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** The Mahjarrat may be this, particularly the Zarosian variety. They were stolen from their home dimension and enslaved by a Jackal god, then freed by the Empty Lord (Zaros). They're generally nice. [[spoiler:Sliske still tries to turn you into a Barrows Brother, and kills one of your friends. The others seem to not mind if you kill him, but he is rather powerful, so they like having him as an ally.]]
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** The Mahjarrat may be this, particularly this. Some are rather friendly towards the Zarosian variety. They were stolen from their home dimension and enslaved by a Jackal god, then freed by the Empty Lord (Zaros). They're generally nice. [[spoiler:Sliske still tries to turn you into a Barrows Brother, and kills one of your friends. The player character, while others seem to not mind if you kill him, but he is rather powerful, so they like having him serve as an ally.]]villains/bosses in quests.
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* CastFromHitPoints: The Lunar spell Energy Transfer, which restores a friend's adrenaline at the cost of your HitPoints. There's also a set of EmpathicHealer spells.
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** The Lunar spell Energy Transfer, which restores a friend's adrenaline at the cost of your HitPoints. There's also a set of EmpathicHealerspells.spells.
** The high-level Zarosian combat abilities Smoke, Shadow and Blood Tendrils can deal a huge amount of damage, but also recoil on the user for a portion of that damage.
** The Lunar spell Energy Transfer, which restores a friend's adrenaline at the cost of your HitPoints. There's also a set of EmpathicHealer
** The high-level Zarosian combat abilities Smoke, Shadow and Blood Tendrils can deal a huge amount of damage, but also recoil on the user for a portion of that damage.
* ConflictBall:
** Almost any time you see an EnemyMine situation develop during a quest, it ''will'' [[StatusQuoIsGod fall apart shortly thereafter]].
** Xenia and Ariane's involvement in the "Heart of Stone" quest can easily come across as an excuse to get the two Signature Heroines at each other's throats and, ultimately, to [[spoiler:[[NeverFoundTheBody get Xenia killed off]]]].
** Almost any time you see an EnemyMine situation develop during a quest, it ''will'' [[StatusQuoIsGod fall apart shortly thereafter]].
** Xenia and Ariane's involvement in the "Heart of Stone" quest can easily come across as an excuse to get the two Signature Heroines at each other's throats and, ultimately, to [[spoiler:[[NeverFoundTheBody get Xenia killed off]]]].
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Combined with Doppelganger Spin in the fight against Nomad. Each of his clones is just as dangerous as the original...
* DoppelgangerSpin: ...but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
* DoppelgangerSpin: ...but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Combined with Doppelganger Spin in the fight against Nomad. Each of his clones is just as dangerous as the original...
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* DoppelgangerSpin: ... but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
* DoppelgangerSpin: ... but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
** "Heart of Stone" and "Fate of the Gods" end in large part with ominous warnings about [[CosmicHorrorStory the Elder Gods eventually coming to consume the life-force of Gielinor]].
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** Agility used to be way more useful, before faster run-recharge rates and [[PortalNetwork the Lodestone Network]] diminished its utility significantly.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]", left at Level 1 while other stats are raised towards the cap. This has been largely thwarted in the post-[=EoC=] era as armour and shields make a huge difference in both defensive capabilities and HitPoint totals, though the developers have capitulated somewhat to pure-enthusiasts in that the effectiveness of armour will be scaled back with the release of Legacy Mode.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]", left at Level 1 while other stats are raised towards the cap. This has been largely thwarted in the post-[=EoC=] era as armour and shields make a huge difference in both defensive capabilities and HitPoint totals, though the developers have capitulated somewhat to pure-enthusiasts in that the effectiveness of armour will be scaled back with the release of Legacy Mode.
