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Grimwold2

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Next quest in the line up was Throne of Miscellania. Funny I hadn't completed it already... For many, that quest is considered a "staple". I gathered the items needed and set out to Miscellania. I didn't get too far into the quet before I had to log out though...
That was all! Thanks for reading!
See you later!

06-Mar-2012 02:11:41

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Grimwold2

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--September 5, 2011--
I logged on and was ready to complete the Throne of Miscellania quest. I used a Fairy Ring to get there, and started the quest from where I left off. During the quest, there is a spot where you must gain the approval of the locals in the area. I decided to go mining. As I mined, a player with a Runecrafting Cape sidled up. I complimented him on it, and he replied. He was a Player Moderator! I wanted to get some tips from him as to how I could get myself a Runecrafting Cape, so we started to chat. This player hadn't used the ZMI Altar at all, and he had used all of the runes he had made. Now that's a true DIY-er right there!
Before long, I had completed the quest (got 78 Slayer!) and was onto the next one: Royal Trouble. Like Mountain Daughter and Throne of Miscellania, I actually read the storylines to these. I have to say, it does make the quests more enjoyable. It goes the same for Royal Trouble. I actually had fun on this one! It wasn't too long of a quest, and after a while, I had completed it. Now for the next one: Glorious Memories.
I also quite enjoyed this one, and found the storyline quite interesting. Would King Vargas of Miscellania ever be transformed back into a human, or would he be stuck as a Yeti forever? Only time would tell.
This quest was actually quite lengthy, but the story made up for it. When you immerse yourself into the storyline, time seems to fly by! I learned things about characters I didn't think I would; Baba Yaga for example. After the quest, I decided to go out and do the mini-quest which follows. This involved bringing some items to certain NPC's. I ended up getting level 59 Herblore out of it!
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06-Mar-2012 02:12:02

Sep

2019

Grimwold2

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Now with all of the requirements, I could finally start The Blood Runs Deep! I looked for it in my Quest Tab, but it was nowhere to be found. Uh oh... That meant I still hadn't met all of the requirements. I found it after I turned Filter off, and discovered what requirement I had yet to fulfill. I had to complete all of the Easy, Medium and Hard Fremmenik Tasks. Ouch... I don't really enjoy doing tasks, so this was going to be one long road. I glanced over the tasks and bought items I would need. While in my bank though, I noticed my Ring of Kinship. I hadn't gotten any Fletching experience for a while...
I teleported over to Daemonheim and got my maximum of 30,000xp! Then, I started walking down the long road of tasks. I was required to do all sorts of things, ranging from churning cheese, blowing vials and watching a shouting match to observing the highest tree, viewing the Barbarian Assaults Rewards and killing an Ice Troll with only Yak Hide. Thatw as an interesting one. I thought that I just had to be wearing Yak Hide, and could kill it in any way, but when I tried that, the task didn't unlock. I found out that I couldn't be wearing anything else but Fremmenik gear... so I decided to wrestle the Troll to death! I punched and kicked it; it put up quite the fight! But in the end, I killed it.
Finally, I had completed the Easy and Medium sets! Now only for the Hard set... This set looked difficult. I needed to obtain a Mahogany log via my Kingdom, so I headed over to Miscellania and set up my workers. Next up was to kill a Mithril Dragon, and the one after that was to make a Pyre Ship out of Arctic Pines. I headed to Neitznot and chopped myself an Arctic Pine log. It was time to log off now, though, so I deposited my items into a bank and logged off.
Thanks for reading!
See you later!

06-Mar-2012 02:12:10

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Grimwold2

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--September 6, 2011--
Alright, a little late on this post. School just started again, so things are a little helter-skelter (good song by the way). But to start off, there were only four tasks separating me from Blood Runs Deep! The first task on the list was to kill a Mithril Dragon. I had never done that before... Even worse, I didn't even know where the were. I did a bit of research on them and found out that they wer ein the Ancient Caverns, near Kuradal.
Edmyg was online, so I asked him for some advice. I finally settled on praying Protect from Melee, and wearing good Magic Defence gear. I took the Fairy Ring in Edgeville to Zanaris, and from there entered the Ancient Caverns. I ran east from there, past the Brutal Green Dragons. I realised I hadn't brought an Antifire Potion... I had my Dragonfire Shield though, so I sould be okay.
I climbed up a staircase, and there stood a Mithril Dragon, level 304. I knew these dropped the legendary Dragon Full Helm... How amazing would it be if I got one on my first kill? It attacked me, and the fight was on! I turned on my prayer and started attacking. I was using a Korasi, and it was hitting surprisingly well; I was using Super Attacks and Defences though.
The Mihtril Dragon began to get fond of using its magical attack; no doubt because of its accuracy. I wasn't worried though. I had tons of food. I had come prepared! In fact, I killed the dragon with tons of supplies left... Except I didn't have many Prayer Points remaining, nor had I thought to bring a Prayer Potion. I clicked my drop to see if anything amazing was there. Nope... The usual junk.
I teleported to Edgeville on a task complete! The next task was to construct a Pyre Ship out of Arctic Pine logs. I'd never done that before...
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06-Mar-2012 02:13:20

