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Sweatpants

2007-10-05T00:46:00.000-02:30

I tele'd to Edgeville after getting a load of Zammy wines and found the bank carpeted with flowers. Oh, while I was tele grabbing the wine, a guy runs in and asks me not to take one for 5 seconds. I agree, seeing that he's going to try grabbing it with his hands (bad idea as Zamorak hates people touching his booze). He touches the wine and gets flamed by Zamorak and attacked by monks. He does this several times until his health is pretty low. I think it was because he wore full Guthans, but it could be for anything. I really hoped he would die and I could grab his stuff.

One thing I didn't mention in the last entry. I didn't want to recharge my crystal bows yet, so I fletched 300 iron arrows to shoot at blue dragons. While I was chopping down trees, a spirit appeared and attacked me with her pointed stick. I ran behind a tree and waited for her to go away. I'd gotten my logs fletched and decided to kill the spirit since she would chase me. I'm glad I did because she dropped a rune axe.

Onto today's skilling. I ranged more blue dragons and did recharge my crystal bows again. I had to hop to world 124 as bots had taken over on 77. For the few days I was there, I got 555 hides which I made into dhide bodies and alched for 1M+, and enough dragon bones to get 73 prayer using the Ectofuntus.

I have Tears of Guthix on Saturday and that'll get me over 1M xp in prayer. So, tomorrow I'm grabbing the herbs, nests and logs my kingdom has gathered for me. I hurriedly stocked up on some seconds and will need to get more cowhides, too.

I built those rooms on the second floor of my PoH this afternoon. My house is relatively complete, only needing upgrades now and again as my construction level rises and my gold repository increases.

Quote of the Night: (fixed now)
"Nothing says "guilty" like running from the cops, dumbass." Nick Stokes, CSI

Pants On Fire

2007-10-04T01:07:00.001-02:30

I haven't figured this out after 3 years of playing. Why do people lie about their skill levels? It invariably happens at places where players are thick on the ground, such as Karamja docks on any F2P world or Catherby in P2P, someone will ask, "Lvls?" They may even get creative, like those at any fishing spot may say, "<>{ lvls" Of course, this isn't just about fishing, but any place where any skill is heavily trained. When the question is asked, people will reply and, naturally, there will be a liar or two in crowd of pseudo-anonymity. The liars want to impress those around them, which can happen, but oh beware should someone in the crowd check you up on the High Scores. If you're caught lying, you will be belittled, insulted and spammed.

When I was a young RS player, I was impressed when someone said they had a very high skill. Now, I am jaded. If I believe someone is lying about a skill level, I check and call them out if I discover the truth. I have been called a liar on a few occasions when I stated a skill level. Once was at Catherby where fishing levels were being shouted out and I tossed my 99 out there amongst the crowd. When the person argued about it, I stepped out of the crowd on the shoreline and displayed my CoA and the emote as proof. Another time, I was pickpocketing for seeds in Draynor village and got asked my thieving level. I replied, "85" and was rude informed, not only that I was a liar, but that I should be mugging heros in Ardougne instead. I told the person that heros don't have seeds on them and suggested they look me up on the High Scores.

With that little rant out of the way, here's what I did today.

I hit the ogre dungeon again, happily armed with 2 crystal bows. These bows have changed my outlook on ranging because they require no arrows. I noticed a surgence of blue dragon bots or farmers, similar to the green dragon bots/farmers. Anyway, I think I gathered enough bones to get 73 prayer tomorrow. I'm using the Ectofuntus and thanks to Cougarsrule 9 for the 300+ empty buckets. I got another clue scroll and chased it down. I had coordinates that led behind the magic axe shack by the Ardougne lever aka PKers' Paradise. With the encouragement and taunting of cj andrews and Kieyanar (who was demanding a Kitt Fox PKing party :P), I walked myself up to level 56 Wildy and got the clue. A Zammy mage appeared, so I threw out my magic protect prayer and went Bruce Lee on his ass. After his death, I dug again and I got a casket, then cautiously walked back to level 20 where I could teleport to Lumbridge. I saw someone at the Rogue's Castle; she was also on a clue and I asked for peace.

I've decided to go ahead with building more rooms to my house. These room will be: 2 combat rooms (1 boxing ring and 1 balance beam) and a games room. They will be in a U shape around the garden portal. After I get my prayer tomorrow, I'll work on getting the items for construction.

Hiding Behind Stuff

2007-10-02T21:02:00.000-02:30

Things went very well today. I was able to range blue dragons in the ogre dungeon without much trouble. There was a player using the first safe spot as you enter, so I moved to my favorite spot, behind a corpse. The player I hadn't seen after 2 runs, so I took her spot. She returned and I offered to leave after killing the dragons I was ranging. She politely declined and world hopped with her friend. I did get 1 clue scroll that was fairly easy for a level 3. I got 4 clues in total and these items were the prizes:

Sold the Saradomin kite for 450k on forums. I mistakenly asked for a higher price because I went by Zybez' pricing guide.

The second player showed up tonight at the same spot. I wanted my corpse spot, but the dragon wouldn't turn away so I could run by safely. Again, I offered to move after my kill and, again, this player said it was okay and he found another spot. I am so happy school is going on because it makes it easier to train. I noticed more people were running by me in the dungeon, so I decided to leave for tonight. I checked my range XP and found I was merely 6k from a level. I hurriedly teleported to the Ectofuntus and jumped into a crypt to kill 16 experiments. I managed to get a couple to myself long enough to get 76 range.

Thanks to the frog prince for phr33 cl0thez pl0x

Also, I'd popped up to my house and use all those dragon bones on my gilded altar.

Earlier in the afternoon, I joined Merch's chat and asked if anyone wanted to come see the dagannoth kings with me. Mking said he would go, but only after asking if I would be killing them. I told everyone I only want to unlock the music on my RS music list. I quickly read up on what I would need to get inside - another person for standing on a couple of pressure plates and range or magic to blast a barrier. I brought 1 casting of water strike, canfident my 88 magic would carry the spell. Mking and I made it inside and were harassed by wasakai - seal-like creatures with magic attacks. I found the barrierS, note plural spelling. I broke through one on the right side, then told Mking we were stuck. I used up my prayer and slapped one of those wasakai around until my prayer ran out. I spawned in Camelot. Mking appeared behind me as he'd tele'd and offered a trade. WTF? I didn't drop anything and was at full health, prayer and stats.

Mking trades me my bones and I buried them.

I think I've figured a better second floor plan for my house. I'll build 2 combat rooms, one with a boxing ring and the other with a balance beam, and a games room. They'll wrap around my portal garden in a U shape. Of course, this is after getting my prayer up. I also had to get my crystal bow recharged and plunked down the cash for a second bow. I see magic longbows in my future.

One Word Shall Rule Them All

2007-10-01T21:36:00.001-02:30

One syllable with four letters, beginning with a soft fah and ending with a hard kuh: Fuck. That's how my RS day has been. I began the day normally, checking my farming patches and planting where I could. I excitedly made a list of the supplies I'd need to make 2 formal gardens, a games and combat room in my PoH. Before I spent any money on supplies, I tele'd to Yanille via a tele tab and headed upstairs to full out the second floor. I right click on the empty doorway in my second quest hall and choose Build: Formal Garden.

"This room can only be built on the ground floor."

Fuck.

Fine. No gardens then. I decide to build the combat room instead. I plunk it down and realize there is no door towards the center of the house. I scrap it and try again, keeping an eye on the room outline that I can barely see due to the giant gables of my rooftop. There's the door, so I build it and ... what? The damned weapons rack looks like a door. Double Fuck. For the last time, I rip out the room and reposition it. Great, there's a door! I walk in and click to build the games room.

"This room does not have enough stability to be built."

Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! A long, drawn-out sound like Marlon Brando screaming for Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. I can build this same fucking layout in Sims and Sims 2 without this fucking "stability" issue. Building on top of a garden isn't a problem in those games, so wtf is the deal?

Pissed, I throw out my ideas of new rooms and figure to just work on the shit that I already have. I'm not having house parties, so why do I care what other people think? I plumped up a few things: hanging the stuffed shark on the wall of my skill hall, planting magic trees by my house portal and making adjustments to my study. I need more levels to build what I want, but that will come in time. I did get to the point where I wanted to rip out everything and start over. I didn't and settled for turning off chats and go on a few suicide missions.

Mainly, I wanted to get the mini game music from red to green. I stopped first at skeletal wyverns and died in a few minutes. Next, I visited the god wars dungeon after being nagged by a dying knight to take a letter to Sir Tiffy. Jesus dude, try Postie Pete! I ran around down there with prayer on and discovered I needed a rope, a mithril or better crossbow and grapple and a hammer to get inside any of the god rooms. Thirdly, fishing trawler. I brought swamp paste, bailing buckets and rope in case Murphy demanded supplies before casting off the docks. The ship went down and I swam to shore by the Tower of Life. I ran to the Rogue's Den and completed the maze (thanks to a map on Zybez). I got rogue's gloves, so I may try for the rest of the outfit. Then Tarn Raznolor got a visit, or at least the vestibule of his maze did. Where is the roaming banker anyway? Lastly was barrows. I read through the crumbling tome and tried to talk to the Creepy Old Guy before digging into the middle mound. I died again; what a surprise.

With that out of the way, I grudgingly suited up to kill baby blue dragons for their bones. I hopped twice because others were there, then gave up. The ogre dungeon might be good since school is in session in most of the world, so I headed there and set up ranging blue dragons. Fuck, the lag - normally I don't bitch about it because it happens to everyone - was horrible. Nothing long though, just baby lags of 2-5 seconds which is long enough for a monster respawn and I would repeatedly log out and log in again. Switching worlds and country servers did not help. I even rebooted my computer to no avail. I did manage to get this screenie before calling it quits to go eat.

Quick Update

2007-10-01T00:34:00.001-02:30

A short update tonight. I got 73 hunter finally and 1M hunter XP. I'm a bit put out that I took off for Eman's party because I could've been finished hunting in the afternoon and gotten to working on prayer. Oh well.

I decided to add formal gardens, games and combat rooms to my PoH. I doubt I will ever have a dungeon or throne room.

2 "Clan" Events

2007-09-30T18:10:00.001-02:30

Clan is in quotes because the chat channel I frequent isn't really a clan in the strictest definition. It began yesterday, probably from boredom and that Merch wasn't online to keep people on the straight and narrow. The brilliant idea: see the KBD. Yeah. Mkai you guys do that; I'll be over here not dying. Cougs used her Ring of Charos (a) to charm me into going with them. The them: Guildwars, Cougarsrule, Eman, Em and I don't know who else. We met at the Jolly Boar Inn in Varrock and Guild led us to the lesser demon area. Halfway there, we got split up - I was with Guild at the red dragons and Cougs lead everyone else to the green dragons south of the lava maze. Finally, we met up the the lessers on the west side of the maze. We all went down the ladder, then flipped the level. Confusing as there was no organization, so we all got fried except for Em iirc.

This time, we planned. Bring anti dragon shields people. I tele'd to Edgeville to get the extra 2 points in prayer and grabbed a few sets of monk robes. Jolly Boar Inn again and this time I'm leading the train! Gulp. We (same people as before with the addition of Pen Knee) took the scenic route through the forest and some green dragons. Great, down the ladder again and we pretty much used the lever at one time instead of individually. Cougs ran for the treasure chests, or so she told us over chat, and when I ran to face the KBD, there were 2 others there. Seems everyone else had died already. Following Em's lead, I'd tossed up protection from magic prayer before pulling the lever. I died soon and ended up in front of the gates to Camelot (what a silly place). I'd lost one of my anti dragon shields.

I'm on the left, Em (I think) is at the top and someone else on the bottom.

Today, I'd hoped to get a farming level and struggle towards 1m hunter XP. I got 85 farming.

The other big thing: Eman. He asked if I had a wild pie. Yeah I had 2 in case someone needed 1 for the Varrock diary. We met at the farming plots at Catherby and I found out why he wanted the pie. He had 1 quest left to get the quest cape: Path of Glouphrie and he didn't have the slayer levels, so he wanted the pies which add +5 to slayer. To each his own, I guess, I would've just trained slayer. He wanted more pies because they only last a short time and the warped terrorbirds are pretty tough for an 86 combatant. I got 7 chompy birds (3 at once!), 7 bear meat and asked where Eman went. Cougs said he logged off to help his brother. Okay, I'll get the rabbit meat, too. Zach made a point about burning the pies even at level 99 cooking and suggested using the Lunar spell, Bake Pie. Sounds good. I switched over to lunar magic, tele'd to my house and made the pies. I freaked someone out at the bank in Yanille with the spell effect. Who uses Lunar magic that much anyway? Now, I have 7 wild pies which are eaten in 2 bites and they should last Eman through the killing of the terrorbirds.

Eman logged on again and I told him about the pies. We met in Falador and I gave him the pies plus some prayer potions, too, because he'd been bitching about needing some. He's off to do the quest and would keep us updated via the clan chat. I returned to hunting prickly kebbits and catching the stray impling that floated by me. Eman was doing okay, until he was in the sewer part where he had to run by warped terrorbirds and mutated tortoises to get to the actual birds to kill. He got lost, so I tried to guide him where to go, but I'd gotten lost there when I did the quest. I told him over chat about some landmarks to look for which apparently helped as he mentioned he'd found the boss monsters. Things went on as the Canting Away crew hurriedly threw on their "good" clothes for the cape party, found their way to Draynor village and waited to hear how he was doing. Eman said, "1 down" and we cheered for him. "2 down" and more cheering, myself chanting "go eman go eman go eman". I'd dressed out in my quest cape, elegant green blouse, Vyrewatch pants and boots, black flowers and even drug my cat, Slash, out of the bank.

The Old Man's tiny room is very small so I waited outside for Eman to get there. Most had brought gifts to celebrate. Myself, I dug out a black heraldic helm (h1) from my treasure chest and saved a spinach roll the Mysterious Old Man (MOM) gave me an hour earlier.

The congrats messages. Mine got fucked up.

Eman does his emoshun for us n00bs

Eman and I emote together.

