New cookie! Opened 12/9* 2:23am EST (Neopian day):
Day 1: light, 2.3k, +2 levels (after this quest, I'm exactly 365 trainings away from the top codestone training tier)
Day 2: air, 856 NP, +3 mov
Day 3: dark, 3k, +3 HP woohoo!
Day 4: water, free (84 in SDB), +3 def
Day 5: water, 1000 NP, +3 def
Day 6: soup, 1200 NP, +2 HP, +2 mov
Day 7: dark, free (3 in SDB), +3 HP (only 341 trainings away! And only 7 HP away from 2k!)
Day 8: air, 2.1k, +3 mov (but I got 3 HP from a training today!)
Day 9: fire, free (SDB), +3 str
Day 10: Fyora, thanks Pickles!, +2 levels, +5 HP, +5 str
Net stat changes:
+13 HP
+4 level
+6 def
+8 str
+8 mov
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39 total
Red codestones saved:
17 x 5 = 85
Average price of red codestones: 34,400 NP
Total savings: 2,924,000 NP
Time savings:
17 x 0.5 days = 8.5 days
Ending the cookie just 325 levels + HP away from max red training (and then weeks of scratching stockpiled cards + an Order win away from using my volunteer shift potions). In 10 days, I had the equivalent of 40 trainings: 43% from the cookie, about the same from training (maybe 1-2 fewer -- I definitely missed double training at least 3 times I can remember), and the other 14-20% from training bonuses (at least 3) and the lab.
And I just remembered that I have a ton of tan codestones stashed away. I should sell them to help pay for the reds I need. It would be nice to have an actual stockpile again, but it feels like there are bots running amok in the shops lately, and it drives me crazy trying to compete with them. I should just stock up on one or two each day and pay a bit more to have longer between dealing with the bots. A stockpile of 10 of each is only about a week's supply.
Edit: I've been selling those tan codestones, and I finally have a small stockpile of reds. Since I'm using ten a day, it's hard to get ahead, but at least I'm holding steady. I still have 160+ of each tan, so this should last me a while.
Edit: feeling human again, so opened another cookie on Neopets 12/21 at 2:12am my time
Day 1: earth, free, +3 str
Day 2: light, 3k, +2 level
Net stat changes:
+0 HP
+2 level
+0 def
+3 str
+0 mov
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5 total
Red codestones saved:
2 x 5 = 10
Average price of red codestones: 35,400 NP
Total savings: 354,000 NP
Time savings:
2 x 0.5 days = 1 days