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Grimwold2

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I had pretty minimal knowledge on the art of Pyre Ships. I knew it had something to do with Bones from the Ancient Caverns, but beyond that, I was lost. I looked a guide and got to work. I already had an Arctic Pine log prepared from yesterday, so that wasn't a concern. All I had to do was get myself some Mangled Bones. I entered the Ancient Caverns via the Fairy Ring system again, only to realize that there were no skeletons in sight that I could search.
I teleported back to Edgeville, grabbed a Games Necklace and teleported to the Barbarian Outpost. Time to enter the caves old school! I leaped into the whirlpool, descended to staircase and ran to the skeleton, dodging attacks from Brutal Green Dragons and Waterfiends alike. I had my prize! I ran to the Aging Log and took it to an unknown destination. It dropped me off at the bottom of the Baxtorian Waterfall. I ran back to the whirlpool, where I had seen a Pyre Construction site. Apparently, I had to speak with Otto Godblessed first, so I ran a ways to meet him, and then could build my ship!
I carved out my ship, placed the skeleton inside and waited for something to happen. Suddenly, a huge ghostly barbarian appeared! I attacked it and switched on my Protect from Melee prayer. He didn't stand a chance against me. I killed it with ease, and my task was complete!
The next task was to retrieve a Mahogany Log from my workers on Etceteria. I had set that up yesterday, so I used the Fairy Rings to go over to Miscellania, and I obtained my resources. That task was complete; Now for the final one!
This next task sounded simple enough: Unlock the first spell at the Livid Farms. There was only one problem... I had absolutely no idea how to go about doing that. I had seen the farm on Lunar Isle once, but I had never set foot there, let alone actually use it. I looked it up on Runescape Wiki and started getting some supplies.
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06-Mar-2012 02:13:35

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2019

Grimwold2

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I ended up with a Mud Staff, Octopus, and my Clan Cape. I also had a ton of different types of runes. I headed to the Livid Farms. There, I spoke to Pauline Polaris as to what I was intended to do.
I was a little unsure at first, but I had no choice but to give it a go. I started out with fertilising the patches. When it came to healing the diseased Livid Strains, I had to identify which strain it was out of four possible answers. This took some time to master. They all looked relatively similar, but I started developing a system of telling them apart. One was small, one had two large flowers, while the other two looked almost identical; except one was much larger than the other.
I was also required to bunch the strains together, deposit them onto a Wagon, then rebuild the fence, then re-energise Pauline of she became drained. I was a little slow at first, but I really started to get the hang of it. I would start out with fertilising and curing the strains. Then I would energise Pauline, bunch the strains together if they needed to be, then fix the fences. After all that, I would take two new logs from the pile and transform them into planks.
There are a few things I soon came to realise about Livid Farming. First: It was insanely click intensive. I barely had time to finish all the tasks before the farm had moved onto its next stage, let alone type. Second: Getting points was painfully slow. A lot of people claim to despise Livid farming, but I (dare I say it?) actually quite enjoyed it! I don't tend to like slow training, so the hectic nature of the activity was quite appealing!
After a while, I was getting really fast at it. I could time my spells between gameticks for maximum speed, and could actually beat the "experts" to the finish! Pretty soon, I had gained level 68 Farming and level 87 Magic! I continued on with the farming. I needed 69,800 points to complete the task, and after all this, I only had 20,000!
I grinded on.
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06-Mar-2012 02:13:43

