I'm Just an Escort

I read Merch Gwyar’s post on finding a pattern to Talon Beast charms and thought I’d give it a shot. Wow. I haven’t done this in years and I am *terrible* at it. I switched to world 83 and started escorting people back and forth. This didn’t start off too well. First, I forgot a hatchet. Then I forgot the knife. Then I forgot my flail, which turns out I never needed anyway. Numerous failed attempts left me stranded in the swamp, my second least favorite place on the runescape map (elf lands is the current leader of that). I had been at it about an hour and was starting to get frustrated. Luckily this is when Merch appeared out of thin air, right in front of me.

She helped me get sorted out, fixing my inventory, telling me about snake hides and most importantly, the ‘evade’ path. I was stupidly fighting every single thing in my way. The non-combat interruptions took me forever to figure out, especially the vine one. I probably go up and back once in the time it takes people to do 3 or 4 runs, but that’s ok with me.

I got my first piece of lumberjack gear ever. I could never really justify spending the time to get it. I’d hear people complain for days about how they didn’t get a top or legs or whatever. It always seemed to me that if you just spend that time Woodcutting, it even outweighs the slight bonus you get from the clothes. I can understand if you want to fill your closet, but it just was never for me. However, in the hunt for talon charms for the bonus xp weekend, I’ll take it as a nice side gift. So far I got the hat, then the boots, then the hat, then the boots, then the boots… I sense a pattern here.

I had no luck getting charms, but I got a lot of snakes, Merch suggested hopping and trying a different world, so I did that. Still no luck. It was alright though, I was enjoying myself. I hate not knowing certain parts of the game, so this was a good reason to familiarize myself with it. I temple trekked for a good four hours. I amused myself by making up storylines for the people I was protecting. One person was going to save the world, another was carrying a heart that someone needed desperately for a transplant, one was a highly ranked political figure and I was escorting him to safety in the midst of a coup to overthrow him, etc.. Anyways, I did it for four hours and I never came across the nail beasts or got a charm. My friends were amazed, apparently that’s amazingly bad luck, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I could have kept hopping worlds, but I was having fun. I’ll give it another shot, who knows? Maybe I’ll get on a hot streak.

Other than that, just been getting prepped for next week. I’ve got about 2500 lantadyme and potato cactus. I’ve made most of the unf pots, but I still have about 500 more to go. I figure 2500 is a good limit to give myself. Anything over that I feel isn’t going to get that much bonus xp considering I plan to do summoning first.