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IamTardis

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  1. Quick little poem

    · IamTardis · 04/13/12 06:35 PM

    In dutch we call this poem-type an "eleven", because of the eleven words. Don't know the name of it in english.
     
    Green
    Abyssal whip
    Dragons in wilderness
    I slay them all
    Bots
     
     
     

  2. Kill them Vyres

    · IamTardis · 04/02/12 11:30 AM

    These last few weeks the lands of Gielinor did not see much of me. Too much real life getting in the way, most of it connected to either work or first aid courses. Which does take priority over scaping in my mind. But nevertheless I saw the coming of the morytania achievement diaries.
     
    JaGex made me real curious a week before they came out, and in a very clever way too: they accidentally released the morytania diary, but without any content. That got me *so* curious! I just couldn't wait to know what the diaries would contain. On friend chat we speculated a little, wondering whether we would have to do things like barrows runs, or something with ectotokens. We also wondered whether jagex would seize the opportunity to make ectotokens actually useful. Because at the moment you can't really spend them anywhere. Anyway, whatever I expected, i did not expect to have the levels to complete the hard diary. I thought I'd get easy and medium levels, and that would be it.
     
    When they came out I immediately scrolled through the tasks; and as far as I could tell I could do a lot of them. I might even be able to get the hard set done! So I went to work, teleporting to the ectofuntus, doing some temple building at the Shades of Mort'ton, smithing cannonballs at the Port Phasmatys furnace, enjoyed a game of skull ball and navigating the Haunted Mines. What a maze those haunted mines are by the way, I totally forgot about that. And I'm planning to totally forget about it again. And when I finally managed to harvest some bittercap mushrooms I got the message to visit Robin in Port Phasmatys. I didn't even remember where Robin was, so I ended up running around Port Phasmatys for over fifteen minutes checking all the ghost villagers before I discovered Robin was a human being in the local pub. Despite all that, I was the proud owner of level 2 morytania pants, and immediately longed for a morytania plateskirt instead of the pants. With the same benefits of course. Now for the hard tasks! I set myself to kill Tarn, and got my salve amulet enchanted in the process, and in general completed almost all hard tasks. Except the one where you have to cast-bloom with an Ivandis flail with 200+ vyre cremations on it. I had like seven or so. And since burns are personal, lending isn't an option.
     
    So now I'm frantically killing and cremating Vyres the moment I log on, because I do want to have the hard set done before April 11 and I very much hope it's the only task left for me.
    I really want to get that lovely early bird bonus.
    Fortunately I finished the Branches of Darkmeyer quest, so I can use a blisterwood polearm to kill them.
     
    Watch out, you Vyres, for here I come!

  3. One tough FireLady

    · IamTardis · 03/09/12 08:00 PM

    After finishing Recipe for Disaster I felt strong. Strong enough to even try Branches of Darkmeyer, which at the end involves killing a Vyrewatch named Vanstrom Klaus. After doing all kinds of chores around Darkmeyer to get access to the Blisterwood tree, I grabbed myself a lot of blisterwood stakes and good food and tried it. Only to be killed by that blood special of his. Fortunately, I respawned in Canifis and used the Drakan medaillion to get back to Darkmeyer - and my gravestone - in time to get my gear back. I re-equipped and tried again. Only to be killed by Vanstrom's darkness special. Respawned at Canifis again, tele'd to Darkmeyer and my gravestone and got my gear back. It took quite a few tries to figure out how to tackle Vanstrom's special attacks. Quite a few tries and some helpful guide-videos on youtube. Long live youtube. After some twenty or so deaths, I got fed up with it, yelled all kinds of real nasty things to my poor helpless laptop and started to do some agility to calm down and forget about Vanstrom Klaus.
    A couple of days and a lot of guide-videos later I decided to take a chance at it again. So I followed the same old routine: get Drakan Medaillion, teleport to Darkmeyer, gear up and go for it. Of course it didn't go perfectly the first time out, so I died a couple of times. I used so many blisterwood stakes I ended up running out of them, even though I started out with over 800 of them. But after getting new blisterwood stakes - and calming down, because I again was yelling at my poor innocent laptop - I decided to try for the last time that day. I felt like I actually stood a chance, I was getting the hang of evading those bloody and darkness special attacks. I just hoped there wouldn't be many of them. I preferred the bloodveld killing. And I got lucky: Suddenly the guy changed into mist, and I found myself pouring holy water all over the place and luring the mist in it. And then, after all that time, I managed to defeat him. Suddenly Mr Vanstrom Klaus was dead. "Yay ME!" I thought.
     
