Marlaine’s Musings

I’ve been at it on and off all day. Those darlin’ little butterflies……. I’ve caught many many many of them. Bless their little flitting wings…… Just a teeny tip – their catch spot seems to be somewhere below them, not on them. When there’s lag, it’s almost better not to try them!

Nevertheless, I’m under 190k to the next Hunter level. There’s no doubt that I’ll be able to get this level before the day is over. With no extra effort, the Agility is under 546k. Both started at 614k and are level 91 atm. Hunter gets 500xp per and Agility gets 100xp per Snowy Knight catch. Definitely a great way to train both things, but makes upping Hunter really fast! I’ve grabbed the Sapphire Glacialis whenever they get in the way and I do grab Implings whenever they flitter past me.

Well – under 95k to 92 Hunter and about 526k to 92 Agility. It won’t take long to get that Hunter level now.
There it is………

678k to the next level in Hunter. 507k to Agility 92….. Hmmmmmm……… what to do next…….. First Noodles outside and some fresh air fun with my girl buddy. I’ll think it over for a bit.

I just noticed that the 2nd lowest skill I have is Runecrafting now! That is absolutely wonderful because when I get another Summoning level, all my Tears Of Guthix will go on Runecrafting! Yippppeeee!

I think I might get a whole lot of teak and oak logs planked for the Triple XP Weekend. Still debating about it though so ……shrugs…….. I do need to get some of those teak logs planked anyway – lots of them from Miscellania. I have more than enough now for a level or three – possibly. I won’t be doing any skill that takes a lot of gathering before hand – except for the gathering. I don’t know if the ecto altar is included because bonus things won’t work during the bonus time.

Here’s a quote from Jagex:

What activities will NOT earn me bonus XP?

* Quest XP rewards
* Items that give XP (e.g. genie lamps, tomes of experience)
* XP rewards at the end of minigames (e.g. Tears of Guthix, Soul Wars, Pest Control)
* Anything which allows point exchange for XP (e.g. Penguin Points, Brimhaven Agility Arena tickets, Slayer incentives, Mrs Winkin’s World of Seeds shop from Vinesweeper, jade vine)

Here is what they say about when this is going to happen:

I don’t use GMT! Tell me what time this will be in my country.

Here’s an idea of times in different areas:
EST – 07:00 AM Friday 12th to 07:00 AM Monday 15th
PST – 04:00 AM Friday 12th to 04:00 AM Monday 15th
Australia – 23:00 PM Friday 12th to 23:00 PM Monday 15th
CET 12:00 PM Friday 12th to 12:00 PM Monday 15th
Brazil (east) – 09:00 AM Friday 12th to 09:00 PM Monday 15th

For more information, please use the handy and helpful Time Conversion Thread.

The Time Conversion Thread is linked so you can go check it if you don’t see your approximate time in the quote.

A final little rl story gang………
I have to tell you that Prime’s and my Anniversary was downright oddly eerie. We went to the store for a few last minute things and someone almost hit us in the parking lot, then followed us out onto the street on purpose. Good thing I was driving because Prime wanted to tear that person apart! (I swear, I don’t know how I avoided a collision!) {Later, Prime confessed that he had had a dream the night before of someone driving next to our car and shooting me – nice, raised eyebrow………}

One of the main reasons we went to the store was for milk – for coffee. After we got home and everything was put away, I was making Noodles’ and the cats’ dinner when the coffeemaker blew! (Blasted thing was only 1/4 finished, too!) Fortunately – or strangely – about 11 years ago, I bought a new coffee pot because the old one was not working. About a week after I had gotten the new one, I tried the old one just one last time to see if I might be able to use it for parts. The new one was a duplicate of the old one. Of course – in my life and the way things always seem to work out – it worked perfectly. I stored the old pot in the basement – but we had two floods in the last three years. Need I say it sat in water for a few days twice? Yet – cutting to “THE END” – now it’s working perfectly! (Even Prime doesn’t know yet – I couldn’t sleep, found it, and cleaned it up. He’s still sleeping.) Since I had broken the coffee carafe and the basket spring had sprung along the way, I took those parts from the old one for the newer one – now, the old coffeemaker has gotten it’s old parts back again!!!! Shaking my head – it’s just too weird.

I DO NOT believe in the, “If you haven’t used it in two years, throw it out,” motto!!!! I have had my belief in saving anything possibly usable justified today! I will admit that I almost threw that coffeemaker away after the second flood but was just too blasted tired after cleaning up to drag it up the steps.

Granted, we’ve had stranger things happen to us but those are other stories for other posts.

Familiarisation was released on February 16, 2010 – and I forgot about it! So, instead of doing that next Hunter Level right now – first I will go try to do better on the new mini-game, Familiarisation. I could have done it Thursday but………… shrugs………… too busy getting levels. I know – I hope you all don’t feel tooooooooo sorry for me. (I wish you could hear that tone of voice and see that raised eyebrow with a sassy smirk!)

This time, my Slayer assignment is Steel Dragons and there is no way I am going to do any long fight like the dragons when I am trying to get triple charms for any length of time. It will be Waterfiends for me. I’ll equip first so I am ready to go as soon as I finish the mini-game and am given the time I will have to gather extra charms.

Ok I didn’t do great but I’ve got 39 minutes……. better than nothing. I saw a lot of people on the Obelisk Chat complaining that they couldn’t find the last two shards or last one. This one was in Karamja and I’ll add the pic to the original post. I also forgot to switch the world I was gathering in – Waterfiends were crowded from others doing the same thing!!!! BJQ takes you right to the heart of them without running past the Brutal Green Dragons. Got well over 100 charms, including 90 crimsons. When the time runs out, I am going back to butterflies. Something nice, quiet and pastoral, so I can contemplate my next article. I have a few important ones going at the moment but I want to get some professional quotes and info – but not from the internet. (I’ve already done that research.)

Another new thing I saw today was over at the Gnome Stronghold. As usual, I was checking my fruit tree while I worked on Agility. I saw a player, Woundedbow2, with a fruit bat showering fruit around the fruit tree spot. I realized IMMEDIATELY what he was doing! He was picking up his harvest and having the leprechaun note it! Talk about convenient! No running to the bank every couple of minutes! He said he makes about 2.5 mil on 2k scrolls! The oranges, pineapples, papayas, and watermelons are notable and definitely worth it. The bananas are notable and useful, too – for fruit bat making.

I had 614k xp to the next Hunter level with only 531k left to go now. I have 614k to the next Agility – of course, because they are both 91 now and both recently gotten. I’ll have to wait to spike Summoning until I get a lot more charms and seconds AND gp…….. then everything will be over 91.

Ok – about an hour later, maybe a bit more……..
407k left for a Hunter level…………….
588k to another Agility level…….

Now 338k to the Hunter….
575k to the Agility…..

Now – planning for the Bonus XP weekend on March 12th….. This is not going to be as out of control as it first seemed but Prime is still against it. Granted, if there are some players who can’t be around during the XP bonus times, or don’t even know about it, that really wouldn’t be fair. The using of the time wisely is pure strategy. Should a person do something that is hard to get xp in or should they do something that gets a lot of xp anyway and get it nearly tripled? I am still debating which way to go with that.