After the 'Haunted Mine', I had the bug for questing again and figured that I could get a couple more in today before I went away. I settled on 'Temple of Ikov' first, because a read through of the guide made me think that it would be quick enough to complete in a dinnerhour. Of course, I hadn't factored in how long it would take me to get myself down to under 3kg in weight. 'Diet isn't a big enough word'...

Carefully reading through the guide again, it finally dawned on me that I didn't have to do any major fighting whilst under 3kg in weight. I could do the bridge part first, then come back to the bank, grab ranging stuff and return to the fray. I reached that point and was paralyzed once more with indecision in the bank. I was being asked to take 20 limpwurt root, plus carry enough food/prayer pots to see me through a prolonged period of being attacked by lvl 61 spiders and then go onto a fight with the boss monster. I was still mithering over it, when my dinnerhour came to an end and I had to go back to doing what I'm paid for instead. *sigh*

Armed with the knowledge (from a post to Sal's forum) that these limpwurt roots couldn't be noted, I returned to the quest from home with most of my bag taken up with them. I wore my blue dragonhide, with magic bow, packed a glory (for quick teleportation), a load of steel arrows (the highest I can smith), a single prayer pot and 3 or 4 sharks.

I needn't have worried. I used protect from melee until my prayer ran out and, not wanting to waste the p pot before the final fight, I experimented with just running past spiders and hoping for the best. It was a good strategy as I should have employed sooner. Most spiders ended up trapped outside the inlets, because they'd attacked too soon, while those that did hit never scored even a one or two. I would have pronounced them incapable of hurting me, had it not been for that last spider, on the way out, who hit me for five as I blew it a raspberry.

I was a little dubious of the guide's assertion that only 20 ice arrows were needed for the big monster, particularly since the first couple of shots made no dent in him at all. However, the rest did and he died very quickly. Not a strong monster at all! The lesser demons guiding the shiny key were a bit of a surprise, but I'd drunk the contents of a vial of prayer potion before attacking the weak boss monster, so I had enough protect from melee to jog past them.

I had intended to speak to the Guardians, because Lucian looked a bit evil if in my humble opinion. The cackling didn't help his cause. However, I forgot to take his pendant off being canting with the nearest guardian, so it all ended with my bow out again and a pile of bones on the floor in front of me. Contributory negligence, if you ask me. Thereon, the quest was soon over, with me nipping into Seers' Bank for Varrock teleports and handing over the staff to Lucian there.

I reached level 61 fletching with the xp from that.