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** Agility used to be way more useful, before faster run-recharge run-energy recharge rates, slower run-energy drain rates and [[PortalNetwork the Lodestone Network]] diminished its utility significantly.
significantly. Certain shortcuts are still somewhat useful, or are required to complete local Achievement sets, but otherwise the skill is now next to useless.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]",left who leave it at Level 1 while other stats are raised towards the cap. This has been largely thwarted does actually hurt more than it used to in the post-[=EoC=] era as pre-[=EoC=] era, since armour and shields make now makes a huge ''big'' difference in both defensive capabilities (though not HitPoints) and HitPoint totals, though higher-level equipment can often grant offensive bonuses.
** Apart from a number of handy resource dungeons and decent reward objects, Dungeoneering is virtually useless outside of [[WeirdnessMagnet Daemonheim]]. Even Chaotic weaponry, once thedevelopers have capitulated somewhat to pure-enthusiasts rarest and highest-level gear in the game, has been equaled by Attuned Crystal equipment and superseded by the Level 90 tier degradable weapons. And yet, it remains the only skill that players must level [[UpToEleven beyond the effectiveness of armour will be scaled back with the release of Legacy Mode.normal cap to Level 120]] in order to max out all their skills.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]",
** Apart from a number of handy resource dungeons and decent reward objects, Dungeoneering is virtually useless outside of [[WeirdnessMagnet Daemonheim]]. Even Chaotic weaponry, once the
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** Kalgar relinquished this title to Araxxor / Araxxi, who is MANY times larger. And stronger.
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** Some Bandosians have gone so far as to call the aforementioned god Armadyl "Big High War Chicken" [[spoiler:after he killed Bandos in the second World Event.]]
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* BlandNameProduct: In the 2014 Halloween event, you go into Death's mansion to fight ghosts, to which end he equips you with a [[GhostBusters Proto Pack]].
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* BlandNameProduct: In the 2014 Halloween event, you go into Death's mansion to fight ghosts, to which end he equips you with a [[GhostBusters [[Franchise/GhostBusters Proto Pack]].
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* BabaYaga: She's a major character in several quests and runs a magic shop. She lives on Lunar Isle in her chicken-legged hut.
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** There's a particularly insane one in "Dragon Slayer" (released in 2001). Melzar the Mad's notes mention a dream he had about the "great Cabbage of Jas." This was, in fact, the very first hint at the game's MythArc, which paid off ''almost exactly ten '''years''' later'' in "Ritual of the Mahjarrat," and isn't done yet. The Oracle of Ice Mountain, released at the same time as the Quest, also mentions something about Jas and several other things that wouldn't really show up in the game for years to come.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Recently, this might not apply as much with the morality of the different sides being less concretely good or evil. But nonetheless, we have:
** Angels: [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradomin]] and his [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Icyene]] and knights. Armadyl and his Aviansie would also apply.
** Devils: Zamorak and potentially Zaros, as well as the Avernic demons and Mahjarrat who follow them.
** Squid: Cthonian demons, especially Cacus; [[FullBoarAction the goddess Tuska]] and her Airut; potentially the Elder Gods who plan to devour the World Soul of Gielinor, killing everything that lives there.
** Angels: [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradomin]] and his [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Icyene]] and knights. Armadyl and his Aviansie would also apply.
** Devils: Zamorak and potentially Zaros, as well as the Avernic demons and Mahjarrat who follow them.
** Squid: Cthonian demons, especially Cacus; [[FullBoarAction the goddess Tuska]] and her Airut; potentially the Elder Gods who plan to devour the World Soul of Gielinor, killing everything that lives there.
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** In "Missing, Presumed Death", Sliske invites the Runescape pantheon to an event he calls his "Grand Ascendancy". Most of them show up, expecting to find out whether he has achieved ''ascension'' to godhood (a reasonable expectation since Sliske had just [[spoiler:acquired an Elder Artifact and killed Guthix]]). However, he then [[spoiler:refuses to answer any questions and instead demonstrates his ability to manipulate them into doing exactly what he wants]]...thus proving his ''ascendancy''
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** In "Missing, Presumed Death", Sliske invites the Runescape pantheon to an event he calls his "Grand Ascendancy". Most of them show up, expecting to find out whether he has achieved ''ascension'' to godhood (a reasonable expectation since Sliske had just [[spoiler:acquired an Elder Artifact and killed Guthix]]). However, he then [[spoiler:refuses to answer any questions and instead demonstrates his ability to manipulate them into doing exactly what he wants]]...thus proving his ''ascendancy''''ascendancy''.
