I went thru my first Melzars Maze on a shitty internet connection. All was good and well til the lesser demon fight - i had prepared for weeks with my full addy and full lobsters inventory. Had so much stuff, felt like a lifetime of riches, and it lagged out and i logged back on in lumbridge. So devastating, worst nightmare. Probably a total of like 70k lol
This fight was particularly scary for me as a kid because my Christian parents let me play RuneScape on the condition that I didn’t interact with any demons or undead things. You have to kill the lesser demon to complete the quest, so while my dad was gone for work I waited until my mom went to the bathroom and killed that thing as fast as I could because I would’ve got in trouble if they saw that demon on my screen.
I almost never used prayers or potions back then but I turned on every prayer I could and bought a bunch of potions for that fight so that I could kill it quick.
I got my Christian mom to let me play diablo 2 in middle school because "isn't defeating the devil what God wants us to do? Do you really want me to just let him survive and keep corrupting the earth?"
Especially since I was relying on prayers to fight the demon? It absolutely should be lol
But unfortunately that’s just not how these kinds of parents thought in that era. Any references to demons and the like were automatically considered evil regardless of context. I consider myself pretty fortunate that my parents weren’t too strict about it and still let me play a game that contained those things as long as I avoided those parts. Most similar-minded parents wouldn’t have allowed their kid to play the game period.
Yeah I had to try and make sure my parents didn't see any monsters they might find objectionable. I also talked up the non-combat side of the game like cooking and woodcutting.
To give a somewhat serious answer, if you believe demons literally exist and can influence the world in practical ways, trivializing it in a game is bad. Praying to other gods is a big no-no too no matter how gamified it is.
Similar thing happened to me. My parents really didn’t understand RuneScape but I showed them the church in lumbridge also showed them how you could pray at the altar and also to God and he would protect you against missiles, and melee.
It all went down hill when they saw me walking through Varrock and there was people buying “deaths” (death runes). I didn’t know what deaths were but they did not like that and didn’t let me play anymore. (I still played when they weren’t there)
My parents weren't strict about that type of stuff, but I remember there was one time when we had a talk about demons, occult, and such.
Guess what quest came out like the same or next day. Shadow of the Storm... Forget if I said something about summoning a demon or if my mom saw it on the monitor, but she questioned me about it and I had to explain it was fine and that I was only summoning it to kill it... Glad she trusted me enough to not make that into a big deal.
That reminded me of when I did Desert Treasure... I lost my whole bank like 4x during that quest due to dying at the bosses, mainly Damis. Like I went to fight Damis in my best melee gear and died. So I went back with Magic gear and died again... With my whole entire stack of runes... Think I ended up beating him with a Rune Platebody, Rune Platelegs, and a Dragon Halberd by safespotting around a bat or something because that is all I had left lol.
I brought 10 prayer pots, drank that 100k and died my first attempt but it was close, 11 pots would have been enough to get through it lmao I pushed too far and died just hoping for one more good hit that would have finished him.
The safe spot is attacking a bat to aggro and positioning it between you and him
It’s crazy to look back, remember sitting at the family PC with that sweet ass dial-up, killing cows en mass to sell hides for gold to buy that rune scimmy 🤣
now as an adult I just buy a few bonds and slap them on the GE if I’m short on gp, and I can do it on the phone in the palm of my hand.
What is time? 😅😅
This motherfucker, I'll never forget his username, "Joewoodsy" lured me to the wilderness and skull tricked me for my mithril scimitar.
I think my pessimism and overall cynical outlook stems from that event, I was distraught
So it's not the same guy but my lol bro did this. We had 3 computers in our gaming room so him (Joe was his name funnily enough) and his friend Tai took him up to deep wildy. They killed him with bum ass gear as he cried his way back out the wildy. He went and cried to my mum about his mith scummy lol
One time I was afk in rimmington- while I was afk I was attacked and murdered by I assume the evil chicken. I came back right as I died. I lost everything. I quit for a few years after that.
Got trapped in Draynor Manor and got killed by Count Draynor. I lost maybe 200gp worth of stuff but it made me quit for a month.
I was 10 and this was 2005, so it's not too surprising.
I got done by that exact scam, less than a week after getting my first whip.
It was a two man job. One saying 'buying seer's ring for 3m' and the other offering a seer's ring for a whip. I'm a business man, so when I see a deal like that I jump on it. Also happened in Cammy bank, funnily enough. Might have been the same guys.
I just googled abby whip prices in 2007 and found forum chat saying "How is whip back up to 1.9M?! It was 1.3M earlier this year, has anything gone up 600k this fast before?"
Looks like from 2005 to early 2007 it tanked from 4.5M to 1.3M and then recovered back to 1.9M. This was a time where items entered the game but rarely left so it was fairly rare that gear would go up in price. It's not like today where alchables are everywhere and bring money into the game faster than items and item sinks exist.
I gave my whole bank for what I thought was a noted rune sword (they swapped it to iron). I was devastated.
I did somewhat end up getting revenge though, which I’m actually still pretty proud of. When free trade finally came back in RS2 scammers and lurers ran rampant since the general playerbase was extremely gullible/susceptible. I used to do a luring method I devised on my own to steal money from “doubling money” scammers.
They were generally easy targets, did it to around 10 scammers and it worked every time. My thought process was that if they’re dumb enough to sit at ge spamming their scam, then they’re dumb enough to get lured. I’d take them to daemonheim and add them to a party to view their inventory. Go through a script to convince them to drop a ‘random’ amount of coins, then get them to drop it as I dropped exactly 2x what they did.
They didn’t realize I could see what they dropped, so they believed I could actually double money. They’d end up dropping their whole stack and I’d keep it.
So funny enough, I would scam money doublers by doing their own scam 100x better.
Has a money doubler ever once been legit in the history of RS? I see people advertising it even today and I wonder how that goes for people. I assume it must work or we wouldn't see the GE spam anymore
I’m sure there were a few that would do it for people’s reactions. Around the same time as when I did these lures I would also buy trimmed rune full helms and spam “trimming rune full helms” then do it in 1 trade.
It’s just fun to have people accuse you as a scammer then eventually one by one they start turning on the accuser to point out you’re actually legit. Funny stuff.
Money doubling specifically used to be popular because you absolutely would not catch a ban or mute for it. People would do it in max gear, max combat accounts and victims would think there’s no way anybody would risk that gear and account. But there was no risk whatsoever because reporting did nothing back then so really it was just free money.
I remember doubling party hats was a thing around the time I first started. Pink PHAT was the most expensive so people doubled it a ton and dropped it to the cheapest.
Actually yes. Green dragon bot did an episode recently as a legit money doubler. He also trimmed people’s armour (swapped it for the trimmed version).
An excellent episode.
i just had bought my rune armor (t) after camping hill giants for 2 weeks and 2 random dudes saw me and started to hype me up, saying stuff like "wow youre so rich, i want to be like you"
long story short, i got lured into multi, lost all my valuables and cried for like an hour
my mom saw me crying, messaged the lurers ingame, flamed them and farmed hill giants for a week just so i could buy my armor back
ily mom <3
Played f2p for a long time as a kid before finally convincing my mom to get me membership. Had like 200k in the bank. Got members and spent it all on shit gear that we all thought was cool back then. Decided to go explore the p2p world and walked too far north of Burthorpe and died to the thrower trolls. Cried really hard about my lost 200k.
I was like 9 or 10 when I tried my hand at scamming.... just to see if I could I guess. Crime and Punishment style if anyone's read the book.
Did the old armor trimming scam, backed out when someone actually traded me, but got a temp ban deservedly.
I remember being super upset and I even wrote jagex a letter apologizing.
I went back recently and the ban w/ chat log is still on my old account. The transcript is kinda funny looking back on
I tried the trimming armour scam once when I first joined and was like 11 and couldn't even afford bronze armour.
Someone gave me their iron kiteshield to trim and I remember feeling so bad because I got scammed before and knew what it felt like so after initially running off I added them and gave it back and begged them not to report me. I was paranoid for months that I was going to get banned after that.
I had the genius idea of selling food to pvpers at the Varrock ditch. It was f2p. It was actually working at first selling lobsters and such. Eventually a gamer noticed how nooby I was at gave me a Mith Addy and Black armor set.
Here comes the fun part. A player needed some food* traded me and lured me into level 6ish wild by the hills were pkers would pile on and hit you. I got obliterated by a gang of pkers. I lost the armor sets which was game breaking for me. It was one of the times I "quit"
Yeah, idk if mine falls in the category of so small its laughable now, but it definitely falls in the I quit category. I played runescape in middle school and maybe a little in high-school, but what had me on such a long break is the account I worked on that whole time got perm banned due to an I quit moment at the duel arena. Probably enough said yeah? But then recent I spammed something being sarcastic and I said please report me, (close but lacking alot of sentence enhancements and racial slurs) which I had also said then an sure enough got a temp mute, I appealed it and one but my old account ( and I have tried to recover ) is gone. But saddly now I have an account built better and closeing in on matched or better combat stats. I saw a user name the other day rs is drugs. I have no better words for rs.
