All this for a cuppa

I went to Varrock to exchange 2 frog token for a frog head and princess outfit at the dress shop when I spied this old woman rocking in a corner. I talked to her and she told me to talk to her sister, Elsie, who is on the second floor of the Saradomin church.

Intrigued, I decided to see what Elsie had to say. She asked nicely for a cup of tea, which I stole from the tea stall south of the east bank. I gave her the tea and she reminisced about Dissy, allowing me to take notes of her tale to share with other folk. I never have found out who Dissy is/was, but if I do find out I'll be sure to post the news in my blog.

My construction goal is completed. I stayed up until 1a this morning to finished it. Now that skill is on the back burner atm until I get more money to make oak planks again. The items I'd like to make are: mahogany treasure chest (holds all Treasure Trails items, level 84), marble wardrobe (holds all magic robes, level 96) and marble cape rack (holds all capes, quest point cape and capes of accomlishment, level 90). I cheat and boost my construction levels to +6 with the best house tea and crystal saw. I could get higher with Evil Dave's Stew of DOOM! [tm], which can add +6, but it's hit and miss with the stew.

I mined enough pure rune essence to get 72 runecrafting. More mining... ugh, I thought I was done with that! >:( Nature altar, here I come!

I really have to buckle down and seriously train thieving. PP is the best way, and I'm doing that but it gets boring fairly quickly, so I limit my tomb raiding to maybe 10 5 minute runs in a session. Pickpocketing paladins is my other choice and they give chaos runes and money. I can use the money to gain back what I'd spent on construction.

Money making choices: burn shades and hi alch the goodies, kill dragons for hides and hi alch the leather bodies I make, thieve paladins. They all take time and it's deciding which to get off my pedestal and do. Hi alching isn't the greatest way to make money, but when you suck ass as a merchant, it's the only option.

I gave Merch the steel spear she'd been killing tribemen to get. It's the worst part of Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest because after you finish, you can *buy* spears from the brother who needed one to kill the lion-beast. XD

Quite Indefatigable

We're Knights of the Round Table
We dance whene'er we're able
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable
We dine well here in Camelot
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot

We're Knights of the Round Table
Our shows are formidable
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable
We're opera mad in Camelot
We sing from the diaphragm a lot

In war we're tough and able
Quite indefatigable
Between our quests we sequin vest and impersonate Clark Gable
It's a busy life in Camelot
I have to push the pram a lot

I had about 30 minutes before supper, so I thought I'd have another go at the new mini game Knight Waves. It's not really a mini game, but I don't know what else to call it. As a reward from the lastest quest, King's Ransom, I was offered to chance to fight in melee combat against 8 of the Knights of the Round Table. Should I prove good enough and defeat all, I would gain access to 2 new prayers, 20k experience in Strength, Attack, Defense and set my respawn point to Camelot if I choose so.

I loaded up on 1 super attack, 1 super defense and 2 restore potions; my dragon dagger super poisoned (dds or ddp++), dragon longsword and 25 tuna and corn potatos. Luckily, I was able to poison all 8 knights. I felt a bit guilty, but screw them; they took away my protection prayers! :P Lancelot, the final knight, proved formidable and got my strength and defense points down to 20/78 and 20/79 respectively before the poison started eating away at him.

Construction goes quite well. I gained level 75 this morning and built a gilded mahogany cape rack in anticipation of all the skill capes I will buy.

Not much else happening in game or IRL.

Whip It, Whip It Good

What's the fucking deal with whips?

I bought one (feeling guilty for spending that 1.6M) and tried it out. I expected to get slightly higher damage when I hit.

Hell No.

This demon tail is no better than any of the dragon weapons in my bank! I found a buyer and sold it, losing about 50k. What a waste. I look forward to selling them when I get 85 slayer though. They'll probably be worth 1M by then. :P

73 construction tonight. I'm taking a break for a bit to do some thieving. I refreshed my memory for Pyramid Plunder, used the fairy ring to Nardah and started picking urns. It's easier now that I've learned to ignore the sarcophagus until the very last thing in the last room. Go for the gold chest, then find the door to the next level. On your last room (81 for me), thieve the urns (don't check for snakes) until there's about a quarter inch of time left. Open the gold chest, then the sarcophagus and finally any urns left. I keep just the gold items and pray I get a Pharaoh's Sceptre.

Oh, I caught Sparhawke and gave him his dessert and drink. He's been bouncing worlds all day.

Crafting

It's all about the crafting for this post.