Then, it was a conga line to Falador party room. We had some followers, we moved our asses to Reaver's house in Rimmington. There was a prayer race and my team lost. We had a free-for-all boxing match which Merch won. Reaver randomly dropped stuff outside and I got poison ivy seeds, an acorn and a ruby. After that, we played scavenger hunt. I won by trading a spade to Reaver and got a monkfish. I had to leave at that point because I'd eaten a lot of Twizzlers last night and I had the Hershey squirts.

Into Each Generation

2007-09-29T00:52:00.000-02:30

My goal for today is accomplished - 73 slayer. After many hours of exchanging bronze dragons, sea snakes and kurasks for goblins, minotaurs and spiders, I finally got 3 assignments I sank into like a comfy sofa: 121 trolls, 145 fire giants and 123 fire giants. The trolls I killed were in the passage up from the way to the dwarf city, Keldagrim. There's a set of stairs, too, which I'll investigate tomorrow. Fire giants I always fight in the smokey well as I'm usually the only person there. Mostly, the smokey well is used for Desert Treasure questers and dust devil slayage. I did meet up with Mirette7 at the giants, but she was extremely pleasant to fight beside because we shared the 4 giants between ourselves. I buried the bones in the dungeon and eventually got a shade random, which I fought. I had 6 monks left and I wanted to conserve them for my slaying duty, so I tossed up protect from melee prayer. Mirette7 offered food, but I declined with a polite thanks.

The bonuses of today: 82 attack and 103 combat.

Lastly, here's the quote of the day from Merch Gwyar's chat channel, Canting Away:

XD

^Speaking of that, I'm going to look for some of the smilies I use and load up the emoticons.

Road Trip!!

2007-09-27T13:05:00.000-02:30

After hearing about Merch's fiasco at the Wilderness agility course, found here, I decided to take a vacation from my day to wander the upper levels of the Gielinor map. I packed up a knife (to cut through webs), a full flask of tea (the Wildy is a dusty, dirty place) and a rope (just in case). I teleported to Trollheim because I wanted to use the shortcut there. I got lost and nearly ended up at God Wars! I found the right shortcut and took it. The walk to my first destination, the lava maze, grew long. I got a bit hungry because I hadn't eaten lunch yet, tea can only satisfy you so much and the maze is pretty long, so I opened the gate by some lesser demons and hopped down the ladder. At the bottom, I notice these pretty red spiders surrounding me. I saw the lever I was supposed to pull - the KBD's doorbell, I guess - and I did just that.

I appeared in a large cavern with lots of red dots on my mini map. This is loose change from scared adventurers. I heard the KBD behind me and before I could turn to give him a hearty hello, he made a toasty Kitt Fox sandwich. Ouch.

I showed up in front of Camelot's gate, none the worse for wear. My supplies were intact. I checked the kwuarm I have growing in Catherby, then tele'd to Varrock for another trip. I hadn't had a decent picture of the Chaos Elemental yet. It keeps exposing my film with its magic spells, but this time I used the digital camera that came with the tea flask to get this shot:

It wasn't happy about getting its picture taken and chased me around the rogue's castle until it grew tired.

Next, let me check out that volcano north of here. I walked briskly along the blackened earth, up hills and through gullies until I found lava floes. There were minor tremors as I explored, but nothing earth shattering happened. I took a chance and walked across the rickety bridge which spans the center of the volcano.

Feeling very brave now as I had seen no other players, I decided to see if I could get into the mage arena basement. I cautiously walked by the Ardougne lever, my eyes hawkishly watching the mini map for white dots. Wait, what? I'm here? I slashed at the 2 webs; it took a minute as my knife must've been dulled from carving out longbows. Okay, another lever. I pulled it and appeared in the basement. I spoke first with Kolodion, the man whom you must defeat to claim a god cape.

Next I spoke to Lundail, the rune shop owner, about adventurers that come here. I tried the sparkling pool, but it merely made my boots wet.

Well, I was done there. Time to head west to the agility arena and see what the fuss is all about. I've gone by the place many times on clue scrolls, but never stopped in. I had no idea what to do, so I followed what seemed logical to me at the time: keep right. I fell twice off the initial ledge. Over the ledge, through the pipe, swing, down the ladder (eek, skellies!), hop the lava and oh my god! I found the remains of Merch Gwyar's body! I wish I'd thought to bring my Guthix prayer book in order to say a few words to ease her rest.

I went around once and left, going west through the ice spiders, ice warriors and ice giants. I followed the fence for a bit until I saw a fenced in area to the south. I stepped toward it, noticed it was the area of lesser demons I'd visited earlier. I skipped passed them and found the runite rocks for F2P.

East of here is Red Dragon Island and my next stop. I still haven't seen anyone looking for a kill. I went through a gate after reading the appropriate Danger! sign. Oh, lookie: red dragons! There is one trapped on an island, but he would not stay still for a photo. I climbed up to the top of a hill and caught this lovely speciman:

It's close to time for my herbs to be done growing, so I headed in a southerly direction after getting around the lava protecting the red dragons. I knew I would run across some green dragons eventually and made the choice to get a snapshot or 2 of anyone hunting them. I found 3 such players (who may've been bots or real players, I don't know for certain). I even had time for a refreshing cuppa.

Mission accomplished! I returned to my walk, secure in the knowledge that Edgeville was somewhere to the south of me. I found the Zamorak mage and passed by an Abyssal runecrafter. A skeleton attacked me as I strolled by it. It got one last hit as I jumped the ditch, so I gave it a parting shot of my own:

Askillin' I Will Go

2007-09-26T20:53:00.000-02:30

Yesterday was a blah day for RS. I did a bit of this and that and got 82 strength from fire giants which were a slayer task. Stupid Vannaka keeps giving me bronze dragons, sea snakes and stupid shit like that.

Today went better (so far) as I managed a hunter level without falling asleep. I have no clue why it makes me sleepy, but it does. I was coaxing prickly kebbits into getting their heads smashed by a large boulder held up with a flimsy stick. I tried red chinchompas before and did fall asleep. :P

I visited Miscellania and got my herbs and seeds. I id'ed and made potions, only finding that I fell 8k short of a level. Quickly, I ran through what herbs I had stocked (marrentil and toadflax) and the highest potion I could make with an easy-to-get second ingredient. Agility potions won out, so I went to the gnome stronghold and ripped the legs off 98 toads. Don't worry; the game tells me the poor toads will grow them back. XD

In the middle of my leg gathering, Mking asked me to help him with Monkey Madness - play escort through Zooknock's tunnel. Gulp. I agreed with no idea what to do. Oh in theory, I would run along side him, give him pots and food when needed. Yeah, well, it didn't work out that way. He died twice doing it with me. I feel bad even now and said as much after the second death. He told me it was no problem. Merch logged in hours later and things went slam-bam. She organized people and told me what I should be doing - I would run with Mking and play bodyguard as a monkey. Demsla came with us for a while and I learned you can block the monkey jail guards (gorilla greegrees work best). Demsla logged, so it was me, Merch and Mking. Cougarsrule asked to come along (I must've caught her on a bad day as I quite like her now. PS she has large ninja greegrees that I want). The four of us preped with pots and food. I had 88 purple sweets gathering dust in my bank, so I offered them to Mking since they boost energy by 10% and I think that's what helped the most. Mking was running in rune armor at 65 combat. >.< We made it in the end, with me relaying over Canting Away of our progress - we'd gotten ahead of Merch and Cougs who were supposed to be ahead of us and lure the monkeys. At Zooknock, Mking was distressed; he'd forgotten his gold bar. I said I would tele out, grab on from my bank and tele back. Great, he made the monkey amulet!

For run #2, it was just Merch, Mking and myself. Poor Merch; her computer lagged when she went down the ladder to the tunnel. I had to log as my computer was lagging from the antivirus scan. When I returned, the pair were talking the talisman from the baby monkey. I tried distracting the auntie monkey by asking her on a date, using my impressive gorilla bod to entice her away from the garden. She was a hard sell and gave me the brushoff. Now, to the temple. Mking made it fine, but the gorilla guards blocked me. I made it down, trying to recall what wall he's supposed to use the gold bar on. I checked on Zybez to comfirm it's the wall of flame. Mking mentioned he'd forgotten a ball of wool and Merch tele'd to get one. We made it again, only to have more distress - Mking forgot his monkey remains in the bank. >.< When he was enchanting his gold bar, I'd killed a zombie monkey that was attacking him and picked up its bones. What luck, I thought, and offered to trade. They aren't tradeable! Doh! Mking had to call it a night, so we split up by Zooknock. Merch and I didn't want to have Mking run that fucking tunnel for the umpteenth time, so we both tele'd to Karamja to see if a monkey corpse was tradeable. Sadly, it isn't and I got stuck with a dead monkey in my pack. I tried some ventriloquism with it until 5 people showed up out of nowhere, then dropped it because I'm sure they'd thought I was a total nutjob.

Tomorrow, more MM.

*cries pitiously*

A Simple Thanks

2007-09-24T12:30:00.000-02:30

To those players who decided to fight the Zamorak mages, rangers and warriors along the ZMI altar short route yesterday and today:

Thanks.

Yesterday, I began the trek to leveling runecrafting. Really power-leveling tbh, which isn't easy when I normally make runes when I need them. I'd mined over 10k p ess and thought it might be enough for level 75, but it wasn't. I needed to mine another 2k or so. A bit of math here: I carried 3 pouches (small, medium, large) which gave me 41 p ess to craft. I used the Moonclan/Ourainia teleports, meaning I carried astrals and laws with me at all times. My equipment was a mud staff, black d hide body and chaps, mind helm, mind shield, boots of lightness, spottier cape and glory ammy. I gained an average of 700XP per run and kept my pouches fixed about every 1k ess used.

Double chaos is exciting! I sell them for tokkul

54 ess with all 4 pouches. w00tage!

For the other minor goal I have: hunter, prayer, slayer and smithing are left to get to 1M XP each. Smithing is very close. Prayer and hunter will take more time. I'm still on lunar magic (in case Merch gets talked into do DT soon), so I can use NPC Contact for slayer.

Stop! ZMI Time!

2007-09-22T23:24:00.000-02:30

Yesterday and today, I mined pure essence for runecrafting. My goal amount was around 10k or whatever got me to level 79 mining. So, I ended up with 10k+ p ess banked and had to make a decision on what to craft with it. Should I stick with nature runes, which I do need as I only had 2.3k at the time, or risk it all using the new ZMI altar? Well, since I wanted the XP more than the runes, I gambled with the new altar.

Firstly, I traveled to Moonclan island and swapped my regular magic book for Lunar spells. Second, I grabbed my mud staff, pouches, tele runes (50 astral and 50 law), spottier cape, boots of lightness, seal of passage and 43 p ess. World 70, as of this post, is the ZMI altar world. If you want to train runecrafting with a ton of people, this is the place to go.

I started off at level 73 with about 96k XP to level 74 and 10k+ p ess to play with. When I logged off for tonight, I had just under 36k XP to level 74 and 7300+ p ess left. I had to run to the Abyss north of Edgeville to get my pouches repaired and keep making 43 runes per trip. The large pouch starts degrading after 1k ess or so. I'm hoping and praying this will be enough to get me to level 75, so I can use my giant pouch and runecraft at my leisure. I've never been a huge runecraft-for-XP fan; instead making rune as I needed them and trying to keep above the 2k mark for nats, laws and cosmics.

Sleepy

2007-09-21T23:53:00.000-02:30

Too tired to post much. Ess mining is boring as hell, but I got 6100 pure ess today. I got 2 levels today:

If I Could Only Merchant...

2007-09-20T23:02:00.000-02:30

I burned shades today and raided tombs. As I was burning, I realized you get firemaking XP along with prayer! XD

The haul from the tombs:
addy spear 31
black spear 17
addy full helm 25
fine cloth 60 (not alched)
power amulet 17
addy skirt 10
rune medium helm 11
mith plate 16
addy kite shield 11
rune sword 8
addy longsword 12
mith skirt 12
death runes 426 (not alched)
black plate 17
swamp paste 3229 (not alched)
gold coins 598,367 (not alched)
addy plate 14
addy spear p 32
rune scimitar 9 (not alched)
addy legs 8
addy baxe 7
addy 2h 8 (not alched)
flametaer hammer 17 (alched 10)
addy warhammer 12
rune chainmail 6
yew logs 62 (fletched to longbows, strung and alched)
magic logs 37 (fletched to longbows, strung and alched)
addy square shield 21 (not alched)
blood runes 256 (not alched)
diamond ring 7
battlestaves 4 (made into air battlestaves and alched)
addy chainmail 5
rune longsword 2
clue scroll 1 (worked until I got coordinates in the Wildy, then dropped)

Unless noted, everything was hi alched for a whopping result of 1,248,982 gold pieces. 8o The addy square shields and addy 2h are needed in a couple clue scrolls and I save them for the odd moment when someone's desperate to buy one. It takes time, but shade burning is definitely worth the trouble. Imagine how much more gold I could've had if I'd been able to sell to other players instead of hi alching.

I mentioned firemaking XP earlier. I checked my XP on a calculator and was only 24,300 XP from level 91, so I burned 180 maple logs and got this:

I alched at the gnome stronghold because I used the spirit trees to see if the one I'm growing on Brimhaven is done yet (it's not). I picked flax and spun it into bow strings for my longbows, noted up and proceeded to alch my heart out. I logged out for a potty break and when I logged back in, this bonehead was blabbering away:

Some of the conversation got cut out as he was wanting to kill himself and I, being the mean bitch, told him to do it so we could have peace and quiet. Boy, he got very worried when I said I was posting this on a fansite!

I think I'm going to do some dangerous things either tonight or tomorrow, such as visit the top floor of the ranging guild and see where the KBD lives.

Yes, I'm avoiding mining rune essence. Can you tell? lol

My Wheat Thins Tried To Kill Me

2007-09-19T23:14:00.000-02:30

Finally, all those shade remains are mine! Mwuhahahaha!!1!!!!shiftone!!11! While dealing death to the undead, I got a defense level.

Also, I was snacking on Wheat Thins out of the box. The stupid crackers kept getting trapped in a fold along the edge of the inner bag. While growling at the box because I'd dumped half of its contents in my lap, my health had gotten shredded down to 10hp. :o I glanced up in time to scarf a monkfish, only to see a shade tart slap me for 10 damage. Grrr...