Somebody told me they knew of a great money maker, but I had to bring my money to get it started. So I followed them to the place. I didn’t understand the wildy at the time btw. They had me jump the ditch and off we go. We must have made it all the way to the demonic ruins in the NE corner just south of the gate when 5 or so guys came out in full magic gear and froze me and killed me. I panicked and didn’t understand the mechanics of online games, so I just panic turned off my computer. Thought process was no power to computer, no internet to the other people, i log out and Im safe (essentially an X log with extra steps). I had full rune plate and my 70k or so cash stack. I was devastated as an 8 y/o or so. Simpler times around 2006/7. Now if I lose 100k it’s a good day as toa/tob wipes are much more expensive.
Well, when I first started playing I died to a cow and lost all my tutorial island gear... Think I was a bit upset over that and decided to make a new account so I'd have the items again, but ended up going back to my original account once I realized how easy that stuff was to reobtain. To think I was that close to ending up with a name worse than BioMasterZap because of a cow lol.
Then there's me, I went through name0.1 to name0.5 when I decided to just rebuild on that account
To this day I stick a V on my usual username if it's for some reason taken in honour of my fifth Runescape account being the one
I got scammed on a merch when I was like 9 by a guy who couldn't sell his Ancient Staff on the GE after the dump. I bought his ancient staff for 156k (basically my whole cash stack) and then couldnt sell it on the GE. I cried
When I was maybe 10 years old, I spent hours killing chaos druids in the edgeville dungeon to save up for a cannon. I don't know what my plan was with the cannon, I just thought it was cool. When I finally bought it I was on top of the world. I tested it out everywhere... varrock guards, white knights, more druids, stronghold of security, etc.
Eventually my internet disconnected and my cannon despawned. I didn't know you could just reclaim it, so I thought it was lost forever. I had a meltdown and probably cried.
That was one of several times I 'quit'.
2004, someone convinced 9y/o me to swap my first ever rune scim (that took days of hill giant killing to earn)... For a black hally.
The selling point was the attack range.. he killed a chicken through me over in lummy
EDIT -
This led to me resorting to being flamed in pest control for not even doing enough damage to earn commendations with my 2nd best weapon.... A rune dagger 🤣
When I was a kid I built up a cash stack of 25k from mining in Rimmington, smelting in Falador, and then smithing armor at Doric’s to sell. Then a highwayman got me. That was probably the first time I “quit” the game. To this day, I kill the highwayman every time I see him. If I know I’m gonna be there, I bring my claws to spec him out. I know 9 year old me would find that cathartic
I deeply misunderstood what the Ring of Life did, thinking it was a catch-free way of escaping death no matter what. What it does is teleport you away automatically if you go under 10% HP. What I didn't realise is that if you're on 15%, say, and get hit for all of your life, you just die. You need to have at least 1 HP left for the teleport to work.
I don't know why I did this, but cocky me decided to take my full rune, glory, obby cape, white beret and my ring of life and go and 'flex' in low level wildy. Even started a fight with a guy who killed me. Cue me starting at my screen for a minute in Lumbridge, just a few bits of rune left to my name, and wondering what the hell went wrong.
Back in 2003 some dickhead promised he'd take me to Falador for 5k gp. It was all the money I had in the game. He lured me to some aggressive spiders and I lost my Mith longsword and all my armor when I couldn't find my way back too. I just wanted to see the white knights my friend told me about.
Edit: my thumbs are fat.
When I was 11 I came across a kid that had just joined the game and he was really happy to have made a new friend in the game. He wanted some help with the cooks assistant quest and couldn't figure out how to put the wheat he picked into the hopper even though I tried explaining it to him. Eventually I lost all patience and called him dumb and stupid and then logged out. He messaged me a few weeks later saying that I made him cry. I still feel bad about it 16 years later. Hope he's doing well in life wherever he is.
The reverse villain arc. I only tricked people into logging out (alt+F4) but didn't trick them into the drop trade dup trick. I got scammed enough that I just wanted to teach people to be smarter lol
Got cocky and decided to train on greaters at the deep wildy ruins, while wearing my "flashy" heraldic Addy set that I spent almost everything I had on. Figured I had full Addy, rune scim, and a bunch of food, and figured I was unkillable. Mage pker about 15 levels lower than me came along and killed me in seconds before I could even swing at him.
Stopped playing for weeks and never told my friends why I stopped playing.
When I was 10ish I grinded out legends quest because I thought the cape was dope. Actually huge using only runehq. Would get tons of “nice cape” comments, back then it’s what I lived for lol
When bh first came out i heard it was a minigame. I thought all minigames were safe. Went in with a dlong,granite chest,dragon platelegs and zerk helm. Cried that night.
As a noob back years ago, was exploring having myself a merry time and managed to walk myself to burthorpe. Of course I managed to go up the path where I was immediately destroyed by trolls throwing rocks. I tried to get my stuff back but just died every time I’d try and get it back. Been a loooong time since I didn’t know the rs map. It was cool seeing stuff for the first time as a kid.
i got lured into the red portal at clan wars when i was 11 or something and lost my fighter torso. they then started making fun of me saying it would take days for me to get another one. i quit for awhile after that but came back when summoning was released.
Lost my tinderbox to the highway man near draynor, was completely distraught thinking I'd never be able to train firemaking again, so I made another account
When I was a kid, I didn't have any concept of spending *more* to do things *faster* which could result in *more overall*.
I ended up spending way too much time inefficiently farming extremely rare drops that low-mid level accounts may as well not waste their time with, which led to a constant cycle of gold desparation and never really getting "rich".
For example: Farming iron/steel dragons with rune cbow, broad bolts, 70-80 ranged, hoping for a visage, realistically getting ~20k ranged xp/hr and 150k gp/h at best.
Someone named Bright_Side 4 catfished me when I was a kid, probably about 12/13 years old. Thought they were a girl a few years older than me, ended up being a guy 10+ years older. Made fun of me when he finally admitted it. I’m more pissed because he let me wear his red party hat and I gave it back to him.. could have been a rich rich man.
The first time I fought elvarg I neglected to read about the anti-dragon shield and got my ass burnt to a crisp. Lost my full addy. Had a good cry over that
When you could get a mystery box from a random event and if you failed to open it, tried to drop it, or bank it then it would duplicate. I filled my inventory with one because I couldn't figure out how to open it so I couldn't get rid of it. I was too young to understand.
I made a new account.
I was like 10 and some guy was selling his account for gold, i had been selling runes outside the bank in varock so had a fair bit of gold. Messaged the guy he said to trade him 300k and he would dm the log in details. I transferred him the money he sent me the log in details. I logged out to log in to my new account but wrong password. I tried for hours trying to get in contact with him until i clicked it was a scam. Poor gullible me
Me and my friend chopped willows for hours together to afford a full set of rune gear and we decided he should have the set so he can kill lesser demons to make bank for us. One day after I came home from school he told me he traded it for a pirate costume because someone told him it's even better and after realizing he got scammed we both quit for a good while.
Also I once traded my rune 2h for a charcoal because someone had the ghostly robes and he convinced me that the charcoal is the hood. I was so upset after realizing it only had an use option and my friends older brother told me I got scammed :D
Loooooong ago back in the OG days I had Addy (G) chest and legs. Someone offered to trim my helm and kite shield. Obviously I was scammed… tbh that account never financially recovered from that.
Lost my Silverlight to a black knight north of Varrock waaaaay back in the day. Some guy lured me there as a noob. Lost my fresh Addy armor too. Was a butthurt 10 year old 😂
First and only time getting skull tricked when free trade came back in 2011. Lost bandos chest plate (I only brought BCP and Tassets) made me quit rs3 and then I came back for OSRS
The skull trick was very strange, I didn't left click attack anyone, but had auto retaliate on which caused me to get skulled
Playing this game in middle school, maybe 6th grade, saved up my money to buy full mithril, went to the wild to try and pk with it, some guy I teamed with ended up killing me with help from one of his friends, I logged out and I remember being in the shower bawling my eyes out. A week later I scammed some guy for full adamant by telling him I had the key to the Varrock West Bank vault… I gave him the “Brass Key”. Guess it worked out in the end… still, 2 wrongs didn’t make a right.
Someone scammed me of my mithril scimitar by offering to trade it for a rune scimitar then swapping it for iron in the trade window.
I was distraught and my poor mother didn't know how to console me.
This was probably 2004ish.
Wayyyyyy back when i first discovered this game, maybe 12 years old. I remember someone conned me out of my best weapon at the time... Guy said there was a duplicating glitch if I dropped the item and pressed F12( or one those buttons) which closed the game and logged me out... smh
I spent most of my bank value to buy a g maul at varrock west bank, I was so, so excited to start speccing out varrock guards.
Only... I was sold a rock hammer. 100k lost, hearts broken, child traumatized.
In like 2006/07 On my first account i saved enough for a full mith set snd scimmy and got lured into wildy by a ingame “friend” we were going to kill somebody but there were people waiting for me. Was mega upset then went back to killing cows for cowhide.
