I’d just been picking up staves each day and banking them, saving the actual screwing of air orbs atop until today. I made a lot of money, 1.5M. Inching closer to being able to make slayer items (helm and ring). After alching my staves, I decided to try killing Barrelchest to see if it was reomtely possible with my stats. I did take a few perks, like super attack and strength pots and bought 100 cooked rocktails (which I really needed). The prayer pots were a waste since I couldn’t keep prayer on long enough to make drinking any worth it. I stuck with choking on rocktails after each slam. I unloaded dds specs on him, though it took time because I had to eat constantly. Eventually, he got poisoned which I know helped and the combat boosts. When the fight started and I got scared, I hopped through the door just to collect my thoughts. All that kept going through my head during the fight is: Merch says *this* is the badass boss monster in RS questing. I remember why, lol. Oh, and for those people who kept telling me to safe spot (not Kayla or Silvertaler, who were helpful), here’s what the inside of the church looks like:

I’m glad it’s over and I have the poison-curing prayer book. Half of what I want to play PP is in my hands; the other being the Sophanem bank.

Living and defeating a really badass monster boosts the ol’ confidence, yes? I felt I could easily kill a vyrewatch and went to finish up the Myreque questline. Oh, the vyewatch was super easy since I could use prayer without incident. Um, a funny thing happened down in the Meiyerditch caverns. You know where you’re down there with the Sanguinesti freedom fighters and the vyrewatch ambush you, killing one guard and scaring the other away? And your left alone with Safalaan? Yeah, well….

Look, Saf, we were in a scary situation and barely escaped being lunch to hungry vyrewatch. What happened between us is normal under those circumstances. Seriously. I swear to never tell anyone about your …condition. Pinky swear.

I took a pause and went searching for pumpguins. Found them all and put the points into herblore, which got me 88 exp from a level. I think I’ll put them in smithing for the next while, until I can get closer to 70. I hid down in Lumby cellars and scrounged out some herbs to help out.

The last quest of the day was Grim Tales. Again, another monster who shuts off/drains prayer. Well, I have those lovely rocktails. I met a guy in the witch’s basement who was searching for gloves. I’d worn ice gloves, wondering if they would work; they don’t, lol. We talked a bit and I tele’d to Edge to grab those gloves outside the bank. Figuring he’d still be there, I picked up another pair for him. When I came back, I offered the gloves to his delight. We went off on our separate quests; he to rescue the boy’s toy ball and be to find a pendant. The fight with Glod went not too bad. I was able to keep my prayer up for a significant amount of time, enough to ward off most of the giant’s blows. I drank all 3 prayer pots and wished I’d brought a fourth, but my overdose of food saw me through.

Off I went to train up slayer. I’m sticking with Chaeldar as my slayer master. I got through the initial 4 tasks and am currently gaining slayer points. I’m not sure whether to buy the helm first or the ring. I suppose that will be decided when/if I get a black mask. The killing is slow, but I’m grinding my way along and earning decent drops. I got dagannoths and fought amongst 5 other players for the honor of slaying the horrors from the deep. Dropwise, things swung my way. I picked up seeds, most I can grow and some I can’t, topping off with 3 snapdragon seeds which will be grown in the safety of My Arm’s patch. Oh boy, now there’s nothing stopping me from completing DT. *shudder* Here are the top levels up of the night:

Warriors’ guild, oh yeah!

One more combat level and jungle spiders won’t attack me! I still have 90+ lessers to slay.

I bought 10 more glories, looking to enchant air orbs rather than fire orbs to save the long run under Taverly. Only one revenant appeared at the air obelisk, a goblin one, so it was a productive and safe morning. I enchanted all 1k orbs and got 74 magic.

I meandered around, picking berries and fruit to catch up that last 2k exp to level 68. I found 3 sweetcorn seeds in my bank and planted those, the harvest bringing me the level. My next goal for farming is level 72 (or 69 with garden pie) for calquat.

I was in Ardy, getting more whiteberries, when I gelt the urge to mug a guard. I picked pockets until the next level instead of sticking it out for 60.

I headed to the fishing colony to finish fishing and cooking levels.Out of three loads, I only burned 9 monkfish.

IRL, laundry was taking over, so I went with making fires along the coast. It’s a nice skill for repeated logging on and off. I gained 5 levels and knocked a divet in my stockpile of maple logs. Another player was lighting fires too, but occasionally forgot about a yew log. I picked them up because I’m a scavanger at heart.

Lastly, I pushed attack up another level. Only one more until I can enter the Warriors’ guild!

