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The Official Rookgaard Strategy Guide
Written by Master Slayer on May 12, 2008
Free Accounts - Fastest Method
You will have poor skills and a small amount of money following this method, but you will advance extremely fast in level. Walk directly north from the temple and head straight down to the sewers outside of Obi's shop. Start slaying as many rats as possible. Be sure to stay near the entrance while hunting and loot every single rat you kill and eat as much cheese from them as you can. Also pick up as many dead rat bodies as possible and sell them to Seymour in the academy library for extra money. According to your starting equipment your hit points will drop amazingly fast while hunting. Once you reach a dark yellow or red hp bar above your head - leave the cave immediately. Run towards the temple guard Cipfried at your starting point and say hi. He will heal you to yellow hit points. Then proceed back down to the same rat cave and continue this process until you reach level two.

Once you reach level two continue hunting in the same rat cave. This time you must enter the second floor which can be found very close to the entrance. If you cannot find it go to the first yellow dot on your map thats shown to the north and go down the hole. Fight off a few rats and loot the rapier out of the chest in this room. Continue hunting in these sewers until you reach level three and have gathered at least 115 gp.

Now that you are level three head to the front desk at Obi shop. With the money you have buy a rope, shovel, sabre, wooden shield, leather legs, leather helmet. Purchase these items in this exact order. If you cannot afford some of these items then buy as many of them as you can. Head north to the empty two story house in town and proceed through the left of it in to an open field. Walk a few paces north and you will notice a small hole in the ground. Go down the hole and proceed through the cave and go down the ladder. Once you are down the ladder use your rope and head up the rope hole on to the other side of the room. After this head down the next ladder and kill the three poison spiders. Once they are dead walk down and head up the rope hole. Continue on through this extremely long cave until your map is at this location. (See diagram below). Go straight and head left, kill the single poison spider, and go up the ladder. Clear the spider tower above you and head directly south until you reach a swamp.

Kill every snake possible in this swamp area and keep heading west as you do so. You will end up at the west shore of Rookgaard then head north and halt at a another landmark. There is a tower full of wasps that is quite dangerous. These wasps here drop honeycombs which is part of the feather hat quest. Also at the top of the tower is a honey flower which can be traded to an NPC on the premium side of Rookgaard for studded legs. Kill as many wasps as you can and proceed south-west.

There will be a hole in the ground surrounded by rocks. Go down the hole. Keep fighting the spiders and keep going down the floors. Kill the poison spiders in this cave as well as the rotworm at the bottom. If you have low health points head back out of the cave and hunt the deer that spawn in the surrounding areas outside. Once you have regained your health go down in to the spider cave once again. Keep following this method until you reach level eight.

After reaching level eight head back in to town and speak with the oracle found upstairs in the academy. Choose a vocation, a town to live in, and be teleported to mainland. Congratulations!
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