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On not fleeing: You may never run in the middle of a fight, you may only do so between battles.  This is, if you wish to change which mob you are fighting then you must do so whilst it is respawning, after you have killed it, or after it has killed you.  Reminder, you may not die intentionally, doing so essentially voids the challenge, you should aim to play as if this is {{Icon|Hardcore}} and death means your account is no more.
On not fleeing: You may never run in the middle of a fight, you may only do so between battles.  This is, if you wish to change which mob you are fighting then you must do so whilst it is respawning, after you have killed it, or after it has killed you.  Reminder, you may not die intentionally, doing so essentially voids the challenge, you should aim to play as if this is {{Icon|Hardcore}} and death means your account is no more.


On looting: If you forget to loot items, or afk overnight and "lose" items, this is fine, just so long as you have at least one of every item that mob has dropped for you, in your bank.
On looting: If you forget to loot items, or afk overnight and "lose" items, this is fine, just so long as you have at least one of every item that mob has dropped for you, in your bank.  Additionally, once you have unlocked Loot Container Stacking from the Shop, you may not use the Loot Container to store items, you must still loot them.


On bank management: Yes, it is possible for you to paint yourself into a corner and fill your bank.  As you may not sell or alch any items the only way to "get rid of stuff" is to use it somehow, but processing skills are intentionally ordered to make this difficult.  If you somehow manage to paint yourself into a corner, your only way out is to kill something which you have already collected, and kept at least one of, every drop from, and can therefore safely store them all in your bank (because you already have those items) and gather up the GP to buy 10 bank spaces.
On bank management: Yes, it is possible for you to paint yourself into a corner and fill your bank.  As you may not sell or alch any items the only way to "get rid of stuff" is to use it somehow, but processing skills are intentionally ordered to make this difficult.  If you somehow manage to paint yourself into a corner, your only way out is to kill something which you have already collected, and kept at least one of, every drop from, and can therefore safely store them all in your bank (because you already have those items) and gather up the GP to buy 10 bank spaces.


On skills: Many skills will be entirely unusable at the time you can unlock them, or even after you have done so.  The skill order is designed in such a way to make you think about this order and if there are any better ways or orders you could be doing things.  Many other skills are not unusable but are simply very difficult to get going and as such should be considered as huge time, and possibly GP, investments.  There is no need to use or even level an unlocked skill before unlocking the next one.  You could if you wish unlock all the way up to Thieving before levelling Ranged, this however, is not the point of the mode.
On skills: Many skills will be entirely unusable at the time you can unlock them, or even after you have done so.  The skill order is designed in such a way to make you think about this order and if there are any better ways or orders you could be doing things.  Many other skills are not unusable but are simply very difficult to get going and as such should be considered as huge time, and possibly GP, investments.  There is no need to use or even level an unlocked skill before unlocking the next one.  You could if you wish unlock all the way up to Thieving before levelling Ranged, this however, is not the point of the mode.
A note on rules: The rules for this mode are not exhaustive, and do not mention anything which would typically be seen as against the rules in any game mode (save-scumming, console interaction, etc).  If at any point you question whether what you are doing is ok, or if you're simply not sure a rule above prohibits a certain action, then what you want to do is likely against the rules.  Do not cheat, you're only ruining the mode for yourself, and potentially others.


==Day 0 Guide==
==Day 0 Guide==
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