Friday 22 October 2010

Two Visits From Kamira

Greatly to my relief, when I logged Auzura's RedRackham on this morning, he still had his armour and all his inventory items, and that account's storage, shared with MistressDomina, still seemed full of its usual goodies. Other people reporting their situations in the forum shoutbox hadn't been so lucky. What I did notice was that Red's pet experience had been set back; when the crash happened, his drake had got 7609 pet points in level 42, but logging back in today the figure was down almost 4k, to 3659, which suggests that generally experience gain, skill exp, and pet experience had been "rolled back" by almost four hours.

I'd logged RedRackham in on Cariae-4 first, sending him down to the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail, where SirMoe was already in action; his Auzura equivalent quickly followed, and, since with all their other excitements the game masters had forgotten to switch off the double pet experience, good progress was soon being made - and after a couple of hours, at 10:30, Red on Auzura had made good his losses.

There had of course been speculation about a repeat of the 600% experience (etc) event that the Cariae server got for rather bigger disruptions, but in the end the GMs just set Auzura up for double experience and skill exp, running until eight in the evening UK time, which wasn't a huge temptation to abandon the double-rate pet-levelling... so I kept on working downstairs until lunchtime.

Auzura's RedRackham had got his drake to 62% of the way through level 42 by the time I was ready to start more active adventuring; over on Cariae the level 45 drake was on 56%. So, Auzura's Red switched across to the older computer and Auzura-6, to make a solo party with my level 48 witch, MistressSabina. And she rode out into the Dratan desert, to fight the level 52 giants.

One nice thing about the giants, now, it seems, is that they drop level 61 weapons, and the knight shield for that level, so MistressSabina picked up some valuable loot, which she was able to sell back in town. And Kamira dropped by soon after 2:30...so Sabina logged out, and Kaerella logged in instead, and rode out to deal with her. Since Kae is level 101 on Auzura, the fight was a bit one-sided - Kae did lose a little health to Kami's flame skill, but her suction of life accessory soon reclaimed it. The usual moonstones, tool aids, lucky scrolls, and potions were dropped - and a Pierce of Wind rare accessory. Sabina actually uses one of those currently, with its 16 dexterity and 78 close range evasion; go back long enough and someone with three of those was really uber, but they aren't as good as a Stone of Shadow, which has 4 less dexterity but 34 more close range evasion, plus 93 long range evasion. Still, it was a nice drop to get.

MistressSabina logged back in, and re-made the party with RedRackham. Since the continuing double pet experience goes rather well with the one-hour triple experience platinum pet experience potion, not adding the 2 to the 3 but multiplying, to get 6 pet points at a time, or over 6,000 an hour, Red used a few of those, while I was around to make sure nothing went wrong; the drake reached level 43, and continued onwards, overtaking MistressSabina's drake during the early evening food break.

Sabina hadn't been back after the break for long when, at 5:22, Kamira arrived again, which rather shows that there weren't very many people active in the Dratan desert on Auzura-6 today. Three minutes later Kaerella was on the spot, and a minute after that she was picking up the loot - there wasn't a rare accessory this time, but Kamira still dropped a medal of honor, 10 great healing potions, 5 moonstones, 5 scrolls of memorising, 5 tool aids, 5 lucky scrolls, a crystal of experience (greater), and a hero's necklace. Logging out meant that, again, Sabina lost the amount of ignition she had built up, but that was a small price to pay.

Around about 6:30, however, I'd had some lag spikes, which with MistressSabina fighting the giants could have become a disconnection, which would have been rather bad news. Chat was laggy, and indeed re-forming the party with RedRackham had been slow. So, since the other servers now had double experience and skill exp too, for a "happy hour", I logged Sabina out on Auzura - and logged my cleric Kaerella in on Cariae-4.

I knew BadFairy was online, as Tuffsen had appeared in the forum shoutbox, so Kaerella messaged her, and got a free teleportation into the Tomb of Theos. BadFairy was in the corridor, as another player was rather monopolising the main room of the ancient grey mummies, farming skill points with the help of a friend. There was room for Kaerella, though, since she doesn't kill all that quickly. RedRydeR would not have had enough mummies - but as my pet-levelling RedRackham was still not much more than halfway through a platinum pet experience potion, that didn't matter.

RedRackham's potion ended; the double pet experience continued, and he got his drake into level 44. When the other players in the ancient grey mummies room finished their power hour and left, I was able to log one Red out, and the other one, RedRydeR, in; she too got teleported in by BadFairy, and we had the place to ourselves, though before long BadFairy had to go afk.

The double experience and skill exp lasted till about 8:40pm, UK time, so overlapped usefully with the dungeon time hour. Kae and Red continued on until the end of the evening, as did the double pet experience, so that Kaerella added 3.87%, 36 skill points, and 6036 pet points. RedRydeR, who started later but kept going a little later too, added 7.25%, 31 skill points, and 5808 pet points, though those weren't quite the final figures. The sorcerer Fartimaeus arrived just as we were winding down, so we stayed a little longer than had been planned.

There were, however, continuing reports in the shoutbox of problems with Auzura, and vanishing items, so it looks as if the aftermath of yesterday's problems isn't over yet.

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