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journal of an adventurer noob

by: Asimato and Juelz

Day 1

The day was like any other day in Gielinor. The sun was shining and blue stretched across an endless sky. I had spent the day fishing enjoying the island of Karamja in all its tropical beauty. And was very glad my friend Eddy had talked me into a change from the shores of Cathy.
But things soon would change from tropical warmth and beauty to fear and horror! This is how it all began...

We were sitting by the shore fishing poles in hand when we first heard the scream... It was a blood curling scream that froze the air in my lungs making it difficult to breath.
I glanced over at Eddy, terrorizing confusion bulging out of my eyes, his face I noticed was as white as the snow covered peaks of White Wolf Mountain. I swallowed, he looked as if he knew exactly what had been the owner of that scream, and by his expression it did not bode well for us at all.

"Run Asi," he whispered. "Run and don't look back!"
I shook my head furiously, my voice refusing to work. Then without a second thought I slid carefully into the water I don’t know how, but I knew I would be safe there. I could swim. Swim better then even the fish; or so my father use to say.

"What are you doing?" Eddy asked as he looked down at me in bewilderment, “I told you to run! Believe me, we don’t want to be caught out here with that thing!” he franticly looked over his shoulder searching for the screamer.

"No,” I whispered back, having found my voice, “I don’t think I can, my legs are like jelly. You run if you want, but I'm going to swim to the other side. Whatever that.. that thing is won't be able to swim.” I dipped lower into the water leaving only my eyes shifting back and forth as another moarnful scream ripped across the shore, “I hope.” I thought to myself.

"I can't swim," he looked down sheepishly “I never learned how."

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2006

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"What?!" I nearly shouted and then in surprise I clapped a hand over my mouth.

“SHHH!” He looked fearfully over his shoulder, "If that thing is what I think it is we don't want it hearing us."

“How can someone who spends the amount of time near the water that you do, not know how to swim?” I asked in hushed silence.

“No time for that now,” he answered, “come on let’s get out of here!”
I tried to scramble out of the water as best I could. In my haste to escape I had jumped in with no thought of my clothes.
The monk robes I was wearing wrapped around my legs making it nearly impossible to move much less climb up over a riverbed.
With a sigh of impatience Ed reached out and grabbed my arm. Quickly with as little noise as possible he hauled me out.

“Meh,” he grunted, “for a little tyke, you're kind of heavy."
“Heavy??? Tyke??!!”
Well yea,” he grinned at me then stopped as a look of shock struck his face. "Holy Cow! Asi! You're a girl!”

I laughed, shaking out the monk robes wringing out the skirt of it as best I could without taking it off.
“What did you think I was?” I laughed again, “A Monk?"
In his shock and my suddenly having to explain being a girl we had almost forgotten about the screams.
Almost.
“Do you hear that?” He said no longer caring about gender.
All traces of laughter gone I strained to hear the sound.
“It’s getting closer!”
I could hear it now too, a low, shuffling kind of grunting that sent the fingers of fear crawling down my back. Eddy gripped my arm tightly pushing me in front of him.
“Hurry, we have to get out of here. Hurry!” he said again.
We ran slipping and sliding my wet robes full of mud and stickers.

It was much later when we finally were able to come to a stop. After what seemed like hours we found ourselves at the waters edge again, looking out at a little island well out into the water.
It was a place I was unfamiliar with. On our side of the beach there was a huge tree with a rope swinging from its lofty branches.

14-Nov-2011 17:12:42

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2006

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Quickly, as if he had done it countless times, Eddy jumped up and
grabbed the rope. Without so much as a blink he took one quick running lunge and sailed easily over the water. I watched in awe as he landed agilely on the other shore of the island.
“Hurry!” he beckoned to me impatiently. “If that thing is still on our trail this will stop it. Come on."

Reaching up I grabbed the rope, it was almost out of reach but I jumped and caught it. Swinging out over the water I landed in an ungraceful heap next to him.
With a smirk Eddy pulled me to my feet. “Be careful here, there are Moss Giants. They won’t bother me, but..." reaching out he pulled a dried leaf from my hair. His voice softened and he grinned wickedly. "You're just a noob, they'll want to eat you for supper."