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** "Fate of the Gods" gives us the worst example to date, when you find out that Zaros [[spoiler:was created by Mah, a deformed, half-stillborn elder-god-fetus who lies in a state of perpetual nightmare-afflicted fitful sleep after clawing herself halfway out of the volcano in which she was hatched.]] What somehow makes this ''even worse'' is that [[spoiler:she created him and Seren out of ''[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds desperate loneliness]]'' after the other Elder Gods abandoned her on the bleakest planet in the cosmos [[AndIMustScream for eons]]. Despite all this, Mah is still powerful enough that even Zaros can do nothing but grab you and run for his life when she wakes up.]] Sweet dreams!
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** "Fate of the Gods" gives us the worst example to date, when you find out that Zaros [[spoiler:was created by Mah, a deformed, half-stillborn elder-god-fetus who lies in a state of perpetual nightmare-afflicted fitful sleep after clawing herself halfway out of the volcano in which she was hatched.]] What somehow makes this ''even worse'' is that [[spoiler:she created him and Seren out of ''[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds desperate loneliness]]'' after the other Elder Gods abandoned her on the bleakest planet in the cosmos [[AndIMustScream for eons]]. Despite all this, No matter how miserable her life is, Mah is still so powerful enough that even Zaros ''Zaros'' can do nothing but grab you and run for his life when she wakes up.]] Sweet dreams!
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** In 2009, all the cabbages came to life and started bouncing around.
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** In 2009, all the cabbages came to life and started bouncing around. Kicking one from one end of the map to the other resulted in the first appearance of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Brassica Prime]].
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Brassica Prime (the God of Cabbages) was originally intended as an April Fools joke, but it became so popular that it's now an officially recognized part of the Gielinor pantheon, and even has a minigame based on it, alongside the ape goddess Marimbo.
** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too (mentioned only by name) gained so much popularity among players that it got a full description in another lore book, and was apparently supposed to actually appear (albeit as a statue) in the upcoming quest 'Broken Home' before being cut due to time constraints.
** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too (mentioned only by name) gained so much popularity among players that it got a full description in another lore book, and was apparently supposed to actually appear (albeit as a statue) in the upcoming quest 'Broken Home' before being cut due to time constraints.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[AscendedExtra Brassica Prime Prime]] (the God of Cabbages) was originally intended as an April Fools joke, but it became so popular that it's now an officially recognized part of the Gielinor pantheon, and even has a minigame based on it, alongside the ape goddess Marimbo.
** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too(mentioned (despite originally being mentioned only by name) gained so much popularity among players that it got a full description in another lore book, and was apparently supposed to actually appear (albeit as a statue) in the upcoming quest 'Broken Home' before being cut due to time constraints.
** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too
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** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too (mentioned only by name) gained so much popularity among players that it got a full description in another lore book, and was apparently supposed to actually appear (albeit as a statue) in the upcoming quest 'Broken Home' before being cut due to time constraints.
*** Rumor has it that Loarnab is even going to appear in some capacity in the upcoming, as yet unnamed 200th quest.
** In a similar vein, a new god, Loarnab was introduced in a lore book, meant as an in-joke (the name is a corruption of 'Lore-noob'). However, it too (mentioned only by name) gained so much popularity among players that it got a full description in another lore book, and was apparently supposed to actually appear (albeit as a statue) in the upcoming quest 'Broken Home' before being cut due to time constraints.
*** Rumor has it that Loarnab is even going to appear in some capacity in the upcoming, as yet unnamed 200th quest.
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* Didn'tNeedThoseAnyway: The Skeletal Horror can keep fighting just fine with the loss of its limbs, though they'll hop around on the ground and heal it if they manage to get back on.
