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

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.

I found the source of that weird smell coming from the basement

An unexpected drop while doing a slayer task. I finally had something positive to update on my Runewise achievement list (so many things to uncheck :( ).

Oh, I learned a new sign of who's a bot - only bots use the Abyss to runecraft. Siik Rephase insisted I was one when he killed me in the Wildy. I paid him back, though. I went straight back to the Wildy, called him a chicken and used my corpse to hide my bones. :P

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.

Newfound info

A couple of things I learned that do work during the BEW:

- checking your jade vine farming exp (I got 1650 exp with 1.1 bonus)

- 2 things for LFM: golden mining outfit and dwarven ancestor bonus exp stack with BEW bonus

I'll likely get 99 mining from this, too. I are a happy 'mech. :D

A ready teddy

I'm about as ready for the upcoming BEW as I can get. I'll be poking about in the LFM, providing Jagex deigns that place BEW compatible, after selling the handful of long bones to Barlak. I really wish Jagex would post a complete list of what is and isn't allowed for the upcoming BEW. I remember doing the circus last time, then finding out it wasn't included anymore. Well, anyway, my list: turn in long bones, no life LFM at long as possible (to 1.1), make potions, craft fire bstaves, runecraft at ZMI.

One thing that did make me happy was the updated RS toolbar. The list of activities is customizable, so I ticked out the ones I don't do. All I have showing up now are bstaves, Bert, kingdom management and ToG.

ION, anyone looking to get a lot of the felstalk seeds and morchella spores, go kill nechs. I got a lot from them this morning - 8and 54 respectively.