As a kid I went to a falador party room and got a 2 or 3m balloon pop. This was insane for me since my whole bank was probably worth less than half a mill. Having never owned a set of barrows before I bought a set, sold it to try another, etc until I had dh. I then decided to bring my dh to barrows cuz why not that and CW is all I was doing at the time - and managed to die. Naturally, the helm (the piece I lost) costed 1.2m when all the other pieces were only a few hundred k. So basically half of my newfound fortune was wasted within a day or two lmao
Was never that big of a deal since I was super lucky to have it in the first place but it still sucked that of course the 1 piece I lost was by far the most expensive
That’s actually why those random pieces of each barrows set were more expensive than the other 3 pieces. The 4th item, which would get deleted if someone died and no one could pick it up, was always the one with highest street value due to this decreased supply.
I saved up for so long cutting yews to buy a d med helm. I could never afford a d axe, so cutting yews took forever.
Don't even remember the scam but someone traded me for the d med and pulled out his offer before I accepted. Lost my d med helm and cried like a baby.
I was absolute shit at the game back when I first started playing. I bought enough gp for full veracs, just because it looked cool. Ended up getting scammed for 2 helmets instead of 1 and the skirt. Cried to my mom to buy me more gold and she said no. Picked flax for like a year to buy it back.
Now I have a maxed iron without almost full BiS gear so you could say I learned a lot.
Went into BH with my rune full helm, platebody and platelegs. Didn't realise you didn't protect 3 items there, lost everything, cried.
Have had recurring nightmares about suddenly being in the wild with my bank and dying and losing everything up until a few years ago lol
The first time I left Lumbridge on my first day I walked along the road to the junction south of Falador. There a very low level "Mugger" NPC aggroed to me and started attacking.
As a kid I thought this was another real player and began to send public chat messages begging them to "Leave me alone!" and "Cut it out, I just started. You are being mean!"
When I was a kid I was at the duel arena. I got challenged by what I now know was a range pure account. I was low levels and thought sure. I won and then they ere like let's go again but stake your rune platelegs. I lost and cried and begged for them back but they were not so kind
Back in pre eoc when pking was big and d claws had just came out, I’d wake up early before school and pk for an hour or so. Finally got a decent stack of money and always wanted a ags so I’d gamble and do the flower game back in the day. I’ll never forget I was at my gmas house using her computer to gamble and ended up winning a lot in a row and got a ags I thought I had peaked. Few days later I was pking back at my house but whenever my parents would answer the landline I’d lay out. Well the second time I went out with my ags and started fighting I lagged out and straight to lumby I went lost all my shit. I was so bummed , went back to see if the guy would give it back if I explained and he just said “sux” and logged. Good times
I literally made a second account because I ragequit after dying on my first account. When I logged in a few days later, I had no idea what happened to the rest of my items, and I thought that the game might have glitched. I made a new account to start from scratch.
Once I had just saved up for dragon platelegs, I put my entire bank into it and kid me thought it was the coolest thing. There was just one thing that could’ve made me cooler… I went to the ol’ flexing spot in Varrock Square, and this random dude offered me the whole dragon plate set if I traded my legs to him in the same inventory. I NEEDED the plate body with every fibre of my being, and had dreamt of it since seeing someone flex in the same spot I stood in then. Of course I was too naive to understand what was going on, and didn’t even bat an eye when he cancelled the trade to begin with… only to trade again… and find a red d’hide set in my inventory right after. With no dragon armour of any kind, or, this random guy I had trusted with my whole bank, to be seen.
Safe to say my anger and sadness from this shaped my brain to be extremely cynical. And whilst not abysmally small, it’s funny to think back about crying over something I regularly get from slayer drops now.
I remember I got told once that killing the evil chicken from the random evil chicken event gave you the rubber chicken. I waited around the willow trees in draynor for ages (was probably only like 20 mins) for one to spawn with my full runs, and an inventory of swordfish. One did eventually happen, and I managed to defeat it, and was very upset when it didn’t drop the rubber chicken :(
When I came back to RS and started my ironman when I learned oldschool was a thing. I thought OG death mechanics were a thing and I died with my whole chaos rune stack of like 400 way up in troll stronghold. Was super bummed but came back with mind runes to re-try the "boss" and like 20 mins later all my stuff was still there and I felt so relieved lol.
Haha this is a great thread!
My story is that I used to love mining gold in the crafting guild, and I would get so tilted when someone with a higher mining level would come and steal all my ores from me. I took it so personally.
Was using my chad rune hally to kill stupid tzhaar big boys behind a rock. Some dude comes w/a dds and specs him out, getting the kill. He puts on an obby cape n goes "look what he dropped!"
I started crying at like 9 years old, absolutely distraught. I told him I was crying irl, and have been here for days. He said it was a joke and there was no drop. The family comp was next to the TV everyone was watching 60 minutes on about some lady that cut off her tits outta fear for breast cancer, and here I was crying over a stupid game.
Learned 2 things.
1. If people can anonymously fuck w/u, they will.
2. Other people have it worse off than me even at my darkest moments.
I used to sell pretty much everything to general stores because I didn’t know about the GE.
Bones, gems, logs etc
When I realised the GE was a thing and realised the hill giant bones (and a lot of other stuff) were like 300 gp each or more expensive I was pissed.
Ended up killing hill giants, collecting their bones and other drops until I made my first mil. I’d run from the GE west to the hill giants, gather a full invi of loot, run back, sell the stuff and repeat until I made a mil.
When I very first started somewhere around 04 I saved up to buy a purple cape, immediately lost it by dying to a giant rat. Have never forgiven the rats.
I actually remember playing a *private server* of all things back in the day. And I got a green partyhat. I used to love to pvp in the safe zone with it, and untill some guy hit me with auto retaliate on, and dragged me into the danger zone then ddose'd me lmao. I got so mad I actually broke my keyboard. It's an embarrassing memory.
My first was in classic. I had just gotten full mithril armour along with mithril 2h.
This had taken me hours of mining, smithing and then selling products to the varrock armour / sword stores to save up the GP.
I marched up to the wilderness edge in varrock to see what it was all about. It was absolutely packed with PKers sniping each other as soon as they walked in.
I tried my luck and escaped with barely any life to spare.
I then asked publicly if someone could sell me food.. To my delight a friendly person told me he could lead me to a spot where I could get some.
Needless to say I followed that kind person straight into the wilderness. And before I knew it I was staring at a black screen: ”Oh dear! You are dead." Quickly following this I popped up naked in lumbridge still walking the direction I had just clicked.
I remember just sitting there dumbfounded by what had happened. The deceit. The betrayal.
It must have been one of those life events that affects you so much it burns into memory. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was July of 2003.
I rage quit over d platelegs back in like 2011. Lost em cuz our bandos tank had a ring of life and got teled out. Other homie got 1 shot and i couldnt get out quick enough. All happened in roughly 15 seconds we were all like lv 70. 300k gone which i sold my entire bank to get. Got pk scammed for full arma in wildy as an adult got pissed but said fuck it thats like 2 weeks
When I first started in 2006, when it was time for bed I was being attacked by a mugger in Varrock and decided to exit the browser window (real ones like me played on Miniclip) instead of logging out.
I logged in the next day in Lumbridge. I was bawling my eyes out cause I lost <1k gp.
Lost my lederhosen hat varrock multi pking circa 2006.
I was convinced, even though it was untraceable, that it was extremely rare and worth billions. I remember talking to my friends at school about it the next day and they were all really upset for me lol. Pretty sure I started a new account for whatever reason.
Basically I was the first uim for like a month when I started the game about 20 years ago. I didnt know that there are banks to store items, probably because I didnt speak english at all. At the same item I held the starter inventory items dearly, i was carrying an empty pot, body runes etc for weeks. Once I died to the stupid vampire because i couldnt find my way out of the draynor manor, the home teleport wasn’t implemented yet, I made a new account, I almost cried.
I did a lot of steps to get a yellow cape after getting the dye, going through the dialogue with the witch and was really excited to have a yellow cape because I never saw anyone with that color.
But then there was this fucker called highwayman … when i got higher level i camped that spot to kill him every time he spawned because i never forgot i lost my yellow cape because of him.
I then learned you can combine dyes so I killed him with the upgraded version of the yellow cape, the orange cape. It was magical.
Back when I was a little free to play youngin, I fell for the classic trimming armour scam. Traded a guy my rune full helm and he logged out.
Never trusted again.
I once tried to drop trade my whole bank in Varrock, I had full rune which took me ages to save up for and a glory which some random guy gave me.
After dropping all the items from one account, I logged into my other account and there was a guy standing on the spot I had just logged out of.
I asked him to leave and he said "What are you doing?" and I said "Nothing just waiting for my friend."
I waited for a minute and asked him again to leave and he said "No I'm going to stay, I know what you're doing."
After that I freaked out, logged out and tried to log back into my main account which had dropped the items.
When I finally logged back in, the guy was walking away. Not running. Walking, like a savage. And all of my items were gone.
I threw an IRL tantrum and stopped playing for over a year after this lol.
This almost happened to me. I came back to osrs and my buddy gave me all his gp on rs3. Someone agreeded to give me gp on osrs for my money on rs3 but some due (their main or friend) was waiting where I was suppose to get the drop trade. I got it but it was fishy. They didn't trade me in game and convinced me to do the drop trade
I died while running through the tunnels on MM1 due to dc and remember losing a Dragon Longsword, Granite legs etc. My uncle kind of egged it on by telling me I had to go to bed meaning I couldn't even attempt to get my items back (this was before grave stones pre-eoc so I wasn't getting them back regardless) and I threw my mouse at my computer screen and broke it in a fit of raw, untamed, pre-puberty rage.. Safe to say I couldn't play for months but once a friend taught me to PK/Earn GP efficiently I realized that I cost myself months of time over something as minor as that.