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* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Crystal saws, seeds, and bows. [[OurElvesAreBetter Made by elves, of course.]] And an enormous WALL around the (currently inaccessible) elven capital.
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* CirclingBirdies: Used when anyone is stunned.
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* AuthorAvatar: Several JMods have made ingame appearances, most notably in the form of 'Jmod Clones' that spawned during the Battle of Lumbridge to fight for their chosen god, though Mod Osborne ('Mod Elfborne') and Mod Stu appear as easter eggs in Prifddinas to players who, respectively, give chocolate, bacon, and bread to Seren or prepare [[{{Pun}} a stew]] while holding a mud pie. You earn titles for finding either of them.
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** "Fate of the Gods" gives us the worst example to date, when you find out that Zaros [[spoiler:was created by Mah, a deformed, half-stillborn elder-god-fetus who lies in a state of perpetual nightmare-afflicted fitful sleep after clawing herself halfway out of the volcano in which she was hatched.]] What somehow makes this ''even worse'' is that [[spoiler:she created him and Seren out of ''[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds desperate loneliness]]'' after the other Elder Gods abandoned her on the bleakest planet in the cosmos [[AndIMustScream for eons]]. Despite all this, Mah is still powerful enough that even Zaros can do nothing but grab you and run for his life when she wakes up.]] Sweet dreams!
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* BaitAndSwitchBoss: A hybrid of this and TrickBoss can be found in Araxxor and Araxxi: You fight Araxxor for the first three phases of the fight, but then Araxxi shows up and kills Araxxor, and you have to defeat her for the rewards.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: The character TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot accidentally renders himself invisible with a miscast spell. The player can ask him what runes are used for the spell, only for him to comment that he doesn't use runes because he doesn't have pockets in which to store them. The player then calls him out on the impossibility of using magic without runes, at which point Kot states 'No one told TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot that.'
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** Also implied in the Mahjarrat's home plane, Freneskae.
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** Cheiftain Brundt implies that Acheron, the Penguin Motherland, is this.
** Cheiftain Brundt implies that Acheron, the Penguin Motherland, is this.
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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Invoked more and more in recent quests and lore, to the point that RuneScape is bordering on an AuthorTract by Jagex's developers.
** It's hard to find any prominent [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradominist]] characters who aren't {{Knight Templar}}s, {{Church Militant}}s or {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, and the other major gods' followers aren't far behind: Zamorakians are frequently {{Blood Knight}}s, [[GodOfEvil Bandosians]] are AlwaysChaoticEvil, Armadylians are [[WideEyedIdealist constantly played as painfully naive]], and Zaros' entire hierarchy demands BlindObedience above all else.
** Meanwhile, the {{Naytheist}}ic Dorgeshuun are the heroes of an entire quest series focusing on their resistance to Bandos' domination, the [[MarySue Godless faction]] are LaResistance playing DavidVersusGoliath, and the on-again-off-again God Wars seem to exist to showcase all the various ways in which Gielinor can suffer an ApocalypseHow.
** It's hard to find any prominent [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradominist]] characters who aren't {{Knight Templar}}s, {{Church Militant}}s or {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, and the other major gods' followers aren't far behind: Zamorakians are frequently {{Blood Knight}}s, [[GodOfEvil Bandosians]] are AlwaysChaoticEvil, Armadylians are [[WideEyedIdealist constantly played as painfully naive]], and Zaros' entire hierarchy demands BlindObedience above all else.
** Meanwhile, the {{Naytheist}}ic Dorgeshuun are the heroes of an entire quest series focusing on their resistance to Bandos' domination, the [[MarySue Godless faction]] are LaResistance playing DavidVersusGoliath, and the on-again-off-again God Wars seem to exist to showcase all the various ways in which Gielinor can suffer an ApocalypseHow.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are more than 10 different types of giant spiders, Kalrag from the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade Vine maze on Karamja. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphites, which are like beetle-scorpion hybrids.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are more than 10 different types of giant spiders, Kalrag from the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade Vine maze on Karamja. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphites, which are like beetle-scorpion hybrids.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are more than 10 different types BiggerBad: The [[spoiler:Elder Gods. Every one encountered so far has been a highly malevolent EldritchAbomination, and they have a Cradle of giant spiders, Kalrag from their offspring waiting to hatch on Gielinor. If this comes to fruition, it can and will [[ApocalypseHow turn the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade Vine maze on Karamja. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphites, which are planet into a]] DeathWorld, much like beetle-scorpion hybrids.what happened to the Mahjarrat homeworld of Freneskae]].
