My 2009

[Dark_Demesne]

Warning: Very long and picture-heavy. And self-indulgent.

 

Here's a wrap-up of 2009, my year of 7 skilling 99s.

 

 

 

Overall Goals and Progress

 

[hide]At the beginning of the year, I set myself a handful of goals for Runescape. The first was total level 2200, an increase of 150 over my currenta steady clip of leveling, but doable, I thought. Second, I wanted to raise all skills to at least level 80; that way, I'd be able to use the highest class of clay for everything in Stealing Creation, would be prepared for any future Grandmaster quests, and would unlock most abilities for most skills. Finally, I wanted to get 99s in Crafting, Smithing, Construction, Prayer, Woodcutting, and Firemaking. It was a hefty listbut based on my calculations, I'd be able to afford it all on my current farming income. I was aiming to max skills that I liked to some degree or thought would be useful.

 

I started off the year doing what I always dofarming. Farming was my first 99, and still is my favorite skill. Since I 99'ed it I've been farming toadflax/ranarr/snapdragons, marigolds, cactus spines, whiteberries, and coconuts (picking the latter three, not planting or checking health). Sometimes the prices of whiteberries/poison ivy berries and papayas/coconuts flip-flop, but I do fine as long as I hang onto my particular produce long enough for it to peak. On February 15^th I hit exactly 22,270,700 Farming xp, which I thought was a cool number, so I screencapped it. Considering that all my Farming xp since 99 has netted me a profit of 20-200 gp per xp, that was a lot of money to burn. (Although I'd spent a good portion of it already on nonsense like Treasure Trail clothes and marble fireplaces in my house, whatever struck my fancy. But there was still enough coming in to make up for my terrible spending habits regardless.)

 

22,270,700 Farming xp

 

 

I began my goal-seeking with Crafting, because I'd already been working on it steadily and was starting off with a level of 95, so the gap to 99 didn't seem insurmountable. I leveled by buying air orbs and plain battlestaves and selling the resulting air battlestaves on the GE. At the time, it cost me ~1.8 gp/xp, which was preferable to dragon leather and not much slower. I stocked up on tons of air orbs and bought the maximum number of battlestaves I could off the GE, which was only enough for around 90k Crafting xp per daynot a lot, but as it only took fifteen or twenty minutes to craft those staves, leveling seemed painless and easy. On February 21^st I crafted battlestaves to that coveted 99, although it seemed anticlimactic, with Crafting having become just another part of the daily routine.

 

Stockpiling air orbs

 

 

99 Crafting

 

 

Now that Crafting was done, I thought I could add another low-level, long-term skill to replace it. Woodcutting fit the billintolerable in large doses, but fun and relaxing in short pieces. I tried cutting teaks and willows (too much banking), yews and magics (too slow)nothing quite worked for me. So I thought I'd try the new distraction and diversion Evil Tree, and cut down my first on February 26. It was more fun than regular Woodcutting, and the magical banking afterwards was wonderful. Once I got the groove of Evil Tree hunting, I added in another twist: I'd do it only on French worlds. I'd just enrolled in French 101 that term, so I figured I could use the extra practice. I could visually ID anything that came up, and I wasn't in pressing danger, so it shouldn't particularly hinder my gameplay. So I took to cutting down deux arbres infernals chaque jour, primarily les ifs et arbres magiques et arbres ancestrals, when I could get them. Seriously, I can't even think of Woodcutting now without half the words popping up in French. Vous vous accroupissez pour faire brûler le petit bois. La racine infernale vous propulse en arrière. If I ever need to light a fire in France, or cut down a demonic tree, I'm set.