So, tomorrow it's check my trees first, then hop down to Mort'ton for some pyromania. While I was banking, I got the Drunken Dwarf random. I spoke to him and he gave me the obligatory beer and kebab. I quaffed the beer happily and munched down the kebab. Ugggh. Bad kebab did this:

My crystal shield reverted to seed form this morning. I've been stockpiling arrows, so I really don't need the crystal bow yet. :P

My total level is now 1880. What a nice year.

Altar-native Experience

2007-09-18T22:47:00.000-02:30

Wasn't I complaining about a runecrafting mini game not long ago? Eh, maybe it was only in my head. Today marks the first appearance of the Zamorakian Magical Institute (ZMI, though I may call it ZIM on accident). Wander south of Ardy and west of the Kharzard battlefield to where Zamorak monks and red lizards frolic, then follow the path to the chaos altar. Talk to the Zamorak mage and he'll tell you his people found a new altar, but it's unstable. There's a bank (re: guy with big fucking backpack) but it costs 20 runes per access to your account. Here are some pics of what it looks like:

There are 2 ways to the altar: the short way with attacking NPCs and the long way that's skiller friendly. I tried both ways and the shorter route is faster, though more dangerous if you're a lower combat level. I wore spottier cape and boots of lightness with a mud staff and took little or no damage. I think the most I got hit for was 6. Below is a Zamorak mage attacking someone:

In the below pic, I showed what runes the altar gave me. I used the fire runes for banking. Here's the altar itself:

There's a crack in a wall to get to the altar on the safe route. You don't need any agility skill to use it.

The down-lo: use ZMI if you want XP. Use the Abyss or a normal route to your altar of choice if you want cash.

I managed to cut the mage logs (567) for shade burning. Now I get to kill 567 fiyr shades so I have something to burn. All this woodcutting got me within 40k XP of level 90.

Hey, Hey

2007-09-17T23:58:00.001-02:30

I started the day off nicely by getting dragon scale from Taverly dungeon and grinding each one to a powder. Then I had to do some IRL stuff. I came back, not really wanting to restock seconds anymore. So, I got this brilliant idea to make the monkey greegrees I don't have, except for the large ninja one as it's a bit close to lure him out vs. getting caught. I killed a bearded monkey guard which wasn't hard at all. Next, I killed a large zombie monkey below the temple. Damn, their bones are tiny! Egghebrecht had casually mentioned a few days ago about whether you could make a greegrees from the monkey bones of the monkeys on Mos le Harmless. Here's a learning experience that I could pass on to future players, so I killed the monkey after it refused to share the whereabouts of "special bananas".

I'd been hanging on Merch's chat and mentioned I was going to brave Zooknock's tunnel again. Merch was standing at the ladder down when I got there after buying 2 more talismen; she as a gorilla and myself as a zombie monkey. Tip: zombie monkeys don't run. XD Happily, the only damage I was taking was from traps and poison. Those super energy and prayer pots I brought were a waste. I made my greegrees. BTW, the Mos le Harmless monkey becomes a Karamja monkey as a greegrees and you can have more than 1 greegrees type as I now have 3 Karamja monkey ones. :P

I built on the Mort'ton temple just to get rid of the timbers and limestone bricks in my bank. It was very quiet there tonight, a rare thing.

Okay, back to gathering seconds.

But wait! Merch doesn't have red dhide for ranging armor. I thought about making her a set for her bday a few weeks ago, but she said she was buying a set off Whiskas, but Whiskas hasn't been heard from for a while. I geared up for melee and set out for the deadly Brimhaven dungeon. My first foray to killing red dragons went extremely well; I was to the point of what should I drop to make room for the hides and bones. Great, I'd gotten 10 hides and bones my first time. My second trip wasn't as fruitful. Only 3 hides and bones using the same inventory as the other time. :/ Ah well, it's okay as that's 2 sets of full red dhide and a pair of vambs for me to alch.

Now, back to getting seconds.

Not! I could pop over to my PoH and use these bones on my gilded altar! And I could make those Zamorak brews with the Greenman's ale keg I have in my kitchen. Yeah, that's what I'll do. I found out you can eat jangerberries. XD At least they aren't poisonous!

I use the Kharyll teleport in my PoH and start getting Mort Myre fungi. I get a giggle when I leave the swamp: You happily skip out of Mort Myre. :) Tele to Ardy and kill some newtroosts and spidines for newt eyes and red spider eggs. I logged out after setting myself up on Miscellania with the hopes that I'll go back to Ardy and finish getting those spider eggs.

If You Build It, They Will Come

2007-09-17T00:01:00.000-02:30

I checked on my fruit trees, then hit Miscellainia to see what they had for me. Oh, many herbs and more seeds! I managed to get halfway to 78 herblore with 66k+ to go. I have more trees to farm and finished the night by planting the last wood trees - maples. I also got another spirit seed which I'll plant when the one that's growing now is done growing. :P

Now, I'm low on seconds and vials for potions. Getting the seconds isn't too hard, mostly running around or a bit of combat at Creature Creation. Vials I could either make or buy, so I checked Taverly first. Only 11 in stock. Did I want to tap dance around rock crabs to get seaweed? Uh not really. Alternatively, I could do something that would help train crafting, woodcutting, combat, firemaking and prayer and get me more money. Yes, shade burning time again! Firstly, I got the oil I wanted for 546 burnings, then got limestone and timber for building the temple. It took me about 4 hours to make all that olive oil sacred, but I did it. I was frustrated though since it seemed people were conspiring to keep me from straight-out clicking on the sacred flame. I resorted to right clicking and sorting through names which too longer. Someone asked, "Why do you people do this?" Many answers popped up - crafting XP, it's fun, shade burning, but this took the cake:

XD

I peeked into Merch's chat channel Canting Away. It was all right; not what I expected since there weren't a ton of people on. I will say that Cougar came off as whiny and manipulative: she kept asking for help while doing Regicide, but refused to stay in one spot; she kept getting lost and wouldn't stay put until someone could help in game; she complained about being sick and couldn't understand that not eating does that sometimes. I know she's Merch's friend and all, but I so wanted to bitch slap her through the monitor. :S

Tomorrow: second gathering and magic tree cutting.

Last Level For The Night

2007-09-15T23:35:00.000-02:30

Dorgeshuun agility area is a quiet place. I saw one other person there and he left shortly after I arrived. I scurried along the ladders, through tunnels and leaped across gorges with only an aging rope for safety for 2 hours. I fell 4 times.

More Levels Than You Can Shake A Stick At

2007-09-15T16:09:00.000-02:30

To begin, I saved up all my news for 3 days for today.

Thursday: Woodcutting and fletching
I cut down the magic logs and made longbows out of them, then alched them.

Friday: Thieving and Farming
I decided to plant a jangerberry bush so I can have the berries for making Zamorak potions when I get 78 herblore. I have some nice torstol saved and I thought it would be better to be prepared than have to run around in circles on the ogre island south of Yanille (the island with the rope swing). As any good person should, I tele'd to Ardougne and held the master farmer up with my pretty black flowers until he gave me the seeds I wanted. :P I really needed more watermelons because I only had 20 banked! :o Anyway, I got what I needed and more, so I farmed and even went as far as using the allotment between Canifis and Port Phasmatys for strawberries and limpwurt root. Yes, after the VAD, I'm keeping ahold of these so I won't get caught short (again). Curiosity had me wearing my crystal shield while I thieved as I wondered if getting caught (yes, even level 99 thieves get caught) would degrade it. Surprise! It does!

Saturday (today): The Slayer
I've been close to leveling my melee skills for a while and, instead of putting it off, I talked to Vannakka for some assignments. Apparently, Turael will have to talk to him, too, as he kept giving me abberant spectres, sea snakes, kurask and crocodiles. What happened to the fire giants and harpie bug swarms you use to load on me? *sigh* I did get werewolves and locked myself in the general store with a couple, who kept opening the door. Then, this little guy flew in and hung out for 5 minutes.

Finally, an assignment I like!

Headless piggies!

Different piggies!

Now to kalaphites for:

Well, I thought about a short term goal and came up with one. I'm going to get these skills - runecrafting, prayer, slayer, hunter, agility and smithing - over 1M XP. Prayer is so lagging behind and I'm being lazy about getting bones. I'm thinking about checking out these skeletal wyverns and stocking up on baby dragon bones.

Oh Boy!

2007-09-12T23:36:00.000-02:30

I farmed sweetcorn at Catherby all day and cut yew trees while the corn grew. After the day's harvest, I netted over 200 sweetcorn to pay gardeners to keep an eye on any apple trees I may plant. The yew logs were fletched into longbows this even. Along with the magic logs from yesterday, I happily gained 88 fletching.

After alching the lot, I'm back over 13M and 140k from leveling mage. I was very close to gaining a farming level, too, so I checked vainly over the pineapple bushes. Holy cow, one had grown today despite my logging in and out for potty and food breaks.

While I was alching, Aalex (all I recall) offered: buying cannon 10m! I asked if he was serious and he said he was; I thought he was but things were going a bit quick in the chat. I hurriedly got my cannon out of storage, cleaned out the family of dustbunnies and told Aalex that I would sell my cannon. He left the bank. I added him for a moment, just to see if he was nearby, but he'd disappeared. Sighing, I stuffed my cannon back in the bank. Later, Aalex returned and was selling miscellaneous stuff such as 26 flax and a burnt shark.

I still have 300 bowstrings to use, so it's back to cutting mage trees and fletching the logs. It brings me money which supports my kingdom.

Kitt Fox Needs Hats Badly

2007-09-11T19:54:00.000-02:30

Or VAD 2: Electric Boogaloo.

The stupid cat medal. So, I bought a new kitten yesterday and because I was also doing laundry, it took until this morning for the little furball to grow up. The kitten caught 31 hellrats last night and as a cat caught 119. It was still a normal cat. <_< even though it's for a different cat.

The highlight of the VAD was Merch Gwyar saving my bacon. I needed to have the apothecary make me a strength potion. Red spider eggs, no problem as I had to grab one for the VAD anyway. I hit the hill giants under Edgeville; they were surprisingly devoid of the usual crowd of people. I looked like a dork whacking giants with a pick and no armor, but I killed a lot and still didn't get a limpwurt root. Merch was on, so I PMed her and asked if she had any. She did and we traded up. If you see her, tell her she looks smexy with her d scimmy, mkay? :P

Today I unlocked all the balloon journeys. Zybez has a great guide on these, found here.

I had to kill SoS monsters to get the skull sceptre for VAD and one of the minotaurs dropped a clue scroll. It lead to this:
. I'm going to hang onto the blouse in the hopes that I'll get the skirt/pants that go with it. I do have a selling thread on Sal's and the OF (300k cash) if anyone's interested. Before I posted that I was selling the blouse, I checked out Sal's to see if anyone was buying one. Kalipop had a "Costume Room Clearance Sale" with a ton of TT items. I looked things over and saw he had 2 black berets and a boater set. Something possessed me and I made an offer on the boater set and 1 black beret for 670k total. We met up at his PoH (nice digs :)) and made the trade. The beret doesn't look as cool on me as it does on other people.

I now need more money, so I'm cutting magics and yews at the gnome stronghold to fletch into longbows and hi alch.

Varrock Achievement Diary

2007-09-10T16:00:00.001-02:30

Though having an achievement diary about Varrock feels a bit lame to me, I'm working my way through the tasks. My one complaint so far concerns getting a cat training medal from Gertrude. I have one already, but I'm willing to get another. Problem - you need to have a new kitten to get it. I tried with Slash, my wily hellcat, for the past hour and caught 100 rats. I talk to Gertrude, hoping the message not popping up is a mistake, but it's not. I was forced to buy a new kitten to get this done. If Jagex had come right out and said: Any player who already has a cat training medal will need to get a new kitten to gain another medal, I wouldn't be so pissed.

The other part I'm not looking forward to - enchanting an air orb at the air obelisk in the Wildy. I should be able to 3 item no problem. I'll add more later after I raise up my new kitten. Slash asked for a female, so I picked out a pretty little calico.

Vacuumed Face of Death

2007-09-09T22:43:00.000-02:30

Today was dust devil clearing day. I wasn't there for any spectacular drops, but to get my crystal shield back to seed form.

I kept track of how many dusties I killed, any decent drops and the random events. I also got 81 defense. Earlier today I met Triluk in the smokey well. He was very nice, offering me food, but I declined with a thank you. :)

Equipment:
rune plate
d skirt
barrows gloves
climbing boots
facemask
ring of wealth (RoW)
crystal shield
d scimmy

Dusties Killed:
247

Average number killed per bank run:
62

Random events:
2 strange plants
MOM
Security guard
Drill Demon

Noteworthy drops:
2 red dhide vambrances
2 earth battlestaves
rune dagger
40 soul runes

Regular drops:
fire and chaos runes
gold
rune arrows
gems
ugthanki kebabs

My shield dropped from 7/10 to 5/10. I may go back tomorrow for more. I caught up with WWdN today, so my brain will hopefully switch back to paying attention to RS.

Dear Chaeldar and Duradel,

To make my slaying more comfortable for the three of us, here is a listing of monsters I refuse to kill:

- aberrant spectres
- hellhounds
- kurask
- any color metal dragons
- spiritual anythings

Turael said it was okay to send this letter to you two, since he is pretty sick of telling me to go kill 28 monkeys. If you don't stop giving me these assignments, the next time I speak to Turael about trading down, he will bitch slap the pair of you back into the 3rd Age.

Yours truly,
Kitt Fox

Ogre Forester

2007-09-08T23:59:00.001-02:30

I got a new chompy hat - ogre forester. Well, I don't *have* the hat, but Rantz is holding onto it for me.

I haven't felt good most of the day, so it was a lot of log out/log in today.

I farmed all my herb seeds and am babying a calquat tree to fruition. My nature ammy is tuned to that patch and I'm standing in front of it with secateurs in hand. I've got many fruit trees to plant this week which should get me to 84 farming some time.

Did a bit of slayer but Chaedlar kept giving me hellhounds. No. Look, would it be easier if I gave you a list of creatures I won't touch with a barge pole so you will stop giving me metal dragons and such?

