It was a rather less eventful, or Event-full, day today. SirGalahad got to pet-level all morning, as I was busy downstairs and so not able to do anything adventurous. His most regular visitor on level five of Maargadum Jail recently has been a knight called moonwalkeR, though as he tends to use a platinum blessed iris and experience boosters no doubt he won't be fighting death mask soldiers for much longer.
The afternoon session was another Discipline Duo affair, with RedRyder and Rage heading for Prokion Temple on Tairen-1, to fight the orc soldiers and a few orc fighters. Those types die quickly enough, but while the ratio of skill exp to experience is good, particularly for RedRyder in the Combat party, the quantities are not that generous. Still, they got 139 skill points each, while Rage got 8.82% and 69 guild points, and Red got 2.24% and just 8 guild points.
The Temple wasn't particularly busy - the orc fighter room I tend to concentrate on has three ways leading off it, and generally no more than one of those rooms or corridors had another player at work, so I was able to pull in some extra orcs when needed. It wasn't a full-length session, as there was a Parade announced for Auzura-4 as four o'clock approached, with firecrackers and transformation scrolls, and those events are always a bit of fun.
I went along as my level 10 merchant-type mage MistressDomino; well, she has an "Uncle Sam" style top hat, which adds a certain touch! One thing I'd forgotten was that you can't use transformation scrolls unless you are safely above the level of the monster you are transforming into, so while using a dire wolf scroll was okay, MD was too low-level to transform into a sasquatch, or indeed a drake, while even a jaguar might have been a problem.
Before and after the food break I did some moving of loot from my event-attenders across to my merchant types. It is difficult to get some of my fighting characters down below about 90% weight, and their inventories tend to be a bit full generally, not leaving much room for the picking up of loot. Now I need to research what the current selling prices on Auzura and Cariae are for things like heaven stones, moonstone boxes and item drop boosters, so that loot can be turned into gold. It would make sense to get Barbarienne on Cariae a decent level 97 bow if I can, to replace her 87 one, and for that some extra funds would be useful.
On Cariae-1 Kaerella was the last to pass her recent loot across to MistressDomina - and when MD logged out, SirGalahad was at last able to set out for Maargadum Jail once more. Once he was safely installed there, fighting his lancer, Kaerella got her Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, and headed for Dratan.
There was no solo party listed, so I looked at the people who were on the list as wanting a party, while I was still in Dratan city - and just then one of the two names, Shark565, appeared, and recruited me to his party - he also recruited a couple of other low level types, who were presumably on their way to Prokion Temple. Unfortunately, what he wanted to do wasn't a solo party, he wanted to try a Monster Combo, which as he was below level thirty would have been a pretty low-level one, with me "capping" everyone else so that they got very little experience.
He left the party, but luckily the other two stayed around long enough for me to register it as recruiting members, and after an uncertain start the party thrived, getting up to the maximum of eight a time or two. The only fly in the ointment was a level 30 type, Uffo, who, as he has done before, wanted me, or anyone of a relatively high level, to "come tomb - yes or no?" In the end I had to kick him, or other people would have left. Afterwards another member mentioned that Uffo was Italian, like him, but he'd not let on as he hadn't wanted Uffo to turn his attentions to him. Some players are too young, or just brought up by their parents to expect that they can have anything they want...
After a brief "hi" from BasheR yesterday on Auzura, his Cariae counterpart Sheele got in touch at a better time tonight, and we were able to chat. It doesn't seem as if he is intending to return to being a regular Last Chaos player, sadly (as a level 67 ranger he'd be just right for giving Kae a boost); he mentioned that he had tried out a night shadow, since BasheR was high enough to make him qualify, but hadn't been too impressed. He said that the game had become too much of a solo grind, which is hard to disagree with. Things were a lot more fun when you needed parties to level, when a group of friends and guildies would go and fight the (it seemed then) impossibly high level Boucu Demons...and if you went up the best part of a level by the end of the session, well, you'd maybe need to farm skill points for a day or two to get back on track.
It was all about getting people to buy a lot of aeria points, Sheele said... and then headed off to see if he could track down Ratel, on some server or another.
Kamira played hard to get, but did eventually put in an appearance, appearing right over Kae's head; so as usual Kae swiftly logged out, and Keerella, now with a few inventory spaces, logged in and teleported over. Kee did have to use a medium health potion, but the usual drops of lucky scrolls, moonstones, a crystal of experience (greater), and so on more than made up for that. There wasn't a rare drop, but then, there rarely is.
Another party member, Turkeyleg, a level 53 knight, was also fighting akane giants for much of the time, but kept to the main group on the main path. There was some talk of him coming up to team with me, but in the end he stayed where he was. He was complaining that he was losing health due to the attacks from the giants, to which my response was that he ought take up the option to wear some armour... I wouldn't expect a well-armoured knight to have much trouble with monsters of his own level, unless a magical attack was involved.
By the end of the session Kaerella had gone up by 16.64%, and got 1513 pet points for SirFrancis - and, as it happens, exactly 150 skill points, enough to get her back to where she was before learning Party Heal 2. That can't be bad for one evening session, I'd not checked the figures until I was back in town.
As for SirGalahad, well, it looks as if his horse should only be about an hour away from level 27 by the time he logs out tonight, despite his time off today.
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