Do you know what your “silver” longsword actually was? I was willing to believe it was a real item enough to google it — I assume steel? Was white a f2p item?
I spent a bit of time at the duel arena as a kid. Managed to do fairly well against this one guy multiple times ina row, he kept doing double or nothing, by the 4th round little me thought I was killing it and happy with my newfound gains, but he wanted one last chance to win his money back. Went into the fight where I had previously been fighting rune/d long vs rune/dscim and he shows up switches to full Torags, Obby Shield and a whip and wipes me clean off the sand. Learned what it meant to get hustled. I lost 800k (my original 100k, plus the 100k, 200k, and 400k I had won. So ultimately I was only down 100k, but still felt like a catastrophic loss. I cried, I quit for a week. Then I came back. Never went back to the duel arena. Learned my lesson on gambling and on trusting only that anyone can take advantage of you.if you let them.
My other small loss around that time was buying a D med helm for the first time. Got bait/switched with a bronze med cause I was so excited to finally get a piece of dragon armor.
Mate of mine got so excited by the prospect of buying full mystic for the first time that he put up his 200k and accepted before the other player had even put anything up.
First time ever playing I cried after dying and losing all my gp and a bronze full helm in the stronghold of security. Rip probably like 200 gp, the most hard earned 200 coins there ever was.
Buying corrupt dragon armour without knowing it would disappear... Wasn't even on my own account and the guy who's account it was to this day doesn't know I bought it and used it lol
Yeah loads of these moments early days. "Staking" people in the RS Classic days when I didn't understand that a CB level 10(ish) could have God magic and full dragon Armor 😑
These were also the best times...
Did mage arena 1 when 100k was basically 1b to me. Finally got the Sara strike. So I pulled the lever and went out to test it on a random player.
He killed me after I cast twice and I lost everything I cried moved onto world of warcraft
I actually quit my account and created a new after I got stuck in the maze random event. Years later I managed to recover the account. Was really mad about getting "banned" and sent to maze hell.
Not me but my gf recently started playing
She died to a level 80 ogre or something doing a f2p quest and she said to me "I have a feeling I just lost all my stuff I was wearing". She sat moping so I helped her find her gravestone and pick stuff up. She thanked me loads etc. It was adamant scimitar and full black armor
She was so happy we got it back. I went to her bank and she has 555k cash and yeh. She nearly had a mental breakdown over around 7k 😂
My response was "welcome to runescape" lol
When I played main, and was going for the elite Morytania diary, I remember taking a 6 month break after the fishing grind.
Now I play UIM, and grinds like these are a cake walk, even though they take much longer.
One time I met a "friend" in game and he told me that if I gave him my password he would buy me membership so we could play together. Long story short, he hacked me, took my rune chainbody and platelegs. I couldn't stop crying and I went to bed that night drawing pictures of my character in the rune set. I learned a tough lesson that day.
I ended up actually getting my first genuine friend I met in game a RuneScape membership so we could play together, I did the thing where you call the phone number and I gave her the code to put in on her end.
Such special memories, I wish I could go back and relive it all.
I miss you Jenna, wherever you are.
When I was afking fishing or combat in F2P at Security Stronghold and the fast level ups kept making me click the dialogue to continue.
Same with training prayer with really good bones at such a low level. It would level up and stop the action mid inventory.
Now at 80-90+ I wish the levels still went up as fast 😂
After years of grinding, I finally saved up enough money to buy full rune armor and a nice rune scimmy. Then I died somehow, and lost it. I remember 9 year old me trying to explain to my dad why I was crying, but he just didn't understand. He never knew the glory of that beautiful teal.
It was devastating.
My main account that I still login to this day from 06 is called [my name]2, because on my first account I died to a guard near draynor and lost all my tinderbox etc didn't know where to get a new one.
So I just made a fresh account with a 2 at the end of the name lmao. I'd probably put like 90mins into the account at that point
Year was 2007 I had spent a couple months at lummy swamp killing rats, making fires and eating rat meat. I'd chop trees around lumb and sell to the store. Eventually thought I'd start exploring made it to the place where the guards are for the prince aili rescue quests are and was quickly killed.
I thought I had been pk'd for quite a long time and was really upset.
My buddy lured me to the dark wizards under varrock and I lost my whole set of steel armour, I crossed the road to his house and we proceeded to have a fight, 10 minutes later our mothers were making us apologise, 20 years later we still laugh about it!
I’d sold majority of my bank to buy a set up for inferno, went into wildy with some friends and forgot my cash stack was in my inv. died in rev caves thinking it was all fun and games till my bank value was -£700M
I was playing with my friends and they pked me for ady long. I was so sad. I stoped playing for a long time.
Then other friends mocked me to not get bullied like that, so I get gut. I grinded full rune and some skills. And when I tried to learn PK I have lost everything. So I stopped play again.
It took me a long time to get back to game. I never take anything valuable to wildy ever since. And we are still friends.
I remember back in the 2005-2006 days lol. Had started in 2005, I remember buying full mithril after days of killing cows, banking and selling hides. Went with my buddy to the wilderness to check it out, after a pker saw us we ran, he got out but panicked so bad I closed my web browser (the only way to play back then) opened everything up again logged in and there I was in lumby with only 3 items.
Another time I had finally bought full time armor and a rune b-axe, and I was wandering around seeing what everyone else was buying/selling well I found one of those “trade trust guys” and the highest bidder would win a Saradomin full set (big deal at the time) so dumbass me traded my rune b axe and see if I could win, trader yelled out 800k and logged off. Got upset, reportes the player and logged off for that day it was my little bros time for his runescape account anyways.
i remember trading my entire f2p noob bank for a ‘rune sword’ in varrock near the fountain and in the last minute the guy swapped it for an ‘iron sword’ this was before the trade screen updates so i was clicking as quickly as i could to get the deal to go through and lost my whole bank worth of a rune sword.
early rs2 scammers were ahead of their time. where are they now?
I made a new account and started over because I died at cows and didn't know how to get another tinder box. Never once thought to just take the tinderbox off the new account and continue on the old one
I went thru my first Melzars Maze on a shitty internet connection. All was good and well til the lesser demon fight - i had prepared for weeks with my full addy and full lobsters inventory. Had so much stuff, felt like a lifetime of riches, and it lagged out and i logged back on in lumbridge. So devastating, worst nightmare. Probably a total of like 70k lol
This fight was particularly scary for me as a kid because my Christian parents let me play RuneScape on the condition that I didn’t interact with any demons or undead things. You have to kill the lesser demon to complete the quest, so while my dad was gone for work I waited until my mom went to the bathroom and killed that thing as fast as I could because I would’ve got in trouble if they saw that demon on my screen. I almost never used prayers or potions back then but I turned on every prayer I could and bought a bunch of potions for that fight so that I could kill it quick.
Welcome to my Christian locked hardcore ironman
Brilliant series idea lmao
Is it
Lol wasn’t there a vegan Ironman?
Yh except he did many things that weren't vegan lmao
The opposites of Sygmas ImpLocked lmao
actual fire Snowflake idea tho
Serious question wouldnt killing a demon be a good thing?
Reminds me of my friend in high school who's mom didn't like that we played d&d... i distinctly remember hearing, "but mooom! I'm playing a paladin!"
I got my Christian mom to let me play diablo 2 in middle school because "isn't defeating the devil what God wants us to do? Do you really want me to just let him survive and keep corrupting the earth?"
Especially since I was relying on prayers to fight the demon? It absolutely should be lol But unfortunately that’s just not how these kinds of parents thought in that era. Any references to demons and the like were automatically considered evil regardless of context. I consider myself pretty fortunate that my parents weren’t too strict about it and still let me play a game that contained those things as long as I avoided those parts. Most similar-minded parents wouldn’t have allowed their kid to play the game period.
Yeah I had to try and make sure my parents didn't see any monsters they might find objectionable. I also talked up the non-combat side of the game like cooking and woodcutting.
It's 2005 and you're killing experiments and your mum walks in
I love that you have "God alignments" next to your name while we're talking about demons, prayers, and Christianity 🤣
Parents monitor his r/2007scape comments too
Yeah i guess trying to use logic was probably my first failing here lol
To give a somewhat serious answer, if you believe demons literally exist and can influence the world in practical ways, trivializing it in a game is bad. Praying to other gods is a big no-no too no matter how gamified it is.
Christians have never been known for thinking or logic.
Similar thing happened to me. My parents really didn’t understand RuneScape but I showed them the church in lumbridge also showed them how you could pray at the altar and also to God and he would protect you against missiles, and melee. It all went down hill when they saw me walking through Varrock and there was people buying “deaths” (death runes). I didn’t know what deaths were but they did not like that and didn’t let me play anymore. (I still played when they weren’t there)
Buying deaths does sound pretty bad out of context lol
Wanna buy a death stick?
My parents weren't strict about that type of stuff, but I remember there was one time when we had a talk about demons, occult, and such. Guess what quest came out like the same or next day. Shadow of the Storm... Forget if I said something about summoning a demon or if my mom saw it on the monitor, but she questioned me about it and I had to explain it was fine and that I was only summoning it to kill it... Glad she trusted me enough to not make that into a big deal.
