Money making for new players, or why can't we all be Egghebrecht (except for his exploding appendix)

Before I had the teleports and stockpiled money for MTK and daily shop sales, I hunted polar kebbits and farmed cats for money.

The cats take a bit of work, what with rescuing Fluffs' babies and eventually adopting one to become a cat in order to trade for death runes. [Please don't tell Gertrude. I've been lying to her and saying they're in my house and quite happy.] Getting the Ardy 1 cape makes it more than worth the few hours babying a kitten. I'd grow a kitten to cat a day, farm it out to West Ardy and sell off the 200 death runes for around 70k. 

When I got bored of being in Catherby, I went out hunting for polar kebbit furs with kitten in tow. The walk/run was nearly deadly (damned unicorns/bear cubs/rock crabs), but worth it. The furs were about 3500 each and I spent a good amount of time filling my inventory (27 plus a space for the kitten/cat). That was nearly 95k.

Efficiency?

So I'm browsing TipIt and I read this question about grenwalls and using bonecrusher. [I know there are "better" things to spend tokens on.] One sentence left me gobsmacked:

So I've heard its worth smoking traps at grenwalls, but I don't see how its possible between casting fruitfall, dropping bones, setting up/tearing down traps, and baiting said traps to fit that in.

O.O

I've heard of the super efficiency training since Zarfot came out with getting 200M exp in every skill as fast as possible and mouse keying being semi-legal. I know about firemaking backwards and tipping bolts while woodcutting/fishing/slaying. but J. Guthix Manderberry. Are people honestly and truly missing uber amounts of experience that they have to squeeze in 4 different activities in 2 seconds?

Desert Bus for Hope

My favorite charity endurance is on the horizon again. Desert Bus for Hope is making its fourth annual drive with the Loading Ready Run crew at the wheel.

Child's Play helps get toys and games to kids in hospitals.

Desert Bus is the worst video game ever made. It's real time driving a bus (with a veer to the right) at 45 mph from Tuscon, AZ to Las Vegas, NV. The trip lasts eight hours. There is no way to hurry this up either and the controller can not be "fixed" for the veer; a person has to manually correct for it.

The more money that is donated pushes LRR to play for longer. The charity event lasts about six days.

The kids aren't all right

The kids in RuneScape are ugly, the human ones especially. 

When Kennith's Concerns quest came out, Kennith was extremely creepy and his chat head moreso. The head bobbing makes me want to reach through the monitor and choke the little bastard. Sometime after that quest, all the kids got updated and their facial features are identical to Kennith, including the repetitive, nervous tick. 

[You can argue the adults are no different, merely cookie cutters of each other. At least adults grew out of that head bobbing bullshit.]

I think I was reading about the list of things Pontak asks you to get during Fremmy Trials when I saw an upclose picture of Andrew Gower. Bulgy eyes, long nose, no chin, bowl-style haircut; OMFG HE'S THE BASIS FOR ALL THE KIDS IN RUNESCAPE.

Rattus norvegicus

After getting through the cat/rat quest "serials", I've realized why there is still such a rat problem in West Ardougne: my cats can't catch rats for shit.

To start, Icthlarin helped me not totally desecrate the tomb of Klenter. It's one of those foundation quests that has to be done to get to other quests. It went better than the other times because I didn't have to run to bank for food/potions. RuneHQ saved me there. :D And I kept finding the safe spot by the pit jump (just at the top of the pillar, right-hand side) to keep the mummy from attacking me while I rested. I failed the pit jump often, only succeeding on the initial jumps when I had to leave the pyramid to talk to the high priest. BTW, watch out when you run by the ghost of Klenter because he will beat you up, take some money or both.

That led to helping Bob win Neite; an adventure I really enjoyed. I like having the mouse toy to play with.

Thirdly, Ratcatchers. It's up there for hated quests. Walkthrus make it easy, but it's still time consuming. The only change I noticed was I had to use specifically rat poison on the cheese. Before, I'd used the Draynor manor poison. Someone else and his kitten were in the mansion with me and pwning me with rat catching.

It's pretty cool to be able to understand my cats now. Also, I can finish up a couple medium ADs.

The essence of a lady

In a nutshell, this explains Merch Gwyar best. For anyone else, we'd've either remembered the guard plays a part in Biohazard, or decided if he's wearing all that protective gear maybe we shouldn't go poking around.

Also, if she ever remembered her combat info, she's be very much like Zanik.

Flammenwerfer

I completed Dragon Slayer last night. Holy crap, Elvarg has been ramped up! She uses her dragonbreath constantly and quickly. I read on the Wiki that it hits with the speed of a whip and I now realize how freaking fast that is. I did use an antifire potion since this was the first time doing this quest as a member (other times have been F2P). When she did hit, it was for a minimum of 70 damage and typically twice in succession. The other thing - once I stepped over the barrier, my prayer points plummeted. I'd compare the drain to what happens when fighting Damis (shadow diamond) during Desert Treasure. I toyed with the idea of using protection prayer, but fortunately I read ahead and decided against it.

Since playing on a new character, I have ran into people who nag me over "thought you quit lol". It's that same crap that happened with Sal's; I never said I quit RuneScape. I said I was not playing on Kitt. I swear, people aren't taught to read in school anymore.