 

Cutting down an Evil Elder Tree all by myself

 

 

I realized that in between Evil Trees I could also get some leveling in on a fast, expensive skill. Smithing, I decidedit was nominally useful all the way to 99, and was moderate in cost compared to Prayer and Construction. It would be a trainer skill, like Crafting, in a way. I calculated that it would cost 5.8 gp/xp to make addy plates and sell them on the GE, which was fine with me. It cost a bit more to get to that point (I used mith plates, eschewing the more cost-effective but slower addy bolts), but the addy plates themselves went by quickly. I did most of this Smithing on the French world also: Vous fabriquez une cuirasse d'adamante. (I'm sure I confused my French teacher when I knew how to say "platebody" but not, oh, "food" or "homework.") Anyways, I powered through to 99 Smithing in the early days of March, and got my cape on March 7^th. That 99 simultaneously got me to 2100 total level, with all skills 76+.

 

99 Smithing

 

 

I got a little burned out from the mad Smithing rush, so I took things slower for a while. I slayed, I ran a few laps at the Agility course, I mined, I fished. On March 17^th I joined the stat-tracking site RSStats, which provides handy xp-gain graphs and level records. (You'll be seeing screencaps from that site popping up throughout the rest of this write-up.) In April Jagex gave us wieldable cabbages as an April Fool's, and later we got lilies. I screencapped outfits with both in case I decided to use them for The Great Tip Pic of 2009. (I didn't, but I still like the getups.) On April 1^st my best friend also got 99 mining, off granite. (Crazy fellow, don't know how he did it!)

 

Wieldable cabbage

 

 

Wieldable lilies

 

 

99 Mining (not me, lol)

 

 

I farmed for money, and eventually bought myself the supplies for 99 Construction. But of all the skills I'd decided to level, Construction was the least fun to actually engage in, so I put it off. I liked my POH but the remaining levels to 99 didn't offer enough to warrant the annoyance of actually leveling the skill. But now that I had the supplies, I figured I was setI could always level in one go later on, no problem.

 

Supplies for 99 ConstructionRound 1

 

 

By June I was starting to debate which 99 to pursue next, and eventually decided on Prayer. It was useful all the way through 99, and it would save me money on Prayer pots during my later stints of Slayer. So I began tracking dragon bone prices, waiting for the right moment to buy them up. (The price always moved in waves, and though I had money, I wasn't going to waste it by buying at a peak.) By the first week of June, dragon bones had troughed at 2376 gp, which was higher than I'd hoped (earlier that year they'd cost only 1800 gp each), but I doubted that the bones would go any lower and feared that they'd go much higher, as Prayer was long overdue for an update. So I bought up enough for 99 and got to work with a war tortoise at my POH gilded altar. Luckily, several months previously the offer-x update had been implememented, so my last bit of Prayer training wasn't quite as tedious as I remembered it (having gotten to level 90 before offer-x, and having hated every minute of it). On June 16, I earned my wings, and have appreciated the extra Prayer pot bonus since. (And the auto-in on the new Curses when they came outnice not having to train for something!)

 

My Prayer progress

 

 

99 Prayer

 

 

My wings

 

 

Just as I came off of leveling Prayer, I noticed that toadflax was hitting a year-long low after a monumental merch. I'd been selling my farmed toadflax at peaks and hording during troughs, to keep my profits up. But now that toadflax was bottoming out, I thought that maybe I could take advantage of the crash. I looked up Crushed Bird Nests and saw that they too had hit a year-long lowwhile Sara Brews were holding roughly steady. Now would be the perfect time to level Herblore. I hadn't planned on 99ing Herblore until 2010, but I reckoned that prices would eventually stabilize much higher, so I could save some money in the long run if I bought Herblore now. So I immediately sold off all my Construction supplies and excess runes and arrows and such, and I came up with just enough money to finance 99 Herblore, provided I resold my resulting potions along the way. I made Sara Brews as fast as possible and plunked the sale money back into toadflax and nests, finishing up my 99 on July 12^th, just as prices started to rise again. Not only was it a decent bargain at the time, but I was really glad I'd gotten that 99 after the new potions came out in October and prices skyrocketed, never to fall again.

