Summer redux

Happy part-of-July-with-no-major-holiday!

Just wanted to touch base with everyone to let you know that all is well and summer continues to be fun. As a matter of fact, I learned that checking your Beach Stats with the Lifeguards lets you track your progress towards many of the rewards for this summer!

Filling your thermometer fifty times gives you the Beach Swimwear cosmetic override. Fifty defeats of Clawdia (the creature with 1.5mill HP in the center pool that shows up every :45 after the hour) gives you the multicolor Lifeguard title. And consuming ten ice creams to clear your thermometer gives you the title Chilled. Thank you, Jagex, for letting us know not to go crazy, you've hit the major milestones. There are a few other rewards to collect fairly easy, such as the Deck Chair rest emote, hitting five targets in a row at Coconut Shy for the Beachbum title, or digging up ten ducks for Quackers. Well worth the effort, IMHO.

Additionally, for the next two weeks (this week & next), Jagex is spotlighting the plight of tigers and panthers while raising funds for the WWF. You can get some cute pets and titles, as well as some free XP, for participating. (I still can't believe you can't name your tiger cub Hobbes!) Go to Burthorpe and find the Conservationist southeast from the teleport stone near the blue banner with the white tiger face. Join his quiz challenge every half hour to get all twelve questions correct:

1. human hunters
2. blind at birth
3. black coat
4. deforestation
5. piercing the skull
6. more than 80
7. restricting tourism
8. dawn & dusk
9. over fifteen thousand
10. Guyana
11. near threatened
12. Mayan

Honestly, the Summer Event is a welcome carefree diversion. Gielinor is safe from the machinations of Tuska or any other deity for the moment, so let's just enjoy sand between the toes and keep applying the sun tan lotion.

Good hunting!
~ Tidwin ~