Two Captains

RedRackham managed to do some more work on his drake in the morning, and after coffee, as someone was asking in the shoutbox if somebody could sell them a drake egg on Tairen, I logged my level 2 knight there, CaptainScarlet, in to see if he had one, after checking my merchant mage there. I didn't have an egg, but as he was on, CaptainScarlet had a session, helped along by yesterday's compensatory "happy hour" having been left running, and got from level 2 to level 7 anyway. The first three foxes he killed all dropped fox tails, which is a bit unusual, I suppose it has something to do with the new more generous drop rates, but usually I'm doing well if a character gets one fox tail before he'd too high-level to fight the foxes.

Just before lunch my witch-in-training on Auzura, MistressSabina, had another trip out to the giants, in a solo party with RedRackham. She was back in Dratan City over lunch, and then continued for a little while, but Kamira didn't drop by to say hello at any point. It wasn't a hugely long session, but she got an inventory-full of level 61 weapons, or at least got all her spare spaces filled, while adding 9.77%, 51 skill points, and 821 pet points.

The main afternoon session though belonged to Auzura's CaptainScarlet, who had been stuck as a level 32 pet-leveller, which isn't ideal when a pet gets to a high level. The idea was to level him up a bit, but before he could do that, he needed to lose his "maximum evil" red name. So, once I'd remembered to get MistressSabina, the Discipline guild master on Auzura, to kick him from the guild (as people in the same guild can't fight each other), he went to Prokion Temple on one of the PvP sub-servers, Auzura-2, where he took off all his armour, and unequipped his weapon and shield. My level 31 archer Memree then went along and, once he'd left the safety of the hallway, killed CaptainScarlet a few times.

That reduced CaptainScarlet's degree of naughtiness from about -155, and gave Memree a nice-as-pie blue name. My level 27 rogue RedRider (the first to bear the name, before I checked up and found the proper spelling was "Ryder") then took over the killing duties, and got herself a blue name, and then, as only characters lower in level (or equal?) get credit for killing red-named players, SirGalahad took over, and got himself a blue name - and got CaptainScarlet a white name, so that now he would be able to attack monsters without having his physical offence stat reduced.

For the rest of the afternoon, with RedRackham back in Maargadum Jail providing the solo party, CaptainScarlet, after being re-recruited into Discipline by MistressSabina, headed out to Prokion Temple on Auzura-6, and went to my old favourite room of orc axemen and orc sergeants, level 27 and 29. There was plenty of loot, and plenty or orcs - except when he got up to stage three ignition a couple of times, when there weren't quite enough orcs to keep him busy for the duration. Still, even with the 50% experience freeze, which Sabina will probably switch off after a level or two, by the end of the afternoon he had added 32.97%, and 253 skill points. The plan is to take him up to about level 38 or 40, and then he'll get his revenge on one of those three blue-names, and go maximum red again, for pet-levelling purposes.

After the food break, Tuffsen's BadFairy was able to use her Recall to take Kaerella and RedRydeR into the ancient grey mummies room on Cariae-4. Red had teleported to the entrance, to get her reward for killing the fifty infected grey mummies. The reward didn't include any gold or skill points, but did at least give a less-than-thrilling 0.06% experience.

The mummy room was a little crowded to begin with, as a night shadow called xBOBx was there, who apparently knew Tuffy's other character, the titan Shirano. He kindly moved off a little way down the "onwards" corridor, though, so that, even with NaOmi there, Kaerella was able to have a "power hour" from five to six o'clock, UK time. Kae used 41 experience boosters, and added 23.25%, plus, thanks to the continuing happy hour, 33 skill points, and 1048 pet points.

I was tempted to do another power hour from eight to nine, but in the end decided against it, since the extra experience and skill exp from the "happy hour" was continuing, which meant that instead of twelve times the experience, using those pots and boosters would just bring six times the experience. Still, good progress was made...and Kaerella did manage to level up, to 99, at around 9:30pm, UK time. BadFairy left soon after that, and NaOmi, who'd kindly been doing most of the necessary healing, headed off to Juno. She had brought in a guildie of hers, cosma, but she was level 103, so had moved out of compass range to get the full benefit of sp-farming on her own mummies.

Just before ten the level 100 specialist sorcerer Fartimaeus arrived, and joined the combat party; for him in Australia it was early morning. We agreed that the way our previous team-up had ended, with the "Bye!" and the server being switched off, hadn't been very nice...

Kaerella ended the evening up by 29.70% in all, having gained 145 skill points and 4182 pet points. RedRydeR had also managed to level up, to 97, fairly early on, and so had been able to manage a couple of orange Ignition sequences, though only killing six mummies while each lasted. She added 20.39%, 147 skill points and 5971 pet points, before it was finally time to log out for the night. What, I wonder, will the new week's maintenance bring us...?