Since I still have my crystal shield, I was thinking about making a dust devil log. I highly doubt I'll get and dragon-related items (d chain, d shield half, d spear), but they drop fairly useful items.

To end on a happy note: if you have access to Lunar magics, change your spellbook to lunar and cast NPC Contact. Choose to talk to Lanthus, the NPC in charge of CW. Trust me, it's funny. Cyrisus is off to fight the KQ and taking some slayer masters as back up!

Random Things

2007-09-07T23:55:00.000-02:30

A few random levels I got last night and today:

I had a bad start to the morning. A mouse woke me up at 5 am. It was screaming every minute because it got stuck to a glue trap. I hate being woken up from a sleep by crap like that (babies excluded). I ended up napping for an hour in the afternoon which seemed okay but didn't help at all.

Mostly I did slayer. I talk to Chaedlar in Zanaris and she gave me kurask. Oh boy! I hadn't done them before, so I got out my leaf-bladed spear and trucked to the backend of the Fremmy slayer caves. Yuck. My food went too quickly, so I Burthorped it and did some cave crawlers. Chaedlar next gave me dust devils. My first time with those also. I was worried about how long I would last because the few dust devil guides suggest barrows armor (Guthans or Torags) or ranging. I had no arrows, so melee it was. Surprisingly easy. My best drop was an earth battlestaff. Next up, more kurask. Ah, no. Burthorped it for kalaphites, then got cave horrors. Wow; great drops of snapdragon, toadflax, belladonna and torstol! I also got another black mask and 2 clue scrolls. The first scroll was coordinates in the Wilderness, so I pitched it and the next drop was another clue scroll. I did the second one and I did go into the Wildy twice, but they were dig by the agility course and look in a crate at the Dark Fortress. I got a rune pick, 2 rune axes, black dhide chaps, 11 purple sweets and 13 green firelighters.

I dumped most of the items I had saved for level 1 clues and did a bit of fletching of the yew logs I'd chopped yesterday while farming. School is in session for Canada/U.S./Europe, so the yew trees south of the flax field at Seer's were empty until around 6pm. I grew corn, strawberries and watermelons. That last batch of melons sucked ass - only 9 with the magic secateurs! >:[ I have more farming to do tomorrow with all those herb seeds I got today. I topped up the Misc. coffers to 1.6M.

I did runecraft a couple days ago and decided to try out a tip Teacuptime mentioned with degraded pouches - leave the pouches in the bank as the dark wizard will fix them anyway. It works! I won't have to keep getting new ones from abyssal leeches. Thanks! Speaking of runecrafting, I mined a bunch of pure essense, too, and noticed only 3 bots. Either Jagex is getting better at banning them so they can't get back on or the people running the bot programs are in school.

Here's the fattest lazy cat I've seen so far in RS. Boy that butt is huge! There are lazy hellcats that are larger in the behind.

Fuck you, Uncle Ben

2007-09-06T17:02:00.000-02:30

I work hard to get a 99 skill for one simple reason: to get the pressure of training it off my back. I had no idea that being a Cape of Accomplishment (CoA) owner brought such responsibilities! For all the CoA, there are certain rules a wearer of such a cape must abide by:

1. You must do the CoA emote whenever asked, no matter what you are doing at the time.

2. You must know everything about the skill you have a CoA and be ready to lend assistance to anyone asking for help. For Quest Cape owners, you must be able, upon demand, to recall every detail of every quest in RuneScape; answer any and all questions about any quest; stop whatever you are doing to babysit someone during a quest.

3. You must answer any and all questions in less than 5 seconds. When you take longer than 5 seconds to answer, you are a no-lifing, n00b loser.

Each CoA also has its own rules. I can only speak of the 4 CoA I own (cooking, fishing, thieving and quest).

Cooking CoA:
- You are a n00b with the n00biest cape in all of Gielinor. No matter the time it took to get this skill to 99, you should feel shame when you wear it.
- You know the closest range and/or fire to a bank.
- You have tons of cooked food to give out to people.
- You will cook any kind of food for anyone asking.

Quest CoA:
- You know everything about every quest and will recall all details when asked.
- You will babysit/bodyguard anyone on any quest at any time.

Fishing CoA:
- You always have raw lobsters and/or sharks, at least 10k of each type, in your bank.
- You will give free fish to anyone asking.
- You will trade raw fish for cooked fish of the same type.

Thieving CoA:
- You have millions of gold coins.
- You did Pyramid Plunder to level.
- You will give out money to anyone who asks and calling the asker a beggar makes you a n00b.
- You should feel shame for wearing the CoA with the lamest emote.

Angel Furies askes me to lend him/her 2M. S/he couldn't understand why I refused. I called him/her a beggar and s/he said s/he wasn't a beggar but asking me to lend him/her 2M. I said I don't give money to strangers.

I farmed today. Just one more sweetcorn planting tonight and I'll move on to other things like slayer.

Beggars Can't Be Choosers

2007-09-06T00:40:00.001-02:30

While I was doing TT today, I got one where I needed to shrug in Rimmington's mine. I got the gold necklace, gold ring and bronze spear from my bank and sauntered from Varrock, passed the outer wall of Falador, through the cabbage patch and across the grassy knoll by the mine. Just outside of the west gate of Varrock, I have Q U A T R Y begin taxiing on me. God I hate being someone's free ride because they're too lazy to click a mouse button. The conversation we had is to the right.

Yeah, I figured the second I told him if I was black IRL, he'd toss out "Nigger" and it'd be report time. Not the first time I've run into this shit, but, thank gods, it's few and far between each episode. I still haven't discovered why the color of my or my avatar's skin is such a big deal. I guess that says a lot about me.

And I had another beggar tonight. I didn't catch his name, but I'm sure he remembers me as the level 101 in the thieving cape who wouldn't give him money to buy dragon boots in Falador. The gist of the conversation was this:

Him: Kitt Fox
Me: What?
Him: Will you give me money so I can buy d boots?
Me: I don't give money to beggars.
Him: I'm not begging.
Me: You're asking for free money.
Someone Else: dude, no1 is going to give u 1M
Him: They only cost 600k, noob

I left them arguing over the price of dragon boots while I mugged a guard on my way to the bank.

Best part of today: I meet up with Merch and gave her the Guthix page I saved from earlier. She thanked me profusely, especially when I gave it for free. I could've charged 40k for it, but I like Merch and I know how hard it is to get your prayer book fixed without getting price gouged *cough*Zammypages*cough*. We went our separate ways. I tele'd to Lumby and returned to my "job" as a Pocket Lint Inspector for Humans Against Monsters (H.A.M.). All the crap those people hold onto is amazing. The very next clue scroll I get rewards me with a Guthix page 3. I PM Merch and ask if she wants this page, too. I can sense her excitement through the PM and we meet in Draynor for the trade. Now, she has a Book of Balance and we share a preaching session from the Book. I quickly get out my Holy (Saradomin) Book and preach out the Last Rites, which is hilarious.

A good day. No beret yet and my bank is full of junk for emote clues so I don't have to run around too much. The Bob the Cat shirt is black btw. I have no clue what to do tomorrow though. Maybe some slayer to get that leveled and get my crystal shield damaged. I want my crystal bow back, but it's cheaper to charge the seed as a shield as of now. I have been toying with the idea of buying a new crystal bow from Islwyn for 900k. Range is looking appealing to train, too, as the crystal bow required no arrows.

EDIT: I found a little note in my notebook I forgot to mention earlier. Giggs613 offered to buy my thieving hood for 90k. ROFL!

Still at 6s and 7s

2007-09-05T13:23:00.000-02:30

I'm still lost at what to train atm. I got it into my head yesterday to start getting pizazz points for full infinity robes and that lasted until I had to go into the Graveyard. It's the most boring part of the Mage Training Arena.

Today, it's clue scroll day and here's the list o' good stuff so far (more pics may be added later):

Finally a Bob t-shirt! It tells me to get a bank pin which I have. :) That's Guthix page 2 for Merch Gwyar.

Something nifty I saw:

They are much cooler up close but the little bastard kept flying away. <_<

Have you ever wondered who's watching you copycat the mime?

Yeah, I wasn't impressed either, except to get a clearer pic of my cape.

Path of Glouphrie

2007-09-04T14:20:00.000-02:30

A new quest which I smartly waited for guides to come out. Of course, the hardest part (imo) of the whole thing was the dungeon you get to after healing the spirit tree. Did anyone have a map? No. Zybez had directions that were helpful, but I still ran around like a hyperactive person off her meds. Sal's was okay for the most part, but not what I expected considering some of the last few quest guides published there. I think Neo Avatars was more concerned with a fast quest walkthru. The guide I used for most of the quest was at RuneHQ. Bits of advice from me:

- take an extra grapple in case yours breaks
- protection from missiles prayer is your friend; use it when running like an escaped loony through the sewer rooms as the terrorbirds are the real threat
- the warped turtles were harmless (to me)

I wore rune full helm, rune plate, rune legs, granite shield, climbing boots, unholy symbol, thieving cape, barrows gloves and ring of dueling. Weapon of choice: d scimitar. I wanted some things to boost my prayer and I had +12 with this set-up which was fine. I drank 1 (4) prayer pot and 1 dose of a combat potion. I ate 4 tuna and corn taters (heals 22). I was very nervous about the sewer tunnels and my hands were shaking very, very badly. My husband helped a lot by directing me where to run and patting my head when I did. I took some breaks at the doors to get my bearings and let my energy boost up again.

It was an okay quest until the final fight. Will Jagex learn that making a boss or boss fight harder isn't equivalent to a good quest? When will a non-combat skills quest arrive? ME2, while 1 I hate because of the puzzle aspect, is the only "hard" quest where you don't need a high combat level to complete.

Bones Are For Burying

2007-09-03T00:48:00.001-02:30

Finally, all my stats are 70+. I did a lot of Ectoing today, moving from zogre to baby dragon bones, then using the gilded altar in my PoH to finish off the last bit of it. Prayer is still my lowest skill. :P With that out of the way, I really have no excuse not to return to runecrafting tomorrow.

While I was Ectoing, I ran into another player, Sbulldog, who threw me for a loop. He'd been grinding bones a couple of times, then asked where to get bones. o_O Oh. My. God. I told him to go kill monsters. He asked again, much later and I recommended the chickens at the farm west of the Ectofuntus. Very, very odd.

I ranged baby blues until I ran out of arrows, then meleed them which didn't boost my attack level too much. Taverly was full, so I had to world hop twice. Yes, even the baby dragons were hard to get to yourself. Because I keep an eye out on the mini map for red dots, I scored 20 blue d hides to craft later. :)

My short term goals are all completed and I can't think of any off-hand to replace them. I was thinking about opening up the hot air balloon traveling, but I really should get back to boring ol' runecrafting in Yanille. *sigh* It's hard now because it takes several thousand essence to craft to gain a level, which means too much mining because I'll be buggered if I buy pure essence in bulk to support those damned bots.

Troll Much?

2007-09-02T00:09:00.000-02:30

http://runescape.salmoneus.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=165898

Normally I wouldn't advertise for a forum troll, but this is unadulterated bullshit that doesn't belong in the RuneScape General Discussion section.

See You In September

2007-09-01T17:42:00.000-02:30

Here are my high scores for this month, in case you're keeping track of how I compare to other RSers and how I've risen/fallen in ranks. Yes, I got all the skills, too. :P

This weekend, so far, has been dedicated to leveling prayer. I make it more complicated than it needs to be though. I like how my melee stats are at an even 80, so that leaves me with range, mage or buying bones. Mage I'll have to make a ton of runes, I bite at merchanting which leaves range. Best place I've found is - are you ready? - Jiggig by CW. Really. I made 300 steel brutal arrows quickly, thanks to my hoarding habits, and threw on my ranging outfit. Using the fairy rings, I tele'd south of where I wanted to be and walked into the zogre and skogre filled area until I reached the back where the stairs down are. There's a safe spot on the east side of the stairs on the other side of 2 rock piles and I happily fired brutals into the rotting, walking corpses of ogres. My arrows went fast as I was on rapid style and I picked up the zogre bones and coffin keys along with the brutals. When I had 27 spaces filled, I used the coffin keys on a nearby coffin to get more bones (some zogre and some ancestral bones) and a few bits of crap that I dropped on the ground. As my inventory filled, I banked at CW and then returned to ranging until the arrows were gone.

Now I began the process of Ectofunting (using the Ectofuntus) all these bones. I had already over 300 buckets of slime - I use the dueling ring>CW bank>Ectophial>Ectofuntus method to get slime. It means you need a good supply of empty buckets to start. I put on my ghostpeak amulet, got 13 pots and my Ectophial out of the bank and tele'd to Port Phasmatys. I had a good feel going for walking to the bank and teleporting back to the Ectofuntus. It got boring halfway through, but I kept going by eating Jos Louis (chocolate covered Moon Pies to non-Canadians). In the midst of my bone grinding, someone asked if I was going for 70 prayer. I replied that I was and was told that a gilded altar is faster. He left before my response showed: Then why are you here...

The only way to train prayer from 65+ is with a gilded altar? ORLY? o_O

Don't buy into that because it's bullshit. People that say that are into speed training, or leveling as fast as possible. Guess what, kids? Some people don't gives a rat's ass about the "fastest" training method. Personally, I'd rather have the extra XP the Ectofuntus gives over a gilded altar and I haven't found there to be that big of a difference between the two. They balance out in the end: gilded is faster, but less XP per trip while Ectofunting is slower, but gives more XP per trip. Some advice: I don't tell you how to wipe your ass, so don't tell me how to wipe mine.

Anyway, I got 69 prayer today. I like my method because there aren't people to fight with at Jiggig, unlike blue dragons. I need to make more brutal arrows which may use up all the steel bars and feathers I have stocked. Oh well, maybe I should mine some iron and do some chompy hunting tonight. I think I only need 50 more chompy kills to get a new hat.

G-L-O-R-I-A and a rant

2007-08-31T22:14:00.001-02:30

With most of today spent in Mort'ton, I finally got that coveted 80 crafting tonight. I hurried to Falador and made glory amulets from the dstones I've been saving for this moment. ^_^

And now, The Rant.