We began trekking though the harsh underbrush as night was beginning to sink in around us. I had never been out on a forbidden and dangerous island at night before. Come to think of it I had never been out on a forbidden and dangerous island.. ever!
“Do you know where we are going?” I asked Eddy as I fearfully clung tighter to the back of his red dragon-hide tunic.
He stopped moving and turned his head one way then the other, “Well sure I know...” he was frowning his eyes wide as he tried to see in the dimming light.

Should we stop for the night?” I asked suddenly wishing for a nice warm campfire.
Eddy crouched low to the ground and urgently ushered me to do the same.
“What is it?” I breathed my heart exploding in my chest.
I think something is coming.”
“Is it one of those.. things??”
“No, but be quiet it is probably a Moss Giant.”

Eyes wide and hiding behind a big leafed, bushy shrub we searched and listened. The silence that followed was deafening!
*SNAP*
Finally with something our ears could pick up my heart nearly beat out of my chest!
Crouching even lower Ed quietly undid my death grip on his back and signaled for me to remain and keep quite.

14-Nov-2011 17:41:26

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2006

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I lowered myself behind the shrub and watched him as he quickly dashed behind a tree.
*SNAP*
Whatever it was was getting closer!
Eddy pulled his long dragon sword free and with his back against the tree I could see him close his eyes as if sending a prayer skyward before he met the beast and possibly his maker! Suddenly, with final determination set on his face, he lunged toward the oncoming sound.
DIE BEAST!!!” he screamed.
“AAAHHHHH!!!!! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!” the ‘beast’ screamed back.
“Huh...?” I heard Eddy say.

I stood up and ran over to Ed, confusion and worry spinning my head. “Everything okay?” I asked coming up to the scene.
There stood Eddy sword in hand outstretched over the head of a girl kneeling on the ground before him.
“Please don’t kill me!” the girl sobbed again.
She was hard to make out in the darkness but something about her was familiar. I could just make out white pigtails admits a head full of fizzy hair and large spiky stickers clinging everywhere.
“Juelexi?” I said in shock, “Is that you?”
The girl looked up in sudden realization that she might not die after all.
“Asi?” her eyes blinked up at me.
“Put your sword away, Eddy, she’s not a Moss Giant.”
Eddy sheathed his sword again visually relieved it was not needed after all.
Juelexi stood up slowly eyeing Eddy carefully and then with a smile on her dirt covered face that gave her the appearance of being a mad woman, she lunged at me with a hug so powerful I thought she might break my neck!
“Oh Asi! I thought for sure I would die alone out here!”
I patted the girls back, “Well now we can all die together,” I teased.
“Come on guys,” Ed said impatiently reverting back to defensive mode. “We need to find some shelter and then we can discus what we should do next.”
I was glad to have Juelz with us. If Eddy thought I was a noob then Juelexi was sure to be a nooblet!

14-Nov-2011 17:48:12

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2006

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We managed to find a small dark cave nestled under a large boulder. It looked more like a den belonging to some kind of ferocious beast but Ed had assured me that the Moss Giants were to big to fit.
Huddled up under the rock we had just enough room to sit. I busied myself with pulling stickers out of Juelz’s hair.
“So,” Eddy began trying to get comfortable on the hard ground, “how did you get here? On Moss island?”
Juelz wiped some mud off her knees as she shrugged, “I was trying to escape like everyone was. Saw this little island and thought I might be safe away from the main island so I swam here.”
“What do you mean everyone was trying to escape?” I asked.
Juelz looked at both of us in turn, “Well, from the Zombies,” she answered.
My eyes widened in surprise where Ed nodded grimly.
I was hoping it wasn’t that,” he said softly.
“Zombies?!” I said refusing to believe it. “What do you mean Zombies?” Not giving her time to answer I turned to Eddy, “That’s what was chasing us?? A Zombie!?”
Juelz nodded slowly, “Seems there was an outbreak from Shilo Village,” she paused pulling an annoying leaf out of her hair and away from her eyes, “I was in Brimhaven when I saw them coming. We tried to keep them out of the main town.” she paused frowning. “You would think with all the Pirates and thugs there we’d have had a chance, but you know that lot.. they only care about themselves, and soon it was just a couple of locals and a few unprepared adventurers like myself left to try and defend. Least to say the defenses there had broken and the hoard made it into the town,” she stared off at the memory, “All of Karamja is over run it seems, I took off through the jungle dodging snakes and what-not when I came to this small island,” she smiled slightly at Eddy, “I think you know the rest.”
Ed smiled sheepishly, “Sorry ‘bout that.”

