Mainly Prokion and Merac

There was another productive session for RedRackham in the morning, taking his current drake further through level 40. After coffee he supplied CaptainScarlet with a solo party, while the Captain went to Prokion Temple on Auzura-6. As the clocks have "fallen" back in the UK, and throughout Europe, this weekend, while the USA doesn't move to winter time for another week, the times are out of joint, so that the dungeon time hour was from ten to eleven, UK time, instead of an hour later. I had lunch either a half hour early or half an hour late, but there was just time for Cap to use one of his "beginner" platinum super skill pills, which can't be used once he has passed level 35.

The titan xOAKSx decided to share the back room, with its orc axemen and orc sergeants; he was level 29 or lower, since the empty baskets dropped for him, and he was in Twisted, I saw. Luckily he left just as Cap got up to a stage three Ignition run. By the time the pssp ran out, and I logged off for lunch, CaptainScarlet had earned 14.98%, and 120 skill points.

CaptainScarlet did a further hour's pssp worth in Prokion Temple after lunch. As he went up to level 35 early on, which brought the amount of experience per orc sergeant down rather a lot, he only added 4.00%, plus 90 skill points. Back in Randol, he was able to learn "Candid" Fence 2's single level, which for just 60 skill points increased his defence by 120. He got the fifth level of Upgrade Mana too, and the reward for killing some spiders a while back from Healer Yabo, before heading out to Merac.

The berserkers are now below CaptainScarlet's level, so wouldn't drop the empty baskets that can be exchanged for Halloween candy; however, reaching 35 meant that there were a couple of new quests to be done, so Cap headed south out of town to acquire 10 red toenails from the gnolls for "materials of summon magic". he also needed to get 5 each of the magical and strength-type dynamic bracelets, from the blood frenzies and doom slayers.

The toenails were easy enough to get, and fighting blood frenzies wasn't hard - the doom slayers though have a habit of living up to their name. The first ones I found had rather too many blood frenzies within range, and even when I managed to lure out a couple, they didn't drop the bracelets, so I moved on to Mystic Swamp, where the blood frenzies and doom slayers were spread out a bit more. There I did manage to collect the necessary bracelets, so went back to town, where Cap got his rewards.

In all, the Merac session had brought in 19.60%, and just 27 skill points. Now it was time to try something different - so, after getting his drake about 60% of the way through level 40, RedRackham logged out, so that MistressSabina could go out to the giants in the Dratan desert...and take CaptainScarlet with her.

It was safe enough work, and as usual some weapons were dropped by the giants, but after a while it became clear that it wasn't exactly making Cap zoom up through the levels. He did add 21.68% there, and 7 skill points, but unless they moved to the sphinx fighters and "speer" men, not a lot of zooming was going to happen - and for that I'd rather wait until Sabina had better armour, and a better weapon.

So, instead MistressSabina and CaptainScarlet headed for Maargadum Jail. The beast flyers on the third floor were already being fought, so we went on down to the fifth floor. Nobody was pet-levelling, but we didn't have the place entirely to ourselves; still, both Sabina and Cap were able quite easily to fight the level 47 death mask soldiers and the level 44 death mask lancers. If Cap's armour is good enough for him to pet-level there, he can certainly fight without having to worry about losing health. I may well take him back there solo, next time.

By the time the Sunday Quiz was approaching, CaptainScarlet had added another 24.72%, and 19 skill points. MistressSabina had earned the same 26 skill points from the whole session, plus 405 pet points and 9.00% experience. And the cash from selling the weapons, and Jail drops, will come in handy too. It's a shame that the ready-plussed items the death mask soldiers and lancers drop are from the 60/62 armour set, as everyone gets a free +5 set of that when they reach level 60, making a +3 or even +4 piece not very desirable.

The Sunday Quiz ran smoothly, though some people who hadn't realised that the US doesn't change to its winter time for another week logged in an hour late and missed it. The questions were much as usual, with an emphasis on the fact that a GM will never ask for your account details and password. I was back to my usual Auzura-2 room, since things seem now to be running okay there. Afterwards, once Kaerella had traded her winnings across to MistressDomina, various other characters of mine logged on and moved loot across to her... and then my merchant MistressDomino logged on, and got the whole lot.

RedRackham went back to pet-levelling on his death mask lancer on Auzura-4 for the final part of the evening, getting his drake past the two-thirds mark in level 40...and, with her supplies of goodies now topped up, MistressDomino tried a little bit of selling, in Auzura-5's Randol. The first thing she sold out of was her 60 empty baskets, at what I thought was rather a high price, 250,000 each. It looks as if CaptainScarlet needs to do some more empty basket farming!