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| Clan Quest | |
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| Joined Clan | December 8, 2012 |
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| RuneScape Username Join date Memes |
Santa Ends 2005 Yes |
| OSRS Username Join date Quest points |
Santa Ends 2013 1 |
| Personal Info | |
| Name | Nic |
| Age | Current year - 1994 |
| Sex | Male |
| Occupation | Logistics Data Analyst |
| Location | Singapore |
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Hi, my name is Nic but you can call me Santa. I used to hold the appointment of OSRS honour/guild councillor, RS3 guild councillor and a member of the content editors, but dropped them all due to work.
My main game is OSRS. Over the years, I have comped and mqced on RS3 but has lost interest due to the heavy amount of content to keep up with and the steep learning curve. OSRS provides me a place to grind for hours on end without a punishing learning curve. I plan to get max cape on OSRS eventually, and hope to get it by milestones of 10s. Currently I am working on getting 80 base stats.
As you probably can tell, I like skilling more than questing (blasphemy!), pvm (understandable) and pvp (that's why we are here right and not in WG).
My time in CQ, ever since I joined in 2012, I've always felt like an outsider looking in. I never understood how a bunch of people can enjoy game lore and easter eggs when all I want to do is run agility laps for hours.
However I stayed for the community, I have forged deep friendships and the non-elitist, non-judgemental, inclusive environment. CQ has been one of, if not the most consistent friend groups in my life.
Over the years I have met a few clannies in real life. Xenon in 2016, a ton of people in RuneFest 2017, Werecool in 2017.
Contents
Runescape
Before Clan Quest
After taking a 2 year break to complete my A levels, I returned to the game and found that a lot of my old friends and clan were no longer around. There was the option of re-joining another Singapore based clan but I soon realised that I didn't fit in there and sought another community. While searching the RSOF, I chanced upon the questing clan T5 thread and was intrigued by the succinct writing, structured rules and clear hierarchy. I guested and soon found the friendly atmosphere very attractive.
Joining Clan Quest
Back then you needed 3 sponsors to join the clan and I got mine from Meru, Seb and Ytse. A year and half later on March 6, 2014 I was nominated by Gardenchick to be a low council and thus accepted. This was the first time since 2005 I was part of guild leadership. Learnt a lot both from the job and my peers.
Retired towards the end of 2018, as I was starting my first job after college and wanted to focus. Looking back I had this recurring pattern of dropping commitments to focus. This was something I learnt about myself from college days which limited my clan commitments - I can only do 2 things well at any time. Add the third (usually clan stuff) and something will give way.
RuneFest 2017
Went to RuneFest 2017 to meet clannies. Was a student intern so had to save up and take time off internship. Had a good time. Hope to be back one day.
Advent 2021
Through the years even though I've stepped down from clan responsibilities, I try to come back at least one month in the year and contribute.
In 2021, Cireon assembled the advent team and I was happy to be part of it. Together with Choto and Pac, we had a clan auction.
Advent 2022
In 2022 we also had an auction, this time jointly hosted with Questcaping and Dark.
We also had a hide and seek event with the OSRS group.
Advent 2023
This year we had a unique OSRS event using the "Prop Hunt" RuneLite plugin. It was a good time having an OSRS exclusive event.
Delft 2024
Since moving to the Netherlands, I met Cireon and spent a day with him touring his hometown. We had a nice lunch, stroopwafel, a pizza, and a long walk. Fun times.
I also spent a few weeks woodcutting Redwoods with Dia, and watched him get 99 Woodcutting. As of 31 January 2025, Dia got his beaver after 51.379 million woodcutting xp.
RuneFest 2025
After a pandemic and many years of no RuneFest, it came back bigger than ever with twice the attendance compared to the previous one in 2019. With a job offer in hand and a shorter travel distance, I jumped at the opportunity to attend and meet the Clan Quest family again.
Highlights of the trip:
- Spending time with Darkestnight and Spy Whoman outside the convention
- Meeting Shane, ISKH, Idiotonastic, and Dawn for the first time
- Having to see Cyan, Cireon, Questcaping and Diana again after many years
- Wearing the Clan Quest T Shirt, doing real life recruitment at the Clan Quest/RSBandB booth
Choto
I hope to meet Choto irl one day as well.
Real Life
School
I did my undergrad in Economics at National University of Singapore. Thereafter, I got a job in a freight forwarder and completed my IATA Air Cargo Diploma in the first 2 years.
After that, I did my graduate certificate in Computing, and got into the Master in Computing program at National University of Singapore. As of December 2023, I have graduated from the course, and moved on to a full time developer role - a goal that was 5 years in the making.
Career
I currently work in a US logistics and freight forwarding company - Expeditors International as a data analyst. Working towards the goal of becoming the best solutions engineer/data scientist in the industry.
As of November 2024, I made the move from Singapore to the Netherlands through an intercompany transfer to work in the Europe regional team. This was not all to my credit - I have Cireon and Dark to thank for their kind advice.
Links
My Social Media Links
Youtube | Github | Linkedin | Twitter | SantaEnds on Discord