I expect there will be a few people who come to the temple world (now world 77) to finish up the quest or try their hands at some shade burning. Tonight was bad for newbie questions. It was like every 5 minutes, people who've done this before were answering the same damn questions. Of the newbies there, 90% of them hadn't even started Shades of Mort'ton quest! I understand that certain players like to do quests and mini games without spoilers or walkthrus but Jesus Christ on a Popsicle stick! Many of the fan sites with quest guides also have quick walkthrus which don't give away much except the essentials (quest items, who to talk to, etc.). Would it kill these newbies to RTFM (read the fucking manual)? Oh and there were a couple of players who were question begging - you know, begging for free supplies but making it out to be a question: Anyone can give me willow logs? Arielathena, someone I'd only seen tonight, came off as short tempered and mean, but after many hours of listening to the same goddamn questions, can you blame her? Huydo5 was killing me. He's level 77 and gets attacked by the roaming shades. Instead of trying to fight them off, which he is more than capable of doing, he would plead for Help! and Kill this shade!

Also, there were 2 level 40 somethings building on the temple. Well, strike that; they were *standing* inside the temple. Neither had a clue what to do - no supplies for building, nothing to fight with (one wore CW armor and a pirate bandana) and no food (or ate it all). Crassus (not quiet his name, the guy with the CW armor) is stupid. He's determined to keep shades from entering the temple, yet has no food and won't run away. I did give him 5 monkfish before I found out how clueless he is. During 1 fight, he's barely got a sliver of green left and, when encouraged to run away, he whines about how they will get him. *headdesk*

For anyone thinking about coming to World 77 (or whatever the temple building world is) to try this shade burning thing out, read up on the mini game in Jagex's knowledge base or one of the fan sites. If you can't bank in Burgh de Rott, bring the supplies you need instead of mooching off others.

I made a new friend today. He'd mentioned we'd met about 3 weeks ago at the temple building, but I didn't remember him. Then he said he'd been going Bleeeeee!! and I got it. He was very talkative and I didn't mind helping him a bit. I bought him a hammer so he could build 'cause he forgot his. I learned he was trying to get fine cloth for splitbark armor (he uses the body part for PKing) and was having a helluva time getting some. I have plenty of it sitting my bank, which I will never sell as I suck ass at merchanting. I offered him enough to get 5 splitbark bodies made, but he refused. He had no money (lost it all in a stake iirc) and it took a while to talk him into accepting a gift. He promised to pay me back after some good PKs, but it doesn't bother me to get any money for it.

In the WTF file:

I guess gnomes are filling in the agility tunnel they made by Varrock castle? o_O

IRL: my daughter turns the big 1-4 in a few hours. She's already in her second week of high school as a freshman.

A Slow Day

2007-08-30T20:15:00.000-02:30

I didn't do much in RS today. I went to try my luck ranging black dragons at Zanaris and found someone already there, so I hopped to another world. No one was around on 129, so I started taking pot shots. It was taking a long time, so I killed the one dragon and left. Then I popped to my PoH and strolled inside the ogre caves at Gu'Toth. This place is blue dragon heaven - 5 blue dragons, no waiting. I grabbed the one nearest the entrance and shot it full of steel arrows until I had 8 hides and 8 bones. A couple of times, I'd decided to run right up to the dragon and shoot. I got toasted (can't wear the anti-dragon breath shield with a magic shortbow), so I figured I'd move onto the greater demons locked in the cage a few feet away.

I love greater demons here. They can't get their creepy claws on me. :P I ranged alone until another player popped in beside me. He asked my range bonus which I gave (attack or defense? Idk), then he told me I needed rune boots. Huh? Bah, I ignored him - easy enough when public chat is on Hide as you only see what people say above their heads, not in your chat window. Lastly, he wanted me to know that Ava's accumulator didn't work there. To which I replied: "Uh...so? It still makes arrows". Yes, numbnuts, I know it won't collect my arrows because of the fucking fence. Did you know it collects arrows out of thin air and provides a +4 range bonus? *bitch slap*

I wasted almost 2k steel and 800 iron arrows to gain 74 range. Surprisingly, I wasn't sick of ranging things yet. I may make it to level 80. :)

Anyway, I returned to Burthorpe and safe cracking for gems. Anything to get my crafting up. I have about 98k to go for level 80 and those wonderful glory amulets. With my luck, I'll make glories out of the 8 dragonstones I have saved and won't get another key half or crystal key ever.

Tomorrow, I give Miscellania more money and get stuff in return. More farming! More herblore!

Other news: I celebrated my smexy thieving level by (in RS) buying the cape and doing the emote and (IRL) cleaning manky garbage cans. I've been catching up with Wil Wheaton's blog: WWdN: In Exile

[It looks weird as html is still giving a royal fuck-over. I figured out how to add a link, but I couldn't type normally after the link.]

That should be Wil's (Mr. Wheaton's ?) current blog - I'm still reading through his first blog, which is hilarious as whatever goof that broke the blog also made duplicates (3-5) of every post! >.< Not that he'll read this, but thanks dude!

Maîtresse des voleurs

2007-08-29T15:15:00.000-02:30

*dances happily*

Guess it's time to get back to that runecrafting I was avoiding by training this skill. XD The cape looks great with my vyrewatch outfit.

I Can Taste It

2007-08-29T00:31:00.000-02:30

581,507 XP to go now or 6,882 knights to mug. I had a hard time getting one to cooperate and walk inside a building on his own, so I remembered what I'd read countless times in thieving help guides: hit your mark once, then let them follow you. Once inside, hop upstairs or a ladder, come back down and start your mugging. I'd also equipped a mage shortbow (no arrows) so I didn't "accidentally" attack a knight while I was hurriedly clicking. All this pickpocketing has me over 13M banked which means more of a cushion for when I restock my kingdom.

I've added a new thing - The Asshat Awards - which is pretty self-explanitory. The first winner was Rob Stucky, who enjoyed letting a trapped knight roam free. The second winner is I Pjd I for killing the gnome child from whom I was stealing candy and not being able to wait 5 seconds for me to answer his question. Dude, it takes time to tell you all of what you can get from picking a gnome's pocket and continually asking, "wut they give" doesn't make the answer come faster.

Also, I've updated my short and long term goals lists with new goal levels. The reasons why for each:
range - my other combat stats are 80+
agility - to use the first shortcut in Fremmy slayer caves
runecrafting - so I can use the giant pouch and make 2x chaos
firemaking - pretty high anyway, so why not go for 99?
crafting - glory, glory, glory
prayer - my last skill under 70
thieving - I can't quit now :P

My Arm Hurts

2007-08-27T22:46:00.001-02:30

I did a lot of right/left clicking today and damn, my arm hurts! The inside of my elbow and just above it burn when I bend my elbow. My fingers ache a bit from holding a mouse most of the day, but with a little flexing they're back to normal. Despite 2 modem crapouts, I got level 98. I took more breaks than I anticipated; more from boredom than muscle cramps. I picked out several music CDs to listen to via my DVD player and they really keep me going.

Here's some numbers to go by for 99 thieving (1,228,659 XP),:

wall safes - 17,533 (time unknown)
knights - 14,541 or 11.185 hours
paladins - 8,097 or 14.72 hours
gnomes - 6,190 or 18.75 hours
elves - 3,476 or 19.3111~ hours

I was very lucky with herding a knight into a "safe" room - safe meaning away from other players who would inadvertently or intentionally let the knight escape. I like getting the knight that roams around King Lathas' castle and cornering him in the room to the south of the main castle entry. No one has any reason to go there, unless they are also looking for a knight to thieve or they are griefing me. When I logged on this morning, there was a knight trapped and waiting for me! He stayed put until after the first modem crash, then I had to round him back up.

After today's power leveling, I think I may split the XP over 2 days, if not 3. I may do what I was doing with PP: pick knights for a few hours, then start scrounging for clue scrolls from H.A.M. members. I *will* get my beret, dammit. :P I almost buckled under and hit PP this afternoon, but hubby talked me out of it.

New Calculations (again)

2007-08-26T22:10:00.000-02:30

I did some brief testing and have crunched numbers:

Paladins - 552 picks per hour, 83,738.4 XP per hour

Elves - 180 picks per hour, 63,630 XP per hour

So, from the time of this post, I have 10,785,459 XP and need 2,248,972 XP to 99.

Paladins - 14,816 picks or 26.938181 hours
Elves - 6,366 picks or 35.3666~ hours

I will probably be alternating among paladins, elves, gnomes and safes to keep from getting bored. This will take longer, but it's a hell of a lot less stressful. I'm going to try out Sorceress Garden again (after a long while; I tried when it first came out) to see how that does. I don't think it will be much use.

Torture

2007-08-26T16:01:00.000-02:30

No more Pyramid Plunder. I got most of my level from it today and I'm fucking well done with it. Oh, that pmod I told you about, the one who leaves mummies free to attack other plunderers? He was on again and I got his name: Adomer1. Besides the mummy dodging, a glitch was showing itself today. When you open each door, you get either a message "This door leads to a dead end" or "Loading...please wait", right? No less than 8 times in 5 different rooms (2, 3, 5, 6, 7) did I open all 4 doors and each lead to a dead end. What the fuck???? Yeah, and a couple of times I had to check each door twice after finding out it was a dead end.

When I had under 9k to go to level, I left and went to the Thieving Capital of Gielinor - West Ardougne. I took 26 monkfish from my bank and headed to the second floor, north side of King Lathas' castle. I picked the locked door and started checking the lining of the paladins' platemail.

So, with PP out of the running for gaining XP, I'm left with pickpocketing and safe cracking. Here's a breakdown of how many of 3 pickpocket NPC types and safes I need for 98 and 99 respectively:

Paladins - 7,191; 15,288 (151.75 XP each)
Gnomes - 5,497; 11,688 (198.5 XP each)
Elves - 3,087; 6,563 (353.5 XP each)
Safes - 15,588; 33,142 (70 XP each)

I've done some timing with paladins and I get about 200 picks per 26 monkfish. Sorry that I don't have a time down, but I find it easier to go by how much food I have. I'd guess that takes about 45 minutes, depending on how many times I get caught and stunned. I'm taking a break atm and when I log on later, I'll go to Lletya and time myself with elves.

Turn up the Reactor Power Input ...3 ...More ...Points!

2007-08-26T01:22:00.000-02:30

Pyramid Plunder is on my list of places I'm not going to see for a long, long time. I am so sick of that place. Thankfully, I get into a zone when I start each game, so the clicking is automatic. The only thing today was someone - didn't catch the name and barely caught a glimpse as he got tele'd out of the room - opened the sarcophagus in the last room, leaving me to get pounded on by a pissed-off mummy. I turned on protect from melee and figured that was it. Oh no! When the mummy would smack me, I'd stop looting to turn and hit. I constantly had to click on the urns to keep myself looting.

Anyway, I'm going to try a different world tomorrow. For the next level math: around 56 games (depends on how the time goes, sometimes I get more and less XP each run) or another 5 hours. To 99: about 190 games (again, depends on how quick I am) or about 16 hours. I try to get plundering over with ASAP, then take a break from RS and return to do something else, cracking safes or getting clue scrolls.

I went out today. First stop was feeding the ducks at one of the local ponds. Not just the ducks, but pigeons, a pair of swans and a sandpiper. After that, we ate lunch and hit the library for books for me to read. Hubby got me a book on making web pages and html, so maybe I'll learn something useful. :)

I updated my comic for September, too. I like to get a month's worth of comics uploaded at a time. Since it's only once a week, it's no biggie.

Odds and Ends

2007-08-25T00:32:00.001-02:30

This time, I hit PRTSCRN before the poison got me! :P

Just 4 more measly levels now. Doesn't seem like much does it? Lol, 4 may be small, but that's 4,234,075 XP left to plow through. A math update: 245 PP games (if I can loot 5 urns in room 7 and 13 urns and the chest in room 9) or 20.416666~ hours or 6-7 days. Sometimes I can hit the XP perfectly and other times, I struggling to just find the door to the next room. If I do find time running out, I check the urns for snakes, loot the chest and try to loot as many urns as I can before the mummy boots me out. I figure any XP is better than none at all. In short, I'm going to attempt to get 1 level a day until August 31. It may get down to wire, but I'm not going to hold myself to this; it's just something I'd like. I have around 53 games (or 4.5 hours) to get level 96. I can taste it ... no, that's chocolate. XD

Other PP news - someone, forgot to write down the name but he was a pmod if you care, kept opening the sarcophagus and the mummy would attack anyone *but* the pmod! God, I hate that! There's not point to opening the sarcophagus - no thieving XP, you can get the Pharaoh's scepter from the chest and it annoys other plunderers! >:[ I saw my first level 3 (I presume he was a skiller), L E D Zep. He was up to room 5 (level 61 needed) and started looting urns as I was checking doors. Kudos to him for braving the perils with10 hp!

After I got level 95, I took my supper break and was offline for an hour or so, then I got back on. I stole clue scrolls from H.A.M. members and kept the "good" stuff - a Zammy page 4 and studded chaps (g). Is it so difficult to get a beret of any color? I'd like black, but hell, I'll take *any* right now! Yes, I'm too cheap to buy 1 and I know a lot of people are making mime masks (mime mask sewn onto a beret, like the mime random wears).

I've been thinking about having a party to celebrate 99 thieving. It would be my first party, but I just don't know. I'd like to open my PoH up for people to use and have a drop party, but I don't want every n00b off the street in Yanille to wander in and make fun of me. My PoH is mostly just for me; there're no game rooms or dungeons, no pretty gardens to hang out in. All I have to offer are: a fully stocked workshop (banner easel) and kitchen (with Greenman's Ale), portals and teleports to most places, a gilded altar and being close to a bank. I've been toying with the idea of keeping TT items like god pages and trimmed armor pieces and giving them to people I know who can use them. Why I'm so unsure: my first 99 was cooking, which I thought was the cat's pajamas until I got so belittled in game and on Sal's for having a "n00b" cape that it really smacked me back. I want to celebrate, but I don't want to be the butt of jokes. :/

The mouse issue: The in-laws discovered the mice had been using their rooms as rodent playgrounds. All that noise I heard through the ceiling was mice chewing their way up through hardwood flooring and carpet so they could shit and piss all over mother's-in-law (MIL) stuff! The mice also had a blast in father's-in-law (FIL) "study" downstairs. Apparently, we'd chased the little bastards away from where hubby and I live and into the places where no one lived atm. The in-laws were at their summer cabin for most of the summer. I don't know what MIL was thinking while she was out of town - that we'd caught some mice and that was all of them? We've been fighting them for a good 6 months, using glue traps (very effective) and poison blocks baited with peanut butter+basami rice and blocking what we thought was the only way in. There have to be more mouse holes, but how to find them? I pray to any god that MIL goes through with her "threat" to call an exterminator and those little fucking rodents will be gone bye-bye.

