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Grimwold2

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--July 11, 2011--
Hello!
Like yesterday, I didn't quite get a chance to play too much today. What I did do though, was work on that Aberrant Spectre slayer task!
I was in the room with another player, and we chatted while we killed the ghosts. He was flash praying, and told me that I should try it. So I gave it a go. I'm absolutely awful at it! It seemed that I was timing it just right so that I would put my prayer on right when it didn't need to be...
Oh well, I had lots of Prayer Potions. The player I was with ran out of food, and asked me for some. Unfortunately, I don't bring food with me on Aberrant Spectre trips. I told him that if he died, I would repair his grave. Luckily for him, that never happened. Another player came by and gave him some food. He left and restocked.
I was over 120 kills in, and still hadn't got a clue! (No pun intended). This was really strange. Usually when I kill Aberrant Spectres, I get a clue scroll in the first few kills! But now, I had killed 200+ of these things, and still hadn't gotten a drop!
But it seemed that during the last thirty or so kills, the ghosts started dropping some good items. First up was a Torstol Seed! Then some Toadflax seeds, a Snapdragon Seed, more Toadflax seeds, another Snapdragon Seed, and finally, a Hard Clue Scroll! Finally!
I finished up my task and couldn't wait to start my clue! I suppose it was a rather short Treasure Trail... Although I did have to do a puzzle box
It took me from Brimhaven to Al Kharid, where Cam the Camel gave me a puzzle box... somehow. It took me to Sophanem and to the Mountain Camp, where I had to defeat Double Agents. Finally, the Treasure Trail ended in West Ardougne. I got some pretty good loot! My reward:
--Rune Crossbow
--Rune Longsword
--12 Rune Bolts
--15 Purple Sweets
Pretty good! In total, I got about 230k as a reward.
And that was all I had time for today!
Thanks for reading!
See you!

05-Mar-2012 23:05:10

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Grimwold2

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--July 12, 2011--
Hello!
I forgot to mention, yesterday, while killing Aberrant Spectres, I got level 85 Attack!
So today, I started off with getting a brand new task. 138 Kalphites! I had made the mistake before of bringing too much food to the lair, and then running out of room to pick up drops!
So this time, I only brought five pieces of food. The killing went by really fast. Kalphites are only level 28, so I can kill them incredibly fast. By the time I had finished killing them all, I was 467xp from level 83 Constitution. I headed back to Duradel for my next task. The next one was 175 Bloodvelds. I sort of hate killing those... They have awful drops! But I always range them, so I guess this will be a good opportunity to get that elusive level 70 Ranged.
I gathered my gear and headed over to the Slayer Tower. The killing started... sort of. My computer was lagging really badly, and after a while, I couldn't bear it anymore. PaartyHats PMed me, and we made a date to go Dueling! Boxing, rather.
I teleported out, switched worlds and went to the Duel Arena, where I waited for him. Eventually, he came, and we started a boxing match. We did three boxing matches, and I won all three. He really wanted to play Conquest, but I had been playing so much of it lately... I couldn't do it.
Instead, I stayed at the Duel Arena and battled other people! One player was level 97. The first battle, he hit me quite high with an Armadyl Godsword Special Attack. Lucky for me, I had brought food! I started eating, which of course, made him incredibly angry. I killed him. He wanted a rematch, and this time, he disabled food and drinks. So instead, I prayed through his special attacks. I killed him again.
The third time, he disabled both Prayer and food. He had also put no movement and no forfeit; something that is forbidden. To fix it, he misclicked on the prayer option, then fixed the problem... But he forgot to disable prayer again.
(Continued)

05-Mar-2012 23:05:25

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Grimwold2

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So again, I prayed straight through his special attacks, which made him absolutely enraged. I killed him again, and he started calling me names, and telling other people not to fight me. I tried telling him that prayers are there for a reason, but I guess he was too upset to understand such things.
I battled another player. This guy was a hybrid, and he killed me incredibly fast. He used Ice Barrage, then hit me with a Dragon Clay Special Attack. He did that twice, and I was dead. I complimented him on his fight afterwards.
The next guy, I accidently prayed the wrong prayer for the battle, so I asked for a rematch. He killed me in that one regardless. Another battle, this time with a level 97 Ranger. I prayer Range, and of course, he got mad. I don't get it. I really don't. They are free to pray against melee; In fact, I encourage it! I killed him.
The next guy was a level 119. I whipped out a Dragon Dagger Special Attack and hit a total of 400 damage. I then switched to full Verac's an managed to kill him in two swings. After the battle, he came over to me and asked for a rematch. I let him know that the last battle simply wasn't normal!
The rematch was fairly quick. He pulled out an Armadyl Godsword, hit a 597, did it again, hit a 132, then hit me regularly and hit a 101, killing me. That was enough dueling for me. For some reason, I felt like Mining...
So that's what I did.
I mined Concentrated Gold for a while, whilst playing the game 'Closure' on another tab. Pretty cool game! After a long time mining, I managed to get 87,000xp. And with that, it was time to log off.
Thank you for reading! See you later!

