Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me

It’s been an interesting few days. I didn’t get much time to play last weekend, too many things going on in real life. However, a quick fever and spending the last 2 days in bed will free up a bit of time. God bless laptops. I had been tired of running out of runes constantly and figure I just need to make a ton of them and get it over with. Since I had some extra time, I decided to do this on the cheap and mine the ess myself. Now some can say its not worth it, much like flax, in that it gives little to no xp, but its just so simple I can’t bring myself to buy it. I mined around 3k ess (I took breaks to do chores, etc) and started RuneCrafting away. A friend or two mentioned they were at the Mage Arena getting Bones to Peaches. I had heard it was pretty boring, so I decided to join while there was company. They had stated it was pretty easy and only really took a day. Must have been a long day for them because it took me significantly longer.

I’d find myself back runecrafting again because that just drains your Laws, Cosmics, Waters and Natures. So I’d be alching, grabbing statues, enchanting, then more runecrafting, then back and forth. I have to say, you need a bit of patience. I took some breaks to do a few quests. Got All Fired Up done and The Feud out of the way. I’ve only got about 25 quests left, which isn’t bad considering I really can’t stand doing them. Although I am starting to enjoy them a little bit more.

I caught an extremely lucky break when a good friend mentioned she needed to do a bunch of alching and mentioned that she’d help me with the Graveyard part of the Arena by hanging out outside and giving me some food when needed. That made it so much faster. Also finding that the Dragonstone in the enchantment area are respawns had me enchanting, depositing and then world hopping. Each one is worth 10 where the normal enchants are only worth 1. I actually enjoyed the Telekinetic Grab statue mazes, however I just wished they had more designs. Doing the same ones over and over again was mind numbing. That said, last night I finished it all and got my Bones to Peaches spell! I guess it could be done in a day, but you just need to have stockpiled a lot of runes, and have a ton of patience. I did get 79 Magic though, and 80 is only 20k away.

I logged in yesterday morning to find a star next to me, that’s always a good sign. First level 7 one I could mine and man, it went fast. Before long about 30 people were there and it was exploding extremely fast. Must have been on the star hunting clan’s radar. Looking for something to do with a friend, she showed me the Dorgesh Khan agility course. Did that for a little while and where I love the xp, I think I’m burned out on Agility for a little bit. I’ll probably go back there soon since I’m not far from a level though.

I did a few rounds of the Great Orb Project as well. It can be a pain when you keep losing, or when you are winning and the other team just logs out. I guess you really need to do it with friends. I bought myself about 25 Nature Altar Teleports with the reward though, that should make it easy to tele to the mining spot near the altar for stars, instead of using Karamja gloves and walking all the way around Shiloh.

Seems like a lot, but it felt like it went pretty slow. I’m glad I’m feeling better and the Fightin’ Phils take game 1 of the World Series! Not only do I want to win it, I want to win it at home. Nothing at the moment could make me happier.

Fluidity Sucks, Sometimes

Ever turn on the radio right and hear the last three notes of your favorite song? Or see the last 4 seconds before the credits of a movie you love on tv? That feeling of “Oh! This is awesome… crap, its over” kills me. It wasn’t until around February of last year that I came across blogs dedicated to the game I had been playing for a few years prior. It actually motivated me to play more. Seeing all these scenarios play out, these social interactions, the discrimination, the bonding, the relationships, etc was fantastic for an avid people-watcher like myself. Runescape – a blog is probably the first I came across that dealt more with the social scenarios of the game rather than just being a tip site or a site offering to “MAKE MILLIONS A DAY!!!” Maybe I’m just in a nostalgic mood, but I still check it from time to time. I see the title, “Fluidity sucks, sometimes” and I know it’s the last post and it’s a bit of a bummer that I didn’t find it until it was almost dead. So whoever wrote that, thank you.

I reach a personal mini-milestone last night getting my Runecrafting up to 60, making me 60+ in all levels. Tears and some pingu helped greatly. 20k xp isn’t a lot in most levels, but that’s a lot of Glory charges! I also finished four quests. Clocktower – how had this one slipped by me? I thought for sure I did it, is there a quest which is similar? Anyways, did that one, Catapult Construction, Hand in the Sand (I know, I know, I should have done ages ago…) and Fremenik Isles. With the exception of Isles, all were really short and should have been crossed off my list ages ago. Isles was long, though not hard. There’s something unsettling about right clicking on something and one of the options being “Decapitate.” I’m just excited to have a new helm and be able to reach the stars and pingu which are on those lands.

