Bonus Week Begins

CaptainScarlet's horse may have been in its final level before it can be transformed into a level 37 horse, but level 36 is a pretty long one, so an early start seemed like a good idea, so that by lunchtime we were more than halfway there. SirPerivale did a bit of levelling on his drake, too, until after coffee.

This is, it seems, to be a special week in Last Chaos, so that today we got 50% extra experience all day. Tomorrow it will be 50% extra skill exp, then on Tuesday we get 50% extra for both, followed by double experience on Wednesday, double skill exp on Thursday, and on Saturday double experience, skill exp, and pet points. Friday's bonus is as yet unrevealed, but I doubt if I'm the only one hoping for an "upgrade event", with heaven stones twice as likely to give an item that extra plus.

After coffee I decided to continue where I'd left off last night, and took SirDarth to Prokion Temple on Auzura-4, in a solo party with Cap. Darth was still carrying one last super skill pill and skill pill, so I activated them, to give a 115% boost to his skill exp gain. This meant that, at level 31, each Orc Sergeant gave 9460 skill exp, and each Orc Axeman gave 7095.

The hour gave 204 skill points, and with the 50% boost 26% experience gain, but I kept going after that for a little under another hour, meaning that the whole session brought in 48.43% experience and 286 skill points, plus 1946 pet points. Knights definitely level up pets faster than mages do.

SirPerivale rejoined CaptainScarlet over lunch; XXRoidRageXX was there too, and the movements of our target Berserkers meant that, on my screen at least, Cap and Roid were fighting side by side. He had a new pale blue pony, which I happened to see reach level 16, and become a horse. As I was preparing to leave, a Pandora's Box appeared, and as it was a bit close to all of us, I didn't risk Peri opening it, I briefly changed to MistressDomina - so she was the one who opened the Box and picked up the five moonstones.

The afternoon session was still in Prokion Temple, though this time on Auzura-3, and with MistressBlaze and JohnWellington. I can't claim that I played 100% flat out all the time, but I did keep going. I had assumed that the 50% all-day experience boost was instead of the two-hour "Tea-Time" specials, but a 50% skill exp boost was announced at three o'clock, UK time, which was rather useful. I didn't stay in the Temple for the last half hour of it, but even so MistressBlaze added 10.84% experience and 223 skill points, plus 351 guild points, while JohnWellington gained 55.56%, the same number of skill points, and 278 guild points.

When Peri and Cap got back to Merac, we found RoidRage dead on the ground, killed by a Pandora's Beast - so MistressDomina was called out again, to get rid of it, before the pet-levelling could properly restart. He was up on his feet again before too long, I hope the Beast didn't kill his pet first, that's extra annoying. It was lucky that Cap wasn't there when the Beast was on the prowl, his horse, at level 36, would have been expensive to unseal. It is one of the perils of pet-levelling, prowling Pandora's Beasts - or people opening a box close to you and then running off when a Beast is released.

After the food break MistressDomina headed out to the Sphinx types, and had only been there about ten minutes when VinDiesel got in touch. He asked to come and join me, which seemed a good idea, so we were soon killing the Sphinx Speer Men, and the Elite, at a great speed. Unfortunately after less than ten minutes he got called away at home, but it was fun while it lasted. It was lucky I'd not been in the Tomb of Theos, as if he'd joined me there he'd not have had time to get anything like full value for his admission fee.

The rest of the session there was just solo, and by the time the Quiz was approaching, MD had added 23.16%, plus 6 skill points and 776 pet points. Ratel came online, first as his titan Argoth, who needed to die a few times to get his experience figure down a bit, as he needed to get some more skill points before levelling up. I suggested the Forgotten Temple, since you would respawn very close to where you died, so the whole business of multiple deaths would be pretty quick, and he took my advice.

We met up in the Auzura-2 Quiz Room, and this week everything went smoothly; most people survived to the end, with just a few people lost along the way. We all remembered that GM JediMike does the Old Skool Treasure Hunt, even. So, Kaerella, Ratel and MistressDomina all ended up with the full fifteen heaven stones, as well as the ten tool aids and ten moonstones.

Afterwards, SirDarth transferred a blue pan flute he had over to CaptainScarlet, who took it to Lorraine and then on to Jajan in Dratan, to get a level one pale blue pony. Cap then headed for Merac, and got the last 500 or so pet points to get his horse to level 37 - I managed to stop the points score right on that, which looks tidier I think. Cap then equipped the new pale blue pony for a few minutes, while MistressDomina was busy again with the Sphinx types.

The session with the Sphinx Fighters and their friends was a fairly short one, but it got MD another 10.55%, 2 more skill points, and 334 pet points. A temple knight turned up and soloed the Elite Sphinx Speer Man a few times, and a mage who can only have been in the mid-twenties made two attempts to battle a Sphinx Fighter, dying both times. It's not a good plan to go toe to toe with them in that level of armour - but I suppose it was the "lag effect" one gets there, when they appear to stop well away from one, but then suddenly are right on top of you, that got her.

After that, it was time for both pet levellers to be on, so Cap exchanged the level 1 blue pony for Peri's drake, which was well into level 23 now, and also transformed the horse into a mount, which at the moment he has custody of, until I work out which character it should go to. It wasn't long before the drake reached level 24, and the pony reached level 2. Progress comes quickly at the early levels.