Bring it on home...

Things have been crazy busy. No luck in taking next week off. That’s 4 vacation days this year down the tube being that they don’t carry over. It bites, but I just had my year end review and there’s just too much to be done. Good review though, for the most part. Remind me to take more days off next year.

Merch Gwyar’s Canting Away had their winter solstice festival last week. I had managed to stop in for a little while. I checked the schedule and they were doing a trip to godwars. It was originally planned for sara, but when the host couldn’t make it, they let me lead a trip to Zammy. For the past several months I had been going to Zammy about 3-4 times a week with groups, usually staying for a few hours at a time. Its probably the god I’m most comfortable with. The one thing with all godwars bosses is communicating where you’re at with what you have. The last thing you want is say 2 people low on supplies, they tele out and all of a sudden you’re accidentally tanking (aka accitanking). A few had been before, a few hadn’t. I had a really great teacher the first time I went, so I tried to do what I remembered they did. Just take it slow, let people know what to expect, and make sure everyone lives. If not, bless and get back there. We got some good kills, everyone did great. No real luck with drops, but killing something big is always fun. I pretty much ran out of supplies tanking so I asked everyone to tele out. I’m sure some could have stayed longer, but I don’t like taking risks with other people. If its me, that’s fine I can cope, but I can’t handle taking someone somewhere and they lose their stuff! That’s the worst. Vaskor and Dr Leviathan missed the exit call, but thankfully they were fine and killed it. After not hearing from them and a few mins of sheer panic, and restocking and running back up the mountain from troll, got the word they were ok. Whew!

Sadly I had to miss their lighting a continuous fire from Varrock to Falador, but I definitely want to thank Canting Away for letting me partake in their holiday.

I finished the Blood Runs Deep quest and used all my xp lamps on Prayer. After that I finished the 4 soul wars games I needed to get my 100 points, used them on Prayer as well. Went from 77-81. I’m pretty happy about that. Waiting in the Soul Wars lobby gets incredibly boring, especially if you miss 2 games in a row (40 minutes of standing? Ugh!). The thing is, it keeps teasing you thinking you’ll get in at any minute. If it would just come up and say “you don’t stand a chance” I’ll easily go out and alch or do whatever for 20 mins, opposed to just standing. Using the candy cane emote to make it look like I’m flipping my sword around in my hand kept me amused. I’m bummed that they’re ‘fixing’ that.

I liked the Christmas event. A little hard with the tons of people, but fun. I also liked Blood Runs Deep. I usually do my quests with guides, but this one I just read what others had written about it and made sure I had tons of food and I just did it on the fly. That was pretty fun as well.

I also managed to pull off 89 magic, just by alching/teleporting/enchanting my way through everyday activities and 83 mining by spending some time stocking up some gold down at the living rock caverns.

Did pengs last night, put the points towards Slayer. I’m about 20k from lvl 85 and abby demons. I thought once I got to 83 I would have at least spent some time killing mages for dboots, but I think I’ve killed 4 just out of getting kill count for Zammy. As much as I’d love to kill abbys looking for a whip drop, I wonder if I’ll actually spend the time doing it.

After that watched one of my friends get her mining cape. It’s amazing to think about how that skill has changed in the past year and a half. It went from really only mining ores to ores, stars and now living rock caverns. I remember trudging through al kharid back and forth wondering how anyone could do that for so long.

I was rushing to fix my house up because I was hosting a Festivus event. I told the back story that the same, legendary, Frank Costanza told. We had the airing of the grievances where we made our complaints about the game (all in good fun of course). There were some pretty funny ones and some ones that were spot on. We ate some cake and then festivus doesn’t end until the feats of strength. So I ran into the combat ring with my “aluminum pole” (see also: rune cane) and people whooped me pretty good with their godswords and whips. Then I just let people play in my house, make tabs, pray, cook, use the cb ring, etc. I got a lot of unexpected compliments about my house! That made my night! A while back I was completely sick with my layout and basically tore the whole thing down, spent a couple weeks trying out new designs, running them by people, tweaking them, etc. Made it worth it. Most importantly, *I* love it! It actually feels like a home to me.

I think I’ve been single handedly driving Jax’s hit count through the roof. Her RSS feed of all the runescape and runescape blog updates is pretty amazing. You should definitely check it out.

So with the no days off next week, I’m not setting any new goals for the year end. I’m not going to have much time getting them done. I’m extremely happy with what I’ve done in 2009.

If I don’t get a chance to write again, have a happy (and safe) new year! I’ll see you in 2010!