And so my quest began. One of the very first things I did was go up to the Lumbridge Guide and talk to him about where to make money and where banks were – I was still a complete newbie. After a while, I got the hang of things, but it took a while to get the hang of fighting – a couple of trips back to Lumbridge Castle occurred, if you know what I mean…
Eventually I found out how to kill a man without dying (now THAT took effort!!!). This was one of my biggest accomplishments in… say… 3 hours or so… but that's beyond the point. After I could successfully kill a man, I went wandering around the area (but I stayed in Lumbridge the whole time) to look for bones to bury.
Now at this time, I had been obsessed with the burial of "dem bones". Every time I saw a bone, I would press the run option, click on the bone, and hope to reach it before someone else. This is where I met my first friend, Kalishah. We met up in a race to get the bones first. I got most of them, but after a while I felt sympathetic about it, so I traded her some of the bones. I was greatly rewarded with blown kisses and waves. Wow, that's really something that I can build on… But I digress.
After a while of bone-pick-upping, she asked the question. THE ULTIMATE QUESTION. The question that is, "What level prayer are you now?" Of course, being polite, I said, "12." She congrats-ed me and blew me another kiss. Not knowing why she would do something like that, I asked her the OTHER ultimate question. "Why are you blowing kisses at me?" And I got the ultimate response. "Tee hee."
So we chatted for a while about how we found RuneScape to be so far, and after a while we became "friends." We agreed to be a team from then on, and to do quests and such together. The first thing we did was a quest – the HARDEST quest out there, too! And It only took us, what, a few minutes! What quest? Cook's assistant! I mean, it's SOOOO hard to make bread! But we didn't break a sweat (well, SHE didn't anyway…)!
Here is the script for the next minute or so I spent with her.
Kalishah: Wow, that quest was easy!
Metroman72: I know!
Kalishah: You know, you're kind of cute!
Metroman72: You think so?
Metroman72…
Kalishah: Well, duh if I said it!
Metroman72: Ok…
Errr… Well, that's not really what we're supposed to be reading, but yes, that's how it went. From thence forward, we were going to be known as the "blackshadows." At the time, I thought the name would be cool.
A few minutes later, after I had stolen enough arrows from another person, I went to the bank in Varrock to get my bow. Of course, Kalishah followed. I wasn't going to stop her. We made it to the bank and I got my bow. She followed me as I trained my archery up to level 9. When I ran out of arrows, we ran back to the bank to deposit our earnings. The next thing I hear from her is, "G2g eat cya." From the time she typed that message, I have never seen her on again. Half sad, half relieved, I logged out.