Not the Castle Siege

MistressDomina transferred her recent armour across to CaptainScarlet before breakfast; she has now picked up all six classes of level 97 helmet and boots from the ancient grey mummies, though only one pair each of the knight boots. Then, after buying 215 more medium mana potions in Strayana to get her supply back to 400, MD logged out, RedRackham logged in, and Red and the Captain headed for Maargadum Jail.

RedRackham's drake managed to reach level 41 before coffee; after that, he logged out, and MistressDomina logged in, and headed, of course, for the Tomb of Theos, which was still set to 100% easy. There was a night shadow fighting there when I arrived in the ancient grey mummies room, but he left within seconds.

So, two hours got fitted in before lunch; the first hour used 71 skill point boosters, which meant that MistressDomina added just 0.67%, not to mention 394 skill points, and 1079 pet points. MD's ignition reached level three in the second hour, so that she got through 75 boosters and earned 416 skill points, plus 1.23%. since it was almost exactly the dungeon time hour, and 1058 pet points.

MD stayed there over lunch; the place remained quiet, so three hours got fitted in easily enough. I had the place to myself to begin with, though things did become tight in the final hour, as a rogue called Austri arrived, followed by the sorcerer fragiii, and the night shadow LegendOfSky. Austri began by attacking and attracting every spare mummy in the place, but things must have gone wrong, as she vanished while surrounded by the mummy mob, and ran back in a couple of minutes later. I think "velo" was involved in the strategy, an expensive and time-limited attack from the item mall. After that she seemed to settle down to normal fighting, to my relief.

The first hour of the afternoon saw MistressDomina use 79 skill point boosters, which meant that she earned 438 skill points, plus 0.87% and 1071 pet points; hour two used 78 for 433, plus 1.10% and 1055 pet points, and that rather more crowded final afternoon hour still managed to get through 72 boosters, for 399 skill points, 0.75%, and 1055 pet points.

Luckily all three of those players had vanished by the time I got back from the early evening food break. I don't think they'd been playing flat out, as that room would never bear four separate people fighting at full speed - but it was a relief not to have to worry about where my next target would respawn. I'd had to save up the third-level ignition, as there would not have been enough targets for me to hit in the time it gave, but I could use it now - and indeed had a duo of lower-level ignitions at the end too, so that a grand total of 88 ancient grey mummies got killed, using 88 skill point boosters. That meant a record-breaking 489 skill points were earned in that hour, plus, thanks to dungeon time and the start of a 50% extra experience "turbo" event that overlapped with it, 1.46% experience, and 1066 pet points.

That meant that over the six hours MistressDomina had earned 2569 skill points, using 463 skill point boosters, along with 6.08% and 6381 pet points - quite enough for one day, particularly after Friday's marathon session.

There wasn't time for another hour, as the Dratan Castle Siege was scheduled to start at seven, UK time. As this is a PvP event, I wasn't too happy about the idea of taking MistressDomina along - sometimes when you get killed there you apparently do get a death penalty, and if MD lost 2% of her skill points, she'd lose over ninety minutes work, and the use of over a hundred skill point boosters, which would be rather expensive. So, I asked if my level 93 ranger Rage (or RAGE, to be exact) could join Twisted, and SacSalop, who seemed to have had a clear-out of inactive members recently, agreed. MD logged out and Rage logged in, found him at the Auzura-5 arena, and officially joined...I reassured people that Rage was as sweet and innocent as MD, if not more so.

After I'd moved some loot to MistressDomino, and traded the latest armour drops from MD to CaptainScarlet, the Captain returned to his death mask lancer - and Rage moved across to Auzura-1, where the Siege was scheduled to take place.

SacSalop recruited Rage into his party, and added two or three other guildies; a window popped up to teleport us to the starting area, and off we went. SacSalop quickly moved to the spot he wanted, and recalled the rest of us there, to just this side of the "gateway" that leads down to the path around the outside of the Tomb of Theos's pyramid area...with the countdown at around five minutes to go.

So, we stood there - but unfortunately we were glitched, probably because Twisted were registered to take part in both that castle siege and the Merac one, scheduled for six hours later. Participants in the castle siege have a circle beneath them, a bit like a clock face - and some of us had this and some of us didn't. As guild master SacSalop had some things he could do, and he soon worked out that we were definitely glitched - nobody could kill us, unless we went through the gateway, and we couldn't kill anyone.

We stood around for a while, and could see a few people fighting; they tended to respawn where we were. The sorcerer fragiii stood near us for a while, I don't know what he was doing; GoksReturn of the DeadlyRebeLs gave a little pep talk to some defenders... but it was all very restful, as far as we were concerned.

SacSalop decided to relocate to the Auzura-3 Randol arena, so I went there too, occasionally stepping into the arena, but not fighting; a couple of guild members temporarily left, so that they could battle others, especially SacSalop, but it wasn't really any substitute for deadly battles to wrest control of the Tomb from one guild, or indeed help DeadlyRebeLs retain their ownership, which I think they did. Glitchiness continued, and going into merchant mode, for example, was extremely slow - and it was impossible to look at what other people were selling, apparently because of the castle siege registration, though at that stage I don't know which siege, Dratan or Merac, was responsible for that.

Somehow, with a little looking through Roy's merchant mart, logging-out time was reached, so MistressDomina said goodnight and logged out - and RedRackham went to join CaptainScarlet for a little late-night pet-levelling, before it was time to close things down for the night. Hopefully next week SacSalop will have got things sorted out so that we can actually get involved in the castle siege in Dratan...and Rage will get her first proper taste of the PvP side of the game.