Moment I caught wind of it being able to swap the points for Slayer exp, I could already hear some veteran Slayers whining in the forums (RSOF, Tip.it as well if it hadn't crashed already) about how the skill has been nerfed, same way the Farmers did when Vinesweeper was released. As well as see all the Slayer exp rolling in for me.
This time round, its your usual save-the-damsel-in-distress quest, where you have to save the sister of a woman named Sumona ( who looks ALOT like the Devourer) from a smoking well in Pollnivneach.
As usual, you have to play dumb and follow along with the evil plan like in Regicide, despite it being very obvious that Sumona is the Devourer, and the game doesn't allow you to not help her, or throw your cat at her instead, which would probably cause her to implode on herself. Which would be quite funny.
As you prepare to leap headfirst into the well, you are stopped by a cat (Who is, like everyone else in the town, named Ali), telling you your ass is fried if you set foot in the dungeon since
Smoke + Banshees - (Facemask or Earmuffs) = Dead Adventurer
And that you have to find a Slayer master to teach you how to put the facemask and earmuffs together so that you don't die instantaneously in there. Of course there are a couple of problems.
One being the fact that he's been dead a LONG time, and the other being that his tomb is situated in the middle of bloody nowhere in the desert. East of the Agility Pyramid to be exact.
So off you go to dig him up. Here he is, goes by the name of Catolax.
Once consulted, you put the two together, head down the well, kill a banshee, pick up what appears to be its head, before using it to break a barrier to meet a...bigger banshee.
Well, its bigger than a normal banshee, thats all I can say for it really. Not that hard to beat on its own.
Bloody thing has an annoying ability to knock you flat though, as seen in the above. I didn't take any screenshots of the rest of the scarab archers suddenly turning on me as well, since I was too busy swearing and trying to stay alive. I went from 40 hp to 8 after one volley of arrows. The bastards. Oh yes, if you do try this quest, please don't turn off your Protect From Range prayer immediately after the fight, because the bloody archers can fire one last volley at you after you kill the Banshee Mistress. They left me wondering why the hell my Hitpoints meter read 5 instead of 50.
Anyway, the Devourer's scheme is quite obvious now, her twin sister is actually her, and she blows up a book nearby which would have give you total control over the archers, before incinerating them like the cannon fodder they are.
Killing big mama Banshee apparently freed Catolax's soul as well, so you didn't totally mess up by helping out the Devourer unwittingly yet again. She isn't allowed you blow you up by some covenant of the gods since she already promised to reward you for saving her "sister".
The reward being the new Slayer system I was talking about. Oh yes, she's now a new Slayer Master too. Thought it would be Catolax when I first heard about a new Slayer Master being released.
PS : For Fishing, just surpassed 5.5 mil exp.
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