LordDarth Reaches His Target

Yesterday evening's event was a "Creature Carnival", so SirDarth got some double pet experience, despite serina's malicious interruptions. A bit earlier, while LordDarth and Kaerella had been busy in Prokion Temple on Hatzring-5, an announcement had come up saying "What is this? A random Castle Siege event going on in 10 minutes in Merca? Hurry over to H5!"

The idea of a random Castle Siege seemed a bit far-fetched, as such events involve registered guild teams. The next "announcement" was "A/goto 1102 1028", obviously the GM typing into chat what ought to have gone into his command console, followed by the face-saving "That's where it starts." No wonder another game master typed in "Darasuum needs to learn how to type." Finally, the more sensible "Storm the Castle starts in 5 minutes on H5" message appeared, but unfortunately I don't really have a character on Hatzring who is up for such an event, so I just kept on fighting the orcs.

Overnight, MistressDomina on Cariae-4 did some steady selling, recharging my gold reserves there. She logged out briefly after breakfast, to allow Hatzring's Kaerella to pass some gold across to LordDarth, and then went back to selling, making some further useful sales.

LordDarth checked through Roy's merchant mart, and found that AuroraBellona was selling a single blue pet flute for 600,000 gold, which seemed lower than most other people - generally players were trying to sell them two or more at a time, which seems counter-productive. He then visited Lorraine to start the quest, and Jajan in Dratan to finish it, acquiring his rare pale blue pony - and then headed for Maargadum Jail.

The Jail is Darth's only option for pet-levelling at the moment, as he doesn't have a red name to reduce the power of his attack yet. The level 44 death mask lancers could easily withstand the 44 damage Darth did to them bare-handed (which rose to 46 later in the day, once he'd reached level 35), and to my relief I found that, even without the level 35 Canid fence 2 skill, or any Armour Increase buff from his equipped pet, Darth's health held steady. So, the pale blue pony, due to become Kaerella's pale blue mount on Hatzring, began its journey up through the levels.

I wasn't able to do anything active online until mid-afternoon, so MistresDomina kept on selling her stuff, and LordDarth kept levelling his new pony, which reached the 100% Sympathy point at about one o'clock, UK time. Eventually, though, Darth was able to switch to the newer computer, having got the blue pony well into level 6, and Hatzring-5, team up with Kaerella, after she'd used up her skill points and done the necessary "suicide runs" on Maargadum jail's ground floor, and head out to Prokion Temple, where he soon reached level 34.

By the early evening food break, both Kae and Darth had gained 185 skill points; Darth had gained 61.45% experience, and even contributed 76 guild points to Discipline, while Kae was up 26.49%, and contributed 66 guild points. Over the break, Darth went back to Maargadum Jail and got the pony into level 7 - and then it was time to re-team with Kae, for his final push to level 35.

I saw mosesswe in town, and he asked my advice on skill point farming, which seemed a good sign - assuming he was still level 24, I suggested a room in Prokion Temple with orc soldiers, and maybe a fighter or two. so I hope he had a good session. LordDarth and Kaerella did okay in the back room, and we finished when Darth had added 43.59%, getting him into level 35; he contributed a second 76 guild points to Discipline. By then Kaerella had added another 24.20%, along with 60 guild points, and they'd each earned 172 skill points.

Back in town, LordDarth was able to learn the single level of Canid Fence 2, which for only 60 skill points increased his physical defence by 120, so that it's now 1333, plus any Armour Increase buff from his pet. He then headed for level five of Maargadum Jail again - just so that we keep his options open for a day or two. Do we get him a red name, so that he can pet-level outside the Jail with bandits or berserkers, or does he stay at full power, so that he can only pet-level on the death mask lancers?

Hatzring's MistressDomino was only level 4, I noticed, so it seemed a good idea to get her up to level 10, so that we have the option of having her selling stuff in merchant mode. So, it was the usual deal, killing wolves, dire wolves, berserk wolves, jaguars, and even a few wandering zombies in Velpist Temple. I got her Casting Guard defence skill to its maximum, and she made the run through the Dratan desert to Prokion Temple, and, while she didn't do any fighting in there at level ten, she did manage to pick up some unwanted gold.

After that I rechecked Roy's merchant mart on Cariae and Auzura for gloves, not to mention that rogue jacket Rage needs, and checked up on a few characters, including SirPerivale on Auzura. Hatzring's Kaerella spent her skill points, and now at last has all her general and passive skills maximised. She has only just started on the special skills, like processing, harvesting, and so on...by my calculations she would need another 3614 skill points to get all that sorted out, but in the meantime she's a perfectly good character to attend low-level mad monster spawns and events like that, assuming they return to the schedule.. Another trip to Maargadum Jail got her experience back to the start of level 27 again.

In the absence of any dynamic in-game event this evening, LordDarth continued his pet-levelling, getting his pale blue pony safely into level 10; on Cariae, MistressDomina went back into merchant mode, to see if she could sell some more goodies. After all, as well as the armour pieces, Barbarienne in particular really ought to get herself a new higher-level +15 bow, and those things aren't cheap.

Tomorrow's event is a zombie attack on Dratan, which according to the website will start its rotation at nine, Uk time, on Auzura-5. If they do actually stick with that timing, perhaps Rage will be able to go along. Friday will be one of my "busy days", so I don't expect to be doing anything on the fighting side in Last Chaos before the evening, but I'll probably still find something to type about.