Dark_Demesne

Tif name: Dark_Demesne Runescape Name: Dark Demesne Picture: Url: http://tinypic.com/r/fkmkbd/5 Thanks for doing this!

It appears Eek does indeed have a special chat with the new NPCs! Awesome huh? Thanks! Although I don't really need to win (already got a prize from the RuneFest competition)--I just really love contests. :) What's funny is I drew the comic before I even knew about the "metal" theme of this year's Halloween, but it actually seems to fit! At absolute minimum (for, say the Eek drawing), 8 hours or so. For the more-detailed drawings, anywhere between 4 full days and 2 weeks of full days. I am a REALLY slow drawer--it's a labor of love, not something I could ever do fast enough to monetize! Aww thanks. :)

Added Halloween Comic Strip Entry:

Added an entry for the 2010 Halloween gallery:

Yay!!!!! Now I don't even have to pay in order to waste my time on games instead of school! (Or maybe it'll be the reverse--I won't feel the need to play as much since I'm not spending money on it and don't need to make sure I play my $5 worth every month? Only time will tell...) Aww thanks, I'm so happy! :D I was actually really surprised to see that I'd won, because I wasn't sure that a) I was good enough, or b) Jagex even got anything I'd sent. I remember sending off the two farming pics to the gallery in 2008 and never got a reply, so it was hard to know if it was rejection or email problems. (Now I know--it was rejection! Burn!) Sorry if I'm incoherent, I'm just in the process of having a happy heart attack. Thank you! I'm about to die of happy. :)

Thanks, even if I don't have time I'll try to make some! Even if it means opening up a wormhole and destroying the time-space continuum. Aww thanks. I had fun with Evil Bob, as his evil grin reminds me of my own cat (although her nefarious activities are limited to eating my plants and stealing my place on the couch every time I get up). Thanks, will do! I don't really know, lol. I've never actually taken an art class--all my knowledge is based on trial and error and Google searches if I can't figure something out. The crispness is probably due to the fact that 1) I do the outlines of objects with hard brushes, 2) I keep objects on different layers, so I can lock transparency and do fine work on the edges without the color straying off the object (unless I want it to), and 3) I use 1-pixel brushes on huge canvases (the RuneFest entry was done on a 4300x3200 pixel canvas). Hope that helps!

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I appreciate the work you and other admins do to give me a place to put this stuff. :) Thanks! I like detail, although I tend to go a little overboard, to the point where it can take me two weeks to get a single drawing done. I like the whiteberry one too. I remember it fondly as the picture where I almost went insane trying to draw 300 leaves by hand until I figured out how to make custom brushes in Photoshop.

