I don't know how long the Cariae server was offline last night, when I switched off and went to bed they were still unable to give any estimates as to when it would be available again, but this morning, by European clocks, it was back in action, so that RedRackham was able to head off to the gnoll lancers in Merac on Cariae-4 before breakfast, and start moving his new drake on through level 21.
After breakfast, MistressDomina also logged on, and attempted to do some selling. The six lucky smelting stones went first, at 12 million each, and a bit later somebody bought twenty experience boosters - but the first big sale was when someone bought all 285 chaos balls MD had on offer, at 995,000 each. Mid-morning, somebody bought eighty item drop boosters at 695,000 gold... and then a hundred more of those were sold, and 150 experience boosters at 1,540,000, so MistressDomino's gold reserves were finally back up over the billion mark...which might be enough to buy the gloves Keerella needs, or even some sort of new bow for Barbarienne. The next sale, for 3,243,000 gold, was my entire supply of drake eggs and pan flutes at 34,500 gold each. 46 item drop boosters were next, and then another fifty experience boosters went at about eleven o'clock. A couple of chaos balls were sold, this time at 999,500 each, and then somebody took twenty of them, followed by another three...and another fifty went just before MistressDomino shut up shop.
So, I didn't have the time for an actual playing session in the morning - but moving along in a game like Last Chaos is about more than killing monsters, it's about shopping, and gathering resources, and planning. I would possibly move on from floor three of Maargadum Jail now under usual circumstances, but the way the Wendy Bear pieces drop there was tempting me to stay for another level - and having SirKit there, nine levels lower than RedRydeR, makes even the beast archers worth killing, just as having AmityBlaise accompany SirKit to Prokion Temple has been the only way for Kit to get any useful experience and skill exp there at his level.
For the afternoon, RedRackham logged out, and RedRydeR and SirKit went to Maargadum Jail, in their combat party and with the Elizabuff on. When I arrived the sorcerer Flamebreaker was there, so, while SirKit went into the central area, off to its side, and sat down, RedRydeR remained upstairs and fought some beast scythes and beast archers...until the sorcerer decided to head deeper into the Jail after no more than a minute or so, meaning that we were able to take over the central area.
Apart from a brief visit from someone called Suju29, who left as soon as he saw that Red had the beast flyers under control, everything went smoothly, though, perhaps because Red is now a level above the beast flyers, there weren't as many hands of bravery, protection, or the guard, and no heaven stones, in hands of the warrior or not, at all. Still, the moonstone boxes and Wendy Bear pieces remained pretty plentiful. By the time the session was over, RedRydeR had earned 38.20%, along with 2195 pet points, and SirKit was up by 21.07%. They had each got 140 skill points.
The evening session was divided into three parts. For the first section, SirKit and AmityBlaise went to Prokion Temple, and, finding the back room free, settled in there, staying for two hours. SirKit reached level 39 fairly soon, but the experience gain and skill exp was still reasonable, so they continued for a while; by the end, Kit had earned 20.87%, while Amy was up by 19.70% and 52 guild points - and they had each earned 211 more skill points.
But, there comes a time when every character has to bid farewell to Prokion Temple, and for SirKit, the time had arrived. So, Kit and Amy headed off to Merac, where Kit found a few minor quests to do in the village - and also got a quest to kill ten highlanders. The daring duo headed off down the road south, and, after adding the entrance to Maargadum Jail to Amy's memory scroll, reached the first two or three highlanders, by the path leading to the Misty Canyon teleporter. The cleric ThunderStorms was there, fighting the quartet of elite frenzied berserkers, so I said hi, and asked how she was finding them, and she seemed happy to be fighting there. She too is a recent graduate from Prokion, of course.
Kit and Amy moved on down the road to the gnoll soldiers, and finished off fighting the pair of highlanders that come between the gnolls and the salamander ruins, just long enough to complete Kit's quest. Then, they teleported to the Jail.
Someone was fighting the spike canines and dire spike canines on the ground floor of Maargadum Jail, so, while Kit's horse buffs lasted, Kit and Amy ran down to level two, which was also pretty busy, with all three of its main rooms being used. Luckily Kit only really needed a few canines, so mainly just used a couple of groups out in the corridor.
It wasn't a terribly long session, but it got AmityBlaise into level 29, allowing the party to change from equal to combat once more. Including his quest rewards, SirKit went up by another 15.52% and 10 skill points, and Amy went up by 10.14%, 28 guild points, and 8 skill points.
But there was still half an hour or so left of the evening, so Amy logged out, Kit moved over to the older computer - and RedRydeR logged in. It seemed like a good idea for Red and Kit to have a first exploratory team-up out at the level 63 sphinx fighters and level 64 sphinx "speer" men, now that Red is wearing the full 50/52 armour set - so they teamed up in a combat party, got the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, moved to Dratan, and teleported out to the sphinx campsite.
RedRydeR did kill a few sphinx types there, which as ever was easier when Snare worked than when it failed, but the place had a couple of other people too, so I decided to try to move along to the location of the other elite sphinx speer man. That didn't give Red too much trouble, though she lost a little health, but Kit's health got dangerously low once when, clicked on Red to auto-follow, he managed to get snagged on a tree, and a speer man started attacking him. Still, Red managed to kill it in time, and before long the location that Kaerella used for a while, not to mention various characters over on Auzura, had been reached, and added to my two characters' memory scrolls.
I didn't particularly want to fight the elite sphinx speer man yet; the regular types were giving 0.35% or more per kill, which was good enough for me. So, when a specialist sorcerer turned up who did want to target the elite, I moved to the other end of the pathway and fought fighters and speer men there. With Red's armour, they didn't do a lot of damage even when Snare failed, but I probably ought to invest in some medium-size health potions before trying a longer session there.
Anyway, while RedRydeR and SirKit didn't gain any skill points, Red went up by 43.49%, moving into level 48, also gaining 423 pet points, and Kit added 21.19%...so we are, potentially, at the start of some relatively swift levelling up...
After transferring loot and Wendy Bear pieces to MistressDomina and MistressFelicia, my adventurers logged out; MistressFelicia took up a position close to the event NPC Sharoyan, and started selling the Wendy Bear pieces at 195,000 each, taking in over fourteen million in gold before someone else came along and started selling them at 150,000, which was the price Felicia tried last time, only for someone to buy them all in the first minute or two. RedRackham returned to his pet-levelling duties, and chatted, down with the gnoll lancers, with HoneyBun, who told him that the Cariae downtime yesterday had continued beyond midnight, UK time. An announcement of 50% extra experience and skill exp for Cariae, until 2:00am, came up, but was a bit late in the day for me.
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