Oh, I also added a couple more links to some blogs you should check out. :)

Race Against Time

2007-08-24T15:41:00.000-02:30

Again, I started my day at PP with the foresight of never, ever doing again what I did yesterday. No more leveling like that! PP began on a shitty tone - the door to the next room is the 4th door, scarabs in every chest, multiple poisonings from urns. Bleech! It didn't help that my hubby, who's computer is 3 feet from mine, was playing his own equally frustrating game and we sort of fed off each other. Eventually, I found The Zone and things fell into place.

Kuittaa from Sal's is, well, not stopping playing RS but not being a game whore (like me :P). He said he'd achieved his gaming goals when he reached 99 farming a few days ago. I feel bad that he's not going to be around as much in game, but he's living his life. Anyway, I'd told him he couldn't leave without showing me his super smexy cape emote, so when he logged in this morning, he said he'd meet me at PP. That cape is so neat. It's on my list to get, but I will go slow - no power farming or getting 1M XP in a single day.

I took a break from PP after 30 games. I only need 48 to get to level 95. I got hubby off to work after making and eating lunch together and logged back in at 3ish. As soon as I get to room 1, I see: System Update: 3:00 in the lower left corner. 8o Talk about pressure! So I ran and checked doors until I got to room 8, then checked for snakes, opened the chest (no scarabs, yay!) and looted what urns I could before logging out with 5 seconds to go on the update timer. I tried logging in afterwards, but the worlds are down. I just checked my tab and 131 is up.

Twofer

2007-08-23T23:49:00.001-02:30

A two-for-one special today; about 1.1M XP gotten. Damn, I'll be so happy to NOT see Pyramid Plunder ever again!

The poison got me as I took the level up shot, so I got a pic of just the message.

Easier one and I decided to crop out me and some urns. I dunno what's with the white space. I didn't save it like that. :/

I made home made egg rolls tonight and they were sooooo yummy! Well, I'm going to do something more constructive for a while, like not PP. :P

Halfway

2007-08-23T00:19:00.000-02:30

A short update as I'm a bit tired from running around dusty tombs. Level 92 achieved and only halfway to 99. Up until I get level 96, I'll be wondering if this was a good idea. I fiddled around with how I'm stealing trinkets and found a reliable method which nets me 18,660 XP, though sometimes it gets down to "Your time is up" message pops up just as I'm yoinking treasure from an urn. :P In room 7, I check all urns for snakes, loot 4 urns, find the door to room 8, loot all urns there and open the chest. With this, it's down to 350 games or 29.16666~ hours to go. If I can do 3 hours of PP a day, it's 9.72222~ days to that smexy cape.

New Calculations

2007-08-22T15:41:00.000-02:30

Well, I did a few trial runs of all 8 rooms in PP this afternoon, watched a few videos of others doing PP and used the PP calculator to figure out the math parts. Basically, run through the first 6 rooms and only find the door to the next room - don't check the chest or sarcophagus. When you get to room 7, search 4 urns and find the door to the last room. In room 8, search all 13 urns and the chest before time runs out. This method gives me a whopping 16,635 XP for 5 minutes. :o I get 1k more XP this way than checking every chest and looting every urn in room 8. From this point on, I need 6,967,036 XP; 419 games (419x5 = 2095 minutes/60 = 34.916666~ hours); 11.6388888~ days if playing PP 3 hours per day to get to level 99. I have 28 games to get to level 92, the XP halfway mark.

I finished farming my veggies and fruits this morning and got 83 farming, too!

My Hand! My Hand!

2007-08-21T22:45:00.001-02:30

The only thieving I did was getting seeds off Martin in Draynor. I noticed my stock of raw corn was very low, so I headed over and started stealing from the master gardener. I got tomato seeds and decided to keep those, too. Then it went to watermelon and strawberry seeds - just 1 more seed to make 3 so I can plant and I'd get 2 instead. XD I grew all the tomatos and watermelons tonight and will work on the corn tomorrow, along with 12 strawberry seeds I found outside the courthouse in Seer's. What luck!

Today was farming as I'd unloaded the nests and herbs from Miscellania. I should get 83 farming soon as I got some big tree seeds (2 magic, 2 yew) , a palm seed and a calquat seed. My usual method of farming is to head over to Catherby, fill up the allotment patches and do something else (fish or cut yews) while stuff grows. I did a bit of fishing - barbarian fishing no less. You use your hand as bait by wiggling your fingers very fast. The pic is of me catching a shark. I just couldn't be bothered hunting for a harpoon buried somewhere in my bank vault. :)

IRL, I had to get a package ready to send to my daughter for her birthday at the end of the month. I baked her chocolate chip cookies which she loves and she's getting some cool clothes and handbags, too.

We may be getting an exterminator in to deal with the mice. My mother-in-law (M-I-L) asked if there were still "creatures" around. In unison, hubby and I said, "Hell yes!" She was taken aback from our response and reprimanded us with "You should have told me so I could get an exterminator in". We told her that we didn't think they cared because the mice stayed in the basement with us. So, the rodent problem may be under control, but nothing definite has been set.

Tomorrow, I should be back to the normal scheduled Plundering.

It's All In My Head

2007-08-20T16:47:00.001-02:30

Just to show you that I haven't been slacking off - 2 thieving levels! Now I can get to the last room in PP. According to the PP calculator at RuneHQ, I need 469 games to get to 99. Timewise, it breaks down like this:

Number of games x Time of each game / 60 minutes = Hours required

(469 x 5)/60 = 39.0833333~ hours of thieving at PP

All this means is if I were an autoer (WHICH I AM NOT!), I could get 99 in 2 days. Since I'm a normal person, it shouldn't take longer than 13 days, possibly less than that. What a cut down from 4 months! :)

Also, I sold my artefacts for 1M total, bringing my bank fund up to 12M! I noticed something while I was walking to and from Simon at the agility pyramid. I wear desert robes and boots when I walk over there and usually take a waterskin in case of trouble. Well, the last few times I've sold artefacts, I never needed to drink any water so I left the skin in the bank. Low and behold, I start taking damage from "dying of thirst". Okay, I carry a waterskin for several runs and get it balanced so I don't take a drink. After around 20 runs to and from Simon without taking a drink from the waterskin I'm lugging about, I leave the skin in the bank again. Bam! "You start dying of thirst in the desert" pops up. OMG.

As you can see, I was about 900XP off 91 when I left PP for the day. I went back to mugging guards to get the level. I'm done thieving at PP for today, I think.

Oh, the other big news from Sunday - I got 2 more Pharaoh's scepters! Today at PP was a bit annoying as there were other players raiding. One of them had a cat, which is very bothersome when you're trying to click on something and all you get is: That isn't yours to pick up. And the same person with the cat was opening sarcophagi and I was the one getting smacked around by the mummy. <_<

I high alched a lot of bracelets yesterday, made from all those gems I've been stealing. Oh so much money to be had from that.

Crafty Saturday

2007-08-19T00:01:00.000-02:30

Today was all about crafting. I was close to gaining smithing and crafting levels, so I trudged over to Keldagrim and mined about 800 gold ores (minus the ones used for payment to the dwarf for banking for me) at the gold mine where Between A Rock and A Hard Place quest starts. After that, I tele'd to Port Phasmatys to smelt them and gained 73 smithing.

After that, I took a break for a bit to help build the temple in Mort'ton. I
had just over 105k XP until 79 crafting, so I used up all my planks and limestone bricks to get 3/4th of the way there. I hit the crafting guild to pick up a bracelet mold, then returned to Port Phasmatys to make bracelets with all the gems I've gotten cracking safes. Oh I can now make black vambrances which means I can do something with those black d hides smoldering in my bank!

Last night started a bit off but came out fantastic. I logged onto World 131 as usual, but I couldn't get in as the server was offline. Oh Noes!!!! So I tried 124 and that was offline, too. Just as an off chance, I clicked on World 2 and managed to get in. I typed in my name and password, waiting for the This world is full message - it didn't pop up! :o Well, I had left myself alching at Falador, so I finished alching my bows and decided to see if anyone was buying a wizzy top (g). I saw 1 person buy the full set. I took my chances and typed: Selling wizzy top (g) Selling wizzy top (g) 250k. I got a buyer right off! Took me a bit to remember to get my trade off friends, but I sold that top! w00t!

IRL stuff: I watched Fright Night tonight and will likely have weird dreams. Wing Street Pizza Hut makes delicious, deep fried apple pies. Mmmm.... No more mice today, but I hear them thumping in the walls. It sounds like a couple of cats fighting or a dog galloping across the floor. Also, I've been having trouble getting Firefox to log me into RS. This week I've been browsing forums and comics and stuff, but when I go to log in to RS, I get that White Window of Death and Firefox locks up for 20 minutes. When I can try again, RS loads with no problems. Anyway, today I was grateful for keeping IE around as I had to use that to get onto the internet. Firefox would not open at all after I tried getting to RS. It's really strange and nobody I know who knows about computers knows wtf is happening. *sigh*

Mummy Doesn't Like You Best

2007-08-17T16:59:00.000-02:30

The worst thing about doing PP is the lost mummy. If you haven't done Contact!, then the worst thing is no bank in Sophenam :P. Every once in a while, when you're doing PP with another player, they'll crack a sarcophogus and out pops a mummy. The other person runs away, leaving you holding the bag. Yes, someone else's mummy will attack you if the person who woke it up leaves the room. I used to open sarcophogi, but no longer.

89 thieving today, so I can relax until tomorrow. I have some logs to fletch and alch and flax to craft, too. Oh, I also made the 10M mark after selling my PP artefacts to Simon Templeton. I know, I could go faster just dropping them, but they give such good cash.

A little mouse looked at me while I was playing. I yelled at it and it ran away. I saw it later, stuck to a glue trap and squeaking its little heart out. I decided to yell at it while I packed up our leftover food that the mice hadn't gotten into inside big plastic containers. I was so pissed at it for eating my popcorn, I almost bashed its head in with a hammer. >:[

I think that's all for now. Thanks for reading! :)

Fun, Fun, Fun

2007-08-16T21:57:00.001-02:30

My first "rare" drop: the Pharaoh's Sceptre from PP! I stayed there for almost 2 hours tonight and gained enough XP to be halfway to level 89!

Other fun thing tonight happened while I was on my way to check an oak tree behind Lumbridge castle. I noticed a drunken dwarf wandering around, chasing a poor level 4 and throwing rocks at him. Well, that "poor" level 4 is Ffgg627 and very likely a sweatshop worker who makes RS money to sell for real money! >:[ I call them bots regardless. Ffgg627 died not once, but *3 times* at the general store because the stupid bot wouldn't talk to the dwarf, who was throwing rocks at it. What a dumb fuck! XD

Oh a couple things I forgot to mention in my last blog post. I've been getting H.A.M. clues and got a couple "good" items - wizard top (g) and wizard top (t). I really don't want either and the chances of me sellling them are horrible, so I checked Zybez for how much they alch. 9 gold. o_O I found someone (who probably thinks he got a great trade) who wanted the (t) top. I traded and he asked for my price. I replied with 100k, extremely low, and he put up splitbark legs (worth about 80k, high alch for 24k). Meh, I agreed to the trade and alched the legs. I'm thinking about saving these types of items for a drop party I *might* have when I hit 99 thieving.

I'm working on making the blog look good and readable. I want people to stop by and keep stoping by. I'm learning how with this as my first blog was on Sal's and so much easier to use, especially posting images.

Test Your Might

2007-08-16T16:54:00.000-02:30

RS news: 88 thieving last night. Major yayness for that because I managed to play PP for an hour before going a bit nutty. I'm slowly working on my goals, except for runecrafting being a short term one. That'll have to go on the back burner for now as thieving moved its way to the forefront.

I emptied the deposits of maple logs, nests and flax last night as I couldn't wait any longer. Some days I just get a wild hair to keep farming and farming. Officially, I now have the 55,296 maple logs (according to the Zybez calculator) required to burn for 99 firemaking.

Today has been a short playing day. I did some shopping to restock food and bought 6 glue traps for those damn mice. I also bought a plastic container to stick boxed food in in case the little bastards decide mashed potatos would be a great snack. I'm at my wits end on getting rid of these mice. I'm praying to every diety that the ones in the house now are the only ones to worry about and there's no other ways in/out.

We got 5 movies today. Wal-mart was having a 2/$10 special and hubby and I found 4 movies we wanted: Heathers, Mortal Kombat, Escape from L.A. and Barbershop. The last movie, Fright Night, I found at Dominion and begged hubby to buy it for me. So, we paid $30 for 5 movies that we can watch as much as we want.

A Mathy Post

2007-08-15T13:44:00.001-02:30

Despite the picture to the left, I am not a mathy sort of person. Oh, I can manage a bit of the basics and simple algebra, but nothing more. I turn to my sweet husband for the hard stuff.

XD

Ahem.

What I wanted was to figure out how many of 3 thieving activities I need to do each day to get 99 thieving by the end of this year. I did a bit of testing on each and gave the required numbers to hubby. He showed me what he was doing and why, hoping that I would learn and stop asking him to compute this ridiculous shit. ;)

To start, I needed 8,875,510 XP from the point we began last night. From my testing, I could crack 510 safes per hour, netting 35,700 XP; pickpocket 510 male H.A.M. members per hour, netting 11,220 XP; pickpocket 37 gnomes per hour, netting 44,067 XP. These samples were taken from my performing the activities on each for 10 minutes and tallying each successful steal. Taking the number of days from September - December (122) and dividing that into the total XP needed, hubby got 72,750.081 XP per day. My brain can grasp that better than a sterile "must do this for 4 hours/day" result I got. If I crack safes for 2 loads of monkfish (16 each before running out), then switch to pickpocketing gnomes for 2 loads (4 monkfish each), I should get about 80k XP. I'll also be stealing clue scrolls from H.A.M. members and tomb raiding for changes of scenary.

