MistressFelicia sold her Wendy Bear pieces steadily through the night - and then, while I was having breakfast, some kind person bought the last 43 of them, so that in all she sold 275, for a total of 53,625,000 gold... not a huge sum compared to some of MistressDomina's sales, but this was money for nothing.
RedRackham had a successful night too, sparring with a gnoll lancer down in Merac, so that his drake had levelled up twice, reaching level 25 by morning. As usual the mages from the DisciplesofHope guild, HoneyBun and KiaOra, were there too; HoneyBun must have had a slight hiccup as I noticed, before breakfast, that her gnoll was wandering free rather than being fought, but the next time I looked, she was back in pet-levelling action.
MistressDomina was back in merchant mode on Cariae-4 by nine o'clock, after I'd had a quick look around for any weapons or armour I'm after on Auzura and Cariae; since I knew I wouldn't be able to do any active playing in the morning or afternoon, she would have the chance for a nice long selling session. Within a minute of opening she sold all 306 skill point boosters, which was a good start, and a hundred item drop boosters followed before long, swiftly followed by another sixty. It was a while before someone bought twenty heaven stones, her next sale.
The Last Chaos product manager, aeria_ks1lent, put in an appearance in the forum shoutbox at about ten UK time. 2:00am PDT, saying "It's daytime in Korea, so it's daytime for me." Someone said they thought he was still there - "Only in my mind," he replied. "Korea is fun, living Korea hours in California... makes me go crazy." Someone else asked for more experience in Mondshine, and he could only reply "We're working on it, but you know how that goes....anyway I'm off to sink my teeth into some hackers, always puts me in a good mood. Take care."
Later in the morning, MistressDomina sold all eighty of her large attack potions, bringing in another 36 million - and soon after eleven, RedRackham's drake reached level 26. Four more heaven stones were sold in the next half hour, and then another three and another two - it's strange, the price was the same but I don't think MistressDomina sold any heaven stones in her last session. Twenty more item drop boosters sold shortly before lunch,...and after lunch somebody bought 200 chaos balls, making a useful boost to the total. Then the last of the chaos balls went, and the last of the item drop boosters, and another heaven stone, so it was time for MD to replenish her stocks, from what she had left in storage.
While I was setting MistressDomina up again, moving the items for sale into place, just before 2:30pm both she and RedRackham got disconnected. That was a problem at this end, I think, and they were soon back up - and MD quickly sold out of heaven stones and item drop boosters again, with 150 skill point boosters following, followed later by another ten, five lucky smelting stones, and 29 experience boosters. Someone bought a drake egg - and someone else, as my early evening food break approached, cleared out the remaining 251 experience boosters. The remaining ten drake eggs and pan flutes then went, and the fourteen large defence potions, followed by three lucky smelting stones.
Not to be outdone, RedRackham levelled his drake up to 27 over the break - but soon after that, it was time for him and MD to log out. The "APAC Happy Hour" on Auzura was approaching, so I thought I might as well make use of it.
MistressBlaze, my level 47 wizard, and MistressSabina, my level 40 witch, logged in on Auzura-5 - and headed for Maargadum Jail as an equal party. Blaze did actually have three quests for down there, needing spike canine skins, beast hearts, and to kill thirty beast flyers, so, after running down to level two with the horse buffs to protect us, she set about killing the necessary canines and beasts. The duo did go down to level three, but the central area was in use, and I don't think Blaze's armour is quite up to the full fury of all the beast flyers there, as it's two pieces of +13 and three pieces of +8. So, generally we concentrated on a side room, with just four beast flyers and a few beast archers.
By the end of the session, MistressBlaze had gone up by 12.64%, and added 1546 pet points - the quest rewards should add a bit more experience to that, at least. Mistress Sabina had added 23.64%, which was enough to get her into level 41 - and they'd each gained 74 skill points.
After the extra 50% experience gain from the Happy Hour on Auzura had ended, RedRydeR and SirKit had a rather short session out with the sphinx fighters and sphinx speer men on Cariae-5, including the elite sphinx speer man a few times. Generally, Red was in control, except when the elite was joined by an interfering ordinary speer man, when a strategic withdrawal was needed, to let Snare recharge. Luckily it worked the second time. RedRydeR added 12.62%, and just 297 pet points, while SirKit went up by 37.37% - it was an equal party, to help move Kit along a bit, and in that it succeeded.
The session had to be brief, as the first proper "Mad Monster Spawn" for, it seems, months, was due to start on Auzura-5 at nine o'clock, UK time. My level 92 main Auzuran character Rage logged in, and when I got to the usual location with almost ten minutes to spare, there were already masses of people there - and a purple dragon was being fought.
That was just an appetiser, though. [GM]Stratos was in charge of this "old school MMS", and it was the old-fashioned kind, with different waves being spawned, rather than the "cover the whole valley with monsters" type we had been having before the gap. The first wave was easy enough, but when, after some good old-fashioned loot, we got on to a wave of large quantities of cave spirits, things did get hard. Me versus a "hovering spirit of the rogue" may seem reasonable, but those are level 131, 39 levels above Rage, so I suffered a lot of damage and it took some time to kill it. I had to run from a "silent spirit of the knight" which took a dislike to me, and as usual the whole thing seemed impossible, but we picked them off, and eventually they were all gone, and another wave of loot was spawned.
And then came the "boss wave", which generally was easier - though I was one of two people stunned when a fluton appeared out of nowhere next to us. Unable to move, I just had to hope that a large health potion would be enough to keep me alive, until I could run to a safe distance.... and it was. I did manage to tank a couple of sphinx commanders, with a little help... and then helped with the remaining flutons and patriarch botises.
So, it was a good old-fashioned Mad Monster Spawn, and, by his standards, [GM]Stratos was quite generous with the loot - I managed to pick up five large attack potions, and seven each of the large defence potions and skill point boosters. Presumably I got a similar number of item drop boosters, and twice as many tool aids, but they must have stacked on ones I already had in my inventory. Rage had been recruited into a party with a couple of level thirty types as well as one or two others in the nineties, so 0.25% was all the experience I got. One party member was a bit vocal about the experience he lost from a death or three, but if you are level 30-ish, and a melee fighter, a MMS is a dangerous place to visit.
The event was over by 9:30; I was slightly tempted to take Barbarienne along to the Cariae event at 10:00, but decided against it. It had been fun, but once was enough. Tomorrow we should get a "Storm the Castle" down in Merac, and with any luck I will make a double appearance then.
RedRackham had been doing some more pet-levelling during the MMS; he did get disconnected at some point, but returned once the event was over, and with any luck the drake should be halfway through level 27 by the time I head for bed.
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