Pray to be lik <god>!

[King2004]

As we all know Prayer is the kinda most boring skill in Runescape (altouhgh Farming is a good concurrent now, no arguing about that :P)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But why should it be boring? Wouldn't it be great to get in better contact with gods and holy rewards? Wouldn't it be cool to live the life of Guthix, Saradomin or Zamorak?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sure that would be cool! And here are some ways to get the gods closer to the game (or better, to get you closer to the gods!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pelgrimmage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This will require a huge update to the game, but the effects would be more than great! As believed for long times during the medieval ages the only way to get close to the gods is to live a life like gods! So here's the first challenge, you will have to chose the god of your favour!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all know the Runescape gods, Guthix, Saradomin and Zamorak. Currently there are a few things which are related to these gods;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zamorak and Saradomin have a holy symbol and their own temples.

 

 

 

Guthix, Zamorak and Saradomin have their own staffs and a spell related to it.

 

 

 

And when you try to get to the abbysal runecraft-place you have to help zamorak to get the teleportspell to the rune essencemines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But there we get the first problem, if you are a true Saradomin follower (like king 2004 is ;) ) you will get in problems because you kinda have to help Zamorak when you want to enter the abbysal-runecraftplace. That should be changed. There has to be an option to chose for Saradomin or Guthix too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quest 1 (Saradomin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For instance when you chose to follow Saradomin you have to prevent a Zamorak-follower to get the special spell to teleport to the essence mine. This is an NPC covered in red robes which you have to find and kill before he reaches the essence mine. This can only happen by using a block-spell which one of Saradomin's closest followers teaches you (when you hit level 60 prayer you can also teach this spell to other people)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This spell can be used during the quest to block the Zamorak-monk from entering the rune essencemine, now the next step is to kill this monk. A Zamorak-monk can however learn a block missle spell at level 60 prayer, so you have to kill it without magic or ranged.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can't hit a Zamorak-follower because the blood will curse you (if you decide to hit it anyhow you will be banned by Saradomin, and since you attacked a Zamorak you can only try to get closer to Guthix) The only way to get the Zamorak-monk killed is by using prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All over Runescape there are (moving) monks of Saradomin (NPC's), they are walking the Pelgrimmage and learn new prayers every day. If you help them on their pelgrimmage they may provide you with the knowledge of a new prayer which can help you to get rid of the Zamorak-mage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since all monks are at different levels you are supposed to chose your own monk, if you decide to go for the low level monk he will get you an easy job, however the prayer you will learn isn't that powerfull then..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An example of a high level pelgrim:

 

 

 

A Saradomin monk of level 80 prayer can use this 1

 

 

 

first of all you have to find the pelgrim of course, he will be level 80 so its not hard to find out what prayer level you need. The monk will be covered in white robes and he will be walking about in the wilderness...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He wants you to help him passing the final part to complete his pelgrimmage, he has to climb a dangerous mountain (in the wilderness!). You have to escort him when he is trying to pass the mountain, he will tell you not to bring food because he can use a special prayer to heal you while you are trying to help him to survive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This part of the wilderness (level 99) can be reached by entering a tunnel, this tunnel is accesable by monks of any race so you have to be very careful! Dying here however doesn't mean you lose your items (counts for every monk there) but you will be teleported so you have to find a new monk to help. If your monk dies you have to bury his bones otherwise you get killed too. If a player who follows another god gets the bones first he can burn them and then you will die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This task is very hard because you can only work with prayer (the blood of other monks is still cursing) agains the Zamorak monks since they block missle, Guthix monks can be killed by missles but they have a special agile-prayer which makes you missing most of your shots, the monk will (like the agility ticket-thing in brimaven) make sure the arrow or spell misses in a quick action. Level 50 and level 60 prayer is required for this, it even works when some1 is trying to hurt you with a normal weapon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The monk you have to guard can get hurt fairly easily and so can you of course, you have to defend by prayers you learned before. the good thing is that the monk you defend has knowledge of a special prayer called Saradomin heal, when your health drops below 50% there will be a huge light column which heals you back to 75% of your health. In this way its a lot harder to get you killed for the other monks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beside the players who are trying to make you get killed there are also some NPC-monks, these monks are also followers of a certain god and they will always be there. It can be recommend to do this part of the quest during a quiet moment because there will be less other players and more NPC-monks during those times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Zamorak monk this high level task can be won by killing you so there will often be people trying to kill you there. They again also have opponents and different prayers to use...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you finish this task you will learn how to use Saradomin heal on yourself or on other people with prayer 60 or higher. You can now also teach this prayer to people with 85 prayer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example of a low level pelgrim:

 

 

 

level 1 prayer, level 30 mining and level 10 herblore are required for this

 

 

 

