A Quiet Time

The computers here didn't even get switched on until the evening, but at last RedRackham was able to hurry to Maargadum Jail on Auzura-6, and start to do a little pet-levelling. Before long CaptainScarlet was able to log on too, and form a party; he too went to Maargadum Jail, but after fighting a few canines on the ground floor, he just went down to the second level.

The Jail was pretty busy, and at times the only place CaptainScarlet could fight was with the first three dire spike canines and their on two-headed canine companion, though Cap fought the two-headed types as much as he could, since they give the most experience. He just managed to reach the second level of Ignition at the end, and luckily was able to use the main canines room there for the run - by the time he logged out, he'd gained 22.08% and 38 skill points.

CaptainScarlet had time to sell his loot to Geres back in Randol, and convert his supply of empty baskets into Halloween candies, which have the advantage of still functioning after the Halloween event ends. And then he logged out.

MistressDomina joined Kaerella for the Sunday Quiz on Auzura-2; now that the US clocks have gone back, the Quiz is back to its usual time in the UK, 8:30pm. Similarly, after a week out of step, the "dungeon time" hours are back the way they were, starting at 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, and 11:00, which I find more convenient than having them an hour earlier.

The Quiz proceeded smoothly. As I'd expected, MD's "widowmaker" C2 costume had run out of time, I think it expired on Friday, but since most people strip to their underwear in the Quiz Room to reduce lag, that didn't matter. She may take another day or two off before her new costume is downloaded.

After the Quiz, I didn't notice any bad lag effects at all; once the heaven stones and moonstones had been moved across to my merchant, MistressDomino, and CaptainScarlet had also traded his loot across, RedRackham was able to go back to his death mask lancer on the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail, this time on Auzura-4, while MistressDomino went through her supply of empty baskets, methodically converting them, one by one, into Halloween candies. By the end, she had between 59 and 88 of them - the mud, lizard's tail, mosquito's eyeball, bone, frog's leg, and pumpkin candies. And once that was done, well, it was time to get the blog sorted out. After a rather long day, I wanted to have a relatively early night.

I did take advantage of the "mini tiered leveller" event on two accounts, buying on each a level 61-90 platinum blessed iris, for a single aeria point... which entitled me to get, again for 1 ap, a package of a rune of protection I and 5 chaos balls. I wasn't greatly tempted by the "BOGO" two-for-the-price-of-one offers this weekend, to spend enough aeria points for further bonus packages, but no doubt there will soon be other cunning plans to part me from my money.