I had thought that the email address that I'd associated with this blog had expired, it certainly didn't want to log me in when I tried a few weeks ago, but checking the spam folder in my main email account, I found a "we've missed you" type email from gmx.com. When I logged in, which took an attempt or two but did work finally, there were a couple of "your guest book has been signed" notices. A suggestion of using the dungeon in Juno, the Ebony Mine, for "suicide runs" seems good to me, particularly as one can get there easily using the Juno NPC scroll...that entry was a bit old, I see, as it included Christmas greetings...
More recent was a message from Zenderfly, alias Damor, alias Itura... not quite recent enough, as it suggested meeting up on Cariae last night. As it happens, that's where I was, on Cariae-5, but not on characters that Zen would be aware of. Ah well, I'll be sure to check the Guest Book at kaerella.com every day for a few days in hopes of a new message. It would have been great to have linked up with Zen yesterday as well as Meds. Oh, and the email address I referred to is kaerella, plus the usual sign for "at", swiftly followed by the name of the provider, which would be gmx, with a dot and a com. The Guest Book is only on the kaerella.com "home" version of this blog, though I think the more blog-style versions do have a commenting option.
While RedRackham took the night off, MistressDomina was in merchant mode on Cariae-4. She hadn't got a great variety of things to sell this time however, so just managed to take in 126 million, which means that she remains unable to buy any more new armour or weapons for the moment. Her session was brought to a premature end, just before I went out for some early morning shopping before the heat closed in, with the old "send error report?" question. Luckily this tends only to happen while attempting to sell stuff, but it cut an hour or so off MD's session.
RedRackham did go back out to the gnoll lancers with his drake before breakfast, and so started to make progress through level 34. He seems to have had that spot to himself lately, without any of the other knight or mage regulars putting in an appearance, I thought to myself...
RedRydeR logged in to do her two quests, which meant riding down from Dratan City to the Temple of Forgetfulness, and getting its entrance onto her memory scroll. It didn't take long to kill enough of the local spiders to get the necessary spider webs - and seven of the legendary slayers also got killed before the horse buffs ran out. Back in the city, Red claimed her reward, which worked out at 2.55% and 9 skill points, making the whole mini-session 2.93%, 11 sp, and 52 pet points, getting RedRydeR's stash of skill points back over the 20k mark. And Red was able to add a bloodseal to her boots - 22 close range evasion this time.
SirKit had the majority of the morning session, starting with killing enough dragons in Dratan to get seven angry dragon eggs. Apparently Archaeologist Jajan hasn't always been successful in changing drake eggs into dragon hatchling pets, and the wild dragons are a result of this...but if I "put to sleep" some dragons, they revert to eggs again, and he can make fresh attempts. Look, I don't invent these quests, I just do them, okay?
SirKit moved along to the giants after that, since they were nearby, and ended up near the "Tomb of Theo" non-working entrance in the north-west corner of the map, fighting the akane giants there, and the elite akane giant. Still, they were one level below Kit, and the experience gain was rather minor, so I used a memory scroll to teleport across to the sphinx types instead.
The healer ThunderStorms joined the solo party I was in, and we chatted; she may only be level 44, but she manages to kill the grand red dragon, she told me, though it doesn't drop anything rare very often. She was out with the highlanders to lure it, though may move on to the giant larvae soon. Her 38k skill point stash ought to last her to around level 137 apparently, though we agreed that the thought of slogging through the sphinx commanders, and spirit cave sorcerers, for months to get that high didn't appeal greatly.
By the time lunch was approaching, Kit had moved back to town to get his quest reward from Jajan - 2.74% and 8 skill points. In all his session gave him 19.42% and 48 skill points, plus 690 pet points, though his drake took a lot of damage from the various monsters, so that quite a few green herb leaves were used. His drake is now lower in level than the one RedRackham is working on, so an exchange may well be made in a few days.
After lunch, after the talk yesterday with MEDSx about Katar, I was checking on my level 25 rogue there RedRyder, and saw that she does have all her special skills maximised, and is basically ready to start work as a serious sp-farmer. Her skills bar also had, instead of her horse, "pick", to pick up loot, on [F12], which suggested that she had been teaming up with other characters of mine...which didn't seem a bad idea.
So, RedRackham logged out, and RedRyder switched to the older computer, while Kaerella, my level 33 archer, logged in, got the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, and headed for Prokion Temple. Katar-5 had the "congested" flag up, but the temple wasn't too busy, and my favourite back room was free, so Kae settled in, going more for the orc axemen than the sergeants when there was a choice. RedRyder quickly joined her there, just standing back near the doorway into the room. It wasn't long before RedRyder levelled up, and was able to wear the +10 level 31 jacket and pants, which made her almost orc-proof. Kae levelled up too, not long after.
The afternoon passed in its usual way; a titan did run in, fight and kill one orc, and run out again, but otherwise all was quiet. By the end, Kaerella had added 60.19%, 569 guild points, and 382 skill points, while RedRyder was up by 43.35% and 364 skill points. That was great for Kae, and not too bad for Red, though I think Red will need to get a better gain of skill points per level than that once she hits level 27.
RedRackham did some more pet-levelling over the food break, and found the mage KiaOra also there, working on her pale blue horse. RedRackham's drake reached level 35 during that session; there is no automatic cut-off point for a drake, unlike a horse, which I'd normally stop right at the beginning of level 37, so Red may continue with this drake for a while. I don't think he'll be pulling any more overnight sessions though, in this heatwave I can do without the warmth from leaving the older computer running all the time.
There was an interesting moment in the forum shoutbox; I came in halfway through, but the gamesage Sababth was telling people that a GS doesn't automatically get 20k of aeria points per month just for being a gamesage, they have to do forty things per month to qualify - events, and forum duty mainly. They do get free prizes to hand out at events they run like "hide and seek" and trivia quizzes, though.
For the evening session, I had to take into account a "Happy Hour" event, due to run from six until ten, UK time, with 50% extra experience and skill exp, so decided that it was a good opportunity for RedRydeR and SirKit to team up once again, with the elite sphinx speer man and his chums. So, soon after six I was out there in Dratan on Cariae-5; being below level sixty still, SirKit can use the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff for double experience and skill exp, so I could tell that the event hadn't been switched on, as Kit was getting twice as much skill exp per kill...when the event was running, he'd get 2.5 times normal skill exp, and Red would get 1.5 times, so Red would get more than half what he was getting.
So, it was a matter of convincing the gamesages in the shoutbox that it was a general not-switched-on and not a personal bug, so that SirKit had to log out and log back in again, and then log out, with me closing and restarting the game, and log back in again. Once PurpleFlame and the other current gamesages were convinced, the message was sent, and [GM]Stratos made a fleeting appearance in the shoutbox to announce that the event was switched on....which, with a glance at the latest skill exp figures, I could confirm. But that meant the event started 43 minutes late - hopefully it will have run on for at least a full four hours, but that takes us beyond my log-out time.
I did have a couple of visitors, one of whom did manage to kill the elite sphinx speer man once, but generally the evening passed smoothly; I was a bit active in the shoutbox, helping with a few of the simpler queries. By the time my duo logged out, RedRydeR had gone up by just 16.65% in level 67, which, with her plans for some "power hours" in the Tomb soon isn't important, and a more useful 57 skill points, as well as 2055 pet points. SirKit added 84.22%, taking him into level 55, so that he will now be able to wear his next pair of gloves, and gained 94 skill points.
RedRackham logged back in for a little more pet-levelling while I finished preparing this blog entry - level 35 is now under way.
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