An Uneventful Evening

My Auzura merchant MistressDomino stayed in merchant mode overnight, and managed to sell quite a lot. The chaos balls had gone quickly, but the item drop boosters took longer; luckily all the moon cake flour had been sold by morning, plus all the pan flutes and drake eggs, and a few moonstones and heaven stones, so that the gold reserves went up by around 15%.

As I knew I'd not be able to do any active playing in the morning, MistressDomino stayed on for a while, with the older computer hosting the various characters who needed to put in half an hour online to confirm their continuing 10% extra skill exp from the attendance allowance system. The servers got a little flaky as ten o'clock approached, though; I was unable to log Kaerella in on Cariae, finally accepting the "timed out" option - which got me to "account already logged in". So MistressSabina logged in on Auzura... but with a few minutes of her half hour to go, she got disconnected, and when she logged back in, was back to needing another ten minutes online. MistressDomino got disconnected then too, so that ended her selling stint; once I'd restarted the game, Cariae's Kaerella was finally able to do her thirty minutes.

SirGalahad went to the spike canines in Maargadum Jail for his half hour, to do a little pet-levelling on his pale blue pony - and the little fellow reached level 16, becoming a full-sized horse, just as the half hour ended. SirGalahad stayed there after that, though, while MistressDomina did her thirty minutes, mainly mining. Then CaptainScarlet was able to log on, and he too went to Maargadum Jail, heading for the fifth floor to spar with his death mask lancer.

I was busy all afternoon downstairs, except for checking on the pet-levellers' progress, and SirGalahad managed to get his horse to level 18 before I logged him out. CaptainScarlet moved across to the older computer, then, with his drake past the two-thirds mark in level 46 - and SirGalahad logged on for a little sp farming in Prokion Temple.

As well as the double experience, dungeon time was running on his first trip, but he only needed 120 skill points for the first level of expert weaponsmith, and they were gained well within his level. Then the degraded golien commander had a visit from Gal, who died enough to get back to the start of level 24.

With dungeon time now off, it was easy to get the 179 skill points for the final level of expert armoursmith, so that just leaves him needing the last two levels of expert weaponsmith. He stopped off outside Ebony Mine to do some mining of his own, using thirty pickaxes and tool aids. CaptainScarlet moved across to Auzura-6, and Gal gave him most of the quality stones he'd mined - Cap was down to his last 110, with the drake three-quarters of the way through its level by then, so a gift of 890 stones got him up to the round thousand.

MistressSabina then logged in instead of SirGalahad, and went out to the giants. Her first trip brought her fifteen level 61 weapons, which got her inventory weight up from 62% to 138%, and sold to the npc merchant back in town for over 4 million gold. Another trip brought in another 3.3 million, and a few more minutes got MistressSabina ready for a second-level ignition run. So, she moved across to the sphinx fighters and sphinx "speer" men, buffed up, and tried them out, using Curse to slow them down, and Stone to freeze them in place. The only problem with Stone is that it removes and replaces other debuffs, so that, once it ends, the sphinx fighter was able to move at full speed. Oh, and it has just, allegedly, an 80% chance of success, though it seems lower! At least, if it fails to work, the Curse continues to slow the monster down.

Stone only lasts ten seconds for MistressSabina at present, although new levels of the skill when she reaches 56, 66, 80, and 88 each add a further five seconds to that, I see. I didn't stay long with the sphinx types; the place was pretty busy, for one thing, and, though Sabina put on 2% fairly quickly, and another 2% when she used the ignition run, the drops weren't very generous. So I'm not sure that Sabina will be leaving the giants for good yet...

The evening session gave MistressSabina 20.19% experience, 61 skill points, and 1050 pet points, so it wasn't the longest or most intensive session ever. It seemed strange not to have some sort of special event started; for a long time the website didn't show any events at all scheduled for this week, with the events calendar stopping at yesterday's Sunday Quiz, but finally things were added, with a "low-level" 46-90 "Mad Monster Spawn" today, and a high-level one tomorrow. While tomorrow's timings are the usual type, today's low-level get-together is for some reason scheduled for five hours later than usual, with Auzura, the first to go, not starting until eleven o'clock UK time - or midnight for most of Europe. I hope that they don't do that too often - as it is, it moves even the Auzura event too far into the night for me to report on it today, though I do hope to take MistressBlaze along, after this blog is published.

CaptainScarlet had continued his pet-levelling, giving Sabina her solo party; he did get ks'd a couple of times, but was soon back in action, as soon as the death mask lancer had respawned. He will have to log out to allow MistressDomina to loan her armour, accessories and weapon to MistressBlaze, but by then his drake will be comfortably past the 80% mark in level 46.