Turbo Charged

MistressDomino on Auzura didn't have a very busy night in merchant mode, close to the arena on Auzura-1, but still managed to take in about 25 million in gold; with all the events I attend on that server, she has rather a lot of large attack and defence potions to try to get rid of. On Tairen-4, SirGalahad had kept busy pet-levelling, so he had another marathon session, which lasted until coffee time. I did find, getting up a little early, that he had managed to attract the nearest death mask soldier as well as his usual death mask lancer, but luckily, again, it hadn't attacked the horse at all, but concentrated on Gal himself, so all was well. I equipped Gal's sword, killed the soldier, and then SirGalahad went back to the normal pet-levelling...and I went back to bed for a while.

After coffee it was time for Memree and Kaerella to go off to Prokion Temple on Tairen-5. Luckily the back room was free, so my Discipline duo settled in. Before long Memree reached level 37, and that reduced the experience and skill exp per kill a bit - but by the time lunch was looming Memree had gone up by 24.31%, plus 378 guild points, and Kaerella was up by 22.02% and 55 guild points. They had each earned 250 skill points, which took Memree's stash over the 5.5k mark. Another four or five sessions and she will have a pair of level 38 skills to learn. And soon after that she will be able to leave the Temple behind, and ride off into the desert.

SirGalahad was back in action over lunch, and then after that I needed to do some moving around of things, though I must admit the start was slightly delayed while I investigated another Aeria game, Shin Megami Tensei, aka "MegaTen". The moving-around included moving the freebie +5 armour set Kaerella on Cariae had got for reaching level 60 to one of my storage characters, Telzey, passing various items to my merchant, and moving a horse from XxGALAHADxX so that he had room to start a new pony. After all, it is handy to have a pet-leveller on Cariae who can provide Kae with a solo party when needed.

MistressDomino happened to see someone called Valtrese selling some useful accessories, and bought one with 5% suction of mana, plus some intelligence and defence, for just a million, which seemed cheap; she also bought an Eyes of Spirit from her for Karella for 100 million. A titan called BeL4 had level 31 pants +13, with no extreme stone used, for 30 million, so MD bought those too, and transformed them into the mage equivalent for Enchantrella, since mages are one of the classes for whom the +10 armour set isn't quite enough to entirely thwart orc attacks.

The actual afternoon fighting session was just an hour for my Cariae cleric Kaerella, using a platinum blessed iris ("pbi") - and using an experience booster for each elite sphinx speer man I killed during that hour, which worked out at 31 of them. The experience gain was 52.98%, plus 15 skill points and 893 pet points. The raid boss Kamira put in an appearance just as the pbi was ending, which was very good timing, as I was able to kill the last few sphinx types as the pbi ran out, and then log out as Kaerella, and log back in with my level 93 mage Keerella.

Keerella had the more popular elite sphinx speer man's location on her memory scroll, so was able to teleport out to that spot and quickly ride across to Kamira, who went down pretty easily, though her magic attacks can still do some damage if they hit. She didn't drop any rare accessory this time, but the moonstones, tool aids, lucky scrolls, crystal of experience etc are always worth getting.

XxGALAHADxX had been supplying the solo party while he worked on his new pony with the bandits in Merac. He continued this task for the start of the evening session, but I noticed that there weren't any solo parties available for people to join on Cariae-4, so opened the party up for new members. I soon had a pretty full list, generally of rather high-level types - including for a while the mage Monarch2Luv, who goes along to Mad Monster Spawns - I see she is level 116 now.

The four-hour "Turbo" event started at six, announced as being 50% extra experience gain, and 50% extra pet experience too. I managed to get Kaerella, still on Cariae, out to the sphinx types soon after ten past, and settled in, continuing until just about ten o'clock. Without any potions or boosters Kae earned another 36.37%, plus 48 skill points and 3038 pet points. I always distrust the announced "50% extra pet experience" times, they never seem to be any improvement, unlike "100% extra" ones, where the points click up two at a time. Still, the extra experience gain was useful. Kaerella reached level 61, and now has 100 stat points in intelligence, which means that now she can switch to putting the newly-gained points into dexterity, which ought to help her physical evasion.

I had logged out Cariae's Galahad fairly early in the evening, once the party had gained a good number of members, and logged in Tairen's SirGalahad instead, so that the more important business of getting his horse levelled up could be resumed. By the end of the evening, there were roughly another two hours to go before level 36 would be reached, so useful progress was made, even if it wasn't 50% faster than usual.