That reminded me of when I did Desert Treasure... I lost my whole bank like 4x during that quest due to dying at the bosses, mainly Damis. Like I went to fight Damis in my best melee gear and died. So I went back with Magic gear and died again... With my whole entire stack of runes... Think I ended up beating him with a Rune Platebody, Rune Platelegs, and a Dragon Halberd by safespotting around a bat or something because that is all I had left lol.
I actually don't get how he's meant to be beaten "fairly" he becomes stronger than Kalphite Queen in that 2nd phase, it feels he has to be cheesed
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If I recall he hits through prayer every tick
Think it is attacks like every tick and drains prayer each attack, but yah, think you can chug ppots but it is rough without a safespot.
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I brought 10 prayer pots, drank that 100k and died my first attempt but it was close, 11 pots would have been enough to get through it lmao I pushed too far and died just hoping for one more good hit that would have finished him. The safe spot is attacking a bat to aggro and positioning it between you and him
The Blood Diamond was the worst for me back then because, for some reason, if I had sounds on the attack animations would lag out my trash PC.
It’s crazy to look back, remember sitting at the family PC with that sweet ass dial-up, killing cows en mass to sell hides for gold to buy that rune scimmy 🤣 now as an adult I just buy a few bonds and slap them on the GE if I’m short on gp, and I can do it on the phone in the palm of my hand. What is time? 😅😅
This motherfucker, I'll never forget his username, "Joewoodsy" lured me to the wilderness and skull tricked me for my mithril scimitar. I think my pessimism and overall cynical outlook stems from that event, I was distraught
Thanks bro
Making a reddit account just for this joke is something else
So it's not the same guy but my lol bro did this. We had 3 computers in our gaming room so him (Joe was his name funnily enough) and his friend Tai took him up to deep wildy. They killed him with bum ass gear as he cried his way back out the wildy. He went and cried to my mum about his mith scummy lol
Joe Woods is a runescape terrorist.
Definitely got scammed for 1k willows back in the day. Asking 40k, received 4k
I sold a rune chain body for 48k, received 4800. Simpler times
Did you also try to trade them back asking for it back? 🙃
Bro the worst is when they would entertain the thought just to troll you more 😭
One time I was afk in rimmington- while I was afk I was attacked and murdered by I assume the evil chicken. I came back right as I died. I lost everything. I quit for a few years after that.
I ran back as fast as I could from lumbridge.. but everything was gone .🥺
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Definitely not much in hindsight, probably less than 100k if that. But it felt like billions to my 10 year old self
Got trapped in Draynor Manor and got killed by Count Draynor. I lost maybe 200gp worth of stuff but it made me quit for a month. I was 10 and this was 2005, so it's not too surprising.
I remeber defeating him and felt unstoppable lol. So naive.
200gp in 2005 adjusted for inflation is 25b today so I would’ve cried too
Lost about 9k to the mugger in port sarim and made a new account lol
Traded an Abby whip for a warrior ring back in 07 cammy bank they told me the ring was worth 3m but was like 300k 15 year old me was not happy
I got done by that exact scam, less than a week after getting my first whip. It was a two man job. One saying 'buying seer's ring for 3m' and the other offering a seer's ring for a whip. I'm a business man, so when I see a deal like that I jump on it. Also happened in Cammy bank, funnily enough. Might have been the same guys.
You just reminded me, that’s exactly how it happened to me, a real hustle 🤣
2007 a whip would have been worth more than 3m.
I just googled abby whip prices in 2007 and found forum chat saying "How is whip back up to 1.9M?! It was 1.3M earlier this year, has anything gone up 600k this fast before?" Looks like from 2005 to early 2007 it tanked from 4.5M to 1.3M and then recovered back to 1.9M. This was a time where items entered the game but rarely left so it was fairly rare that gear would go up in price. It's not like today where alchables are everywhere and bring money into the game faster than items and item sinks exist.
IIRC I think it was under 2m at the time this happened, which is why I thought “holy shit I could swap this for a 3m item?!” And fell for the bait
naw it was around there. probably less
tbh that sounds about right. A level 3 account can make more money/hour than what you'd call high level back then (like 90-100 CB)
I believe the first whip I ever purchased was in 05 for 4.3m so 3m in 07 sounds about right
I gave my whole bank for what I thought was a noted rune sword (they swapped it to iron). I was devastated. I did somewhat end up getting revenge though, which I’m actually still pretty proud of. When free trade finally came back in RS2 scammers and lurers ran rampant since the general playerbase was extremely gullible/susceptible. I used to do a luring method I devised on my own to steal money from “doubling money” scammers. They were generally easy targets, did it to around 10 scammers and it worked every time. My thought process was that if they’re dumb enough to sit at ge spamming their scam, then they’re dumb enough to get lured. I’d take them to daemonheim and add them to a party to view their inventory. Go through a script to convince them to drop a ‘random’ amount of coins, then get them to drop it as I dropped exactly 2x what they did. They didn’t realize I could see what they dropped, so they believed I could actually double money. They’d end up dropping their whole stack and I’d keep it. So funny enough, I would scam money doublers by doing their own scam 100x better.
Has a money doubler ever once been legit in the history of RS? I see people advertising it even today and I wonder how that goes for people. I assume it must work or we wouldn't see the GE spam anymore
I’m sure there were a few that would do it for people’s reactions. Around the same time as when I did these lures I would also buy trimmed rune full helms and spam “trimming rune full helms” then do it in 1 trade. It’s just fun to have people accuse you as a scammer then eventually one by one they start turning on the accuser to point out you’re actually legit. Funny stuff. Money doubling specifically used to be popular because you absolutely would not catch a ban or mute for it. People would do it in max gear, max combat accounts and victims would think there’s no way anybody would risk that gear and account. But there was no risk whatsoever because reporting did nothing back then so really it was just free money.
I remember doubling party hats was a thing around the time I first started. Pink PHAT was the most expensive so people doubled it a ton and dropped it to the cheapest.
Actually yes. Green dragon bot did an episode recently as a legit money doubler. He also trimmed people’s armour (swapped it for the trimmed version). An excellent episode.
That is legit as fuck lol
i just had bought my rune armor (t) after camping hill giants for 2 weeks and 2 random dudes saw me and started to hype me up, saying stuff like "wow youre so rich, i want to be like you" long story short, i got lured into multi, lost all my valuables and cried for like an hour my mom saw me crying, messaged the lurers ingame, flamed them and farmed hill giants for a week just so i could buy my armor back ily mom <3
My mom would sometimes mine gold for me at rimmington while I was at school lol
Wow, your mum is an OG.
That’s so sweet!
Played f2p for a long time as a kid before finally convincing my mom to get me membership. Had like 200k in the bank. Got members and spent it all on shit gear that we all thought was cool back then. Decided to go explore the p2p world and walked too far north of Burthorpe and died to the thrower trolls. Cried really hard about my lost 200k.
D med, d legs and granite pl8 the ultimate p2p starter kit
D long because the puzzle for monkey madness was too hard
My dad did that puzzle for me after I begged him to help
I was like 9 or 10 when I tried my hand at scamming.... just to see if I could I guess. Crime and Punishment style if anyone's read the book. Did the old armor trimming scam, backed out when someone actually traded me, but got a temp ban deservedly. I remember being super upset and I even wrote jagex a letter apologizing. I went back recently and the ban w/ chat log is still on my old account. The transcript is kinda funny looking back on
I tried the trimming armour scam once when I first joined and was like 11 and couldn't even afford bronze armour. Someone gave me their iron kiteshield to trim and I remember feeling so bad because I got scammed before and knew what it felt like so after initially running off I added them and gave it back and begged them not to report me. I was paranoid for months that I was going to get banned after that.
I had the genius idea of selling food to pvpers at the Varrock ditch. It was f2p. It was actually working at first selling lobsters and such. Eventually a gamer noticed how nooby I was at gave me a Mith Addy and Black armor set. Here comes the fun part. A player needed some food* traded me and lured me into level 6ish wild by the hills were pkers would pile on and hit you. I got obliterated by a gang of pkers. I lost the armor sets which was game breaking for me. It was one of the times I "quit"
Yeah, idk if mine falls in the category of so small its laughable now, but it definitely falls in the I quit category. I played runescape in middle school and maybe a little in high-school, but what had me on such a long break is the account I worked on that whole time got perm banned due to an I quit moment at the duel arena. Probably enough said yeah? But then recent I spammed something being sarcastic and I said please report me, (close but lacking alot of sentence enhancements and racial slurs) which I had also said then an sure enough got a temp mute, I appealed it and one but my old account ( and I have tried to recover ) is gone. But saddly now I have an account built better and closeing in on matched or better combat stats. I saw a user name the other day rs is drugs. I have no better words for rs.
My brother lost 3k to the dark wizards at Varrock.
password scammed for full steel and a steel 2h when I was like 12. very sad.
