Vandyballer's Blog

Canting has been my favorite clan chat ever since I entered into it for the first time at the 2009, Canting Away Winter Festival. From there, I didn’t know what friends I would meet while I was there. I became companions with Full of Pie, Merch Gwyar, Tanyakins, Zachman3334, Kay-luh Bass Daddy, Dr Leviathan, Kitt, Fred and a numerous amount of other people. If I didn’t put your name don’t feel left out, these are the people who popped in my head first :) I’ve always had a conversation to be in while I’m playing and I’ve had a numerous amount of good times. Though, the other day while fishing, and extraordinary event came up. It’s always been my dream to be ranked in Canting, and that day finally came…

Karl gave up his star because he wasn’t playing as much and Merch rewarded me with it! Amg!! I couldn’t believe it. For the first time ever, I was ranked in the Canting Away clan chat! Thanks so much Merch :)

Lately though, my membership has run out, and I’ve been doing nothing fun. I’ve been Firemaking. There’s nothing else to do and I’ve always wanted an adze just to look cool, so for the past few days, I’ve been lighting yews like crazy. Yesterday I got 82 Firemaking and today I got 83 Firemaking. The exp comes fast with yews, and I have plenty of cash, so getting to 92 will be a breeze! Hopefully once I get to 92, I might have the courage and cash to get to 99 :D

I’ve been doing Slayer, Slayer, and more Slayer. Getting an Attack level, then a Defence level, then an Attack level, then a Defence level, and so on and so on. And occasionally a Constitution level. Finally, that Constitution level rolled around. A fire giant task popped up, and before I know it, I achieved 89 Hitpoints and one level away from 120 combat! :D

Afterwards, I was about 50k until 87 Defence. I fought and battled and fought and battled until I finally got 87 Defence and 120 Combat!!! :D Finally! I’m not longer in the teens and am finally in the 20’s! Such an exciting level. I feel so bad :D

Wow. Yesterday was absolutely insane. I was so proud of my self. I obtained killer exp. Over 700k yesterday and gaining over 1M exp in just two days. Beast mode!! Half of the exp was from Herblore, but heck, it still counts :)

Picture taken at the end of Monday

As you can tell I’ve been using attack while doing A LOT of Slaying. I got 86 Attack during a dagannoth task. I also had an iron dragon task so that’s where the magic exp comes in :D I got so lucky yesterday. I got my first effigy, dragon platelegs, and I finally got myself two more ferocious rings after going 5 tasks in Kuradel’s dungeon without getting one! So I love that day :) The effigy brought me down to about 4k exp until 80 Slayer! I went ahead to my next task, which was bloodvelds, slayed a few and before I know it…80 Slayer!

Finally I can kill nechryaels! Maybe some good ol’ rune boot drops will be coming in soon :D As you can tell I’m probably tell I’m on a pretty good Slayer streak right now. I’m less than 100k until 89 Hitpoints and once I hit that level I’ll be like 50k from 87 Defence. Those two levels will get me 120 combat!! Woot woot! With all the Slayer drops I’ll be getting I’ll be selling and putting that cash straight to Herblore! I’ve got 81 Sitting in the bank right now. I’m pretty excited. But I’ll let that level come another day. Can’t wait to see how far I progress in the next week or two :D

Also, how bout the new vote for the old wildy and trading? Personally, I’m up for it. I can finally give out Bandos Chestplates for birthdays now :P Haha not really… But I really do want it back. It’d be fun and exciting and without the trade limit, trading with friends and known persons would be so much easier. So go vote :D

I never get any luck with drops. Out of all my career in boss and slayer kills, I’ve had one dragon skirt, one granite maul, and one Dharok’s helm. That’s it. Finally I get to add dragon platelegs to that list :D

I’ve gotten three Herblore levels the past day. I’ve spent roughly 9-10M on it. I’ve gone from level 77 to level 80. My goal is to get 84 so I can make my first extreme potion! Since it’s going to be quite a bit of money, I’ve decided to always set aside a certain amount. I am never going to drop under 10M. But if I ever have some cash over that, I’m going to spend it on the wonderful skill of Herblore. Right now, I have 19M cash. That’s easily enough for level 81. What I was thinking on doing is saving up enough fro 2 levels. That way to maybe make it go by faster. But the main thing I’m aiming at here, is extreme potions :D

