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Yes, this is an actual entry with lots of words and at least *2* pictures!

About the GE (Grand Exchange): it's a buyer's dream atm. I've only sold a few items in 2 days, which is tons better than before the update. I sold 9/11 rune scimitars, 845 red chinchompas, 1300+ rune arrows and an obby cape. The chins were the fastest sellers, gone in 60 seconds literally. I did have prayer pots, purple sweets, a couple rune items and teak logs for sale since yesterday, but I took them down in favor of the TT items and obby cape/shield I've clung onto for no reason.

One of the ideas roaming around is that the GE is on a queue system. Like, seller A with 1k p ess will be second after other sellers with more than 1k p ess to sell; that's my thought anyway. It might explain why I can't move 1k (4) prayer pots at 8800 gp each. So, if your stuff isn't selling as fast as you thought it would, be patient because you aren't alone. From what I've heard on forums, blogs and in RS, people are overloading the market with certain items, such as willow logs, rune boots and that which makes it harder to sell things. More items means the prices are dropping - remember to check your selling price each day!

I can't handle money *and* have the opportunity to buy stuff. The only reason I had 15M before GE is because I'm too cheap and impatient to attempt haggling with another player. Now, I can buy anything (if I have the money) whenever I want! Yes, there is a reason behind my crazy buy of 54k iron ore yesterday. If I can get 108k coal, I can smelt and smith steel bars into steel plate mail for 85 smithing. I remember wanting 2 Zammy pages to complete my god book and having to go to W2. Now at the time, Zammy pages were 100k each. I found someone with the 2 pages I needed and he/she/it doubled the price! It pissed me off! <--- That's why I'm happy about the prices dropping.

I bought oak logs today to flesh out my construction. Since I use Plank Make, oak planks only cost 175 gp each with the spell, so even buying the logs at 30 gp each, I'm still saving money over using the sawmill. Now I have the 4,088 oak planks to get 78 construction. Oh and I have another calquat tree growing, so I did my plank making in Zanaris in case the tree went sick. One of the random events is that you change into a chicken or pig. This happened while I was casting the spell, so my chicken and pig self was doing the animation, too.



I'd gotten 169 dust devils for slayer yesterday, but it was evening and kids were playing. I completed it today (smokey well was empty). Nothing interesting for drops.

The only exciting thing: I bought 54k iron ore on the Exchange. So sad that that's all that happened today.

Oh boy: The Grand Exchange!

I managed to get 3 things up for sale - 100 anti fire pots, 1k cooked sharks and 27 willow logs - before it glitched out. Hopefully whatever is wrong will get fixed AND I'll have sold something tomorrow.

There's a locked trapdoor by the gnome tunnel shortcut near the north bridge to Edgeville. Christmas update?

I haven't been doing much because nothing's caught my attention. I tried woodcutting yesterday, which was a total mistake. Everyone and their cat were haunting the woodcutting spots. I did get some times down and oaks are the fastest to chop - 1 min 30 sec for 28 vs. 2 min for 28 willows.

So I'm on Moonclan island making oaks planks with lunar magic. Then I'll work on getting 78 construction.

EDIT: I made a collosal mistake tonight. I created 2,044 oak planks so I could  gain 78 construction. My math got screwy; it's 2,044 armor stands to 78 which is 4,088 oak planks.

1940 total level now.

I did a bit of random bank cleaning while waiting for my last calquat tree to grow. I turned 156 sardines in to 400 spider eggs. While I was doing that, my nature ammy told me the calquat was diseased (oh no!), so I ran from Brimhaven to Tai Bwo and pruned it back in time.

I'm getting in the mood for another 99 skill. Woodcutting may be it.

It's been a pretty boring day of runecrafting astrals and nats.

I checked the differences between Dorgesh-kaan and Ape Atoll course. I can run the goblin course in 3 minutes, walk in 4 minutes. Ape Atoll can be run in 1 minute, walked in 2 minutes. So it seems that Ape Atoll is the way to go, especially considering I won't fail any of the obstacles. But when I crunched the numbers, Dorgesh-kaan wins in the long run. To get my goal of 81 agility, Dorgesh-kaan will take 13.66666~ hours while Ape Atoll will take 16.2 hours. Even taking into account any falls (and thusly starting over), the goblin course will still take less time to gain those levels.

I should have something interesting to post tomorrow.

I am still laughing my ass off over finding out my Life isn't Real. XD See here for more details. It kills me to read that again, honestly; I fell out of my chair laughing at it.

Anyways, to the not-Real part of my Life:


I have to thank W46AAA once again for this level. It took me over 4 hours, but I only got sleepy during the last 40 course runs. The reason I didn't get the level at Ape Atoll is that I had 30xp to go and another go around made me weep. Did you know the rock climb at Al Kharid mining chasm and Lumbridge fence jump give 0xp? The crumbling wall at Falador give .5xp!

