance - and I traded across a generous supply of platinum blessed irises, crit pots, platinum adrenalins, and similar things to Barbarienne, to get her ready for further trips to the anubis spear men.

MistressDomina looked for a level 107 circlet for Barbarienne, or indeed a level 117 one with the "-10" seal, but without any luck. She did however spot a level 109 Darkness Sankest Bow +15, a blue-named one with its five attack seals (long range physical attack 9 + 9, all types of physical attack 8 + 8, and attack 5), being sold via Roy by AndreaBuzzone for 500 million, which didn't seem unreasonable... I could have paid more for a +13 green-named one, in fact. So MD bought it, and traded it across to Barbarienne, who in return passed across some minor recent loot drops. It will be a while before Barb can actually use the bow, but having it ready does mean that it could be involved in a master stone tiered spender deal, if a new one is announced in a week or two.

For the afternoon session, Barbarienne and Keerella went to the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4, and headed for the anubis spear men. I was in luck, as only the far side of the room was being used, with the archer EvilSweetness helping her level 77 rogue friend xCharmeinx to level up. So, Barb was able to start up on the nearer side, with its two anubis spear men, while Keerella just, as usual, kept busy on the sphinx fighters. The other two did leave after a while, so I moved across to that side of the room, since if anything the spear men do tend to respawn nearer to that wall. They did actually return later, and in turn took their place over on the first side. In the last of my three hours, mcrossx arrived, but politely kept to the sphinx fighters until EvilSweetness and xCharmeinx took another break. By the time they were due to return, I'd be gone, so he was set for a bit of levelling.

Barbarienne's first hour saw her add 13.15%, while using 42 experience boosters; during the second hour she just used 36 boosters, and added 11.24%. It was probably a slight fluctuation in the Tomb's condition, I suppose, as for the third hour we were back to using 42 experience boosters, for a gain of 12.99%. The slight decrease in experience gain would be due to Barb moving into level 107 at last after about 40 minutes. In all, including a minute or two more fighting, Barbarienne went up by 37.48%, and her drake gained 3044 pet points, while Keerella's unboosted efforts brought her just 2.52%, along with 2781 pet points for her drake Greedo. And both Barb and Kee gained 12 skill points.

Reaching level 107 meant that Barbarienne was able to put on her new boots, which like the old level 87 ones are the b5e +15 type. They only added 85 to her physical defence stat though, taking it from 3603 to 3688, which shows that it isn't important to upgrade one's armour every time a new set becomes available. Back in town, Barb was able to pass over the level 87 boots to my cleric Kaerella; upgrading from her previous +13 pair moved her physical defence on from 2804 to 2948, and gives her the +15 "big fairy" to display at her shoulder, though her Casting Up Circlet of Dimension is still only +13. Her physical defence is rather better than her namesake over on Auzura, who, with four +13 pieces of armour and one +14, just manages 2357.

I needed to move some loot around, mainly on Auzura, which took a little while after the food break, but MistressDomina and Kaerella were able to get out to the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-5 in good time for the start of today's Happy Hour at 7:00pm, UK time, which, [GM]AwesomeSauce had told us in the shoutbox, was to give 75% extra experience and skill exp. It started only five or so minutes late, and for a change the GMs did actually announce it. The end time was to be 11:45pm, but that is a bit past my bedtime.

As usual there was quite a large number of people in the Auzura-5 Tomb, fighting the screaming zombies, and, working together, all went along smoothly. As ever there were times when rather a lot of zombies seemed to find it necessary to chase people into the corridor, but generally MistressDomina was able to grab their attention with Terra Spear. Her drake's relatively recent new level meant she had an extra level of the magical attack increase buff from it, so that sometimes the damage from that reached 30,000, which can't be bad.

Kaerella went up by 10.45% in level 89, while the polar bear cub got safely into level 26, adding 125.13%. MistressDomina herself went up by 19.22%, with her drake gaining 2899 pet points, and both Kae and MD gained 9 skill points.

The rogue Octfilipe28 was in the combat party for a while; she's level 83 now. An archer was trying to persuade me to join the Angels ofChaos guild... maybe that would be a good home for my rogue, Rage?

RedRackham finally logged on after the expedition to the Tomb was over, and was in time, I noticed, to maintain his 10% attendance bonus. He ought to get his drake up to a third of the way through level 38 by the end of the evening.