Well, uh... bad news, guys.... :[ I lost a lot of progress in RS3. I think I accidentally exited out of the rom without saving the session, which shot me back by several hours-- before my last post was made, at the very least.

That's fine though I guess... Kinda serendipitous actually, because before the progress loss, I had realized that I was underpowered for the boss battle I was trying to get to... And then I'd started up the Maximus quest, and discovered too late that I needed 10000 gold in order to get into the holy shrine tower or whatever it is. After doing some reading up I found that I could have gotten all that gold if I'd just done all three parts of the business minigame, but I couldn't do that because as soon as the Maximus Quest is triggered, you're unable to open the business minigame menu with a certain NPC standing outside of the tower.

Sooo... after that happened, I retired Undine and instead put all the spells she had on Boston. I'm already finding that he's actually doing much more damage with his water magic than Undyne was, and he's not even up to the level she was at yet. For now, Undine has been replaced with Thomas, until I find someone I definitely want. Thinking about getting either Paul or Zhi Lin, but I think I'll do that after I've finished the business minigame and then completed the Maximus quest, since that quest locks Herman into the party. (Maybe next time I play through I'll get Herman sooner so I can turn him into Black and have an even better axe-weilder than Ellen...)

Looks like the ruins aren't gonna happen for a loooong while...