Lighter Work

I did make an attempt to keep SirGalahad at his pet-levelling overnight, but when I checked up on him just before lights out, there had been a disconnection so, not really feeling up to going through all the rigmarole of getting Gal back online, into Merac, and down to level five, I switched off the computer for the night.

Still, my knight in Steel armour was back in action at breakfast time on Sunday, and kept busy throughout the day, sparring with his favourite death mask lancer. He didn't get ks'd during the day, though the room did have a few visitors - I did see someone getting killed when a couple of the magic-attack beast crawlers got involved in the fight.

There wasn't any time for an active morning session, however, as some shopping had to be done - and on Sunday our lazy local supermarket doesn't open until eleven, which rather rules out an after-coffee session.

Still, the afternoon was business as usual, with RedRyder in a solo party with SirGalahad, going to Prokion Temple on Tairen-1. The idea continued to be to just fight orc soldiers, and while it was fairly slow going, particularly when other people decided to share the room, progress was made. There do seem to be a lot of rogues around in the Temple at the moment - while the mage mageBr shared the room sometimes, otherwise it was all rogues - Reebeeka, Cecil, and xXxVampiRoguexXx mainly.

RedRyder added 323 skill points while going up 12.90%, which seemed good to me. It's interesting that a death costs 3% experience, as a figure, and 2% of one's unused skill points, as a percentage, so a single death would take Red down from 15% to 12%, and reduce her skill points from 373 to 365; dying five times would get her right down to the start of level 29 again, but still with 337 skill points, if my calculations are correct. If I take her up to 24% she ought to get about 598 skill points - and be left with 509 after eight deaths. The higher I would take her before heading off to the Introducer Camios, the more skill points she would be left with, but the number of sp lost from all the deaths continues to rise too, so it wouldn't really be worth going all the way to 99% I think.

The pre-Quiz part of the evening was a good opportunity for Kaerella on Cariae-1 to go back out the the elite akane giant and its pals; there was no solo party available so I teamed up with someone on the list of prospective party members, and then registered us as a solo party. We managed to recruit a few people, and after a while bluray himself joined. He asked to be leader, so that saved me the trouble of allowing applications and so on. Judging by the occasional "the item is not enough" pop-up window, he was in the cube system again.

It wasn't a hugely long session; if you must know, I'd got slightly delayed by watching "Chicken Run" on the BBC iPlayer, which stood up pretty well to being watched again. But Kaerella did add 14.91%, taking her into level 52, plus 87 skill points, taking her above 9,000 unused sp, and 1004 pet points. One party member thought they were bugged and would have to relog, they couldn't get Elizabeth to give them her Enhancement buff - we had to break it to them gently that at level 62 they were too high, you only get that buff up to level 60. Once again Kamira snubbed me and stayed away...

But by about 8:15 the announcements for the Quiz were starting to advise us to head for the quiz room, so, after just about twelve hours at work, SirGalahad logged out, with the horse near the top of level 21, and MistressDomino logged in on Tairen-2. Kaerella logged out on Cariae-1, and her level 10 namesake logged in on Tairen-2 also.

The quiz started on time, and ran pretty smoothly - only the question about [GM]JediMike running the Old Skool Treasure Hunt caught out many people, perhaps a third of us vanished from the wrong side of the room then. Kae and MD got their 10 tool aids after question ten, their 10 moonstones after question fifteen, the 5 heaven stones after question eighteen, and the other 10 heaven stones after question twenty...and then stayed on the wrong side for the next question, so that they respawned back in town.

SirGalahad headed back to Maargadum Jail, and soon got the horse into level 22. As usual after the quiz the servers were pretty busy, so it was hard to log characters back in - first you get a "time out", and then because of lag the server thinks you are logged in, and gives you the "account ID already logged in" error on your subsequent attempts. It only took a couple of minutes, though, to briefly check up on MistressDomina over on Auzura, and then log Rage in on Tairen-1. Unlike the Auzura version, I couldn't get the name "RAGE" here, so she is in fact "xRAGEx" - very fashionable, an exxtra "X" or two!

This wasn't a character I'd done any work on for Tairen, but if RedRyder is going to be carrying unused skill points, it may end up being useful having an alternative rogue for Mad Monster Spawns. Anyway, there wasn't time for anything more important, so Rage fought foxes and deer, and wolves, and then elder wolves, dire wolves, and berserk wolves, so that, with the "Elizabuff" on, she got to level 7 fairly quickly. There will soon come a point at which I have to decide whether it's Rage, Kaerella or MistressDomino who join the Guardian system, and speed straight ahead to level 20 at least.