Family Crest
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The denizens of the firepit underneath the pub in Burthorpe were shuddering with horror at the amount of monkfish that I was burning. I wore a chef's hat, because one of them thought it would make a difference, but I couldn't see much of one if there was. Then someone piped up,
'You need the steel gauntlets from the Family Crest quest'.
I do, do I? After hearing of the bonus it would make to cooking, I concurred with that assessment of the situation and zapped myself off to Ardoughe. This is where I'd left myself in that quest months ago. I'd been such a new player that I couldn't even cook half the food needful for the first section of it. I went and bought it from the fishmonger, then hung around the range until I could find someone who could cook it for me. I remember it taking ages for someone to emerge who could cook my single, solitary bass for me. Then they burned it. I was crestfallen, because it was fairly expensive to buy for a noob like me and, moreover, what if the person who could cook it disappeared? What if they couldn't really cook bass and were just messing with me? In the time it had taken me to be so paranoid, the player had run off to the bank and returned with one that they'd cooked earlier. :-D Even to this day, if I'm in Catherby, I'll listen out for someone starting the Family Crest quest. I've cooked bass for others before now, and I've deposited cooked bass in the general store.
But that was then. Naturally a noob like that couldn't have got past the level 28 hobgoblins, let alone the ogres and the hellhounds, so the quest was abandoned at the point where I needed to mine the perfect gold. This evening, it took all of about five minutes to get there, find the dungeon, work my way through the levers and mine the gold. As promised in the guide on the website, there were indeed players in there keeping the hellhounds occupied.
I quickly worked my way right up to the killing of Chronozon (sp?), but the preparation for that revealed a distinct lack of death runes in my bank. I needed them for all the blast spells. The guide also seemed a little hazy on the point about whether you could melee the monster, once you'd hit it with these spells. I ended up standing beside Aubury buying death runes as a single one appeared. It took a while to get the 20 that I figured would see me safe enough. I double-checked the guide and froze. This dungeon is in the Wildy.
Cachi.
Demsla and Teacuptime (as people on at that moment, though I had my private chat off) came really close to having an IM from me going, 'I'm scared! I've got to go into the Wildy! Please come with me!' But I figured that I'm a big girl now and I could at least have a reccy. I had monkfish. Much monkfish, in fact. I could stay alive. If another player, especially a mage, came within 50 feet of me, I'd bang 'protect from mage' on and Ectophial my way out of there the second their freezing spell wore off. Then and only then would I shake with fright all over the two gentlemen in my friends' list.
I walked to Edgeville to give myself time to panic and run away. I didn't. I entered the dungeon and walked to the gates. The banner came up:
'This is the ?!$£ Wildy, where people kill you maliciously and without provocation; and higher levels used to lure you. You'll lose your helm again if you come in here and no-one will be sympathetic after you've broken your oath never to step foot in here again. It's sure and certain death. Do you want to enter? Yes or No.'
Or whatever it says.
I entered. Level 10 thugs have NO business attacking me. I'm level 83, which is way more than twice their strength, plus a bit more. Nontheless no-one had told the thugs this, so I had one hitting me with an iron dagger all up the corridor. Git. I was now expecting to find chaos druids, but I was in a 'hood full of skeletons and some monkey bars. REALLY scared now, I had to take my eyes off the screen in order to look up monkey bars in the guide. They weren't there. I switched back to Runescape. OMG! What now? Log out, in certain knowledge that when I log back in, I'm BOUND to be surrounded by evil mages all trying to get my Helm of Neitiznot. Do I scream for Demsla and Teacuptime to come and get me, 'cause I'm scared...? A spider was sniffing my leg and I didn't like the look of it, so I moved to find a safe place to the west. That's when I saw the leg of a HUGE, BLACK DEMON. Erk! I ran, thinking, 'but at least that one was mentioned in the guide'. I ran to find a safe place not near a dangerous demon, when I found the demon I'd come to kill.
Ok. It's now or never. If you don't kill this demon, a PKer is going to come and get you. ZAP IT! So I did. Only a spider was hitting me and wouldn't stop. I wasn't hitting back because I had my auto-retaliate switched off, but that wasn't stopping it. I ran into what looked like a safe place and, shockingly, it actually was. The spider desisted all attacks and the demon was just pacing around, minding his own business, ignoring me. I waited a few seconds and nothing hurt me, so I released my first blast.
Four blasts, one for each element, raged across that dungeon, three definitely hit, but the fourth had gone while the demon was the other side of the room, so I couldn't be certain. I zapped him with that one again. I don't know my own strength. Even wearing full rune and a strength amulet, I had still hit him with five hard enough spells that he was now three quarters dead. I had a dilemma then, do I run out with my sword, or carry on with the blasts? Given the hassle I'd had getting the death runes and the fact that I wanted some in reserve in case he regenerated, I ran out with my sword. Two, three, four whacks... and he was dead.
A level 172 demon, just dead like that.
Wow.
Yes, I got my backside out of there, as soon as the crest part was picked up, and very quickly finished it thereon. Woot! I have steel gauntlets.
Now, back to the cooking.
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