Monday 18 October 2010

The Crest of the Rainbow

Tuffsen, alias BadFairy, and NaOmi got Kaerella and RedRydeR into the Tomb of Theos after coffee, straight to the ancient grey mummies room again - and so Kaerella was able to do another "power hour", with a platinum blessed iris, all four hour-long potions, and 39 experience boosters, from eleven until twelve o'clock, to coincide as usual with the hour of 50% extra experience from "dungeon time". 27.78% experience was gained, which got Kae into level 97, along with 13 skill points and 1062 pet points.

Reaching level 97 was useful, I found, as, although the (level 103) ancient grey mummies are still red-named for Kae, their deaths now count towards the "ignition" sequence, so that the new swoosh-bar below the health, mana and experience bars now gradually fills up, starting with green, then yellow, orange, red, and purple, for extra attack power, if only for 120 or 90 seconds, plus for the fourth and fifth levels more skill exp and experience respectively, though these don't stack with pssps and pbis.

After lunch, the two to three power hour added another 28.34% in level 97, from 45 boosters, along with 11 skill points and 1039 pet points...I was getting into a bit of a routine of one regular hour, one power hour, and one hour off. That meant I was able to get the early evening food break out of the way in time for the five until six hour, and, thanks to a nice "ignition" sequence, I managed to kill 50 of the ancient grey mummies, for 31.49% experience, plus 12 skill points and 1050 pet points.

I had to dash away then, as a mid-level "Mad Monster Spawn" was just starting on Auzura-5, for players from level 46 to 90 - and I wanted to take my level 87 mage MistressBlaze along, The first thing to do was borrow MistressDomina's armour and weapon - and then MistressBlaze got on her horse, and galloped out to the MMS location.

[GM]Darasuum had already launched the first couple of waves when I got there, but MistressBlaze was in time for a nice big group of the grand devilroad Kamira, and was able to be one of their main attackers. A mage next to me, also in 85/87 armour, did die, but, while I used a few health potions, the only time my health got below 50% was when I rushed into the fire to attempt to grab some of the goodies that had been dropped. I got a few things, but then had to run clear before returning to the battle.

There were plenty of scorpionmantises, barren eises, skin walkers, boucu demons, endemic demons, wafes, and more to deal with too, though all they dropped for me was a little gold. When I had time to check my inventory I saw that I hadn't picked up any moonstones, but I'd got a couple of crystals of experience (greater), fifteen lucky scrolls - and one of the rare accessories, a Crest of Rainbow, which gives 6 to constitution and 12 each to the other three stats. I wouldn't say it was all that valuable, these days, but it's still nice to get it.

The GM gave us some loot at the end, though as usual with Dara it didn't go very far, so that I was lucky to get an item drop booster, a skill point booster, and a large defence potion, plus a tool aid or two. I dropped the three medals of honor I'd picked up in the flames, and the hero's necklace - I did drop one lucky scroll too, but it was picked up by someone in one of the major guilds, which rather put me off the idea of handing out any more.

The Cariae event was scheduled for seven, but as I didn't really have an appropriate character to take along to such an event there at the moment, it seemed best for Kaerella and RedRydeR to log back in on Cariae-4, where they were still in the Tomb party - and soon got Recalled back in.

BadFairy's mighty "Nanook" polar bear did get killed by a screaming zombie, which gave me the opportunity to equip Kaerella's own rather smaller polar bear cub, but before long Tuffy, er BadFairy, equipped a junior bear she was also carrying, Thumper, so I put mine away again rather than halve the P2 pet experience. Besides, Kae's trusty drake, SirFrancis, boosts her attack and defence power, and picks up the loot!

NaOmi helped BadFairy with the eight to nine power hour, almost-killing mummies for her and then taking Recall so that they lost aggro - and BadFairy levelled up to 102, which meant that she was able, once the hour had finished, to go back to town to learn her level 102 skill. It also means that she will be starting grinding skill points for a couple of levels, so won't be available for combat parties. NaOmi had also recalled in a level 102 specialist sorcerer Maurawan guildie of hers, theApt, which meant that the room was a bit busy; I had decided not to try to do a power hour then, which was probably sensible.

Things quietened down later, once NaOmi and BadFairy had gone. theApt went afk too, so that, while i was starting to get this blog into shape, only RedRydeR was actually fighting. Kaerella stood at the side - and re-equipped her poly, which managed to get into level 5.

RedRydeR again hadn't used any pots or boosters, but still managed to add 20.18% during the day, along with 112 skill points and10,457 pet points, since she actively played for longer than Kae. Including the power hours, Kaerella added 93.02%, 126 skill points, and 8,595 pet points; I think she may have got more skill points because she was actually around a little longer, while Red did occasionally have to go out of range of the rest of the party to find enough mummies to fight.

So, that was about it. Both Tuffsen and I were fairly active in the forum shoutbox again, though there seemed to be a bit more gamesage activity today. At least I managed to get out of that Tomb room for half an hour...

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