Kaida23

Greetings once again blog fans. :-D Apologies for the wall of text last time gang, but a big update needs a big post. :P Today's will be a bit more subdued with everything all neat and tidy. Now that we've caught up to 2016 it's time to talk about the Woodcutting competition. Yes, amazingly my return to RuneScape and TFS coincided with the beginning of a skilling competition, and now that free players are on the high scores once again we can compete directly against other clans. Appropriately enough we were competing with Free Players to see who can do the best Paul Bunyon impression. So after setting myself up in the Daemonheim resource dungeon I set about my task and gained levels galore! [hide=Woodcutting 91] [/hide] [hide=Woodcutting 92] [/hide] [hide=Woodcutting 93] [/hide] Well...maybe not "galore" but still, 3 levels when I'm already over 90 is pretty good. :thumbup: As I've told you already we beat the pants of FP, mostly on the strength of Medieval Kid's overwhelmingly impressive xp gains (spoiler alert: this will be a running theme for the next couple of comps...dude's crazy :lol:). Basically that's it. There was nothing new to be learned about WC and nothing else really happened I haven't already told you about (note the Fish Mask in the level 92 pic). NXT was released but I don't use it so I can't comment on it. So here it is, a nice short to the point post just like I used to do. Well, as short as my posts get anyway. ;) Join me next time for a random discussion about some random things I did after the comp was over.

We're doomed... :ohnoes:

Two 99's last night! :-D

Yeah, I think having to beat the boss that many times in a row without dying was a mistake on Jagex's part. Or at the very least not letting us know about it. I think I was about three or four deaths in before I realised it was starting over every time. One Piercing Note was nice though. You can tell they put a lot of work into the sound and voice acting.

Hannah Gill & the Hours: Change in Blue I heard this on the radio this morning and was blown away. An beautiful R&B voice over jazz with just a hint of funk. So good.

Good afternoon everyone! We're going out of sequence today so buckle your seat belts for a time jump. Now I know I promised you the harrowing tale of how I held vicious tree monsters at bay, and worry not for that is still coming, but this is a big one so I figured no one would mind. ;) Now I'm sure that as good long time followers of this scattered, time-distorted mess I call a blog you all know that after 99 Mining my next goal was to get 99 Smithing and last night I got it in a big way! \:D/ :thumbsup: :XD: I've been superheating my little head off lately (with breaks for the odd thing here and there you'll read about later) and a couple of weeks ago I got even better at it after one of my clanmates (apologies, I don't recall who) told me about a YouTube video by Persiflage showing a much more efficient way of doing things, and boy oh boy did it make a difference! I went from about 1200-1300 rune bars per hour to over 2400 with little more than a rearrangement of my screen and the use of presets. Yes, I'm embarrassed to admit that I was not using the presets (remember, I'm the most pro noob you'll ever meet :P) as I was having a hard time figuring out how to set them properly but Persi's video gave me the kick in the butt I needed to wrap my tiny little brain around them and it was certainly worth the effort. Now before we go any further I just want to address something; those of you who watched that video may have noticed that Persiflage is using AHK and I want to make it clear that I do not, and as it is a third party program I do not encourage or endorse its use. Jagex have been notoriously vague about things like AHK so I've always felt it best to steer clear of it. Just say no boys and girls! I've only linked to it as an example of how to set yourself up to superheat more efficiently. Anyway, back to the story. As you may remember, waaaaaaaaaay back when I got 99 Mining I did it by mining one copper and one tin. Well, I kept those ores. That's right, I've had one copper and one tin my bank all this time with the plan to use them to get 99 Smithing just to give everything a bit of circular symmetry. As the first levels I ever got were in Mining and Smithing by using bronze, it seemed appropriate to also use bronze to get my first 99's. Since tutorial island no longer exists except as a soggy memory (who else remembers starting on tutorial island?), I decided to go back to where I gained most of those first levels afterwards. So, clad in my 10 year veteran's cape I returned once again to the furnace in Falador where I made a simple bronze bar just like I had all those years ago. So many memories. Cathosis, Darthgerm and I running ores and bars back and forth with each other. Mining, smelting, smithing and selling off what we made to afford better picks to mine better ores, dreams of profit and prosperity in our heads. And here I was, the last musketeer about to reach what we thought of at the time to be a nearly impossible goal. Still warm in my hands, I took my newly forged bronze bar down to the anvils in the Dwarven Mine to turn it into a dagger just like we had so many times back then. (somehow those screenshots didn't save, sorry... #-o) And then it happened. The fireworks, the notification, and the wonderful feeling of that last level up to 99! :twss: But wait! I promised you a big update. One that justified our timeline jumping around like a bad screenplay. And as big an update as one 99 is, what can beat it? Two 99's you say? Gosh, all you folk are just too darn smart and attractive for me. :shades: So here then begins the tale of my second 99 of the day: Magic! This one's not quite as lengthy though, as I'm sure you all know already superheating and Magic xp go hand in hand. Now my Smithing was a bit ahead of Magic, so I had to stop superheating for a little while and do some alching. After asking around in the chats for a bit someone recommended green d'hide bodies because you can buy 5k of them at a time and they even make some profit. Since I only needed about 2300 alchs to get caught up, I set about my task and got it within a single alch of 99. I did this all before heading to Falador, so once I finished with Smithing I simply alched my shiny new dagger to finish off Magic. :twss: :twss: So there it is blog lovers, my tale of two skill masteries in one day. Now if you'll all place your fish sticks and custard in their upright and locked position, we will now return you to your regularly scheduled timeline. If you happen to go back too far and end up in a year when white partyhats were still under 150M, be sure to pick one up for me and I'll reimburse you. :lol: PS - I almost forgot as I couldn't do this for Mining. Kaida23, 90,379th person to 99 Smithing and 217,728th person to 99 Magic!

