World 70 Zmi Fight Club
Entry posted by Merch Gwyar
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To be fair, I did start off runecrafting at the ZMI altar in World 70, after all, that's what it's there for. With three runs, I got 2600 odd xp, which isn't at all bad. On each return journey, I was fighting, having worked out that I could kill one mage, one ranger and one warrior, before I needed to run back. Twice (of the three) I reached the bank just as my prayer ran out.
However, I found that I was enjoying the fighting more than the runecrafting. I wasn't only getting the xp and the drops, but it's a good spot. You are covering the backs of your fellow players. It's a little like the anti-Wildy. This in mind, I banked my runes and took out a lot of salmon instead. Topped up my prayer at the altar there and went running back out to play.
At first, there were three other players doing this, so we pretty much safeguarded the central part between us to the extent where we had chance to pause between rounds, so to bury bones and wolf down a fish, before our victims respawned and got our skimmys in their faces again. Somewhere along the way though, my two companions disappeared and suddenly I was in trouble. I had two mages, one warrior and one ranger ALL turning their weaponry on me. The runecrafters were fine. I wasn't. LOL I took out as many as I could and ran for it. Prayer recharged and more fish in my bag, I ran out again, shortly to be joined by a couple of level 100s. Now it was really fun, picking and choosing my fights.
Meanwhile, in chat, Joshua Mack had decided to take advantage of this by coming runecrafting. I kept watching his green dot bob on by, as I took on yet another mage. I'd moved down a bit, onto the narrow part of the second path, which gave me one ranger, one mage and one warrior each respawning in turn. Unfortunately, this didn't give me much time to heal between fights, so I was constantly down to 50hp, topping myself up to that too. I hadn't been chatting much, because I couldn't, but I did respond to something, which knocked my sequence out. I shot down to 39 hp and was just eating salmon, when a blue-green arrow appeared from nowhere and took out the warrior who was attacking me. It was Joshua Mack. :D Thanks cariad.
I nipped off a while to answer a telephone call, then ran back to the bank to restock and, once back, Josh had disappeared. I was out for ages then, as the warriors seemed to be mostly leaving me alone. I stood in my position and got the sequence again. I was killing so many of them, but using no food whatsoever. I was spotting the same names time and time again passing by, some of them getting wise to this and so switching off their prayer as they rounded my corner. All in all, I was to gain 27024xp in attack (and the relative amount in hp too) fighting out there.
After a while, I really needed a breather though. Largely because it's difficult to roll a cigarette and watch your hp, whilst quickly shifting from one fight to the next, all at the same time. I stepped into the altar itself and stood at the back watching. People were being offered teleports and food, lower levels attaching themselves onto taxi chains led by higher levels. I was offered a teleport to Fally, via a lovely bloke called Alex and his teleother skills. I declined, but thanked him. It seemed like a true community out there.
I stepped back out into the path and started fighting. The breather had been enough for the half hour rule to be over (where monsters no longer attack you), so I was immediately beseiged by all three of my victims, all now respawned together as I wasn't there to stop it. Having stupidly not anticipated this, and having given most of my food away to battered people inside the altar, I was very quickly in trouble. I took out two more, but had to flee back into the altar with 20hp and no prayer left.
I spotted no taxi chains and Alex had disappeared. I waited a little while, then stood by the stones and asked,
'Any chance of a taxi back?' No response. I added, 'No food or prayer left'. I recognized names from the two hours I'd been there, watching them hurry by, but not one of them repaid my long defence of them with the offer of safe passage back. Instead, one person called out,
'You'll have to go the safe route then won't you?'
I was going to restock and carry on, but I didn't. I walked the safe route, took out a teleport and went to fight elsewhere instead. If World 70 doesn't want fighters defending their routes, then I'm sure the message will soon be received loud and clear, after all, it's not like the drops are brilliant.
Edit: Kuemper 
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