It was time for one of my big grocery shopping trips this morning, so, although SirDarth and SirPerivale did manage an hour and a half of pet-levelling before I went out, I would be away from the computers for too long to keep the drakes fed and happy, so at around nine in the morning, UK time, they had to log out.
Instead, Kaerella and MistressSabina held a small contest - which of them would be able to mine the most stones? They both have their mining skills maximised, so it would be a close-run thing, I was sure. After just over three hours, with their hammers reduced in endurance from 7200 to 1500, the result was that Sabina got 9 quality stones, 15 imperfect stones, and 15 flawed stones, while Kae got only 6 quality stones, 12 imperfect stones, and a massive 31 imperfect stones. As the stone types are worth 5, 3 and 1 hunger points respectively, although Kae got more stones, Sabina came out as the winner, scoring 105 points to Kae's 97.
Darth and Peri then managed some more drake-levelling over lunch, with Darth's drake reaching level 30, Then, it was time for MistressDomina to make her trip to Prokion Temple's upstairs back room, to battle the Orc Axemen and the Orc Sergeants. Once again, a 115% boost was applied for an hour, and despite a phone call interrupting me, MD still managed to earn 457 skill points in the hour, and 487 in all, along with 1047 pet points.
There was still a little time before the early evening food break, so Rage and MrChuckNorris went out to the Sphinx Fighters and Speer Men. The level 35 archer Valkyre turned up before long, and, as Kae had done yesterday, Rage invited her to "ks" a bit. She did get the attention of a couple of the Sphinx Fighters, but I was alert for that sort of thing, and they soon switched their attack to the person firing those annoying crossbow bolts at them.
Valkyre didn't actually stay very long, so we continued a little after her departure - and we were back in action for the evening session a bit later, too, but an announcement came up that the Mad Monster Spawn for Auzura had been brought forward to five o'clock, UK time, so things got a little bit busy for a while.
MistressSabina borrowed the good mage armour back from MistressDomina, and went out to the usual "MMS" location, while the second computer played host to a bit more drake-levelling with SirDarth. As a precaution, SirDarth was on the Auzura-4 subserver, since last week the MMS gave Auzura-3, at least, four mass disconnections - but things behaved themselves this time, and although there was lag, and indeed a slight case of the "Black Screen of Randol", everything held together.
The waves of monsters were hard, and took a long time to deal with - one Sphinx Commander that I was involved in fighting reset its health to 100% a number of times, which was annoying, but most of the monsters are a bit higher than him, and I did get to respawn in Randol a few times. We were allowed twenty minutes to clear the final wave, but while there were plenty of people at around Sabina's level, ie 30-ish, the short notice did mean we were short of high-level people who could actually inflict damage quickly.
I did make a few comments to that effect, and also reminded people that we were "owed" a final spawning of goodies, as last week's final disconnection and rollback had removed such booty from our inventories. I don't know if that did have any influence, but GMStratos did "stop the clock", even though in theory we had to kill every monster within twenty minutes to earn the final spawning of assorted Hands... and when we finally got rid of the last Flutons, we got our just reward. In all, Sabina managed to pick up 2 heaven stones, 8 item drop boosters, 9 skill point boosters, 5 large attack potions, 4 large defence potions, and a few tool aids, potions of haste, etc. And once the last items had been picked up, I hastily exited the game, to "save" my inventory state. MistressSabina had managed to earn 64 more guild points for the Discipline guild.
The MMS had taken a surprisingly long time, and I also needed to transfer all my Wendy Bear pieces, and other sellable loot, over to MistressDomino - though it also seemed like a good idea to get SirDarth his school uniform, so a set of the bear pieces was moved across to him. His first attempt was so successful, I think he won five times in a row, that he got two bonus books of melding when he finally lost; the second set of pieces got him a sword cover, but at last the third set got him the school uniform, and after trading across two more bonus books of melding from MistressDomino, his armour rating was suitably boosted as the four armour pieces each got a temporary extra +1. Unlike some costume sets, the school uniform doesn't include a cover for a character's headgear.
There was also the slight complication that a message came up warning that all items needed to be removed from the Merchant House system before maintenance, as the NPCs involved were going to be removed, so that any items left up for sale would be lost - so I had to take out the items that Chuck, Kae, and Rage had only recently put in, losing the deposits involved - so that was a bit annoying, and time-consuming.
Finally Rage and Chuck were able to go back out to the Sphinx types - but at 7:42 they both got disconnected, and I couldn't log them back in... well, among the "timed out" messages I did once get Chuck as far as the teleporter in Randol, but that wouldn't move him to Dratan City, and he disconnected again. It looks as if that was my router playing up, or a temporary fault on the line; I switched the router off for a few minutes, since I was getting "local only" messages, and then when I switched it back on, after the usual delay the "local and internet" caption appeared, and all was well again.
However, there was an email to deal with that took a while, so the evening session was a bit shorter than I'd have liked. Still, Rage did manage to add 13.03% overall, while Chuck added 32.40%; they got 16 skill points each, too, and Rage's horse got 1599 pet points.
Since it is increasingly likely that today's Maintenance will see the end of the Wendy Bear event, MistressDomino set up near the arena on Auzura-1, close to a little fountain so that her horse was also visible, with "Wendy Bear pieces 14.5k each, and some Heaven Stones for you!" The 43 heaven stones sold first, at what I thought was a slightly high price of 2.15 million each; I replaced them in that tenth slot with 64 item drop boosters at 650k each, and they sold too, along with some of the bear pieces, and then when the IDBs sold, put 53 large defence potions up at 175k each, and they sold as well... I tried some large attack potions at 395k after that, but nobody went for them, and all the remaining Wendy Bear pieces sold out.
So, that was another 239 Wendy Bear pieces safely sold, and MistressDomino's gold reserves put back now to higher than before Kae's new armour was bought. Now we just need to research current prices on some other things, like moonstone boxes, MistressDomino has been just selling those Wendy bear pieces for so many weeks that I'm slightly out of touch - and I've amassed no less than 400 moonstone boxes, mainly as drops either in Prokion Temple or from the Sphinx types. Are they worth 50 million, perhaps?
While MistressDomino was selling her items, SirPerivale was giving his drake one final levelling session, and just before logging out time managed at last to get the little chap all the way to level 37, so that's another task completed. Tomorrow, some riding around on the back of a dragon is definitely on the agenda!
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