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Grimwold2

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I had to restock on my runes a few times. It really surprised me how slow it was to gain Produce Points. After a few hours, I had only accumulated 40,000! It was then that Edmyg informed me that this tasl was not necessary for Blood Runs Deep... Well I was over halfway, so why stop?
I grinded on with the Livid Farming. It was actually quite monotonous, yet for some reason, I was quite enjoying it. The little random events that happened really broke up the grind, and I always tried to time everything as perfect as possible.
After a while, I had 69 Farming! By this time, I had the amount of points needed to complete the task... But I decided that I wanted to go for level 70 Farming. TzRex-Jad came by for a visit (previously RuneGuardian).
After what seemed like ages (it actually WAS ages), I finally achieved level 70 Farming! It was pretty odd seeing that big 70 next to the Watering Can. I had never thought that I would ever get Farming that high!
I was finally done... I unlocked the spell Teleport to Falador, and my task was complete! I had finished the Easy, Medium and Hard Fremmenik tasks!
I headed back to Miscellania and got my reward. Now to start Blood Runs Deep!
I looked into a guide for the quest and gathered some necessary items for the quest. I had only just set foot onto Lunar Isle when TzRex-Jad asked for me to help him with the Heroes Quest. I was a Black Arm Member; exactly what he needed. I wasn't quite sure if I would be able to, due to me already completing the quest... Nonetheless, I headed to Katrine in Varrock. Her chat prompt resulted in nothing. Now it really did seem like I couldn't do it.
I opened the Heroes Quest guide for myself, and figured out what I had to do. I met with TzRex-Jad in Brimhaven, and the real mission began! I spoke with Grip, who gave me a key. I then gave the key to TzRex-Jad, who used it for his own purposes.
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06-Mar-2012 02:13:54

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Grimwold2

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After some sleuthing, I finally found out what was supposed to happen. I ran into a treasure room, while TzRex-Jad ran into a separate room. I caused a distraction, which resulted in Grip storming into the room, which I prompty closed the door to. TzRex-Jad then shot him through the hole in the wall, and upon Grip's death, he dropped a key... A key for me to open a Treasure Room with!
I opened the treasure room, retrieved the Candlestick and met with TzRex-Jad outside. I gave it to him, while I dropepd mine on the ground. I had finished Heroes Quest a long time ago. TzRex-Jad wanted his arrows back, so I ran to the corpse of Grip and retrieved the Adamant Arrows. I gave them back, and siad goodbye to TzRex-Jad. It was getting late, so I decided I would log off. I banked my items and logged off for the night.
It's been a while since I've posted an entry this size! Thanks for reading!
See you later!

06-Mar-2012 02:14:05

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Grimwold2

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--September 7, 2011--
With school back in full swing, I didn't get much time to play Runescape today. However, that didn't stop me from starting Blood Runs Deep! This was a Lunar/Fremmenik quest, and as you may know, I simply love the storylines to those.
As usual, I won't spoil the plot; that's up to you to uncover! I will say that the quest definitely tested by abilities in ways no quest had before. I found that the quest mostly challenged the player's ability to withstand large amounts of attacks for very long periods of time; your endurance if you will.
The final boss, the Dagganoth Mother, was much more difficult than I had anticipated. It was well over level 300, and could deal massive damage without warning. My first attempt failed quite miserably... It seems I can't distinguish the difference between orange, red and brown too well (on the game that is; in real life I'm fine )
My second attempt was much better!I had managed to get its health down to half, but was then required elsewhere in real life... That was a bummer.
I had to log off for the night.
I think I might actually start reading the storylines to quests now... I'm actually quite enjoying them! Although I've always loved the Lunar quests... Something about that Isle... The seclusion, the serenity, the peacefullness... It's like heaven on Gielinor.
Sorry for the short post today... Quite the contrast to the mammoth one above^
Thanks for reading!
Good night!

06-Mar-2012 02:14:28

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2019

Grimwold2

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--September 8, 2011--
I logged into Relleka, ready to give that Daggannoth Mother a piece of my mind. I restocked at Lumbridge, and while I was there, I checked to see how many days I had left until I could claim my Veteran's Cape. To my amazement, I had only 4 days left!
I headed back to Waterbirth Island and entered the dungeon. I made my way throught the maze and past the Daggannoth Guardians. Finally, I entered the Daggannoth's chamber. She opened with a Range attack, and I started attacking her with my Balmung. If you don't know, this boss tends to use whichever attack style you are most vulnerable to. For me, this was Ranged. She was plowing through my food supplies, and for some reason, my magical attacks never hit over 100. Before long, I had to teleport out once again.
TheSpiffiest suggested I used Verac's, so I respected his advice and brought that along instead of Black Dragonhide. My battle was no different than the last... She plowed through my food once again, this time with Magic attacks. I switched to Protect from Magic, so she used a melee attack, dealing a 333, almost killing me. I ate the rest of my food and attempted to tank out the rest of her hits. That didn't go well either. I seemed unable to hit high at all, and once again, I was forced to teleport out. I wasn't too happy.
I asked TheSpiffiest for some advice, but he didn't reply... weird. I was done attempting to kill her for today. Instead, I decided it was best to go and plant some Palm Trees for the upcoming Bonus Experience weekend! I got my tools and headed out.
It had been a while since I had planted some trees. In fact, I couldn't even remember where they all were! After looking it up, I headed out on not only a tree run, but also an herb run. I was going to get so much experience from these Palm trees! It was then that I remembered my kingdom.
I teleported to Edgeville and used the fairy rings to get to Miscellania.
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06-Mar-2012 02:15:58

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