 

Bye-bye Construction supplies

 

 

Toadflax purchase window

 

 

Crushed nest purchase window

 

 

Buying Herblore Supplies

 

 

Saradomin Brew sale window

 

 

My Herblore progress

 

 

99 Herblore

 

 

Now that I was mostly cleaned out of money, I figured that I ought to focus on free/cheap skills until Farming replenished my coffers. I kept working on Woodcutting, being sure to keep my Firemaking level commensurate with it (when necessary, by lighting up lines of magic logs at the GE). By the end of July I'd earned myself some Agility legs and a Slayer helm. I kept leveling all my low skills bit by bit, until on August 6, at a total level of 2163, I finally reached my goal of all skills 80+. In August I also caught my first dragon impling using a hunter potion, and received my first dragon boots drop from spiritual mages. I kept farming and farming until by September 10^th I'd accumulated my biggest cash pile ever100M.

 

My biggest cash pile ever

 

 

By September 20^th I'd reached 200M total XP, and was nearing the end of my Woodcutting training. I made sure to catch my Firemaking up to my Woodcutting, and on October 4^th, I 99'd both of them.

 

My Woodcutting progress

 

 

My Firemaking progress

 

 

99 Woodcutting

 

 

99 Firemaking

 

 

On October 15^th I reached total level 2200. By then, I'd gotten two raven eggs from Woodcutting and raised them to adulthood. I began hording Summoning and Construction supplies for future leveling. On the 23^rd I got my first abyssal whip drop. Things were moving along nicely.

 

And then in NovemberI signed up for National Novel Writing Month, and my free time went out the window. I played Runescape at best only half an hour a day, just enough for a handful of farming runs. I pounded out 50,000 words of (terrible) novel by the end of the month, in addition to all my homework. (And of course November was when it really piled up, including a take-home exam that ended up being 41 pages typed). I scraped out 2 meager levels in Runescape from Penguin Points, and that was it. But I got a lot accomplished in real life and I regret nothing. Except maybe that the book was so terriblenext year I'm writing it during winter break or during the summer, so I'll actually have time to edit as I go along and make it coherent. Anyways, I've got basically nothing for November. And nothing for the first part of December eitherI was hitting the last two weeks of school then, when all projects came due and finals were looming and I had a conference paper to present and a million other things to do. But soon enough the overload was finished, winter break began, and I could finally relax a bit and get back to the game.

 

I was puttering around with Slayer and Agility until the thought struck me: the year was almost over. Had I accomplished all I'd set out to do? I dug out my file with goals and checked everything off except one: 99 Construction. That blasted 99 Construction. I'd been putting it off for an entire year, despite having acquired (and resold) the necessary supplies at least once. I really didn't want to level itbut it was so fast, with a Demon Butler and mahogany tables. Especially after the "fetch" update on servants. And I did really like my house; what better way to commemorate the skill that made me a member than by finishing it now? (The lure of the POH was what prompted me to buy membership in the first place, in July 2007. I'd burnt through my entire F2P savings of 400k in less than an hour. It was terrifying but exhilarating.)

 

So I thought I'd suck it up and get that damned 99. Now or never. I set myself down in a duplicate training dining room in my POH (no way I was removing the opulent table I'd plopped down in the real one) and got to working building and obliterating mahogany tables. It was not funnot like Woodcutting or Firemaking or Crafting or Smithing or Herblore or Prayer, all of which I'd liked training. But Construction was fast, well over 400k xp an hour even though I mis-clicked all the time and would get bored and go look at my RSS feeds periodically in the middle of training. And I got it done, all in the final days of December. On the 30^th, I used a genie lamp to 99 in Falador park, then made a short jaunt over to the estate agent to buy the cape (in triplicateone for the costume rack, one for a placeholder in the bank, one to wear).

 

My Construction progress

 

 

Finally99 Construction!