I went around to pick up the daily items – essence, flax and staves – and stopped to check a few things on the GE. I spent almost half my gold coins buying a dragon square shield and  a dragon plateskirt. I toyed with getting a granite body since it’s slightly better than rune, but you get made fun of wearing it with a d skirt. Someday I’ll have enough to upgrade to Bandos.

From ToG yesterday:

I went off in search of pumpguins on W60 and treated myself to some runecrafting exp.

I next sorted out my herbs. I made a trip to CC for some unicorn horns and newt eyes. Even though it’s less exp, I’m going to use irits in super attack pots rather than super antipoisons. Getting the eyes is easier than the horns and I’ll have a nice pile when I can make the extreme attack. It gave me another level in herblore, one more closer to making super defense pots.

I’d gotten seeds from Misc. and was checking on them. I tend to right-click people a lot, in case someone I know shows up. I ran into Silvertaler, another blogger, at the Fally alottments. I take it he’d just finished ME2 (which is cool) without a guide (which is cooler).

As I was in the area, I went off to see what Mr. Reaper needed this year. Apparently I’m his pest control service because it became my job to get a gigantic spider out of his bathtub. Did anyone else notice the spider plays with the rubber ducky in the puddle on the floor? I jumped through my hoops, this time with a helpful companion named Eeek. While I was dressed in my new cape and carrying Eeek, I saw Eeek will run around while you’re looking at the equipment screen.

I headed north to help Varrock defend against a horde of zombies. Being the the Wildy is still scary as I expected a revenant to pop out of the woods anytime. Hartwin was no help; he is a true scout. Though the guides state the adopted person is different for each player, I had the same one as Kitt did.

The other part of the Misc. resources is raw fish. I’m trying to skill up to finish a few of the easier achievement diaries like Seers and the big one for that is cooking. I haven’t set out to fish, so I put my kingdom to work and I’d cook up whatever thay caught in their nets. If only I had another few swordies, I’d've gotten another level. Atm, I’m 2k from 74 cooking.

I was in a questing mood. Looking over what I have left, I gave serious thought to taking on Barrelchest. I checked him on the RS Wiki and learned he can’t be safespotted nor hit-and-run as Kayla suggested (he will heal all damage if you teleport away). Well, I felt I wasn’t up to it with my puny health and combat stats. Reading up on other quests put me in a sour mood because I didn’t feel good enough to complete any of them. Summer’s End is a giant stress ball what with running for my life (and I have no blue charms ). I thought, “If I’m going to die, why not try to range a mithril dragon? It’s the only hard part left of the Fremmy diary.” I got excited because this sounded like fun. Range armor is cheaper to replace than melee armor. I dressed up, even buying and making ruby (e) and diamond (e) bolts. Then I realized I couldn’t fire the bloody things. Zanik’s crossbow refuses and I didn’t have the level for a rune one. The level I could get quick enough (8k away) and the GE should throw one in my lap in time. I put up 10k on the GE, thinking the rune bow would fall into my lap like other items. When that didn’t happen immediately, I shrugged and went off the the Legends basement to toss sharp knives at shadowy warriors.

The bow still had not appeared, so I resumed cooking. An hour later and still nothing, so I logged off in favor of food. Two hours later and I read a nice message about having something in my GE box. Thankfully, I’d only ordered the crossbow. Once again I put on my gear; packed my antifire, range and 2 prayer potions; 20 monkfish; a games necklace and a home tele tab. I tele’d to the barby outpost, deposited my necklace and jumped into a swirling pool of unknown depths. I know what to do having done it with Kitt, but I have baby skills for this kind of thing. I honestly expected to be heartily nommed by the brutal green dragons. Fortunately, they merely sniffed me as I ran by and up the stone stairs. The mithril dragon at the top was availible to be a pin cushion. I began with the ruby bolts, eating when needed and switching to the diamond bolts when the beast was a half health.

I killed it with nary a twitch and ran out to collect my booty. What luck! It dropped a dragon tail I need for the rag and bone man. I picked up all it dropped, hurrying in the expectations of it respawning very soon. Confidence boosted, I redressed into prayer armor and headed to Waterbirth to see about these dagannoth. WIth 3 of those taken care of, I went to Moonclan to get a pie baked with magic.

I brought the sea boots with me to Advisor Grim, earning replacements and a shiny exp lamp which I put into agility.

I spent the rest of the night carting unnoted oak toyboxes from the bank to Grim in exchange for coinage. I stopped halfway through, wishing he’d take bank notes. While running through the maples, I spied on Primefalcon, Marlaine’s husband and another blogger.

Finished smelting all that iron ore, then started pounding out iron knives in Varrock. When I noticed it would take the rest of the day to get through them all, I took a break halfway and worked on a couple other skills I wanted to do. I put on my new Ardy cloak and trapped a guard in the house north of the silver stall. I mugged him for 2 hours until I achieved 58 thieving.