Hi everyone, I'm a long-time Tip.It forum denizen and occasional poster. I like to draw Runescape pictures every once in a (great) while, and while I used to post each image separately in the Gallery, I thought it might be more useful to have everything together in one spot under Runescape Media. I study Biology and English but I like to do art as a hobby, and I try to improve with every drawing. I've done five major Runescape drawings over the past three years, all in Photoshop. I particularly like translating game figures into an airbrush/photographic style, and I hope to do more of it in the future! In chronological order, my drawings are: 1. Dark Mage - February 2007 This was my first-ever piece of Runescape art, done after I'd just gotten Photoshop but before I'd figured out how to use it properly! This was my character Dark Demesne as a mage with black robes, a power ammy, and an air staff. I was still F2P at the time and this was my best mage outfit. I planned on doing melee and ranged variants as well, but never got around to them. Both this picture and my next one ("Dragon Slayer") got into the Runescape "Best of" Gallery 2. (Woot!) 2. Dragon Slayer - December 2007 This was my second piece of Runescape art, drawn after I'd finally started to get the hang of Photoshop. I'd gotten membership in July and by this point was happily slaying steel dragons with an antifire shield, whip, glory ammy, warrior helm, and proselyte armor. Back then the abyssal whip really did look like a string of sausages with open air between the pieces! 3. Picking Whiteberries - April 2008 Although I spent my first few months of membership slaying everything in sight, I soon discovered my true calling: farming. In April 2008, I got my first 99 in farming and drew this picture to celebrate. My character is supposed to be picking whiteberries from the bush patch in Miscellania. 4. Formal Portrait - June 2008 After getting 99 farming, I moved on to leveling construction, as one of the reasons I'd gotten membership in the first place was so I could build my very own player-owned house. I finally got everything just as I wanted it and drew this to commemorate my newly-installed formal garden. Back then black elegant was my favorite outfit ever, and I wore it for about a year straight! 5. RuneFest Gallery Competition Entry - August 2010 After my last bit of Runescape art ("Formal Portrait" in 2008), I didn't produce any new artwork (of any sort) for a long while. I focused on my studies and let my art hobby rust in disuse, pretty much. But in July 2010 I noticed a front-page post about the Runefest Gallery Competition, and I figured I could really use the practice. So I took the directions literally (evil Bob, a flagstaff of festivities, and a golden gnome) and set about trying to remember how do anything in my trusty old copy of Photoshop CS3. The result isn't leaps and bounds better than my earlier pics (which I wouldn't expect, seeing as I hadn't been practicing in the interum), but it was good to draw again. I was very happy to learn that this drawing was one of fourteen winners in the Runefest Gallery Competition, netting me a lifetime membership and a copy of my artwork on canvas! See the news announcement here, and my entry here. 6. Eek the Spider - October 2010 After producing my RuneFest entry, I still wanted to keep drawing Runescape art (for practice, mostly, because nothing motivates me like a good contest!). The problem is that it can take days or weeks to produce a single artwork, and after the school year started I was having real trouble getting any art done at all. I was able to scrape together half a day of free time to draw an entry for the Halloween theme gallery, but I didn't have time for my usual style. So instead I made a cartoon-y version of Eek and colored her with relatively blocky, flat layers, without a background or much of a foreground for that matter. Still, I got something done, and surprisingly fast! (Though still not as fast as I would like.) 7. Halloween Comic Strip Competition - October 2010 After making the Eek drawing, I figured I might as well do something for the Halloween Comic Strip Competition too. I came up with a total goofball entry that makes no sense, but I had fun doing it and best of all, the small size made it impossible for me to linger too long on minute details. May have to try more in this format in the future!

I'm pretty sure you can buy jugs of water from Shanty in the Shanty Pass, but I don't know if there's a limit on them (haven't been there lately).

ROL couldn't hurt, especially if you're still getting used to the caverns. I usually equip Slayer Ring for Pollivneach tele (my house is there), but ring is pretty much whatever is most useful to you.

I usually equip Varrock armor 3 (it can give extra ore even in the Caverns), my best pickaxe, and my best defensive gear in every other slot. You'll want a lava titan summoned at all times for the mining boost. There's a small obelisk near the entrance to the Cavern, so you can bring multiple pouches without worrying about summon pots. Try mining on world 84, which is the official Living Rock Caverns world. If you mine on world 84, you won't need food or additional healing of any sort--there are enough people mining at any time that the monsters will usually be occupied and you can mine free and clear. Join a chat such as "Mining Golds" if you want to get updates on which rocks are up and which are down. (SWU means that the southwest gold deposit is up, for instance). If you don't want to join a chat, just run along with the streams of other miners. If you are worried about taking damage, you can equip an Enhanced Excalibur and do the special if you get low on LP. Miners in world 84 always bless graves, so you don't have to worry too much about dying. Stick with concentrated gold and don't bother with coal or living rock remains.

There's one real close, just go back up the rope and half a screen east.

My most annoying would be gearing up for Jade Vine with Karils, Dragon Hatchet, and Zammy book, clicking to attack the Vine, and then switching to another window to read an article while the fight went on. Switching back and realizing that I'd forgotten to put Pro Melee on and had died in an instanced fight before you could get gravestones for them, and losing full Karils and a Dragon Hatchet plus a bunch of random stuff, like full Black Ele that I for some reason had in my inventory. Then repeating that two more times, on different occasions, until I finally learned my lesson and starting banking expensive stuff beforehand and wearing black d'hide instead of Karils.

Thanks! Now I feel like I should start working on something new, instead of putting up 2-year-old drawings because I've been too lazy to do anything recently. My "novel" really is pretty bad. It started off as a generic fantasy in ~1900s England; then I deleted the main character, switched the magic to scaled-up quantum entanglement controlled by prions, and changed the location to 1980s Guatemala; then I got bored and just started writing in funny anecdotes about my adventures with airports. Also, I had a lot of homework, so my word count includes a 6500-word essay on the historical trajectory of philosophers' conceptions of the ideal purview of rhetoric. Obviously I should have taken five minutes to think through the plot/characters/location a bit better. But now I know! :) And yeah, it helps that I know and love Runescape. I need to somehow obtain that level of familiarity and comfort with whatever fictional world I decide to write in. GPA limits depend on which school you attend, actually. Two of my siblings go to schools where GPA stops at 4.0; my other brother and I go to a school where GPA goes up to 4.3. So I can just load up on French and Spanish and whatnot to balance out the evil classes, like physics. (Urgh.... classical mechanics. Bane of my existence.) Thanks, and likewise, best of luck in 2010!