 

 

I hope to never do anything that painful ever again in Runescape. But I've finally come full circle on the first skill I leveled as a member, and I've come a long way from my first horrific house (with a telescope facing a wall and no planning whatsoever) to the one I use today, which I spent hours laying out just so. In fact, my house is my favorite place in Runescape. I've plunked untold millions into getting it just the way I like it, which isn't necessarily the highest-level furniture in every slotit's themed and coherent, with a verdant central park, fancy stone and marble, and red gilded furniture.[/hide]

 

 

 

My House

 

[hide]My house is rather on the large side, planned around a central open area that the pets can cavort around in. On the south side is the utilitarian wing, with an altar, portals, and summoning obeliskeverything I'd need frequently in one place. The west wing is my personal wing, with bedrooms, study, workshop, and costume room. The east wing is meant for entertaining guests, with a parlor, kitchen, dining room, games room, and combat room. And the north wing is the ego wing, with skills and quest halls and my personal throne room. Underground I have a small dungeon (small because I used most of my room allotment on above-ground gardens) that leads to a treasure room guarded by a steel dragon. Really, the dungeon didn't matter much to meI just needed a fitting prelude to the dragon room.

 

House PlanGround Floor

 

 

House PlanBasement

 

 

I wanted to get a big picture of the actual house, but that proved difficult due to the changing camera angle. I stretched my game window as far horizontally as I could, took screenshots in strips, and tried to patch everything together in Photoshop. The rooms at the far edges didn't render properly (they had hotspots instead of furniture), and the perspective changes meant that the joined edges didn't mesh properly. Although it's not my finest hour in Photoshop, I think the resulting picture gives a good idea of the "feel" of my house.

 

My house

 

 

And because everyone on Tip.it is so clearly enamored of my house (who is even going to read this far, anyways?), here's a room-by-room tour.

 

1. Chapel. I optimized this area for trainingthe chapel abuts the entrance portal and is diagonal from two portal chambers for easy exit. My character has long been a Guthix follower (primarily because the dedicated armor was cheaper and I liked the color, but don't tell Guthix that), so the chapel is decided to our inscrutable sleeping god.

 

 

2. Entrance portal. You can enter here, replenish Prayer and summoning points, and exit easily through an adjoining portal chamber.

 

 

3. Portal chambers. Between the two of them, the two portal chambers comprise teleports to Lumbridge, Varrock, Falador, Yanille, Ardougne, and Canifis. I didn't include Camelot because Catherby tele gets me close enough, and I rarely need to visit Camelot or Seer's for anything.

 

 

 

4. Bedrooms. One is technically for the butler, but he never sleeps, so these are de facto both for me.

 

 

 

5. Study. I love the orrery, which is completely pointless but looks awesome. And in this final iteration of my house, I actually have the telescope facing open air instead of a wall! (And actually, all my doors lead to other rooms in this house, unlike my last house, where half the doors lead to walls.)

 

 

6. Costume Room. I admit to being a bit of a hoarder, so I've piled up monstrous amounts of clothing as I've played. I have a complete Treasure Trail set plus everything buyable for the Magic Wardrobe, Armor Case, and Cape Rack (and many that aren't buyable, but none of the minigame rewards, because I don't really like any of the minigames in Runescape besides Stealing Creation, maybe). Yes, I have $89M+ of fancy clothing in my costume room. This is why I have 30M Farming xp and surprisingly little cash to show for it.

 

 

7. Workshop. Great for cheap barrows repairs, making toy cats, and getting copies of basic tools like hammers and saws.

 

 

8. Garden with pond. This is a semi-enclosed park around which the personal wing curls. It has trees and a pond.

 

 

9. Parlor. Fun to sit around the fire and chat. There's the butler passing by. I used the Demon Butler for leveling but have reverted to the regular butler for greeting guests, since I like him better.

 

 

10. Kitchen. I can make +3 level tea, which I don't need any more, but would use frequently when I was just getting going on Construction (as I was always too impatient to wait until the proper level to get cool stuff like orreries or thrones).

 

 

11. Dining Room. I bought the opulent table back when it was super-cheap as a result of having been introduced into Treasure Trails. For leveling, I built a second dining room and built mahogany tables in it instead, since this one had already been fully furnished.

 

 

12. Games Room. Hangman can be kind of fun. The other games eh.

 

 

13. Combat Room. Now, the Combat Ring is where the fun is. No one should ever build a Balance Beam or Ranging Pedestals if they can have the awesome that is the Combat Ring.

