1 April 2008 - Behind the Scenes - April

The first of April's updates seems to attract abbreviations: F2P,
PvP, OMG - all of these could be used to describe Fist of Guthix, our
next combat minigame. We could say that this will be a safe,
single-way, Wilderness-based game available to both free players and
members, but that would ignore some important details. Attack
strategies, defensive tactics, well-timed escapes: Fist of Guthix will
employ all of these to create a memorable combat minigame.

There is a massive range of rewards to win for playing Fist of
Guthix, so we'll give you a wee teaser. The rune berserker shield, like
most of Fist of Guthix's rewards, degrades with use, but it also offers
you some hefty defence bonuses and a Strength boost; the battle robe
set will sometimes pay for mind, chaos, death or blood runes that you
use when casting a combat spell; and the Runecrafting gloves will
double the experience you gain from crafting runes of the glove's type!

Talking of rewards, where could you possibly find a top hat, animal
mask, adamant cane and black crossbow? It could only be the Treasure
Trails, and this month will bring our next installment. Among the new
weapons, clothes and hats will be some brain-twisting new clues to
untangle, ranging across the medium and hard difficulties.

It is at this point in the month that the skies will darken, a fog
will descend and a bloodcurdling scream will echo out. What could bring
on this strange and eerie change? Ah, it must be the fourth in our
Myreque quest series: Legacy of Seergaze! With no help forthcoming from
Misthalin and vampyres continuing to collect their scarlet tithes, the
Myreque have been calling on mercenaries to aid their cause. Meanwhile,
deep in Paterdomus, Drezel has found something strange that could shed
light on Morytania's gloomy past...

Not so gloomy are the graphical improvements to the Morytania
entrance area and the icefiends of RuneScape. Expect Paterdomus temple
and its grounds to become more grand and foreboding, and the icefiends
a sight more icy and fiendish.

A nod must be given to the website updates. The Grand Exchange
Database will be released this month, having had its image issues
resolved, displaying graphs and statistics of Grand Exchange market
prices. There's also a Summoning guaranteed content poll, the latest
Players' Gallery and the Postbag from the Hedge.