Thanks. Having 99 Construction is great--I can build anything I want now. Getting 99 Construction... not quite as much fun, but at least it's all over with now! Thank you muchly! Thanks guys. Having dredged up that drawing, I know realize that I produced a grand total of 0 artworks for the year 2009. Ugh. Maybe I should have spent less time leveling and more time drawing, lol. More RS art will have to go on the to-do list for 2010.

10/10, Hunter is a great 99 and impressive for your second. When you say you hunted Grenwalls, does that mean you bought pawya meat and set traps with that, or did you hunt Pawyas and Grenwalls at the same time?

Thanks! I estimate that fruit trees restock at a rate of about 1 fruit per hour, with a full restock every 6 hours or so. Bushes restock completely in between farm runs (which I space every two hours or so), so I'd estimate that bushes fully restock every 1.5-2 hours.

You could also try mahogany tables (level 52 Construction, dining room) if you have a ton of money to spend and want to get it over with quickly. I found mahogany tables to be significantly faster than oak larders/dungeon doors, and to me the cost was worth the extra speed. Depending on your income, I'd recommend oak larders/dungeon doors with SC hammers (slowest and cheapest), mahogany tables with SC hammers, or just straight mahogany tables.

Thanks! The write-up came to 3900 words, which is quite a lot for a Rate This! thread, so I was hoping I wouldn't bore people to death with it, lol. Heh heh, yeah. About that. I like to buy stuff way ahead of time so that when I'm in the middle of skilling I don't have to stop and restock, so I bought all the seconds I need for 99 Summoning already, provided I focus on crimson charms. I may not use them for a year or more, but they're there if I need them. Also, I can flip them if I need money, without much repercussion (since I plan on using them anyways, it's not like I'm stuck with junk I don't need). Thanks. :) I like to play with a game plan so I know where I stand and what I need to do in order to accomplish whatever goals I set up. I have spreadsheets that I use to calculate cost and xp/day needed for completion within a set time period and so on. I'm flexible when good opportunities pop up, but I pretty much play with a purpose, yeah. Hey, thanks! I remember you as the other TIFer with an untrimmed farming cape (that I know of, anyway) and the crazy well-rounded stats. Good job yourself, I would never have the patience to level everything quite so evenly. Thank you very much! If I achieved a lot in a year, it's probably because my classes were easy and I had too much free time, lol. (Especially since I don't have a TV anymore.) Feel free to add me, although be forewarned that I don't always have my friends chat on. (I set it to "off" if I know I'm not going to be paying much attention to RS, like I'll be multitasking with reading articles on the other screen or something, or if I'm likely to hop in/hop out on short notice, like I'm grabbing a few minutes while dinner cooks or something.) Good luck in 2010 yourself!

Thanks for the good wishes! I likewise wish you great things for 2010 and beyond. :) I spent weeks mulling over the design for my current house. What worked for me was grouping things by function (personal use? group use? daily use? purely decorative?). Layout creators are a godsend for getting things oriented well.

Thank you very much! :grin:

