I did attempt to give SirGalahad an overnight session again, but he lost two or three hours to a ks-er who came along and killed his death mask lancer. Still, the horse had reached level 35 by breakfast time, so the attempt had been worth it. Gal of course continued until after coffee, but then it was time for Rage and RedRyder to head out to Prokion Temple together.
NightWarrior had acquired some more items he wanted to sell me, so that slightly delayed my start. he'd got four heaven stones, and then he wanted to sell me a couple of skill point boosters and an effort scroll (50% extra skill exp for 10 minutes) for 700,000 gold, which seemed a bit high, but he reckoned that I could sell the spbs at 300,000 each, and the scroll for half that. And indeed MistressDomino did manage to sell the skill point boosters at that price over the lunch break, though I'd tried to raise the price of heaven stones a bit further, to 875,000 gold, and nobody seemed tempted.
The Prokion session brought Rage another 32.76%, and RedRyder 9.76% - they each got 189 skill points. For Red that seems a bit marginal, rather a high experience gain for the skill points added. The place I found, just short of the "corridor room", had a mixture of the level 27 orc fighters and the level 27 orc axemen, perhaps I need to find somewhere with more of the fighters, and maybe a level 23 orc soldier or two, and less axemen...
The afternoon session, for a change, involved a different Rage - not xRAGEx on Tairen-1, but my level 72 rogue RAGE on Auzura-4. She teamed up with my level 62 titan MrChuckNorris, and went out to the Sphinx Fighters and Sphinx Speer Men, and of course the Elite Sphinx Speer Man. As those particular Egyptian-type fighters are level 63 and 64, in a solo party Rage gets very little from them - but bring Chuck onto the scene, and the elite one gives over half a million experience on average, with the non-elites about a third of that. And Rage's skill exp increases too!
The session did come to a slightly early end due to a disconnection, but by then Chuck had gone up 1.81% just from being in the Combat party, while Rage was ahead by 9.83%. They gained 15 skill points each, too. I discovered new quests for both of them, as well, which will take Rage out to the Forgotten Temple, somewhere she has been known to go to farm - while Chuck will need to fight some sphinx types himself, which at his level shouldn't be difficult as long as he avoids getting mobbed.
MistressDomino set up in merchant mode; answering some of the usual questions about how to get and feed pets, and find Jajan, got her a first recruit for her Friends list, a rogue called Masian. This time the 150,000 gold effort scroll did sell, as did five heaven stones at 875,000, plus some large attack potions and physical attack potions, so in all about twelve million got gained. And SirGalahad was back at work in Maargadum Jail, of course, with his horse approaching the halfway mark in level 35.
In the evening I decided that it was time to level up Tairen's Kaerella a bit. She was on level 10, ready to enter the Guardian system, so SirGalahad briefly registered for the scheme, and Kae chose him as her Guardian - after all he does have a 100% record of success with his apprentices, Rage and Red! I'd only recently realised that the new starting scroll a character gets, "Juno NPC Scroll", described as "a scroll that holds the location of NPCs and Monsters in Juno", actually works as an infinitely reusable teleportation scroll - click on any listed NPC, and follow the right buttons, and you move straight to their location. Click on the NPC Teleporter Rian, and you're immediately outside the entrance to Velpist Temple. Click on Elizabeth, and you're standing right next to her to get her buff. Click on Hunter Dranore, south of town, and you're there right away. A great time-saver! It made the quest to kill jaguars for Geres go very quickly, Kae just had to kill them, and once she had the full amount of teeth, she could teleport right to Geres, get the quest reward, and hurry on out to do it all again.
Kaerella got a drake egg as a drop at last, and so was able to go to Lorraine and Jajan for her own hatchling; once the jaguars were finished with, it was time for the usual succession of rooms in the Temple, from wandering zombies on to the ancient and berserk type, and then on to the more dangerous room with a few berserk zombies, but also the more protective corpse rangers and skeleton soldiers.
Kae had reach level 16 a little before nine when an announcement came up for another low-level Mad Monster Spawn, due to start on Tairen-4 in ten minutes. I did think of taking Kae herself to it, since she wasn't, in Velpist Temple, very far from the location - but it was a different sub-server, so I had to log out anyway, so I decided to take RedRyder instead, feeling that at level 29 she was high enough to be at no great risk, from the way previous low-level MMS events had gone...and she is the one with the mount, to supply horse buffs. Just in case, I did activate the first of Red's beginner-type resurrection scrolls, though.
Red had the "Junior MMS" location on her conventional memory scroll, so teleported there - and who should she discover among the half dozen or so people waiting but our old friend the knight Ratel, in his Tairen incarnation. We formed a party, though the only other person who wanted to join was a titan called ForSakenSoal, who we soon discovered was level one. Full marks for bravery, I think! That's titans for you, they just don't know the meaning of the word "fear"...and are a bit hazy about how to spell it, too.
When the monsters spawned, Ratel bravely dashed to the fore - even in the early twenties a knight's armour is pretty good, after all...only to discover that that bloated fat boss spider Baal was among the monsters spawned in that direction, with its potent magic attack. So, Ratel died; I expect he used one of the beginner resurrection scrolls, because he was soon back in action. Our titan didn't last long either, but was soon back with us. Not in time for much fighting, so in all he only went up about three levels, mainly from local great horn beasts Ratel and I killed before and after the monster spawning.
There were butchers and pilferers and gnolls and elite goblin scouts, plus salamanders and much more; I remembered that RedRyder is meant to be skill point farming so didn't attack all that many red-name types, so only added 0.86%, thankfully, along with 2 skill points. It was lucky I was in a party to dilute any experience gain. When the monsters were all defeated, the loot rewards were generous, with a second lot of hands spawned as we were gathering up the first lot. Unfortunately the spawning always produces a "lag spike", and Ratel was lagged out for a minute, so didn't pick up as much loot as the rest of us, but hopefully he managed to get some stuff. He's now on Red's Friends list, as indeed is that titan.
Kaerella logged back in; I had been thinking of taking her out to fight a few ghouls in Prokion Temple, but then noticed that it was only about 15 or 20 minutes until my log-out time, so just headed back to Velpist Temple - and was able to get Kae up to level 17, so that in all this evening she had gone up by 674.75%, got her hatchling up to level 2, and earned around 300 skill points I think, though there are still a number of skills that aren't yet at their highest possible levels.
SirGalahad kept busy while all this was going on, of course. Despite a couple of occasions when some passer-by killed his death mask lancer, his horse should only be an hour or so away from starting its 36th and last level, by the time Gal's computer gets switched off tonight. He has earned an overnight rest, I think - though MistressDomino may do some selling of Red's newly-acquired loot...
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