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Hey Alora! Just one of those mandatory 4.6b XP achievement posts but with a little bit extra as well haha. :)
First things first, I finally managed to get the Golden monkey as they say:
This achievement actually took way longer than I first planned it to take. I started post max skilling heavily during the first lockdown when the pandemic started (came back to Alora after 1 year break in late 2019) and thought I would finish 4.6b in 2020 but around the time I managed to get the regular Monkey, which was on September 13th 2020, I got into PvM through completing the diaries, which involved CoX, ToB and the Inferno. I became mainly a pvmer from that point and let's just say I did not look back, for a while. 
The love for PvM, mainly raids and especially the Theatre of Blood, started with a spoon drop from ToB itself:
which started a passion for raiding. I really wanted to get the Twisted bow before grinding more ToB, after getting the Avernic upgrade at just 9kc and well, this happened almost 2 years ago now on 22nd September 2020:
Yoinking the Twisted bow from my friend @Ironb0rn aka @
real b0rn
was a great feeling and very unexpected to say the least (he got it just day or two later so all good in the end). I wanted the Kodai wand and finish the Ancestral set so I kept grinding the CoX as well as hopping to ToB whenever there was a team. During my CoX adventures I was very lucky and here is a show case of my Twisted Bs, which includes a Bowmlet drop as well which is insane. The 3rd bow was obtained during ICE bingo event which really was a cherry on top. The 4th bow I got from the first raid I did when I achieved the Uber rank which was an amazing start to say the least. 
My Theatre of Blood journey was quite something. After getting the bow I started doing ToB quite a lot and I managed to get all the goodies very early (full Justiciar, Sanguinesti staff and Ghrazi rapier all at around 190kc ish) except for that damn Scythe of Vitur. It ultimately took me 591 ToB kc in total to get, which includes around 525 normal mode runs and rest of them hard mode runs (the counter for HM did not come until later). The Scythe was obtained on 4th of August 2021 so almost full year of tobbing before I got my hands on it. Shout out to my boy @
Some things that happened during my ToB runs (listing all of them would take way too long so here's a couple):
Me hitting 200kc while my friend snipes another Scythe from me on a trio run and I got a funny picture on how it went down:
During ICE bingo event my dear raider @fittboberg coming in with 2 in 1 special lootation:
This is B2B drops from ToB. First faceguard from the hard mode and then hilt from the normal mode.
And this one was especially crazy not only did I manage to snipe one pet from @
My first Sanguinesti kit took me 245kc for which I was starting to lose hope but I managed to get it:
However I was rewarded for my patience since just mere 5 kc later on 27th December 2021 I got the Holy kit as well which meant full completion of the Collection log for ToB. I believe it was the first of its kind with the kits added in and that shit was hype as hell. 
Full completed log was achieved at 928 total kc. I'm showing the loot tracker for all of it except the first 109 runs:
Still continuing the journey to 2000 kc, hoping to get two more scythes and 2 more holy kits in the process. I might go further with it if it does not happen before 2000 who knows. All rng in the end anyways.
Here is the log as of 8th of September 2022:
Only one scythe. 
I unfortunately lost the tracker at one point and could not restore it. Maybe it was some update that got it screwed for me. (::importloot did not fix it btw) Anyways, here is a tracker of 359kc after log completion for the curious. I have to say not the best but what can you do...
This log completion naturally made me want to complete the Chambers of Xeric log as well, especially to get ready for that ToA release.
So I did, quite a few months later on 25th of May 2022 because I was still working on other goals such as Nex. Got the log at a respectful 1291kc with the last item being the Twisted Buckler...ha ha game.
and the log at the time:
and the Cox log as of 8th of September 2022:
Going for 2000 kc here as well for full completion. For the curious I have a pretty nice loot tracker for CoX, unfortunately it started just after I got my 1st Tbow drop but oh well. One of the bows were not tracked and it is lacking the Olmlets for some reason.
So I completed both of the raids logs before the Golden monkey. I did not plan it that way but I fell in love with the PvM side of things. I used to be more of a skiller as they say but here I am now.
Some RNG show case next in no particular order. Shout out @Moe for amazing events and all the gamers I have had a pleasure raiding with. 
Game troling me: getting my first ever Jad pet that took me 55kc and I get 2nd at 66kc where 10 of the 11 kc was gotten from Moe's boss massacre so basically b2b gambles (did the gamble just for daily).
I spooned the Zuk pet early a while ago now but was pretty pog ngl.
Getting the Jalred-jad pet from gambling three capes I had laying in my bank was amazing. It happened during AFM bingo event as well as one day after losing HC status of our group which made it even better. 
I managed to do a Melee inferno run which was quite fun actually.
Jar of darkness drop from Moe's boss massacre event was insane but I did not get the most unique drop which was crazy but oh well.
Double Zulrah unique drop is always great to see. Iirc there was a Zulrah pvm hunt event at the time and I managed to pull two drops same kill none of which were the ones we were hunting for LOL.
Spooning a Spectral sigil at only 106kc whilst doing Moe's Corporeal beast mass event back in the day was crazy shit.
More recently, though already a while back, I spooned yet another sigil. Arcane this time which is just a great feeling what can I say...
Got this Unsired whilst hunting for Moe's PvM hunt for Unsired which was pog but then I thought wouldn't it be great to get the pet as well and well, I called it. Sorry for this @
Doloing Nex and getting not only yet another (my 5th) pair of Zaryte vambraces but the Nexling in the same kill. The pet was also a dupe. Crazy lol.
My Nex log looking healthy af at 1058kc. Still looking for that Hilt for completion. :)
I have had my fair share of bad luck of course and I thought I could share a couple weird ones for you guys:
Although I never "hunted" especially for a Shield left half, it took me 3 years of playing this account to get one after getting 70 Dragon spears and killed a bunch of NPCs with and without Row (i).
I wanted to get the full Zombie outfit to put in my PoH and well, it took me 79 other pieces of Zombie outfit to pull the last one which was the boots to complete the set. I thought for years that the boots were not coded or obtainable through the questions but Omicron confirmed they were when I asked. Shit took me a while lmao. None of the Zombie outfit pieces were dropped until I obtained the last one by the way.
This was a journey of what has happened to this account over the years and here it is, due to the hiscores working the way they do, I am rank 10 ironman.
Goals I am working on right now are trying to get my hands on the DWH (yes I know I am a noob, still no red hammer), 1000 Brimstone keys and hunting for collection log slots (709/1038 as of 8th September 2022). Especially looking to get one of those Elysian spirit shields one day and excited for the Tombs of Amascut. :)
Sorry for a long post. Hope someone found this entertaining/interesting to read. This post has been something I have been thinking to do for a while now.
Shout out to Alora community for being absolutely amazing, the staff team for keeping shit together, the #ICE boys for being the best and the AFM and Paragon friends I have made along the way for being such gamers!
Thanks for reading!
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