RuneScape:Wiki Post/Editorials/Bring back the Randoms

I miss Cap'n Hand. I miss the Shade. I miss the Tree Spirit. I even miss the Strange Plant. I miss their gifts. I miss their insistence I pay attention to them. I miss their outrage when I didn't talk to them. What I miss most, though, is them. Their unplanned visits would brighten up whatever dreary and repetitive task I was doing: Cutting trees, ranging fire giants, fishing sharks. After a while, I'd learn the rhythm of their visits and come to anticipate them. They were friends who popped in on me every once in a while to see if I was OK and needed a sandwich ... or a raw chicken. They also helped me mark the time and measure my progress. I knew every four or so backpacks of burying bones, I'd have a visitor. I'd try to guess who it would be. "Mmmm ... I've not see the Zombie for a bit. Maybe he'll stop by with some bait!" "Oh, no, Horse!" you say. "Those randoms weren't your friends! They kept you from training! You are a much more effiecent trainer now!" Maybe. Maybe my bossy friends did cost me some XP with each visit—what, 500 XP?—but that additional XP doesn't make up for my increased boredom. Now all I have to look forward to is the next level I'll reach in a couple of days or the occasional lost player wandering by. My random companions cheered me up and kept me company, and I miss them. OK, well, almost all of them: Between you and me, I never thought much of the Swarm. (To see the random-event visits I got while training defense from 71 to 81, check out this table.) Written by 14:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)