[edit] Dechaineux

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• Template reference
• Sandbox
• Sandbox Two

• Character Profile
• Character Records
• Farming Path
• Personalised Grand Exchange
• Kingdom management
• House plan
• Goals and Achievements

[edit] What’s in a Name?

I do occasionally get questions about my RuneScape (and general gaming) tag.

The name Dechaineux stems directly from that of one of the Royal Australian Navy’s Submarines – HMAS Dechaineux. The Dechaineux is a Collins Class diesel powered submarine and I have had the privilege of sailing aboard her (only for a short while I'm afraid).


Hence, indirectly, the name Dechaineux originates from the namesake of the submarine. HMAS Dechaineux was named for Captain Emile Dechaineux, an Australian Naval officer who served during WWII.

[edit] About Me – The “Real World”

Outside of the virtual-world of RuneScape I’m a male, 18 year old Western Australian university student. My bachelor degrees are in Mining Engineering and Economics, although I don’t start my studies for another few months yet.

Home town is currently Albany – 400km south of Perth.

Interests, besides casual gaming, include aquatic sports such as rowing, sailing, surfing and scuba diving. It’s handy living right beside the sea!

[edit] About Me – RuneScape

While playing RuneScape my main ‘goal’ is, above anything else, to do what’s fun. Thus, while most of my time is devoted to training skills (and let’s face it – what activity in RuneScape isn’t?), my methods may not always be the most time/cost efficient.

While on the subject of skills, I would have to say that my favourite two skills would be Farming and Slayer. For some reason, I have found that I don’t really enjoy the ‘popular’ RuneScape skills (namely Woodcutting, Fishing, Cooking etc.), probably as they require very little input and are, I suspect, trained mainly for the ends (skill capes) and not for the sake of actually training the skill.

That being said, I’ve had my own run-in with the ‘race to 99’. Shortly after the skill capes were released I decided to get level 99 in Fletching. I worked hard (well it is relative isn’t it?) at the skill but, by the time I got half way, I realised that, firstly, I wasn’t enjoying the process and, secondly, if I was to get a skill level of 99 in any skill I would want it to be a process that I enjoyed to some extent.

I can’t say that I’ve got all that much closer to a 99 since then, possibly because neither Slayer nor Farming are particularly fast skills to train. To be honest, however, I don’t think it really matters to me. While I can always dream of donning either of those capes, I’m quite happy in the mean time with my Quest Cape (which I hope to re-obtain soon) and slowly moving my total level and total experience upwards. You never know, one day I might eventually make it there without trying too hard!