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I did 2 slayer tasks on Tuesday. The first, dust devils, I got lucky with the spot I was killing in and was left alone. I decided to try my luck with a second task of gargoyles (after canceling 4 tasks).

What a nightmare.

It reminded me of the first week when summoning was released. 90% of the slayer monsters were camped. After 10 world hops (that's my limit for hopping), I talked to Kuradal and changed tasks, skipping 6 more before landing 180 fire giants.

Now onto penguin points. Either I didn't read it correctly or, more likely, it wasn't clear in the new post, but did you know you could spy this week's penguins twice? Well, I missed out on extra dungeoneering exp, though I did get the 2x and 88 dungeoneering. I didn't bother to try for W60. When I checked, it was full, so I moved to W71. Just be aware of trap springers.

Appropriately named

The wicked hood is just that. I've used it twice and love it. It's just what I need for a little bit of runecrafting every day. I messed up the first day, of course. I fed it talismen, then used one of the teleports to the nature altar (the hood acts as a tiara to enter an altar) and learned I hadn't unlocked the pure essence part. So I reread the RS Wiki and found out someone had edited it to be actually helpful. I'd wasted a bit of gold on the talisman when I could've just used an omni talisman/tiara and been done with it. The bit about the elemental talisman wasn't too clear to me, so I killed off a bunch of abyssal walkers until I got the drop, then fed it to the hood. Overboard, I know. The hood works as advertised. I can get my 100 pure ess daily and teleports to all the altars. I've been sticking with nats since I use those the most and getting 10 law runes as well. If I do nothing else during this 3 month membership, the hood was worth it.

TBH, the other reason I became a member again was to get this month's loyalty points in order to buy the Jack of Trades aura. Anything to get dungeoneering up without technically doing any of the skill. Math is not my strong point, but rough calculations put me getting 99 dungeoneering somewhere in 2013 (using JoT aura, TI, ToG and PP), but I'd guess a new skill will be out by then. I am looking forward to getting level 90 just to wear the 90 in All Skills cape.

I did the Halloween event, too. I liked it. Helping Frank and Horses with the rooftop fireworks was by far the best. I like those types of puzzles where I know how things move and not overly complicated (also no move/time limit).

I will not be happy

Firstly, I farmed all those herb seeds I picked up from slayer. I've only kept toadflax, spirit weed and felstalk herbs, the rest were sold for mucho profit. All I have left on the farming front are those morchella spores.

Secondly, I'm fishing in LRC (W88) to rid myself of almost 11k living minerals. Yes, I could've sold them, but, though I dislike being in LRC due to the lagfest it is, I want the fishing and cooking exp. I don't spend a lot of time down there. I pack up about 500 minerals in a go and fish while waiting for my morchellas to grow.

Thirdly, I've just tried out The Pit. The one time my agility cape is useful! I found a scout at the gnome course and found out this guy must be related to Pirate Pete (my aching head). The games are simple, though take getting a rhythm before success. The ones I tried I failed either by running out of time or turns; the falling rocks one I plain got squished! What I think the gorilla mask may be used for is an alternative to the monkey greegree - wear the mask and be safe on Ape Atoll.

Fourthly, I'm working up the effort to take on Branches of Darkmeyer. The difficulty doesn't worry me so much as the motivation. I'm not into getting my quest cape back, so what reason is there to do it? The  title? The medallion?

Fifthly, I gave poke on Merch's blog and found out she'd been banned for macroing. From what I could gleen, she was stupid enough to follow a link in an email Jagex supposedly sent her. Honestly, I felt Merch was the one person who *wouldn't* ever fall for that bullshit.

Sixthly, I sniped an enemy's old username. I wonder if he's noticed yet? :P