I had almost 3M gp so I decided to bite the bullet and do it. I sold my D-Chain and bought a Bandos Chestplate. With that and the helm, my Strength bonus has passed +120 for the first time. That makes me happy :)

The PVP worlds are interesting. I joined one with no items to see what the Fishing Guild would be like. Sure enough, I was killed right at the doorway in about 15 seconds. I’m happy that people can PK if they want, but it’s definitely not for me. I don’t even like fighting other people in the combat rings in their houses. I have no issue with killing monsters, I just don’t like fighting each other.

It doesn’t look like I’ll have much time to play this weekend. Maybe for a few hours on Sunday, but the rest is taken up. Dinners, early Halloween parties, adults trying to still be young and play flag football and have a few beers… Sometimes life gets in the way. And that’s just fine with me.

Also for those who are requesting screen shots and pictures, I'm working on it. I'm not good with technology so the whole screen shot thing has some kinks I need to work out. Just letting you know, your requests aren't going unnoticed.

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PvP is back! And I am… pretty indifferent. I never PK’d, not my thing. I am glad that the ones that want to now have the option. Maybe this will clear out the forums of all the “BRING BACK PK AND WILDY NOW PLOX” threads, but I seem to doubt it. People will always find flaws in the new updates. In all fairness, I just want the Glory glitch fixed so I don’t constantly have a spear sticking out of my chest.

I’m sorry for not posting in a bit, work has had me spending more time in my car than at the computer. Although, I really have no excuse, if Vaskor can blog from Siberia, than I should be able to do it from a hotel in the middle of nowhere MD.

Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time in the game? This has been happening to me recently. Even when I’ve had a longer amount of time to play per day, my to-do list just seems to keep growing. I’ve been saving money, I think I want to swap my Dragon Chainbody for a Bandos Platebody. I know that’s money that can be used for leveling, as I normally would, I think it will be a good investment. When you get to higher levels, the stat boosts really seem to come into play. An extra +3 or +4 here and there can justify an extra million gp. If it allows you to consistently hit just 1hp higher than normal, and you’re trying to level somewhere in the 90s in Attack, Strength, Defense or Range, it adds up. With pots and prayer, along with the armor bonuses, you hit 3hp higher, think of the hours you can save in leveling! In that time, you can easily make enough cash to justify the price difference. At least, that’s how I justified it to myself. Maybe my recent Slayer kick has corrupted me.

Back to what I was saying, I’ve felt rushed recently in the game. I’m doing it to myself, and I realize that, its just this weird justification thing going on in my head. Why would I pay for 1k Nature Runes when I can just make them myself? But I know why, its to have that time I’m putting into mining ess and crafting the runes back. I just feel the need to save the money and do it on my own. Maybe the recent state of the economy has carried over into my game playing. I’ve been trying to get a lot of Crafting experience this month which has led me to making a lot of orbs (thank god for Superglass Make!). Since they’re made, I might as well as enchant them, right? This might be another reason why I’m playing like this. If the process if half done, might as well complete it. I love deconstruction, taking seemingly basic things, breaking them down to their simple ingredients then building them back up in an entirely new way, but still having its base core is a fascinating process to me. It might be that it’s the processes that I enjoy, not their products. I subconsciously do the painful tasks of mining ess and making molten glass because that’s what I actually enjoy and the end product is the justification to my madness. I take some sort of demented sense of pride in knowing the things I use daily are things I’ve created. Some things I will easily pay for if they are not readily available. Take drops for instance. I’m not going to only use armor I’ve received as drops. I’d still be wearing a Rune Chainbody if that were the case. I don’t even want to guess the number of Dusties I’d have to kill for the D-Chain I wear now. But something as simple as collecting “x”, modifying it, then making it into the product seems so easy, that why shouldn’t I be doing it? I’ve sacrificed peace of mind for a procedural addiction. Just say No, kids.

I have tickets to game 6, but if the Phillies win the NLCS tonight in game 5, that’s just fine by me. Baseball also is taking a toll on my game playing. Half paying attention to the game, half on baseball leads me to doing more menial tasks that require less attention. I’m sure that will change after the Phillies win the World Series :)