Sparhawke Pa, a friend from RS and Sal's, got 99 crafting today. This was his goal since he started playing, I think. We were on world 62 at the crafting guild - Slammers, Pmods and misc. folks - eagerly waiting for those stars to sparkle above Spar's head. I saw no stars and totally screwed up my congrats message. XD He lead a long train to Falador's new party room for several balloon drops. The big prizes were: full ranger (g), full wizard (t) and full Saradomin armor. The key was getting a bead in the drop when you popped a balloon. Spar stated in his event thread that he was tired of tele grabbers getting all the "good" stuff and decided on "grab the bead" to counteract that.

With the Pmods in abundance, people were still trying to scam, spam and lure. Pmods have this thing about meeping. I don't know what it is, but it's funny.

Of the Slammers at the party, they pretty much acted ingame as they do on the boards. The kids were childish, Light010 acted like a dick and the bitchers bitched.

My haul from the party:

- 3 beer glasses
- 7 silver bars
- 2 coal ore
- 15 body runes
- 1 air rune
- 2 feathers
- 21 mithril bars
- 1 gold piece
- 4 willow logs

I baked a chocolate bomb and whipped up a Bluburry Special for Sparhawke since I thought he could use some comfort food and a strong drink after all those d hides. I haven't been able to catch him on a P2P world to give them to him. Oh well.

Last night, after my breakdown, I logged on and began construction again. As I'm walking, I get a message from Merch Gwyar: I've... lost... the .... will... to... live...

WTF? What do you say to that? What's ... the ... problem?

She's been trying for an hour or more to buy full blue d hide or get someone to make it for her with no takers. She asked me and I said I could. The first kiss threw me off, but I kinda warmed up to the second one. :x I tele'ed to Edgeville and she hopped to my world. We talked about what she wanted, then headed for the crafting guild. Generously, she gave me a brown apron since I forgot to grab one on the way through my PoH. I tanned more hides than I needed and I feel bad because she has some tanned hides and regular hides. I wasn't really thinking when I spoke to her, but she got what she needed and I was happy to help.

Other news, I have 72 construction now. I decided last night to buy the expensive items to kit out my chapel and costume room. Marble blocks (325k each) and gold leaf (130k each) really hit your wallet, which is why I've been putting off building with them. I'm down to 5.5M cash, but I have a gilded altar, marble burners, marble statues, an organ and nice windows. I wanted an icon of Bob the Jagex cat, but, being the cheap bitch I am, I left the Saradomin icon which has gold leaf already. The only room to concentrate on now is the costume room. Basically, it's a place for that stuff I don't want to get rid of. I built a mahogany magic wardrobe today for my magic robes and the extra space is waiting for full infinity.

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I Just Want to Die

All I can do is try. Sadly, trying isn't good enough these days. Third party debt collections are calling me daily, reminding me to send in my payment or the debt will be prosecuted. I tell them I have no bank accounts, no credit cards, no job, no insurance, no SS, no alimony, no child support, no income. I live off my husband's job at a grocery store. No one wants money orders sent through the mail anymore, even certified or priority mail. It's all electronic payments. I am not hooked up to the system. I and my hubby distrust banks since the last one we used to pay one of my loans decided to have Sun Insurance in California run us $200 in debt every month for 3 months before we stopped it. I live in Canada. It's illegal for me to obtain a job. I can barely afford to send payments in Canadian currency, let alone American funds. No one I know has the money to give/loan us. Banks won't give us a loan because we have nothing.

Everytime the phone rings, I cringe.

Everytime a debt collector asks for me, I cry.

Everytime I hang up after speaking to a debt collector, I try to kill myself.

Everytime, my husband checks the lock keeping the knives and scissors away from me.

Going and Going

A big magic level tonight - 87 magic. With lunar spells, I can teleport to Catherby. With regular spells, I can enchant onyx jewelry. Now, I can use my lava staff effectively in the Mage Training Arena by casting onyx enchant. It gives me more XP (though less than outside the arena) and changing those 6 dragonstones will give me big bonuses to pizazz points.

L0rd Vega kindly smithed 3 rune axes for me. I made some tarromin and marrentil tar for - mouse moment. BRB.

Okay, hubby saw a mouse jump out of the wall and over his foot. He freaked, naturally, and we took time to go huntin'. No mouse found, but the little fucker probably went right for a wall. Will these bastards *ever* go away?!?

Where was I? Oh, Thai Tong got his flavored tar for his orange salamander. He was very thankful and I was happy to do it. Isolakitten got an amulet of accuracy from me since she lost hers. That's the one item you can't get back except by buying/finding from someone else.

I'm down to 4k oak logs to transform into planks via magic. I've been debating on whether to schlep to/from the lumberyard or keep going with the spell. I miss regular spells as I use them for traveling and high alching. I think I'll keep on lunar until the planks are made, then it's the tedious task of making mithril armor stands.

