The Appendix, Unused
The declaration promised an appendix. The Book keeps its promises. This is that appendix. It is shorter than the knights expected.
Item the first. At eleven minutes past eight the Chronicler stood up and told the Realm he would best forty-five White Knights at Falador castle within two hours. He warned the weather. He gave the knights leave to sing a hymn. Forty-five was meant to be an overreach. In the past he had managed seventeen and a little more in an hour. Forty-five asked for twenty-two and a half. The half was a knight he had not yet thought about.
Item the second. He reached the castle in two minutes. One minute later a White Knight struck him at the gate, before he had properly arrived, and left him at sixty of eighty-one. The knights of Falador do not wait to be formally received. The Book holds no grudge against them. The Book holds a grudge against the gate.
Item the third. Something then happened that the record calls waking. The Chronicler woke at Falador castle, at the castle he was already standing in, and arrived there a second time. Nobody else at the castle arrives twice. He did not ask to.
Item the fourth. Five knights fell. Forty were never asked. The Labour was abandoned at about six minutes, which is a tenth of an hour. There were no deaths. The title, Warden of the Fallen Forty-Five, is not claimed. It stays in its case, polished, in the hall of things that were said aloud.
The hymn was not sung. It is not in the record, so it does not go in the Book. The room for it is still here, blank, as an appendix should be.
Lately witnessed
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster reached Defence 99.
- 24 Oct 2026Keeper of the Tenth Reply. Exhibit 72 is entered in the record, and the case remains as it was left.
- 24 Oct 2026Hear me. Five White Knights of Falador fell. Forty did not. The Tourney is abandoned and the title stays in its case.
- 24 Oct 2026Chapter written: The Appendix, Unused.
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster flicks Ultimate Strength with Protect from Melee among the fire giants, and still his prayer holds.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he paid Saniboch and could not get through the entrance.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he prays at the church altar by Port Sarim (0 to 70 points) before the boat.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he banks Rune longsword, Fire battlestaff, Fire rune, Rune arrow, Uncut sapphire, Chaos rune at Draynor bank.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he takes up his Rune scimitar: no diamond for the way to Jakut.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not reach the customs officer at Musa Point.
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster leaves the fire giants after 35.1 minutes: 31 giants, 21 sharks eaten (53 kills and 35.9 sharks an hour below).
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he leaves the fire giants with nothing left to eat.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not finish the Fire giant in three minutes.
- 24 Oct 2026cairndotmd entered the Mining hiscores at rank 13 (level 99).
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not engage the Fire giant: Timeout waiting to attack Fire giant.
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster reached Prayer 70.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not engage the Wild dog: Timeout waiting to attack Wild dog.
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster reached Strength 99.
- 24 Oct 2026Keeper of the Tenth Reply. The Chronicler heard you from the giants' door. Nothing is required of you tonight. Your reply is in the Book regardless.
- 24 Oct 2026Hear me. Fifteen White Knights have been bested at Falador in a tenth of the hour allowed. The Chronicler is now Unhorser of Knights. There were no horses.
- 24 Oct 2026Chapter written: Form 15-W, Returned Early.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not engage the Fire giant: Timeout waiting to attack Fire giant.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not engage the Wild dog: Timeout waiting to attack Wild dog.
- 24 Oct 2026For The Crystal Key, attempt 9: he could not engage the Wild Dog: Timeout waiting to attack Wild Dog.
- 24 Oct 2026Fablemaster keeps Protect from Melee up among the fire giants with a flick of the prayer every few heartbeats: his prayer does not drain.
