Well some of you may remember the journal of Omegawarlock. The guy that decided to follow in the footsteps of Omegawytch, then gave up after getting level to level 7 defence. :roll: Anyway, I used to post my achievements with Omegawrayth in that topic, but since he gave up, and now Omegawrayth posts in Omegawarlock's thread, the thread title is misleading, so I have made my own thread. Chapter 1: Rune Armour After getting off tutorial island I quickly got into the routine of repeatedly killing rats in Lumbridge castle. This was handy as I could collect mind runes at the same time. In fact, Boello saw my post on scapeboard about my new character and decided to donate 1,000 mind runes to my cause. I was pleased and I had made a new friend. Well after I had 1,300 or so mind runes I decided to move to draynor and shortly after arriving there, I got 20 defence at level 7 combat (didn't get a screenie :( ). I also decided to pass up on the mith armour and sit it out until I was at addy. At this time, one of my friends from my main account decided to create a character like mine too, and hence Calilia was born. We moved to the south-falador chicken farm and the long-grueling-chicken-killing process begun... In a day I shot to level 30 defence at combat 13, while Calilia climbed to 20, and I also gained a few thousand feathers in the process which I sold at 10gp each to make 35k. My old friend, Boello then kindly sold me full addy plus kite for 18k. What a bargain! And also a ruby and diamond ammy were thrown in for good measure. With some of the remaining money I bought an air staff and killed a highwayman for a cape... Things were looking good, things were looking VERY good. I took a small break to do some mining and smithing and I got to lv10 and lv15 respectably in each. During my short stay in the mine, I attracted much attention, with shouts of ''n00b'' and ''freak'' and even one insult of being a ''cheater''. At lv10 mining, I took time to do Doric's quest, so should I choose to return, the low level mine-smelt-smith path via falador would be wide open for me to get to 30 mining and smithing. Then real life vacation called and I was whisked away to Greece for 2 weeks. Calilia had threatened to reach 40 defence before I did while I was away, but when I returned, she had only gained 2 levels. So, with 2 weeks worth of play to catch up on, I was back at the chickens, pummelling them into oblivion once more. During my time with the chickens, I made a fair few friends. Most of them pkers, who had high level mains like myself. We had a good laugh and they cured the boredom of killing 3,000 chickens. But of course, where there are friends, there are enemies (enemies taking the form of newbs). And I'm talking about the kind of newbs who are positive feathers sell for 2gp each when I tell them I'm selling mine for 10 each then I tell them I think I know what I'm talking about, I've got a level X main. Then they say, 'yeah sure you have'. Then I get my main over the chicken farm. Then they accuse me of using my big brother's account... and so it goes on... :lol: During the course of all this, I accumulated over 13,000 feathers and I traded 11,000 feathers for rune legs, large, chain and kite from... yes, Boello again :D . Now I had the armour, I needed the level... In the first day of my return, I managed to claw my way to lv35 defence, and then today (yes, TODAY, 29 August 2004) I slaughtered chickens for a staggering non-stop 8 hours and churned out 13,000 exp as I reached 40 defence at level 17 combat. Of course I wasn't alone, all my friends currently online came over to see me achieve my goal. After weeks of waiting, it's finally here... Chapter 2: Mining Guild Ok, so as you may remember, I'm 40 defence at 17 combat where I last left off. Once you achieve such a thing, you want to show it off as much as possible, so for the moment, any further training of combat skills is put on hold, so I can soak up the glory of my achievement. I glanced at my other skills to see what my options were, and I decided I'd do some mining, with a glimmer of hope of getting into the guild, but I knew this would try my patience. So I trotted off to dwarven mines to get rid of my manky old newbish bronze pick and I bought a mithril, an addy and a rune one with the cash I had left over from the feathers. Now it's off to S.E. Varrock mine to start mining. Iron. At first, things were sweet, I banked about 1200 iron and worked my way through all my picks until I was level 41 and I could finally use rune. About this time, I decided to try powermining as I had heard how fast it could be. I was also getting a lot of attention from fellow miners about my rune armour. Here is a classic example: Also as my mining level soared, I was getting the rune more and more often, and so I took advantage, and started mining 3 rocks alternately. The other miners got quite annoyed and I picked up lots of shouts and threats. I tended to ignore most of them, or just throw in a sarcastic comment somewhere. It wasn't all bad, I made quite a few friends at the mine who didn't give me 101 questions about my armour. From 41 mining onwards, there were brief periods where I left Omega and trained my main a lot, but every now and again I would log on and put in a few levels of work. Then eventually, this morning, I put in a massive 4 hours of powermining to jump from 55 to 60. I took off for the mining guild at full throttle and got inside. No suprise I was the lowest level in sight. Unlike varrock mine however, I did not get the attention that I had expected. Here's a little pic of my first footsteps into the guild:
