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This is my first entry in my tip.it blog so, it might be long.
I've been playing Runescape on and off for years; I joined 2-3 months after they introduced RS2 and free-to-play people could still play Classic. I regrettably never got around to playing Classic. I don't remember the year or what my very first account's name was, I just remember making my second account a few short weeks later; Muffin Daddy. I'm a girl, but this was a nickname that my (ex)girlfriend gave me, due to my love of Muffins and "Muffin Moma" sounded awkward to us.
I played a lot on Muffin Daddy, mostly because I had friends that played that I met in a Yahoo chat room (back when you could have user submitted chats), they kept me motivated to play. The more I played on free to play, the more frustrated I became with the lack of content available for f2p people. So, I asked my friends what I could do; they suggested that I either buy members, try pk'ing or quit. Only one of those was even possible for me and that was to try pk'ing. I went with one of my friends out in the wild and accidentally hit him while trying to walk, getting skulled. We walked around until we found some other players collecting planks and I went in for my first kill. I killed him and didn't get a whole lot, just addy plate legs and some planks.
We ran to the bank and restocked on food and went back out, this time, a higher level friend of the person I just killed stalked us until we were deeper into the wild, acting like he just wanted to go kill other people with us. Eventually, he started hitting my friend and he tele'd out and pm'd me to do the same, I lagged while trying to do Varrock teleport (because I was still on dial-up) and died, losing everything I owned of significant value (full rune). I just stared at my screen as I saw my bare character standing in Lumbridge. As the shock wore off, I just became completely ticked off with Runescape and thus, I took my first break away from it and started playing other games.
Time went by and I found myself back on runescape, fishing and cooking lobs on Karamja to make up enough money to get full rune again. This was before Grand Exchange so, if you wanted to sell anything, you had to stand around and spam what you were selling. I eventually got the money together and got back into the swing of playing regularly, not stepping foot into the wild ever again. I played so much that I got burnt out on playing and went back to playing other games.
It was in that period of time that my (at the time) girlfriend and I broke up, I was devastated and I think I was playing Flyff at the time. I was bored with Flyff though so, decided to play RS once again, but I couldn't play on Muffin Daddy anymore, the name was tainted and the only thing I could do, at the time, was make a new account and start fresh.
It was in this period that I'd make a new account and try to out-do Muffin's skill levels, I'd always play and play until I got bored, take a break again and come back and create yet another new account. As it stands, I have 16 Runescape Accounts because of this.
In October, 2009, I made the account that I currently am playing on, to make videos for Youtube, demonstrating how fast you could level your skills in just a month. I never had any intentions of playing the account longer than 1 month, but due to the popularity of the vlog series, I decided to play on! It was because of my subscribers that I finally, after so many years of f2p, decided to get members for the first time. I was bombarded with new information, new skills, new equipment, new everything. I had to try doing everything and I did.
Around January, I did take a break from Runescape, my membership was due to run out and I had a trip to The Netherlands that I had to get ready for. I was going to meet my girlfriend for the first time, on our 1 year anniversary and Valentine's Day.
Soon as I got back from my trip, I was bored and decided to pick back up where I left off on Runescape, I got members again and trained some skills randomly and it dawned on me, seeing so many people running around with skill capes on that had been playing far less time than I have. I have no 99's... I have nothing to show for the time and effort that I've put into this game.
I've become determined to get a 99, I'm going for one of the easier ones, but in my eyes, it's still something worth working hard for.
99 Fletching, here I come.
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