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http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/The_Adventure_Game For those of you who are interested enough to click a link, but not sufficiently interested to google it yourselves... I'd forgotten that the currency in the game was, effectively, identical to the 'currency' in the quest.

I remember the show - and yes, when I saw the aspidistra, it floated through my mind for a moment. The whole business with the coloured tokens and the maths problems, and the design of the machinery, seemed to fit with that theme too. Just a shame we didn't get a cut scene with Keith Chegwin being vapourised by the end game...

<<<<< see? sooo cool :D

personally, I never have enough bank space for that kind of tactic, but you can cut your stair time by emptying your ectophial as soon as you've filled your buckets.

I will use 1337 speak, even though I hate it, but I won't type properly (not in this thread, anyway :) )

I'm going to play on a free world, even though I'm a member...

Thank you all - a mod confirmed that Con XP was awarded, on the official forum. I think that was just the first time in a long while that Tears hadn't levelled me in something. I had used the search button, but hadn't found the relevant post.

Aye, i went and checked tip.it's guide afterwards - unless something truly bizarre has happened, I still have a house (though I haven't been back to it for at least a week...maybe that's the issue?)

I just finished my weekly visit to Juna, a typical haul of 100+ tears. When I came out, I drank them...and it said I" felt homesick". Now, I didn't check beforehand what my lowest XP was (construction or RC, for sure), nor can I remember how it usually tells you what you gained from the Tears (if it's not enough to level), but I'm left with the impression that I didn't get any XP. Am I just being paranoid, or is there some oddity to this mini game that I'm unfamiliar with?

Just want to confirm that I'd love to join in, that I'd appreciate a shield-painting opportunity beforehand and that it would be great if someone could confirm what actual time in UK it will take place. I think we're on British Summer Time at the moment, which is an hour ahead (??) of GMT - so that would be 4pm in UK?? No?

Better still, stick a whole bunch of new and old monsters in a multi-level Language Stronghold, where you have to demonstrate some grasp of meaningful communication if you want to get through the doors and kill them... It could have a Punctuation Pit level, a Hall of Grammar level and so on - and a Leetspeak Demon (lvl 666) which would appear and rip the head off anyone who thinks using numbers as letters makes them look cool. :lol:

yes please :thumbsup:

I deeply sympathise...way back when I was f2p and thinking about taking on Elvarg, I trained for a bit, bought everything I needed....hesitated...trained some more...then screwed my courage to the sticking place, tooled up and headed out... I did take an anti-fire shield - and a rune kite, too, in case i needed extra protection getting past the lessers. I got past them without a scratch, squared up to Elvarg and up I went in a puff of smoke! I'd forgotten to switch to the anti-fire shield....turns out it has no effect if it's just in your inventory...

The Hamlet quote is "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio", but it's commonly misquoted as "...I knew him well", so you might be right.

Sorted, thanks - I couldn't find a dialog that got me into a fight so I did it the old-fashioned way...right click, attack Captain - he dropped the key right into my inventory :)

thanks - I'll try both....or just throw the clue away. You know how you spend hours killing guards when you want a clue, then later when you're doing something else and you just happen to smack one in passing, lo! a clue! that you can't finish...

Yes, as I say above, I have completed the Tourist Trap quest. I had the key. No, I don't have it any more (I think I might have worked out how to get in if I had the key....) - I probably cleared it out for bank space before I ever got the key ring (assuming it will fit on the key ring...but that's another question).

I've got another lvl2 clue that demands I re-enter the desert mining camp (I have completed the Tourist Trap quest). I seem to recall the last time I had one I ended up throwing it away because I couldn't get back in the camp - is there a way to get back in?? I've tried following the quest guide again and I just get dumped in the desert by the guards.

Please remove my name, I won't be able to make it after all :( hope you all have fun rsn:jiggeryqua

Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrrr...

Not exactly an insult, but people feel compelled to shorten my name to either 'Jigger' or 'Jiggy' - maybe I'm just oversensitive... Actually, I must be, because I don't even like 'Jiggs' which is how friends tend to address me. One g, for pity's sake, surely that's obvious...? Jigs.