 

 

14. Garden with Imp Statue. The semi-enclosed garden for the guest wing, with an imp statue.

 

 

15. Quest Hall. I put in a rug because I never intend to have a second story to my house. This room looks kind of like an art gallery, with a few paintings and a lot of open space to frame the works.

 

 

16. Skills Hall. Despite having had a number of Abyssal Demon tasks, I've never gotten a head from a kill, so I'm stuck with a basilisk for now. (He's not badhe just won't stop complaining about how I "deaded" him.) I got that giant shark back at 73 fishing, oddly enoughI was too impatient to wait for the proper level and used fishing pots to allow me to harpoon sharks. Shortly thereafter, I realized how slow shark fishing was and have never tried it since.

 

 

17. Formal garden. Since this is the ego wing private garden, it has the fanciest fountain. This is the garden I used as a location for a drawing I did back in 2008, a portrait of my RS character.

 

 

 

18. Throne Room. I like the gilded throne much better than the crystal or demonic variants. I have a normal trap because the purple greater and lesser cages clash with the rest of the house. Yes, I'm aware that that's shallow.

 

 

19. Oubliette. Fire and bone in my own private hell. Too bad the dragon is kind of a pushover; at least the fire cage will kill you effectively.

 

 

20. Dungeon entrance. The attraction at the very center of the grand park, walled in and hidden from view with hedges.

 

 

21. Dungeon Room 1. I didn't put a guard in this room in case a guest (or hypothetically, a pet) wandered in inadvertently. To enter the dungeon proper, you have to deliberately push through a set of heavy marble gates.

 

 

22. Dungeon Room 2. Things get a little danker, a little more forbidding. A little more spidery.

 

 

23. Dungeon Room 3. The descent deepens. The blood on the walls ought to be a warning that proceeding further is ill-advised.

 

 

24. Treasure Room. A deadly steel dragon guards the precious 1,500 gp in its gilded chest. If you want that money, be prepared to fight! (Or just go play Hangman in the Games RoomI have money in the chest there too.)

 

 

25. Menagerie. This room didn't come out until after I'd built the rest of my house, but I had an open space between the dungeon entrance and the entrance portal that was just perfect for it. (That's the benefit of the open house planI can fit in extra rooms fairly easily.) I keep fish, birds, and woodsy creatures in the pet house; additional pets are stashed in the bank.

 

 

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Closing Notes and Future Goals

 

[hide]Finally, here's a picture of my bank. I try to keep my bank as organized as possible, particularly since I'm often in the French world and don't remember the names to everything (and therefore can't search for them, and need to remember where I left them).

 

 

And for reference, my stats over time:

 

 

So what's in store for 2010? If possible, maxing out Slayer/Melee/Ranged/Summoning and getting all skills 90+ (sans the new one that's coming). More leveling in the French world, as I'm now signed up for my third term of French. Above all, though, keeping my real life in balance, maintaining my GPA above a 4.0 (current: 4.2), and working on a few individual projects I've gotten going. And Farming. Because I'm nothing if not consistent, when it comes to that.

 

My Farming progress

 

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[s0up3d]

Very nice achievements. 10/10 for the house also....always nice to see such a thought out thread makes it more interesting :thumbsup:

[Dark_Demesne]

Very nice achievements. 10/10 for the house also....always nice to see such a thought out thread makes it more interesting :thumbsup:

 

Thank you very much! :grin:

[xretiredx]

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[NotoriousPSC]

very impressive. I'm looking for a way to redesign my house, but all I can come up with so far is a ripoff of another house I saw at a party.

[Dark_Demesne]

Quite an inspiring thread. Nothing to rate here, it's all top notch. Love the progression and layout of the thread. I wish you nothing but the best for 2010.

 

Thanks for the good wishes! I likewise wish you great things for 2010 and beyond. :)

 

very impressive. I'm looking for a way to redesign my house, but all I can come up with so far is a ripoff of another house I saw at a party.

 

I spent weeks mulling over the design for my current house. What worked for me was grouping things by function (personal use? group use? daily use? purely decorative?). Layout creators are a godsend for getting things oriented well.

