A Gathering of Mummies

SirGalahad went out to Maargadum Jail before breakfast, mainly to get his attendance allowance confirmed, though I did let him stay for a whole hour, so that his pony managed to level up. When luring one spike canine he also attracted the attention of two dire spike canines, and he lost a lot of health before he was able to kill those - but when he'd lured the spike canine behind the teleporter, and equipped his shield instead of the +15 dual swords, his health gradually returned to 100%. On the older computer, Barbarienne did some mining to pass her half hour, followed by Auzura's Kaerella; then Cariae's Kaerella and Auzura's Rage took over. Kae used eight hammers, plus tool aids, to boost her supply of quality stones, while Rage just did a little regular mining to pass the time. Kaerella did get a disconnection during here time, though Rage stayed online safely.

The third day's Attendance raises the skill exp gain bonus from 3% to 4%, which is a step in the right direction, although a minor one. To complete the set of seven attendees, MistressSabina and MistressDomina logged in; Sabina did a little mining, and MistressDomina went out to check on the Condition of the Tomb of Theos - which was nicely on 100% easy once again. MistressDomina entered, initially in a solo party with Sabina, and then partied with Kaerella, my Auzura archer, once Sabina had finished her half hour.

So, MistressDomina and Kaerella spent the day in the Tomb of Theos with the ancient grey mummies, basically. Sometimes the room was just about their own, and sometimes the room was very crowded, with MistressDomina even having to share the corridor just leading into the room with a German knight, while Kaerella was one of four or five people in the main room. We were lucky with the timing of the first "red run" ignition for both of them, and Kaerella did okay on her second such run in the evening too, although by then the older computer was starting to get a bit cranky, freezing up for a second or two when viewing angle had to be changed. MD's second red run, though, wasn't much of an event as the place was crowded and she had to include the screaming zombie, and a few ancient screaming zombies, in her mix.

Kaerella did actually manage to complete a quest, by killing ten screaming zombies - or the same one ten times. The rogue and the knight who'd had a disagreement recently were both in the room at one stage, but the rogue left abruptly, which was probably just as well. I did get ks'd for a while by a level 27 archer, LightChaos, and tried to persuade her that she really ought to have been farming skill points in Prokion Temple. As I wasn't using pots, I didn't mind the ks-ing, though as often happens it went on to a request to join the party, which wasn't really on.

By the early evening food break MistressDomina had added 4.42% and 82 skill points, plus 4496 pet points, while Kaerella had gained 5.06% and 71 skill points (mainly because she arrived in the Tomb a little later), plus 4225 pet points. The evening session, helped along by a couple of hours of double experience gain, saw MD add another 6.05%, 59 skill points, and 3476 pet points, with Kae getting a further 7.25%, 58 skill points, and 3434 pet points.

The new day's "attendance allowance" was up from 3% to 4%, though it appears to have limitations as to what it will stack on - the 150% extra from kills made on the red ignition runs was unchanged, with MD still getting 11000 skill exp and Kae getting 9900. What was slightly strange was that, until MistressDomina had completed the thirty minutes of attendance, she didn't even get yesterday's 3%, just her normal amount per kill.

One level 90 assassin called ScOrPioN requested to join my Friends list, and then asked about joining Twisted; SacSalop was afk at that time, and when he did start making contributions to the guild chat, she had just logged out, but I did finally get her pointed in his direction. I didn't hear any more, though, so I don't know what went wrong there. There is talk of a Twisted attempt on one of the castle sieges tomorrow, though Saccy seemed unsure of its timing, thus far. if it's the 1:00am one on Sunday morning, I may have a prior engagement with a pillow... The forum shoutbox was rather quiet, though PkingArcher was there, an alternate account of Zhegao's, and when someone asked if a GM or GS was there, said "only a former gamesage", so he seems to have retired, which seems a shame. He didn't do the job for very long, but seemed pretty good at it, as far as I could tell.

Once MistressDomina and Kaerella had logged out, CaptainScarlet and RedRackham went down to the death mask soldier and death mask lancer, respectively, on the fifth floor of the Auzura-4 Jail. So, Cap had the opportunity to move his drake a little further through level 45, and Red moved his horse on a bit through level 36. We are promised some double pet experience tomorrow evening, so perhaps at least one of them will be able to take advantage of some of that.