"The Product Does Not Exist"

The characters I'm trying to get up to the 10% "attendance allowance" logged in two by two in the morning, with most of them doing a little mining or herb-gathering; Kaerella on Auzura had a quick look in Roy's merchant mart, but there were still no decent level 85 titan swords available for MrChuckNorris.

After coffee, it was time for MistressDomina and Mistress Blaze to log in, and head again for the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-5. As before, there were plenty of other people there - and one of those confused incidents when there are some "spare" screaming zombies wandering back along the corridor did lead to MistressBlaze getting killed. Still, the skill exp restoration scrolls are on special offer at the moment, so a death doesn't cost much; MB used a res scroll she had active, so didn't lose any experience or skill points. That meant the end of MB's Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, since I didn't bother to take MistressBlaze back to Randol to get it started again.

By the time lunch was due, MistressDomina had added 13.52% and 4 skill points, plus 1453 pet points, while MistressBlaze was up by 81.43%, taking her into level 50, and 1088 pet points.

The afternoon session was pretty similar - at least one character from the morning session, the mage frixy, was still there when I got back. The place did get really crowded at times, and occasionally things would go slightly wrong - I remember a knight brought three screaming zombies back, I thought he'd done it on purpose but apparently the person he was fighting alongside had got killed, and he'd had to run for his life. MistressBlaze ended up running for her life too, and got back to safety, round the corner, with not much more than 100 health points left.

It got so crowded sometimes that MistressBlaze couldn't target the screamie MD had lured because there were so many people around it, and sometimes we would have more than one on the go, with one being fought by sheer weight of numbers, while I was able to get another and keep it mainly for myself.

Still, it was fun, and people did work together - some people did even ask before joining in, and a titan buffed me quite often. Really, it's the nearest to an old-fashioned proper adventuring party you are likely to find these days. As it was a longer session for me, by the time I left them to it, MistressDomina had added another 19.79% and 6 skill points, along with 2181 pet points, which were enough to get MD's drake into level 40. MistressBlaze, meanwhile, was up by a further 182.43%, and 1365 pet points.

The evening session was a bit quieter, as, again, Kaerella on Katar went out to Prokion Temple to earn some more skill points. My pet-leveller on that server, ColonelScarlet, supplied the solo party, while doing a little work on his level 39 drake.

The back room was free, so Kae settled in there. Before too long however a level 33 knight, KILLER999, came in, and at his request I recruited him into the party, switching it to the combat type. For a while we had another archer, LekarzPL, in the party too; she was only just high enough level to join, and got through a few health potions, while I did heal her a few times. I think she probably decided in the end that she'd get better experience, or better skill exp, fighting solo, as after levelling up she went back out into the corridor.

KILLER999 was farming skill points - though not for that character in particular, he wanted the skill points to upgrade his guild. His main character is a level 90 knight, he told me, and this character was just to get some sp, though he was finding it pretty boring.

He got to the number of sp he needed, and, with thanks, headed for town. ColonelScarlet logged out, and my level 26 rogue on Katar, RedRyder, logged in, joined Kae in a combat party, and hurried to Prokion Temple to get within range. Kaerella had recently levelled up, reaching 36, and without RedRyder close by, was getting very little in the way of experience now, and only minor amounts of skill exp, but having Red there changed all that.

Strangely, KILLER999 did have to return, as he'd managed to get himself killed before he could upgrade his guild - he needed another 15 skill points, after which he left again. I wonder what he'd encountered that could have killed him? Anyway, after slowly going through level 35, RedRyder's presence certainly speeded up Kaerella's progress, and by the time I logged out she was 30% of the way through her new level.

The total experience gain for the session for Kaerella was 40.58%, along with 434 guild points - and 528 skill points, all again helped along by a "50% extra experience and skill exp" event for the evening hours. RedRyder added 17.95%, 28 guild points and 137 skill points, from her relatively brief appearance.

As there is a master stone "tiered spender" event going on this weekend, and I need items to sell to get gold to pay for armour, just about the last thing I did tonight was buy from the web item mall a "buy one get one free" offer of the "Tiered Leveller 2.0" package, with each package containing 10 platinum blessed irises, 250 experience boosters, 10 MP stealers, 10 HP stealers, 15 large crit potions, 10 platinum adrenaline, and 15 berserker potions. The purchase itself went smoothly, and they appeared in MistressDomina's in-game record section, and I moved one package across to her inventory, expecting to see the items appear, as usual, in her inventory, with a list in the text box of what had been picked up. Instead, all I got was a message saying "The product does not exist". I took a screenshot, and, unless things have changed when I log in tomorrow, I will have to send in a "ticket" to attempt to get the items I bought. So, not the ideal way to end the day!