SirGalahad got back into Maargadum Jail for some more pet-levelling from breakfast time today, and managed to get his horse into level 36 by coffee time, which is when Sunday tends to get started properly. Then it was time for Memree and Kaerella to head for Prokion Temple on Tairen-5.
The back room was in use, so I had to settle for the corridor room nearby, but as usual that had the disadvantage that some selfish player might come along and try to hijack it, or at least take half the orcs and thus slow me down a lot. And so it was that a rogue called "olay" came in and without a word started killing orcs.
Olay did leave after a while; she had been using daggers, but returned a few minutes later with a crossbow, perhaps having decided that Memree's way of fighting was better. She was still there when I left for lunch. Memree added 23.48% and 379 guild points by then, while Kaerella had gained 22.06% and 55 guild points. They had each added 229 skill points.
Kaerella was right at the top end of level 27 now, so that gave me the choice of doing what I have done once before, and dying enough times to get back to the start of the level. I'd worked out that, if I used a special crystal to halve the rate of skill exp loss, dying the necessary 32 times would take off almost 40% of her skill points, but what I didn't realise until I tried later in the day was that the first death would remove the crystal of effort's "lasts eight hours" buff - and using 32 of them would get a bit expensive. So much for that idea...
SirGalahad went back to his pet-levelling over lunch, and then for the main afternoon session Kaerella, in her Cariae cleric version, went out to the shyer of the two elite sphinx speer men and his buddies. I managed to join a solo party before I left Dratan City; my application was a bit slow to be accepted, and I was immediately promoted to leader, as the player who had held that post was generally afk, away from his keyboard. The party grew nicely as the afternoon progressed, though of course there are not very many low-level players on Tairen-4, as Elizabeth doesn't offer her Enhancement buff there.
I used a pair of platinum blessed irises, plus experience boosters for each elite kill; the first hour added 51.52%, plus 19 skill points and 916 pet points, with the use of 34 xpbs. The second hour saw Kaerella reach level 62, so the percentage gain fell a little to 48.41%, along with 26 skill points and 883 pet points, again using 34 of the experience boosters. At her new level Kae could wear the whole of the next armour set, the 65/67 red and orange "Serenity" set instead of her current mauve and pale purple "Peaceful" outfit, but the set she has is so well upgraded that we can easily skip the next one.
After the food break, over on Tairen my level 27 archer Kaerella tried the "dying with a crystal buff" idea mentioned earlier; imagine my surprise when the second death took away twice the skill points I'd expected. Sigh, I'd always assumed the crystals of experience, and effort, did last eight hours, as described, and weren't the kind of buffs that expire upon the death of a character. Some buffs do, and some don't.
The Sunday Quiz was going to be an hour earlier than usual, at 7:30pm UK time, as the US clocks went forward an hour last night, but UK and European clocks don't "spring forward" for another two weeks. There was just time for Memree and Kaerella to team up again on Tairen-5, and go to Prokion Temple, where the back room was free, for a shorter session. Kae did come out of her experimental deaths ahead, as this time, having regained the 6% experience she'd shed, she had 34 more skill points than at the end of the previous session there. By the time the Quiz was getting close, Memree had gained 10.65% and 173 guild points, while Kaerella had added 10.01%, taking her to the very start of level 28, plus 25 guild points... and they had each gained 125 skill points. A mage called DyKa had come in at one stage and asked for a party, but she wasn't wearing the 30/32 armour set, so can't have been very high level. I warned her that it was a dangerous room, and within two minutes she was running for her life, while I tried to pick off the angry orcs following her.
The Quiz had the usual advance warnings about exploiters being "handled" by GMs and gamesages; there was no announcement about clicking on another character to auto-follow being an exploit this time, though someone asked in the forum shoutbox and was told not to do it. Kaerella and MistressDomino were in the Tairen-2 Quiz Room as usual; the announced fix for the "quiz move bug" proved to be so much hot air, as click-and-run still didn't work, so WSAD remained the way to move in that room.
The questions were the usual bunch, and we lost very few people along the way - people even noticed the "not" in "which item can you not feed a pet horse or drake", and just about everyone scrambled to the correct side in time. So, both Kae and MD got their prizes; Kaerella passed her heaven stones and moonstones across to MistressDomino once they were back outside in Randol.
The Quiz was really quick this time, and things zoomed along at twice the pace of recent weeks, so that it was all over within a quarter of an hour - and by ten to eight Memree and Kaerella were back in that favourite room in Prokion Temple on Tairen-5. Making the most of the room, I continued until a little after my theoretically usual log-out time - until Memree had added 25.76% and 416 guild points, and Kaerella had gone up by 20.01% and 62 guild points. They had each added 281 skill points, so it looks as if Kaerella is likely to gain around 1400 sp as she goes through level 28.
After that, it was time to log out, and send SirGalahad back to level five of Maargadum Jail to fight his death mask lancer for the rest of the evening - by which time his horse ought to be 60% of the way through the last level before it becomes Memree's level 37 mount.
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