Springing Forward

With the clocks changing, I had a slightly shorter Sunday morning lie-in than sometimes, and, after coffee, SirDarth and Keerella were able to head for Prokion Temple on Sarissa-5 in their normal combat party arrangement.

The place was pretty busy, so I wasn't able to use my favourite back room; I stopped briefly in what I call the corridor room, but Keerella nearly got killed and there didn't really seem to be a relatively quiet spot to leave her safely, so instead we ran on across to the mirror half, and ended up in the one step down, better lit version of the back room over there.

The session was usefully productive, and SirDarth added 42.77%, on top of a 6.75% (and 10 skill points) quest reward he'd got in Dratan on the way to the Temple, earning 291 guild points for Discipline. Keerella had got a couple of quest rewards too, including another visit to Shuraine, and gained 26.94% and 6 skill points before entering the Temple. The session in there got her another 27.62%, just enough to get her into level 26, and earned 44 guild points. Darth and Kee each gained 203 skill points in Prokion Temple.

Over lunch, Galahad over on Cariae-4 did some pet-levelling, and Keerella went into merchant mode on Sarissa-5, selling twenty item drop boosters, forty candies, and, at the usual NPC price of 200 each, 50 haste potions. This all got almost fourteen million gold - enough to get her her own +10 30/32 armour set, rather than wait until either she or Kae reached level 31.

Prices in Roy's merchant mart varied wildly, as usual, but luckily EvanHartz was selling all five piece of the 30/32 +10 titan armour set for 999,999 gold each - other people were charging more than that for +3 or +4 items, and without Evan I'd have ended up paying 1.5 million for some pieces, perhaps more for others. So, I spent just under five million, and then paid Collector Ryl 144,000 gold to convert the armour into the mage equivalents. Kee can't wear the vanishing circlet and vanishing boots yet, but the other three pieces of armour increase her physical defence from 438 to 605, so next time the orcs should find her a bit harder to hurt.

The main afternoon session took place over on Tairen-5, so that Memree and Kaerella there shouldn't feel neglected. Kaerella there is level 29, with good armour, so. once they'd taken possession of my favourite back room, she concentrated on picking up the loot, and Memree did the fighting, as usual. During the session Memree reached level 39, but the experience and skill exp continued to be worthwhile. So, there may well be further sessions for this duo fighting Prokion's orcs.

The fighting there lasted just under two and a quarter hours, and Memree went up by 10.91%, earning 232 guild points for Discipline. Kaerella added 9.00%, along with 34 guild points. And they each got 231 more skill points.

Galahad had got his horse into level 34 at the end of the lunch break, and returned to action during the early evening food break. He stayed on afterwards, too, as my Cariae cleric Kaerella logged in on the same subserver, Cariae-4, and made a solo party with him - I checked the lists and there were already three solo parties recruiting members, so I didn't bother to list it there.

Kaerella went out to the sphinx types and their elite sphinx speer man, and found that the double experience and skill exp was still on, presumably to compensate Cariae players for the server's recent downtime and rollback. So, by the time the Sunday Quiz approached, back to its normal UK time of 8:30pm, Kae had gone up by 18.87% and 62 skill points, while SirFrancis had gained 1833 pet points.

The game master running the quiz was a bit chattier than last week's, and gave announcements with a half hour to go, and at the twenty, ten and five minute marks, urging people to hurry to the Quiz Rooms. There were no announcements about exploiters being "handled", or auto-following being naughty, though.

The Quiz itself went along at speed, again, with a selection of the usual questions. On Tairen-2 I don't think we lost any significant number of people along the way, so just about everyone got their rewards. I did see what looked suspiciously like a "conga line" of about five characters in auto-follow mode, I hope there wasn't any multi-clienting involved! I didn't bother to get question 21 or 22 wrong, the usual way to leave the room; it is perhaps lucky that "Are the Mad Monster Spawns on Monday or Tuesday?" only came in as question 22, after all the prizes had been awarded, since in recent months they have tended to be on Wednesday...

Tairen's Kaerella traded her new heaven stones and moonstones across to MistressDomino, and then they both logged out - to be replaced with Galahad (XxGALAHADxX) and my clerical Kaerella on Cariae-4 again. Gal was well on the way to getting his horse past the midway point in level 34 by the end of the evening, and Kaerella added another 5.88%, 19 skill points, and 538 pet points out at her special sphinx spot, before it was time for her to log out. Over on Sarissa-4, Keerella then went into merchant mode, and soon sold ten skill point boosters and ten item drop boosters, bringing in another fourteen million gold or so. I think we can start to investigate what prices useful accessories like a pierce of wind or a stone of shadow can be bought for, though I suspect that an eyes of spirit is a bit too expensive for me as yet.

A special "Stat Gem Giveaway" event has been running today, and anyone who has been playing Last Chaos may win two of these newly-discovered items. "Applying a gem involves placing it gently on the character's body and then pressing upon it with incredible force until the skin is pierced and the gem dissolves into the blood stream

" apparently, which sounds painful. Each Stat Gem permanently adds one stat point to a character, which is, well, slightly useful I guess.

[GM]JediMike was talking at the 100 Meter Dash of a special "Spring Break" series of events upcoming, but while the events for the coming week seem different from usual, there aren't any on view with that particular theme. There seem to be plenty of quizzes and suchlike, but no Mad Monster Spawns at all, and only the European "Storm the Castle" event in Merac. The pet experience event may be interesting, on Thursday, though.