History NightmareFuel / RuneScape

* During the "Death of Chivalry" quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has been revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", [[ShoutOut referencing this trope]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Puns aside]], the whole quest is this as Owen, one of the Signature Heroes, has essentially been turned into a zombie. So imagine [[FaceHeelTurn fighting your friend and ally]], who is now a mindless creature, along with other black knight zombies. And when Saradomin resurrects him again, he is brought back with [[RedRightHand a corrupted arm]]. Yes, he CameBackWrong ''twice'' in the same quest.

* During the Death of Chivalry quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has been revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", referencing this trope. Puns aside, the whole quest is this as Owen, one of the Signature Heroes, has essentially been turned into a zombie. So imagine fighting your friend and ally, who is now a mindless creature, along with other black knight zombies. And when Saradomin resurrects him again, he is brought back with a corrupted arm. Yes, he CameBackWrong ''twice'' in the same quest.

* Remember back when we found out the fate of Kethsi? How their use of the Stone of Jas brought the Dragonkin upon them, causing them to suffer a Class 5 Apocalypse? Turns out Kethsi is close to Armadyl's home planet, and he is aware of what happened. Imagine our astronomers discovering a world filled with intelligent life, being ravaged by unstoppable monsters. And humanity being utterly powerless to help them from so far away.

* In the finale of the Rise of the Red Axe quest series (the dwarf quests), when you invade the Red Axe base, you find that [[BigBad Hreidmar]] wasn't planning to attack Keldagrim. No, he had given up, and had constructed his own royal palace as a monument to his delusions of being king. Seeing the Chaos Dwarves brainwashed to act as Consortium heads serving Hreidmar in a building which looked exactly like the actual Consortium palace was creepy for this Troper. And then, during the boss fight, Hreidmar picked up a [[BodyHorror magical weapon]].

* During the Death of Chivalry quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has been revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", referencing this trope. Puns aside, the whole quest is this as Owen, one of the Signature Heroes, has essentially been turned into a zombie. So imagine fighting your friend and ally, who is now a mindless creature, along with other black knight zombies. And when Saradomin resurrects him again, he is brought back with a corrupted arm. Yes, he CameBackWrong ''twice'' in the same quest.

* The BossBanter before fighting Leeuni, where she will gleefully describe crushing the monkey colonist's heads and drinking their intestines, before attempting to do the same to you.

* During the Death of Chivalry quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has been revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", referencing this trope. Puns aside, the whole quest is this as Owen, one of the Signature Heroes, has essentially been turned into a zombie. So imagine fighting your friend and ally, who is now a mindless creature, along with other black knight zombies. And when Saradomin resurrects him again, he is brought back with a corrupted arm. Yes, he managed to ComeBackWrong ''twice'' in the same quest.

* During the Death of Chivalry quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has been revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", referencing this trope. Puns aside, the whole quest is this as Owen, one of the Signature Heroes, has essentially been turned into a zombie. So imagine fighting your friend and ally, who is now a mindless creature, along with other black knight zombies.

* During the Death of Chivalry quest, the "Examine" text for Sir Owen once he has ben revived as a zombie say "High-Octane Knightmare Fuel", referencing this trope.

* The Order of Ascension ''runs'' on this. Their motivation is that they're trying to kidnap humans in the hopes to make a fake Guthix as a replacement after his death. But it gets more horrifying. As you collect the pages of the book and read the [[UncannyValley the rather robotic dialogue]], you learn they spent ''multiple generations'' experimenting on humans and leaving piles of crystalized mummies in their wake. And then, after some exploring, you find a giant statue of Guthix that radiates some unnatural energy and seems to be lacking a mouth. These beings still believe they are doing their duty to Guthix.

* There used to be a line for [=NPCs=] in West Ardougne that said "Get me out of this hellhole!" to show the player how awful living in a town where a fake plague is tormenting the citizens and causing real effects to them. Worse still, the Mourners have complete rule over the entire town and occasionally [[ForTheEvulz condemn citizens to death]] in a house with a black x marked on it as a sign that nobody can enter unless they're a Mourner. ''Just to [[TheMasquerade keep up the facade]] and torment the villagers.'' Even worse, the villagers have only one way out: the horrifyingly sadistic Underground Pass. Even if they somehow manage to get through that, chances are they'll be killed by either the elves working for the one who "created" the plague or fall victim to its traps, both inside the Pass and within the forest.

* The Underground Passage quest. It's a long twisting tunnel, filled with various creatures, a supposed demigod of evil, and every so often you get an ominous message. In order to defeat the demigod and stop the voices, you need to make a voodoo doll of him, and throw that doll down the Well of Damnation, which sends people [[FateWorseThanDeath straight to Zamorak himself]]. When you do so, he will be sent down the well.

