ShadHoE

Amazing, how are you finding it this time around? Any tips on where to start?

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. Looking forward to getting to know more of you over the coming days and weeks.

This is like the moment your dad tells you well done 🤣 Yeah I think you're right. We were so dominant it was almost boring. I vividly remember Sim0n running around in that highway mask and ranger boots outfit... those boots were expensive! Also when firecapes werent kept on death but we'd wear them at MB with no quick way of returning... we pretty much all knew we would rarely die. I remember on the AMA I was shocked you never mentioned Devil Dante as one of the guys you'd have with you in a war, that guy was a beast. Then it all made sense when you said you guys had a falling out. I would say even as someone who was very involved I wasnt aware of half of the things I learnt in that thread that was going on behind the scenes so I think it was all kept on a 'need to know' basis very well. I think I was one of the younger members when I joined, I was 13/14/15 for most of my time in DI from what I remember. It's crazy how long ago it was. How do you find playing and clanning again at a significantly older age?

Runescape Name (Don't post if login name) 07 06 / 07 06 II / Previously Xshadow600 Preferred Name TJ (went by Tom back in the early 00s) Current Clan None Previous Clan History Devils DI - Moderator. Kicked for attacking DKM who kept intentionally provoking me. Flirted with DS for a bit but the game wasnt the same post-DI Who do you know in Tempest? Brian, doubt he remembers me. How did you find/hear about Tempest? Logged into OSRS for the first time in ages, saw Ghjjf on my friendslist, googled his name, ended up here. Are you interested in joining? The nostalgia buzz from reading through Ghjjf's and the RSD Leaders AMAs was so immense I'm convinced I want to play again. If that lasts then yes I'd definitely be interested in joining. Brief Introduction I think this thread is more therapy for me to speak on fond memories tbh. After finding these forums I spent hours reading through Ghjjf's AMA planning to reply to a lot of things at the end, only to sadly find it had been closed once it ended. Anyway, my story: Sep 11th 2001 (I was 11) - after being sent home from school for fear of further terror attacks and having nothing to do at home tried out a game a friend had been recommending for a while. Turned out to be a pretty decent game so I kept playing. Back then there was no efficiency, 99s were abnormal, it was all just about fun. I would mess around with my RS 'mum' and 'dad' just skilling leisurely, dancing in banks, trying to acquire some trimmed armour for fashion scape. At some point (I think it was early RS2) a bug was found where you could redo the gems part of the waterfall quest repeatedly and receive the XP reward multiple times, which I abused to go from about 70-80 combat in a few hours (XP was scarce back then, this was a big deal). The next day I logged in only to find myself banned 😞 Due to addiction to the game at this time, I started again immediately on my account Xshadow600 but this time I played with immense focus. Within about a month I had completed legends quest (which was end game at the time) which gave me access to one of the best training spots in the legends guild. I trained combat maybe 10 hours a day and quickly leveled up to level 80, 90, 100. At some point in this stage I fell out with my RS 'parents' as they were skillers, and I was becoming obssessed with combat and eventually with PKing. Having lost my main friends in the game I ventured onto the forums of Devils and got involved in the clanning world. I enjoyed my time in Devils very much - nice people, good vibes, likeminded people. But something was missing - I am a serial winner and whilst Devils were a respectable clan, they were not the best. At this point my eyes were set on the 1 clan that we ran from - DI I wonder if @Brian remembers me at all. I came around in the era where DIS (DI feeder clan) had been shut down and DI was VERY hard to get into because they were so much better than everyone else in terms of levels, requirements, commitment and activity in and around MB/Axes. If a DI member saw you they'd kill you, and 90% of the clan ONLY PKed so it was very hard to get to know anyone. At best you could fight to the death without praying, basically letting them kill you and gain their respect that way. Myself and another noob, I think his name was Kdragon, somehow managed to gain enough respect to be able to PK with DI without being members or meeting the requirements. This was before all of this 'intro' and 'pre-applicant' type stuff was normative. I literally lived with DI at this period, I was either PKing or in the Axe Hut training, pushing for the requirements which I think were about 100/105 combat at the time. Deep down I think how the two of us got to know the clan laid a loose framework for what eventually became the introduction forum which you could apply on and gain the right to PK with the clan after. Eventually I made the requirements and due to how much time I spent around the members before applying I think I got in pretty easily. My obsession didn't cease. I would literally leave school the second it finished and run home to play and would play until the moment I went to bed. I'd even eat dinner at the desk. I skipped school MANY times to play... I really