Marlaine’s Musings

All Fired Up Quest

Speak to King Roald in the Varrock Palace throne room to start this quest. The King has a plan to increase his kingdom’s security using a network of beacons that could warn Varrock of an invasion. The beacons have been set up and people hired to maintain them but they haven’t actually been tested yet…. This won’t take you long if you have the firemaking skills required. Access to a mini-game follows the completion of the quest. Pyromaniacs – go for the burn!

Map of the Quest Territory

Requirements:
Level 43 Firemaking
Priest in Peril

Items needed:
45 logs – any kind, a tinderbox, energy pots, tele to Varrock, and an axe.

King Roald says that they’ve set up a system of beacons from the River Salve to the wilderness. He needs help testing the beacons, which have been put up to warn of any attacks on Misthalin. Agree to help him.

The King tells you to talk to the fire tender, Blaze Sharpeye. Blaze’s stationed south of the Temple of Paterdomus. Blaze wants you to light the beacon near him. You need to use 20 logs with the beacon, then use the tinderbox on the beacon. Talk to Blaze again. He wants you to light another beacon near Squire Fyre .

Head over to the beacon near Squire Fyre, near the limestone quarry west of the starting point for Rag and Bone Man quest.

Light the beacon with 20 logs and a tinderbox , just like the other one. Go back to talk to Blaze again.

Blaze says that you must noticed the fire is dying down and asks you to relight it for him. You only need five logs this time. Just use the logs with the beacon.

Talk to Blaze after you have relit it. He tells you there are 14 other beacons and that the rest of the network needs to be tested out. If you can keep them all lit, there are great rewards awaiting you. You will need to report to King Roald now to give him the news.

Go back to King Roald to receive your reward.

QUEST COMPLETED!

Rewards:
1 Quest Point
20 K gp
5.5K Firemaking XP
Access to the All Fired Up mini-game.

The All Fired Up Mini-game is a continuation of the quest. It requires level 92 Firemaking to complete and there is a time limit.

If you can keep six beacons lit at the same time, you will get a ring that will help you in firemaking.

If you can keep ten beacons lit at the same time, you will get a pair of gloves that work in combination with the ring to help you with firemaking.

If you can keep 14 beacons lit at the same time, you will get the Inferal Adze – a fire enhanced tool that will assist in woodcutting and mining.

You will have to keep all 14 beacons burning at the same time to get all three. This sounds more like a mini-quest and not a mini-game.

Here is the best I could do for a map – the pink dots are the beacon spots but they were pretty hard to get on one screenie. The beacons show up on the new Runescape map as little markers – except one on the west line is missing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will need 20 logs per beacon and it’s sounding as though it would work to fill all the beckons with the logs first and then run to each spot to light them. Magic logs burn longer so if you are able to use those to burn, do so. Take energy pots, strange fruit or the explorer’s ring to help you hurry – along with boots of lightness and spottier cape. Protect from Missles in the eastern Trollheim areas. Super stat restore will help with the Godwars area because being in the area lowers your stats – that means if your firemaking goes below 92, you won’t be able to light the beacon. Now that I am looking through different help sites and forums, I see we need to fix things and do things to be able to use certain beckon spots. One needs jute fibres and I have to plant some now because no one is selling them on the GE at the moment – of course.

So here is a list of extra needed items to do all 14 beckons:
Level 70 smithing – a hammer and 4 iron bars
Level 59 construction – 2 nails and 2 planks
Level 60 crafting – a needle and 3 jute fibres
Level 64 agility
Level 92 firemaking
Taking all the extras as you check each beacon out, before actually loading with logs, lets you repair anything needed. Some of those spots are irritating to get to, especially the one in Goblin Village, so it’s best to check them out before doing the actual log loading. There are four beacon areas that need to be repaired before you can get to them.

Northeast of Goblin Village, past the Wilderness ditch. You’ll need to fix broken pegs. Take a hammer and two iron bars.

West of Dark Warrior’s Fortress. You’ll need to fix the ladder. Take a
hammer, 2 nails and 2 planks.

Northwest of the God Wars Dungeon. You’ll need to fix the windbreak. Take a needle and 3 jute fibres.

Northwest of the small altar in the Wilderness. You’ll need to fix the ladder. Take the hammer and two iron bars.

The rest of the spots need no repairs but the wildy one up by the Frozen Waste Plateau is more dangerous so take some food and super stat restore and a prayer pot.

Ok – both Prime and I got all the fires going at once. The King awards each piece ……..
The Ring

The Gloves

The Inferno Adze

All equipped……………

The inferno adze burns every 3 to 5 logs as you cut. This ended up quite a challenging mini-quest after such an innocent quest! Jagex is calling it a mini-game but once done, I’m not sure what you get as rewards. If you drop or lose your ring, gloves, or adze – you have to do all the beacons again. The gloves do not protect your hands when you pick night shade – at least for the moment.

# Madon Lauxes Says:
August 22nd, 2008

Hey Marlaine, I got a question, you seem to work on so many skills, but do you ever log on to RuneScape and not really have any set plan. Because I do that all the time, and then I get too bored too quick. I am also wondering, what is you favorite skill? You seem to enjoy them all but what is your absolute favorite? And while we are on that subject, what is your least favorite skill?

Love your blog,
Madon Lauxes

Marlaine replies:
Thanks Madon! I am going to think this over and add comments as the day goes on.

