Pet Levels

Once the various attendance allowances were claimed, which took until after coffee, there was time for Kaerella on Katar to head to Maargadum Jail's second floor again. Today she reached level 42, and was able to, once she was back in Randol, spend quite a few skill points, as that level opens up the second level of Master Weaponsmith and Master Armoursmith, for 345 sp each. The final levels come at level 52, and then all Kae's "special" skills will be done.

There was also the first level of Deadly Shot 2 to learn, for 200 skill points, to increase Kaerella's chance of a "deadly" hit on her target (which Kae ought to have got one level ago), so 890 skill points were spent in all. The session did however get her 37.72% and 107 skill points, plus 1004 pet points, so things are moving along steadily there.

After lunch it was time for another two-hour Tomb session on Cariae-4 for Barbarienne and Keerella, in their usual combat party. As before, I started well in advance of the "dungeon time" hour of 50% extra experience - 26 minutes ahead, in fact. In the first hour, Barbarienne got through no less than 53 experience boosters, 22 before the main hour began, and added 20.55%; the second hour, with slightly less "dungeon time" in it, added 17.76% more, with 20 booster-kills inside the main hour and 29 after it. Barbarienne's drake added 2122 pet points, Keerella's Scra-Chi pet SkrappY added 3.70%, and both Barb and Kee earned 5 skill points. Keerella, who only fought one sphinx fighter, otherwise just standing there for the combat party boost, got 0.84% experience.

For a change, the main room with the first four anubis spear men was empty when Barbarienne and Keerella arrived, so they settled in there. Apart from people hastily running through on their way to deeper parts, our only visitor was the mage Csaba93, who fought a few of the anubis sphinx men, and a big mob of sphinx fighters a time or two; she also spent a fair amount of time just standing in a safe place at the side, quite near us.

Another session like that ought to get Barbarienne into level 109, and allow her to use her shiny new level 109 bow, so that people don't comment on her still using a level 85 one. That may be all the levelling Barb does for a little while... though come to think of it there is a useful new level of a skill to get when she reaches 110... There was a little time left after that session, which soon got taken up with moving loot, from drops and from the loot wheel, across to my Cariae and Auzura-based merchant characters.

There was also just enough time to use the special golden LacaRette tokens which MistressSabina had gained; they were enough for five top-level spins, using three tokens each. One of the spins just gave a single golden token back, but the other four gave 25 item drop boosters, a platinum blessed iris, and a couple of the hour-long "super huge lucky scrolls".

Katar's Kaerella returned to Maargadum on Katar-5 after the food break, for about 45 minutes of the five to six "dungeon time"; 21.47% experience, 58 skill points, and 516 pet points were gained, from the second floor's various canines, and the beast scythes. RedRackham was back in action on floor three, over on Auzura-4, too...but when MistressSabina logged in and made a party with him, and headed for floor three, with a view to using a platinum super skill pill or two on the beast flyers between the two "dungeon times", unfortunately I found the spot already in use.

So, it was over to "plan B" - and another double trip to the Tomb of Theos, with MistressDomina and Kaerella, not to mention the polar bear cub, on Auzura-5. The place was busy as usual, and got busier as the evening progressed. Somehow we did occasionally get big groups of screaming zombies plus infected grey zombies lured in on us, but maybe our teamwork is improving. Kaerella did un-equip the poly occasionally, and even do a tiny bit of fighting and healing, but no pets were killed during the evening...or at least, neither of ours.

By the end, with an equal party, MistressDomina had moved past the halfway mark in level 92, adding 4.73%, and her drake gained 2642 pet points - enough to get it into level 43. I'd never actually remembered to use the previous stat point from when it reached level 42, so, afterwards, I made a point of going straight to the animal trainer in Dratan City and getting MD two more levels of the boost to her magical attack power.

Kaerella added 6.97%, which shows how much shorter level 91 is than level 92, and they each gained 6 skill points from their evening's endeavours. The polar bear cub reached level 36, adding 61.48%.

And that was the end of the day's excitements. I definitely need to arrange for my merchant characters on Cariae and Auzura to do some selling before long, they now have plenty of stuff to get rid of - and as ever there are various things I need to buy, once I have enough gold...