* BiggerOnTheInside: [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou Everyone's Player Owned Houses]] and Balthazar Beauregard's Circus are these; the latter can move it's current location in a box, once a week.
* BiggerOnTheInside: [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou Everyone's Player Owned Houses]] and Balthazar Beauregard's Circus are these; the latter can move it's current location in a box, once a week.
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** The fixed device, which shoots dyed toads.
** There are explosive squirrels called Chinchompas.
** Salamanders that act as flamethrowers can be used, which use swamp tar mixed with herbs as fuel.
** The Oddball Aura lets your Dwarven Multicannon shoot things like beer, squid, and brains.
** During the Rocking Out quest, part of your plan to escape the island prison you get sent to involves firing a seagull from an accordion that you've improvised into a makeshift air cannon.
* AbsoluteCleavage: Magic robes like the batwing display this when a female avatar wears them. [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120724054552/runescape/images/f/fb/Batwing_robes_equipped_female.png]]
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Under several cities, such as Varrock, Ardougne and Draynor village.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: The character TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot accidentally renders himself invisible with a miscast spell. The player can ask him what runes are used for the spell, only for him to comment that he doesn't use runes because he doesn't have pockets in which to store them. The player then calls him out on the impossibility of using magic without runes, at which point Kot states 'No one told TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot that.'
** During a quest, an old man named Oziach sends you to kill the legendary dragon Elvarg in exchange for the secrets of smithing Rune Platebodies. The player is successful, and learns the secret, but later finds out in dialogue with a different character that Oziach never expected you to succeed - he just gave you what he thought was an impossible task so you would go away.
* AcidTripDimension: The Cosmic Plane where starflowers grow, accessible through fairy rings. It looks like [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101102061038/runescape/images/thumb/5/53/TheCosmicPlane.png/800px-TheCosmicPlane.png this.]]
* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Most endgame items are thousands of times more expensive than their lower-level counterparts. Rings are a good example: a 2.7% range critical bonus will cost you [[http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Archers%27_ring/viewitem.ws?obj=6733 around a million coins]]. And if you think that's tough, wait until you see the price tag on a [[http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Divine_spirit_shield/viewitem.ws?obj=13740 spirit shield]]. On the other hand, the game has a real living, breathing, player-run, capitalist economy... so it's the community which isn't letting go of those rare items for a low price. And it's the result of that combioned with the continual influx of additional coins and low-grade items at an exponentially faster rate than the high-grade equivalents, so over a decade of alarmingly rapid inflation has contributed.
* AddressingThePlayer
* AdventurersClub: The Quest guilds: Champions' Guild, Heroes' Guild, and Legends' Guild.
* AerithAndBob: [[TeamPet Bob the Jagex Cat]], Bob's evil twin [[spoiler:also named Bob]], and Bob of Bob's Fabulous Axes all share a game with people called Zemouregal, Azzanadra and Zaros, although weirder names like those tend to pop up more with non-humans. Player characters' names can also have this effect.
* AirGuitar: An emote.
* AlasPoorVillain: At the end of "Song from the Depths", [[spoiler:you find the Siren who's been causing the trouble...and she turns out to be trapped inside the belly of the Queen Black Dragon, subject to a powerful illusion that's making her believe she's back home on her island. When you break the illusion, she's horrified. She's killed shortly after, and the player character has a brief moment of mourning]].
* AlcoholHic: Found in the dialogue of many an inebriated character.
