My junior year of high school is over and summer's coming this way, so I finally have the time to play Runescape again (as well as other things, hopefully). Right now I'm trying to get my membership back and get my account back on it's feet, and with the whole summer ahead of me, I can wait.

I retired from Runescape for a couple of reasons. The main reason was that I felt that I took it way too seriously, and I did. Making money, experience, and skills was more important than anything else to me. I would often force myself to play the game, instead of just playing it whenever I wanted to for fun. My priorities were never to have fun or enjoy myself anymore, but to work. Normally, this is good, but for a game which was meant to be enjoyed, it wasn't.

The kind of goal I was trying to reach while playing Runescape was unrewarding and useless. A lot of other junk happened that I don't want to share, but overall I just quit because I felt it was needed.

Before I retired, I invested some cash into buying a green and blue mask for 4 million, each. My experience has shown that the prices of these rare items increase as time goes on, so in the event I did decide to come back, I'd be a rich player. All I did was sell my whip and dragon square, and I had enough to purchase both masks.

But two months into retirement, I decided to give my items away to my friends. My runes, armor, weapons, money, anything that held value over 100k, I gave away, including my masks. Basically I have nothing right now except a rune hatchet, knife, rune pick axe, etc. I have faith that I'll be able to get back on my feet easily because my skills are high (but not the best) and I still remember my methods for making good cash.

The masks now are worth around 15-20 million each. I had two. So right now I could have about 30-40 million. My friends say they already sold it when it came to 10 million. I have no intention to ask for anything back, because this was a gift from me to my friends. Even so, I don't really care anymore.

So now I have pretty much nothing. That's fine with me. What's done is done, and I'm sure I can make it back on my feet. I just look forward to playing it now, just hopefully not as obsessive as before.

Hopefully I'll have my membership within a couple weeks and I'll be able to write more. But for now, my friend just lent me his account since his internet's down, so I'mma use his for the time being and blog about my experiences on that.

Thanks to all who have stayed faithful to his blog. Hopefully I'll try to be more interactive with my audience.

Here's a couple screenshots I took while I was still playing the game.