Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I was left with an urge to play today, so I booted it up and decided to focus on a task instead of my usual wandering.

My first idea was to do the quest where you kill the Vampire. Only. Problem. Turns out I’m far from a high enough level to pull it off. The guy is like level 20, and I’m level 6 (4 at the time of attempting it). So obviously I was gonna run into some issues.

I did the first thing I assumed I could do and went to killing things. I found this farm full of Goblins and just started mowing them down until I got low on healthy. Turns out the goblins are Semi comparable fighters. I went until I got to 2/10 health.

I then went on to try and slaughter some cows to gain experience. Because surely the cows won’t fight back. Plot twist, turns out they do and I got my ass kicked by them too after killing 4 of them. I didn’t have food so I’ll have to run into town.

Finally. After that I went to the pond in the main picture. I meant to kill some ducks, but they were just too harmless to kill I felt like so I left them be. I doubt they’d offer much EXP anyways. So I’ll just stick to healing and killing cows for now.

  • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    F2p cow boss would of been a better goal. Short quest all done in lumbridge, I killed the cow on a account with 1 attack 1 def 40 str and was using goblin cannon as a weapon.

  • bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    This reads like my childhood internal monologue, thank you for the walk down memory lane.

    You only ever get to play OSRS innocently / for the first time once.

    • MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I think Innocently has been the only way I’m playing. I always just end up wandering around and messing with things while listening to the soundtrack. It’s honestly become a “cozy” game for me. If it wasn’t for the price being so steep I might have just bought a year of the Membership too

      • firebarrage@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Definitely fortunately. There’s no wrong way to play that game, wandering around trying random things is my favorite way to do the early game too.

    • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, I very distinctly remember the “just wander and figure the details out later” feeling of adventure from my first time playing. As a noob, I carted around most of the starting gear (basically everything that exists on your toolbelt now) just in case I needed it while I was out and about. Because I didn’t have a good idea of the map yet, (and the game map at the time didn’t give you a “You Are Here” marker) so I didn’t want to find myself lost in the middle of nowhere without a tinderbox or fishing net.

    • warm@kbin.earth
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      3 days ago

      If you want to relive it, MadSeasonShow on YouTube has been doing a blind, no help, no wiki playthrough for the last couple years and it’s pretty nostalgic to watch!