MistressDomina logged in after breakfast, and, after moving across some more sellable items to her from another couple of characters, RedRydeR came online, and exchanged the new level 87 Ebade Chaser Boots +15 for some lucky smelting stones. Equipping these new boots, instead of the level 77 Ebade Forceful Boots +13, moved her physical defence up from 2905 to 3101 - and added 50 to her magical defence as well.
After that, MistressDomina went into merchant mode. This was to be one of the Thursdays when I'm kept busy downstairs almost all day, so she was able to stay that way until after the early evening food break, which gave her a chance to sell a useful amount of stuff, slowly but steadily. The Runes of Protection II sold, and a useful number of heaven stones, and some other items as well - item drop boosters, chaos balls, and lucky smelting stones.
Enchantrella was able to do some farming and mining, too, with me checking up occasionally, and using a few tool aids - later she transferred a nice large quantity of green herb leaves across to MistressDomina. They may not make a huge lot of gold, but having hundreds of tool aids in storage is a bit of a waste.
So, that just left an evening session, which tied in quite well, time-wise, with a "happy hour" of double pet experience. The main Cariae priority at the moment is to get SirKit up a few more levels, so Keerella and SirKit went out to the Tomb of Theos on Cariae-4 again. Since they are both able to equip their drakes, that meant double use of the "happy hour".
It was no surprise to see that the bars that indicate the "Condition" of the Tomb were still missing, so one doesn't know what one is letting oneself in for when one starts fighting in there. Luckily, Keerella is pretty well armoured now, for a mage, and so can probably withstand the level 100 screaming zombies, at least, even if the place is set more towards the hard end of the spectrum.
Keerella and SirKit entered, and started fighting, with as usual Kee luring a zombie back into the corridor, and then Kit joining in the attack. There were occasionally people who ran through, heading for the depths of the Tomb, but generally I had the starting area to myself, which was handy. A level 90 night shadow called Hasenko arrived and attacked a screaming zombie, so I suggested a combat party, knowing he had to be at least level 90 as that's where night shadows start. He agreed - but after losing quite a lot of health on the next zombie or two, decided not to continue, and left without a word.
So, Keerella was without a party; there was only one solo party available, and SirKit had joined it. Things proceeded much as before; Kit used three of the level 61-90 platinum blessed irises, going up by 41%, 42%, and 41%. Kit reached level 65 just before the end of the second hour, and so was able to start using the level 69 dual swords and the level 70 gloves, which got the usual sort of bloodseals all sorted out before the end. We did continue for a little while after the third pbi ended, but there wasn't time for a fourth one.
Keerella went up by 0.81%, 16 skill points, and, thanks to the double pet experience, 6184 pet points, while SirKit went up by 127.87%, and 5042 pet points. With any luck, another four hours ought to get Kit into level 67, so that he can wear the whole of the 70/72 armour set. That's when the strategy can change, and he can try soloing the screaming zombies himself - it might well be possible before that with enough health potions, but with the special pbis so cheap, this is a relatively economical way to move him up.
Early on, the Tomb did seem a bit hostile, and when SirKit did become the target of a second zombie's attacks, his health did fall ominously quickly. Initially Keerella's health did fall too, faster, it seemed, than her 10% suction of life accessory could cope with... but that was only in the opening minutes, things did seem to settle down nicely after that.
Afterwards, MistressDomina logged back in, and, as she had taken in a useful amount of gold by then, after moving some loot across, Keerella had a quick look at Roy's merchant mart stocks. The first thing to do was see if there were any b5e +15 mage gloves for her. Over recent months I must have looked many dozens of times, without any luck - but this time AngelRogu3 had put up a pair of the gloves Kee needed, at 635 million...so it was just as well MistressDomina had had so much time to sell stuff today. MD transferred the gold across to Kee, who bought the gloves. Wearing those instead of her old +13 ones increases her physical defence from 2785 to 2918, and also increases her magic defence from 408 to 458, since an extra 50 magic defence is a bonus you get from wearing a piece of +15 armour. And, since Kee's set is now all b5e +15, she has a much bigger Tinkerbell style "fairy" hovering at her shoulder.
MistressDomina went back into merchant mode after that, for the rest of the evening, and managed to get back a little of that cash splurge, mainly on sales of heaven stones. After all, if I generally buy items that have already been upgraded to +13 or +15, I don't have much use for large quantities of heaven stones myself...
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