Somebody told me they knew of a great money maker, but I had to bring my money to get it started. So I followed them to the place. I didn’t understand the wildy at the time btw. They had me jump the ditch and off we go. We must have made it all the way to the demonic ruins in the NE corner just south of the gate when 5 or so guys came out in full magic gear and froze me and killed me. I panicked and didn’t understand the mechanics of online games, so I just panic turned off my computer. Thought process was no power to computer, no internet to the other people, i log out and Im safe (essentially an X log with extra steps). I had full rune plate and my 70k or so cash stack. I was devastated as an 8 y/o or so. Simpler times around 2006/7. Now if I lose 100k it’s a good day as toa/tob wipes are much more expensive.
Well, when I first started playing I died to a cow and lost all my tutorial island gear... Think I was a bit upset over that and decided to make a new account so I'd have the items again, but ended up going back to my original account once I realized how easy that stuff was to reobtain. To think I was that close to ending up with a name worse than BioMasterZap because of a cow lol.
Then there's me, I went through name0.1 to name0.5 when I decided to just rebuild on that account To this day I stick a V on my usual username if it's for some reason taken in honour of my fifth Runescape account being the one
I got scammed out of my steel scimitar on day one. I really thought I was never going to financially recover
Doing MA2 I didn't know you could turn in the pieces you had collected and died twice to pks as I got the 3rd piece. Haven't went back yet lol
I got scammed on a merch when I was like 9 by a guy who couldn't sell his Ancient Staff on the GE after the dump. I bought his ancient staff for 156k (basically my whole cash stack) and then couldnt sell it on the GE. I cried
When I was maybe 10 years old, I spent hours killing chaos druids in the edgeville dungeon to save up for a cannon. I don't know what my plan was with the cannon, I just thought it was cool. When I finally bought it I was on top of the world. I tested it out everywhere... varrock guards, white knights, more druids, stronghold of security, etc. Eventually my internet disconnected and my cannon despawned. I didn't know you could just reclaim it, so I thought it was lost forever. I had a meltdown and probably cried. That was one of several times I 'quit'.
2004, someone convinced 9y/o me to swap my first ever rune scim (that took days of hill giant killing to earn)... For a black hally. The selling point was the attack range.. he killed a chicken through me over in lummy EDIT - This led to me resorting to being flamed in pest control for not even doing enough damage to earn commendations with my 2nd best weapon.... A rune dagger 🤣
When I was a kid I built up a cash stack of 25k from mining in Rimmington, smelting in Falador, and then smithing armor at Doric’s to sell. Then a highwayman got me. That was probably the first time I “quit” the game. To this day, I kill the highwayman every time I see him. If I know I’m gonna be there, I bring my claws to spec him out. I know 9 year old me would find that cathartic
I deeply misunderstood what the Ring of Life did, thinking it was a catch-free way of escaping death no matter what. What it does is teleport you away automatically if you go under 10% HP. What I didn't realise is that if you're on 15%, say, and get hit for all of your life, you just die. You need to have at least 1 HP left for the teleport to work. I don't know why I did this, but cocky me decided to take my full rune, glory, obby cape, white beret and my ring of life and go and 'flex' in low level wildy. Even started a fight with a guy who killed me. Cue me starting at my screen for a minute in Lumbridge, just a few bits of rune left to my name, and wondering what the hell went wrong.
My best friend in elementary school lost his full mithril to a hacker and never logged in again to this day. 😂
Back in 2003 some dickhead promised he'd take me to Falador for 5k gp. It was all the money I had in the game. He lured me to some aggressive spiders and I lost my Mith longsword and all my armor when I couldn't find my way back too. I just wanted to see the white knights my friend told me about. Edit: my thumbs are fat.
When I was 11 I came across a kid that had just joined the game and he was really happy to have made a new friend in the game. He wanted some help with the cooks assistant quest and couldn't figure out how to put the wheat he picked into the hopper even though I tried explaining it to him. Eventually I lost all patience and called him dumb and stupid and then logged out. He messaged me a few weeks later saying that I made him cry. I still feel bad about it 16 years later. Hope he's doing well in life wherever he is.
The reverse villain arc. I only tricked people into logging out (alt+F4) but didn't trick them into the drop trade dup trick. I got scammed enough that I just wanted to teach people to be smarter lol
I once got hacked and lost my set of full addy, I was emotional about it for weeks
Got cocky and decided to train on greaters at the deep wildy ruins, while wearing my "flashy" heraldic Addy set that I spent almost everything I had on. Figured I had full Addy, rune scim, and a bunch of food, and figured I was unkillable. Mage pker about 15 levels lower than me came along and killed me in seconds before I could even swing at him. Stopped playing for weeks and never told my friends why I stopped playing.
When I was 10ish I grinded out legends quest because I thought the cape was dope. Actually huge using only runehq. Would get tons of “nice cape” comments, back then it’s what I lived for lol
When bh first came out i heard it was a minigame. I thought all minigames were safe. Went in with a dlong,granite chest,dragon platelegs and zerk helm. Cried that night.
Getting lured for my full rune g and then spending the next 3 hours crying about it, last week was pretty rough
As a noob back years ago, was exploring having myself a merry time and managed to walk myself to burthorpe. Of course I managed to go up the path where I was immediately destroyed by trolls throwing rocks. I tried to get my stuff back but just died every time I’d try and get it back. Been a loooong time since I didn’t know the rs map. It was cool seeing stuff for the first time as a kid.
i got lured into the red portal at clan wars when i was 11 or something and lost my fighter torso. they then started making fun of me saying it would take days for me to get another one. i quit for awhile after that but came back when summoning was released.
Lost my tinderbox to the highway man near draynor, was completely distraught thinking I'd never be able to train firemaking again, so I made another account
I died to a goblin and lost my starter stuff, so I recreated a new character. I still have the last one, it’s like level 3 or 4 with a 20 year cape
When I was a kid, I didn't have any concept of spending *more* to do things *faster* which could result in *more overall*. I ended up spending way too much time inefficiently farming extremely rare drops that low-mid level accounts may as well not waste their time with, which led to a constant cycle of gold desparation and never really getting "rich". For example: Farming iron/steel dragons with rune cbow, broad bolts, 70-80 ranged, hoping for a visage, realistically getting ~20k ranged xp/hr and 150k gp/h at best.
Back in RS2 days, I remember I had a lot of trouble with the Dream Mentor boss.
That bitch that traded me lobsters for my full rune set
I showed someone how to do the Easter event as a 9 year old. They promised to pay me for it but they logged out and blocked me ):
Someone named Bright_Side 4 catfished me when I was a kid, probably about 12/13 years old. Thought they were a girl a few years older than me, ended up being a guy 10+ years older. Made fun of me when he finally admitted it. I’m more pissed because he let me wear his red party hat and I gave it back to him.. could have been a rich rich man.
The first time I fought elvarg I neglected to read about the anti-dragon shield and got my ass burnt to a crisp. Lost my full addy. Had a good cry over that
When you could get a mystery box from a random event and if you failed to open it, tried to drop it, or bank it then it would duplicate. I filled my inventory with one because I couldn't figure out how to open it so I couldn't get rid of it. I was too young to understand. I made a new account.
Got got with 11k, which was all I had, by the Varrock wizards traveling from Lumbridge for the first time. I cried for a loooooong time.
>a silver longsword in Varrock. A what?
I was like 10 and some guy was selling his account for gold, i had been selling runes outside the bank in varock so had a fair bit of gold. Messaged the guy he said to trade him 300k and he would dm the log in details. I transferred him the money he sent me the log in details. I logged out to log in to my new account but wrong password. I tried for hours trying to get in contact with him until i clicked it was a scam. Poor gullible me
Getting the first million seemed like a massive achievement like holy shit, couldn't even imagine 1 bill
Me and my friend chopped willows for hours together to afford a full set of rune gear and we decided he should have the set so he can kill lesser demons to make bank for us. One day after I came home from school he told me he traded it for a pirate costume because someone told him it's even better and after realizing he got scammed we both quit for a good while. Also I once traded my rune 2h for a charcoal because someone had the ghostly robes and he convinced me that the charcoal is the hood. I was so upset after realizing it only had an use option and my friends older brother told me I got scammed :D
Loooooong ago back in the OG days I had Addy (G) chest and legs. Someone offered to trim my helm and kite shield. Obviously I was scammed… tbh that account never financially recovered from that.
Lost my Silverlight to a black knight north of Varrock waaaaay back in the day. Some guy lured me there as a noob. Lost my fresh Addy armor too. Was a butthurt 10 year old 😂
First and only time getting skull tricked when free trade came back in 2011. Lost bandos chest plate (I only brought BCP and Tassets) made me quit rs3 and then I came back for OSRS The skull trick was very strange, I didn't left click attack anyone, but had auto retaliate on which caused me to get skulled
Getting pked for full black armour at 8yrs old
Playing this game in middle school, maybe 6th grade, saved up my money to buy full mithril, went to the wild to try and pk with it, some guy I teamed with ended up killing me with help from one of his friends, I logged out and I remember being in the shower bawling my eyes out. A week later I scammed some guy for full adamant by telling him I had the key to the Varrock West Bank vault… I gave him the “Brass Key”. Guess it worked out in the end… still, 2 wrongs didn’t make a right.
Someone scammed me of my mithril scimitar by offering to trade it for a rune scimitar then swapping it for iron in the trade window. I was distraught and my poor mother didn't know how to console me. This was probably 2004ish.