* AllDesertsHaveCacti: The Kharidian Desert is indeed full of cacti.
* AllInARow: There's an option to "Follow" another player. A group of players can follow each other in a chain, resulting in this.
* AllNaturalGemPolish: Notably {{averted}}. You can find gems while mining, and if you do, they have to be cut with a chisel using the Crafting skill before they can be added to jewelry. Some gems can even be destroyed accidentally when you try to cut them.
* AllSwordsAreTheSame: In ''Classic'', all melee weapons have the exact same fighting animation: you just bash your opponent with it and that's that. The modern game has a wider variety of stances for different types of weapon, but there are still a limited number of animations for slashing, stabbing, or bludgeoning -- the stabbing animations for a bronze dagger are the same as the ones for a pair of gardening secateurs.
* AllTrollsAreDifferent:
** They're violent and warlike by nature, with thick, rocklike skin and low intelligence, and they're named after the first thing they try to eat (or, if they don't know what it's called, the sound it made), which leads to some unusual names like "My Arm".
*** "Dad"
*** ''"Cliff"''
** Mountain Trolls are able to change their bodies to [[AdaptiveAbility adapt to their surroundings]]. In Troll Invasion, they've shown the ability to [[SummonMagic summon monsters]] and cast magic by [[CannibalismSuperpower consuming the flesh]] of Summoners (druids) and Mages, respectively.
** Other than the most common mountain trolls, there are aquatic varieties of troll that sports fins and gills, as well as extra vicious ice trolls with thick fur.
* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs appear both as a low-level enemy and as different summoning familiars.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: The [[spoiler:dragonkin]] to [[spoiler:Lucien]] in "Ritual of the Mahjarrat".
* AmnesiaLoop: A major plot point in the "Rise of the Red Axe" quest series. At the end of "Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf"[[note]]The name of the quest is a StealthPun[[/note]], [[spoiler:the PlayerCharacter stumbles upon the secret base of the Red Axe and learns about their plan to create an army of Chaos Dwarves to invade Keldagrim]]. However, thanks to [[spoiler:an ogre shaman working for the Red Axe]], instead of [[spoiler:making it back to Keldagrim to warn the Consortium]], [[spoiler:all your memory of the event is scrambled and you're left with an irresistible craving for beer and kebabs. After the resulting drinking party, the vital information has become slurred, drunken ramblings.]] In between quests, the same thing happens to Commander Veldaban, and the subsequent "Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf" quest revolves around re-discovering everything that was forgotten.
* AnAxeToGrind: In addition to regular battleaxes, hatchets and throwing axes, there's Dharok's Greataxe and Balmung.
* AncientArtifact: Recent quests have revealed that there are 12 Elder Artifacts, from which the gods [[TouchedByVorlons draw their power]] and will be a major plot element of future quests. Each artifact is a source of power, and has a certain function. Unfortunately, they also have a downside to using them. The known artifacts are:
** [[CoolSword The Elder Sword]]: capable of opening portals at whim. Currently broken in Guthix's resting place.
** [[MagicStaff The Staff]]: associated with the god Armadyl; Zamorak used it to kill Zaros and ascend to godhood, and now [[spoiler: Sliske has used it to kill Guthix]]. Armadyl stated that he could use it to create life from nonliving material.
** The Kiln: used to create the physical shell of the world. Since it utilizes the [[RockMonster Tok Haar]] to achieve this, it can defend itself with ease.
** [[ArtifactOfDoom The Stone of Jas]]: The source of all runes and a PhlebotinumBattery for the energy of the Elder Gods. Guthix used it to shape Gielenor and seed it with life. Using it if you are anyone other than Jas invokes a curse on the Dragonkin, enraging them and making them attack you. If you draw power from the stone as opposed to knowledge, they will gain an equivalent amount. Guthix, Sliske, V, and the player used it for knowledge, and so they aren't in immediate danger from the Dragonkin.
** [[CoolCrown The Crown]]: this has been in the possession of [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradomin]] for as long as anyone remembers. It can locate all artifacts, but any gods can also locate the wearer.
