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.

The long slog

Hard for me to believe I have this level. I can do all the assists, yay!

I did get  new video and audio cards, so slayer and mining can get back on track. I think I'll start slayer tomorrow, keep doing my daily 100k exp rc'ing and work on mining after rc'ing is finished.

Runes made today

How many runes I made today (100k exp):

Air - 41

Mind - 69

Water - 135

Earth - 191

Fire - 266

Body - 348

Cosmic - 383

Chaos - 524

Astral - 403

Nature - 847

Law - 892

Death - 941

Blood - 605

Soul - 398

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.

New things

I have finished with my runecrafting for an extremely long time. Finally, I reached level 91 which is apparently where the gold pieces come. I haven't figured out how, exactly, that happens when I use the nats I make.

Anyway, I learned a valuable thingy about my alotted bank space. Jagex adds up the F2P and P2P bank space together to get this mystery 516 total. Seeing as I have 2 sets of numbers whenever I open my bank, it bothers me a bit. It didn't used to, but I can't wrap my head around the math. 

Lastly, I invented a role-playing game to play when I'm very bored. I get low on life points, then hurry to Morytania. I activate the soul split prayer and attack people, pretending to be a starving vampire. It's most fun when played with the swamp vampires as you can be pushing to dominate the area.

@Jamie - Yes, quote whatever you need.

Disturbance in the Force

Sine the countdown of my membership going, I've been slogging away at the pure essence in my bank. I told myself, "Just 1k a day. Takes, what, an hour at ZMI? I can stand an hour running the hellhole that is W70 ZMI". Eventually, the people training there broke me. I couldn't take the herd mentality and being a free taxi anymore. I decided to try ZMI on another world, wanting to know how much I'd get beaten by the Zamorakians roaming the tunnel.

It's quite all right. Oh yes, 99 defense and magic help a lot and I don't get hurt that much. So I'm running ZMI on my own world, contented knowing no one is waiting to shackle onto my ass like a patient barnacle. 

I didn't notice until I rechecked my maths.

I'd been clocking out 3k pure essence a day.

For a whole week without realizing it.

 And I'm not insane yet.

:o

ION, the poll results are in. Kitt wins, so I'll plunk down more money for continued membership. Also, for the 2 people who want me to die in a fire:

Sucking it up

At the beginning, runecrafting was a fun skill to train as the levels came rather quickly and there was something new at each one. Once level 20 came around, I could make all the F2P runes. Of course, why not keep going until 30 so I can be on the hiscores? That's about all you need for F2P, the other runes will have to be bought. Around this time, I got membership. P2P comes into it with the ability to make new runes until 77 and throwing in 4 essence pouches as well. After level 77, the only things to change are more runes per essence and a schmexy cape if you're a weirdo who likes runecrafting. :P

So what keeps me slogging my way through a skill I absolutely despise?

It steams from a mix of reasons. One, I need certain runes, like astrals, laws and nats, for crafting and alchemy and I'm not buying when I only need a few hundred or so. Two, goals of all levels above 70/80/90. Three, I've finally relieved my kung-fu grip of hoarding runes Just In Case and am making deaths to sell. 

And why don't I like runecrafting?

It's a lot of work for a little pay. When first starting, 5 exp per rune is great because the experience between levels is small. Right now, I'm staring at 413k exp until level 88. Just thinking about all those runs through ZMI or the Abyss is killing my will to train it. ZMI will make it go faster, giving me nearly double the experience over the same number of death runes.