Warning: Very long and picture-heavy. And self-indulgent. Here's a wrap-up of 2009, my year of 7 skilling 99s. Overall Goals and Progress [hide]At the beginning of the year, I set myself a handful of goals for Runescape. The first was total level 2200, an increase of 150 over my currenta steady clip of leveling, but doable, I thought. Second, I wanted to raise all skills to at least level 80; that way, I'd be able to use the highest class of clay for everything in Stealing Creation, would be prepared for any future Grandmaster quests, and would unlock most abilities for most skills. Finally, I wanted to get 99s in Crafting, Smithing, Construction, Prayer, Woodcutting, and Firemaking. It was a hefty listbut based on my calculations, I'd be able to afford it all on my current farming income. I was aiming to max skills that I liked to some degree or thought would be useful. I started off the year doing what I always dofarming. Farming was my first 99, and still is my favorite skill. Since I 99'ed it I've been farming toadflax/ranarr/snapdragons, marigolds, cactus spines, whiteberries, and coconuts (picking the latter three, not planting or checking health). Sometimes the prices of whiteberries/poison ivy berries and papayas/coconuts flip-flop, but I do fine as long as I hang onto my particular produce long enough for it to peak. On February 15th I hit exactly 22,270,700 Farming xp, which I thought was a cool number, so I screencapped it. Considering that all my Farming xp since 99 has netted me a profit of 20-200 gp per xp, that was a lot of money to burn. (Although I'd spent a good portion of it already on nonsense like Treasure Trail clothes and marble fireplaces in my house, whatever struck my fancy. But there was still enough coming in to make up for my terrible spending habits regardless.) 22,270,700 Farming xp I began my goal-seeking with Crafting, because I'd already been working on it steadily and was starting off with a level of 95, so the gap to 99 didn't seem insurmountable. I leveled by buying air orbs and plain battlestaves and selling the resulting air battlestaves on the GE. At the time, it cost me ~1.8 gp/xp, which was preferable to dragon leather and not much slower. I stocked up on tons of air orbs and bought the maximum number of battlestaves I could off the GE, which was only enough for around 90k Crafting xp per daynot a lot, but as it only took fifteen or twenty minutes to craft those staves, leveling seemed painless and easy. On February 21st I crafted battlestaves to that coveted 99, although it seemed anticlimactic, with Crafting having become just another part of the daily routine. Stockpiling air orbs 99 Crafting Now that Crafting was done, I thought I could add another low-level, long-term skill to replace it. Woodcutting fit the billintolerable in large doses, but fun and relaxing in short pieces. I tried cutting teaks and willows (too much banking), yews and magics (too slow)nothing quite worked for me. So I thought I'd try the new distraction and diversion Evil Tree, and cut down my first on February 26. It was more fun than regular Woodcutting, and the magical banking afterwards was wonderful. Once I got the groove of Evil Tree hunting, I added in another twist: I'd do it only on French worlds. I'd just enrolled in French 101 that term, so I figured I could use the extra practice. I could visually ID anything that came up, and I wasn't in pressing danger, so it shouldn't particularly hinder my gameplay. So I took to cutting down deux arbres infernals chaque jour, primarily les ifs et arbres magiques et arbres ancestrals, when I could get them. Seriously, I can't even think of Woodcutting now without half the words popping up in French. Vous vous accroupissez pour faire brûler le petit bois. La racine infernale vous propulse en arrière. If I ever need to light a fire in France, or cut down a demonic tree, I'm set. Cutting down an Evil Elder Tree all by myself I realized that in between Evil Trees I could also get some leveling in on a fast, expensive skill. Smithing, I decidedit was nominally useful all the way to 99, and was moderate in cost compared to Prayer and Construction. It would be a trainer skill, like Crafting, in a way. I calculated that it would cost 5.8 gp/xp to make addy plates and sell them on the GE, which was fine with me. It cost a bit more to get to that point (I used mith plates, eschewing the more cost-effective but slower addy bolts), but the addy plates themselves went by quickly. I did most of this Smithing on the French world also: Vous fabriquez une cuirasse d'adamante. (I'm sure I confused my French teacher when I knew how to say "platebody" but not, oh, "food" or "homework.") Anyways, I powered through to 99 Smithing in the early days of March, and got my cape on March 7th. That 99 simultaneously got me to 2100 total level, with all skills 76+. 