While I was there, someone popped in to mug the knight also trapped in the house. I checked the name because she looked familiar (even though 90% of the female avatars have that poofy ponytail).

Yes, that one from Marlaine’s Musings.

When I finished with the guard, I tele’ed to CW and kitted out for ranging some blue dragons in Gu’Tanoth. I took my hunter bow to see if it’s as fast as claimed. Yes, it is as fast as a shortbow! I’ll be sticking with this crossbow from now on. I hung around for 8 dragon bones, then popped over to Port Phas to offer the bone meal to the green goo.

Now it was back to Varrock for more smithing. I am so sick of the stray dog trailing after me. Unfortunately, I felt so guilty about shooing it away. Anyway, I know the creepiest thing in RS – the mourner gas mask, especially when worn with the Varrock 1 armor.After making 24k iron knives, I reached my goal level of 64 and went off to happily steal some dwarven stout.

I stopped in Lumby to spin one flax, then hit Doric’s hut to make the slender bow. I tele’ed over to the digsite and ran to talk to the mysterious monk, who will now talk to me. He traded the bow for a shiny orb and asked me to take it to Entrana. Well, having been unable to convince the Saradomin monks that my sailor’s cap isn’t a tool of the Evil Lord, I hid the orb in a runecrafting pouch and snuck onto the island through the Abyss. Along the way, I crafting some laws (waste not want not), then put the glowing pouch on the church altar. I expected the explosion, but not the ninja. He hacked down 3 monks, stole a relic and it’s *my* fault. Yea, I brought in the orb, but any n00b would’ve done it (and probably mucked up the job). At least I’ll make amends. After being ordered to run around the countryside, I imparted my story to Sir Tiffy, who sipped his tea and nodded thought fully. Another mystery to be filed under WTF.

The first thing was to get another kitten from Gertrude. I’d just traded my last cat for death runes last Sunday. XD It gave me companionship while I wandered around getting herb secondaries and clueing up the Ardougne diary (AAD). I’m going to hold on to any ranarr weeds, hoping to collect and sell in 1k bulk. I have 300 prayer pots atm, so I’m not depriving myself of anything.

The kitten was the final thing I needed to check off the first 2 parts of AAD. I went up to the colony and returned to my kebbit bashing. The kitten grew to a cat before I leveled.

I put the 1k exp lamp into prayer. I’m going to try out the hunter crossbow tomorrow at blue dragons. I need 5 bones to level to 55 prayer which means I can do another quest, though I’m not sure I’m ready to take on Barrelchest. *gulp* The worst that will happen is I’ll die and lose all my stuff. The 7.5k exp lamp went into smithing. Another quest I want to do is Devious Minds. I bought up 5k iron ore and plan to pound out knives to get smithing up. Here’s hoping I have enough RoF because I have no more rubies, lol. I got 2 smithing levels from smelting bars and can make my own mith grapples.

I should get those knives made tomorrow with enough time to do some questing.

I went back to pyrefiends to finish ranging. I felt healthier and inched up another combat level.

I put in an order on the GE for a red dhide set with no luck, I hoped I could pick it up piecemeal. It took several hours, but I did get the set. I also bought a pair of dragon boots for 487k. Seeing the mention of ME1, I decided to finish that quest. I was eager to get my hands on the toad launcher/fixed device. I colored 4 toads of each color in case of missing. I one-hit all except the blue which took two toads. So I have extra colored toads to play with.

After that, I went to save Sir Amik. This time, I ranged the black dragon. It wasn’t easy. I mostly have bows and arrows with only a handful of bolts to use with Zanik’s crossbow. I managed though and received my wish from the fairy dragon (he’s super cute). So all that remains of of RfD is to kill the bosses, but I’d have to do DT before then (not likely).

I was now at loose ends. Somehow, I found myself south of Fally, hacking at the wall ivy.

Again at a loss, I fiddled around in my bank and found a clue scroll. I did it, it was short (4 clues) and got a nice yew composite bow. It’s not worth much to sell, so I’m keeping it.

The bow nudged me to get some kind of crossbow ammunition. Well, I could just buy some bone bolts, but I’m trying to get skills up and hunter fits in nicely. Bashing prickly kebbits with rocks is one of my favorite ways to level hunter and they drop kebbit spikes which I can carve into bolts. I bought a hunter crossbow and went to the fishing colony to get some bolts. I have 2k bolts and 4 hunter levels.

Oh, this means I can finally trade in implings for a jar generator! I skipped to Puro Puro and set to catching the little blighters. I caught enough for 2 magic butterfly nets and a jar generator.

