I was rather thrilled to find myself getting a tool upgrade for contraction. I would also be working on possibility the last two easy diary achievements I have any plans on finishing for the time being.
Quest: The Eyes of Glouphrie
A strange machine was found and I was called in to investigate. This one was more about solving puzzles than anything else. A nice change from what I've doing. In a cave, there was also a crystal bowl floating in the middle of a hole. I decided this one was far too strange to turn down.
This was the strange device that was all the rage. It ended up needing a few repairs before I could try and work out what it was supposed to do. The scientist told me there was also a chart that had a bunch of shapes and numbers next to it.
Turns out this puzzle had two issues to solve. The biggest getting was using the different colored shapes that were found to make the numbers needed to enter in. The second was getting the actual-colored shapes.
I ended up talking with the scientist a few times about needing further shapes to make the numbers I needed. He ended up filling up my inventory and yet I was still lacking anything to make a 3 and a 7.
So, I emptied my inventory onto the floor and kept harassing him. While he gave me quite a few new ones I had yet to be given. I still was mostly only getting ones to make large numbers. After repeating this a couple of times, I figured there must be a better way.
Turns out I can put in higher number blocks and I'll get a random assortment of lower-valued ones. After a couple of times, I finally had what was needed to put impute the correct combination of numbers using the different colored shapes.
It seems the gnomes and the Grand Tree have bigger problems going on than they were expecting. While talking over about the strange new find. I noticed something else that was a bit strange. There was a creature with the scientist. A quite strange one at that.
There were quite a few of these creatures lurking around the area. As we best could tell they were spies! You know I could not let that stand. I went around and eliminated the threat to the gnomes.
Once the threat was dealt with that was the end of this one. I spent way too much time attempting to get what I needed to solve the puzzle. I wish I had worked out sooner I could have taken what I was already given the first couple of inventories worth and just turned them into the blocks I needed.
At least I got something rather special out of this. Sure, the 12k magic experience, 6k runecrafting, and some other skills getting a little love to was nice. I ended up going back to that crystal bowl that was in the middle of the room and making myself a crystal saw.
This marks getting my first crystal item. Every time a crystal item is used a charge is consumed. Once they run out of charges you need to recharge them. The crystal saw for instance increases my construction level by 3 if what I need to craft requires a saw. Making it possible to craft certain items before I have the level to do so.
Kourend And Kebos Easy Diary Achievements
It turns out I already had a few of the easy achievements done in this area. Some of this stuff was killing a sand crab which I've done in the past as a way to grind combat levels. Along with going to the library, stealing from a stall, taking a boat, and mining saltpeter. Leaving me with only a few left to do
So, I decided I'd go do a little bit of mining. While iron ore is not worth much, I did end up collecting a few while I was out there. My supply of it in my bank was getting low.
The one I kind of hated the most out of all the achievements I've done so far was wasting money. At least now it felt like wasting money. I needed to move my house to Hosidus which cost over 8k gold. It then would cost 25k gold to move my house back to Yanille where I wanted it.
I ended up deciding instead of moving it back right away. That I'd keep it in Hosidus for the time being. I really should grind more construction levels and Hosidus is a place where you can be sent to repair homes. So, I could end up using that to work in my favor as I then could use teleporting to my house to get to the city quicker.
At least I still had some fun stuff left in the area. There was quite an interesting agility course to run. It was a lower-level one so not normally a place I'd see myself grinding at. It was however nice to do a single lap around it.
I then went around finishing off the couple remaining praying at an alert in the region, making a strength potion, talking to a vendor, and fishing. Stuff by now I've had to do rather similar in other regions other than making a potion.
My reward for finishing the easy diary achievements for this region would end up being more useful than most. I got an item called Randa’s Blessing that allowed me to teleport a couple of times a day to a place called Kourend Woodlands. This has a couple of hunter creatures that I might find myself needing to gather for a hunter contact.
I also get a reduced price to go to Crabclaw Isle. During my lower levels, this would have been great to have a place filled with sand crabs that would be less camped due to how much a boat ride costs to get here. However, since I now have Fossil Island and something much better to use for grinding out combat levels. This was not that great of a reward.
Western Provinces Easy Diary Achievements
While working on these I never once thought I would be willing to just give up. That was till I got to one of the achievements from Western Provinces. I knew instantly when I read what needed to be done I was going to hate it. First, however, I have many of the ones I did not mind working on. Including some that were far more involved than other regions.
Naturally, some of the easy diary achievements were things like mining some more, running a lap around an agility course, and even getting teleported to the essence mine since there was a wizard here who did that in this region. All normal stuff.
I kind of started to get a feeling this region was going to be different when I needed to make a score in gnome ball. I have no earthly reason for why such a thing needed to be put into the game. All I can tell you is it was fun knocking over gnomes every time they stole the ball from me while I made my way towards the goal.
I then had two achievements I needed to do involving something called Pest Control. The first was teleporting to the game. The second was winning a novice game. There are still so many mini-games I've even attempted to try yet. I also got to say I had a blast in this one.
I’m also kind of glad they start you off in the novice. I ended up switching over to a world where I would not have to be attempting to do this solo. I was just hoping there be enough people that being clueless would not matter. I could just follow others around.
As it turns out there is a central portal that needs to be protected. There are then a few portals on the outside of a building that have creatures spawning out of them. You need to defeat those creatures and destroy each portal.
There is also some kind of scoring for being considered active. All I do know is I managed to kill quite a few of the creatures without taking too much damage. Sometimes I had lost the group and was trying to solo things. Other times it seemed most of the players were there with me when it was time to push and take out a portal.
I had enough fun I'll have to take a look a lot more into the rewards. If there is anything worth going after I might return to this mini-game at some point. For now, it was onto something not as fun.
For whatever reason I needed to get a bird hat from Rantz that requires killing 30 Chompy to get. 30 of those things!!! The only way to get a single one of them to spawn is by collecting swamp gas, injecting that swap gas to glow up a frog, and then waiting a minute or longer hoping to lure one in.
Every time one of these shows up you then have to kill them using a special arrow and bow. The arrows themselves are quite a pain to make and not cheap to buy from other players. I opted to just buy them.
Perhaps the only good thing is once I was done with all the easy diary achievements. I could come back to Rantz once a day and collect some arrows from him. That hardly made doing this worth it. I must have taken two or three breaks from this task to come back later to keep working on it.
At least what I had remaining was not that bad to do. I went and killed a terror bird in an enclosure they were being kept in. I also had to capture a copper longtail and crash an oak shortbow.
It is a bit strange just how much of the easy diary achievements rewards for this region seem to focus on the Chompy birds. From getting more arrows like I already mentioned to a chance of getting double chompy spawns. I for one never want to go back and have to kill even more of those things ever again.
Final Thoughts
This now marks finishing all the easy diary achievements outside of doing the wilderness. Maybe at some point, I'll run in there with some low-level gear and see what I can get done. It was also great to get the crystal saw.
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Indeed, cheers.