Marlaine’s Musings

Well – for a change I am not busy doing anything else and have started the newest penguin list moments after speaking to Chuck in the Ardougne zoo right after the reset time!

So here is the completed list before I have to make dinner! Smiling! Lots of them are moving a lot, especially the desert and the Mort Myre ones. I did the wildy one last, shrugs, should have done it first and got it out of the way – it reset just as I was ready to go hunt it down and it reset near the Chaos Elemental! I mined a bunch of addy and a couple of rune rocks while waiting in wildy, and the penguin wandered over to the Ardy lever area – that was lucky!

Week 45: July 1st to July 7th
1.) Port Khazard – Just outside of the fense near the Gen Store – Barrel – 1 pt
2.) White Wolf Mountain – Way down the path – Rock – 1 pt
3.) Gnome Strong hold – Near the big tree – bush – 1 pt
4.) Desert – On the Menaphos side of Sophanem – Cactus -1 pt
5.) Mort Myre – Far west, just outside of Canifis south gate – Toadstool – 2 pts
6.) Ape Atoll – was outside the city near the dungeon – Barrel – 2 pts
7.) Barbarian Outpost – By the raft at Waterfall – Bush – 1 pt
8.) Jatizso – Wandering inside the town – Rock – 2 pts
9.) Neitiznot – In Ice Troll area, use protect from missles – Bush – 2 pts
10.) Wildy – Near Ardougne lever, bring a knife – Rock – 2 pts
11.) Jim, the Bear, is in the Fall well south of the gate – 1pt

Just as I was going to find the Jaitzso penguin, a size 7 star dropped and I tagged it – 7.8k xp for the tag!

The unfortunate part was that I was on world 60 with the Penguin hunting crowds – that level 7 tagged star didn’t get even 120 dust. You should have seen the ant-like trail of people running back to the Jaitzso bank after the star tubbed! Yikkkkkeeeeesssss!!!!! No wonder I didn’t get 200 dust! I think I’ll do a couple stars after dinner. Smiling!

Since getting that last Agility level, I’ve been stopping over at the course and doing a few laps here and there. So now I looked at remaining xp needed to the level and I am almost down to the amount I needed when I did get serious about the level two days ago!

The herblore level is getting a bit closer, too, and I am really doing lots of herbs and gathering seconds now! After all, when it’s 99 one is going for, the going seems so much more exciting! Under 1,175,00 xp to go! So another round of toadflax and dwarf weeds and limps…… then back to my laps! Sad that Jagex made those super energies obsolete – sigh. I have a ton of them.

I’ve re-discovered uses for that explorer’s ring we got from the Lumbridge Achievement diary. It puts you very near the Draynor allotment patch and is unlimited. I had used it to make those seaweed nets and do like how close it puts you to the allotment. The one thing I had always depended on was a stop at Draynor bank using a glory tele…… I haven’t been getting out my belladonna seeds as often now but plan on picking while I high alk air battlestaffs soon anyway. It low alks things without runes but – I only used low alk at the point when I level up high enough to try it and decided it wasn’t worth using. It also replenishes run energy – shrugs…..

Primefalcon and I have also re-discovered the benefits of evil trees a couple days ago. So I’ve been breaking from agility to do the 2 trees for the day and then Tears of Guthix for the week. (177 Tears!) Lots of extra xp!!! He scouts to get up elders – smiling! That makes the evil trees worth it!

Ok now down to 85k to the agility level. I might go make a few agility pots once I get the level. Those are easier to sip while running around an agility course. I always advise that a person gets the level they need before doing a quest though because it wastes spots in the inventory instead of taking extra food – especially while doing a quest like Underground Pass. Even worse, the pot runs out on you right in the middle of needing it sometimes. While fishing – no big deal, just take another sip. Greenman’s ale pulls stats down the more you sip it. Agility runs out and you sit or stand there unable to get out.

I’ve been using a Macaw while doing the agility and it seems to drop a lot of grimy herbs – especially ranaars, avantoes, dwarfs and cadantines often. I am only using it because I had a lot of pouches made and a few hundred scrolls so figured I might as well use them. It doesn’t interfere too much with the agility because I just send it to look for an herb after a lap or two. Actually, I’m getting more per pouch using the laps as a timer. I occasionally dump the herbs in the bank, pick poison berries using the Spirit tree, and then go to the planted tree which gives oranges.

Under 50k to the level now………
Under 40K now…………..
Under 25k ………
Under 14k…
Got it!!!

There’s no doubt that the new extended Agility courses are much faster than any other agility I used before. Now, I’m really glad I didn’t push getting levels past 85 before! I sort of feel bad for those who have gotten their agility the harder, longer way! I may or may not go for another level. I have to think that over. Doing the running back and forth for herblore and poison berries, plus doing evil trees with Primefalcon really helped keep the monotony out of getting this level. We’ll see. 415k xp to the next level – sounding kind of long now. Doing the Macaw scrolls and ending up with so many grimy herbs really helped, too.

I’ve been working on articles for MarlaineMarie on eHow and have put up a couple about using links to build traffic on your own sites. I am using that method to build category pages on StoreHows.com and it is the way I set up the Quest Guides page here. (A lot faster to open a specific article, too! I needed my banana bread recipe fast – used StoreHows to find it and got it up on screen quick!) Prime and I were laughing about the fact I use StoreHows as my recipe file system now but in truth, it is ending up being a basic cook book I can use any time. Plus a reference for a number of subjects I write about. I am playing with the idea of making the recipes into an eBook actually.

Tired now and tomorrow is Penguin Day – more Runecrafting whittled off…. Smiling!