I will say it's easier to think of just what you need to get to the next level instead of getting to 99.

The big thing has been the clan chat and Salmoneus created an "official" chat for Sal's Realm of RuneScape. Sadly, it's getting spammed and people are bitching because no one who can kick is on at all times. You can't make people monitor an IRC if they don't want to. Myself, I'm not going even though I'm positive I can cover the times when "no mod is on". Scooby is making a bitch of herself with her spam topics about getting kicked off Sal's chat. From what I understand, she spams about how chef's hat will be rare and, when one account is kicked, she circumvents the kick by joining on another account. She's a decent forumer, so you think she'd know better than to act like that on a chat channel.

Thieving time

2007-08-14T00:01:00.000-02:30

First and foremost: I finally sold that fury amulet. Thank you Cgerman for buying, even though you will probably sell it for more money. I have a sweet 9.4M in my bank.

Second and fivemost: I learned how to get my pictures to look right in this blog! Thanks to Photobucket for making an html link in my album. I think I can do the same for adding pics in the middle of a blog.

Lastly, I found more RS centered blogs to read. Timothy Gold's The Chronicles of RuneScape is one of the best I've read so far.

Onto the title of this post. I really enjoy cracking safes at the Rogue's Den and I'm going to use this as my main method to level 99 thieving. It only gives 70 XP per safe, but I usually get gems which I save for crafting into bracelets. I'll be augmenting this method with PP and pickpocketing. If I can get into doing the safes 4 hours a day, I'll have that precious skill cape in a couple months. I definitely want it before 2008!

Other things I'm doing - trying to cut 200 yew and 200 mage logs a day at the gnome Stronghold. I have a magic tree in a plot, plus there's one magic tree beside it and 3 yews not far. I can cut my magic until it's down to a stump, then run and chop on a yew tree. I have Miscellanians gathering maple logs (and nests) and flax. The flax will be spun into bow strings to go with the bows I'll be fletching. Somewhere amongst all this I need to mine essence and craft into runes, probably nats.

I did 2 clue scrolls tonight. The first I got a Guthix vestment bottom which I don't want. Stop giving me these fucking prayer robes! I want a damn beret or Bob the Cat shirt! >:[ The second clue was crappy (coif and studded body).

Insert David Bowie song title here

2007-08-13T11:51:00.000-02:30

Hmm why is this shit underlined??? Seriously, it's blue when I type and underlined. Fucking html bullshit. Ha ha, I fixed it. Fuck you html, just fuck you! :P

The update on RS today is about updated clothes and hairstyles (+facial hair for males) to choose from. You can have hair like Juliet or Romeo or the Champion's guild master. After much thought when I knew this was a possibility (see August BTS), I teetered on the edge. I liked how Kitt Fox looked when I chose the outfit and hair 3+ years ago. I'm a cheap person and the regular style changes cost money. With the update, the first week give free changes. I don't know if that includes multiple changes with the same account or what. I found a new hairstyle, blouse and skirt combo I liked (re: 80s flashback). You can see it under the Kitt Fox section to your left - old KF on the left, new KF on the right. I'm going to bug hubby when he gets home from work to log on and change his character so I can see the options for choices males get. ^_^

Today will probably be spent at the Gnome Stronghold, cutting down yew and magic trees. I have a magic tree in the tree patch there and I'm the only person who can cut it. :P Farming rocks! When my magic tree is cut down, I run north and start chopping the nearest yew. I'm saving the logs to fletch into longbows to alch for cash.

The pictures at the top. While I was cutting my magic tree, there was Bluefox39 cutting the open (menaing anyone with 75 wc can cut it) magic tree beside me. He wore full lumberjack clothes and with his Van Dyke facial hair and the lumberjack cap, he looked like Jayne Cobb from Firefly (episode: The Train Job).

I'm not gonna take it

2007-08-12T22:12:00.000-02:30

No more level 3 clues for me. I can't take the pressure of the Wilderness anymore. Considering I get crap I don't need, it's not worth the trouble. I dropped one I got from jellies today. I'll stick to H.A.M. clues and pray to Icthlarin I get a black beret or Bob shirt.

Good news! I achieved 80 attack, 82 hit points and 101 combat today. I decided to do slayer tasks to get my attack up and my hit points naturally followed. Damn Dureal (Shilo village slayer master) kept giving me metal dragons that I had to Burthorpe. 38 steel dragons and 102 iron dragons in total. My drops were a bit shitty, except for 2 loop half keys, but they gave me shitty rewards from the crystal chest (1 dragonstone, 1 spinach roll and 2k gold BOTH TIMES).

Thieving - I found what I like doing, but the XP is low - cracking safes in Rogue's Den. It's 70 XP each safe, but I get gems which I keep for crafting into bracelets. Pickpocketing H.A.M. members is good, too, just for the clue scrolls. I think if I do a bit of pickpocketing here and there and augment it with PP, I'll be good for leveling.

Bummer news from last night. Josh (I don't recall his full RS name) was asking to buy a light source. I sold him a bull's eye lantern for 3k and told him how to use it. He couldn't light it because his firemaking was too low. I offered to light it and trade it back, but once lit, lanterns are non-tradeable! XD Josh took me to a quiet spot and told me to drop the lit lantern which I did. It didn't show up, so I refunded his money. I felt extra bad because I had had 2 candle lantern frames (just needed a candle) from looting Dorgesh-kaan chests, but sold them.

I also need to crack down on making money. My best bet is fletching yew longbows, then alching them. This means cutting yews, spinning flax, mining p ess and making nats. Gack to think about it! :(

Visit lovely Sophanem!

2007-08-11T17:44:00.000-02:30

Be sure to pet the plague cows! Sophanem, home of Pyramid Plunder (PP) and a plague.

I did a bit of PP and gained 87 thieving. Go me. :) I don't know what it is that bothers me so much, but I can barely handle it. I feel the same about training agility, too. I get bored so fast even with constant clicking, but if you put my in a room with someone to pickpocket, I'm a happy camper.

I found a quick way to sell my artefacts to Simon Templeton. If you've done Contact!, you start at the bank in town. Get a waterskin (and a knife if you like, but it's a short trip), desert robes and 27 artefacts (I keep the stone and gold ones). Take the ladder up from the bank and walk around to the crack in the wall where locusts are hopping about. Climb into the crack and emerge beside some rocks east of the Wanderer's tent (where you start Ichthlarin's Little Helper). Walk southeastish passed some goats until you find rocks to climb downward. This is the entry to the agility pyramid if you wanted to know. Simon is here by the tent. Talk to him and "flog the lot" for cash. Return to the rocks by the Wanderer's tent, climb in and pop out near locusts behind the Sophanem bank. Rinse and repeat.

While I was in Sophamen, I wandered around town and tried to get into Menaphos. Menaphite guards made fun of me as I walked away from the boarded up gates. Determined now, I plunked everything I carried into my bank and did a desert walkabout. I found the Menaphos carpet station and another gate, but I still couldn't get inside. I walked through the desert with no food, no waterskins, no knife and no desert robes just to see how long I could last. Could I make it back to Shanty Pass before dying? I made it, even taking a longish route. :P

Other level - 88 magic. I have been very close for 2 days and figured to get off my butt and do some magic. I tele'd to Camelot 29 times and gained the level.

Also, I wanted to get full H.A.M. clothes for my costume room. Best way to get them is to pickpocket H.A.M. members. Took a few hours to get all 7 items - hood, cloak, logo, robe top, robe skirt, gloves and boots - but I did and got 3 clue scrolls, too. Nothing interesting from those either. No nibbles on my fury for sale.

I'm currently camping at the Yanille watchtower to pickpocket watchmen. They give 60 gp and bread, so I'll have food. I'm trying to find something I like to thieve to make that end run to 99.

Ah, good friend

2007-08-11T00:06:00.001-02:30

Sparhawke came to my rescue, not only to craft an onyx amulet, but to enchant it as well! *hugs* Sadly, I'm attempting to sell this ammy for 4.1M. I posted on OF and Sal's and replied to someone buying a fury on OF; the person might respond, I don't know. I hope someone will buy it. I may try to log onto World 2 early this morning (4a my time) and see if I can sell there.

With that out of the way, I'm at 6s and 7s on what to do on RS. I'm torn between lighting fires or pickpocketing gnomes. I did the Barbarian Training and can light fires with a bow, but I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. As for gnomes, I get caught with them as much as I do with paladins but at 1/3 of the damage taken! Gnomes hit for 1 and pallys hit for 3 when they catch you. Hmmm...

Fury Farming

2007-08-10T16:37:00.000-02:30

Two good things happened today. Firstly, I achieved level 82 farming. With eating half of a garden pie, I can plant/grow all the farming seeds in RS. I don't know what to use the Miscellania subjects for now. I did have them on herbs and maples (both give me seeds, though maples give more). Also, the next time I empty the kingdom shed, I'll have enough maple logs for 99 firemaking. If only I could get herbs and flax, but those two are toggled together - meaning you can get one or the other but not both. :(

The onyx gem. I runecrafted the last 3600 chaos runes I needed to sell to get 260k tokkul to buy the lovely black stone. I cut it myself. I have 1 tokkul left over, which I'll use to build up another 260k for a second onyx gem. I really want a ring of stone, just as something cool and useless to have. :D

I'm thinking on what to do in RS now. Runecrafting is fine, but in small chunks since I have to mine the essence myself. I may start the long, boring road of firemaking but I have to think about where to ensconce myself - some place with few people firemaking and near a bank. I may check out Barbarian Training to get the skill of using a bow to light fires. It'll allow me to take 1 more log per trip (28 instead of 27) and it'll speed up firemaking a bit.

IRL, hubby and I (mostly hubby) sealed off the opening around the water main where the mice were getting inside. Hubby stapled in a sheet of aluminum mesh and used spray foam instead of the fluffy insulation. Hopefully this will keep them from going in and out. What bugs me is the little fuckers only stay where we live and don't bother upstairs.

Show Me The Money!

2007-08-09T19:26:00.001-02:30

I decided to browse the OF to see if anyone was buying a Guthix dhide body or rune skirt (g). Found a guy buying the Guthix and posted, offering to sell mine for 400k. I added him to my friends list. He logged on a few minutes later and we haggled a bit. He offered an obsidian staff in exchange. I said no. He then asked if he sold the staff for 300k would that be enough (instead of 400k). I said it was and waited. Five-ten minutes later, he offers up the obby staff and full snakeskin. o_O No. I just want cash. If I don't find a buyer in the next few days, I'll hi alch it.

What is it about people not understanding cash only? Normally, I wouldn't mind bartering, but I want cash to fund my construction and Miscellania management.

I helped out someone on a TT by selling one of the addy square shields for 3k.

Oh the mice have been partying all day over the PB and rice. Weirdos.

Pocket Lint Inspector

2007-08-09T00:29:00.001-02:30

Only level today was 78 crafting. Skill updates: I'm 20k from 82 farming, 3k from 88 magic and 180k from 87 thieving. I'd been intent on mining pure essence, but I did some calculations on buying an onyx gem and realized I was very close to having enough tokkul to buy one! I spent this evening checking for requisite pocket lint at King Lathas' castle in Ardougne. Along with getting 2 chaos runes, which I save to sell at TzHaar for tokkul, I find 80gp and it's adding up. I'm over 5.5M right now. When I get the onyx gem, I'll ask a friend to craft it into an onyx amulet, then I'll enchant it into a fury amulet. I might sell it, depends on if I can find a buyer. The amulet isn't something I want as I have so many ammys in my bank as it is and glory ammy works fine for me.

You may be wondering who that hottie is to your right. That's Chef Curtis Stone from The Take Home Chef on TLC. None of the chefs I worked with every looked like him! *drools* He has that New Romantic look from 1979 - 1982, especially when he dons tv makeup.

I have a mouse problem which I've mentioned on one of my other haunts, Boards of Magic. Anyway, the mice have been nibbling on the poisoned blocks I set out and even go so far as to shove the empty tart tin away from the wall as if asking for a refill. Well, tonight they got some fresh peanut butter and basmati rice poisoned tarts to chow on. Friday, hubby and I will trek down to Canadian Tire and see if they have small weave wire mesh so hubby can finally close up where the mice are coming into the house.

Annoyed

2007-08-07T21:50:00.000-02:30

Gack this is a shitty day for online. I'm getting PMed about a Mafia game I went tits up in the middle of playing. It stopped being fun; end of story. Getting a message from Cameron this morning makes me think Pat cc'ed my PM. That's something I utterly despise - being talked about behind my back, especially when the 3rd person jumps into the conversation. I explained to CS. I explained to Pat. Don't be too shocked with my bitchy reply to you, Cam. And to top it off, Cam replied to my reply. Ugh!

In RS, I just was not in the mood to associate with people, yet here were other players asking me questions and "emo pl0x?". I've turned public chat Off which means I hear nothing; I see nothing (ty Schultzy).

I got 76 herblore. I've been farming like made today, using up those seeds I got from slayer monsters. The herbs I keep an eye on in case they get diseased. Anything important is farmed on top of the Troll Stronghold.

Lastly, I'm 5k maple logs short of having enough to burn for 99 firemaking. Now it's just finding the zone to burn for 2 weeks.

Screenshots

2007-08-07T00:03:00.001-02:30

I have such a hard time getting pictures to post properly. *sigh* Oh well, I'll stick with one photo per post or if they are especially nifty, I'll make a separate post with just the pics.

The Slayer part 2

2007-08-06T23:30:00.001-02:30

Ah, slayer goal is complete! :) The left picture shows my gaining 70 slayer and the ability to slaughter kurasks (oh boy)! Shortly afterwards, I gained 79 attack. When last I left you, dear reader, I was anxiously wondering whether to melee or mage 121 lesser demons. I decided to go with my trusty scimitar and shield and toddle under the village of Taverly. There was one other person killing lessers, but we shared demons without complaint. I like those people. None of this: Mine! Get lost, n00b! Just straight-forward: I'm here and so are you. We can get our kills in without childish behavior.