[Low C]

10/10 Glad you took the time to write all that it was an interesting read and you got quite abit of skilling done in 09.

[Saru Inc]

tl;dr

 

 

Just kiddin, that'd be cruel.

 

 

I love the thread, I only have one problem.

 

 

Your sig says you're 84 Summon, so why have pouches and seconds you can't use? (yak hides etc)

[Grasle]

You've got a sort of systematic way of doing things down to daily routine. Well done.

 

I envy your progress, hehe.

[D Jay99]

You really are an awesome skiller, congratulations on all the 99's this year!

[Our_Moon]

An interesting read... it sure beats "I did this. Then end." ^^

 

Very, very, very nicely done... (i wish i had achieved all that in one year... *grumbles*)... I especially love your house... i think i'm going to add you because i want to come and visit sometime ^^..

 

Congrats on an excellent year - I wish you the best in 2010 (as you as you don't make me feel bad when i read your thread in 2011 ;).

 

10/10

[Dark_Demesne]

10/10 Glad you took the time to write all that it was an interesting read and you got quite abit of skilling done in 09.

Thanks! The write-up came to 3900 words, which is quite a lot for a Rate This! thread, so I was hoping I wouldn't bore people to death with it, lol.

 

tl;dr

 

 

Just kiddin, that'd be cruel.

 

 

I love the thread, I only have one problem.

 

 

Your sig says you're 84 Summon, so why have pouches and seconds you can't use? (yak hides etc)

Heh heh, yeah. About that. I like to buy stuff way ahead of time so that when I'm in the middle of skilling I don't have to stop and restock, so I bought all the seconds I need for 99 Summoning already, provided I focus on crimson charms. I may not use them for a year or more, but they're there if I need them. Also, I can flip them if I need money, without much repercussion (since I plan on using them anyways, it's not like I'm stuck with junk I don't need).

 

You've got a sort of systematic way of doing things down to daily routine. Well done.

 

I envy your progress, hehe.

Thanks. :) I like to play with a game plan so I know where I stand and what I need to do in order to accomplish whatever goals I set up. I have spreadsheets that I use to calculate cost and xp/day needed for completion within a set time period and so on. I'm flexible when good opportunities pop up, but I pretty much play with a purpose, yeah.

 

You really are an awesome skiller, congratulations on all the 99's this year!

Hey, thanks! I remember you as the other TIFer with an untrimmed farming cape (that I know of, anyway) and the crazy well-rounded stats. Good job yourself, I would never have the patience to level everything quite so evenly.

 

An interesting read... it sure beats "I did this. Then end." ^^

 

Very, very, very nicely done... (i wish i had achieved all that in one year... *grumbles*)... I especially love your house... i think i'm going to add you because i want to come and visit sometime ^^..

 

Congrats on an excellent year - I wish you the best in 2010 (as you as you don't make me feel bad when i read your thread in 2011 ;).

 

10/10

Thank you very much! If I achieved a lot in a year, it's probably because my classes were easy and I had too much free time, lol. (Especially since I don't have a TV anymore.)

 

Feel free to add me, although be forewarned that I don't always have my friends chat on. (I set it to "off" if I know I'm not going to be paying much attention to RS, like I'll be multitasking with reading articles on the other screen or something, or if I'm likely to hop in/hop out on short notice, like I'm grabbing a few minutes while dinner cooks or something.)

 

Good luck in 2010 yourself!

[Obtaurian]

Very cool, and I enjoyed the read. :thumbup: Can I ask how long it takes for a fruit tree to fully restock on fruit? How about bushes?

[Dark_Demesne]

Very cool, and I enjoyed the read. :thumbup: Can I ask how long it takes for a fruit tree to fully restock on fruit? How about bushes?

 

Thanks! I estimate that fruit trees restock at a rate of about 1 fruit per hour, with a full restock every 6 hours or so. Bushes restock completely in between farm runs (which I space every two hours or so), so I'd estimate that bushes fully restock every 1.5-2 hours.

