There was another quite substantial patch to download this morning before the game would start, so presumably there was an "unscheduled maintenance" last night. Apparently the patch was mainly to reactivate the "socket manager" NPC. Somehow that hadn't ended the double pet experience, however, which was still running when RedRackham got back to the gnoll lancers before breakfast.
Kaerella logged in on Cariae-5 for half an hour, to "sign in" for her "attendance allowance". This message greeted her: "You have attended 1 consecutive days. You can earn extra EXP according to the number of days you attended consecutively. You can earn +37657216% of extra EXP today. You can earn more extra EXP for more consecutive days you attend. You will earn 0% additional EXP depends on the attendance days." And after half an hour a new announcement came up: "Your attendance for today has been confirmed. You have attended 2 consecutive days. After passed the midnight, you have to re-login to be eligible as attendance day. You will earn 3% additional EXP depends on the attendance days." Some bits got translated better from the Korean than others, but I do love the idea of +37657216% extra experience gain...
So, it seems that, to qualify for a new day's bonus, one does have to be online for thirty minutes at the previous day's rate. RedRydeR was next up to qualify for her 3% - and, while harvesting s few green herbs, got asked the usual "how do you feed your pet?" questions by a level 9 titan, Axxxel. This somehow led on to me taking him out to the drakes, and using the old trick of giving him horse buffs and then leaving the party - his pet hopefully got some benefit, and he added a couple of levels, before Red had to leave. Keerella was next up to claim the "attendance allowance", and rode out and buffed him a couple more times before doing a little mining...though as she doesn't have any points in her special skills, she doesn't get many stones for her time.
My level 92 rogue on Auzura, Rage (or RAGE to be strictly accurate) didn't settle for any boring farming, she spent almost an hour in the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-4, just fighting some screaming zombies. The level 77 royal knight Zerxon was in the same solo party and did arrive in the Tomb and fight within range for a ew minutes, but I was in no hurry to level up... by the time lunch was due, Rage had just added 2.08%, 4 skill points and, thanks to the double pet experience, 1580 pet points. Once the first half hour was completed, the experience per screamie did increase by 3%, from 8,777,055 to 9,040,366, so the "attendance" system does seem to actually work.
After lunch, MistressDomina, to while away her 30 minutes, was looking through the Auzura merchant mart stock, and finding very little that would be suitable for MrChuckNorris when he levels up - I was starting to wonder whether titans had "b5e" armour at all. Finally I did find a pair of Antistune Pants of Thunder +15, which were blue-named for the maximum possible defence figure, and had the proper five evasion seals... they were 500 million, which I could just about afford. I was slightly tempted by b5e headgear, but it was completely unplussed, so a lot of heaven stones, lucky smelting stones, and chaos smelting stones would have had to be used to get it to +13.
The pants were passed across to Chuck, and then MD logged out, which allowed RedRackham to log back in again - by this time he'd got his pale blue horse up to halfway through level 28.
MistressBlaze, my level 48 wizard, logged in on Auzura-5 as well, making a solo party with RedRackham, and soon found that, while the experience from a level 52 Giant in Dratan was unchanged on 25,850, the experience from a level 50 Salamander Ruin in Merac had been boosted from 23,100 to 34,436, which doesn't seem logical - surely a level 52 adversary should continue to give more experience than a level 50 one? With the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff and, after 30 minutes, the extra 3%, the sallies ended up giving 70,938 experience each.
There was still one more character who needed to get her "attendance allowance", though, so MistressBlaze logged out after just adding 2.80%, 13 skill points, and 246 pet points, and MistressSabina, my level 41 witch, came on instead, and, again in a solo party with RedRackham, headed for the second floor of Maargadum Jail, and its dire spike canines.
Things went smoothly enough there, though a pair of knights did come into the main room shortly before the end, making it slightly crowded. By the time the food break was due, though, Sabina had added 15.22%, 71 skill points, and 2354 pet points. I don't think that the Jail's monsters have been significantly boosted, experience-wise, but after the first half hour Sabina did at least get her extra 3% attendance allowance.
RedRackham continued his pet-levelling over the food break, while SirDarth over on Sarissa-4 did some pet-levelling too...which was a bit risky, as there are malign forces over there that try to get pet-levellers and their pets killed. Still, Darth's level 23 drake added some useful pet experience, and was near the top of its level when he logged out. For the evening, Keerella headed back to the Cariae-5 Tomb of Theos.
The evening in the Tomb was pretty similar to yesterday evening's session; the mage DARKEN and the knight ERAGOON turned up and asked to ks a bit, but my main companion was the rogue idontcare4u2. I'd met the titan Infere in Dratan, just before teleporting to the Tomb's entrance, and at his request given him some buffs, and then we ended up in the same solo party, so when he asked if his rogue could come and ks, how could I refuse? She levelled up a few times during the evening, as did her pale blue pony.
While most people who want to ks a bit are polite and friendly, there are others who just barge in, and one such was the titan yonatan, who made a nuisance of himself not just to me, but to everyone else fighting the screaming zombies. A knight called Fronius did try to explain that he shouldn't do it, and that he might need more than his present 17 skill points if he was going to become a strong and useful character, but it didn't seem to get through.
Anyway, by the end of the evening Keerella had just added another 1.81%, and 17 skill points, plus, as the GMs hadn't thought to turn off the double pet experience, 6260 pet points. And by then RedRackham's pale blue horse was getting towards the top of level 30, as well. Let's hope that the double pet experience continues for a while yet...
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