A pelgrim at the begin of the pelgrimmage has to get past some rocks which block the way. This monk wont be moving so its a prayer you can learn easily since you dont have to find the monk!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will have to use explosives to break the rocks because your pickaxe will break if you use it on the rocks. (you can try of course :P) you can make an explosive potion by asking help of the witch at the witches potion quest, she will tell you what ingredients you need and how you make it. You have to collect a guam leaf, a marrentil and a harralander, mix it together with a vial of water and then use tinderbox on the potion. A red potion will be the result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you have to get it to the spot (FAST!) before it explodes, if the potion is unused for 30 seconds the contens will explode and you get hurt 5 points damage as well as all people standing around you (Can also be used in wildy after this task!). You have to give it to the monk (who has just 5 HP!) who will bless the potion. The potion will be red glowing now! Now you drop the potion on the floor and walk off (no hurry needed), once you and the monk are far enough the monk will say something to Saradomin and the potion will explode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As result you can now enter the cave where some more challenging prayer-tasks await you. And the monk will tell you the prayer to bless the potion and how to get it exploded. This can be very usefull to get the Zamorak monk killed so he can't steal the telespell for the essence mine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can now teach this prayer to people with prayer level 20 or better and you can bless potions, you can throw these off to other people and then use the prayer which you learned to get it explode. Very useful to kill monks later on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quest like this can also be made for Guthix and Zamorak followers of course, it contains a large lot of new prayers (the 2 parts I described can easily be enlarged to like 10 different parts...) and way more challenge to the skill, even for high level monks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The monks always have a certain level which enables you to kill monks of other gods! If you hand the burnt bones of monks of evil gods to monks of your god you will gain large loads of prayer xp. But remember never touch an evil monk, it will result in bans of gods or you will have to offer items to recover from the ban. Depending on the level of monk you killed you will need to offer more items (the worth of the high alchemy on these items makes the worth of the goods!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was just a first step on the pelgrimmage, completing this quest of course rewards you with some prayer xp and it gives you acces to enter the abbysals runecraft-center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On your way to become "holy" you have to finish off a lot of quests related to your god-kind. There are also quests where you learn the rune essence prayer, and where you have to defeat holy dragons, where you learn a lot of new prayers and of course as final (99 prayer required) you have to beat another god!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once you completed your pelgrimmage you can bless robes which will shine a bright light (red for Zamorak, white for Saradomin and black for Guthix) around the robes. When you wear these you will be able to teach people all possible prayers (also the ones who are available to every1 now need to be taught!) and you can bless a lot of items (from symbols and weapons to staffs and robes). You can bury burnt unholy bones(bones from another god) yourself now and you have a lot of other bonuses to be used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But reaching that target will even be a huge challenge for some1 who is level 99 prayer so there will be very few gods (3 to be exactly), it may sound weird but there can be just 1 god for each religion (Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak-religion) because the best monk (highest prayer xp) will be the only 1 whose robes will light up. So it will be very (!) cool to become god which will make a huge challenge for the prayer xp!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashes, bones and robes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides these huge quest adventures there are also going to be more options to gain prayer xp, we have already seen the burning of bones of other religion-monks. There is also going to be an option which enables you to light ashes (from lessers, imps and stuff like that) to gain some prayer xp. And burning the robes of other religions will also result in prayer xp. However you can't buy prayer robes anymore, because they have to be rewarded to you by a task-monk! So getting these robes of another religion wont be easy. You have to kill those monks when theyre in wildy (not in the prayer cave!) wearing these robes. And again you can't touch the monks so it will be very hard to obtain those robes. It will result in great xp to light em however.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also learn from a monk how to make your own prayer staffs and robes (level 75 prayer required) these things can be made with crafting and they dont result in prayer xp, however burying bones while wearing the robes results in bonus xp and weilding the staff while using a prayer decreases the drain rate of the attack. There will be different level-robes and staffs and of course they look different when you are into another god.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holy fortresses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each god has its own temple build on 3 mountains in the wilderness, inside the castles there is no wilderness of course. This place is the headquartes of the god (and all followers) in the way to the castles you will see a lot of towers which may be settled by archers or mages from other gods, and there can be danger everywhere because all players follow the same road the the castles, just on the final place you split up to enter your own castle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You need level 40 prayer to enter castles and inside you will find a great place with a bank, some monks for tasks, healing monks, and training monks who will get you tasks like to enter the castle of another religion in the robes of your own religion, then you have to climb upto the highest tower and leave a set of robes of your religion behind. On your way to the tower you will be bothered by other people when you walk in the wildy zone and you will be bothered by a lot of NPCs when you enter the castle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These tasks also result in some prayer xp depending on the level of the task.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there is a huge location below the castles, this is a multi-combatzone where every1 is allowed to enter and kill other monks. The cellars are connected to the cellars of the other religions, but there are a lot of locked gates in the way. You can pass these by using the thieving skill (picklock) or you can try to get through the gates by using agility. There is always a hard way (level 70 agility or thieving needed) to enter the other monks quickly and there is an easy way (level 20 agility or thieving needed) to get there but you have to pass a lot more creatures and gates to meet the other monks then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then when you meet there is a gate in the center which requires level 90 thieving or 90 agility, this 1 won't be passed often, but its not needed to pass it anyways, because prayers and mage attacks are always done from a distance (so the gate blocks nothing). If you can pass however you can take the bones and robes of the killed players which can be a good advantage for your prayer level. If you can't pass its a great polace to have wars and stuff like that with prayer, magic or ranged only!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each castle has some other advantages but thats different to the god you follow...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well this is my first brainstorm around prayer, tell me what you think of it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

King 2004

[archimage_a]

yes the point of prayer....I think was to get rid of the bones that were left around, and give people something to do. Nice ideas but just leave prayer alone as this would happen next chrismas at the earlyest(2006)

[King2004]

Yeh I know *sigh* But I like to fantasy about skills and to think about great improvements, IF Jagex ever reads some of these things they may get inspired to get at leats some small updates to slowly introduce a new world of prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All small stones together would create a great bridge!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

King 2004

[evildestruction]

its a hell to read all but i took time, and i like the idea, gives something to do lol, even if people would beg to get something learned by another player.(but beggers will always be there)

[King2004]

heh yeh sometimes Im a little long winded but thats mainly when I got a lot of things to say ;)