    So thus it came to it that, when I got 74 firemaking, I was completely convinced I could defeat the Char at the end of that quest. After all, I defeated that Vanstrom guy, right? Wrong. It started out fairly okay, with puzzles I actually liked, with red, yellow and blue powder making all kinds of firey patterns on the floor using Flint's pitch can. And the group of firemakers reached the final cave, and, it being a quest, I had to confront Char.
     
    And I did.
    And I died.
    And died again. And again. And again. And again.
     
    Frustration grew as I kept dying and I started yelling at my poor innocent laptop again (it's a miracle that thing never goes on strike) and wishing JaGex all kinds of real nasty diseases.
    I decided to leave Char in the lurch for a moment. And do something simple, like woodcutting yews.
     
    Nice and easy.
    While in the back of my mind a tiny voice is nagging me about Char.
     
    She's one tough Lady!
  4. After I defeated those beasties from The Elder Kiln quest (those new and improved Tzhaar look awesome by the way) I immediately felt more powerful. In part that was caused by gaining a combat level, and gaining a second one with the Early Bird Bonus. So it came to it that, after doing a Barrows run, I felt strong enough to try and take another shot at killing Karamel. The Karamel from the final fight in the Recipe for Disaster quest. I started that quest when it came out a couple of years ago, but because I obviously did not have the levels I got stuck at the final fight. It remained there on my quest list, three small yellow words at the op of the list. Recipe for disaster not finished yet, they shouted at me. At first I found that real annoying, I hate loose ends. But in order to finish it, I needed Desert Treasure and given my poor magic levels back then, that was totally not an option. So those three small yellow words stayed at the top of my quest list, and every now and then they got company for a couple of hours because of the quests I was doing.
    Because of the access to Ancient Magicks, which had appealed to me for a long time, I finally decided to do Desert Treasure anyway, ignoring the advice from the friends in Friend Chat, saying that it might be a good idea to level magic some more because of some stat draining beasties. I decided to take super restore potions instead. It took a couple of deaths, but since I have a twelve-minute-gravestone I wasn't really worried by that. I would just get to my gravestone in time, get my stuff back and continue bravely on. And thus I did. In the end I managed to get those diamonds and all and finish Desert Treasure. Last hurdle to the Rfd-final fight taken. I teleported to Lumbridge, geared up and went into the portal. Both Agrith-Na-Na and Flambeed I managed to defeat, but then I was confronted with Karamel, who kept freezing me over and over again. Since I went in melee-style, I obviously died on her, and was real happy to have a gravestone. I tried again, with the same results. After that I got fed up with it, and decided to leave it for a moment.
    A couple of weeks later, and after the Kiln quest, I felt confident enough to try Karamel again. Remembering that freezing I decided to go in with Magic, armed myself with enough runes for a lot of Fire Wave spells, some prayer potions just to be sure and Tuna Potatoes. Well, those fire waves really hit the mark, some time after I went in i suddenly saw Karamel dying. Wow, i succeeeded! On came Dessourt, who really did not prove much of a challenge, I found him easy to defeat. Or maybe my idea of easy and difficult was changed somewhat, after those Kiln and Karamel. I had to get out and gear up again for that Gelatinnoth Mother, and I kinda cheated by checking the tip.it guide on that, because I wanted to know what those colour changes meant. Being prepared and using the right spells at the right colour, I managed to defeat that beasty too, and before I knew it I faced to Culinaromancer himself, and killed him.
     
    And suddenly I faced this box in the middle of my screen that said "Quest complete!"
     
    Wow.
     
    After all that time finally I had finished Recipe for Disaster.
    It wasn't there at the top of my quest list anymore, no three small yellow words that said "Recipe for Disaster". It's now green, and it hides somewhere in that large list of green quests which I normally keep hidden.
     
