SirDarth and SirPerivale both got started at around breakfast time, and then after coffee the plan was for Peri to gracefully make way for MistressSabina. That meant moving Darth from the new to the old computer, but before I logged him back in, Barbarienne took the opportunity to appear alongside Sabina, and join the Discipline guild.
This was a quick way to discover what changes had been made to the ability to freeze a guild member's experience gain, so that they could farm skill points and donate guild points to their guild. And, sure enough, when Sabina had typed in the 100% figure for Barb's donation, a window popped up saying that only the range 1 to 50% was allowed. So, no more freezing of experience to farm sp in Prokion at one's leisure, though luckily existing freezings aren't affected. MistressDomina and Sabina are both safely frozen already, on levels 27 and 30 respectively, as is SirDarth on level 22, and FoxChaser on level 1.
Apparently changes to the skill exp given by all monsters are in the works, so that Prokion sp-farming may no longer be needed, but it seems strange to get rid of one before you introduce the other. The main reason for rushing this nerf through seems to be to stop people freezing a character on level 1 to boost high-level combat parties, but surely there are enough of those characters around already?
After the recruiting, MistressSabina went out to Prokion Temple's back room, in a solo party with SirDarth plus JamesP1 and a friend of his called Kanella; they were suitably envious of the loot Sabina was picking up, but they were the ones, lower down in the Temple, who got the heaven stone.
Sabina stayed almost two hours before lunch, and levelled her drake up to 28, in the course of adding 1393 pet points. She had been aiming for 162 skill points to get four more levels of energy processing skills, but just managed to get the further 55 sp needed for a fifth level, gaining 217 skill points in all, as well as 645 guild points.
After the lunch break, Kaerella headed out to the Elite Sphinx Speer Man and his friends, just ahead of SugaRush, though she mentioned she'd been "in and out of here all day", going on to say "I can stop at any time, I'm not addicted (yet)."
Kaerella did actually manage to go up 12.94%, and gained a useful 37 skill points, along with 1165 pet points, but then it was time for my food break - though just before I left, the first reminder came up for the Auzura "Mad Monster Spawn", due at 5:00pm UK time.
So, with only 0.01% experience above level thirty, and zero skill points, MistressSabina went along to the MMS - and poor GMStratos really messed up this time, causing four mass disconnections with his monster-spawning, and not staying around afterwards to try to make ammends.
The first three disconnections weren't too bad, and to compensate for them, Stratos kindly said that he would give us the final "loots" reward even though we'd been making slightly slow progress against the last wave of monsters - so the Hands appeared, including Hand of the Guard and Hand of the Warrior, and there seemed generous amounts, I think I picked up more items then than from the previous between-wave spawnings combined... and the heaven stones only appear in that final lot.
I was lucky enough to pick up three heaven stones, as well as plenty of other stuff, so things were looking good, and people were saying "thanks"... and then Stratos spawned some more of the biggest monsters, and broke the sub-server again. And of course when everyone respawned in Randol, the "rollback" from the disconnection meant that all that new loot, as well as some experience, had vanished from all our inventories. We used our memory scrolls to return the the Mad Monster Spawn location, and waited, but GMStratos did not return to face the players and put right his blunder, there wasn't any respawning of the "loots"...and eventually people drifted away.
Well, Sabina still had a large attack potion or two, and I think three skill point boosters, not to mention 16 more tool aids - and had earned 101 guild points by helping kill quite a few high-level monsters.
But now it was time for Rage and Chuck to head out to the Sphinx Fighters and their chums, accompanied by Ratel - and BatCow joined us after a while. Ratel decided that the three of us, not including Chuck, were a strong enough party to head for the Tomb of Theos - it would take him past his usual weekday log-out time, but the Tomb is special! So, we went across, after getting more potions, and after the traditional "waiting around to waste the horse buffs we'd applied just before entering", set to it, and, well, it did work, I got to lure the Screaming Zombies, and between BatCow's and my Snare and Ratty's stun, we did fine, though I usually got hit a time or two, and had to get a bit close to the wall.
Unfortunately, before long BatCow, under parental pressure, had to leave, which was a bit of a shame as at Rage's level it cost 171,000 gold to get in, and Ratel must have spent about 129,000 too. Ratel and I decided that just the two of us would have problems if we continued, though we did kill one Screaming Zombie - it took quite a while! So after that, he logged out, and I soon followed. It was time to move all my remaining Wendy Bear pieces over to MistressDomino, to try to sell some before the maintenance later - I mean, we've had four weeks of the event now, that is probably our lot, yes?
Chuck had added 17.36% at the Sphinx types, while Rage had added 7.10%; they'd both gained 4 skill points, and Rage had got 922 pet points as well. On the brief trip into the Tomb, which did include a levelling up for Ratel, Rage had managed to add another 4.51%... I think I was getting something under 0.5% per kill, so it was probably just nine or ten Zombies we despatched, but hey it all helps, and nobody died.
MistressDomino went into merchant mode in Auzura-1, selling my last 240 assorted Wendy Bear pieces at the bargain price of 14,500 each - for the first few minutes nobody bought anything, but the next time I checked the screen, there'd been a rush of purchases, and they'd all sold out, bringing in 3.48 million, which can't be bad. Ratel had also been able to repay 23 million he'd borrowed, so despite that Tomb entrance fee I'm certainly ahead on the day. The quick end to the selling meant that SirPerivale was able to log on for a last hour, so that the drake he has charge of is now getting fairly close to level 33. SirDarth had already restarted his pet-levelling, so that JamesP1's pony is well into level 15 now, and will soon miraculously transform itself into a horse - not a mountable one, but at least they start looking a bit more impressive from level 16.
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