Way, way off topic now... 1) I took great care not to call you a redneck bigot, but hey, if the cap fits... The fact that you live in a city that holds some excellent festivals doesn't mean you're not a bigot, and I'm pretty sure Canada has its fair share of rednecks, chavs, neds and pikeys. 2) Yes, your entire justice system is probably stuffed full of bigots - I know ours is (UK). 3) There is much more to life and scoiety than having babies (ask any monk or nun, or any deliberately childless individuals or any dedicated, humane, generous, creative, law-abiding infertile worker). 4) For someone to be born with a 'defect', we must be privy to the blueprint for a 'perfect' human being. Hmm, wonder who might have come up with an idea like that before...? (Clue - a German redneck bigot in the 1930s, for one). 5) "and yet I have an intense desire to see my children grow up believeing exactly what our society believes is right and wrong, with the odd exception where I feel that our society is too lax." - so actually you have an intense desire to see your children (and everyone else's, given the defensive nature of your first post) grow up believing what you think is right or wrong - and to hell with society, which gets it 'wrong' when you know what is 'right'. 6) You perpetuate a common misunderstanding of Darwinism by thinking that health care has negated it. It works on a massively different scale (and depends largely on the idea of genetic 'defects' that serve in fact to make some members of a species more fit for survival). Luckily, by the way, so few people are transgendered that it doesn't depend on them whether there are more human beings to continue this latest incarnation of 'society' - by the by, I'm sure some or many transgendered individuals contribute by procreation before having the courage to defy convention and recognise their true nature 7) A cursory study of gender in ancient and indigineous cultures will reveal that very many of them recognised three genders. The Arapaho, for instance, had men, women and 'other' (mostly men who chose what was seen as 'women's work' - and try using that phrase with a straight face in modern western society) and finally, a little closer to topic, why do you imagine it is Jagex's responsibility to educate your children? Or your responsibility to 'protect' my children? Runescape is a game, a fantasy game in which players can do many things which are unacceptable in society and impossible in reality If you don't like it, don't play it. If you don't like transexuals, start a hate group, but please keep your petty prejudices off this forum.

whoops - lag, double post, apologies.

Well, we're wildly off-topic now, aren't we? A couple of points of clarification, though - I'm not a university student, though thank heavens some people are or we'd all be mired in the same muddy thinking as you. My opinions are my own - I've known a few trannies, and a couple of transexuals (one of each, as it were...as well as some professional shoplifters, funnily enough) - why are my opinions assumed to be borrowed simply because they're informed by a wide reading of other peoples opinions, while yours, of course, are that much more valid?. On the topic of psychological conditions I'm going to give university educated minds who actually study the topic more weight than a redneck bigot. 'Trannies', by the way, can also refer to transistor radios - but rarely to transexuals - I'm pretty sure it's just people who don't care that there's any distinction between all those sick people who aren't quite as human as you, who fail to make the distinction between them. Transexuals, by definition, 'suffer' (debatable point, I grant you) not from a 'defect' (you do use very loaded words, don't you) - if anything, they suffer from the psychological construct of 'gender' that small-minded people like you endeavour to impose on society. Gender is, demonstrably, a construct - sex (as in 'male' or 'female') is less obviously a construct, but equally so, dependent as it is on a combination of bodily parts (some people have both :o some people have none :o - or maybe you'd rather not include them in your definition of 'people'?), of brain chemisty (established hormonally during pregnancy) and of social identification (imposed by people like you). My favourite kind of people, by the way, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes - men, women, undecided, ambivalent and more besides. It has more to do with who they are than what they are... p.s. Kleptomaniac has a k, from the Greek, while 'i.e.' is from Latin (id est = that is) - you wanted 'e.g' = 'for example'.

At last, someone who knows what sort of people are entitled to be people and which aren't! [kneels and waits for more wisdom] Tell us more... For clarification, transvestites ('trannies') gain pleasure from dressing in clothing normally associated with another gender, while transexuals are born with brains of one gender and the body of another. For many people (men and women) their only hope of the settled, assured lifetsyle you clearly enjoy is surgery. Why that should have to happen, given that gender is a construct, not a law of nature, and that that construct is always locally constructed, is another question altogether - although the answer may well be that people as narrow-minded and judgemental as yourself demand it. One of the P2P quests requires male players to change sex at one point. I stayed that way for ages - plateskirts are cheaper and lighter and there is no better look in RS than that foxy princess dress... More to the point, as limited as it is, RS is a role-playing game. Your character has a look and a name that you can decide on. Your character has a sex that you can decide too. You can change the look later, in various ways - and you can change the sex too. Me, I'm more concerned about Jagex teaching kids it's ok to steal, attack random strangers, value others by their material possessions or by the ability to hurt others, and dispense with spelling and grammar. Does it matter whether I play as a man or a woman? Does it matter whether I am a man or a woman - women are people too, you know...