05-Mar-2012 23:05:34

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Grimwold2

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--July 13, 2011--
Hey everyone! lilmk has asked me to write this during the evening so that he/she can read this tomorrow morning, so here I am!
Today was absolutely FULL of quests. I had come across a thread earlier that wrote about buried Elite Clues hidden beneath our feet! I needed an Ava's Accumulator to search for it, and to get one, I needed to complete the quest Do No Evil. Unfortunately, not only do I not have all the skill requirements, I haven't done a lot of the quest requirements either. So that's what I worked on today.
First quest: Shadow of the Storm. This was an interesting quest; short, just the way I like it. Little did I know, this quest is actually the sequel to Demon Slayer, a free-to-play quest that I did a very very long time ago. I completed this quest quite fast!
Second quest: Missing My Mummy. The main objective of this quest was to reassemble elements of a mummy to bring it back to life. In the temple, there were eight level 41 skeletons that you had to defeat to get quest-related drops. On the seventh kill, I got a drop that I would have never believed. I got a Champion's Scroll! Those things are so incredibly rare, it's actually funny that I got one in such a random manner. I still can't believe it!
This quest also featured a floor tile puzzle. My first attempt didn't go over so well. I didn't quite fully understand how the puzzle worked, so I was constantly being hit by traps. I had run out of food, so I lied down to rest. I walked away from my computer, and when I came back, I had been logged off. I logged back in, and I was back outside the temple again! I went back to the puzzle, and this time, I suddenly understood how it worked. I completed the puzzle along with the quest!
Third Quest: Dealing With Scabaras. I was at the Grand Exchange gathering supplies when Sky Hydra asked in the Clan Chat if anyone could assist him with a level 95 Effigy. I answered to the calling right away!
(Continued)

05-Mar-2012 23:05:51

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Grimwold2

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Sky Hydra hopped over to my world and I gave him the assistance. Then I noticed a player (I think his name was something like Loverskillsx or something) asking for some help with Construction. He wanted to know where he could get materials. I think he must have been quite young, considering his grammar...
I told him to follow me, and I started running towards the Sawmill. I was only at the Varrock Palace though when he told me that he wanted to know how to get to the Servant's Guild, as he wanted to hire Rick. I gave him an Ardougne Teletab and I teleported away. I had completely forgotten that you had to complete the quest "Plague City" to teleport there! I teleported to Camelot instead, and I met him there. We ran to Ardougne, and I showed him to the Servant's Guild, which is just north of the market.
He had forgotten his money, so we ran to the bank, and then revisited the guild. As I had suspected, he didn't have two beds in his POH. I told him that, but he didn't know how to make one. So I gave him detalied step-by-step instrcutions as to how to go about making a bed. He didn't know how to get Bolts of Clothes either, so we met up in Varrck (I had been busy in Nardah) and I showed him to the Sawmill. It was there that he told me that he was very thankful for all the help I was giving him. It's been a while since I've helped a player like this, and the appreciation definitely feels great.
I started gathering supplies again, and while I was doing that, I gave him more detalied instructions on how to use the newly hired butler. Finally satisfied, he thanked me for all the trouble and he went off to do his own thing. Finally, I could start my quest!
I had gathered all the items for Dealing With Scabaras, and had travelled down to Sophanem and began the quest by talking to the High Priest. I always use a quest guide, and the dialogue didn't exactly seem quite the same between the quest and the guide...
(Continued)

05-Mar-2012 23:06:05

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Grimwold2

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I checked which quest I had just started and there I found the problem. I had started Contact!, not Dealing With Scabaras! Turns out, Contact! is the requirement for Dealing with Scabaras, and they both start at the same location. So I guess it was time to do Contact!
I completed the giant maze for the first time, and then had to leave to talk to Osman. I made my way all the way back to Sophanem, through the giant maze, to the lower level... and I relaized I had forgotten to talk to Osman again outside the gates of Sophanem. So I teleported out, made my way to Sophanem again, spoke with Osman, then made my way through the giant maze for a third (and unnecessary) time. Finally, it was time for the boss battle, the level 191 Giant Scarab!
I had brought a Brackish Blade for this fight, and the battle commenced! It was actually harder to hit the Giant Scarab than I thought, and on top of that, it kept summoning minions to attack me. Eventually though, I managed to kill the beast, and I finished the quest.
That was all for today! It took a long time to complete those three quests! I guess tomorrow I'll complete Dealing With Scarabas.
Thanks for reading! See you later!