* The dragonkin. To give you an idea of how dangerous they are: Take Lucien. He's got the Staff of Armadyl and the Stone of Jas. The power of Zaros couldn't kill him. And the dragonkin turn up, grab him, impale him on the staff and nothing he does can work against them. Then they show the player a vision of Draynor Village, utterly destroyed, and do the same to Edgeville- and they don't plan to stop.

* Tolna was locked up underground for twenty years. Until he morphed into that... thing.
* Tormented Demons. Think about it. Their flesh is constantly regenerating and burning at the same time. There's metal sealed over one arm, one leg, and their face. The metal has to be excruciatingly hot. Made worse by the fact that in a letter to a player, the Demons actually seem to be pretty good guys, but apparently whatever magic causes them to be in such excruciating pain also causes them to attack wandering adventurers.

* Underground Pass:
** The very disturbing messages that appear in your chatbox during your adventures in the Underground Pass. Yep, traps that kill you, monsters that want you for dead, and MindRape!
---> I'll swallow your soul.
** The quest also features Koftik, who is slowly driven mad the farther you progress through the pass.
** There also the three paladins you encounter who seem to be going insane being down there.
* "One Piercing Note." A previously-stable woman goes insane, believing herself to be the incarnation of a saint, and starts murdering people. With claws. She kills a totally innocent applicant to the order for no other reason than that she wants to cover her tracks, and ends up mutilating the corpse beyond recognition so people think the corpse is her. She kills another sister for the crime of having an affair, and murderers an innocent novice in front of you for the crime of ''dancing''. Yes, ''dancing''. The ending? She either gets kicked off the tower by the player, throws herself off the tower, or falls off it after thinking she can fly.

* Three words: Queen Black Dragon. It looks like some sort of Leviathan, is known to be evil, and Jagex noted it that more than ''ten'' King Black Dragons can fit into her mouth alone. Made more terrifying how by she used a siren named Remora for unknown reasons, then torched her alive ''at point blank range''. She has obvious connections with the dragonkin based on their symbols being [[SigilSpam seen often on the way to her]]. Yes, this EldritchAbomination is serving the ones that curb-stomped Lucien in an earlier quest. Keep note that she will be out later [[OhCrap this month as an instance-only boss]].
* There used to be a line for [=NPCs=] in West Ardougne that said "Get me out of this hellhole!" to show the player how awful living in a town where a fake plague is tormenting the citizens and causing real effects to them. Worse still, the Mourners have complete rule over the entire town and occasionally condemn citizens to death in a house with a black x marked on it as a sign that nobody can enter unless they're a Mourner. ''Just to keep up the facade and torment the villagers.'' Even worse, the villagers have only one way out: the horrifyingly sadistic Underground Pass. Even if they somehow manage to get through that, chances are they'll be killed by either the elves working for the one who "created" the plague or fall victim to its traps, both inside the Pass and within the forest.

* The faces of Mother Mallum and Lord Drakan the Vampyre. Apparently, they're too hideous for portrait boxes, so they've never been directly seen...and hopefully they won't.
* During the Desert Treasure quest, if you have one of the diamonds in your inventory, you could get attacked randomly by a stranger with a poisoned dagger. The worst part is that it can happen anywhere. Even in your own house.
* The Underground Passage quest. It's a long twisting tunnel, filled with various creatures, a supposed demigod of evil, and every so often you get an ominous message. In order to defeat the demigod and stop the voices, you need to make a voodoo doll of him, and throw that doll down the Well of Damnation, which sends people straight to Zamorak himself. When you do so, he will be sent down the well.

* Most of the middle of The Branches of Darkmeyer is this, along with large doses of TearJerker. To elaborate, you'll essentially be pushed to run past the MoralEventHorizon as you:

** Even though it's more due to GameplayandStorySegregation, they are still alive and suffering ''even after Lucien is dead'', where summoning magic dispels when the master dies.

** Ultimately he uses such abilities to end the Slug Menace as seen in Salt in the Wound.

** Mock and torture an imprisoned widow, whom you can free after the quest.
** Kill innocent and ailing prisoners.
** Drink human blood.

** The very disturbing messages that appear in your chatbox during your adventures in the Underground Pass.

* There used to be a line for [=NPCs=] in West Ardougne that said "Get me out of this hellhole!" to show the player how awful living in a town where a fake plague is tormenting the citizens and causing real effects to them. Worse still, the Mourners have complete rule over the entire town and occasionally condemn citizens to death in a house with a black x marked on it as a sign that nobody can enter unless they're a Mourner. ''Just to keep up the facade and torment the villagers.'' Even worse, the villagers have only one way out: the horrifyingly sadistic Underground Pass. Even if they somehow manage to get through that, chances are they'll be killed by either the elves working for the one who "created" the plague or fall victim to their traps.

* Another Dungeoneering saga is Nadir. It starts off away from Daemonheim, at the Mahjarrat Ritual Stone, where Lucien (who prior to being killed by the Dragonkin was pretty much the BigBad of Runescape) orders his half human daughter to find a Mahjarrat named Bilrach. Before I continue, I'd like to call attention to the fact that Zemouregal (a Mahjarrat with a fondness for necromancy who has enslaved a legendary hero for centuries) is also there and is interested in "the creation of mongrels such as these". Was Moia created in a test tube, or did Lucien [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mate with a human female]]?

