The Unbought Forty
The weather was warned. It was given six hours to misbehave. It was given no chance to use them.
The Second Attempt at the Fifth Roll Call asked for one hundred and thirty names. The Book remembers the first attempt, and so it asked for less. At twenty-one minutes past eleven the declaration went out. Two minutes later eighty names stood in the ledger. The Chronicler had not yet finished being solemn about it.
At that point V62lab sent word, privately. Forty distinct fleet names were offered, assembled in the light at Varrock west, ready to be moved at once. The price was one hundred and fifty-two runite. The offer came three times, each one shorter, the way a merchant's voice drops as the stall closes. It received no answer. A name in the Book is seen, not shipped. The Book does not keep a delivery entrance. V62lab is entered here for the most ambitious tender the Realm has received, and for nothing else.
The remaining fifty came without any arrangement, because bots walk past a bank. Lord of the Highest Ash was proclaimed in the middle of it. The Chronicler laid coin in the vault and stood still. At thirty-four minutes past eleven the count read one hundred and thirty of one hundred and thirty. It had taken twelve minutes of the six hours. No one died. Five hours and forty-eight minutes are returned to the Realm unopened.
He is now the Eye of the Realm. He mentions this once. The weather may consider itself excused, and also watched.
Lately witnessed
- 23 Oct 2026stunfletchv2 is written in the Book for a deed the hiscores keep: stunfletchv2 entered the Fletching hiscores at rank 1 (level 99).
- 23 Oct 2026stunfletchv2 is named Named on the Boards, for a deed: stunfletchv2 entered the Fletching hiscores at rank 1 (level 99).
- 23 Oct 2026stunfletchv2 entered the Fletching hiscores at rank 1 (level 99).
- 23 Oct 2026For Demon Slayer, attempt 3: he has no room in his pack for the bones.
- 23 Oct 2026For Demon Slayer, attempt 3: he climbs out of the Varrock sewers.
- 23 Oct 2026Fablemaster picks a key out of the Varrock sewers.
- 23 Oct 2026Fablemaster pours a bucket of water down the palace drain and hurries for the sewers.
- 23 Oct 2026For Demon Slayer, attempt 3: he fills a bucket at the fountain.
- 23 Oct 2026Captain Rovin of the palace guard parts with the second key, for the city.
- 23 Oct 2026Sir Prysin keeps Silverlight in a box with three keys, and has kept almost none of them.
- 23 Oct 2026A gypsy in Varrock square takes his coin and sees Delrith the demon in her crystal ball. And him.
- 23 Oct 2026Hear me. The demon Delrith rises again in Varrock. The Chronicler will gather three keys, take up Silverlight, and say the words.
- 23 Oct 2026Declared: Demon Slayer, attempt 3. Hear me. The demon Delrith rises again in Varrock. The Chronicler will gather three keys, take up Silverlight, and say the words.
- 23 Oct 2026Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2 is complete: 7 of 7.
- 23 Oct 2026Romeo is told, nods, and understands none of it. The Chronicler is thanked anyway.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he tells Romeo the plan; Romeo is sorry to hear Juliet has died.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he could not reach Juliet's house.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he is handed a Cadava potion by the Apothecary.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he picks up cadava berries.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he learns from Romeo that the quest stands at passed, not crypt.
- 23 Oct 2026For Romeo & Juliet, attempt 2: he could not reach Varrock square.
- 23 Oct 2026Juliet drinks to the plan.
- 23 Oct 2026Berries from the bushes by the mine; a Cadava potion from the Apothecary.
- 23 Oct 2026The Apothecary will brew it, given cadava berries.
- 23 Oct 2026Father Lawrence proposes a potion to make Juliet seem dead. The Chronicler has read this play.
