*friends are not limited to tip.iters The Blog of a Castle Wars Obsessionist [Rawr] 'Ello, my name is Smapla. Do not mistake me for snapple, I am not a beverage. I will not ever be the spokesman of snapple (similar to the gecko in the geico commercials). I am... a castle wars addict. All of my goals in runescape lead to me becoming better at castle wars in some way. This blog is about me, playing castle wars most of the time, and my friends, playing castle wars some of the time with me. Many months ago, when a great number of my friends and I were playing castle wars, I grew increasingly frustrated with how hard it was to call all of them over (>_>) so I gave us the name the "hotties". We are the hotties, and most of us wear skirts. Skirts are the superior leg wear, there is no denying it. (+15 breeze ( \ () :thumbsup: )). So, whenever you see a screen shot, or a blog entry with the word hotties in it, do not fear, a sudden influx of women into runescape has not occured, it is merely me and my friends playing castle wars. No, we are not gorgeous women, (except sweetgurl and aakriti (a.k.a. hard kitty >_>), so please, do not whistle. I will be the one doing all the whistling (explained at some later date). Anyways, there are a few main people that should be introduced here. Joe Joe is currently level 125 combat. He currently has two gold castle war armour displays at his house. He enjoys challenging castle wars games about as much as me, unlike many other avid castle wars players who most enjoy easy games, for easy tickets. We do play easy games, but they are only easy because we both play on the same team :uhh: . Joe doesn't mage much, instead he's recently taken up running around in full karils, with the deadly karil crossbow. Unbeaten 1 I was reading his blog one day, a long time ago, and it said he was playing castle wars on world 99. I went there, and eventually found him, and we added eachother. I don't play castle wars on world 99 much, I lagg enough to prevent me from ever being the fastest clicker, which annoys me. Brandon Brandon (also known as bran, and bran flakes) is currently level 95 combat. Do not let his level decieve you, when i met him he was in the high 80s, and was one of my biggest head aches (made games challenging, and frequently lost me games). Then, after a while, we began playing on the same teams, and we became great friends. He is very good at flag holding, and has a sort of addiction to holding his team's flag ( :uhh: ). He's a very fast clicker, he gets it versus me about 1/8 times, although he used to be faster, before he had to switch mouses ( :cry: ). Usually, when I get the flag, I give it to him. Hell Hell, rsn hell0bro, is currently 106 combat. He has 94 magic like me, and like me, will readily switch to ancients if we lose more than two games in a row. He's a very versatile player, and works well with the team. Waddle dee I call him waddle. I don't really remember how we met, but the next time I saw him, he was following me around calling me "liege". He still calls me liege, and sometimes admiral. He ancients regularly, and shares my love for the world rawr, and smiley faces. Bloodz2291 Bloodz is currently 113 combat. He has 99 strength, and has had it for a long time. I'm not exactly sure what he does in castle wars, it seems like he always disapears, but shows up whenever one of us calls for help. Sweetgurl A hot hottie! uh >_> she's currently 113 combat. She frequently ends up on the team opposite me, which leads to interesting games. She's a good flag scorer, and today showed me that she is an impressive flag holder, in three or four of the most challenging games i've had in a while. Okay yeah, sorry, I do have a lot of friends. But these are the ones that play castle wars with me the most, so be thankful you aren't hearing about the ones that are occasional >_> Blood bat I call him bloody hands >_> He used to sit on the wall alching all day (100k yew longs, gah!). Now he actually plays castle wars, instead of mocking me randomly when i pass by =) Frugelheimer he's a scary dude. Doesn't talk much so all i get from him mostly is 40's from his whip. He's maxed I think. Feng Feng and I were apparently friends a long time ago, and I definately remember seeing him in castle wars from a long time ago. He had quit or something, but has come back, and plays castle wars a lot again now. Aakriti last one, i promise. Aakriti, also known as hard kitty (don't ask. just don't ffs) started off like brandon, a headache. She wasn't that bad of a headache, and after just like ten games playing against eachother we ended up on the same team, and were on friendly terms. Then we kept running into eachother, eveyrwhere, so eventually in a huge war we added eachother so we could communicate and win. Pandaman He gave me my d hally back, and then cut his wrists. He threated to do his ankles too if i didn't put him in here. He likes to ask me to have babies with him >_>. He likes fight pits. yer. okay so, introductions are over. oh wait, one more person... Smapla what?!? again?!? yer, leave me alone >_> Smapla is this guy that is intentionally annoying to people that annoy him. He hates people that neglect their grammar and spelling, and often corrects them. He hates people following him, and will often tell them that they'll get aids if they keep it up. Recently he worked up to a dragon chain body, then after the hype of it wore off, he sold it, and bought loads of mage gear. He generally