MistressDomina's Century

MistressSabina and RedRackham headed for Maargadum Jail on Auzura-4 just before nine o'clock this morning in an equal party, and luckily the third floor was free, so RedRackham headed down to floor five, and began his pet-levelling. His drake is a level ahead of his Cariae namesake's one, so was able to pass the three-quarters mark in level 42 during the session.

MistressSabina waited a further minute or two, and then started fighting the beast flyers perhaps a minute before the dungeon time hour ended. It all went according to plan in its normal hectic way; I did spot a knight entering the area at one point, but luckily he was either passing through or, seeing me there, decided to try his luck on a different subserver.

By the end of the hour MistressSabina had gone up by 5.07%, and added another148 skill points, as well as 1898 pet points - and working that out afterwards was my first clue that the double pet experience event from yesterday was still running. Sabina had picked up enough tokens to do the daily five "course B" spins, so tried her luck - her haul included a potion of haste and a couple of rejuvenation potions, but the final spin brought in the prime prize of fifteen gold tokens, enough for five "gold course" spins. The first of those gave just a single gold token, a loss of two of them, but after that she did get a couple each of the platinum blessed irises and sixty-minute lucky scrolls, which as freebies can't be bad.

RedRackham was able to continue through the coffee break, but after that the eleven until twelve dungeon time hour took priority - and while Cariae's Tomb of Theos was down to 60%, Auzura's was 100% good, which meant that MistressDomina and Kaerella headed for the ancient grey mummies again - and MD automatically did the quest requiring ten gray mummy bandages.

MistressDomina and Kaerella had the ancient grey mummy room to themselves, and kept busy for the whole "power hour", with Kaerella reaching level 96. MistressDomina added 26.94% in level 99 from using 54 experience boosters, while Kaerella added 48.27%, some in level 95 and the last third in 96, using 63 boosters. MD's drake added 2126 pet points, and Kae's added 2214...and they both added 19 skill points.

Reaching level 96 meant that Kaerella was now able to learn the fourth levels of Deadly Shot 2 and Vital Spot Blow 2, for 950 skill points between them, increasing her "deadly" stat from 510 to 520, and her "critical" stat from 755 to 765.

The two o'clock to three dungeon time hour was pretty much a repeat of the previous one, with MistressDomina adding 25.25% in level 99 from 51 experience boosters and Kaerella adding 44.09% in level 96 from 64; MD's drake got 2274 pet points, and Kae's got 2444, while both MD and Kae gained 20 skill points.

MistressDomina stayed in the ancient grey mummies room, but Kaerella logged out, and MistressBlaze logged in instead. With horse buffs, and a health potion along the way, she was able to run to join MD, who for the next hour or so, while MistressBlaze used a level 61-90 type pbi for triple experience gain, just fought the mummies without any boosts, potions, or indeed terra spear, while Blaze, not in a party with her, also attacked the same targets. MD only added 0.52%, though she did get 8 skill points - and her drake earned a further 2214 pet points. MistressBlaze managed to earn 93.92%, taking her into level 62 - her drake got exactly 2000 pet points.

MistressDomina stayed in the Tomb room over the food break, and I managed to log Kaerella in and get her back, in the combat party, in time for the next dungeon time hour, which again was much as before. The condition of the Tomb had declined, though, from 80 to 60%. This time, MistressDomina used just 47 boosters, killing 47 ancient grey mummies within the hour, adding 22.93% - enough to take her into level 100. Her drake added 3020 pet points, as they had been doing a little low-impact fighting before the hour began. Kaerella used 56 boosters, and added 39.32%, still within level 96. Her drake got another 2856 pet points...isn't double pet experience useful?

After that, Kaerella again logged out, and MistressBlaze ran back to join MistressDomina, so that for the main evening session, MD was just basically pet-levelling on the mummies, though they still died fairly regularly, with MB ks-ing. MistressDomina did add 2.04%, and 31 skill points - and her drake gained 6958 pet points, so that it's now over 60% of the way through level 45. MistressBlaze used three of the mid-level platinum blessed irises, which, helped along by the eight to nine o'clock dungeon time hour, took her up two more levels, adding 201.56%, along with 6182 pet points.

The room did get a bit crowded, particularly when the dungeon time hour had started - there must have been four night shadows, including one in the corridor, so it was lucky that MistressDomina wasn't fighting at full speed, using pots and terra spear. It shows that I'm right not to attempt an evening "power hour", the place just gets too busy. The older computer does vary, it's now at a stage where the game gets a bit tricky after a couple of hours or so, which meant that changing the camera viewpoint for MistressBlaze got harder as the evening progressed - I ended up with MD having to lure the next mummy into the right position for MB to be able to target it, and even then sometimes her screen would freeze for a few seconds, and in-game MistressBlaze would stop attacking until movement resumed. MB is level 64 now - she just needs to get to 67, partly this way, and partly out doing quests and fighting that elite sphinx "speer" man and its cohorts.

Back in town, MistressDomina was able to get her level 100 skill - which is nothing very exciting, just level 10 of Freeze Arrow, for 650 skill points, which increases that attack's power from 400 to 440. It can be useful in a monster combo, but as it includes a debuff, slowing its target down, it isn't suitable for Tomb use. To make more use of the double pet experience, RedRackham logged in on Auzura-4, and took up his usual spot on the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail. Another knight, LancelotTK, had previously been fighting that particular death mask lancer, but had made the mistake of luring it back too far and around the corner for "safety"...and it had "pinged" back into position, leaving him just standing there, safely but uselessly, with his pink drake equipped.

So, MistressDomina reaching level 100 is a bit of a landmark; my second character, after Barbarienne over on Cariae, to get there. It means that I can think of making a "phoenix" character on Auzura, the equivalent of RedRydeR over on Cariae - but that will need some planning. With Keerella on Cariae also approaching the magic number, I could find myself spending a lot of time in Prokion Temple again soon...