[Albel]

Awesome thread, awesome 99's and skiller. Loved reading the thread (I want to get 99 construction now)

 

15/10 keep up the good work

[Wachtwoord]

One of the best "My *insert year here*" threads I've ever read. Very well written and congratulations on you achievements.

[Bouwzie]

Wow, that drawing is amazing :blink: Fits the rest of the thread :^_^: Awesome read, 10/10.

[Obtaurian]

Wow, that drawing is amazing :blink: Fits the rest of the thread :^_^: Awesome read, 10/10.

 

I agree. The drawing was very, very good.

[Dark_Demesne]

Awesome thread, awesome 99's and skiller. Loved reading the thread (I want to get 99 construction now)

 

15/10 keep up the good work

Thanks. Having 99 Construction is great--I can build anything I want now. Getting 99 Construction... not quite as much fun, but at least it's all over with now!

 

One of the best "My *insert year here*" threads I've ever read. Very well written and congratulations on you achievements.

Thank you muchly!

 

Wow, that drawing is amazing :blink: Fits the rest of the thread :^_^: Awesome read, 10/10.

I agree. The drawing was very, very good.

Thanks guys. Having dredged up that drawing, I know realize that I produced a grand total of 0 artworks for the year 2009. Ugh. Maybe I should have spent less time leveling and more time drawing, lol. More RS art will have to go on the to-do list for 2010.

[Albel]

Sorry to post again, but I just saw the drawing...and my god that is amazing... =D>

 

I have to re-rate you...

 

25/10 now.

[Hammertime]

I was glued to the page while reading about your year and I have a hard time believing that you could produce a bad novel from the way you express yourself here. runescape may be an easier subject to write about because its obvious you love the game but thanks for an awesome read nonetheless.

 

I want to also give you a pat on the back for approaching the game, and life, with the mentality that you do (I didn't even know that a person's GPA could go over 4.0 :oops:)

 

like someone above me said nothing to rate everything is definately top notch.

 

Good Luck!

[pierenbadje]

wow i wish every rate this thread could be like this :blink: very nice achievements, awesome drawing and epic writing skills! and best of luck in 2010 ;)

[Dark_Demesne]

Sorry to post again, but I just saw the drawing...and my god that is amazing... =D>

 

I have to re-rate you...

 

25/10 now.

Thanks! Now I feel like I should start working on something new, instead of putting up 2-year-old drawings because I've been too lazy to do anything recently.

 

I was glued to the page while reading about your year and I have a hard time believing that you could produce a bad novel from the way you express yourself here. runescape may be an easier subject to write about because its obvious you love the game but thanks for an awesome read nonetheless.

 

I want to also give you a pat on the back for approaching the game, and life, with the mentality that you do (I didn't even know that a person's GPA could go over 4.0 :oops:)

 

like someone above me said nothing to rate everything is definately top notch.

 

Good Luck!

My "novel" really is pretty bad. It started off as a generic fantasy in ~1900s England; then I deleted the main character, switched the magic to scaled-up quantum entanglement controlled by prions, and changed the location to 1980s Guatemala; then I got bored and just started writing in funny anecdotes about my adventures with airports. Also, I had a lot of homework, so my word count includes a 6500-word essay on the historical trajectory of philosophers' conceptions of the ideal purview of rhetoric. Obviously I should have taken five minutes to think through the plot/characters/location a bit better. But now I know! :) And yeah, it helps that I know and love Runescape. I need to somehow obtain that level of familiarity and comfort with whatever fictional world I decide to write in.

 

GPA limits depend on which school you attend, actually. Two of my siblings go to schools where GPA stops at 4.0; my other brother and I go to a school where GPA goes up to 4.3. So I can just load up on French and Spanish and whatnot to balance out the evil classes, like physics. (Urgh.... classical mechanics. Bane of my existence.)

 

wow i wish every rate this thread could be like this :blink: very nice achievements, awesome drawing and epic writing skills! and best of luck in 2010 ;)

Thanks, and likewise, best of luck in 2010!

[AnneFrank]

Wow this achievement rocks bro

and i love your climactic story