Enakhra's Lament
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I wasn't actually planning on doing any more quests tonight, then I met the one and only Mrcsupertrain and he gave me some black armour for the King's Ransom quest. Woot! Thank you, cariad.
It was lovely timing as well, because I've been following the progress of his bid for level 99 fletching in his blog. He asked us all to name locations wherein he could fletch a level, so that he didn't get bored stupid being in the same place each time. I suggested the Warrior's Guild bank and, as I've been watching him getting closer and closer to the level where he'd be there, I'd already planned to support him by turning up with a bag full of yew logs. Ok, it's not exactly 1k worth, but I'm only a level 68 woodcutter, you know! LOL Unfortunately, I could never catch him on, even as I added his name, but I had the logs ready nontheless. I figured that if he posted the level below, hence signalling time for the Warrior's Guild, I'd IM folk who I could see on to see if any were on his friend list and could give me the head's up on what world to go and cheerlead in. No need. He read my blog, offered the black armour and met me in Edgeville Bank. It turned out that he'd popped over from the Warrior's Guild, where he had been indeed fletching through that level, and I was able to present him with his logs. :( I love it when a plan comes together! LOL
So off I trot to the guide to see what I'd need. I ran off to the monastry to top up my prayer again, then into the dwarven mines to mine, superheat and smith the iron chainbody and bronze med helm. Whilst there I just randomly mined until my bag was full. Teleported to Cammy, grabbed everything else and... granite?! Where the proverbial do you get granite from? Log out, onto the website to hunt through the mining guide and there's granite, but there's also much talk of Enakhra's Lament quest. I had visions of trapsing all over to the desert, only to discover that I'd need to have done that quest in order to access the granite, though Mrcsupertrain thought it would be alright. I decided to take everything for that quest just in case.
You need so much stuff! The majority of things, I had in my bank. I just had to get some oak and willow logs from around Seer's, then run to Catherby for the candle, before teleporting to Ardoughe to nick a cake (more successfully than I did the other night :() and finally I was good to go. I had a grand total of 5 spaces left in my bag and that only after I'd put some of the waterskins back. I only took 4, instead of my normal 6. (I have a bit of a waterskin fetish, I reckon. I have 34 of them in the bank, all full to the brim, and I still pick up more everytime someone abandons them on the floor. It's probably all those festivals I've been to, where a bottle of water is essential. I daren't enter the desert without plenty!)
I used the fairy ring to get to the one by the Kalphite cave, then headed south. Then a bit east, then more south, until I was so thoroughly lost that I nearly took a screenie and ran here for help, 'If you recognize this place, can you IM me please? Or come and get me...' I wandered around for literally a waterskin and a half's worth of drinking, until I found a bandit camp. Two players were having a bandit genocide, but neither knew where the granite quarry was. It occurred to me to look more closely at the guide then and lo! The granite quarry is south of the bandit camp. Woot!
It was more or less plain sailing thereon. I rarely looked at the guide at all, as the quest itself leads you through step by step. I did check and you can mine granite without having done the quest, but seeing as I was there with all the stuff, I went for it. I'd over-catered on the runes, as I thought I'd be properly fighting with them, but one fire blast, one air blast and one crumble undead sorted everything out. With protect from melee on, I never had to fight once in there.
It was an absorbing, enjoyable quest, with decent rewards. The 7000xp in several different skills got me to level 53 crafting, level 61 mining and very close to another level in firemaking, plus only 10k away from my goal of 66 mage. Yeah! Plus I can talk to camels now. I'm assuming that the conversation will go like this,
'Why are you kicking me?'
Camel:
'Because you're there.'
Me:
'You know Skilla 4lyfe? Practically lives in the desert?'
Camel:
'Yes, of course, we all know Skilla.'
Me:
'Well, he's a mate of mine and if you don't stop kicking me, I'll get him to pwn you.'
Either that or this:
Me:
'Camel, why are you kicking me, you noob?'
Camel:
'Don't call me a noob! Why would you say that?'
Me:
'Because only a real noob would kick a lvl 84 holding a dragon longsword, when they are your level.'
Camel:
'Point taken... byeeeeeee!'
This camel necklace is going to be so much fun. :D
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