Two Mistresses

It was the turn of my Cariae merchant, MistressDomina, who confusingly shares her name with my top character over on Auzura, to stay up overnight in merchant mode, selling chaos balls, item drop boosters, and runes of protection 2, plus a few lucky spell books, health stealers, strong medicine and berserker potions...and generally not selling experience boosters, runes of protection 1, and large defence pots. She continued through the morning and well into the afternoon, as I was too busy to do anything more active, and didn't sell much more for a while, except for the occasional chaos ball - but then the remaining item drop boosters sold. That took MD's gains up over the 600 million mark, so, I guess, it won't be too long before SirKit is fully "kitted out" in his 85/87 armour set, if there are actually some suitable pieces for sale.

The evening session was set to give double pet experience from six o'clock, so that it seemed a good idea to hop across to Auzura's more active MistressDomina, and take her out to the Auzura-5 Tomb of Theos again. It was a pretty long session, making good use of the double pet experience - and MistressDomina's drake did just manage to level up, reaching level 44 and adding in all 4159 pet points. MD herself is level 95 now, so just fighting unboosted didn't give her a whole lot of experience; it did add 4.14% though, along with 17 skill points.

It was quite an eventful evening. Quite early on a level 31 healer, who I think I know better as their sorcerer character, asked to be in a party...well actually they just applied to form a party, and as I was trying to type at the time, the request got accepted. They said they just wanted to get up to 90% of the way through level 31, which was okay with me - you are supposed to choose to become either a cleric or an archer before you reach level 32. I really don't know if there is a penalty if you leave it until you are actually level 32, but it is possible that you may lose three or four stat points.

She hung around too long, anyway, and ended up getting into level 32, though I had told her to leave - especially as someone was bringing in a group of infected grey mummies and screamies! Hopefully she will at least get some skill points in Prokion Temple before she tries to power-level again, she intended to become a cleric and a cleric without the proper skills could be a bit of a disaster.

For a while after that I was in a combat party with the royal knight Gluecksbaer, who still has the vivid green "LastChaos Newbie" title, for having been started within the last seven days, although he is now level 91. He did have a slight tendency to bring a few zombies in on the people in the corridor, too. He is in the Castle-owning guild "Elite", so he has come a long way in a short time.

There was a speed-hacking ranger-rogue around, who left after a night shadow, DARKGARDIANANGEL, challenged them. Her attack certainly was suspiciously fast, though with a crossbow it isn't as obvious as with most weapons, as the crossbow doesn't move much when it is fired. Dark assured me later that he had sent in a ticket about it, with a screenshot. As I'd been active in the forum shoutbox, I'd known who it was when someone came in to report it. Ideally a GM or GS would have come to see, but none was around at the time.

Giving people the link to the forum thread about the main current bug, which has some people failing to load the game when they click "start" on the launcher, as well as the other usual queries, was slowing down my fighting a little, but MistressDomina was never in trouble, even if her drake did lose some health a time or two.

So, there wasn't a huge amount to report today... normal service will be resumed, but not until after the weekend...