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Canoeing, Zygomites and a Mole!                                                                             7-Mar-2006

The Giant Mole

If there's something that Wyson the gardener in Falador Park simply can't abide, it's damage to his beloved flower patches. After a slight accident involving a bottle of Malignius-Mortifer's-Super-Ultra-Flora-Growth-Potion and a rather unlucky mole, it suffices to say the mole hills in Falador Park are big enough to make the strongest gardener weep.

Travelling down into these dark mole tunnels, it's up to you to track down this critter and try and put an end to Wyson's misery. Bring a few friends though, because it's not an easy creature to tackle and it may well give you the slip a few times.

When you've defeated the mole, don't forget to collect the proof that you've dealt with the beast. Wyson will be happy to give you something for them - He finds a lot of old bird nests while he's gardening. These nests are similar to the ones found through woodcutting, but may offer a selection of vegetable seeds instead of the eggs. Naturally the lucky ones will still contain tree seeds.

Canoes

This week also brings an update to woodcutting, and with it a marvellous opportunity to save on shoe leather. Look for a transportation icon on your minimap at key points along the River Lum, and near to it you'll spot a canoe tree. This remarkable new species will allow you to carve your own canoe to get you from A to B in style.

You'll need at least level 12 in woodcutting to make a basic canoe. As your woodcutting level increases, you'll be able to make better canoes which can travel further. Expert woodcutters can even create a canoe so reliable that you can safely navigate underground portions of the River Lum for a one-way trip straight into the Wilderness itself! Canoe locations include Lumbridge, the Champions' Guild, the Barbarian Village and Edgeville.

Zygomites

Deep within the twisted wonders of Zanaris, a deadly and cunning ambush predator waits for its prey. The Slayer Masters obviously think their students have gone a bit soft, so they have added Mutated Zygomites (Slayer level 57 required) to their menacing menagerie.

Keep your eyes peeled, they might prove hard to find... and make sure you are properly equipped before you go hunting them! Adventurers clever enough to squash this most ferocious of fungi might be lucky enough to find strawberry seeds and buckets of supercompost left behind.

In other news...

The little leprechauns who look after farming tools have grudgingly agreed to store magic secateurs in their mysterious toolshed. The secateurs themselves have been improved to work for pruning diseased trees.

Behind the Scenes - March                                                                                            6-Mar-2006

March brings new perils to RuneScape with two updates to the Myreque storyline. The vampires of Morytania are once again hungry, and their lifeless eyes are transfixed on the village of Burgh De Rott. The locals are pale and restless and have little left to give, but what can be done against this vile oppressor? With many of the residents packing up and leaving, it won't take long until all the life has been sucked out of Morytania. Perhaps the Myreque (Rune HQ Link)  have an answer and maybe, just maybe, you could help to bring some hope to those desperately in need.

The second of the Myreque updates is a journey-making minigame. With life becoming unbearable for the majority of the residents, many want to leave and seek out a better life on the other side of the Salve. Adventurers willing to accompany frightened villagers through the perilous Mort Myre swamps will be rewarded, but the challenge is great! Will you take the quick but dangerous path, or do you fancy the longer (but potentially less risky) scenic route? The choice is yours. Various rewards await those brave enough to try.

With the coming of spring, several new shoots of life can be seen in even the strangest of places. Fairies in Zanaris will have to watch out, for this month the Zygomite season starts. These clever beasts bury themselves beneath the surface, leaving only their mushroom-shaped scalps showing at the top, twitching in excitement. Unsuspecting fairies are soon lured in by this appetising sight and then WHAM... it's all over. Have a chat with your local slayer master for more information when it becomes available.

Fairies aren't the only things worried about what lurks underneath this month. Wyson, the Falador Park gardener, has heard strange rumblings and is worried that the special 'power-gro' formula he bought from the elemental magi has had unexpected side-effects on one of the locals. This monster isn't quite as tough as our more recent team-based multiway combat updates, but keen farmers might be interested in its drops.