05-Mar-2012 23:06:23

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Grimwold2

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--July 14, 2011--
Hello!
More questing today...
As you might remember, the whole reason I've been doing all these quests is to get a free Elite Clue Scroll! Well I've decided to make the Elite Clue Scroll hunt an actual Mining Golds event! I've invited players from my clan to take part in this great hunt, and I'll be guiding them to the locations of the clues. I haven't set a date for it, as I haven't even got the requirements myself, but I can't wait!
So today I finally got to complete Dealing with Scarabas. Man, doing these desert quests reminds me just how much I hate the desert. No banks, constant thirst... not fun at all.
I used so many Carpet Rides I'm surprised the carpets didn't need to have repairs. Near the end of the quest, there was a memory game challenge. I thought I had a good memory... But I guess I was wrong. After failing it the first time, I actually had to physically write it out on a piece of paper to complete it. I did a bit more of the quest, and finally, I completed it!
Finally I could start Do No Evil! I checked the quest requirements one last time. Yep, I had them all! Wait... I had to free King Wowo***(?) from Recipe for Disaster... And that required the completion of Monkey Madness.
No! I really really really did not want to do Monkey Madness. It was just one of those quests that I really don't want to do-- Like the Legend's Quest. I had been putting it off for so long...
I had actually already started Monkey Madness a long time ago. It was actually during the last day of my very first day of membership. I remember that day now... My full rune armour, swordfish and a few antipoisons. It really makes me smile seeing how far I've come. I look at my gear now, and see Bandos Chestplate, more Monkfish than I need, tons of potions... It's just nice to see some progress.
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05-Mar-2012 23:06:50

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Grimwold2

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So for the first time in a year or more, I started Monkey Madness again. When I had started it last time, I hadn't even been to Ape Atoll!
I made some progress into the quest. As always, I was using Runescape Wiki, and it said that the unofficial world for Monkey Madness was world 23. So I hopped on over to that world. They were right! I was in the jail, and there were three other players there.
I made more progress, running through long dungeons, talking to Monkey Children, and such. A player came to me asking for some help. His name was Der German. He asked me where I could find the Sergeant Garko. I guess I could show him... I ran along, with a monkey following me. I had almost gotten to him when I forgot that if a monkey saw me, I would be sent to jail! That's exactly what happened. From the jail, I asked him through PM if he had found him. He had! He was quite grateful; he had apparently been looking around for a while.
It was beginning to dawn on me just how long this quest was. I had been making so many trips to Ape Atoll, and it was getting old fast. It was time to log off anyways, so that I did.
I think that after I do Do No Evil, I'll probably finish up all the half-started quests I have lying around. I hate half-finished things
Thanks for reading, and I'm glad I could save you from the drudgery and boredom of the daily workplace No Ugos
See you later!

05-Mar-2012 23:07:03

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Grimwold2

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--July 15, 2011--
Today was the day that I had to finish Monkey Madness! I had gotten though the entire quest, and now it was time to kill the final boss: The Jungle Demon.
At first, I was planning to melee it with my Abyssal Whip, although everyone in Mining Golds was telling me that Ranging it was the best option. Eventually, I buckled down and decided to range it. I was pretty scared. I remembered hearing horror stories from other players who had died from this thing, and Runescape Wiki made it seem as though it was something I should take every precaution against.
I got my ranging gear and teleported to the arena. I started out by running to the east, then north, then west then to the western bridge. I hid at the bridge until the demon came, then I put on a prayer and started firing away.
In literally fifteen seconds, I had killed the Jungle Demon without even taking a single hit. I guess I should have suspected that though... There were players level 80 there, and I'm level 107!
So now all I had to do to unlock Do No Evil was free King Awowogei from Recipe for Disaster! But I hadn't freed a bunch of other NPC's, so why don't I do them first?
First up was Pirate Pete. I freed him easily after making a crab cake. Next one was the Lumbridge Sage. I didn't actually have the requirements for this, so I had to complete the quest "Murder Mystery" before I did it! I completed that quest. It was really easy, and incredibly short. I freed the Lumbridge Sage!
Next up was Evil Dave. To free him, I had to catch Hellrats with my kitten to obtain spices. If only I knew the horror of what was to ensue... My kitten would not catch rats. It was ridiculous. I sat there for at least forty minutes trying to get those spices. It was like every forty attempts or so, my kitten would catch one. And by the time I had enough spices, I made the wrong stew... So I had to get more.
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05-Mar-2012 23:07:28

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Grimwold2

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I tried to get spices for so long... I couldn't do it anymore. I ran to the Edgeville bank and deposited all my items. I felt like dueling!
I went to the Grand Exchange, bought some Rings of Recoil and Rings of Dueling, and headed over to the Duel Arena. I had gained three Attack levels since I had been there last, so maybe I would be able to kill more people!
I couldn't believe what happened. I was defeating everyone in sight! I had level 120's challenging me, and somehow, I managed to kill them. I'll never know how; perhaps it was a lucky day. Somehow though, I was managing to defeat every challenger. In fact, I was thinking about staking I was doing so good! But I think I want to wait until I get a Korasi and Ring of Vigour before I go on and do that.
I found out why my kitten wouldn't catch rats as well. Apparently, kittens have a 15% catch rate, while cats have a 50% catch rate. So I guess I'll have to just keep my kitten out until it grows into a cat.
So after defeating an unbelievable amount of people, it was time to log off. I checked my Kill/Death Ratio before I logged though. I had 70 kills and 50 deaths. This was a ratio of 1.40! Not too bad...
I logged off for the day.
Thanks for reading! See you later!

05-Mar-2012 23:07:37

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