I logged MistressDomina in after breakfast again on Cariae-4, to attempt to sell some stuff, and she did rather well, with 100 item drop boosters making a good start - and then somebody came along and spent 587 million in one go, which I think was mainly lucky smelting stones. So, it wasn't long before the money spent on Keerella's new gloves last night was regained.
SirKit logged on to see if there were any new quests in Dratan, now that he was level 65, but there wasn't anything new. he got the reward for killing the sphinx types from Occultist Pianon, and then rode out to the Temple of Forgetfulness, to get the location onto his memory scroll. Since he was there, he went in and killed a few Cursed Spiders, to get enough spider webs for his quest from the Herbologist Trainer - that didn't take long, but he stayed until his horse buffs ended, before returning to town for his reward. The actual fighting added 0.35%, 2 skill points, and 64 pet points, but adding in the quest rewards meant that his brief session added 2.70%, 14 skill points, and the 64 pet points.
Looking through Roy's merchant mart stock, there was no sign of a good level 107 circlet for Barbarienne, or indeed any improved level 85/86 armour pieces for RedRydeR, so the gold that MistressDomina was stocking up on looked likely to end up paying for SirKit's next armour and weapon. There was quite a good pair of dual swords, level 85, on sale for 400 million, I noticed... but I suspect the armour pieces of the knight's 85/87 set will tend to be a bit more expensive.
During the afternoon, Keerella and SirKit were able to fit in three more hours in the Tomb of Theos, with Kit using three more pbis - he added 39, 40, and 37% experience, for a total of 116.26% in all, plus 2222 pet points. Keerella, meanwhile, added 0.71%, 12 skill points, and 2767 pet points.
Hasenko put in another appearance, staying a bit longer this time, again in a combat party, though his armour doesn't seem particularly sturdy. Towards the end of the session, after he'd gone, the level 84 royal knight ThegoD turned up, and asked to party with Keerella. Since it didn't matter if Kee's experience gain got cut back a bit, I agreed, but it wasn't long before he asked if it was okay for him to go afk for "ten minutes"... while he did reappear briefly within that deadline, and moved slightly further back out of the zombie spawning area, he spent the rest of the session, another twenty minutes, away from his keyboard again. He was still sitting there when I got back to the computer after my early evening food break, but, since Kee too had just been standing around doing nothing for the last half hour or so, he finally left the party.
In fact, looking at the chat from that period, I see that he asked to party with RitaBalou, as well as Lornea, who were also active there at the time, and managed to annoy Rita. "ThegoD, people don't appreciate it if you kill their mobs here, okay?" That was followed by "And you can be reported for that - which I will do now, cuz I took a screenshot." Which rather overstates things, assuming that he was just doing a little ks-ing, but still.
As soon as he saw that Keerella was back in action, he reformed the party, but after the first screaming zombie we killed together, he went back to sit by the wall, so after getting no response to "Are you back in action now, ThegoD?" I left the party... and soon after that he logged out. I don't mind helping people, but he was taking "leaching" a bit far.
One more pbi-using hour got SirKit into level 67, which was the object of the exercise - that was another 39%. Kee and Kit did continue for another half hour, approximately, so that in all Kit added 44.61% and 1059 pet points, while Keerella added 0.34%, 7 skill points, and 1337 pet points. SirKit was now able to wear the whole of the 70/72 armour set, which was the object of the exercise.
It seemed a good idea for Keerella to check out the ancient grey mummies, a little further into the Tomb, so Kit recruited her into the solo party that, by now, he was leader of, gave her the Divine Shield buff, and retreated to the area by the teleporter. Kee then ran to the mummies' room, and tried out a few.
Even using the Haste and Spell Focus buffs to speed up her attack, it tended to take about two minutes to kill an ancient grey mummy - time for them to use their "rotten bandage bleeding" skill twice. While Kee's suction of life was pretty useful, some small health potions, at least, had to be used. Each mummy gave 16,014,237 experience and 3,300 skill exp, at Kee's current level, though that will increase as she levels up, reaching 4,400 skill exp when she is their own level, 103. At present a third of a skill point every two minutes doesn't sound too wonderful, or 10 sp per hour; a platinum super skill pill would get that up to 30 skill points, while using thirty skill point boosters would get it up to 120...though that seems a pretty expensive way of gaining sp. Perhaps when level 103 is reached it will be just about worth it, though it is entirely possible that skill exp in-game may have been tweaked a bit by then.
Back in Randol, SirKit was able to learn, for 200 sp, level one of Upgrade Mana 2, which, as the name suggests, increased his maximum mana points from 1784 to 2432, even if the skill description did talk about health points. In Dratan, the Magician gave him the "Magician's Rest" quest to kill seven legendary slayers in the Forgotten Temple. If that got left for a level or two, Kit would have the quest for the curd hadians and twin hadians too...but Kit is now poised on the edge of the big power-level, so may never be in Dratan at the right level for that one. or indeed for the jumping devils there.
Keerella ended up getting just 0.39% and 7 skill points from the ancient grey mummies, plus 871 pet points. But there was about an hour left to the evening, and I fancied a change, so Kee logged out. SirKit had passed the solo party leadership over to Kee - and she now passed it on to MistressDomina, who'd logged in to try a bit more selling, before logging out.
Kaerella, my level 35 archer, logged in on Katar-5 for an hour's worth of skill point farming, but the back room in Prokion Temple was taken, as was the corridor room nearby, so Kae ended up on the central gallery. She got recruited into a party, which, with its other two members, a rogue and another archer, a few levels lower, I hoped might boost my skill exp gain, but I think it was an old-fashioned precedence party...whatever it was, the skill exp gain didn't seem too good, and while Kae added 5.61% experience, she only added 37 skill points, along with 65 guild points. However, Kaerella did reach the 18.5k mark on the sp side, which can't be bad.
I chatted a bit with a level 35 rogue there, cookieman1234, who seemed to have missed out on getting the freebie +10 armour set and weapons, presumably from having a full inventory, and was suitably envious of Kae's +15 level 33 weapon, which, as far as I can remember, cost me about 50 million, a while ago. But then it was time to log out for the night.
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