Many Quests

CaptainScarlet was on duty pet-levelling overnight, though that just moved his horse on one level, from 26 to 27; and as usual SirPerivale joined him in Merac unfashionably early in the morning, to level his dragon hatchling a bit more. I think this particular drake-to-be may well end up with MistressBlaze, as while she has a mount, she doesn't have a pet yet. Not that that matters while she is still fighting in Prokion Temple, as the Orcs there are blue-named to her now, so don't give pet experience.

After coffee, it was time for MistressBlaze and SirDarth to head for Prokion Temple. Our usual spot on Auzura-4 was in use, but Auzura-3's back room seemed empty, so Darth joined MB - though after a few minutes I noticed a rogue called Missue half-hidden in a side wall. It's a difficult matter of etiquette - obviously one can't just stay wall-hugging there without playing for hours if that means other people can't use the place, but one still has some slight claim on the room. Ah well, neither MB nor Darth were using booster potions...

After a while Missue left, but returned before too long with a lower-level mage friend, Inaa, to help her level. Having Missue fighting there rather slowed things down for MistressBlaze and for SirDarth, who, after borrowing Galahad's +10 armour set, was able to do some fighting too, and got the +6 "event weapon" sword its full set of bloodseals at last. The whole morning session added 7.27% experience for MB, and 101 skill points; SirDarth added 62.70%, getting him safely into level 28, and 100 skill points, plus 180 pet points when he gave his new drake a brief outing towards the end.

After that, Darth checked up on the local quests, and got the cracked axes and dark orbs he needed from MB, who had enough, and got caught up on the available quests. Riding out to visit Shuraine at his oasis, he encountered Kamira just outside town - but by the time Rage got there, she had vanished. Just assorted quest rewards added another 10.82% experience.

One thing which seemed a good idea was to get rid of SirDarth's red name, in case even at a comparatively low "evil" rating it reduced his attack power, so Darth and SirPerivale took a quick trip to Prokion Temple on the Auzura-5 PvP-enabled sub-server. Darth removed his armour, both to speed things up and to avoid the possibility of an item becoming "sealed", and Peri killed him a couple of times. So Darth's name is now a neutral white once more, and with a "good" rating of ten, Peri now has a coveted blue name, not something many pet levellers aspire to.

After that, SirDarth and MistressBlaze teamed up again, and this time had the Auzura-3 room safely to themselves. We stopped when SirDarth reached level 29, as that means he can now use one of the +10 swords, and do some solo fighting for himself to get rather more skill points. That meant he had added another 70.09% experience, and 137 more skill points.

MistressBlaze had added 9.55%, and 136 skill points; this took her to within 1.5% of level 37, so it seemed a good idea for her to check out what quests were available for her in the time remaining before my food break, which meant a trip to Merac. There were various errands in town concerning a wedding, and also thirty Berserkers to kill, keeping well clear of CaptainScarlet as he had logged back in to provide the solo party and start pet-levelling again, followed by a ride down to the south of the map to kill enough Gnolls to acquire ten red toenails. MB added 5.20%, mainly from quest rewards, and 12 skill points - her half-frozen experience gain meant that the Discipline guild had gained 479 guild points over the course of the day. So she has now reached level 37, the last level at which fighting in Prokion Temple, even with a lower-level companion, is really practical.

After Cap had his Berserker killed by a sorcerer called "kakao" (at least, he was there when I noticed that the Berserker was dead, and the death was so recent that the small amount of gold dropped couldn't yet be picked up by me), the nearby leveller XXRoidRageXX asked if I knew who'd ks'd us, so I told him. He asked who my main was, so I said it was my level 72 rogue "RAGE"... He replied "I'm mort", and said he was raising horses to sell so that he could afford to get to level 141. It costs "a ton" to level up by then, he told me, and I can well believe it. "I'll be back later, you see anyone mess with us let me know, I'll put them on mort's KOS list"... Looking at the rankings for Auzura, it would seem that he is by far the highest-level titan we have, at level 140, MortimerJones. There are two mages and a knight that are slightly higher level than that, but getting that high is certainly a great achievement. One of the mages isn't in the Vendetta guild, I see, but Mort and the others are.

For the evening, MistressDomina headed for the Sphinx types, and soloed the more solitary Sphinx Fighters and Sphinx Speer Men, though it wasn't very quick work. Nobody else was out there, except a titan who killed a couple of the locals, using quite a few health potions judging by the red mist rising around him, and then decided to tackle the Elite Speer Man. I don't think he was very high-level, he certainly made a speedy exit then! After I'd done enough out in Dratan, there was just time to do that quest on level five of Maargadum Jail, to collect three Beast Leader Rings from the Beast Crawlers, and get the quest reward. By then MD had added just 17.99%, 9 skill points, and 757 pet points.

So, I did rather a lot of quests today, getting a couple of crystals of effort, some physical attack potions, a low-grade accessory or two, and a pair of knight boots that I just sold to Geres, as well as some gold and some experience. CaptainScarlet had spent much of the evening continuing his horse-levelling, so that the horse should just reach level 29 by logging-off time; SirPerivale's hatchling should just about have reached level 13 by then.