Summer fun

Many apologies for the lapse in reporting, but as you can clearly see, I've been enjoying the summer events on Runescape. To celebrate the end of the war behind Lumbridge Castle a year ago, Reyna commissioned members to bring her enough sand to cover the crater and turn it into an ersatz seashore. (Members were rewarded with Prize Boxes for bringing buckets of sand. I spoke with Reyna during the beach preparations and was told only members could help her prepare. I guess she felt sorry for me, though, because when the beach officially opened, Reyna gave me two Prize Boxes from which I got flea battleships. So I was Captain of a ship for a brief time, even winning a few naval sorties!)

However, while some people were preparing to relax, more than a few of us were dealing with a major potential buzzkill: Tuska. A giant space sow was hurtling towards Gielinor, threatening to destroy everything. Luckily the astromancer (a new type of wizard) had an idea that might save the planet. Because Tuska is traveling through space, remnants of previously obliterated worlds are caught in her gravitational wake. The anima energy still held in those erstwhile globes could be used to power a spear aligned to certain deities and plunged into weak points on Tuska's skull. Zamorak, Saradomin, Armadyl and the Godless all sent representatives to encourage their followers and collects charged anima. Hopefully, if we mortals could collect enough anima, we could both weaken Tuska and empower one of the divine emissaries and stop the threat to Gielinor. (If anything I mentioned here was phrased incorrectly, it's because I didn't major in Astromancy. Sorry.)

So the Astromancer sent the willing heroes off Tuska and onto the world fragments to collect energy once an hour. Completing different tasks like farming, woodcutting, agility and others lets you collect energy in your spear. You could gather up to 25% anima energy from each planetoid. If you fell behind on an earlier world, you could catch up on later ones. Getting the spear charged to 100% caused the energy meter to light up.

So eventually the Godless faction siphoned the most anima energy, so Vorago unleashed that energy in a series of blows that killed Tuska and caused her to crash onto Gielinor, south of the Wizards' Tower, without annihilating all life in Runescape. There were a few days overlap where Tuska was still in space and the beach party had started. I figured the whole thing could wrap up in a massive luau but I was mistaken.

Indeed, to celebrate one morning, Mod Sayln showed up for a Happy Hour at the beach party, even appearing as Vorago for our amusement. This Happy Hour special meant more experience and a greater chance for random drops. The experience for cooking and fishing has been incredible and worth the time spent. The drops are also cute. The favorite one I have so far is the snorkel mask. The bunting whip is a close second. Hopefully I can get one of the pet tokens as drops as well. Other people have gotten them randomly, so there's always a chance.

Getting all the token rewards can earn you the King/Queen of the Sandcastle title.  I'm happy because I finally got Lifeguard for beating Clawdia fifty times. I also have Beachbum for hitting five coconuts in a row at the summer games. A lot of other titles such as Bronzed or Chilled involve filling up your thermometer by skilling in the sum and eating ice cream to cool back off. Another easy prize to earn from this event is the deck chair.

In this case, I am now officially sitting in my own deck chair that could appear anywhere on Gielinor. This emote is easy to unlock. Scattered across the beach are deck chairs in three colors: red, blue & green. Sit ten times in each color chair and you unlock the emote. (To make it even easier, right in front of Reyna's stage are three chairs, one of each color.) Once unlocked, a red chair always appears when you sit, eliminating the chance for scams and player-run games of chance using this emote.

Good hunting!
~ Tidwin ~