Just the Tomb

Tuffsen pounced on me early in the morning, and bundled Kaerella and RedRydeR into the Cariae-4 Tomb of Theos, without me having a chance to give SirGalahad a trip or two to Prokion Temple - and it was probably just as well she did, as we soon discovered that double experience and skill exp was running, which, while slightly useful for Gal, is even better for my pair of level 95-ers.

We settled into the usual routine of fighting the ancient grey mummies, though Tuffsen, or BadFairy, did have some baking to do, so was away from her keyboard for a while. The titan BRA1N joined the party, which was good, as his higher level, 104 now, helped to raise the average skill exp per kill. The archer NaOmi was also with us for most of the time; the level 105 royal knight butcht declined to join us, fighting in the corridor, he probably got slightly more skill exp staying separate.

As often happens, both my characters got disconnected just after eleven, UK time; BadFairy nearly disconnected too, but managed to stay in, and was able to Recall us both back to her once we had logged back in. That is always a dangerous time of day, as the servers do a back-up procedure then.

With her new stash of experience boosters, BadFairy did tend to make use of the dungeon time "power hours", but since they weren't affected by the double experience, I stayed clear of those - after all, with the combat party, the basic 24 million experience per mummy was often as high as 85 million, which seemed quite enough. Tuffy's bargain when selling her epic experience scrolls apparently included some platinum blessed irises, apparently, but her friend hadn't yet come through with those, so I loaned her one for the evening session.

Tuffsen did relay some bad news a friend had passed to her - the Dratan Castle Siege was going on above ground (well, over on Cariae-1), and things were going badly for the current owners, the Coalition, who had been so good at keeping the Tomb's Condition up at 90% or 100% since they took over. This time, the bully-boys of Vendetta were back in the ascendant, and were spawn-camping where the embattled Coalition were respawning, to pick them off one by one. It looked as if, for the next week at least, there wouldn't be any opportunity to do any levelling in the Cariae Tomb...but luckily the Coalition staged a late rally, and managed to win. xShadowWarriorx, the night shadow and a friend of Tuffy's, fought next to us later in the evening, and mentioned that he'd been there in the Coalition, and had taken screenshots of Vendetta people using Recall to get their people to the spawning point, something which is definitely not allowed.

So, disaster was averted. I commented that the idea of the siege-winning guild controlling the "Condition" of the Tomb of Theos had been just about reasonable when it started, as the Tomb was where the very top-most levellers played. But now, with the level cap so much higher, they are in the spirit caves, etc, and in Mondshine, where nobody has to worry how the toughness of the monsters might vary from one day to the next.

Anyway, Kaerella and RedRydeR slogged on. The double experience and skill exp abruptly ended at approaching seven o'clock, UK time, which in theory was about halfway through a "Turbo" event, with increased, er, something... but the experience and skill exp seemed to drop to normal levels, except during the dungeon time hour. Tuffsen and I were both active, off and on, in the forum shoutbox, which was without any gamesages for many hours, it seemed...and then of course a whole gaggle arrived at once.

By the end of the evening, RedRydeR had overtaken Kaerella again - she was over 12% ahead, in fact, though there had been a few times when only Red had been active. Kaerella had even managed to equip her newbie polar bear briefly, and it didn't take many kills from the party, even shared with BadFairy's HOMER, to get him well into level 3.

Kaerella went up by 20.78% in all, with her drake adding 9,665 pet points; RedRydeR went up by 39.05%, and 10,901 pet points. And they ended up with 182 more skill points for RedRydeR, as she'd made a brief trip back to town, and 185 for Kaerella.