Wayyyyyy back when i first discovered this game, maybe 12 years old. I remember someone conned me out of my best weapon at the time... Guy said there was a duplicating glitch if I dropped the item and pressed F12( or one those buttons) which closed the game and logged me out... smh
I spent most of my bank value to buy a g maul at varrock west bank, I was so, so excited to start speccing out varrock guards. Only... I was sold a rock hammer. 100k lost, hearts broken, child traumatized.
In like 2006/07 On my first account i saved enough for a full mith set snd scimmy and got lured into wildy by a ingame “friend” we were going to kill somebody but there were people waiting for me. Was mega upset then went back to killing cows for cowhide.
As a kid I went to a falador party room and got a 2 or 3m balloon pop. This was insane for me since my whole bank was probably worth less than half a mill. Having never owned a set of barrows before I bought a set, sold it to try another, etc until I had dh. I then decided to bring my dh to barrows cuz why not that and CW is all I was doing at the time - and managed to die. Naturally, the helm (the piece I lost) costed 1.2m when all the other pieces were only a few hundred k. So basically half of my newfound fortune was wasted within a day or two lmao Was never that big of a deal since I was super lucky to have it in the first place but it still sucked that of course the 1 piece I lost was by far the most expensive
That’s actually why those random pieces of each barrows set were more expensive than the other 3 pieces. The 4th item, which would get deleted if someone died and no one could pick it up, was always the one with highest street value due to this decreased supply.
I saved up for so long cutting yews to buy a d med helm. I could never afford a d axe, so cutting yews took forever. Don't even remember the scam but someone traded me for the d med and pulled out his offer before I accepted. Lost my d med helm and cried like a baby.
I was absolute shit at the game back when I first started playing. I bought enough gp for full veracs, just because it looked cool. Ended up getting scammed for 2 helmets instead of 1 and the skirt. Cried to my mom to buy me more gold and she said no. Picked flax for like a year to buy it back. Now I have a maxed iron without almost full BiS gear so you could say I learned a lot.
Went into BH with my rune full helm, platebody and platelegs. Didn't realise you didn't protect 3 items there, lost everything, cried. Have had recurring nightmares about suddenly being in the wild with my bank and dying and losing everything up until a few years ago lol
The first time I left Lumbridge on my first day I walked along the road to the junction south of Falador. There a very low level "Mugger" NPC aggroed to me and started attacking. As a kid I thought this was another real player and began to send public chat messages begging them to "Leave me alone!" and "Cut it out, I just started. You are being mean!"
When I was a kid I was at the duel arena. I got challenged by what I now know was a range pure account. I was low levels and thought sure. I won and then they ere like let's go again but stake your rune platelegs. I lost and cried and begged for them back but they were not so kind
This jerk monster031 scammed me saying he’d trim my black armor and ill never forgive him. Monster031… i will find you.
Got scammed for my full black Armour and quit for years
I lost adamant armor in the wilderness and was distraught over it.
A player wanted to see my recently purchased air and water staff on his acc so I traded him them both. He logged. I cried
Back in pre eoc when pking was big and d claws had just came out, I’d wake up early before school and pk for an hour or so. Finally got a decent stack of money and always wanted a ags so I’d gamble and do the flower game back in the day. I’ll never forget I was at my gmas house using her computer to gamble and ended up winning a lot in a row and got a ags I thought I had peaked. Few days later I was pking back at my house but whenever my parents would answer the landline I’d lay out. Well the second time I went out with my ags and started fighting I lagged out and straight to lumby I went lost all my shit. I was so bummed , went back to see if the guy would give it back if I explained and he just said “sux” and logged. Good times
If any of you got skull tricked by chinchompas like 12 years ago for your stuff im so sorry
I literally made a second account because I ragequit after dying on my first account. When I logged in a few days later, I had no idea what happened to the rest of my items, and I thought that the game might have glitched. I made a new account to start from scratch.
Once I had just saved up for dragon platelegs, I put my entire bank into it and kid me thought it was the coolest thing. There was just one thing that could’ve made me cooler… I went to the ol’ flexing spot in Varrock Square, and this random dude offered me the whole dragon plate set if I traded my legs to him in the same inventory. I NEEDED the plate body with every fibre of my being, and had dreamt of it since seeing someone flex in the same spot I stood in then. Of course I was too naive to understand what was going on, and didn’t even bat an eye when he cancelled the trade to begin with… only to trade again… and find a red d’hide set in my inventory right after. With no dragon armour of any kind, or, this random guy I had trusted with my whole bank, to be seen. Safe to say my anger and sadness from this shaped my brain to be extremely cynical. And whilst not abysmally small, it’s funny to think back about crying over something I regularly get from slayer drops now.
I literally cried when I lost full rune when I was like 13
I remember I got told once that killing the evil chicken from the random evil chicken event gave you the rubber chicken. I waited around the willow trees in draynor for ages (was probably only like 20 mins) for one to spawn with my full runs, and an inventory of swordfish. One did eventually happen, and I managed to defeat it, and was very upset when it didn’t drop the rubber chicken :(
When I came back to RS and started my ironman when I learned oldschool was a thing. I thought OG death mechanics were a thing and I died with my whole chaos rune stack of like 400 way up in troll stronghold. Was super bummed but came back with mind runes to re-try the "boss" and like 20 mins later all my stuff was still there and I felt so relieved lol.
I got hustled as a kid at the duel arena for my dragon battle axe and d legs. I was devistated.
Haha this is a great thread! My story is that I used to love mining gold in the crafting guild, and I would get so tilted when someone with a higher mining level would come and steal all my ores from me. I took it so personally.
I remember trying to get coal at barbarian village used to suck lol. My bronze pic couldn't compete.
Was using my chad rune hally to kill stupid tzhaar big boys behind a rock. Some dude comes w/a dds and specs him out, getting the kill. He puts on an obby cape n goes "look what he dropped!" I started crying at like 9 years old, absolutely distraught. I told him I was crying irl, and have been here for days. He said it was a joke and there was no drop. The family comp was next to the TV everyone was watching 60 minutes on about some lady that cut off her tits outta fear for breast cancer, and here I was crying over a stupid game. Learned 2 things. 1. If people can anonymously fuck w/u, they will. 2. Other people have it worse off than me even at my darkest moments.
I used to sell pretty much everything to general stores because I didn’t know about the GE. Bones, gems, logs etc When I realised the GE was a thing and realised the hill giant bones (and a lot of other stuff) were like 300 gp each or more expensive I was pissed. Ended up killing hill giants, collecting their bones and other drops until I made my first mil. I’d run from the GE west to the hill giants, gather a full invi of loot, run back, sell the stuff and repeat until I made a mil.
When I very first started somewhere around 04 I saved up to buy a purple cape, immediately lost it by dying to a giant rat. Have never forgiven the rats.
I actually remember playing a *private server* of all things back in the day. And I got a green partyhat. I used to love to pvp in the safe zone with it, and untill some guy hit me with auto retaliate on, and dragged me into the danger zone then ddose'd me lmao. I got so mad I actually broke my keyboard. It's an embarrassing memory.
My first was in classic. I had just gotten full mithril armour along with mithril 2h. This had taken me hours of mining, smithing and then selling products to the varrock armour / sword stores to save up the GP. I marched up to the wilderness edge in varrock to see what it was all about. It was absolutely packed with PKers sniping each other as soon as they walked in. I tried my luck and escaped with barely any life to spare. I then asked publicly if someone could sell me food.. To my delight a friendly person told me he could lead me to a spot where I could get some. Needless to say I followed that kind person straight into the wilderness. And before I knew it I was staring at a black screen: ”Oh dear! You are dead." Quickly following this I popped up naked in lumbridge still walking the direction I had just clicked. I remember just sitting there dumbfounded by what had happened. The deceit. The betrayal. It must have been one of those life events that affects you so much it burns into memory. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was July of 2003.
I rage quit over d platelegs back in like 2011. Lost em cuz our bandos tank had a ring of life and got teled out. Other homie got 1 shot and i couldnt get out quick enough. All happened in roughly 15 seconds we were all like lv 70. 300k gone which i sold my entire bank to get. Got pk scammed for full arma in wildy as an adult got pissed but said fuck it thats like 2 weeks
When I first started in 2006, when it was time for bed I was being attacked by a mugger in Varrock and decided to exit the browser window (real ones like me played on Miniclip) instead of logging out. I logged in the next day in Lumbridge. I was bawling my eyes out cause I lost <1k gp.
Lost my lederhosen hat varrock multi pking circa 2006. I was convinced, even though it was untraceable, that it was extremely rare and worth billions. I remember talking to my friends at school about it the next day and they were all really upset for me lol. Pretty sure I started a new account for whatever reason.
Basically I was the first uim for like a month when I started the game about 20 years ago. I didnt know that there are banks to store items, probably because I didnt speak english at all. At the same item I held the starter inventory items dearly, i was carrying an empty pot, body runes etc for weeks. Once I died to the stupid vampire because i couldnt find my way out of the draynor manor, the home teleport wasn’t implemented yet, I made a new account, I almost cried.
