The Invisible Moose

I let SirGalahad stay in Jail overnight - in Maargadum Jail, that is, on its fifth level, fighting a death mask lancer. All went smoothly, and by the morning the Christmas Gift Boxes had yielded two platinum drop boosters, while by coffee time the horse had reached level 32.

After coffee I needed to do a little moving around of stuff over on Cariae, as both Kaerella and Keerella had rather full inventories, but once that was sorted out, Kaerella was able to teleport out from Dratan City to the elite akane giant and its friends, for a little gentle skill point farming.

Kamira played hard to get, and it was almost noon by the time she turned up. So, that seemed a good point for Kae to finish on - and Keerella rode out to fight Kammy, stopping along the way to open a convenient Pandor's Box, which dropped 50,000 gold for her. The fight with Kamira was a bit one-sided; there wasn't a rare accessory dropped this time, but all the normal bits and pieces appeared, which as usual were enough to make Kee's trip worthwhile.

Kaerella had added 7.64% experience by then, along with 51 skill points and 637 pet points for SirFrancis. And then once Kee had logged out it was time for SirGalahad to go directly to Jail again, to do another hour or so's pet-levelling over lunch.

The afternoon session was a Tairen-1 team-up for SirGalahad, doing all the work, and RedRyder, standing watching, in Prokion Temple, again with an assortment of orc sergeants and axemen, plus the occasional orc fighter, close to the top of the central stairs. SirGalahad reached level 33, so keeps ahead of his horse; that means that the orc axemen are blue-named for him now, so equipping his pet while fighting in Prokion is definitely no longer worthwhile. In all 32.94% got added, along with 155 more skill points and 242 guild points for Discipline. RedRyder got 10.47%, and, as she was there from the start, 155 skill points too, as well as 40 guild points.

The evening was generally more of the same, with both the back room and the corridor room busy - with the Sunday Quiz at 8:30, the session was a bit shorter than sometimes, so that SirGalahad earned just 23.32% and 152 skill points, and RedRyder got 8.19% and 151. Before we started, Red had gone to Misty Canyon to set her level 29 experience back to 0%, having spent her current skill point total on assorted special skills.

The quiz on Tairen-2 went smoothly. There were a couple of people "multi-clienting", with at least half a dozen characters in starter armour following their proper character - but I think it may have been a tip-off from the gamesage Airadella, who was just outside the quiz room when I went in, that brought [GM]Moose onto the scene. He wasn't visible, but he said on the local chat that he had just caught two multi-client running people, and sure enough, both clusters of clones had vanished.

As far as the quiz answers are concerned, that [GM]Krash, sadly no longer with Aeria, runs the "Pharaoh's Treasure" event is still the correct answer, and that was the vital twentieth question; everyone assumed the answer hadn't been changed, so we all got our full number of heaven stones, and left happy. I wasn't really concentrating after that, so might well have got the following question wrong, but spawning back in town then, to get out of the quiz room, is the thing to do. It's strange that, unlike the smaller but similar individual guild halls, they've never put an NPC inside who can teleport people back out again if they ask nicely...

SirGalahad took over the older computer then, and went to the fifth level of Maargadum Jail for a bit more pet-levelling; RedRyder went back to Prokion Temple briefly, to get another 28 skill points so that the final level of Expert Armoursmith could be learnt, and then Kaerella, who attended the quiz as usual, along with MistressDomino, had a short session. She did the wolf tooth quest for healer Yabo, and went up from level 6 to halfway through level 7; killing wolves, elder wolves, dire wolves, berserk wolves, and even a couple of jaguars made a pleasant change from orcs all the time.

Looking at the Events calendar, there was still no "Zombie Invasion" on any of the US servers after the Quiz, which seems strange, but on Auzura there's [GM]Valsharyn's "Mad Monster Spawn" to look forward to tomorrow at 5:00pm UK time. There is a GM "Hide and Seek" a couple of hours after that, but really, riding around the whole map aimlessly seems a waste of time. Tuesday at nine should bring Katar's, or Cariae's, "Storm the Castle" - while on Auzura three hours earlier there should be a "Cluedo" event, like the one at which RedRider won a crit potion a little while ago, so I must be sure to turn up for that.

I did have one disconnection this evening, at about 7:15, so letting SirGalahad pet-level overnight again probably isn't a good idea; better to let the modem have a rest. He should still manage to get the horse to almost two-thirds of the way through level 32 by the time he logs out, though.