To the Tomb

RedRackham went down to Maargadum Jail's fifth floor before breakfast, to do some more pet-levelling; his drake was moving nicely on through level 41. After coffee I logged Kaerella in on Cariae, and had a look through the available necklace accessories in Roy's merchant mart, since having her share an accessory with Kee is not very convenient. I ended up, on page 15, finding a Necklace of Earth with 10% suction of life, 5% suction of mana, 58 hit points, and 30 increase to her critical hit, being sold by Jloosduinen for 90 million, which was almost a twin of the one Keerella uses, except that that one has hit rate instead of critical...and, way back when such accessories were fairly new to the game, rather more expensive.

So, I bought that necklace; Kaerella now has the option to use that one and her less valuable necklace (physical fortitude 8, suction of life 5%, hit points 58, and hit rate 93) with a single stone of shadow (swiftness of refexes 12, close range evasion 112, long range evasion 93), or just the one necklace and two stones of shadow, if she needs to be more evasive.

Tuffsen wasn't around, so SirGalahad was able to do a few sp-gathering trips out to Prokion Temple on Auzura-6 again. he managed to get 201 skill points while getting through 99% of level 23 on his first trip, so then returned to Randol, spent the points on assorted special skills, and lost the 99% experience by getting killed by a degraded golien commander in Ebony Mine 33 or 34 times. The next mini-session in Prokion Temple was during dungeon time, so he just got 150 skill points, but that was enough for a few more skill levels. After lunch, getting the whole thing done before the two to three o'clock dungeon time, he got 216 more skill points, and managed to spend them all. He is making good headway with getting his special skills done, but there are plenty more yet.

SirGalahad hadn't been partied with my archer Kaerella this time, so he didn't get that extra 5% skill exp, just the usual 11,000 skill exp per orc soldier; instead he had been partied with RedRackham, so Red had a nice long session, lasting until two o'clock was approaching. He then had to log out, so that the afternoon team-up could begin.

Over on Cariae-4, Kaerella and RedRydeR logged on, and, finding the Tomb of Theos at a 90% condition, hurried to the ancient grey mummies room, arriving a couple of minutes after the start of dungeon time, to find the level 103 titan BRA1N already in action, accompanied of course by his pink drake P1NKY. We swung into action in the normal way there; a friend of BRA1N's, an archer called NaOmi, was also busy in the corridor for much of the time. Kaerella was of course generous with her Encourage buff. Eventually BadFairy arrived, after getting in touch to check that I was there. She had managed to exchange an "epic experience scroll" for a useful supply of experience boosters; they may allow their user to get 600% rather than 300% experience gain for an hour, but do seem wildly over-valued.

Kaerella did a "power hour" over the five to six o'clock dungeon time, just managing to use 32 experience boosters, though RedRydeR did have to help kill the last one before her pbi ran out. That hour gained her 26.23% in level 95, 8 skill points, and 1078 pet points, and meant that she overtook RedRyder, percentage-wise, though afterwards, with her faster rate of killing, Red gradually began to close the gap. BadFairy herself did a "power hour" from eight to nine, with her last pbi and 46 of her newly-acquired boosters, moving her on 20% in level 100, meaning that BadFairy, Tuffsen's phoenix character, has now overtaken her previous main, a titan.

BRA1N went off to fight the anubis spear men for that hour, to move himself on almost to level 104, and then returned, and this time joined the combat party. After around 45 minutes my two characters finished their work, and retired to the corner where BadFairy was afk, leaving him to do all the work, and supply us with a little more experience and skill exp - while our presence in the combat party boosted his experience gain.

By the end of the evening, Kaerella had gone up by, in all, 33.22%, while, without that power hour, RedRydeR had earned 15.38%. We had had at least two hours of double pet experience, so SirFrancis had gained 9,831 pet points, while RedRydeR's drake had added 10,296, as Red had had a shorter food break than Kae. Red and Kae had each gained a useful 58 skill points.