14-Nov-2011 18:02:33

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2006

Asimato

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day 2

I woke at dawn hoping to find myself cuddled up next to my dear purple cat Ozzie, warm and safe in my small home in Catherby. But this was not the case and instead I woke to a snoring, and very dirty Juelexi curled up against me.
I had to stare a moment, my mind slowly putting the pieces together from the day before and then with a yawn I managed to untangle myself from Juelz and crawl out of the small cave opening into the warm raise of the sun.
For a moment I forgot the horrors of yesterday as I watched the red, gold and purples streak the sky. It was beautiful.
Sitting on the small stretch of beach that was the doorstep to our overnight cave I watched the eastern sky paint the ocean waves.
It wasn’t long, though, until the peaceful moment was interrupted when two very large and very vocal Giants strode past me and into the dark brush of Moss Island.
I could only imagine that these were the infamous Moss Giants. For I had never seen one before. But I was sure I was right for these creatures were huge and green and for want of a better word they appeared very mossy and I could see how they got their name.
They roared and grumbled at each other in strange sounding words and grunts, and though I knew if I ventured to close they would no doubt tear me from limb to limb and eat me for breakfast as Eddy had said, at the moment they seemed to pay me no mind as long as I stayed out of their way.

“Morning,” Eddy yawned as he stumbled out of the cave and over to join me.
I smiled at him as he sat next to me on the shore.
“You sleep okay?” he asked rubbing sleep out of his eyes.
I nodded, “Good enough, I guess. I heard those things a lot during the night,” I said gesturing towards the lumbering Giants, “But once I was sure they couldn’t get us and eat me I was able to sleep.”
“You’re such a noob,” he said softly his eyes laughing at me mischievously.
I made a face at him, not bothering to answer.

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2006

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"Come on,” Eddy said standing and reaching down he helped me to my feet. “We need to wake her up and be on our way,” he gestured to the cave where Juelz was still sleeping; and snoring.

“Here’s the plan,” Eddy began as we sat huddled around a small fire he had somehow managed to start using some dried twigs and his bow.
I couldn’t keep my eyes off the small roasting rodent type animal that was suppose to be our breakfast. It’s little rat like feet looking quite crisp over an open flame and little tuffs of burnt hair did little to comfort my hungry, gurgling tummy. And from the expression on Juelexi’s face I was sure she felt the same.

Looking at our faces Eddy grinned wickedly and laughed outright, “It’s good trust me, taste just like chicken!” I rolled my eyes at Juelz and she giggled.

“Now,” Eddy said once again all business, “we have lots of hard work to do and maybe we will even be trying the impossible, but it needs to be done and we have to do it. Are you girls game?”

“What are you talking about?” Juelz complained, “You’re talking in riddles, just tell us what you want done and we’ll see whether we’re game or not.”

Eddy frowned at her and sighing he instead rummaged through his back-pack and took out a sharp wicked looking dragon dagger. Seeming to ignore us he busily cut off strips of meat and set them aside to cool. Finally after several long minuets he turned his attention back to us. Needless to say we were very curious at this point and I was growing more concerned by the seconds. Eddy was acting very strange to say the least.

“Listen,” he bent forward his eyes intense, “with what Juelz said last night about Brimhaven being over run, then they’ll need our help.” He shot his hands in the air for emphasis, “Heck! Probably the whole island of Karamja does! We can’t just run and hide, we have to go and help them. We might be the islands only hope.”

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2006

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I shuddered, icy fingers of fear wrapping around my heart.
Juelz was shaking her head, her face had gone pale and her eyes wide with fright.

“I can*t,” she whispered, “I barely made it out alive yesterday and now you want me to go back?”
She looked up at him her eyes pleading for understanding, “You and Asi are strong adventurers, I’m just a Skiller. I’d be eaten alive before I’d be any good to anyone!”

“Listen, Juelz,” reaching out Eddy gently squeezed her hand, “I won’t let anything happen to you. Asi and I,” he grinned at me, “we will keep you safe. We will take care of any fighting since we both have some experience but we will need your help in other areas. For instance you can keep track of the food we need, making sure any healing potions we will need are ready for us. I bet you’re good at making all sorts of valuable potions, huh?”

Juelz nodded slowly.