99 Smithing I got a little burned out from the mad Smithing rush, so I took things slower for a while. I slayed, I ran a few laps at the Agility course, I mined, I fished. On March 17th I joined the stat-tracking site RSStats, which provides handy xp-gain graphs and level records. (You'll be seeing screencaps from that site popping up throughout the rest of this write-up.) In April Jagex gave us wieldable cabbages as an April Fool's, and later we got lilies. I screencapped outfits with both in case I decided to use them for The Great Tip Pic of 2009. (I didn't, but I still like the getups.) On April 1st my best friend also got 99 mining, off granite. (Crazy fellow, don't know how he did it!) Wieldable cabbage Wieldable lilies 99 Mining (not me, lol) I farmed for money, and eventually bought myself the supplies for 99 Construction. But of all the skills I'd decided to level, Construction was the least fun to actually engage in, so I put it off. I liked my POH but the remaining levels to 99 didn't offer enough to warrant the annoyance of actually leveling the skill. But now that I had the supplies, I figured I was setI could always level in one go later on, no problem. Supplies for 99 ConstructionRound 1 By June I was starting to debate which 99 to pursue next, and eventually decided on Prayer. It was useful all the way through 99, and it would save me money on Prayer pots during my later stints of Slayer. So I began tracking dragon bone prices, waiting for the right moment to buy them up. (The price always moved in waves, and though I had money, I wasn't going to waste it by buying at a peak.) By the first week of June, dragon bones had troughed at 2376 gp, which was higher than I'd hoped (earlier that year they'd cost only 1800 gp each), but I doubted that the bones would go any lower and feared that they'd go much higher, as Prayer was long overdue for an update. So I bought up enough for 99 and got to work with a war tortoise at my POH gilded altar. Luckily, several months previously the offer-x update had been implememented, so my last bit of Prayer training wasn't quite as tedious as I remembered it (having gotten to level 90 before offer-x, and having hated every minute of it). On June 16, I earned my wings, and have appreciated the extra Prayer pot bonus since. (And the auto-in on the new Curses when they came outnice not having to train for something!) My Prayer progress 99 Prayer My wings Just as I came off of leveling Prayer, I noticed that toadflax was hitting a year-long low after a monumental merch. I'd been selling my farmed toadflax at peaks and hording during troughs, to keep my profits up. But now that toadflax was bottoming out, I thought that maybe I could take advantage of the crash. I looked up Crushed Bird Nests and saw that they too had hit a year-long lowwhile Sara Brews were holding roughly steady. Now would be the perfect time to level Herblore. I hadn't planned on 99ing Herblore until 2010, but I reckoned that prices would eventually stabilize much higher, so I could save some money in the long run if I bought Herblore now. So I immediately sold off all my Construction supplies and excess runes and arrows and such, and I came up with just enough money to finance 99 Herblore, provided I resold my resulting potions along the way. I made Sara Brews as fast as possible and plunked the sale money back into toadflax and nests, finishing up my 99 on July 12th, just as prices started to rise again. Not only was it a decent bargain at the time, but I was really glad I'd gotten that 99 after the new potions came out in October and prices skyrocketed, never to fall again. Bye-bye Construction supplies Toadflax purchase window Crushed nest purchase window Buying Herblore Supplies Saradomin Brew sale window My Herblore progress 99 Herblore Now that I was mostly cleaned out of money, I figured that I ought to focus on free/cheap skills until Farming replenished my coffers. I kept working on Woodcutting, being sure to keep my Firemaking level commensurate with it (when necessary, by lighting up lines of magic logs at the GE). By the end of July I'd earned myself some Agility legs and a Slayer helm. I kept leveling all my low skills bit by bit, until on August 6, at a total level of 2163, I finally reached my goal of all skills 80+. In August I also caught my first dragon impling using a hunter potion, and received my first dragon boots drop from spiritual mages. I kept farming and farming until by September 10th I'd accumulated my biggest cash pile ever100M. My biggest cash pile ever By September 20th I'd reached 200M total XP, and was nearing the end of my Woodcutting training. I made sure to catch my Firemaking up to my Woodcutting, and on October 4th, I 99'd both of them. My Woodcutting progress My Firemaking progress 99 Woodcutting 99 Firemaking On October 15th I reached total level 2200. By then, I'd gotten two raven eggs from Woodcutting and raised them to adulthood. I began hording Summoning and Construction supplies for future leveling. On the 23rd I got my first abyssal whip drop. Things were moving along nicely. And then in NovemberI signed up for National Novel Writing Month, and my free time went out the window. I played Runescape at best only half an hour a day, just enough for a handful of farming runs. I pounded out 50,000 words of (terrible) novel by the end of the month, in addition to all my homework. (And of course November was when it really piled up, including a take-home exam that ended up being 41 pages typed). I scraped out 2 meager levels in Runescape from Penguin Points, and that was it. But I got a lot accomplished in real life and I regret nothing. Except maybe that the book was so terriblenext year I'm writing it during winter break or during the summer, so I'll actually have time to edit as I go along and make it coherent. Anyways, I've got basically nothing