With the Screaming Zombies

After the various attendance bonus claimings, MistressSabina was able to go out to Maargadum Jail again on Auzura-5 until lunchtime. This time the first and second rooms on the second floor were both in use, so Sabina ended up in the third room, which, with its mixture of beast scythes and beast archers, worked pretty well - sometimes a beast scythe respawned a little too close and shaved a health point or two off her drake, but it did have the advantage over the second room that there wasn't as much furniture to block one's attacks.

By the time lunch was approaching, MistressSabina had added 17.41% in level 44, plus 85 skill points, and 1107 pet points for her drake. A titan had recently arrived in the room, making it slightly crowded, so it was lucky my session was ending. It was also lucky that I'd been playing on Auzura, as apparently Cariae had suffered another crash, soon after ten in the morning, UK time.

For the afternoon, MistressDomina and my archer Kaerella headed out to the Tomb of Theos again on Auzura-5, for the usual kind of session, fighting the screaming zombies. There were only about four people there when I arrived, but things did get busier later, with a whole gang of people teamed up, though the range of levels was probably too big for many people to actually be partied.

There were times when we got big groups of the screamies lured in on us, and a few people did die. The archer JackNJones was one culprit, apparently she is known for it - the "N" must stand for "Naughty". At least I was quick enough to unequip Kaerella's polar bear cub today, and he survived; Kaerella herself took a surprisingly high amount of damage a time or two, though generally MistressDomina did okay. A couple of times, with a group of screamies milling round, MD's drake did lose a dangerous amount of health - the second time it got down to 13%, as I had difficulty unequipping it fast enough.

The party was an equal type, on the feeling that Kaerella needs to move on a bit as well as MistressDomina; we did let a few other people into the party to help them level, it certainly didn't work for a level 72 rogue, but she wanted to see - a low-level mage was in for a few minutes but then went back to town, and then found she didn't have enough gold to get back in again. The archer ArQuEiRa started at level 23, and got up to 28 before we had to leave. I don't know what her skill point farming plans are, but she wants to get to level 31 in the Tomb, presumably for the good armour and weapon.

By the end of the session Kaerella had added 14.34% in level 89, and 4 skill points, with the polar bear cub up by just 76.89%, taking him into level 27. MistressDomina herself had earned 4.63%, 3 skill points, and 2650 pet points.

The evening "event" was double pet experience, starting at six o'clock, UK time; despite the web page giving the details having a nice picture of an Ichi, a polar bear cub, and a drake, the bonus only applied to drakes and horses, the old-fashioned pets, we discovered. So, it was just as well that I'd decided to take my cleric Kaerella and my phoenix ranger-rogue RedRydeR down into the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4, with their drakes, to get double use out of the bonus, rather than having a Scra-Chi or a poly along.

Kaerella and RedRydeR each started a level 61-90 platinum blessed iris once we were in and fighting the screaming zombies, but we didn't have the place to ourselves for too long - first a level 38 specialist sorcerer called kosami2 wanted to join the party, to try and get to 40, and then not much later a level 37 titan called bar4 joined up too. So, we didn't get our full amounts of experience for the second half of the hour - and after that continued without pbis, though our youthful assistants used them - the 31-60 version, that is.

After starting with RedRydeR luring and then Kaerella joining in, before long we settled into having them fighting different screamies, since they both have good armour; they didn't exactly take it in turns, as it takes Kae rather longer to kill than it takes Red. Occasionally people would pass by, heading deeper in; a knight called parsifals asked to buy a potion of haste, to speed up his trip past the zombies etc, so I just dropped one for him, they are only worth 200 gold after all. Kosami2 wanted some stones for his pony, which I think levelled up two or three times, so Red dropped nine quality stones too. I actually encountered parsifals again just outside the Tomb at the end of our session, and he asked if he could buy a resurrection scroll... none of us were sure of its value, but Kae exchanged one for four heaven stones.

A level 100 titan called THETRADESMAN was around for our last half hour; he'd been fighting anubis spear men for a couple of hours and finding it a bit laggy down there, but now he lured a screaming zombie back down the corridor, and I eventually realised he was pet-levelling, We did chat a bit, he was waiting for a package he'd bought from the item mall, only for it to get lost, to be found and restored to him, before he could level any more. We regretted the passing of the older game masters, and in all the chat did help pass the time.

Kosami2 did get well into level 40 by the end, and I think bar4 levelled up as well. RedRydeR ended up adding 48.53%, to Kaerella's 48.48%, though as they were both in level 89 throughout I don't know where the difference came from. They each got 3 skill points, anyway, while Red's drake added 5628 pet points, and SirFrancis, Kae's drake, added 5282. So, they both made good use of the double pet experience, and once they were finished, RedRackham quickly logged on to get the benefit from the boost's remaining minutes. Or might the GMs forget, and leave it running until the week's maintenance started, at 1:00am...?