Three Level-Ups

SirGalahad got back to work before breakfast in Maargadum Jail on Tairen-4, getting his horse steadily through level 27 - and over on Katar-4, Discipline's guild master there, ColonelScarlet, was also in action, out in Merac fighting a brace of bandits to work on his level 35 pink, or more accurately mauve, drake. For another day there were no worthwhile events scheduled, just the no-advance-notice "World Defence" spawnings of monsters outside the city gates by [GM]Stratos, and on Auzura a PvP-enabled "Hide and Seek Plus" as well as a later spawning of Pandora's Beasts, which is relatively pointless as there are plenty of other monsters of the same level one can kill without getting mobbed.

After coffee Memree and Kaerella headed for Prokion Temple on Tairen-5, where as usual at that time of day the back room was free. By the end of the session Memree had added 35.31% and donated 422 guild points to the Discipline guild, while Kaerella had gone up by 25.38% and got 63 guild points. They each had earned 269 skill points.

On the skill point front, this meant that Kaerella had now got enough sp to learn all the special skills available, except the final two levels of gamma wave processing, for which another 204 sp will be needed. Her experience gain meant that Memree had now reached level 36, which meant that her special rogue "neckless" accessory automatically unequipped itself and can't be used again, and her remaining "beginner" resurrection scrolls and platinum blessed irises are now useless.

Over lunch SirGalahad and ColonelScarlet were both back in action, and then after that, MistressDomino had a bit of a spending spree on Tairen-1, starting with spending 50,000,000 gold on a +15 level 33 crossbow from xXxHunteRxXx, who was on his horse in merchant mode in town. Roy's merchant mart yielded two useful accessories: a Necklace of Earth, giving 5 to defence and 5% suction of life, sold by R3Deyes for 11,111,111 gold, and a Stone of Shadow, which gives 12 to dexterity, 112 to close range evasion, and 93 to long range evasion, sold by Orckus for 21,000,000 - though as it hadn't been identified, the golden magnifying glass to identify/activate it cost another million.

That shopping delayed the start of the main afternoon session, which again involved my Cariae-based cleric, Kaerella, who teleported out to the location of the shyer of the two elite sphinx speer men, and spent a couple of hours with him and his hangers-on. Kae reached level 59 about halfway through my time out there, and in all went up by 29.03%, gaining 52 skill points and, for her drake SirFrancis, 1444 pet points, which takes him to 10% of the way through his current level.

The evening session started with a little trading-around of items between characters, so that over on Cariae SirDarth, my level 34 temple knight, received a Chain of Tiger and a Tears of Knight accessory from Keerella, to add to the one "CoT" he already had - so between the three he gets 44 to strength, 32 to close range physical attack, and 168 to close range physical hit rate. Back on Tairen, MistressDomino passed the newly-bought +15 level 33 crossbow and the two accessories she bought across to Rage, who in return passed some recent sellable loot over.

SirGalahad logged back in, but this time on Tairen-5, so that he could give a solo party to Rage, who had quite a varied evening, starting with a session out with the poison mists, where she stayed long enough to reach level 41. This reduced the skill exp that they gave, so it was time to move on, once a couple more myst eyes had been obtained. I could tell from looking at the map that there were no new quests in Dratan...but it seemed likely that there would be something in Merac now.

The Border Guard Captain, on the road leading towards the Jail and the Castle, did indeed have a quest for Rage, which just involved killing 25 gnoll soldiers, which are now Rage's own level. Once I'd ridden down to the gnolls, and killed 25 of the soldiers, I returned to Merac Village and got the quest reward, which was an unusually generous 50 skill points and what worked out as 6.19% experience - and then headed for Maargadum Jail. The dire spike canines are also Rage's current level, so I fought some on the ground floor, and then, since it is quieter and with better defined respawn areas, went down to level two. And there I stayed until the three-hour Elizabuff wore off.

There was still half an hour or so's playing time, so I headed back to Randol, and got a new application of the Elizabuff - and then Rage headed back to Dratan, and teleported to the sphinx fighters and speer men at the usual campsite location. The place was pretty busy, but, with occasional rests to top up my health and mana, I was able to fight assorted fighters and speer men solo without getting killed. There were a couple of parties going on, I think, but as I wasn't intending to stay long, I kept separate, and added about 25% to my experience relatively quickly.

Rage gained 77.11% experience in all this evening, plus 101 skill points and 1984 pet points, while SirGalahad got his horse up to level 29 at about the time she logged out, replaced by ColonelScarlet over on Katar-4, doing a little more work on his pink drake. With the weekly maintenance downtime approaching, there was no question of them continuing overnight, but with three characters levelling up, plus Gal's drake, it had certainly been a useful day's work.