You're wet

Short RS day so far. I'm waiting to give someone an amulet of accuracy and another person I offered to make marrentil tar for his salamander.

Today was hubby's day off. We returned some DVDs, got a couple books and some tv dinners. We came home and heard the washing machine going. Not the usual thud-thud-thud, but wham-wham-wham! Basement was flooded - the room with the washer and dryer, the little hall where our pantry lives and a bit of the bedroom. The cold water intake hose split and water gushed everywhere. The stairs are also soaked, meaning extra care when going on them.

Hubby is playing with the wet/dry vaccuum and, hopefully, sucking up some water. Nothing was damaged other than crappy carpet, but it's a huge mess.

Psychic much?

LMFAO.

On the third run to my PoH, someone wanted to use my altar! I'm going back on. I'm almost at 71 construction.

Causing a commotion

I used to have a blog on the RuneScape forums I read regularly, but I stopped posting there as no one was commenting and/or reading and I did feel restricted in what I could say (re: swearing). So, I have decided to start a new blog here.

Mostly, this will be about my gaming on RuneScape, a MMORPG I play daily. My husband introduced me to it 3 years ago and I have been playing ever since. I've been a paying member (P2P) for 2 1/2 years now and I feel I've accomplished a lot. I have 2 skills at level 99, all quests are completed and a decent total level. My high scores as of this posting are to your right.

I play at my own pace and try to ignore competing with other players. I fell into that trap long ago and vowed never to be prey to it again. RuneScape (RS) is my fun outlet. I play to get away from Real Life.

Occasionally, I get myself talked into these confusing "means to an end"; re: training 2-5 other skills in order to gain levels in a completely different skill. This past month has been one of those times. I want to extend and build fancier things in my Player Owned House (PoH), specifically the costume room where I keep all the clothes, armor and treasures I can't bear to part with. My goal with construction is level 76 and I am getting there by building and tearing down mithril armor stands in my skills hall. A mithril armor stand requires mithril platebody, mithril skirt, mithril full helm and 2 oak planks. So, in order to get the needed oak planks I decided to train my magic up to level 86. Wtf you say? Yeah. At 86 magic, I can cast a lunar magic spell Plank Make, which I cast on certain types of logs to make planks out of them instead of running to and from the lumbermill.

Why is this spell the cat's meow?

It saves me 75 gp per log. Yup, I'm *that* cheap. Oak logs to planks at the lumbermill art 250 gp each, but with the spell they are 175 gp each. Doesn't sound like much until you figure out the total amount of cash I'm spending. With the spell, I'm spending around 1.4 million as opposed to just over 2 million using the lumbermill.

Last month, I spent a good time at the Mage Training Arena leveling magic by high alchemy. I got my magic level, yayness, and trotted off to get the runes I needed. Last week and Sunday of this week, I finished mining and crafting all the lunar and nature runes I'll need to make enough oak planks to build (and tear down) mithril armor stands until I get 76 construction. Tuesday, I spent chopping down oak trees to get the 8368 oak logs and am slowly making them into planks via the spell.

Side effect: there is no place I can cast Plank Make without attracting a shitload of attention. An animated log hovers above my head and saws grind for each casting. Inveriably, someone will say, "WTF? Wut r u doin?" I reply, "Making planks with lunar magic." To which the response is, "Kwl". I don't mind answering and informing what in Jesus' name is happening over my character's head. But it seems like every 5 minutes, just as I get into a rhythm of clicking, someone asks and I respond.

Well, I converted 1800 oak logs into oak planks and will be walking to and fro the bank and my PoH in Yanille. I'm waiting for someone to ask, "Can I see ur house?" and "Do u have a gilded altar?" Trust me, my house looks like shit. You don't want to be in there. I don't have any game rooms or combat areas. Nothing to see; now kindly fuck off. :)

Also, I did the newest quest King's Ransom. Super easy providing you have the required quests done and skill levels and are following a quest guide. Cheater, cheater, yeah that's me! :P Let someone else do the leg-work here; I want easy shit to do, dammit! No combat which is a wonderful change. I got caught up on escaping the jail cell, but hubby was around and he helped. The reward was very nice - 33k defense XP plus a 5k XP lamp (it went right into construction). Now there's a training game - Knight Waves - and 2 new prayers taunting me serverely. Knight Waves, I must defeat 8 of King Arthur's best knights in melee combat. No prayer, no range and no magic allowed because we are all honorable knights here (You betcha). On my first try, I think I got to knight #7, but I forgot to count. I left when the food was gone.

That's all atm. *waves*