As part of our continuing commitment to speed up travel in our ever-growing world, we bring you canoes. Using your woodcutting skill, you will be able to fashion various qualities of floating apparatus to sail (or just float badly) down the River Lum. This will make travel from Edgeville to Lumbridge considerably easier and far more picturesque.

Another random event will also be popping up and asking players to help a rather confused gravedigger. He can't quite seem to match up the right box to the right headstone. Can you help? New clothes and emotes will wait for those that can.

More readers' letters will also be answered this month. This time we will be talking to such dignitaries as the Makeover Mage, asking him (or her?) where her (or his?) magical powers come from and also King Vargas about his adventures in the Icelands. Keep those letters coming in - Postie Pete has been given a new lease of life, and will be delving far deeper than anyone has ever delved before! Eeeek!

Also this month, as those who have been counting will be aware, we will be releasing our hundredth quest - a sequel to our first ever quest, Cook's Assistant (Rune HQ Link).We don't want to say too much about it, but it is one of the largest quests released so far in RuneScape's history, if not the largest, with a large percentage of our content development team having worked on it especially.

This quest has been written in such a way that almost every single member will be able to enjoy the beginning of the quest and its early benefits... but only the best of the best when it comes to quests will be able to fully enjoy all its rewards. And what rewards they are, with access to new areas, new weapons, new armours, a variety of new foods to cook and eat, new methods of getting around RuneScape, new cat types, a new agility course, and (of course) lots of experience in a variety of skills! Each part of the quest may be completed separately from the rest and each has its own rewards, allowing everybody to 'cash in' in one way or another.

As a final note, we will also be adding more mahogany and teak trees to the Kharazi Jungle and other remote areas of RuneScape. Good luck!

A Fairy Tale Part I                                                                                                             24-Feb-2006

Martin the master gardener is confused. What can have caused all his crops to fail? Pop down to Draynor Village and try to help him get to the root of the problem. Is there something more serious going on, or are these just growing pains (Rune HQ Link)? Players clever enough to solve the problem will be rewarded with a generous dose of xp, and even a new farming tool to help you get the most out of your crops.

In other news, we highly recommend you visit and take a look at our new and improved Zanaris! Stand and stare at the marvel that is a cow-powered windmill or converse with poetic sheep! Watch out for random fairy effects though, things have become awfully strange down there...

Elsewhere, we've got another batch of letters brought to you by RuneScape's beloved Postie Pete. This time he's been down into the dark caves below Lumbridge to find out what the Dorgeshuun tribe has to say about frogs and cannibalism...

Updates, updates and more updates…                                                                                 20-Feb-2006

A bumper update week this week, starting with the arrival of a new visitor to the Wilderness. This strange cloud is said to affect nearby enemies in various strange ways – so be even more prepared for the unexpected than you were before. Please do remember that this evil menace is located deep in the multi-way wilderness, so care must be taken. Don’t take anything you’re not prepared to lose. We can confirm that this Chaos Elemental carries a few of the legendary Dragon two-handed swords (Rune HQ Link), but don’t expect an easy fight. The blade has also been seen being carried down to the Kalphite lair, so if you’re really really lucky, you might find one down there.

Any players being assigned Killerwatts (Rune HQ Link) by their local slayer master should enquire with Professor Oddenstein in Draynor Manor. He's been tinkering with that strange machine again, and this time he's torn a rift through the very fabric of space to a very shocking place indeed. If you are planning on investigating this new plane, make sure you are properly equipped before you go.

Also this week we bring you new treasure trails to spice up the trim-seeking, hat-hunting adventurer's life. These trails will take you to a wide variety of new locations and test your brain once more. Look out for new rewards too, including gnomic firelighters, trimmed ranger and mage gear and heraldic shields.

Those of you logging into the Asgarnian region will also notice quite a change. As part of our commitment to improving the graphical feel of the game, we bring you the next phase of our area improvement scheme. This time we focus on the White Knight Castle, Falador, the Barbarian Village, the Dark Wizards' Tower and Draynor Manor (oooooh, spooky). We hope you like it.

