Mainly Auzura

After moving some loot around to make a bit of room in various inventories, Barbarienne and Keerella headed for the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4, in good time for the eleven to twelve o'clock dungeon time - only to find that the Condition there had deteriorated to the 40% mark, which, while unlikely to pose too great a problem for Barb and Kee with their armour ratings, would have slowed down their experience gain. And there was always the chance that the figure would have slumped further before the hour was up.

So, MistressDomina logged on over on Auzura-4 instead and, once her Twisted guildies had assured her that the Tomb was looking good today, was joined by my archer Kaerella. They made the usual combat party, and sure enough, found the Tomb's condition on their server to be at 90%...so, in they went.

MistressDomina and Kaerella got to the anubis spear men with about five minutes to spare. The main room was in use, but the first corner of the corridor after that, my preferred spot, was free - so that's where we settled. As usual MD took the two spear men, and Kaerella just kept busy on the local sphinx fighters, so that the hour passed in a suitably smooth way. One player, mrsme, did take one of the two spear men once, but did move further on when requested.

By the end of the hour, MistressDomina had added 32.43%, with her drake gaining 1098 pet points, from the use of 46 experience boosters. Kaerella had earned 5.44%, with 1013 pet points for SirFrancis, and they'd each added 3 skill points.

After lunch, I did check the Cariae Tomb again, and it was right down to around 10% - abandon hope, all ye who enter! So, I did a repeat engagement for MistressDomina and Kaerella, in the same spot in the Tomb on Auzura-4, which was now on around 80%. I had no interruptions at all at my favourite corner during the two to three o'clock dungeon time hour, which meant that MistressDomina was able to add another 30.82% experience, using 43 experience boosters on the anubis spear men, while Kaerella earned 4.96% from killing the sphinx fighters. They each got another 3 skill points; MD's drake got 1108 pet points, and Kae's got 1052.

That left time for MistressSabina and RedRackham to go to Maargadum Jail before the early evening food break, where the beast flyers on floor three were available - Red went on down to floor five, and his death mask lancer sparring partner, and got back to doing some pet-levelling with his level 41 drake. He provided the solo party for Sabina, who quickly began a platinum super skill pill, and fought flat out for the next hour. This gained her 4.85%, 140 skill points, and 1016 pet points; those hours are much harder work than the Tomb ones, but we are making progress, with her sp stash now at the 12.5k mark.

RedRackham kept on with his pet-levelling through the food break, moving the drake on to 60% of the way through its level. He then logged out, so that a little trading could be done - and MistressSabina could be handed a +10% suction of life accessory, which ought to make her future battles a little easier. Curiously, one of MistressDomina's Twisted guildies had been looking for a good accessory, and found one almost identical to the one I bought recently, with 10% suction of life and 93 hit rate, at the same price; I think the two had been listed next to each other in Roy's merchant mart, but as the first buyer, I got the one with 58 hit points too.

MistressDomina and MistressBlaze went to the Tomb on Auzura-5 for a while, next, which was as hectic as usual. I couldn't stay very long - but MistressDomina added 0.54% and 5 skill points, plus 675 pet points, while MistressBlaze, despite having a "send error report?" crash early on, added 35.57% and 430 pet points.

The reason I had to leave early was that the Twisted guild were having a Guild War, against the eROrr guild, so MistressDomina hopped across to Auzura-4, and headed for Randol's north gate. I think there were more eROrr people there than Twisted people, but generally we were higher in level - in the party I was in, I was the baby of the team, with our guild master the level 134 specialist sorcerer SacSalop in the lead, plus Dropkick on 104, spazz on 107, Ridlick on 105, and TaterTot on 114. Our gamesage guildie Elfnastysfriend was there too; I would have done better to be in our other party, as they had a healer. Without one, I got through more than thirty large health potions.

I died twice, I think a night shadow was involved each time, but I was certainly involved in quite a few of the kills we made. Most of the time we were outside the town gate, and they were inside, making occasional forays. The score was far from even, over the thirty minutes a Guild War lasts - when I took a screenshot after 20 minutes, the score was already 187 to 32 in our favour. I got attacked a few times, but my terra spear, and chaos nova, were generally put to good use.

Anyway, it was fun, despite attacks from invisible rogues and others, and I managed not to accidentally use any expensive resurrection scrolls. There is no death penalty or experience in such conditions; our guild did win a sum of gold that had been staked on the outcome, which is the way a Guild War works.

There wasn't time to do anything after that except prepare for the Sunday Quiz. Kaerella and MistressDomino went to the quiz room on Auzura-2 as usual, and I noticed some Twisted people there too. Ratel was there, along with Liezl and Argoth, and despite some lag got through to the end safely. He was relieved to be back online rather earlier than he had been told. The questions were our familiar ones, with some repeated, even. As usual there were some people using an exploit to be able to stand on the wrong side and not get kicked - somebody was a bit blatant, with "LastChaos Newbie" healers dotted across the "O" side - jjxjxj, ehiyhih, ahishghd, rdhfd, eafjsenn, and more. The "X" side, as well as a fairly high-level archer in the DsTrucTorS guild called mistica, had a healer who didn't have a name over her head, though clicking on her revealed she was called sdsfdf...

Anyway, Kaerella and MistressDomino got their prizes safely. It was lucky we weren't on the Tairen server, as they had a disconnection, though I'm not quite sure if it was server-wide, or just on Tairen-5. A "forest of death" mini-event was announced for straight afterwards, with dark treants, and probably flutons, spawned in the arena on each subserver 5, but I spent the last part of the evening back in Maargadum Jail...as well as keeping an eye on the forum shoutbox.

This Maargadum jail was on Katar-5, but still involved a team-up with my pet-leveller. ColonelScarlet went down to the fifth floor to work on the level 28 drake he has now, while my level 43 archer Kaerella fought the canines on the second floor. A level 28 rogue, BuNnYgAl, somehow managed to get down to the second floor, and was rather envious of Kae's +15 bow, which is only level 33, but I had to say that it is not for sale or hire. I did let her into the party to give her a bit of experience, but after a few minutes she took off her armour, and ran into the main pack of canines - which is one way to leave, I suppose.

ColonelScarlet continued pet-levelling until the end of the evening, and got his drake into level 29 just before he logged out.