A Different Server

Since the computers had had most of the day off yesterday, they both stayed on all night, with my pair of pet-levellers hard at work; on Tairen-4 SirGalahad got the pale blue horse for Kaerella into level 34, while on Cariae-4 Galahad's horse reached 28.

After coffee Memree and Kaerella took over the computers, and headed for Prokion Temple on Tairen-5 in their usual way. I didn't get any visitors or interruptions, so that Memree was able to earn another 8.71%, which brought in another 165 guild points, taking her total donation to over the 10k mark. Kaerella went up by 6.49%, bringing in 25 guild points, and they both added 157 more skill points. It all continues to be a viable if slow way to gain skill points, though it will be interesting to see what happens when Memree next levels up, reaching 39.

The pet-levellers were back in action over lunch, allowing Galahad on Cariae to get his horse into level 29. Then it was time to log my Cariae cleric, the original Kaerella, in over on Cariae-4.

Kaerella managed to join a solo party right away - and not only did the level 137 titan meatmog join it a little later, we also had a level 151 royal knight, xDevilSoulx, in our group. Kae went out to her elite sphinx speer man, and had two hours, using a platinum blessed iris for each, plus an experience booster for every elite. The first hour used 38 xpbs, and brought in 43.10%, plus 18 skill points and 868 pet points; the second hour just used 32 xpbs, and brought 36.39%, along with 16 skill points and 909 pet points.

Kae went up to level 64 during the first hour, which means she has a new quest waiting - to kill some spiders in the Temple of Forgetfulness. There are plenty of quests in Egeha too, which Kaerella would now be eligible to take, but they can be done any time over the next dozen or so levels, and there is definitely no hurry in confronting some of the Egeha monsters involved. I can't say that I feel any particular rush to take Kae into that particular temple either; if I wait until she is level 66 I can do another quest, to kill legendary slayers, at the same time.

Strangely, the "Sunday" special event offering 100 skill points as a prize was still being advertised today, with the last GM announcement coming a few minutes after four in the afternoon, UK time - that may only be nine in the morning on America's west coast, but that was still well into Monday.

For the evening session, it was time for a change of pace, so I decided to do some work on the Sarissa server, where Kaerella was level 23. I'd previously got my knight there, SirDarth for a change (well, one can have too many Galahad variants around...), to level 10, and added Prokion Temple to his memory scroll, so it was just a matter of logging Kaerella in, and SirDarth, on Sarissa-5, getting the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, forming an equal party (since they were within 15 levels of each other), making Darth Kae's apprentice in the Guardian system, and heading for Prokion Temple.

As SirDarth was still in his starter armour, except for level 6 "Tigulated" shirt and pants, he just stayed in the Temple's entirely safe entry hall, and Kaerella fought ghouls and mummies close by, being careful to keep Darth's dot on her compass-map. So, he got a half share of the skill exp, and his share of the experience too, though as he was lower in level it wasn't a full half of that. It was plenty to keep him moving up through the levels, though, and it didn't take more than about two hours to get him to level 20, so that he completed the Guardian system and got his special "event weapon" Light of Odin sword.

They logged out and respawned back in Randol, swapping over computers so that SirDarth was on the main one now. He had a few quests to do, for reaching level 20, which brought in some useful gold; he had a couple of Lorraine's treasure chests to open as well, for gold and candy. The important quest though was to get the knight "neckless" from his skills trainer.

Once he had safely obtained and identified, and equipped, the "neckless", Kaerella traded across the three level 21 weapons she had picked up during the fighting. Converted into six smelting stones, they were just enough to get Darth's new sword up to +3.

Kaerella had reached level 25; I'll have to consider going to the Sunday Quiz on Sarissa one week to try to get some heaven stones, so that we can have a little gold there to afford new weapons and armour. She also had a quick quest to do in Juno - and there were ones to pick up in Dratan too.

SirDarth and Kaerella returned to Prokion Temple; he'd got a relatively recent helm now as a quest reward, plus a pair of Templar boots that Kaerella had picked up in Velpist temple a while ago, and purchased a level 25 shield, so that, even though he was still wearing the Tigulated shirt and pants, his armour was much improved. He'd also been able to learn the passive skill to increase his health regeneration, and had had just enough skill points for all five levels of the Divine Shield armour buff.

So, Kae and Darth were a fighting team now, and ventured in among the ghouls and mummies together, also taking on the occasional orc soldier. We got fairly close to my favourite back room, though going in there would have been suicidal. Someone was busily fighting the orc soldiers in a room and passageway close by, but not bothering to pick up the loot drops - so Darth was able to grab a pair of level 26 Radiant leggings, and, as he'd reached level 21 by then, put them on. He still needs the matching shirt-armour though.

The level 18 rogue KRAZYkiller was fighting next to us, and asked to join the party - so we teamed up for the last part of the session, which saved her quite a few health potions I think. She just managed to reach level 19 before she had to log out; and it was time for Kae and Darth to call it a night, too.

So, SirDarth has got up to halfway through level 21 now. The plan is for him to be a pet-levelling guild master, like SirGalahad on Tairen, and hopefully manage to train up a pale blue horse for Kaerella, as that seems to be what she expects on whichever server she is active on. Kaerella levelled up twice, and is now almost a third of the way through level 25, though we will soon have to get SirDarth higher than her, so that he can lead in a combat party, to build up her skill point stash.

The two current pet-levellers logged back on for the last part of the evening, and SirGalahad soon got his pale blue horse, for Tairen's Kaerella, into level 35. That level is liable to take twelve hours or so, and the following level even longer, but the end of that particular job does seem to be in sight now.