flag holds, but in larger fights he lets someone else do that, and generally will hunt the opposing team's flag, or score, if we're really getting that badly whipped. he currently is 116 combat, and has around 1.26k castle wars tickets. He enjoys wars a lot, and loves big fights with even teams and 10+ ancients (=D). Oh, and my nemesissies. Klown and Sudn (the travelling circus) Klown and sudn are these two guys, who are maxed or near maxed. Sudn always barrages, and Klown usually melees. I call them the travelling circus because they usually only play together, they sometimes bring loads of their 110+ friends, and they leave after they've lost two or so games. Me and joe really dislike them, because whenever we play sudn barrages us and then farcasts us, and runs/climbs a ladder whenever we range him back. Klown doesn't really talk much, or do much except smack people. Okay, now they're really over. sorry it's so freaking long, okay? Okay now, Equipment This outfit is what I usually use when we're playing easy games. Non degradable, so yay. skirts are sexy. This outfit is for more intense play, it used to be my main and primary cwing outfit, with the dharok plate substituting the figther torso. I started wearing it a long time ago for the great melee defence and +6 prayer bonus of the skirt. It caught on, and now Brandon and Joe wear that as their primary melee armour =D. I see a lot of other cwers wearing it too, but i tell ya, i started it!!$@#% :ohnoes: This means people will cry \ . This is my tank ranger outfit. I discovered it was highly effective against the classic flag holder/30 guards/2 ancients combination a while ago, and as you can see, both my defence and range attack bonuses are high =D. I just got the stuff for this look yesterday, mage book, seers ring, infinity boots. They're also for the mage defence, but I can't talk about that =X. This blog will basically outline each day, and perhaps describe the better games in a bit more detail. I'll try to update it daily, and include my ticket count. Anyone is free to join us, or perhaps challenge us. We play on world 91 all the time, it's our homeworld. I may post some videos, but be warned, I do not listen to music. Thusly, these videos will not include music unless someone that I know has some tunes and will glue all this together. 3/3/07 Well, I woke up pretty late, and the first game I played was a loss =(. Aardvark and Pitty pat were there... Oh i have to write a bio thing on pitty pat gah... Well they were challenging games, luckily I had ancients on, so I could bust out the burst. Played barbarian assault from wave one to wave ten, then again up to wave eight. Got level two defender, and a rune two hander from high gamble \ Met up with killer (see above posts) and played half a game with him =\ 3/4/07 Woke up late again ( >=o ) and didn't play that much castle wars. Instead I finally got another dragon hally, because my first and halberd, which I loved very much, somehow went missing during my fury merchanting binge that lasted for two or three days =(. My first hally was 175k, this one was 250k >=o. So, I headed over to the warriors guild, stocked up on around 80 minutes of tokens, but didn't get to train there. Headed over to castle wars a bit later, and had a great game. A 125 and his friend, a 126 (barrager) were playing, on sara, and so I decided, meh, not really in the mood to try to solo beat two maxed players. I was in my nondegradable gear too, without a defence pot or anything. At the very last minute, they both went zammy :ohnoes:. I decided that I probably would miss the game if I left, so I just stayed on sara. It turned out to be a great game =D. I managed to grab the flag just as my team mates who somehow got our flag died, and caded/killed the duo as they attempted to score. It was a great game, although they both left after, one of them complaining that they needed more runes >_>. Later on, I made friends with a level 120 mage, who I call beforebuy, because her name is B4by ( :lol: ). The games got intense a little later, as I had changed into my intense play outfit after the game with the two maxed guys. Soon, I'd called several of my friends, or they'd shown up. In one of the games, Joe showed up, on the opposite team >_>. After the game following that, where joe and the hotties and I were on the same team, Joe said something that made me groan. (eww unbeaten, get those dirty thoughts out of your head) "klown and sudn are here" gah! Klown and sudn are two guys who we rarely see playing independently. They're both maxed or near maxed, they never talk so I can never get their names. Sudn always barrages, often tanking in torag plate/ahrim skirt. We decided to try our luck against them, because me and joe wanted to do some prawning. We won the first game, I think, but the second one didn't go so well. They seemed to have called a lot of their lowered level friends (110, so i guess not that low leveled). I began calling every single hottie that was online, and got ancients out for the next game. It turned out that Sudn and Klown left on I think the third game, right before the cavalry got there . They're pretty annoying, atleast to me and joe. Sudn likes to barrage us from far away, and runs every time one of us pulls out a bow. He also refuses to 1v1 melee any of us, just barraging and then running to a safe distance. There were some great games, and I recorded a few of them. If I ever get around to it, I'll try to upload one