Tai Bwo Wannai... Pt 1: So Long, And Thanks For The Fish
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I'm not convinced that I've spelt the name of this quest correctly in the title, but it's the one I'm part way through. I read through the guide and looked in my bank, judged it to be a relatively short quest, so took off to do it. That was at 10 to 10. It's now half past midnight and I'm not even close to getting a single brother to go home.
The fishing at the beginning distracted me first. I've never had the level to fish karambwan before and they hold a special place in my bank. When I was a little noob, my friend Audina gave me 50 odd of them to see me through Dragon Slayer. They actually saw me and a friend through it, with some left over. In the intervening months, I've carefully rationed the remaining fish. Even Horror of the Deep, a notoriously nasty fight littered with stories of people having died during it, only saw me with a couple of karambwan in my bag. The rest were swordfish. Even Fremmenik Isles and all the times I died there, I never had more than five. Now suddenly I have the level, the pot, the bait and the fishing spot to catch my own! :)
I'd just caught some, when a player walked up behind me and asked if I could catch him some too. They are so much hassle to catch that I didn't really want to, but I also don't like turning people down like that. I said that I could spare him two, as I needed the others for a quest. He replied that two would be fine, as he also needed them for a quest, and he'd trade me two ranarr seeds. Hold on, stop, reverse! You'll do what?!
Having so much karambwan and ranarr seeds in my bag, I thought that a bank stop might be wise, so gloried to Edgeville and back, wandering along the island collecting bananas, run, seaweed and monkey corpses. I was amazed at how much time had already passed. See what happens when you start fishing...? I realized that I'd left my pestle and mortar in the bank, so took a cart to Shilo Village to grab it from there, then ran to give Tinsey his alcohol. Banana Rum sounded gorgeous. I nearly drank it myself en route, which might explain why I fell off the bridge twice. The damage is high! I lost 28 hitpoints in those two falls, then poison spiders hit me for 8 (all told) as I ran back to his brother. I considered returning for food, but figured I'd just get Tamayne to skin my monkey for me first...
... just get Tamayne to skin my monkey for me first... you don't half end up writing surreal things in a Runescape blog, yet they make perfect sense in context. He refused anyway, until I'd helped him. I accompanied him on a hunt, in which he didn't win, then gave him some agility potion to shut him up.
He still wanted a spear, so I nipped up to the village to see if I could buy one. I couldn't. The guide had already told me that, but I lived in hope. I had 30 odd hitpoints, 14 prayer points and an anti-poison, so I attacked the tribesman. I'd forgotten that I was carrying my crossbow and bolts, so the lack of life and piety didn't matter too much in the end. I killed him over and over and over again. I've got mithril javelins, iron spears, steel javelins, 100% favour, hundreds of trading sticks, limpwurt root and lovely, purple cloth. What I didn't get was any spear which was steel or higher. Ryan, in IM, confirmed that javelins and spears aren't the same thing at all. *sigh*
I was there for an hour, when I asked a passing player for advice. He suggested doing the Legends quest, as some creature there (presumably in the guild) drops addy spears a lot. He then asked me to switch on 'accept aid' as he wanted to give me a present. Intrigued, I did so, hunting around for the accept aid button, which I haven't used since I was about lvl 5 running in terror past the Varrock mugger. He gave me power of vengeance. 
I'm abed now, but I'll be back tomorrow. Killing the same tribesman over and over and over again.
In other news: I got level 64 cooking and level 58 fletching, which brought my total xp to 1300. I remember reading on the forum months ago about a PKing clan, which would only accept high level players, 1300 or other total skills. At the time I thought that well beyond my reach, even if I wanted to join a PKing clan. Now I'm here. 
Then, in the middle of all that tribesman repeated murdering, my hitpoints flashed to 69. Inexplicably, given that I only reached combat 84 in the week, that was enough to send me to combat level 85!
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