Finally, players will now be able to roast Chompy birds and rabbits where they like with the new mobile spit (Rune HQ Link), and keen chefs can now create a new range of healthy stat-boosting pies (Rune HQ Link Note: You must type in "pie", press enter, and look though the search results), including the Vegetable Pie (+3 farming), the Admiral Pie (+5 fishing), and the Mud Pie, which can be thrown at your enemies to slow them down! Dig out your pie dishes and bake until you're blue in the face! Mmmm, pie.

We also bring you a new random event, so keep an eye open for a new member of the Pete family and his mysteriously extinguishing candles.

***Some Slight Tweaks***                                                                                    16-Feb-2006

I decided to put my music links at the top of my page in the first paragraph where people won’t miss it. My Olympic music has been linked to my sister site, daddy3636, because I’m only aloud to have 40MB of files here so I needed the extra room. Also, if you want to download this (the media player may never pull it up on the web, unless you have cable where you should just click on the link and leave the player alone for 5-8 minutes) just go to my Downloads page. Don’t worry about bad things because I made that site too and it is guaranteed to be spy-ware, pop-up, etc. free. I think I’m going to have to put some of my updates on a different page (show the first 5-8) because it is wwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy toooooooooooooo long and takes an extensive amount of time to load. I know that as first said I would keep it all but I wasn’t planning on that giant Postbag from the Hedge!!!

***A Serious Problem Fixed! ***                                                                                   15-Feb-2006

I been debating what to do and I found that I am just going to have to remove my Christmas music from playing automatically, but there will be a link on the bottom of my page near my Olympic music to play it. The link will bring up Windows® media player and hopefully it will load. I think it is just these slow Freewebs® servers, but any music just freezes my site! To download any of this music, go to my new “Downloads Page”. I know some you viewers out there have older computers and my Papyrus font may not load correctly so I’ve uploaded the font and you need to put it in a certain folder, so see my Downloads Page for more info. Also, I’m glad Andrew (RneSape’s owner) has changed the friend’s list because half of the time when I tried playing RuneScape I couldn’t talk to my friends because when I clicked on the smile-face, it said “loading friends-list sever” and would never pull up. Hopefully this fixes that problem. And if anyone was wondering about right-clicking, it is OFF LIMITS and will not work. I specifically did this when I began to prevent people from copying my stuff so sorry for any inconveniences it causes.

Friend system upgrades                                                                                                      15-Feb-2006

Today we have upgraded the friendlist system to be 50% faster. This should hopefully mean it runs more reliably.

*** New Music, Maps, and more***                                                                      13-Feb-2006

I have found some Olympic music! Although when I tested it, it froze up my page, I have added a link that you need to click on to start the music. Before you try this scroll to the bottom of the page, press the pause button to stop the Christmas music and make sure you have Windows® media player. I have also updated the printable version map to include the Mage Arena and plan to add my own GW Basic programs. There will be more on this when I add it. I now also have changed my guestbook to make it clearer on how to use it. So have fun!

***The 2006 Olympics***                                                                                                  11-Feb-2006

Last night was the start of the winter Olympic Games. This year, 2006, they are being held in Torino, Italy but if you don’t want to travel around the country, I suggest you watch them on TV. Ohh, I almost forgot, I’ve still got my Christmas runescape music to go along with my winter theme and I’ll remove it as soon as spring starts. I tried to get some Olympic music but I couldn’t find a website that had some. If you know a place to get it, please tell me by using the guestbook. The music should only take about 10-15 seconds to start playing so I hope you enjoy!

***An update – finally.....***                                                                                                              8-Feb-2006

I’ve gotten sidetracked lately so I’ve decided to let you Runscape’rs know I’m still here. I’m planning on adding an exact copy of my site, but with a runescape theme, later on this year. Don’t get your hopes too high as I must make this version in plain HTML (that’ll take a while). Just as a notice, you can send me emails by clicking on the guestbook link. You never have to put in your real name (i.e. Mysteryrunescaper) or your real address (i.e. nobody@nobody.com) but you must fill out something. My newly added Games page is full of Zuthura mini-games and the website help link is ONLY FOR MY WEBESITE, it has no runescape info so please look here before sending an email. If you ever need more information, just click on the RuneHQ link.