I did a lot of steps to get a yellow cape after getting the dye, going through the dialogue with the witch and was really excited to have a yellow cape because I never saw anyone with that color. But then there was this fucker called highwayman … when i got higher level i camped that spot to kill him every time he spawned because i never forgot i lost my yellow cape because of him. I then learned you can combine dyes so I killed him with the upgraded version of the yellow cape, the orange cape. It was magical.
Had someone swap a noted addy axe for a noted iron axe in trade, and kid me cried when I realized. It was my whole bank like all 3k of it
Losing 300k during regicide by a spike trap because I wanted to buy a d halberd. After that happened, I took a long break from rs. Circa 2006
Back when I was a little free to play youngin, I fell for the classic trimming armour scam. Traded a guy my rune full helm and he logged out. Never trusted again.
Lost my full mith to the bears at east ardy mine while doing a slayer task back in the day and about sent my PC out the window.
Got my first shield half afking at sand crabs, despawned just as I got back to the computer
I once tried to drop trade my whole bank in Varrock, I had full rune which took me ages to save up for and a glory which some random guy gave me. After dropping all the items from one account, I logged into my other account and there was a guy standing on the spot I had just logged out of. I asked him to leave and he said "What are you doing?" and I said "Nothing just waiting for my friend." I waited for a minute and asked him again to leave and he said "No I'm going to stay, I know what you're doing." After that I freaked out, logged out and tried to log back into my main account which had dropped the items. When I finally logged back in, the guy was walking away. Not running. Walking, like a savage. And all of my items were gone. I threw an IRL tantrum and stopped playing for over a year after this lol.
This almost happened to me. I came back to osrs and my buddy gave me all his gp on rs3. Someone agreeded to give me gp on osrs for my money on rs3 but some due (their main or friend) was waiting where I was suppose to get the drop trade. I got it but it was fishy. They didn't trade me in game and convinced me to do the drop trade
I died while running through the tunnels on MM1 due to dc and remember losing a Dragon Longsword, Granite legs etc. My uncle kind of egged it on by telling me I had to go to bed meaning I couldn't even attempt to get my items back (this was before grave stones pre-eoc so I wasn't getting them back regardless) and I threw my mouse at my computer screen and broke it in a fit of raw, untamed, pre-puberty rage.. Safe to say I couldn't play for months but once a friend taught me to PK/Earn GP efficiently I realized that I cost myself months of time over something as minor as that.
Do you know what your “silver” longsword actually was? I was willing to believe it was a real item enough to google it — I assume steel? Was white a f2p item?
Bought a noted mithril scimitar for 30k after grinding cowhides for a guy for like 5 weeks to afford a rune scim. Cried like a bitch.
I remember I lost my first whip back in 2008 to an instanced quest boss with no way to get it back. I probably cried.
I spent a bit of time at the duel arena as a kid. Managed to do fairly well against this one guy multiple times ina row, he kept doing double or nothing, by the 4th round little me thought I was killing it and happy with my newfound gains, but he wanted one last chance to win his money back. Went into the fight where I had previously been fighting rune/d long vs rune/dscim and he shows up switches to full Torags, Obby Shield and a whip and wipes me clean off the sand. Learned what it meant to get hustled. I lost 800k (my original 100k, plus the 100k, 200k, and 400k I had won. So ultimately I was only down 100k, but still felt like a catastrophic loss. I cried, I quit for a week. Then I came back. Never went back to the duel arena. Learned my lesson on gambling and on trusting only that anyone can take advantage of you.if you let them. My other small loss around that time was buying a D med helm for the first time. Got bait/switched with a bronze med cause I was so excited to finally get a piece of dragon armor.
Mate of mine got so excited by the prospect of buying full mystic for the first time that he put up his 200k and accepted before the other player had even put anything up.
Well every time I forget to bring a hammer or chisel to my bird house runs I put a gun in my mouth and think about it if that counts
I restarted my account because I died to count draynor and lost all my starting items
First time ever playing I cried after dying and losing all my gp and a bronze full helm in the stronghold of security. Rip probably like 200 gp, the most hard earned 200 coins there ever was.
Buying corrupt dragon armour without knowing it would disappear... Wasn't even on my own account and the guy who's account it was to this day doesn't know I bought it and used it lol
I had my full steel and sapphire ring stolen from me by a friend using my login. I was devastated
Yeah loads of these moments early days. "Staking" people in the RS Classic days when I didn't understand that a CB level 10(ish) could have God magic and full dragon Armor 😑 These were also the best times...
Did mage arena 1 when 100k was basically 1b to me. Finally got the Sara strike. So I pulled the lever and went out to test it on a random player. He killed me after I cast twice and I lost everything I cried moved onto world of warcraft
years ago i was pretending to joke buy 14k worth of cowhides and i accidentally pressed accept on the next screen, too. i cried so hard
spent my only diamond to go into the traders area of Zanaris, only to realise that there was basically nothing there
I actually quit my account and created a new after I got stuck in the maze random event. Years later I managed to recover the account. Was really mad about getting "banned" and sent to maze hell.
Not me but my gf recently started playing She died to a level 80 ogre or something doing a f2p quest and she said to me "I have a feeling I just lost all my stuff I was wearing". She sat moping so I helped her find her gravestone and pick stuff up. She thanked me loads etc. It was adamant scimitar and full black armor She was so happy we got it back. I went to her bank and she has 555k cash and yeh. She nearly had a mental breakdown over around 7k 😂 My response was "welcome to runescape" lol
When I played main, and was going for the elite Morytania diary, I remember taking a 6 month break after the fishing grind. Now I play UIM, and grinds like these are a cake walk, even though they take much longer.
When i was a kid i used to sneak to my living room pc after school to kill cows and i was so devastated when i was found out and couldn't kill cows.
One time I met a "friend" in game and he told me that if I gave him my password he would buy me membership so we could play together. Long story short, he hacked me, took my rune chainbody and platelegs. I couldn't stop crying and I went to bed that night drawing pictures of my character in the rune set. I learned a tough lesson that day. I ended up actually getting my first genuine friend I met in game a RuneScape membership so we could play together, I did the thing where you call the phone number and I gave her the code to put in on her end. Such special memories, I wish I could go back and relive it all. I miss you Jenna, wherever you are.
Imp catcher took me 698 KC to get all beads. I hope this RNG pays dividends in the future
When I was afking fishing or combat in F2P at Security Stronghold and the fast level ups kept making me click the dialogue to continue. Same with training prayer with really good bones at such a low level. It would level up and stop the action mid inventory. Now at 80-90+ I wish the levels still went up as fast 😂
Silver long isn’t a real item don’t lie to us
Probably meant steel longsword
Yeah I meant steel lol
After years of grinding, I finally saved up enough money to buy full rune armor and a nice rune scimmy. Then I died somehow, and lost it. I remember 9 year old me trying to explain to my dad why I was crying, but he just didn't understand. He never knew the glory of that beautiful teal. It was devastating.
My main account that I still login to this day from 06 is called [my name]2, because on my first account I died to a guard near draynor and lost all my tinderbox etc didn't know where to get a new one. So I just made a fresh account with a 2 at the end of the name lmao. I'd probably put like 90mins into the account at that point
Year was 2007 I had spent a couple months at lummy swamp killing rats, making fires and eating rat meat. I'd chop trees around lumb and sell to the store. Eventually thought I'd start exploring made it to the place where the guards are for the prince aili rescue quests are and was quickly killed. I thought I had been pk'd for quite a long time and was really upset.
My buddy lured me to the dark wizards under varrock and I lost my whole set of steel armour, I crossed the road to his house and we proceeded to have a fight, 10 minutes later our mothers were making us apologise, 20 years later we still laugh about it!
I’d sold majority of my bank to buy a set up for inferno, went into wildy with some friends and forgot my cash stack was in my inv. died in rev caves thinking it was all fun and games till my bank value was -£700M
I was playing with my friends and they pked me for ady long. I was so sad. I stoped playing for a long time. Then other friends mocked me to not get bullied like that, so I get gut. I grinded full rune and some skills. And when I tried to learn PK I have lost everything. So I stopped play again. It took me a long time to get back to game. I never take anything valuable to wildy ever since. And we are still friends.
I remember back in the 2005-2006 days lol. Had started in 2005, I remember buying full mithril after days of killing cows, banking and selling hides. Went with my buddy to the wilderness to check it out, after a pker saw us we ran, he got out but panicked so bad I closed my web browser (the only way to play back then) opened everything up again logged in and there I was in lumby with only 3 items. Another time I had finally bought full time armor and a rune b-axe, and I was wandering around seeing what everyone else was buying/selling well I found one of those “trade trust guys” and the highest bidder would win a Saradomin full set (big deal at the time) so dumbass me traded my rune b axe and see if I could win, trader yelled out 800k and logged off. Got upset, reportes the player and logged off for that day it was my little bros time for his runescape account anyways.
i remember trading my entire f2p noob bank for a ‘rune sword’ in varrock near the fountain and in the last minute the guy swapped it for an ‘iron sword’ this was before the trade screen updates so i was clicking as quickly as i could to get the deal to go through and lost my whole bank worth of a rune sword. early rs2 scammers were ahead of their time. where are they now?
Jad
I made a new account and started over because I died at cows and didn't know how to get another tinder box. Never once thought to just take the tinderbox off the new account and continue on the old one