Assignments - Changed or Not - Noteworthy Loot
121 Lesser Demons
131 Jellies - 2 rune full helms, clue scroll
190 Jungle Horrors - 2 clue scrolls!
176 Dagannoths - Burthorped
40 Cave Crawlers
138 Black Demons - Burthorped
30 Goblins
169 Bloodveld

During the jelly slayage, I gained 80 strength and 100 combat. 8^o I thought I had 2 more levels to get (80 attack) before reaching triple digits. The picture on your right is the delightful rewards from the jelly clue scroll. My second level 3 clue that didn't shove me into the Wilderness, though I did fight 2 Saradomin wizards and fixed a puzzle box. The froggish looking item in the center is Guthix dragonhide body armor. Basically, it's black d'hide that's been blessed by Guthix and carries that god's symbol. I have it and the rune skirt (g) for sale on Sal's. Finally, I returned to normal spells tonight and happily hi alched all the goodies I found on the ground from monster drops. About 200k worth with a few exceptions.

Tomorrow, it's back to business as usual - farming. I scored with high level herb seeds and belladonna. I also managed to grab some strawberry and watermelon seeds which I'll grow into gardener payments. Hopefully I'll gain a herblore level tomorrow with herbs from Miscellania. I still need more money to keep the coffers full. I'm at 6.1M currently and will most likely toss 500k into the treasury.

RS news - Clan Chat. It sounds great, if you enjoy yakking on IRC (internet relay channel). I popped onto one this morning, saw it was IRC and abruptly left. IRC holds no fun for me; either everyone is talking so quickly you can't follow or they all shut up when a new person signs in.

I'll be fixing a few things on the blog. Such as removing completed goals and adding new ones.

Griefers

2007-08-05T18:43:00.001-02:30

While playing any online game, you'll always find players who give other players a hard time or generally make it difficult to play. I was lucky this weekend and only ran into 2 such players - griefers. One was at the dagannoth dungeon under the lighthouse. Boerseun3 was giving a guy named Mark a hard time because Mark wore a dragon skirt, or a "man skirt" since Mark was a male character. I didn't take a picture of the conversation since I was merely a bystander, but it went something like this:

Boerseun3: Why you wearing a man skirt?
Mark: It has the same stats as d legs but is much cheaper.
Boerseun3: Your armor is made of free stuff and quest items.

I was waiting for Boerseun3 to throw out "gai" (gay is censored in RS), but he didn't. When griefing like this happens, I wonder if the griefer isn't a closet homosexual?

And the screenie that starts this post. I'm in the Fremminik slayer caves, minding my own business and slaying turoths when Troksenion runs up to me and asks if I want to know what he thinks of turoths. Sensing a prick about to rise, I told him I don't care (Idc) what he thinks about turoths. He then does his slayer cape emote, which is him throwing a turoth off his back and stomping on it. Because I wasn't suitably awestruck or impressed, he informed me I was a "loser kid". My "nice cape" comment showed up the same time as his "loser kid" did, so it looks like I was sucking up to him. He asked for my opinion and I gave it. Why he ran up to me, I don't know, but probably trying to impress a lower level which backfired.

Slayer Weekend

2007-08-05T18:24:00.000-02:30

This weekend is dedicated to the Slayer skill - killing assigned monsters for experience. It's one of two skills below 70 and I was just in the right mood to train again. As you can see, I gained a defense and strength level each; not shown is 69 slayer because I forgot to take a screenie. :P

I kept a list of each assignment and, if any, rare drops. Firstly, I headed over to Moonclan/Lunar island to swap spellbooks. Lunar magic has Contact NPC, meaning I can talk to any of the four slayer masters without seeing them in person. Mainly, I spoke to Chaedlar in Zanaris and when s/he (I haven't figured out what gender 'it' is) gave me something I didn't want, I asked Tureal to give me something easier. This is known as Burthorping, named for the city where Tureal (he's the starting out slayer master, so easy assignments) lives. Getting a reassignment means you have to do what Tureal tells you.

Assignments - Changed or Not - Noteworthy Loot
158 fire giants - 24 rune arrows
10 bronze dragons - Burthorped
18 wolves
163 hellhounds - Burthorped
16 dwarves
121 dagannoths
156 trolls
149 hellhounds - Burthorped
15 skeletons
167 basilisks
11 mutated zygomites
116 elves - Burthorped
17 minotaurs - clue scroll
166 turoth - loop half key, gold/white mystic bottom, a lot of herb seeds
88 iron dragons - Burthorped
46 desert lizards - loop half key
34 iron dragons - Burthorped
17 ice fiends
165 fever spiders
118 jungle horrors - clue scroll

My favorite slayer monsters are fire giants, turoths, basilisks and dagannoths.

One thing I found out has to do with the combat bracelet. When it is out of charges, it doesn't keep tally every 10 kills of how many monsters you have left to kill. I'm trying to decide how to do my next assignment - 121 lesser demons: melee or mage. Maging means I'll have to make runes (chaos probably) as I don't have enough stocked in my bank. I'll continue training slayer this week until I get to level 70, then start Ectofuncting and gilded altaring on prayer.

sigh

2007-08-03T22:00:00.000-02:30

I got my teal robes. I tossed on my law tiara. I took 28 law runes out of the bank. I went to Entrana. I hopped to World 99. I walked up to the line of crafters at the ferns. I turned my public chat and trade to On. I typed, "Kitt Fox Open!" in the chat window.

Then I stepped back, took off my clothes and jumped on the boat to Port Sarim.

Why?

I'm afraid one of the runners (said crafters, but that was a mistake) will trade more pure essence than I have law runes.

The company says pouches are okay. What if a crafter doesn't have enough laws to trade? What do I do? Drop the trade? Trade what I can? Trade some, craft them, then trade for the rest? I didn't want to screw it up, so I left.

I'm such a loser. Why do I even attempt to do things that force me to interact with other players? Because I'm repeatatively stupid, that's why.

Now I'm left with 1300 gp worth of robes I don't like or want. The joys of FFL. Yay. *rolls eyes*

My fucking stat sig isn't updating. I'm giving RuneScape Bits and Bytes until tomorrow to get my stat updated. If they aren't, out it comes.

The Spoils

2007-08-03T18:51:00.000-02:30

I finished my tomb raiding and took 2 pictures of the spoils. The picture to the left is almost everything I looted from the chests, plus cash and swamp tar. The picture on the right is the results of a level 3 clue scroll which was part of the chest booty. I kept a log of what I received and will post the results now.

Expenses:

- 8300 gold spent on olive oil
- time taken to chop 210 magic logs
- time taken to make 210 4 dose olive oils from 280 3 dose olive oils
- time taken to gather planks
- time taken to mine limestone
- 130 monkfish eaten

Gains:

- 1 hitpoint level
- 1 prayer level (21,000 prayer XP)
- 1 combat level
- 84,945 firemaking XP
- undetermined crafting XP for helping build the temple to make sacred oil

From the burning of 210 fiyr shade remains on 210 magic pyre logs, I gained 125k gold, 31 bronze keys, 44 red keys, 68 crimson keys, 16 black keys and 8 purple keys. The keys, in turn, opened identically colored locked chests and gave me these items:

- 113,253 gold
- 960 swamp paste
- 4 rune scimitars
- 6 adamant warhammers
- 15 adamant spears
- 11 poisoned adamant spears
- 22 pieces of fine cloth
- 7 black plate bodies
- 248 death runes
- 73 blood runes
- 5 amulets of power
- 3 adamant chain bodies
- 4 adamant 2 handed swords
- 5 rune medium helms
- 2 adamant plate bodies
- 4 adamant plate legs
- 4 adamant plate skirts
- 7 admant full helms
- 6 adamant kite shields
- 3 battlestaves
- 6 Flamtaer hammers
- 3 adamant battleaxes
- 8 black spears
- 11 adamant square shields
- 2 rune long swords
- 2 adamant long swords
- 6 mithril plate skirts
- 1 mithril plate body
- 2 rune swords
- 10 noted yew logs
- 1 level 3 clue scroll (rune axe, rune full helm, black dragonhide legs, rune long sword and Sara page 3)

If I were able to merchant all these items for a good price, you're looking at a good 1M gold. Since I will likely hi alch most of it, it'll be around 500k for everything. I'm keeping the addy kite and square shields, addy 2h, rune scimitars, fine cloth, runes and yew logs. So if someone tells you burning shades isn't worth the time, they are lying. Yes, gathering the items I needed took the better part of a gaming day, but by getting them myself I saved money.

I majorly lucked out on the clue scroll - no trips to the Wildy!!!! I did have to fight a double agent at Shilo village, but he was a breeze to kill.

What are my plans now? Probably gathering more materials to help build the temple on World 131. I can use the crafting XP to get to an old goal of 80 crafting. I may make some battlestaves as I have 244 buckets of sand in my bank which I was planning on making into vials for herblore, but with the shade burning giving me almost 400 empty vials (I picked up what people were dropping), I think I'm stocked for the moment. With battlestaves, the hard part is finding a shop that doesn't have other stave buyers and world hopping since shops only stock 5 and the respawn rate is ungodly slow.

I hi alched 90% of the items and got a whopping 339k.

Here I Go Gathering

2007-08-02T20:34:00.000-02:30

Today was a gathering day. I topped up on several herblore seconds such as newt eyes, dragon scales and Zamorak wine. I need to kill some banshees for fishing bait which I use to catch sardines. Then I head to the basement of the Tower of Life and create spidines - half spider, half sardine - because these critters drop a lot (6-12) red spider eggs each. Creature Creation is well worth the effort as 3 of the createable critters: spidine, newtroost and unicow drop some of the coveted herblore seconds which are difficult to get: red spider eggs, newt eyes and unicorn horns.

Currently, I'm killing fiyr shades underneath Mort'ton and will be burning their corpses for chest keys. I'm seriously considering using shade burning as my money making method. Many players do it and if you can sell what you loot, you get plenty of cash. Since I suck ass at merchanting (unless somebody is asking to buy something I have), I just hi alch what I find. Occasionally, I'll keep hold of something I know I'll need for a clue scroll, such as addy 2h or diamond ring.

I talked with Teacuptime about crafting law runes on World 99. It's a FFL company that gives laws for unnoted pure essence (usually 28 each). Most people use World 66, which I find very confusing as there seems to be no order to it other than crafters wear red Zammy robes. With World 99, crafters wear teal robes and stand behind a line drawn from some ferns. Runners trade first and, if I understand right, you can keep the same runners running for you. I looked into this because, though I like the long walk from the fairy ring to the nature altar in the jungle, I'd like XP quicker.

IRL, I made a fantastic supper of salmon patties, au gratin potatos, corn and cheesecake. So, so good.

As you can see to your left, I got a stat signature posted and it should update daily. Thanks to creamers and Stobbo at Sal's Realm for the HTML help.

Come to World 131

2007-08-01T23:05:00.001-02:30

For those wondering, World 131 is the official temple building world currently. It was moved away from World 2 since that is a gigantic trading world and it is very difficult to log in there.

I just popped down to Mort'ton to buy olive oils. Enough to get me started back to building my nest egg and I find myself finishing cutting the same number of magic logs in the Tree Gnome stronghold. After supper, I spent the evening at the temple, rebuilding the walls with many other folk and gaining crafting XP at the same time. I feel good about doing this because I know what it's like to try to find a world or enough people to help you build it during the quest. The resources are ridiculously easy to obtain - limestone bricks: mine east of Varrock and chisel down; planks: grab a couple loads of the 4 respawning at the Barbarian Outpost; swamp tar: save what you find in the shade tombs. After I do my regular farming run in the morning, I'll head back to Mort'ton and start killing 200 fiyr shades to burn.

Quote of the day:

Scotty01030: W00t sanity at 84%

XD Rofl

Regatta day might be on tomorrow, depends on the winds.

My right foot from the ankle down across the top to where the toes join is swollen slightly. *sigh* Looks like my gout has returned. Time to keep it propped and randomly soaking in hot water with epsom salts. :/ I'm doing that after I post this, then heading to bed early for a change.

Fixed!

2007-08-01T00:47:00.000-02:30

Another entry, but with a fixed screenie of my high scores. I can't believe I didn't see construction listed until now. A big thanks to Teacuptime, a Sal's blogger and poster, since he's been training construction too and mentioned in his blog that he was in the top 5,000 of this skill. I probably should take a shot of my stats when I'm logged on as I think that would be a better picture, but I still think people would like to see how much I've gone up or down compared to other players.

I've added 2 new blogs, a fun comic and RuneScape to my list of links you should check out. Tail Feather updates on Sundays (one of the rare comics that does) for anyone curious. The drawing does get better. :P

Speaking of blogs, I got hooked on reading Princess sjd's 3 blogs. I wanted to find out why she left Sal's (she still lurks but doesn't post; shame, shame Sharon!), but she doesn't mention too many details. Some confusion on the IRC Novus. Anyway, I'm slightly pissed as she claims to love blogging, yet hasn't posted in her latest blog for 2 weeks. I understand Real Life can get you down, but does it take that long to throw out, "Attack of Real Life! No time to post!"? Have some consideration for those of us not part of your Royalty of RuneScape forum. Annoyed about that place; you have to become a registered member to view any posts. >:(

Today is supposed to be Regatta Day in Newfoundland. This lovely provincial holiday will more than likely get canceled until a later date because of Tropical Storm Chantel. Hubby is pissed as this will be his 7th day of work in a row. You can't exactly call ahead and find out if the store is open or not since he works the morning shift and is one of the first people there.

Blogwise, I'm looking for info on how to imbed a video and get a stat signature to show. If anyone knows how, could you leave a comment and explain for me? *cuteness*

Regatta a-go-go?

2007-08-01T00:37:00.000-02:30

The start of a new month with a fresh high scores screenie.

With construction finished for the moment, I move myself to training runecrafting and thieving. Sometimes I get so zoned, I forget to fill my pouches with essence and end up semi wasting a long walk to the nature altar.

I just noticed construction isn't on my high scores pic! Must investigate!

All this for a cuppa

2007-07-31T15:01:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-30T17:21:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-28T23:43:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-28T15:20:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-27T18:58:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-26T23:29:00.001-02:30

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

2007-07-26T14:26:00.001-02:30

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?

2007-07-25T23:15:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-25T21:04:00.001-02:30

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*