Now, where’s the money going to be coming from? That is probably from Slayer. I’ll be doing nothing but Slayer while I’m not mixing potions. Probably some good ol’ Runecrafting as well if nature runes ever get back up in the market. Along with it all I’ll probably do some easy merching just for some quick cash over night :D

It’s been a wonderful time back in members’ worlds. I’ve Runecrafted some, done quite a bit of combat, and I’ve managed to get the dragon defender. The dragon defender was a hassle. It was overcrowded 90% of the time and I had to wait a couple days before I could actually find a semi-empty world. It took me about 15 minutes to get my first one, then a cyclossus spawned and it dropped my second one. Woot woot! Got the one I need for combat as well as the one I need for a bank stacker :D

Slayer has been the main source of my game play since becoming members again. I’ve gotten done three or four tasks along with a couple hard clue scrolls. Of course, like most clue scrolls, the rewards were crap and weren’t over 100k. But I’ve had a blast slaying monsters again, including waterfiends, terror dogs, fire giants, and jungle strykewyrms. Along with the normal coin drops and occasional rune scimitar drop, what’s missing? Charms! Oh have I loaded up with charms…

Actually, I had enough for 79 Summoning :D Titans would finally be mine! It took me about 70k spirit shards and about 30 minutes of running/teleporting between Piscatoris and Castle Wars but I managed it. I made plenty of giant ents, granite lobsters, and spirit terrorbirds. Finally, I can take titans to multi-combat zones and pwn!

I’m still slaying away and I’m about to come across 86 Defence, I’m nearing to 89 Hitpoints, and 80 Slayer is inching its way towards me. Soon enough, many levels along the lines of combat will be mine. :)

At the moment, I am almost certain I’m going to become members again. Christmas break is drawing near. I can count down the school days left on one foot. That means an extraordinary amount of free time that can be used getting back up with the rock of members. Right now I’ve got a list of tasks I want to do the second I’m allowed on the members world again. I’ll list them here in order of importance:

1. Farm! Get some toadflax and sweetcorn seeds and get back on the groove of Farming :)

2. Get that new Dragon Defender. Yes it doesn’t look the greatest, but the Strength bonus will be much appreciated.

3. Try out Runecrafting with the ability to have my bank opened and fill my pouches. Runecrafting runs are going to be much quicker.

4. Herblore Habitat. I haven’t heard much feedback on how good it is but the new potions look pretty sweet!

5. Buy my armour back. Get Torag’s, whip, dragon boots, full slayer helm, and then go slay and possible kill some God Wars Dungeon monsters.

6. Elite tasks. I can do a few, so why not get them out of the way?

That’s all I have for now. Most of these are important updates I’ve missed while being non-members. If there’s any other important updates that I’ve missed since about September, let me know because I’m sure I’ll be dying to try them out again. Mmmmm, I can smell members since it’s so close!

The anxiety of getting back membership is haunting me every night. I’ve been checking RuneScape every day and I’ve been logging on nearly everyday just to see how things are rolling out. I’ve loved all the new updates they have done lately and I’ve been dying to try them, but I can’t. I’m f2p at the moment. All these updates that have come out seem to appealing to me and I’m dying to do them. I’ve been dying to try out this Herblore Habitat, get Herblore up for extreme potions, fight some more God Wars bosses, raise Runecrafting up some more, train Strength and Slayer all in one, and goodness, the list just never ends. I seriously am on the verge of coming back to memberhoodship. (Bahaha, new word.) The only problem I’m facing is how to pay for it… I’ll figure something out.

It’s so hard to shy away from this blog :( I know last time I said I wouldn’t post again, but I just think that I have some urgent information that I have to tell you! I changed my name :D Is it permanent? I actually think it might be. It has the same flow as Vandyballer did and I think it describes my actions for the remaining year! VandyFarmer is my new name. I think it’s a great name and I hope you agree with me :)

Also:

2,000 TOTAL LEVEL ACHIEVED :D :D :D :D

I finally did it! Woohoo! I checked a palm tree that I had left over and bam! 2,000 total level and 85 Farming! yeehawh! Finally, after so long, I get it. I can’t tell you how loudly I screamed IRL. It’s such a relief to get another goal off my list of things to do :)

I’ve finally done it. I’m wooting so big right now :) Now, I’m totally unsure if I’ll be able to continue this blog. As I’ve said before, I’ve grown in my relationship with Christ, but of course Merch saves my RuneScape life. She made me realize something that I never really thought about. So in my realization, I think I can find time for RuneScape. It’ll probably just be back to an hour or two a day now. But that’s enough to check trees, maybe do a herb run. So if I find something to blog about, I will. Because as they say, “It’s impossible to quit RuneScape! Yet alone, blogging about it <3”