I wanted to make some RoF, but my gold bar supply was kinda low, so off to Keldagrim and Dondakan. I mined up 230 gold ore and a mining level.

I’m glad I played a little last night. We got hit with a nasty wind storm this morning which knocked out power, meaning no RS until a few hours ago.

So, I spun over 3k flax into bowstrings, sold them and while I was at the GE, I decided to sell all the unids I can’t use (cadantine, lantadym and dwarf weed). I figured they’d be worth a pretty penny with the herblore update and people snapping up herbs like hungry children on a candy bar. The bowstrings brought in about 600k, but the herbs netted 2.5M. I have so much money right now! I bought 1k nats to celebrate.

I headed over to W71 to hunt pengs, then the power went out. I got back on tonight and found them. I did shut the doors to keep them trapped. I put the points into hunter.

One cool thing that happened is I got caught by the mime and now have a full set of mime clothes!

I didn’t get 60 range today because I spent time making iron bars. I thought I’d need a ton more iron knives, but I forgot I pick up my ammo. So I bought 2k iron ore off the GE which blew my cash and smelted all of that into bars at Edgeville. I was worried about the money because I don’t really have a back-up money maker, but the lure of all that smithing exp did its job. There were about 8 people smithing at Edge when I got 57 smithing. Not that big of a deal, except it brought my total levels to 1494 – the highest for F2P. You get a substantial fireworks factory exploded over your head; think of it as 100x better than getting a 99 in anything. The congrats swelled the screen, along with “u got 99 smith?! o_O” and I explained what had happened.

I smithing up 1k iron knives and sold the remaining bars, almost doubling my money spent. I returned to the Fremmy slayer caves and resumed my systematic wholesale slaughter of pyrefiends. When I had 5 exp to go, I went up to Miscellania and killed a chicken.

Had no problem killing Kolodion in all his forms.  Didn’t even look at my prayer pot, lol. I don’t have the money to buy the god staff, so I skipped that part and prayed for the pretty blue cape.

During the week, I do my daily collections of flax and battlestaves which add up in the exp. While I was at the bank yesterday, some guy was talking to me about his fletching. He hates doing it, but he wants a CoA. That makes no sense.

This happened while making molten glass for orbs.

I spent my peng points in construction again for just barely a level. It’s enough to plant better shubbery in my house garden. No more puffy, cartoon hedges for me.

I spent the morning at the GE making potions. I sold off a lot of seeds. I’m looking for the high level ones like yew, magic, papaya and coconut, so I sell off the rest when I get them from Miscellania. I took advantage of the herblore update and sold a bunch of herbs I’d normally keep for pots. I made a packet of money, so all’s good. ^.^

I piddled around, wondering if I was tough enough to kill a banshee mistress. My combat level is 85, but summoning is almost equal to my other combat skills (except for mage). I decided to go for it because all I had to lose was my stuff. If I died, I’d know I wasn’t good enough and need more combat exp. I made it, thanks to my high mage level. I just kept protect from range on while wearing dhide+mage defense gear. Now slayer can be fun again and I’ve got to work up those points to learn to make things.

Getting this quest done boosted my confidence enough to go help My Arm learn to farm seeds rather than goats, crates and random bits. Still hilarious! My concession to the mama Roc was a strength pot, but I just ate monks with protect range wearing rune. I tried to get myself against some rocks, but not much luck in that department.

I went off to mug Fally guards. I’d started mining iron to make iron knives, but I got bored. Guards kept punching me, so I went to the Rogue’s Den to crack some safes.

After that, I geared up for ranging some pyrefiends. They aren’t great, but I wanted something with decent drops that wasn’t overcrowded. It was pretty quiet there and I got 3 range levels. I’m going to get 60, maybe tomorrow, though I need more knives.

I checked the OF to see if anyone was rounding of penguins somewhere other than W60. I found W71 had several trapped, so I hopped over there to take a peek. They had 4 in Yanille’s south wall, 1 in Rellekka’s cow pen, 1 behind the grave at Draynor manor and 1 in Polli. Though several times trolls freed the pengs, the W71 team rounded them up again with the exception of 1 of the desert pengs. So all I needed to do was hop to W60 and spy the other desert peng (was trapped in the camel pen in Polli). The decision of where to spend the points was tough, but I put them into construction for the reasoning that it takes up money.

I then spent the rest of the day and evening at Shilo, fly fishing for rainbow fish. I got 1 fishing level and nearly another before all the feathers were gone. The raw rainbows are up for sale and I hope someone buys them. While I was fishing, I got kidnapped by Leo and have a full set of zombie clothing.