Slayer Weekend

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*

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

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

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

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!

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?

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!