My Runescape Diary

I was helping my son do monkey madness today, he is a level 88 combat he is only 8 and gets stuck on a few things so I was there to guide him along when he needed it.

As he progressed through the quest he got to the stage where he needs to go to crash island and then Ape Attol, I told him to bank everything and go and have a look at the place first to get an idea how dangerous it is.

He had no armour or weapon and didn't even take any food, he went up to the gates at Ape Attol and was shot and sent to jail, after escaping from jail he spoke to the sergeant who told him to speak to the gnome in the tunnel, he then made a run for it and was shot and sent to jail again, in jail he was low hp and shortly died of poison, as he died another player said lol noob, I found this amusing, Dan had done all he needed to do on that trip, this other player was stuck in jail, had armour on and had not completed that part yet and I bet he used a ring of dueling or runes to get back, not free tele like Dan had and all stats reset.

He returned and got all the stuff he needed from Ape Atol no armour and sweetcorn for food and had the tunnel part to do, I said your likely to die here when I did it I had armour on and was hit so hard that I ate all my lobbies and needed to tele on my first attempt, he had ring of dueling, dentures, monkey amulet and gold bar and a full inventory of sweetcorn. he ran like hell with protect melee prayer on and got to the end after walking half the way with a few corn left over.

He only took armour to kill the monkey demon, I gave him a range pot and he wore blue dragon hide and had a mage shortbow with 130 steel arrows, it took him a few minutes and he was victorious the monkey demon was dead.

This got me thinking that was an easy quest, before I did it I was told it was a hard quest so I got my best armour and best weapon and I struggled and I succeeded, for me that was a major achievement to complete the monkey madness quest and wear a d scimmy, my son did it with no armour and carp food, hardly an achievement just a chore out of the way to use a d scimmy, I am so glad I did it at a lower level, there was a challenge and against all odds I won, a much greater achievement that a higher level player doing it.

If asked when is the best time to do a quest I would say just before you think you can do it, I do all quests now as soon as they come out, unfortunately now I have maxed almost all attack levels no quest is a struggle, the only thing I can strive to do is complete before the guides come out.