Chapter 3: Episode 6-A look at Underground Pass

Underground Pass is one of the "biggie" requirements for Legends (and numerous other quests). It's not a novice quest by any stretch of the imagination, and often takes hours or days for a player to finish. I want to knock this one off right away and have it behind me.

It requires 25 Range, and the ability to defeat 3 level 91 demons. It also requires the Biohazard quest. It is recomended to have a 50 Thieving and a 50 Agility. I'm going to try it with a 29 Thieving and a 40 Agility. The range is a problem, only because I hate training range. So I look in the Runescape Quest Rewards listing to see if I qualify for any quests that give decent range experience.

Shadow of the Storm is one that only has a single quest requirement that I haven't done yet. The problem is that in this case my eyes may very well be bigger than my stomach. The demon hits for a good amount and I don't have any protection prayers. My hope is to manage the damage with food alone, and beat the demon quickly.

But before I do that quest, I must do The Golem. It's a somewhat easy quest that requires a bit of running around and materials which are fairly easy to get (the hardest thing being the papyarus, which I had to go to Ardougne to buy). The longest bit of walking is from Varrock to the Digsite and from Shantay Pass to Uzer (it's about the same distance). It takes me only about 20 minutes. Quest Complete: 1 Quest Point, 1000 Crafting and Thieving experience (no levels). I also got 6 cut gems from the demon's throne.

Now it's time for Shadow of the Storm. Doing this will hopefully come very close to getting me the range level I need for Underground Pass. I need a black wizard hat, which means I need to go to Draynor. I'm totally sick, at this point, of walking to Draynor, so I head to the GE to see if I can sell anything to get me enough money to buy an Amulet of Glory. Not only will it give me more teleport locations, but it'll give me +8 to all my combat bonuses (which is a little better than my amulet of power), and I'll get more gems when mining. I sell all 6 of my diamonds, my 11 rubies (which I can't quite use just yet), and 20 gold ore and get plenty enough money to buy one.

I set off on the quest, as I already have almost everything I need to finish the quest already (I have to mine a silver ore to make a silver bar). It doesn't really take long to get to the fight I was dreading, and I head into it with sharks and a few lobsters.

Again, I way overestimated the danger I faced. Agrith-Naar doesn't really put up much in the way of a fight, and I whittle him down with my rune battleaxe and finish him off with Silverlight. Quest Complete: 10,000 Range experience (30 Range).

This gives me plenty of range for Underground Pass.

I can also wear a coif now, and I head off to finish that clue scroll I had banked. During the trail, I have to go from Burthorpe to Catherby. Since I don't yet have Teleport To Camelot, I decide to do the Fishing Contest quest really quickly (Quest Complete: 1 Quest Point, 2437 Fishing XP, Access to underground shortcut), and while I'm in McGrubbor's Woods, I grab a couple bunches of Dwellberries since I'm going to need some in Biohazard. I end up getting a coif, a black dagger, and 52 gp (value: 308 gp).

I should have dropped it, but at least I cleared out a quest.

Chapter 2-Episode 6: Who said crime doesn't pay?

I've taken a small diversion from my normal routine to head over to the H.A.M. hideout, and steal the clothes off their back. And I'm not exagerating.

I love stealing from Ham members. They do give up a variety of stuff that are very helpful at my level. Thread, feathers, knives, tinderboxes, cowhides, and the list goes on. Granted, there is a lot of junk to be had, but you can sell the steel pickaxes at the general store for a nice little sum (at my level of needs). But there are two items that stand apart from all the other junk...

The first one is Ham robes. Run around in a full set of Ham robes and someone will offer you money for it. On my first account, I had a nice little noob business collecting and selling full sets of Ham robes. They're probably not worth what they were anymore, though. Despite this, I know for a fact that I'm going to need 2 sets. I usually collect up to 5 sets, so I can help out other people who might want or need them (it does eleviate the aggrivation of having someone chasing you through Falador wailing "Oh, come on dude, 10k!").

The second, and probably my most favorite: clue scrolls. Annoying little slips of paper that send you trapsing across the entire world in search of treasure...all while wearing a combination of items that would make even the most nooby of noobs laugh. I've always had good luck with clue scrolls (way better luck than I've had in the few trips I've ever made to Barrows). It doesn't seem that my luck has changed, as I got a Guthix robe top from the first one I got a couple of days ago. So...I'm looking forward to this.

Clue scroll #1: 3 clues (36 black bolts, black dagger, 3 purple sweets, Gray Bob Shirt), Net Spent-1,242 gp, Estimated Value-27,020
Clue scroll #2: 3 clues (39 mind runes), Net Spent-420 gp, Estimated Value-439 gp

I manage to get 1 full set (with lots of left over bits), and a Thieving level 28.

Chapter 2-Episode 2: Would YOU trust a noob with sharp objects?

Range. I hate it. But I'm going to train it. I sort of have a plan, but admittedly it's not a great one.
My plan is to train fletching along with range. Oddly enough, I don't much care for fletching either. But it is my sincerest hope to have them both to at least 25 in a short time.

I mine some copper and tin and smith them into arrowheads, crossbow bolts, and a set of bronze crossbow arms. I head over to the chickens, and start killing them for feathers (which I'll need to make arrows).

I pretty much train on everything in that area, taking breaks between bouts of fletching to raise my range a few levels. While killing goblins, I get my first clue scroll.

# of clues: 3/Guthix top, 4 purple firelighters, 44 body runes (147,781 gp value) I keep it all.

At the end of it all, I'm so sick of hitting 0's that I decide that I am, in fact, going to get a cannon to train my range up to 50.

I just don't see how anyone can stand it...