really loved the game and I loved DI. I even had DI till I die written on my English folder at school loool. I was very active on the forums as well as in the Wildy (I remember I always ran with X Ecutioner, The Ranger 8 and Dragulescu) so I was eventually promoted to forum moderator. I don't think I missed a single PK trip, definitely didn't miss a single war or F2P ride out during my time in DI. It was a great era of dominance: axe hut was the best XP in the game at the time, and we owned the axe hut. We out levelled everyone dramatically (this was when 99s were still very respectable, sub 1,000 people at 99 in all skills). As other spots opened up for XP and new gear came into the game (barrows, whips, ancient magicks etc), we had so much more money than the rest of the player base (because anything valuable that came into the wilderness was taken by us.) When you could repeatedly cast charge for crazy magic XP, we had the only members who could afford the blood runes. Back then even if you maxed combat, you'd probably be 121-123 as bones were so expensive and prayer so slow to train - we had the guys who were the 123/4/5s which was a huge prayer advantage in F2P. Like Brian said, he could wear a white Phat to a PK trip (if a clan came he would definitely die btw, he was obviously the first target) because we knew even if he died and lost it we would be able to kill every single person in the vicinity and get the hat back. Then, the downfall began 😞 For anyone who was around those times you may remember there was a resurgence of RSC. DI owned P2P wilderness with such a large gap that I don't think anyone even tried to touch us anymore. However, everyones RSC level was the same as it was when RS2 was released, and in that sense RSD had a lead. Perhaps we were just looking for a challenge but we began to play RSC again also. A lot of us botted accounts up, bought accounts (I ended up buying the heavily slutted account 'Weirdo Ng' which I'm sure went through about 18 owners before me) and guys like Brian just continued on their mains who were decently leveled in RSC. Somewhere around this time DKM joined DI who was one of the best RSC PKers. For those of you who never played, RS2 was pretty heavily level based (we even believed certain levels were glitched and many people wouldn't pass 92/96/98 attack for that reason). You clicked on someone and fought them. The only element of skill in a melee fight was eating/potting on tick so you didn't lose an attack. RSC was another kettle of fish. You had to be able to 'catch' in order to stay in combat with anyone who fleed from you, and those who could catch (especially without favourable PID) were very respected - dkm was one of them. THIS IS MY VERSION OF THE STORY, but I believe Brian really fell in love with him around this time (reading the AMA I saw his name mentioned quite a few times which didn't surprise me). I'm not sure why but he didn't take to me, and we would argue often on forums/in game. He'd also make a habit of attacking anyone I brought on PK trips with me who weren't DI members (remember this is pre-introductions system) to wind me up. Back then to tell a clan member to stop you would hit them once and say 'stop he's with me', but he would never listen. Of course I had to protect my friends and he would then report me for attacking a clan member and eventually I was kicked from DI because of this. Unfortunately that ruined RS for me. I was maxed combat by now so I had no reason whatsoever to be in the axes. All I would do was P2P PK and tbh once you're not in DI you were just a victim in the wilderness at that time. My friends were all DI and could no longer run with me as guys like dkm would attack me if they saw me with them, putting them in the situation he put me in that got me kicked. I flirted with joining DS but tbh 20 hour F2P wars just didnt bring the same adrenaline. I ended up quitting the game altogether in around 2006 and moving on to try my hand at the new game I'd discovered called Real Life. In hindsight, I'm lucky I was kicked and quit at the time I did as I gave WAY too much to this game. Since then I've gone on to graduate, get married, have 3 kids (4th on the way), qualify as an accountant and start my own business which now employs 3 staff - life has been good to me. I have such fond memories of DI and my times there and almost wish I could re-live them. As for RS I came back in the heavy botting era (chaotics were released, maybe around 2009?) and botted up a turmoil zerker ready to get into edge PKing again. Unfortunately I got 46 defence by accident when I was a few attack levels from being ready to go. As discussed earlier, I'm very elitist so that wasn't acceptable to me so I stopped botting and started playing it legit, VERY casually, up to this day on RS3. Due to having very low time commitments I ended up just buying bonds when I needed things, which ruined the game for me, so I started a new account as an ironman. I later realised I HATE agility and refuse to use my life to train it so I removed my ironman status so I can use silverhawk boots but continued to play as an Iron Man. I considered joining OSRS when it was launched but again thought I wouldnt have the time commitments to be amongst the elite, and for me if I was coming back it would have only been for DI. Thank you for coming with me on my trip down memory lane. I'd be really interested to see if anyone from my era is still around/remembers me.