Level 79 agility: 293 Ape Atoll or 62 Dorgesh-kaan non-grapple
Level 80 agility: 616 Ape Atoll or 130 Dorgesh-kaan non-grapple
Level 81 agility: 972 Ape Atoll or 205 Dorgesh-kaan non-grapple

I'm only training for the Taverly dungeon (by poison spiders/hellhounds) and Fremmy slayer cave shortcuts. Oh and I think Dorgesh-kaan is faster XP-wise even though it takes longer to get to and from the power station. Barring falls, it takes 4 minutes to walk the Dorgesh-kaan course and 1 minute to run the Ape Atoll course. So in the 4 minutes for 2750 xp at Dorgesh-kaan, that's 2320 xp at Ape Atoll. I really should run the Dorgesh-kaan course and note the time. Ape Atoll is better for 2 reasons: W46AAA for people to talk to and I don't fail anymore.

My calquat tree grew nicely for the second time. Cross your fingers that the other 2 grow just the same. My spirit tree should be grown by tomorrow too.

While I was mining essence in Yanille, people were dropping items on the bank floor. Being the scavenger that I am, I take a look at what's been dropped because you never know when it's something you need. One man's trash is another man's treasure, or so the saying goes. I picked up a couple purple Canifis mage robes, some bird snares, a piece of seaweed and 44 grimy snapdragon!!! Hee hee, lucky me got more herblore experience for free.

FYI, blog.com locked up my computer for the third time this week. When it does this, even a hard reboot doesn't always fix  the problem. Don't be surprised if I move blog addresses again. lol

I achieved 77 agility today, thanks to W46AAA. The pic is being a pain uploading onto blog.com though. Thank god for Photobucket!


Later, I crafting a couple thousand cosmic runes. Friday calls for more runecrafting - astrals. I grew 1 of my calquats today and will keep a close eye on the others I farm. A bit of a slow RS day due to grocery shopping.

EDIT: I just noticed the time stamp on this post says 12.14a when I posted half an hour earlier! WTF? I'm going to see if I can fix it. - Fixed the time now.

Free advertising: World 46 Ape Atoll Agility event - Quick Code Find: 42-43-424-51019711 on RS official forums.

I popped in around 2p my time and there were tons of monkeys running around. I've read most of the thread  - the rules bit anyway - so I sorta knew what to do/not do. I stayed for about 2 and 1/2 hours and got myself to 70k to 77 agility. I did leave to check my calquat tree, then returned with a load of stolen cakes from Ardy.

I spent the evening hunting chompies, even though I had said I wouldn't range for a while. I wanted the next hatsies because it's black and goes nicely with my current outfit.


I got very lucky with my nests from yesterday. I'd gotten at least 1 of every tree and fruit tree seed plus 4 calquat seeds! Hopefully these will last me until the next time I empty the kingdom's coffers (end of Nov). I'm babying my calquat after the last one died from disease - my first iirc.

I would like to thank Milla for letting me throw sharp, pointy knives at her. Lol. I used up both crystal bows and a couple hundred steel arrows at black demons before trying out iron knives. I got so lucky due to the duel arena update today; experiments were empty so I could level quickly and in relative peace.

I have 43 nests to sort through later and I should get back to stealing seeds for farming. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so picky; I only want certain seeds and get a bit fed up with all these "crappy" (imo) seeds. I've got Miscellania working 100% maples, 50% teak. No idea what to do with all these logs, but they can be fletched into bow shafts and crossbow limbs and I've gotten more into mahogany for construction.

IRL: The judge took pity on me, so I'm safe for a while yet. Luck - that's all it was.

In RS: Because of yesterday's downtime with the servers or whatever it was, when I bought seaweed, staves and sand are now at a decent time (about 1.30p).

I'm struggling to level range. Many of my usual haunts were filled (blue drags in ogre city, bloodvelds, dagannoths) which frustrated me to no end. I hop several times before giving up on ranging at those places. I decided to try out Pest Control. I get to the void outpost and hop on the veteran ship. Of course, I'm the only person there. Silly me, being level 105 and getting on the 100+ combat boat. Everyone was on the novice ship. Now, I haven't played PC at all, but I have heard about the bitching when it came out. High level players were bitching because "n00bs" were wrecking their games; they started "secret" clans devoted to this mini game in order to get PC worlds to themselves. Jagex changed PC to give 3 boats for 3 different sections of combat levels. So what happens? The high level whiners are invading the "n00b" boat because, get this, it's easier to win. Jagex should enforce the level sectioning.

Anyway, I dragged my ass to Taverly dungeon and camped out at the black demons. I had to hop twice to get a safe spot until the demons would stop attacking me. I'm there until 1) I get 80 range or 2) my crystal bows wear out.