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An interesting thing happened.
I was getting my penguins in world 151. I had already resetted a bush from east of Combat Training Arena to "where eagles fly" -cue area. I found the Barb bush in Catherby. and resetted to confirm respawn coordinates. While waiting I asked for clues using contact npc.
When the penguin teled I was in the middle of questions (there is way too many clicks) and I decided to go through them all.
The clue Chuck gave me was -- "somewhere in RuneScape"
When I teled to Barbarian Outpost I still had to wait for the bush to appear there.
"Somewhere in RuneScape" -clue should be history. Earlier it was activated if a penguin was on an area with no music - such as the Phoenix lair area in Piscatoris, but there was a fix some months ago. Well, I know there still are some separate squares with no music that might not be fixed, but no penguin was close to those I know.
At the time when "somewhere in RuneScape" -clue was given Barb penguin was not activating any clue area on the map. It was in the process of respawning - it had dissapeared from Catherby but not yet respawned at Barbarian Outpost.
So wether some of the penguins was on a nonfixed music square that I'm not aware of, or, and this sounds much more exciting, somewhere in RuneScape is a clue for, well, somewhere not on the map in RuneScape
I was getting my penguins in world 151. I had already resetted a bush from east of Combat Training Arena to "where eagles fly" -cue area. I found the Barb bush in Catherby. and resetted to confirm respawn coordinates. While waiting I asked for clues using contact npc.
When the penguin teled I was in the middle of questions (there is way too many clicks) and I decided to go through them all.
The clue Chuck gave me was -- "somewhere in RuneScape"
When I teled to Barbarian Outpost I still had to wait for the bush to appear there.
"Somewhere in RuneScape" -clue should be history. Earlier it was activated if a penguin was on an area with no music - such as the Phoenix lair area in Piscatoris, but there was a fix some months ago. Well, I know there still are some separate squares with no music that might not be fixed, but no penguin was close to those I know.
At the time when "somewhere in RuneScape" -clue was given Barb penguin was not activating any clue area on the map. It was in the process of respawning - it had dissapeared from Catherby but not yet respawned at Barbarian Outpost.
So wether some of the penguins was on a nonfixed music square that I'm not aware of, or, and this sounds much more exciting, somewhere in RuneScape is a clue for, well, somewhere not on the map in RuneScape
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Team Penguin
05-Aug-2009 13:40:17
"The clue Chuck gave me was -- "somewhere in RuneScape"
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Ohhh I had wondered what would happen in the interval before it respawns!
I wonder why there's sometimes a gap between the penguin disappearing and the penguin respawning ...
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Ohhh I had wondered what would happen in the interval before it respawns!
I wonder why there's sometimes a gap between the penguin disappearing and the penguin respawning ...
12-Aug-2009 13:28:00
It's one of those enduring penguin mysteries Aveo.
We've proven it can vary between, blink of an eye (scientific term) and upwards of a minute. I proposed it was relative to the server population, but I am pretty sure Boomer disproved it awhile ago. We wondered if proximity was relevant but that went out the window too.
Still to be solved.
Penguins.....an endless fascination.
EDIT:
OHH! had a thought, maybe they teleport back to spy HQ to check in before resuming their spying activities. Maybe a spy operative is recalled if they get themselves reset and so a new penguin is sent out in replacement.
We've proven it can vary between, blink of an eye (scientific term) and upwards of a minute. I proposed it was relative to the server population, but I am pretty sure Boomer disproved it awhile ago. We wondered if proximity was relevant but that went out the window too.
Still to be solved.
Penguins.....an endless fascination.
EDIT:
OHH! had a thought, maybe they teleport back to spy HQ to check in before resuming their spying activities. Maybe a spy operative is recalled if they get themselves reset and so a new penguin is sent out in replacement.
12-Aug-2009 16:01:14 - Last edited on 12-Aug-2009 16:04:42 by Canada Grrl
Yes Amat
I was also able to be at Paterdomus when a w60 penguin was there yesterday. As I was on Lunar spells I used contact npc and I got the bloodsuckers clue message and the penguin in same screenshot.
The relation between music borders and clue borders is usually clear. The clue area is "drawn" following suitable music borders, but it may and usually does contain many music areas. For example in Wildy there are several different musics but only one clue. The most southernmost musics and their southern borders are used as a clue border for Wildy penguins. Because these music borders are for some reason 1 square south from the Wildy ditch, also the clue border is 1 square south and the non Wildy penguins can also activate Wildy clue when they cross the border.
Most of the times music borders are straight vertical or horizontal lines on RS map and most of the time pretty logical too thinking of the visual masses on the map. Rivers, mountains, fences, larger buildings etc follow usually same basic line and the music borders are placed on these lines too. The details of the map may though strech from the basic lines and these explain the unexpected clues outside their usual areas, just like bloodsuckers clue outside the Mortytanian area, or elven clue outside Tirannwnn and the areas wich are related to elves like Underground Pass in West Ardougne.
There are some exeptions on music and clue borders, and some of these I have noticed. In Feldip hunter area there is a music border that runs diagonally (one square south, one east, one south, one east and so on). This has no effect on clues though.
More interesting are the music and clue borders in Catherby - Seers area. On that area there is also the only clue border that I'm aware of that doesn't follow a music border.
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I was also able to be at Paterdomus when a w60 penguin was there yesterday. As I was on Lunar spells I used contact npc and I got the bloodsuckers clue message and the penguin in same screenshot.
The relation between music borders and clue borders is usually clear. The clue area is "drawn" following suitable music borders, but it may and usually does contain many music areas. For example in Wildy there are several different musics but only one clue. The most southernmost musics and their southern borders are used as a clue border for Wildy penguins. Because these music borders are for some reason 1 square south from the Wildy ditch, also the clue border is 1 square south and the non Wildy penguins can also activate Wildy clue when they cross the border.
Most of the times music borders are straight vertical or horizontal lines on RS map and most of the time pretty logical too thinking of the visual masses on the map. Rivers, mountains, fences, larger buildings etc follow usually same basic line and the music borders are placed on these lines too. The details of the map may though strech from the basic lines and these explain the unexpected clues outside their usual areas, just like bloodsuckers clue outside the Mortytanian area, or elven clue outside Tirannwnn and the areas wich are related to elves like Underground Pass in West Ardougne.
There are some exeptions on music and clue borders, and some of these I have noticed. In Feldip hunter area there is a music border that runs diagonally (one square south, one east, one south, one east and so on). This has no effect on clues though.
More interesting are the music and clue borders in Catherby - Seers area. On that area there is also the only clue border that I'm aware of that doesn't follow a music border.
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13-Aug-2009 07:29:45
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