    I'm still not really used to the absence of those yellow words.
    And of course I bought Barrows gloves from the chest :)

  5. YtHaar

    · IamTardis · 03/01/12 03:48 PM

    A couple weeks ago the weekly update featured the new Tzhaar and and the Elder Kiln quest. With an early bird bonus for those who managed to complete it within the first two weeks. At first I totally didn't plan to do the quest, it said something about fighting off multiple beasties of combat level 300 and higher. I really thought that was ought of my league. However, the people in the friend chat thought otherwise, and they convinced me to do the quest anyway. Since the dying safe I finally agreed with them and decided to give it a go.
    I forgot to count how many times I died in that quest-fight-pits-thing, and I also forgot how many times I died later on, in that tunnel to the Kiln and in that Kiln battlefield. But it's far into the two-digit-numbers. I must've died at least thirty times, all in all. Despite all those deaths I managed to defeat all the beasties in the end, and thus earned myself the rank of YtHaar. Other, higher level, people will probably think it was just another quest, but for me it was difficult and I am real proud of being an YtHaar.
    And of course I was real happy with the early bird bonus too.
     
    YtHaar ftw!
     
    Oh and by the way: I still think the new kiln cape looks like a bunch of mini-F117's strapped to your back, no matter what everyone says. :)

  6. Birthday calendar

    · IamTardis · 11/21/17 11:12 AM

    So, handlettering (and drawing and calligraphy) is one of my offline hobbies. And these last few months I've been busy creating a hand drawn birthday calendar - which is now finally finished!
     
    The hand made original is in possession of The Best Mom In The World (which obviously is my mom :) ) but you can download a copy here:
     
    http://www.ingridspersonal.nl/downloads/eeuwigdurendeverjaardagskalender.pdf
     
    Oh, and if you want to take a peek at my minecraft thingummywuts, go here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bra6r1v0soaw9vf/AAB1lUCDXn7amFFJUIClV-_Fa?dl=0

  8. Mochila

    · IamTardis · 06/03/16 04:39 PM

    One of the things I do when I'm reallifing, is crocheting. I like crocheting a lot (amongst other yarnbased crafts), and in between all the exercises and walking I have to do at the moment, I crocheted this tiny mochila bag.


     
    I liked the mochila technique and made a design of my own. Bought yarn too already. It will be a black oval bag on which pacman and the four ghosts are chasing each other for ever and ever and ever and ever...
    I doubted between pacman and space invaders for a moment, but pacman seemed a bit simpler. Maybe in the future I will have become so good at this mochila thing that I can try my hand at an rs related design? Who knows! (okay, maybe I should make myself a tardis rucksack first?).
     
    Love,
    Ingrid.

  9. Lured by minecraft?

    · IamTardis · 01/28/16 01:03 PM

    So how is everybody's invention doing? Or are you - like me - waiting for the hype to die down a bit before plunging in to this new skill?
     
    Meanwhile, aside from some reallifing, I feel myself being lured into minecraft a bit again. I'm working in creative on a marble&glass castle in the air!




    More pics are at my picasa:
    https://picasaweb.google.com/111057455050922171206/ScreenshotsMinecraft
     
    and I have a page at my own website where I can dump the downloadlinks for the maps I'm working on and in, so if you want to take a peek yourself, go right ahead! :
    http://www.rubenseschone.nl/minecraft.html
     
    Obviously, when I finish that castle the next challenge is to build something like it in survival mode. It'll be a while before I am done with that castle though, as I keep getting ideas while working on it.

  10. Glazed frost

    · IamTardis · 01/05/16 08:25 AM

    Edit Jan-5: we have learned that sheep and ice do not go together well. It's funny to watch though: http://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/158102/Schapen-glijden-zichzelf-richting-ijzelvrije-stal
     
     
     
    So this morning my world was covered in glazed frost. And people are actually ice skating in the streets. Fun to watch some vids: http://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/158028/Groningse-straten-veranderen-in-ijsbanen
     
    More videos are coming online. This is the normal for today. Skating in the streets. If only I could skate...
     

  11. Snowy christmas crochet

    · IamTardis · 11/16/15 04:53 PM

    Still working on irl crafting expee I graduated from thick yarn for crocheting handbags to thin and delicate snowflakes for in the christmas tree!
     