You’ll be in charge of keeping the barricades well enforced and helping any wounded. We will need any and all help available, so what do you say?”

Juelz eyed him with a frown then turned to look at me, finally she smiled slightly, “Oh okay, if I don’t have to go around killing any stinking monsters that refuse to die anyways, then I guess I can go back and help where I can.”

Eddy clapped his hands in excitement as he smiled boldly at the both of us, “Great!” he exclaimed, “I have the perfect idea, this is what we are going to do.”

Quickly Eddy described his plan. Using his knowledge of magic and some Runes he would magically teleport us to the bustling city of Ardougne. There we would try and get others to join us. As many fellow adventures as we could find, then together we would go to the aid of Brimhaven and the whole of Karamja!

I liked this plan very much, and I could see by Juelz’s sudden burst of energy that she felt better knowing we would first gather a force!

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2006

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What a disappointment Ardougne was. The people there were rude and rather cruel as we tried to tell them Zombies were running loose on Karamja. Some laughed at us as if we were mad and called us noobs and other names not fit to write!
Those that listened quietly seemingly shocked would quickly shake their heads when we asked for help. It was a very long and unsuccessful day to say the least!

Juelz and I were exhausted after running all over that city, for Ardy, as it was sometimes called, wasn't a small place by any means!

It was almost dark when we finally returned to the market hoping to buy a few cakes and bread for our supper. I could tell that Eddy was angry when he joined us, and neither Juelz nor I dared talk to him.

“The people of this city are all drunken fools,” he muttered angrily. “If I had the runes I would go to Camelot and find help there. But as it is now we wouldn’t have time to make the journey there by foot. Brimhaven just doesn’t have that long,” he said accepting the piece of cake I handed him.

We found a spot off to the side of the main market and sat down to eat our meal.

"We must go tomorrow and try to help them,” Eddy continued, “even if it is just us three."
With a gulp I nodded. I wasn't happy about returning to face zombies all alone and from the look on Juelz face I could tell she felt the same as me.
I could see it all clearly. This story was going to end with me and Juelz both being mauled and eaten by Zombies.

*What's going on over there?” Juelz said grabbing my hand jarring me out of my brooding thoughts. “Listen Asi, someone is singing.”
I turned in the direction she pointed and listened. Sure enough I could hear someone singing in a slightly tipsy but surprisingly good voice.

I knew that voice!

“Come on,” I grabbed Juelz’s hand dragging her behind me as I hurried towards the singing and small crowd that had gathered. “I know this guy, he helped me out loads when I was just a noob in Catherby!”

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I was excited and grinning from ear to ear, ignoring Eddy as he rolled his eyes at me.

"He'll help us, I just know he will!”

“Sounds like a drunken fool, if you ask me,” Eddy muttered.
I continued to ignore him and hurried on, dragging Juelz behind me.

He stood in the center of the market place, a beer in one hand a kebab in the other, singing and dancing to the delight of the guards.

*What the heck is he wearing on his head?” Eddy asked.

“A party hat," I answered absently.

“A what?” Forgetting for a moment the singer in front of him, Eddy turned to me and scowled. “A what?” he asked again.
Sighing I turned and face Eddy. “It's a party hat or a phat as they are often referred to. It's one of the rarest items ever found.”
“What's it made of? Looks almost like paper.”
I shrugged, “I'm not sure to be honest. Some say the phat is made from paper enchanted by a great Mage when the worlds first began. Others say it is fine metal beaten so thin it gives the appearance of paper. I don't know what it is. All I know is it doesn't rip or tear or ruin when wet like ordinary paper.”

“So, who is he?” Juelz asked. “He looks awesome,” she added giving Eddy another reason to roll his eyes.
I giggled at Eddy's expression. “It's Tufftypower,” I answered her question, “He's a Lord of Catherby and a very great and famous adventurer. I know he will help us with the zombies!”

The object of our discussion had started a new song to the delight of the onlookers that had gathered around him. It was a simple song that many of them knew and a few even joined in at the chorus.
The song floated out over the still night air and Eddy grinned sheepishly. “Dang,” he muttered, “I hate to admit it but that guy is pretty good.” The song was now finished and with a few exaggerated dance steps the singer threw his arms wide and spinning around he faced us.

“Why hellooooooo Asi,” he grinned sheepishly. Not so drunk he didn't recognize me.

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