Simon Says...

I managed to give Cariae's Kaerella and Barbarienne, and then Auzura's Rage, MistressDomina, MistressSabina, and Kaerella their half hours for the attendance allowance this morning, and was then able to log MistressDomina on in good time for a late morning "power hour". All foxes attacked only gave a single experience and skill exp, so there was no unexpected event running. MD's Twisted guildie Newt suggested that we ought to link up on Cariae, so we did that, with me as Barbarienne, and added each other to our Friends lists; her rogue over there is around level 77 I think.

Back on Auzura-4, there was still plenty of time for MistressDomina and Kaerella to get into the Tomb of Theos, and get to the anubis spear men, before the eleven to twelve hour began. Newt did say she'd come along to keep me company, which I thought would mean joining our combat party - but as we were along at the first corner after the main spear man room, she decided to stay in that room, which just had one night shadow fighting, and party with him.

Anyway, MistressDomina started her berserker, adrenaline, and small crit potions when the dungeon time hour began, followed swiftly by the platinum blessed iris, and during the hour used 58 experience boosters - which meant that she went up by 27.94% in the hour, and got 11 skill points; with a kill or two before and after the total for the morning was 27.96% and 12 skill points, plus 1198 pet points. Kaerella had kept the local population of sphinx fighters under control, killing the fifty needed for the repeatable quest within the first half hour; her experience gain, unboosted, was 2.03%, plus 9 skill points and 1045 pet points.

Kaerella logged out over lunch, so that a restarted game wouldn't be liable to little freezes the older computer specialises in after a few hours, while MistressDomina spent the time in the safety of the ancient grey mummies room. After lunch she returned to the same spear man spot as before, and was soon joined by Kaerella. Things went much as before, including an ignition run each - MistressDomina again got through 58 experience boosters, which this time gave her 27.46%, along with 10 skill points. About fifteen minutes into the hour, MistressDomina levelled up, to 105...which means I guess I am in the market for a pair of mage gloves of that level, if suitably upgraded. Once the dungeon time "power hour" was over, MD and Kae moved across to the ancient grey mummies for an hour, so that for the whole afternoon session MistressDomina added 28.54%, plus 23 skill points and 2524 pet points, while Kaerella gained 2.55%, 21 skill points, and just 1329 pet points for her drake SirFrancis, as for most of the second hour she just stood and watched while MD fought, which gave Kae a chance to equip her level 37 polar bear cub for a while - it gained 4.39% from MD's kills.

And then it was time for the early evening food break, which took a little while as it included catching up on the penultimate episode of this season's "Merlin" fantasy adventure. Still, I was back in time for this week's GM-hosted event - the only one we have scheduled, I think.

Auzura led off the evening's event rota, a game of "Simon Says" - so if the GM said "Simon says, run away from me", you did it, but if he then said "Now run back", you ignored him, as he hadn't said "Simon says". There weren't any penalties for getting an action wrong, it was just a bit of fun - and at the end [GM]Darasuum spawned the usual kind of loot. There were rather a lot of people to divide it up among, but Kaerella got 3 skill point boosters, 1 large attack potion, 1 large defence potion, 2 item drop boosters, and 4 tool aids. Katar was next - it was [GM]Darasuum again, but this time at the end he spawned a fluton, which killed a few unsuspecting people. Still, Kaerella was not that close to it, luckily - and got 2 skill point boosters, 4 item drop boosters, 6 large defence potions, 3 large attack potions, and 4 tool aids in the scrimmage at the end.

Cariae was next on the list, with Dara again, and no fluton - Kaerella there ended up with 4 more skill point boosters, along with 3 item drop boosters, 4 large defence potions, 5 large attack potions, and 6 tool aids, plus the usual small HP and mana recovery pots, which isn't bad going for a quarter of an hour's event I guess.

On Sarissa, Kaerella is only level 28; with five minutes to go before the start, I noticed that she didn't have a dragon hatchling to help pick up loot; luckily she did have a drake egg, so I galloped to Lorraine, and then went to Jajan in Dratan, and hurried back, arriving at the north gate with only a couple of minutes to spare. We did get a fluton again, towards the end, but [GM]Drasuum did make sure that we were almost all well away from its spawning point, so no deaths were recorded. Kae's booty here was no less than 7 item drop boosters, as I think the turn-out was a little lower, plus 4 skill point boosters, 2 large attack potions, 4 large defence potions, and 8 tool aids.

The fifth server was Hatzring, where Kaerella is a level lower, at 27. There wasn't a fluton, and for some reason the loot at the end seemed a bit less - all Kae managed to grab were a couple of large attack potions, a single item drop booster, 5 large defence potions, and 4 tool aids. Some people complained that they didn't get anything, or just a couple of the small MP recovery pots. Dara seemed to be getting the hang of the game slightly better, though, with a few more cunning Simon-less requests to catch people out.

On Tairen, we zoomed back up to level 29; [GM]Darasuum completed his mission, having done all six servers, and we had another enjoyable time. My cunning ploy of saying, just as the loot was spawned at the end "Simon says, let Kaerella pick up all the loot" didn't actually work, but I did do unusually well that time, managing to pick up no less than 9 item drop boosters, 7 skill point boosters, 6 large attack potions, 3 large defence potions, and 6 tool aids; since a "hand of the guard" gives one each of the item drop and skill point boosters, plus 2 of the rather less valuable tool aids, I was a bit lucky there.

There was just time after that for SirGalahad to make his first visit to Prokion Temple for a few days, and spend half an hour fighting the ghouls there. There was a fair bit of competition for them, but the archer LadyTempesst was carefully avoiding fighting them and only attacking the mummies, so we avoided any overlap. SirGalahad went up by 2.81% and 70 skill points during that rather short session.

All through the evening, CaptainScarlet had been hard at work fighting the death mask lancer in Maargadum Jail - he also provided SirGalahad with his solo party. I have no intention of taking his current drake beyond level 50, as soon as convenient it will be exchanged for another drake, perhaps Rage's or MistressSabina's, but it did at least reach a third of the way through its level before the evening was over.