2 September
2008 - Distractions and Diversions
When levelling skills or trekking around RuneScape, you might
want to keep an eye out for some unusual goings on. This is because
the
Distractions and Diversions (a new type of game feature in
RuneScape) are cropping up randomly, offering you some interesting
experiences. We think you'll enjoy being distracted by these new
ways to train, as they can be fun and useful...
Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza:
The
circus offers more than entertainment: it gives you the chance
to be a star. Perform on the tightrope and show off your Agility,
test your aim at the Ranged event, or blow things up in the Magic
performance! Every week you'll get the chance to show your stuff
and earn great rewards in the process.
How to enter the
circus:
Speak to the Ticket Vendor, who moves randomly between twelve towns
in RuneScape. Keep a note of where it is!
Requirements to play in the
circus: Members only
Access to: Experience and costumes for your
performances.
Penguin Hide and Seek:
What's black, white and covered in leaves? A penguin pretending
to be a bush! It may sound crazy, but it's true. Ten penguins have
gone incognito and infiltrated the lands of RuneScape. Your
mission, should you choose to accept it (and who wouldn't?), is to
track down these mischievous birds and report them to Larry in the
Ardougne Zoo. He'll reward you handsomely with XP or gold coins;
so, the more penguins you find, the greater your reward.
You'll need to keep your eyes peeled - the ten penguins will
change location every seven days and have a tendency to wander
about the place. Keep finding them to collect your reward.
Where to start
Penguin Hide and Seek:
Speak to Larry in Ardougne Zoo
Then start searching RuneScape for the dastardly birds
Requirements to play
Penguin Hide and Seek: Members only
Access to: Rewards every seven days: gold coins
or XP!
Shooting Star:
Stars are falling from the sky, ripe with rewards! Mine the
meteorite and you'll get up to 200 pieces of stardust. Manage to
get to the middle of the star and you'll meet the star sprite, who
will reward you according to the amount of stardust you have
mined.
Watch out, though: there's a two hour gap between shooting
stars, so you should take advantage of the stars when you see
them. Get a better idea of when (and where) they'll fall by using
your player-owned house telescope, but they'll still be hard to
find. The stars are big and slow to mine through, so they're best
mined by several people at once. Call on your friends to make your
way to the middle with slightly more ease...
Where to find Shooting
Star:
Stars can land all over the place! Use your player-owned house
telescopes to narrow down the landing location of the next
star.
Requirements to play Shooting
Star: Members only
Different layers require different Mining level requirements.
Outer layers are tougher to mine. Stars will start off at a random
size.
Access to:
Rewards from the star sprite include runes, coins, gold ore and a
temporary bonus to your Mining, which will give you more ore from
the rocks that you mine.
Bonus Mining XP for the first person to discover a star.
You can be rewarded by a sprite up to once each day.
In other news...
Many items that are frequently purchased on the
Grand Exchange have had their purchase limits increased so you
can buy more of them at once. These include bows, poisoned darts,
several dragonhide items, poh teleport tablets, pyre logs, bones,
fruit and more!
Certain searches in the in-game world map, like "fishing guild",
wouldn't yield any results. I'm sure you're all angling to hear
that the
Fishing Guild is still in the same plaice, so you should sea
that this problem has been e-ray-sed!
Two worlds (60 and 61) have been designated as suggested 'Great
Orb Project' worlds. While we've noticed a fair amount of
activity on worlds such as 1, 2, 6 and 9, these are the main
trading worlds and are often near capacity or full. Therefore, we
have selected 60 and 61 so that you'll be able to log in straight
away and join others who're playing this
minigame.