     
    I have enough for my family and close friends now, and I am really enjoying crocheting this, even though I am starting to run out of friend to crochet snowflakes for :D

  14. Noface

    · IamTardis · 11/18/14 03:34 PM

    And then there you find yourself doing a crystal tree daily challenge robbing you of your head:


    Just a minor bug, but I had to laugh upon seeing this anyway.

  15. Holiday and vacation

    · IamTardis · 09/18/14 07:46 AM

    Today is my last full working day before having two weeks off (and yes I *am* writing this at work during my coffee break). Being quite happy about this I mentioned this in the HYT friend chat yesterday evening, after which a fellowhyter corrected me, stating that I should say "I will have two weeks holiday" where I said "I will have two weeks vacation". A short discussion broke loose about what was right and what was wrong in english. I followed the discussion but in the end just shrugged my shoulders and went to bed.
     
    But in the back of my head, the question stayed with me.
     
    So this morning I googled "when do you use holiday and when do you use vacation in english".
    I got a nice read on a site about proper use of english language, a stackexchange so it's all comment-thread-like and that makes it a very entertaining read of course. I learned that proper use differed per country: in British english one is supposed to go on holiday and in Usanian english one is going on vacation. It's a minor thing, but still a fun fact to learn from my fellow-hyters!

  16. QBD and Jad life lessons

    · IamTardis · 07/06/14 05:48 PM

    A couple of weeks ago, I managed to kill the Queen Black Dragon and earn a royal crossbow as well as my last Varrock Museum Kudos. That made me feel quite proud of myself and I felt that I was now really on the way of transforming from bad to badass.
     
    So, I decided to start practising fight caves. Because fire cape. And because Karamja tasks. And because challenge.
     
    After a couple of runs last weekend I now know how to get to Jad, to survive the first 62 waves. It took me some practise (again) but I figured out how to do it easily even with strategic safespotting and strategic use of the regenerate ability. I haven't been able to kill Jad yet. That prayer-switching definitely needs some more practise, but slowly I am starting to recognise Jads attacks. So, with enough patience I will get there.
     
    What baffles me about myself and this, is how reluctant I am to do this. I am scared of dying. Or losing. Or both. Probably losing, since being scared of dying in the fight caves is even more silly than at the Queen Black Dragon. With the fight caves being a totally safe mini game, there is no harm done in losing and dying at all.
     
    So I guess both Jad and the QBD have taught me that there's nothing wrong with taking a risk every now and then, and there's nothing wrong with losing every now and then. It doesn't diminish you as a person in the least (and naturally I wonder why I feel that way). And things will probably work out if you're patient and determined. And they also taught me that I somehow utterly and vehemently detest taking risks.
     
    I very much wonder why.
    And what I can do about it in real life. What risks have I avoided in real life? And what am I avoiding? And what beautiful things am I missing because of that?
     
    There are interesting times ahead for sure. Maybe my psychologist is right and I really am in the middle of a midlife crisis.
     
    Bring on the future!

  17. Tiny Lucien

    · IamTardis · 03/19/14 06:12 PM

    So this week the Mahjarrat memories came out. Since I was divving anyway I figured I might as wel div that engrameter. It took me some time, but I managed to collect the fifteen memories and am now proudly followed by a Tiny Lucien.
     
    And I like him!
     
    He aks me "Sailing or riding?" and then when I choose either one he goes "SILENCE! I DECIDE". Not realizing I'm not listening to him anyway :)
    Or he asks me where I hid the stone of Jas. Or he tells me that I should respect "the tiny power of lucien".
     
    He's totally cute trying to be badass and all :)
  18. Totally not rs-related but very interesting and shareworthy nevertheless. A tedious accurate guide to the solar system, scaled on the Moon being precisely 1 pixel in size. :
     
    http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
     
    That's a lot of emptyness!
  19. Suddenly a poem entered my head. That in itself is nothing really special, as I have a blog full of them, but usually I write in dutch - my native tongue - but this time the poem was english. NAturally, I hurried to pencil and paper and wrote it down immediately! And this is the poem in question. Totally not related to rs, but oh well. I'm posting it anywayz.
     
     
    Red boots she wears
    Rubyred boots with studs
    She hugs a great dane and says
    "Hey Toto, we're best buds!"
     