** And the player get to murder all four adventurers. While hallucinating worse and worse of the spectre of her brother. And go through a room filled with the corpses of children. And defeat the last adventurer, with the option of torturing her for hours and hours until she gave up and willingly embrace death.
** ItGetsWorse - if you pick the noble choices throughout, one of your optional endings is to have a HeelRealization, ignore the last adventurer, and set out to tell Taevas' girlfriend that he loved her. The kicker? Taevas is screaming at you to kill, and the forgotten warrior you are controlling replies something to this effect: you are not Taevas. Taevas is dead, and wouldn't want me to do this. Or something. The point is, that's not Taevas who is haunting the forgotten warrior. You never find out who or what it is. Did I mention that in the backstory of Daemonheim (the minigame/skill area where this takes place), the [[PhysicalGod Mahjarrat]] who created the place was being manipulated by voices. And a later saga also makes references to voices? Yeah.....

** Anyway, Moia finds Daemonheim, contacts [[AbusiveParent Lucien]] and is told to find Bilrach inside or don't return alive. Moia reveals her power: she can steal memories from people's minds. She uses this to impersonate a number of figures within Daemonheim. One is a captain of the guard who is shown to be a decent person (Moia feels bad about killing him). Another is a necromancer. As she descends, Moia seems to become more sadistic, going from sorrow from the aforementioned incident with the captain, to outright killing anyone she comes across. A real burst of megalomania comes from absorbing energy from the portals that litter the place. Moia at one point hears voices coming from the portals (in fact, both the captain and necrolord made mention of voices). Finally, at the bottom, Moia finds Bilrach and.... the Mahjarrat Ritual Stone. The one from earlier in the saga was a fake. Bilrach doesn't say what exactly he is planning, but either way, he and Moia set out for the bottom of Daemonheim.
** By the way, the Mahjarrat Ritual Stone plays a role in the Mahjarrat quest series, which Daemonheim seems to be separate from for now. So that Stone that rejuvenated the Mahjarrat at their last ritual? Fake. And none of them realize it. The real one is being used by Bilrach for unknown purposes, although the fact that he remains fully fleshed despite missing the Ritual might be related to it. I'd like to mention that some of the Mahjarrat are your allies, such as Azzanadra and Wahisietel.

** Scary as that was, in the last Sea Slug quest; Kennith grows up and helps kill mother Mallum; and The Hiv-er, the Slugs.

** That very same rift, at the end of the dungeon, has a deep chasm, with three long necks with heads atop them as the final monsters. It's sort of a situation of SurrealHorror. Those "monsters" at the end are actually Tolna. Not that that makes it any better.

*** ItGetsWorse - the lady's husband was Gadderanks, a tithe collector whom you fought and killed early on in the Myreque quest series. One way to torture her is to talk to her while holding the Gadderhammer, a signature weapon which Gadderanks used to fight of shades with.
*** [[UpToEleven That's not all folks!]] If you abuse the widdow for a certain number of times (I don't know exactly), she'll get depressed to the point where she won't speak to you at all, no matter what. If you don't get her to this point, though, you can finally give the lady a break and kill the guard, then free her.

*** The good news for this activity is that you have the option of either doing it, or your character can say to him/her self "I really can't do this". Instead, you can run an errand for the Vyreguard. The errand takes longer, and you may need to go get a Wolfbane Dagger if you haven't kept hold of one.

** Also, that metal that part of their body is made of? Dragon metal (the material which a type of high level armor is made of). The head, leg, and arm of the demons can be received as a rare drop, and then forged together to form the Dragon Platebody.

* There used to be a line for NPCs in West Ardougne that said "Get me out of this hellhole!" to show the player how awful living in a town where a fake plague is tormenting the citizens and causing real effects to them. Worse still, the Mourners have complete rule over the entire town and occasionally condemn citizens to death in a house with a black x marked on it as a sign that nobody can enter unless they're a Mourner. ''Just to keep up the facade and torment the villagers.'' Even worse, the villagers have only one way out: the horrifyingly sadistic Underground Pass. Even if they somehow manage to get through that, chances are they'll be killed by either the elves working for the one who "created" the plague or fall victim to their traps.

* Three words: Queen Black Dragon. It looks like some sort of Leviathan, is known to be evil, and Jagex noted it that more than ''ten'' King Black Dragons can fit into her mouth alone. Made more terrifying how by she used a siren named Remora for unknown reasons, then torched her alive ''at point blank range''. She has obvious connections with the dragonkin based on their symbols being [[SigilSpam seen often on the way to her]]. Yes, this EldritchAbomination is serving the ones that curb-stomped Lucien in an earlier quest. Keep note that she will be out later [[OhCrap this month as an instance-only boss]].