The Path Of Glouphrie
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Choosing melee weapons
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I had no intention of doing another quest so soon (because I'm going to run out of them at this rate) and, if I did, it was going to be 'Darkness of Hallowvale'. However, I was at the spirit tree in the Tree Gnome Village en route to my fruit trees, when I recalled that a quest started by talking to the King standing right next to me. I canted with him, which started it, then worked out which quest it was - 'The Path of Glouphrie'. I decided to just do the bits of the quest in this 'hood, then harvest my fruit tree and be on my way.
Yes...
The reality was that the further I went, the more I got into the storyline and, moreover, I was enjoying it. I was loving the glorious technicolour of it all most of all, which, in gnome lands, is always wonderful. The first time I ever attempted high detail was at the Grand Tree and lived with the increased lag for ages so to experience the increased aesthetics. This quest was like revisiting that time again, just meandering along, just doing the next bit of quest, then I'll get back to farming. I even detoured to Taverley, so to collect toads' legs for the Tangled Toad dish that Longramble wanted. He gave me some mintcake, which is always nice.
Before I knew it, the guide was telling me to prepare for the final battle. What?! How did I get that far into it? There came a conundrum. The only melee weapons I had were a poisoned dragon dagger, a Barrelchest anchor, a machete and a poisoned Keris. I could have waited for Reaver to log on (he's borrowed my whip and, due to the unbalanced trade thing, I'm holding copious amounts of raw lobster as security), but the more I scanned the guide and realized how little there was to do, the more reluctant I was to postpone it. Besides, as I said, I was having so much fun. In the end, I selected my weapon. Which one would you have gone for? I've made a little poll so you can vote on it.
After much deliberation, I chose
the poisoned dragon dagger
. Packing alongside it my grapple, crossbow, superset, one prayer pot, crystal chimes and a lot of sharks. I wore my helm of Neitiznot, rune platebody, dragon plateskirt, dragonboots, a glory and a ring of dueling (I forgot to put on a ring of life). I carried Lilshu's dragon shield. Meandering slowly up to the grapple tree (so to give Reaver extra seconds to log on), I healed the spirit tree and then paused. I wasn't sure about that weapon at all, so I did what I should have done back in the bank, I consulted a friend. Well, three of them in this case, as they were in 'Canting Away' at the time, but neither Audio, Iggy nor Sayf had done the quest.
In trepidation, I entered the cave, where nothing immediately attacked me. There was someone in there killing the warped terrorbirds dressed in full Guthans. I thought Wildman2054 was doing the quest, so hung back. Unfortunately, it wasn't far enough because the birds in the other room could still range me in the tunnel. :( I returned to the tortoise room, where nothing hurts you. The player and I canted about the quest, though it turned out that he was there for slayer. He thought that I might be ok, even without either a whip or a skimmy. It took me a while to realize that I had much further to go through this dungeon before I reached the scene of the final fight.
I did much running and protecting from range then. Everywhere I went, things were hitting me. :rofl: I got right into the depths of the place, before I found a place to rest. Sipping some prayer potion and nibbling on a shark, I found that it wasn't too much further now. There was also another place on the map which looked like the area I was standing in. It might be another safe spot. I ran and it was! Yay! I loitered there, within sight of the final room, reading and re-reading the strategy. Find pillars, trap birdie, use chimes, protect from range... right. Just on it, I noticed that CJ of the Quest Cape was in Canting. Yay! It was his reassurance that I'd be fine with the weaponry I had which got me out of the tunnel and into the room.
Of course, all that fine strategy went to pot, as the warped terrorbirds mobbed me at the door. However, I quickly realized that only one of them was actually attacking me, so I targetted him. Once he was dead, it allowed a second bird to attack me, but still kept off the third. Double yay! I was able to take them out one by one.
It looks like there will be a third in this series. I do hope so!
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