I really don’t have a set plan most of the time. I go by whatever mood grabs me. I thought a few days ago that I would be getting more crafting and herblore but instead, I just had a need to hammer stuff so I worked on construction. I cut and plank oak logs when I have an axe and some gp in my inventory when I get my battlestaffs in Varrock sometimes. I wait until I have a whole lot of them to do a level and I noticed that I had more than enough planks. Actually there were almost enough planks for two construction levels in the last week. After all that whamming, my arm is sore and I probably won’t work on that again for a longgggggggggggggggg time. I got seriously bored with remove/build and frustrated with that busy bee butler. When I don’t have anything in my inventory after getting the battlestaffs, I fill up with maple logs and a tinder and do a couple walk ‘n burns. Because I have 99 firemaking, but ended up high in high scores, I try to do a load of logs here and there to stay somewhere near the 200 mark. Once you have a higher high score, you have to sort of maintain it or you will drop like a rock! I was in the top 100 fire making but…… shrugs……… other things to do! When the fire making – I want to call it burning – quest comes out, it probably won’t help me much but it might make me sorry I already have 99. Shrugs – or it will help me get back into the top 100 burners – smiling!

Lil’ Bit Tip – (Notice new page to the right?) 16 is the most convenient number for getting seaweed and battlestaffs – I know that doesn’t sound like much of a tip but……… that number is the best for running back and forth for those two things. I used to empty everything except gp but ended up with only a few items for the last run. Then, I’d have to go searching for all my stuff again.

Today, I am not sure what I want to work on. I have a couple articles that I’m working on for eHow – how to cut your dog’s nails and your cat’s. (Dang you guys….. I am not going to use all the pics we took of our Monsieur Phat Cat while I trimmed his nails but honestly – if looks could kill, Prime and I would both be laid out in our “Sunday Best” with flowers propped in our cold, cold hands right now………hahahahahahahaha! Phat was mad at Prime for watching his humiliation and taking pics – I think….. ) Oh that reminds me – eHow is having a special for their writers. If you sign up using this link – MarlaineMarie@eHow sign up friends! – and write just one article, I will get extra credit. Writing those articles generates passive income every month! Even if I didn’t add another article, my monthly income would increase. The first month I earned 50 cents, the second earned $5, the third – over $10, the fourth brought in $15, then over $20, and it is going up all the time! Now that I see what works for eHow articles, (check out the most popular articles for a list of subjects that people are looking for as a guide to what to write about), I have started to actually enjoy writing non-fiction articles! Since only 10 people will count for me, this won’t do me a whole lot of good but I do recommend this to anyone who likes writing. The idea of passive income for the rest of your whatever or until the site disappears is incredible (That’s getting to be unlikely since it’s getting so popular)! You can also save all your articles and/or post them other places because eHow has no restrictions about your own use of your work. (Do pay attention to other sites you might post them on because they might demand all copyrights to your article – that’s why I post mine to Prime’s and my sites and blogs – no plagiarism if it’s our own anyway!) If eHow dies or…. you can use any of your articles somewhere else like Gather. eHow pays money – not gift certs – so that’s the other plus. Even my brother, CycleCyco, alias Bear, is earning more money every month and he isn’t adding articles all the time like I do! If you start now and keep adding a couple articles now and then, your passive income from this site could reach enough to live happily. I wish I had known about this one a couple years ago! I am even planning to organize and self publish a couple of books using the articles I’ve already published. You can write about any subject but it has to be non-fiction writing. I can’t post my short fiction stories there – blast it! (You can post fiction on Gather – but again, it pays in certificates.) It is also great writing practice. Write articles for assignments at school (if you’re still in school) and re-write to fit eHow’s format wizard. Added note: I hated writing non-fiction/articles before eHow and NEVER thought I would be writing in that style.

I am going to log on now and see where I left myself. I don’t remember if I went over to the staff seller yesterday so I probably lost out on yesterday’s batch of staffs. Oh I am still near my house with noted oak planks that were left over from yesterday. So, I’ll go to my house and use those planks up first since I am all set up to do it. It is more time efficient to just continue with something when you are all set up than to equip and un-equip all the time. Besides, I will want to get another construction level eventually.

I am almost done with the logs I had noted and am looking over the Swifty side bar to see where I stand with some of my levels. I had a few things go busy today so I didn’t get to really work on much and I knew I wouldn’t sooooooooooooooooo………….. I did some runecrafting, since I need some runes anyway. Smiling……….. thing is, I always try to do a couple things at once. At times it seems like I am not getting much accomplished but in reality, I get closer to levels in multiple skills at the same time. (…. and I am trying to stay high in a couple of skills over 99 at the same time which doesn’t help my overall!)

When I get time to do something I really enjoy, I like doing the implings in Lost City area. I can almost hear those cuties giggle. (I like to believe they escape when you open the jar but leave behind whatever they were carrying.) But my fav skill is…… When I was a free player, I loved the smithing/mining the most. I actually never ranged or crafted anything while I was a free player. I was level 50 something when I started members and had most of the free skills up to 50 or more, with all but one free quest completed. I’d have to say that runecrafting might be my least favorite, running close to summoning and hunter. Hunter has to be the worst for actually giving nothing helpful or useful to any other skill. The spottier cape helps extend run and the gloves of silence supposedly improves thieving but that is about all it helps. I actually started Runescape because I thought I would be able to do magic stuff and be a wizard like Merlin or Samantha/Bewitched.

So which skill is my fav??????????? Hmmmmmmmm……….. All in all, I think herblore is it.