Update: I haven't played any RS:MS over the weekend, but I did get back into RS3 today and finally completed the quest in the East. I followed up with a brief jaunt to Pidona and rescued the fairy from the circus, then did some inventory management until my gamepad ran out of juice. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with the games Inventory system, in that it doesn't have an auto-sort button. It at least makes me more mindful of what I have or don't have and allows me to customize the sorting to my own whim, but it also takes extra time when you get a new item and you want it in a specific spot (IE: A Salve in with the potions/consumables). There's really no way around it, and I'm sure most people just leave the inventory to get all messy, but I can't-- I'm a bit OCD, so long as the focus of my attention has nothing to do with my bedroom.

I do believe that before the weekend officially started, I played SOME RS:MS. I completed the saving Constance quest in Knight's Dominion and puzzled over Ligau Island, trying to figure out how the heck to trigger Mt Tomae's availability, and it turned out all I had to do was talk to the bartender at the pub in beast-infested Jelton, something I would never have figured out if I hadn't looked it up. It took me an entire hour trying to figure it out before I finally did. In that time, I also acquired the Falcata and a Dragon Egg... Instinct told me to avoid the dinosaurs in the nest at all cost, and I managed to until I had to head back out. I tried to beat the first one that caught up to me to no avail so I wasted LP and booked it, and then got caught up with another and wasted MORE LP... then at the last second just one step away from the exit, I got caught in one last encounter from behind. At that point everyone was down to 5-1 LP and I couldn't run anymore, so I had to tough it out. I gotta say, that was the diciest battle I've ever been in so far. It took me several rounds and a defensive strategy to eventually beat the damn thing, and what made the stakes even higher was that I hadn't saved for a while (how stupid of me) so the adrenaline was pumping the whole time. Made the victory all the more rewarding, that's for sure.

Those dinosaurs are no joke, man.