for November. And nothing for the first part of December eitherI was hitting the last two weeks of school then, when all projects came due and finals were looming and I had a conference paper to present and a million other things to do. But soon enough the overload was finished, winter break began, and I could finally relax a bit and get back to the game. I was puttering around with Slayer and Agility until the thought struck me: the year was almost over. Had I accomplished all I'd set out to do? I dug out my file with goals and checked everything off except one: 99 Construction. That blasted 99 Construction. I'd been putting it off for an entire year, despite having acquired (and resold) the necessary supplies at least once. I really didn't want to level itbut it was so fast, with a Demon Butler and mahogany tables. Especially after the "fetch" update on servants. And I did really like my house; what better way to commemorate the skill that made me a member than by finishing it now? (The lure of the POH was what prompted me to buy membership in the first place, in July 2007. I'd burnt through my entire F2P savings of 400k in less than an hour. It was terrifying but exhilarating.) So I thought I'd suck it up and get that damned 99. Now or never. I set myself down in a duplicate training dining room in my POH (no way I was removing the opulent table I'd plopped down in the real one) and got to working building and obliterating mahogany tables. It was not funnot like Woodcutting or Firemaking or Crafting or Smithing or Herblore or Prayer, all of which I'd liked training. But Construction was fast, well over 400k xp an hour even though I mis-clicked all the time and would get bored and go look at my RSS feeds periodically in the middle of training. And I got it done, all in the final days of December. On the 30th, I used a genie lamp to 99 in Falador park, then made a short jaunt over to the estate agent to buy the cape (in triplicateone for the costume rack, one for a placeholder in the bank, one to wear). My Construction progress Finally99 Construction! I hope to never do anything that painful ever again in Runescape. But I've finally come full circle on the first skill I leveled as a member, and I've come a long way from my first horrific house (with a telescope facing a wall and no planning whatsoever) to the one I use today, which I spent hours laying out just so. In fact, my house is my favorite place in Runescape. I've plunked untold millions into getting it just the way I like it, which isn't necessarily the highest-level furniture in every slotit's themed and coherent, with a verdant central park, fancy stone and marble, and red gilded furniture.[/hide] My House [hide]My house is rather on the large side, planned around a central open area that the pets can cavort around in. On the south side is the utilitarian wing, with an altar, portals, and summoning obeliskeverything I'd need frequently in one place. The west wing is my personal wing, with bedrooms, study, workshop, and costume room. The east wing is meant for entertaining guests, with a parlor, kitchen, dining room, games room, and combat room. And the north wing is the ego wing, with skills and quest halls and my personal throne room. Underground I have a small dungeon (small because I used most of my room allotment on above-ground gardens) that leads to a treasure room guarded by a steel dragon. Really, the dungeon didn't matter much to meI just needed a fitting prelude to the dragon room. House PlanGround Floor House PlanBasement I wanted to get a big picture of the actual house, but that proved difficult due to the changing camera angle. I stretched my game window as far horizontally as I could, took screenshots in strips, and tried to patch everything together in Photoshop. The rooms at the far edges didn't render properly (they had hotspots instead of furniture), and the perspective changes meant that the joined edges didn't mesh properly. Although it's not my finest hour in Photoshop, I think the resulting picture gives a good idea of the "feel" of my house. My house And because everyone on Tip.it is so clearly enamored of my house (who is even going to read this far, anyways?), here's a room-by-room tour. 1. Chapel. I optimized this area for trainingthe chapel abuts the entrance portal and is diagonal from two portal chambers for easy exit. My character has long been a Guthix follower (primarily because the dedicated armor was cheaper and I liked the color, but don't tell Guthix that), so the chapel is decided to our inscrutable sleeping god. 2. Entrance portal. You can enter here, replenish Prayer and summoning points, and exit easily through an adjoining portal chamber. 3. Portal chambers. Between the two of them, the two portal chambers comprise teleports to Lumbridge, Varrock, Falador, Yanille, Ardougne, and Canifis. I didn't include Camelot because Catherby tele gets me close enough, and I rarely need to visit Camelot or Seer's for anything. 4. Bedrooms. One is technically for the butler, but he never sleeps, so these are de facto both for me. 5. Study. I love the orrery, which is completely pointless but looks awesome. And in this final iteration of my house, I actually have the telescope facing open air instead of a wall! (And actually, all my doors lead to other rooms in this house, unlike my last house, where half the doors lead to walls.) 