I finally saw Deadpool last night and O.M.G. was it good. I laughed so hard I got the hiccups. So very very good. :thumbsup:

Thanks guys. Unfortunately, sometimes life is sad. :( But not today! For here it is, my long awaited final BoL-era update: Kaida's 4-month 3 year update part 5: The Death of Chivalry Today's entry finds me tackling the new quest released during the BoL, The Death of Chivalry. I have a bunch of screenshots from during the quest (pan shots, chat boxes, etc..), but unfortunately no longer remember how I intended to spin them. So here's what I came up with, hope you like it! :P To begin this quest, first I met a kook. Then I met, and was dressed down by, an actual God. Not sure if he bought my explanation though. I wonder how he was able to be here and on the battlefield at the same time. :-k Must be a god thing. Anyhoo, turns out he wanted me to descend into a creepy dungeon and retrieve a powerful weapon from the Black Knights before they use it to attack Falador (although, from what I understand it still happened anyway). Why are these always in creepy dungeons? Why can't we ever have a quest in a nice, peaceful meadow? Oh well. So dressed like one of the Black Knight captains I infiltrated their fortress and descended into the tomb below where I rescued a damsel (it's what I do ;)), fought some Knights and was ultimately betrayed by the very damsel I rescued. <_< She then killed Sir Owen and attempted to do the same to me, but severely underestimated who she was dealing with. In the end I prevailed and succeeded in recovering the all-powerful, dead-raising, can destroy the whole world magic wand and gave it to the wise and all-seeing god who tasked me with its retrieval in the first place. The very same god who then proceeded to *sigh* give it to the reanimated, corrupted, undead corpse of Sir Owen. #-o I really hope that doesn't come back to bite us in the ass. As a long time supporter of Saradomin I was actually kind of disappointed in him for this. That's not a good look, man. Gods are supposed to be smarter than that. Okay, swag time! Then for good measure I went back down and killed Dawn again to unlock the captain's armour override. Now I can look like him when ever I want and not have to use up bank spaces storing it all. While overrides were fairly novel at the time (at least for free players) it's something I've noticed become a lot more prevalent in the game since I left. Even the recent Gower quest gave cosmetic overrides as part of the reward. Not that I'm complaining, overrides don't take up bank space and can be turned on/off at will no matter where you are. It's just something I've noticed is all. And with that, I'm finally caught up to when I wandered off into the ether. \:D/ From here on in the updates will actually be from this year! :twss: So join me next time for the tale of the woodcutting competition. Same bat blog, same bat forum.

