I got 24 skillcapes and Dungeoneering ain't one of 'em

Last skillcape for a while. My pride is I did it without using a dwarf cannon. :) One thing I wanted to do was cash in my slayer points for slayer dart runes, but I haven't yet. I think it's worth doing to sell off the death runes.

Diggy, diggy rocks

Done with mining! Now to swap all those lava titan pouches for shards. :P I'll focus more on slayer, maybe upping the daily exp gained to 50k.

Two four

Oh so excited. I'm on a nice, rounded number for my total level (2460) and the downhill for slayer and mining is (relatively) fast approaching! I'll get a double 99 for my birthday, which will be way better than the provincial election I got everyone else.

Early

The long list of thanks to the people who kept me from performing a self lobotomy with an ice pick:

IRL Friends:

Myst Drake

pourcour95

Tazlike

Podcasts:

PrimeMar RuneScape Podcast (Marlaine and Primefalcon)

The Shaft (Brent, Wes and Eric)

YouTubers:

Veriax

Tord aka mynameisnotlilly

Squee913

ArchmageMelek

Coestar

Maz aka extremebeyond and the I Am Sux team

Foolscap77

Kage848

AvidyaZen

Bananapielord

Simon and Lewis aka Yogscast

GixG17

Madmommy and Yam

Mhykol

Luclin, Mrsluclin and lilethan000 aka minecraftwb

BitBurner, JuneyBug and Tiniest Bit aka minecrapdotcom

mmillss

Paul Soares Jr. and family

Necroscope86

Razorflamekun

Welsh Pixie

Wolv21

Lag In The Late Night

Theunclegodfather

13 days

The last time I was this excited over finishing a skill was 99 cooking. I have 80,279 pure essence, likely more than I need thanks to strykewyrms, to craft and a bit over 1.2M exp to earn. I pushed myself hard today since I had 174k exp to go to 98. I also had 2 half hour naps in my desk chair, lol.

Derpina

Hey, I forgot I can change graphic settings in RuneScape. I've been moping the last 2 weeks at being unable to work on things for no reason. Anyway, I'm flashing back to 2006 and dealing with trippy teleports. It's not lag per se, just the onboard card unable to deal with the teleport animations. Mining is out. I hung out in the lava flow mine for a few days, doing maths, and came to the realization that the LRC are better for exp (and I want money for the ores). Slayer is semi-okay, depending on the task and number of people around me. Runecraft, to my dismay, is just hunky dory. :/ Well, I'll be putting in a lot of time at ZMI than I want. Squeaking out 3 hours of making runes there every day will get me a cape just as my subscription runs out.

Skill progress

Estimates of when I should get 99 mining, rc and slayer if I keep doing what I'm doing.

Mining - August 23 doing an hour a day every day; just down there as long as a lava titan is summoned. Might be much earlier if I get the gumption to no-life train in LRC, usually happens after level 95.

Runecrafting - November 18, doing  ZMI for 27k exp. I do about 36 runs or 3 giant pouch degrades.Thinking about about putting peng points in rc instead of dungeoneering. I haven't figured those into the equation though (37,200 exp per week).

Slayer - November 18 with 22k exp a day. Most of the slayer tasks are more than 22k and I love that. I also kill my jade vine and that probably where I'll get 99.

Deja Vu?

You know, this place ... this emote ... I've been here before.

Postpartum blues

There is always some kind of down time after achieving a 99. You've been in a cycle for days/weeks/months and moving away is hard. Though I didn't like making 15k teak tables for two weeks (with a break in between), I found myself standing in Yanille bank wondering what I'm going to do. The really obvious thing is to upgrade my house now that I can build everything. The down slope is affording everything. I went to RuneHQ and used their POH mapping calculator? to come up with a new layout for the main floor and dungeon. Once I had the plans, I copied them down and listed out all the items to go in each room. I'd set a loose budget of 100M, knowing I'd be getting a demonic throne (25M) and at least one dragon (10M). My rough estimate of the expensive gear - marble blocks, magic stones, dragon(s) - is in the ballpark of 60M. That means it's time for serious money making, going so far as to try this double nat crafting thing the cool kids talk about, along with herb farming and some slayer.

Since I've been figuring out what to do with myself, I felt it was time to give up and make serious attempts at the fight caves. I asked for advice from players who kill Jad on a regular basis and they tell me I should have no problems with anything except the prayer switching. I haven't gotten to Jad yet because of my own stupid mistakes. Finishing the damned KAD is driving me bonkers; very much akin to ME2 which I only left undone for so long because it was moronically difficult. That pushes me forward. What holds me back is knowing I'm very likely to die to Jad and waste 2 hours that I could have been avoiding runecrafting and dungeoneering.

20

Now I can build my own TARDIS:

The fruits of my labors: