I haven't updated the website lately because I've been busy playing doing 3
things: a long playthrough of Tales of Symphonia, lots of WoW on the
Chromiecraft private server, and more recently, 2007-era Runescape on 4chan's
Vidyascape server. It's a real headscratcher why more people don't play on
vscape. In world chat they said maybe it's the slurs people yell and that's so
fucking dumb. Are people so fragile they can't handle clicking on
a built-in ignore button if they don't like someone saying naughty words? There
is no other server like this, with all the quests working properly. The only
things I think are missing are achievement diaries but I'm not sure if they're
accurate to 2007 in the first place. I only played a few months in 2007 and
was a f2p only back then, so I wouldn't know. What I do know is everything is
working great (except when you kill chickens, you dance around and can't stay
still).
The server is 2.25x XP rate which is pretty cool but I wanted to taste the pain
so I made a Hardcore Ironmeme to really get the "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"
experience, if you know what I mean. I might make an alt and just cut wood or
something for fun. I always liked skillers. Anyways, I'll be chronicling the
journey of my helmie Scarlatti (named after the Baroque composer).

Odel the server guy added worlds right around the time I started working on
Farming. So far it has been incredible for selling to general stores as an
ironman. It's really hard to make any money without worldhopping. It's
still hard because there are only 3 worlds and timers for switching! And
I'm paranoid about setting off some bot/automation system for doing it too
much. I got banned in OSRS back in 2016 because my shitty laptop and internet
was lagging so badly I got frustrated and clicked to log in 100 times real fast
and it set off the bot detector. I learned right then that Jagex was the worst
video game company in the world because they had ZERO recourse or customer
service unless you use fucking Twitter or Reddit which sucks ass.

After farming a bit (I'd accumulated a lot of potato seeds from pickpocketing),
I proceeded to pick flax and make bowstrings a little (only 2k). I wanted to
prepare for when my fletching got high enough.

It wasn't long until I realized that I was stuck with my Steel Axe for a long
time and said fuck it, finishing my WC, FM, and fletching grind at willows. I'd
wait for a Mithril Axe at least to move onto maples. On the way I got my first
kiss! I really wish I'd get the Leiderhosen random event. That's my favorite
costume.

After that I discovered the Lost Tribe quest. Never done it before and it was
mindboggling to get such a powerful, cheap crossbow! Navigating those tunnels
was a lot of fun too, really nervewracking. I've been training Slayer since
then and just got done with a 114 Cave Crawlers, getting a Bronze Boots drop
too. What's in store for me next with Slayer? I already had to endure 70
Earth Warrior kills that took me 2 hours. I think I'll stop once I reach 40
Slayer.
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