9,774,636 exp remaining until 99 Farming :)

– VandyFarmer

I am not quitting RuneScape. I am not retiring. I am simply quitting my addiction and sadly, my writing of this blog. I of course will be on RuneScape mainly in the times of updates just to check them out, because the BTS’s always get me urging to see what the new updates will be like. Also in the times that I will be on, I am going to do nothing but Farming. The small amount of times I’ll be on will leave plenty of time for trees and fruit trees to go. So in the minimal amount of time I’m on, I’ll go check all my trees, say a word or two to some friends, then be off. Now, I’m sure you are wondering my reason for this.

On Monday, June 28th, 2010, I left for Church Camp, called Camp Whatever. That’s explains my absence for this past week. I stepped onto the tour bus not knowing what the following week had in store for me. I just lazily expected to go to a Church Camp, sing and worship, and listen to a speaker and there be nothing special about it. But oh was I completely wrong!

It was on Monday night, the first night, did I forever become changed. The Speaker, Chris Lovell, spoke to us about the word commitment and how we, as Christians, need to be committed to God in all we do. Well, that totally spoke to me. So that night, I re-committed my life to Christ and am now living all for him. I know RuneScape is getting in the way of my relationship with Him. The time I spend on RuneScape could be used to maybe read my Bible, have a quiet time, share Him to others, or pray to him. So I’m going to put God first. I am going to wake up, do my quiet time, have a time with just Him and I together, share the Gospel, then whatever time I have left, will be spent on RuneScape, that is now not known as an addiction to me.

There are a couple quotes that I found absolutely remarkable at Camp Whatever. There was one example that Chris spoke about. Here it is: “Not sharing Christ with someone is like watching someone walk out onto a busy street and then just watching them get hit by a car and dying.” That absolutely spoke to me. But it’s so true! We as Christians have become so afraid of someone’s reaction to what we have to say about Christ to them that we stand back and don’t tell them. We just let them live their unGodly life and let them walk straight into Hell and perish. It’s our jobs as Christians to spread the word of God and save those people’s lives from Hell so that they can have an Eternal life in Heaven.

Also, there was another quote from a video we watch of an atheist speaking. I can’t remember his name but here’s what he had to say: “You have to hate someone so much not to tell them about Christ.” Wow. My jaw completely dropped the moment I heard that and then when our pastor spoke about it. That quote is just so true, too. It’s ridiculous now that I think about it how I can’t even share the Word of God with simply one of my friends. I should share it with a strong passion to them and help them live a life in God. As one of the songs we sang while we were there said: “We were not saved to be silent. Stir up a passion inside us.”

As you can tell, I’m so excited for God! Every time I think about Him and sharing His word, I get so pumped up about it. So if there is anyone who is out there reading this, I want you to know that God is alive and is doing great things and is the only way a human-being can live a complete life, through Him. So if there is anyone who is out there who wants to know more, catch up with me when I am online on RuneScape or reply a comment on this. Because I would love to help anyone out there who would like to come and know Christ.

So right now I have sold all my bank pretty much, except for all my stackers to make sure I never forget how my bank was organized. I loaded up 70M cash. I couldn’t afford to buy all the palms and payments needed for 99 Farming with 70M. So I then checked out papayas. I could do it! So I bought 14k pineapples and 1,400 papaya trees. I’m only planting 50 saplings at a time just in case something happens to their price or whatever… Thanks Coopee for the pointer! My goal is to get on once a day, do a Farming run, check all my trees, converse with friends, then get off.

But ya know, I might even find more time to play on RuneScape after I’ve gotten all my wonderful, Godly plans for the day complete :) so this is not a post of quitting, bur rather a post telling you of my cut down on playing time. I am totally committed to Christ now, so the playing time needs to be cut down. I leave you with a screen-shot of the last of my levels before my blog comes to an end. I will leave my blog up, just not post.

I thank everyone out there who has been awesome to me. Full of Pie, you have been amazing and remarkable and have always been there for an awesome friend. Merch, thanks for being an awesome leader and the founder of Canting. Kitt, you were my favorite blog and I loved reading your blog entries, they were hysterical every time :D I love all you guys and I’ll be sure to stay in touch. It’s been wonderful! :)

– Vandyballer