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Not scared, just Very curious. I'm well aware that the fear will probably come after reading. xD
Hopefully it will be worth it.

I'd so love a gazebo in my garden. You've got some great ideas here.

Oh that's a good one, thanks for adding to the fun and historical record keeping of the past. :)

Brenn, It is my pleasure. You make some very good points. Much Appreciated! Our feet determine how we feel all over we should therefore pay special attention to our feet making certain they are comfortable. Great to have you here :) katiem2

I think that people can get way too sentimental about the innocence of little minds. Some of the cruelest, most brutally human behavior I've ever seen is in the playgroup. Kids can be evil!

Sounds like a quest then, to recover your three books.

Yep, that was the scene exactly. And then I just reached up and flicked the light on, and stared at the door handle wondering if I was really gonna be to much of a chicken butt to go and get my laundry.

If you can get your hands on a copy of some of the originals, then yes, I think they're well worth owning.

People got mad because they said that the illustrations were far too gory/gruesome for a children's book, so they fought against them being in children's reading sections or to have them banned or something. They stopped being made at some point in my later childhood, for a couple years, and then they re-released the books with new illustrations. I think it is completely disrespectful to the original artist, and that art was a huge part of what made the stories so creepy as you read them, and definitely a part of what made the books so famous. It just wouldn't be the same without it, I feel like then it'd be just like reading any other urban legend or camp fire ghost story. I don't think they're that scary, as an adult, but I do think they're great children's books. I still love them. I wish I still had the books too. My brothers and I originally owned all three.

Livestream point - I'm just nodding in agreement here. I mean, I'm sure that there are great JMods, who know their stuff, and others who don't need to play the game - like those keeping us safe. But they are overwhelmed by the idiots making the decisions, and doing things because they could, without checking if they should.

I have really fond memories of standing in banks trying to sell things. There's a touch of the rose-tinted glasses, because at the time it drove me up the wall! I remember having stood there for about two hours, with no sales, when my friend Pen Knee turned up. She took the lot and sent me off playing.

Within ten minutes, there was a PM - Sold it all!

It took me months to work out that she'd just bought it all herself to stop me whining. LOL Happy days.

Having said that, I really don't begrudge the Grand Exchange. It has helped in so many different ways. I'd be the first one moaning if it was taken out now.

I also recall fishing up Catheby, when an aggressive random turned up. Dozens of people in the same spot would be nervously trying to work out who was the one. The shriek when you noticed your XP going down was hilarious. I so miss RS from about 2006-2007. It truly was magical then.

You know, you've just explained a years old mystery to me. I never could work out why those players wore rune, while casting wind strike. I just figured it was a combat thing that I was too noobish to determine. It turns out that I was right!

They were there for weeks? Wow! I didn't know that.

But yes, sadly, I'm convinced that many Jagex staff do not play the game. Mark Gerhard certainly doesn't.

I just want to add a huge plus one to everything that you've said here. You really are speaking for me too.

It's the Runecrafters (myself included) who I feel most sorry for in all of this. The whole point of respecting a RC cloak was that you knew the sheer effort that had gone into achieving it.

Yes, I know what you mean about being rewarded for doing nothing. I logged in after about 25 days not going near it. I received a lamp worth 1m xp.

Oh no! So you had that loud noise and sudden stop of the dryer right at the climax of the story? Ouch! LOL

The whole experience of the story is the clever part to my mind. You really do need your imagination at play here; and I've always said that anticipation is more scary than the reality. Not knowing what's going to happen to you will always pwn being able to confront your fears. You can deal with what's in front of you, but not what's around the corner.

Have I missed the boat on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Or would it work for an adult too?

Haha, cackling. No...she curled up in bed so she could start her research paper and promptly fell asleep instead. I stayed up cleaning, because everything is a huge mess. Then I decided, because it was nearly 2 am, and I had to sit and wait for the dryer to finish, that NOW was a good time to read what is apparently being touted as the scariest story ever written. :D

Then the laundry finished, right as I finished reading. And the laundry is in the garage just outside our apartment. LOL

I think going in thinking I was about to be scared stupid was more frightening than the story itself. I actually ended up laughing out of relief when I got to the end, but I was still unsettled by the whole ordeal.

Nah, man...I don't think anything scary story-wise will ever beat Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, for me. It's a children's book, though. I still remember quite clearly all of the most haunting ones. I was a lot braver as a little kid than I am now. I lived for the horror stuff, and this was a terrifying book, so I friggin loved it! They had these black and white water color illustrations, that were just pure creepiness. Best books ever, especially when I'd stay up past my bedtime reading them with a flashlight.

Your argument about ivy is one which I would make too. It's a fair point.

I could be argued that the original AFK skilling was prompted by players though. For example, the combat training inherent in auto-retaliate on that spider in Lumby basement, before you hit a certain level. Even so, that was players being ingenious. It wasn't Jagex making it endemic.

I doubt very much that the decision makers at Jagex play the game. When they spoke at Runefest, you'd see blankness over some of the most fundamental of things that players should know. It confirmed my suspicions then. But you can see it in the decisions that have been made too.

I so leapt on sacred clay hammers when they came out. Most of my higher levels in Construction were all about those; until I reached the effigy assistance levels. Then everything boomed.

You've hit the nail on the head with the AFKable skills (yes, there is a profusion of them right now). In the old days, there was a sense of achievement in the stamina. If you'd gained your levels at RC altars, then everyone knew what feats of endurance that had engendered. There was respect for that.

Now people can waltz in and do it so much more quickly, with minimum effort, as you said. I don't think that we're being Luddites to ask who can respect that.

But it does feel like a kick in the teeth for all who went before. Instead of 'wow, you spent how many hours at ZMI', now it's 'Hahahahaha! Noobs! You wasted all of that time at ZMI and now I can just walk in and do it at Runespan. Hahahahaha!'

What are you doing trusting a witch with literature to read, Ember? *cackling laughter*

I have this image now of you and your housemate both huddled around a washing machine. Enjoy your new house. <3

Well... I certainly can see why that would really freak the right person out.

Now if you don't mind, I've got my laundry in the other room that I need to go collect, and I'd rather not go alone...So you should just head on over here, so I don't have to be alone.