I managed to get far enough ahead on my preparations for tomorrow that I could play just about fully today, which was useful. Galahad had resumed levelling his pet dragon hatchling at breakfast time; it had just managed to reach 100% sympathy last night, so that the buffs it gives are now 100% effective. Today it began at level 6, and had reached level 11 at lunchtime.
Conveniently, Galahad was able to give SirPerivale a solo party for his morning adventure, which involved a trip to Prokion Temple on Cariae-4, the "other" non-PvP sub-server, where people go when they don't need the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff. Peri settled in in the back room, with the orc sergeants and orc axemen, starting one of his beginner platinum super skill pills right away; in the hour it lasted he added 16.33% experience and 157 skill points. There was just time for a second hour's b-pssp - this time 16.03% was the experience gain, along with 152 skill points, since I did have to make a couple of swift trips to the kitchen.
Galahad continued over the lunch break; the newer computer devoted itself to updating another Aeria game, "Shaiya", since I'd had an email imploring me to try it again, and promising me a free "White Tiger Charm". It took almost an hour to download the 32 updates since I'd last played, but I logged in briefly, and my assassin concluded a quest and reached level four.
For the afternoon, SirPerivale went back to Prokion Temple's back room on Cariae-4 and used the last of his b-pssps; as this moved him on into level 32 after half an hour or so, the experience gain percentage dropped a little to 14.82, and just 150 skill points were gained. After that both he and Galahad moved across to Cariae-5 so that he could get the Elizabuff, and Peri spent most of the rest of the afternoon, again in that back room, going up by another 32.65%, and gaining 160 more skill points.
SirPerivale had a couple of quests to do just outside the Temple, killing the local spiders, and then returned to town, to get his accumulated quest rewards. There were even a couple of messenger-boy quests to do in Merac. Another 32.44% experience was gained from all that, along with 32 skill points. Peri was able to take the Discipline guild up to level 4, but he still needs another 179 skill points before level 5 can be reached, bringing with it the ability to "freeze" a guild member's experience gain to 50%.
Galahad moved across to Cariae-4 once the solo party ended, partly because on Cariae-5 yet another pandora's box he'd opened unleashed a level 50 beast. By the end of a slightly extended food break, he'd got his dragon hatchling up into level 14.
For the evening, Kaerella teamed up with a level 61 character at the shyer of the two elite sphinx "speer" men; I did actually log in on Cariae first to check if Elvastar was around for that sort of team-up, but, not finding him online, I moved across to Auzura-4, where Kaerella is a level 68 archer, with very slightly better armour than my Cariae cleric has. On Auzura, I can provide my own level 61 companion - my mage MistressDomina.
So, Kaerella and MistressDomina formed an equal party, and headed out to my favourite sphinx spot. MD had already added that location to her memory scroll, so teleported straight there, while Kaerella had to ride down from the more well-known elite sphinx speer man's campsite, which took less than a minute.
Without any boosters or generous events, the progress there wasn't outstanding, but we got a few bits of armour to sell, and a couple of heaven stones. MistressDomina just stood safely back from the action, while Kae did the fighting. The session didn't go on too long, since I didn't want to have a late night, as I do have to get up early tomorrow, but Kaerella added 8.92%, along with 1831 pet points for SirFrancis, her drake, while MD got 15.78%, taking her up over the 90% mark in level 61. They also got 35 skill points each.
Staying with Auzura, various drops, such as the event rewards of large attack and defence potions, item drop boosters, and skill point boosters, were moved across from Kae and Rage to my merchant character there, MistressDomino, and I set her up for an overnight selling session in merchant mode. She sold a couple of dozen large attack potions early on, which was a good start, and her supply of moonstone boxes vanished not long after.
Over on Cariae-4, Galahad got back into action for some pet-levelling in Merac with his bandits. The dragon hatchling started this late-night session at level 14...who knows how far he'll go before logging out?
There was a music trivia quiz starting at ten o'clock UK time on Katar-5, and moving on through the other servers every half hour; why the European-time server, Auzura, isn't reached until midnight for me, or one o'clock for most of Europe, I don't know, you'd think it would be logical to start there. It didn't sound like my specialist subject, so I decided to give that particular contest a miss.
Tomorrow I'll only get a short evening session, hopefully including the usual Sunday Quiz, though I suppose MistressDomino may continue in merchant mode while I'm out, if she still has stuff to sell. If she manages to shift all of the large attack and defence potions she has on sale, we will definitely be able to start hunting for a new weapon for Rage, and maybe some armour too...
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