Back in the Tomb

Once again there wasn't a morning Last Chaos session for me, as I had some work that needed to be done, but after lunch, Keerella headed back to the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4. This time, however, she was accompanied by SirKit, and just fought the screaming zombies at the start, with Kit "ks-ing" her.

SirKit started at level 60, so was able to use a last 31-60 platinum blessed iris, before moving on to using the 61-90 type, which should keep him going for a while. During the afternoon, SirKit was, after a while, in a solo party, while Keerella had a combat party with a level 90 night shadow, SHADOWWARRIOR, which helped gain a tiny bit of extra experience for both of us I guess, and ought to have helped his skill point farming along slightly, since Kee was higher level, closer to the zombies' 100. He left fairly early in my food break, though... and later xShadowWarriorx was in the party SirKit joined, so I was able to guess the name of the night shadow of his he referred to.

SirKit's attacks did give him a useful proportion of the experience from each screaming zombie Keerella attacked; he got around 60% of a level from the first pbi, though that figure did tend to fall a bit as time passed, since each level tends to need more experience than the previous one. 56%, 52%, 50%, 48%, 45%...and finally 44%.

During the afternoon part of the session, Keerella added 1.01% and 14 skill points, plus 2746 pet points, over three hours, while SirKit got 167.92% and 2235 pet points. Over the four hours of the evening, Kee gained a further 1.09%, 20 skill points, and 3570 pet points, and Kit added 187.68% and 2871 pet points, which were enough to get his drake into level 35. These small amounts of experience for Kee, and the small numbers of skill points, are starting to add up, though she will need to be the star of some sessions of her own, with a pbi and boosters, to make any real levelling-up progress.

I had expected a rogue or two to get in touch to ask to ks, but generally SirKit and Keerella were able to carry on alone, though there did tend to be a few other people around fighting the screamies. An archer and a mage were teamed up for a while, and I saw Myvi a couple of times, no doubt heading for the end room again. An assassin-type rogue was pretty high level I think, judging from the large groups of screaming zombies, plus a few mummies, she brought into the room to fight. She had to bring them there because she was levelling a friend's pet-leveller type knight, who would have been in big trouble if he'd tried to go any further in.

The assassin had to leave before the job was completed, so I let him join Kee's party for a while - things are slow for that kind of levelling at 29, but I think he got fairly close to 30 before he had to leave. I don't think he can have too high a level main character, he didn't seem to know about the details of pet-levelling, like getting a red name to decrease your attack.

The conversation in Kee's solo party got on to what we listened to, or indeed watched, while playing the game, and it seems I'm not the only one to listen to old radio shows... the name "Hancock", he of the old "Half Hour" shows, doesn't get past the chat filter of course, sigh, having to type "Hanc0ck" is just silly.

But that's really all there is to report on today. The headline "event" for today was, um, the Server Maintenance, due at 1:00am tomorrow morning as far as the UK is concerned. Will it make it possible to meld costume covers onto armour again, restore the "Condition" bars to the chart that the teleporter outside the Tomb of Theos shows us, end the July 4th event with its stars, stripes and top hats, make skill exp farming easier, solve many of the bugs we live with, open up a bugged side of "the chapel" in Mondshine, bring us the new-look version of Juno, restore missing items to the item mall, and generally make everyone exceedingly happy? Around the world, thousands of Last Chaos players are holding their breath...possibly.