** The Horn: Guthix found it on Gielenor with the Staff and Stone. Quin, a seasinger from the Wushanko Isles, took over the Eastern Lands with its power, but was killed before she actually became a god. The monkey god Marimbo implies that she may have used this artifact to ascend.
** The Measure: The weakest of the artefacts and currently in the possession of the PlayerCharacter. It has the ability to measure [[LifeEnergy Anima]].
* AnchorsAway: The Barrelchest Anchor, which can be used as a weapon.
* AndIMustScream:
** Poor [[spoiler:Arrav]]; he was raised as a zombie by the very person he fought against. Said person also decided to keep him conscious, effectively forcing him to watch as his body fought his own people. [[spoiler:the Void Pest]] in A Void Dance, and [[spoiler:Akthanakos]] could be said to fit this role, since [[spoiler:he was betrayed and turned into a guardian of his own imprisonment]].
** Pentyn in Enakhra's Temple has been trapped there for thousands of years in solitary isolation and was constantly tortured by Enakhra. To make it worse, he's been immortalized and can't move anything below the shoulder, meaning he can never leave the place.
** [[spoiler:Apmeken had her voice, sight, and hearing taken away,]] and she was forced to sit back and wait as her monkeys slowly died off and the people of the desert turned against one another and killed each other without her guidance.
** The [=TzHaar=], whose bodies are composed of rock and magma/lava, apparently remain fully self-aware as they harden into solid obsidian upon "death." Obsidian which is then ''[[HumanResources broken up and made into TokKul, their currency]]''. In The Elder Kiln, [[spoiler:Ga'al-Xox is infused with the [=TokKul=] of a dead [=TzHaar=] champion, giving him all the memories of the dead champion. He reveals that turning into [=TokKul=] is crushing agony, unable to even think coherently through the pressure and the pain; Xox was nearly driven insane from being exposed to a few minutes of 'death']].
** Skaldrun: his identity and all memory of who he was was destroyed to make him a human library. He was then made immortal and frozen in a block of ice for several hundred years, fully aware of his surroundings.
** [[spoiler:Mother Mallum's host, Lucy]], in "Salt in the Wound". Stated to have been only a child when [[spoiler:the slug queen possessed her]] and forced to spend '''decades''' in a semi-conscious, waking nightmare of an existence [[spoiler:before finally being granted a proper death at the end of the quest]].
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Reach level 99 in a skill? You get a cape. It has reasonable combat stats, yes, but still a fancy cape with a special emoticon. Finishing achievement diaries and quests, as well as many minigames/activities gets you pieces of clothing and armor. Much of it is unique or otherwise useful, but most of it is strictly cosmetic.
* AnimatedArmor:
** The best example is the Warriors' Guild, where you can have your suit of armor brought to life as part of a minigame. Animated suits of armor appear in other places, as well.
** Animated floating ''axes'' inhabit part of the dungeon just south of Taverley. In addition, the old Druidic Ritual quest involved going to the Cauldron of Thunder therein, which was guarded by a pair of suits of armour which came to life and attacked the player when they tried to pass by.
** Animated spades and pickaxes are also found in several dungeons. The pickaxes pack a surprising punch.
* AnotherDimension: Lots, but notably:
** Zanaris, a realm ruled by [[LandOfFaerie Fairies]]. The entire [[PortalNetwork Fairy Ring infrastructure]] uses faint energy that was left from Guthix closing the Portal of Life for the purpose of transport to other realms.
*** Zanaris has since been [[RetCon retconned]] into being Gielinor's moon.
** [[ApocalypseHow Yu'biusk]], the ancestral home of the goblin races, destroyed by Bandos long ago.
** The Spirit Realm, a series of [[PocketDimension smaller pocket dimensions]], with its only inhabitants terrorized by the Spirit Beast. The realm itself is a cross between DarkWorld, MirrorWorld, and SpiritWorld; doing one thing in this world affects the real world in the opposite way.
