One Small Favour
Entry posted by Merch Gwyar
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Honestly, you try to get to know the locals in this new village and next thing you know, you're trapsing all over Runescape, fighting level 92 magical beings and generally running around helping half a million strangers out.
Yep, in my exploration of Shilo Village, I ended up doing the 'One Small Favour' quest, which is surely the longest (in terms of time to complete) quest in the game. The guide was excellent, though the quest instructions in-game were so simple to follow that I rarely had to consult it. I did have a skim-read through beforehand though and noted that there was a lot of nipping off from one place to the next, so I packed a load of law, earth and air runes. The cunning plan there is that my house is full of portals, so all I needed to do was teleport there in order to access loads of places in Runescape. Unfortunately, that plan wasn't as good in real life.
The quest basically takes you from one favour to the next, but each time it's going just down the road. It's not worth teleporting anywhere, because it's only a short distance and the nearest place to teleport to is further away from where you are. I don't think I've walked and run so much since I was a little noob.
It was enjoyable though, particularly since I have an enormous capacity to get side-tracked. Hence, I've ended up with full HAM robes, because each time I went into their HQ, I stayed for a while pickpocketing members. I did have the full set before, but sold them, then shortly afterwards, the wardrobe in my house allowed for them to be stashed there. I've shoved them in there now. I paused in the Seer's Village to spin some wool. Things like this. Then finally got bored of whatever and picked up the quest again. I had a free evening yesterday and it took me its entirety, plus my dinnerhour today, to finish it.
I can now use the glider to get to the Feldip Hills and I have a steel keyring, though it appears that there are limitations on the keys available to add to it. I don't think I've cleared any space in my bank at all!
Best of all though were the two lamps with 10k of xp in both. Oh! The responsibility! It took me the entire quest to decide where they were going and eventually I decided upon herblore and runecrafting. As as result I went up one level and two levels respectively. I was very close to putting it onto construction out of habit, but I really have got all the rooms I wanted in there, or slayer. I do prefer slayer to running around runecrafting though, which finally swung the decision that way. There are whole reasons why runecrafting is my lowest skill (not counting hunting), which is mainly due to the fact that all the running backwards and forwards to altars bores me to death.
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