So much for a few days...I guess a few weeks will have to do. Before I get into it though, I want to show you the reason I've been so quiet lately. This is, or rather was, my dog, Kali (she's the furry one on the left :P). Like I said, she was very old and very sick. About a week after my last post I had to have her put to sleep. As I'm sure you can imagine this was not a very happy time for me or my kids. For the last 11 years she's been my faithful companion through all of life's ups and downs. She was deaf and nearly blind in one eye, but was always excited when I came home and that always made even the worst days just a little bit better again. I didn't play much for a couple of weeks after she was gone, but I started again for our monthly skilling competition and have been going gangbusters since then. Hopefully I can get this blog caught up soon. So again, apologies for the lack of updates lately but I'm sure you all understand why. A proper update will be posted later today.

Ugh...spent the entire day stuck out in the sun on a site with no canopy. And of course it all went completely sideways so the job took for freaking ever. It's 8:30pm and I only got home 20 minutes ago. I tell ya, sometimes this job really makes me work for a long weekend. :lol: Oh well, tomorrow's Canada Day so no work for me! :D

This has been dead for 10 years. Please don't necro old discussions.

Try being here between November and April. ;) May-early June usually aren't too bad, as is late September through October. Summer sucks though, but I think that's just because I have to work outside all day. I tend to spend July and August inside where it's air conditioned as much as possible. I went to get milk and found this posted in the window of the store This is how we do justice in the country, son! :lol:

That Gower quest was crazy long. Took me over an hour and a half. Although it has been a while, maybe I'm just bad at questing. :lol: I was surprised to see they gave us One Piercing Note. I still remember when it got released and how a lot of people, even members, thought it should have been available to everyone as it did a good job of showing off the voice acting and would have been a good quest for people new to the game.

Moved to Help and Advice.

Holy crap, has it really been three weeks since last updated this? :oops: Fear not faithful readers for I've not disappeared yet again, merely been overwhelmed with life. Unfortunately my dog is very old and very sick and that has taken up a lot of my time and attention. :( All I've been doing in game recently is Meg's Cases, which while not the most stimulating of content has given me a lot of small xp lamps to dump into Prayer so it's not all bad. Plus Socky McGee is hilarious. :lol: I'll try and get a proper update posted in the next few days.

Virtuosity. I haven't seen it since my VCR broke and could no longer watch my VHS version, but then the other day I found it on DVD at Wal-Mart for $3. I love bad sci-fi movies and this one is awful! Russell Crowe chews up scenery like it's going out of style and Denzel Washington is, well, Denzel. :P

Just finished squeezing three day's worth of work into two really long ones. And I still have a boatload of paperwork to do over the weekend. I swear, this is the absolute last time they send me to do a complete site start up by myself. I'm getting too old for this shit. <_<

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Same thing happened to me. I was helping my son go through it and he got attacked by the skeleton (or misclicked and attacked it, not sure) and we were both surprised when the statuette dropped. Some indication that you had to kill a skeleton would have been nice.

Watching 'Red' right now. Re-reading the comic it was based on last night reminded me of how good it was. If you haven't seen it, I have six words for you: Bruce Willis, John Malkovitch and Morgan Freeman. If that doesn't make you want to see it, then you've exposed your true identity alien robot from outer space! :P Edit: oh yes, I almost forgot. Two more words: Karl Urban. Resist now robot shapeshifter. ;)

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