6. Costume Room. I admit to being a bit of a hoarder, so I've piled up monstrous amounts of clothing as I've played. I have a complete Treasure Trail set plus everything buyable for the Magic Wardrobe, Armor Case, and Cape Rack (and many that aren't buyable, but none of the minigame rewards, because I don't really like any of the minigames in Runescape besides Stealing Creation, maybe). Yes, I have $89M+ of fancy clothing in my costume room. This is why I have 30M Farming xp and surprisingly little cash to show for it. 7. Workshop. Great for cheap barrows repairs, making toy cats, and getting copies of basic tools like hammers and saws. 8. Garden with pond. This is a semi-enclosed park around which the personal wing curls. It has trees and a pond. 9. Parlor. Fun to sit around the fire and chat. There's the butler passing by. I used the Demon Butler for leveling but have reverted to the regular butler for greeting guests, since I like him better. 10. Kitchen. I can make +3 level tea, which I don't need any more, but would use frequently when I was just getting going on Construction (as I was always too impatient to wait until the proper level to get cool stuff like orreries or thrones). 11. Dining Room. I bought the opulent table back when it was super-cheap as a result of having been introduced into Treasure Trails. For leveling, I built a second dining room and built mahogany tables in it instead, since this one had already been fully furnished. 12. Games Room. Hangman can be kind of fun. The other games eh. 13. Combat Room. Now, the Combat Ring is where the fun is. No one should ever build a Balance Beam or Ranging Pedestals if they can have the awesome that is the Combat Ring. 14. Garden with Imp Statue. The semi-enclosed garden for the guest wing, with an imp statue. 15. Quest Hall. I put in a rug because I never intend to have a second story to my house. This room looks kind of like an art gallery, with a few paintings and a lot of open space to frame the works. 16. Skills Hall. Despite having had a number of Abyssal Demon tasks, I've never gotten a head from a kill, so I'm stuck with a basilisk for now. (He's not badhe just won't stop complaining about how I "deaded" him.) I got that giant shark back at 73 fishing, oddly enoughI was too impatient to wait for the proper level and used fishing pots to allow me to harpoon sharks. Shortly thereafter, I realized how slow shark fishing was and have never tried it since. 17. Formal garden. Since this is the ego wing private garden, it has the fanciest fountain. This is the garden I used as a location for a drawing I did back in 2008, a portrait of my RS character. 18. Throne Room. I like the gilded throne much better than the crystal or demonic variants. I have a normal trap because the purple greater and lesser cages clash with the rest of the house. Yes, I'm aware that that's shallow. 19. Oubliette. Fire and bone in my own private hell. Too bad the dragon is kind of a pushover; at least the fire cage will kill you effectively. 20. Dungeon entrance. The attraction at the very center of the grand park, walled in and hidden from view with hedges. 21. Dungeon Room 1. I didn't put a guard in this room in case a guest (or hypothetically, a pet) wandered in inadvertently. To enter the dungeon proper, you have to deliberately push through a set of heavy marble gates. 22. Dungeon Room 2. Things get a little danker, a little more forbidding. A little more spidery. 23. Dungeon Room 3. The descent deepens. The blood on the walls ought to be a warning that proceeding further is ill-advised. 24. Treasure Room. A deadly steel dragon guards the precious 1,500 gp in its gilded chest. If you want that money, be prepared to fight! (Or just go play Hangman in the Games RoomI have money in the chest there too.) 25. Menagerie. This room didn't come out until after I'd built the rest of my house, but I had an open space between the dungeon entrance and the entrance portal that was just perfect for it. (That's the benefit of the open house planI can fit in extra rooms fairly easily.) I keep fish, birds, and woodsy creatures in the pet house; additional pets are stashed in the bank. [/hide] Closing Notes and Future Goals [hide]Finally, here's a picture of my bank. I try to keep my bank as organized as possible, particularly since I'm often in the French world and don't remember the names to everything (and therefore can't search for them, and need to remember where I left them). And for reference, my stats over time: So what's in store for 2010? If possible, maxing out Slayer/Melee/Ranged/Summoning and getting all skills 90+ (sans the new one that's coming). More leveling in the French world, as I'm now signed up for my third term of French. Above all, though, keeping my real life in balance, maintaining my GPA above a 4.0 (current: 4.2), and working on a few individual projects I've gotten going. And Farming. Because I'm nothing if not consistent, when it comes to that. My Farming progress [/hide]

Mine had issues with the full-body avatar. Fewer hours than I'd feared.

You can try magic secateurs for the green.

Here's a guide for Rogue: http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=rogues_den_guide.htm And Troacctid's woodcutting guide addresses Lumberjack-getting partway down: http://forum.tip.it/topic/201643-troacctids-woodcutting-guide/