The Guild Expands

SirGalahad put in his usual pre-coffee stint in Maargadum Jail, and then, when Rage had just logged in and Gal had just logged out, a level 17 knight called DoubleTrouble asked if he could join the Discipline guild and have his experience gain (semi) frozen. So, SirGalahad logged back in in town and recruited him, and then cut his experience gain to 50% as requested. Later in the day he asked if a friend, another level 17 knight called Hazard, could join too, so, having done similar clever stuff in the past, rather than have Gal leave his pet-levelling, he temporarily made DoubleTrouble a guild advisor so that his friend just needed to click on him. And then Gal put Hazard's experience gain to 50% as well.

Neither of them immediately went off to do any sp-farming, but hopefully we should get some useful guild points from them, at least.

I tried to make sure they understood the benefits of Elizabeth's Enhancement, and warned them that Gamer's knowledge of English is pretty basic, so now we shall see how things go.

SirGalahad logged out again and RedRyder logged in, so that she and Rage could go to Prokion Temple on Tairen-1 in their usual way. And things were much as usual, despite Rage's move from level 33 to 35; the orc fighters were still the best way of getting more skill exp than experience, though the skill exp was down a little, so that the speed of skill point gain went down from around 100 per hour to more like 80. It was a fairly long session, as these morning stints go, so, while Rage went up 6.02% and RedRyder 2.90%, they still managed to grab 142 skill points each.

For the afternoon my new rogue Memree swung back into action. This included quests to kill jaguars, sasquatches, werewolves, little treants, horn beasts, drakes, and elder werewolves, so she got to see plenty of Juno...though the Juno NPC Scroll handily means you don't need to run halfway across the map to reach Hunter Dranore or Wild Collector Kai, you can teleport right to them, and then teleport directly to the NPC of your choice back in Randol. Memree spent a fair amount of time in Velpist Temple; when she headed for the straight-ahead (and up the stairs) room with the ancient and berserk zombies she found it already occupied by another rogue, Coeur, so had to look around a bit for her own spot. The "left a bit" room outside the 'torn book of life' final room was also being used by at least three people, and Memree was a bit low for it anyway, but on further wanderings she encountered Couer again, so knew that the straight-ahead room was now free - and settled in there in the usual way.

Couer was also in the "left a bit" room when I'd levelled up enough to want to go there, but that room is big enough for two or three, particularly as she was more interested in the monsters that were red or orange/yellow named to me, at the far end. My main priority was to get four cursed bones, for a quest that comes a little later, and I mentioned that - a knight called kingskinght very kindly gave me two he had spare. I continued until I'd got all four I needed, and then went back to town, having gone up by 410.47% in all, also gaining 199 skill points and 719 pet points for Memree's dragon hatchling.

After spending all my skill points but 3, I went back to the Juno quests, some of which were repeatable, since there wasn't really time for a trip to Prokion Temple before the early evening food break, and managed to get another 128.01% experience, taking Memree well into level 18, plus 101 skill points and 323 pet points, which were just enough to get the hatchling into level 3.

As usual on a Tuesday the food break was a long one, with some emails to deal with too, but when Kaerella logged on on Cariae-1 I found that she'd sold all three pairs of level 47 boots (to heartbrake, who also bought a shirt, SpeedyDeath and BlackSonja), and two of the three shirts (to heartbrake and AproDitE) - so that was 4,510,675 gold earned from four happy customers. It's just a shame I can't get those items across to Tairen.

Enchantrella had a 30-day card to increase that account's storage in town from 50 to 100 slots, so I decided to use it, and put away a lot of rings etc that were filling Kae's inventory - and also Enchie's collection of production manuals. So, that meant Kaerella had a bit more inventory space when she made her trip out to the ravenous larvas on Cariae-1 for the evening session. Which, naturally, meant that Kae didn't get to pick up any armour at all, though there were some hands, and a couple of heaven stones, so I wasn't doing badly loot-wise.

While there were two solo parties listed when I began, when I tried to apply to join them they didn't actually exist - so after a while I found someone who was registered for a party, ArtiZ, and enlisted him, to make my own party, which grew as the evening progressed. It seemed a bit strange that ArtiZ, a level 93 titan, should be in Dratan, but he told me that he was fighting the wafes... not exactly hard for him to beat since they are around level 60. It turned out that he was levelling up his polar bear pet, and that it was doing most of the fighting, so that seems one way to move that sort of pet along. After an hour or so bluray joined the party, while he was as usual farming the cube system; one time the "the item is not enough" window, which comes up for all party members when he pays for a new round or something, appeared just as I'd picked up a heaven stone, which seemed nicely inappropriate.

Kaerella added 11.42%, 1584 pet points (taking SirFrancis past halfway through level 48), and 141 skill points, which took her sp stash past the 11k mark. I did leave a bit promptly though, as Gamer had been in touch with SirGalahad, asking for a loan so that she can buy new armour. Ah well, she is a guildie, and that trip to the elite sphinx fighter was fun, so I agreed, and once Kae had logged out, MistressDomino back on Tairen-1 logged in, and traded 15 million across to Gamer, "to Sunday" - I guess she intends to get the heaven stones at the Quiz again, I hope that runs smoothly. Gamer is level 48 now, so should be able to fight those sphinx types solo without too much difficulty. When MD traded the gold across, I saw that she had a blessed iris running again, I wish I could persuade her not to use those, until level 60, and take the free Elizabeth's Enhancement buff instead...

SirGalahad had had a reasonably productive session, and in fact his drake reached level 28 late in the evening, so it will soon be ready for Rage to take on - though she doesn't actually need such a pet until she leaves Prokion Temple. I wonder what sort of skill exp she, and RedRyder, will get when she reaches level 36? It may well be time for Memree to take over as Red's fighting partner then, but we shall see.