    An experienced one she became
    Having travelled through the land
    The fiery spark clearly in her eyes
    As danger and fear were always close at hand
     
    And now there she is, strong and wise
    She surely calls no one her boss
    Yet still she signs letters with xxx
    And writes to us:
    "Love from Dorothy of Oz"

  22. Still going for 80 base

    · IamTardis · 08/22/12 10:33 AM

    These last few weeks I have slowly but surely been making progress towards the 80 base and the 80-milestone cape. I got 80 craft now, so of course I crafted the accompanying milestone cape and put it in my bank as a reminder. Now it sits there in my clothing tab teasing me each time I pull out my 70-milestone cape.
    Wearing that purple cape is my main goal now. However, to reach that goal I will have to patiently grind on. So many skills to level! Lately I don't mind the grind so much. I just grind away while talking to my hyt buddies or maybe watch a little TV or a movie or something like that.
    And we got yelps-lamps, troll invasion and penguin points too.
     
    Last weekend I did reach another goal I kind of had set for myself. When dominion tower came out, I was way too low combat to enter. And 110 was so far away! With some questing and some slayering my combat levels slowly rose. Suddenly there were 10 levels left to go, then 9, then 8 and so on. I decided my 80 base goal was more important to me, but I had to level my combat skills too and decided that if I would get 110 combat while doing that, I surely would take a break and visit the dominion tower.
    Last weekend I reached both 80 attack and 110 combat. And of course, I visited dom tower. I felt so proud!! I only battled like three monsters or so in the endurance mode. I totally forgot about Sigmund. And when I tried again I ran into a boss which required me to wear ice gloves. And I forgot ice gloves of course, so I couldn't wield a weapon and died. Fortunately the dominion tower is safe. Now I can kind of practise bossing in a safe zone :) without having to worry about losing gear or having to get back to my gravestone in time.
    And when bosses don't scare me so much anymore, maybe I can go out in Gielinor and beat the King Black Dragon or the Kalphite Queen. Or Dagganoth Kings? Who knows! The only monster I ever hunted was the mole under Falador Park. But that one only has one skull in its tip.it monster hunting guide. Each and every time I promise myself to attend the events of TMHT. And each time I forget about it, or am not even online. Real life does take precendence over runescape.
     
    For now, I am happily working towards 80 defence via slayer. Every now and then I collect my MTK resources and buy unfinished irit potions and eyes of newt off them. Herblore is one of the skills to level. After that, I am thinking about continuing until I get 85 defence. If I manage to get 85 magic too somewhere inbetween, I can wear gano. And they tell me Nomad is a sinch to defeat when you're wearing gano. And I still have to defeat Nomad. And the pest queen. And the dagganoth mother. Maybe I can practise killing the daggy mommy during my vacation. In september I have a whole week. It would be real cool to be able to kill all those quest bosses myself. Apart from the Pest Queen maybe. Queens shouldn't need to kill eachother, should they?
     
    If all else fails, maybe I can cheat on that pest queen by using an instakill dart.
    Otherwise I guess I will have to wait until I managed to level herblore enough for me to be able to make a restore special potion. I run out of specials real quick and after that die to her special attacks.
     
    So much to do, so little time!
     
    Ciao,
    Queeny

  23. The Firetruck song

    · IamTardis · 08/11/12 06:05 PM

    Just a quickie to let you all know my song is finished. Kind of. It's version 0.1 :)
    Lyrics are dutch, but since I'm a real lousy singer (I tried singing it, believe me it sounds awful) I put in violins instead of the vocals. MIDI is such a wonderful thing. Be kind to my song. It's my first "baby".
     
    And this is it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j623grrLxLc&feature=plcp
     
    hugs,
    Queeny
     
    (who just learned youtube vids are included in the blog entry)

  24. a song

    · IamTardis · 07/28/12 07:41 AM

    Okay, so this has nothing what-so-ever to do with Runescape, but I wanted to share this with y'all nevertheless. Yesterday and today I wrote a song. My first song. Ever. So I'm kinda proud of it, even though it's a very simple one :)
    And here's the link to it: http://musescore.com/user/39519/scores/57597
     
    Be kind to it. It's my first "baby" :)

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