** [[BloodyBowelsOfHell The Abyss]], discovered when the ZMI had a teleportation accident and tried to replicate the effect, is used for fast Runecrafting altar travel. It is the dimension that connects all other dimensions.
** Then there is the Void, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a complete absense of anything]], which connects the ''abyss'' [[MindScrew to other planes, and parts of the Void is also created by a spirit beast tearing its way from the Spirit Realm to the real world]].
** Kethsi, a plane that was once a paradise but now a godforsaken wasteland after the residents [[spoiler:unwittingly enraged the Dragonkin]].
** The Runespan.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** To avert FetchQuest, quests will often provide some required items like spades or pickaxes or gems in the nearby vicinity, saving you the trouble of trekking away to find one yourself.
** The Toolbelt provides you with pretty much every basic tool you'll need to do any skilling or quest task in the game, unless it is a very specific item needed for a quest. This saves players long treks or teleports back to the bank for a chisel. Even better, it holds everything without taking up an additional inventory space, which is a huge bonus in a game with only 28 spaces for non-equipment.
** Quest items for newer quests have been made more clear with a small icon next to the name of the item. Prior to this point, it was hard to tell what was actually a quest item, especially once the quest was over.
** Having trouble with the SlidingPuzzle in "Monkey Madness"? You can skip it by paying Glough a bribe.
** Sometimes if a puzzle is annoying there's usually a way to just bludgeon your way through.
** In player-owned ports, if you take too long locating the assassins in the Black Marketeer's random event, a hint arrow appears to point you in the right direction.
* AntiGrinding: To ensure that all clan members participate in the upkeep of the Clan Citadel there's a {{Cap}}; each individual player can only grind away at the resources until they hit the cap, after which it's impossible for them to continue.
* AntiVillain:
** The [[spoiler:Balance Elemental]], whom you must kill to access the [[spoiler:Stone of Jas]]. Which turns out to be a [[NiceJobBreakingItHero biiiig mistake]].
** The Easter 2011 event gave [[spoiler:The Queen Of Snow]] just a touch of this. After you help cut down an evil holly tree to obtain the Year, it quickly became apparent that what you've fetched for The Queen Of Sunshine wasn't real. [[spoiler:Turns out Snowie, one of the most endearing holiday characters in the game, stole the real one because spring is so foreign to her that she literally can't see anything beautiful in it; despite knowing spring has to come to maintain order, she wanted winter to go on a little longer because she's perfectly in tune with it -- but still felt mighty guilty about it.]]
** The Mahjarrat may be this, particularly the Zarosian variety. They were stolen from their home dimension and enslaved by a Jackal god, then freed by the Empty Lord (Zaros). They're generally nice. [[spoiler:Sliske still tries to turn you into a Barrows Brother, and kills one of your friends. The others seem to not mind if you kill him, but he is rather powerful, so they like having him as an ally.]]
** "Some Like It Cold" reveals that [[spoiler:the penguins in the Motherland are slaves and food to both the seals and polar bears, and the penguins on the iceberg were originally a group of penguins who just wanted to escape, even if Pescaling is now bent on taking over the world.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonifications:
** The Queen of Snow and Queen of Sunrise are personifications of winter and spring respectively. The former once tried to make the world stay in winter because she cannot comprehend the beauty of spring.
** The 2011 Halloween event the simply packed with these. Death apparently joined up with Pestilence, War and Famine to form a clan, and held the event involving Beauty and Fame, and Peace was mentioned during the event as well.
* AnythingThatMoves: Ozan, who when quizzing Owen about his encounter with a supposed Icyene (essentially a gigantic, angelic human) asks "Was she hot?!". When told that not all Icyene are female, he replies "Well, was he hot?!"
* ApocalypseHow:
** There are many instances of it, including Class 0, Class 1 (sometime during the Fourth Age), and Class 2 (after the God Wars). Classes 3, 4 and 5 can be found in some of the realms, and X4 is subverted at the end of the Temple of Senntisten and Recipe for Disaster quests.
** Meta example: [=ClusterFlutterer=] (the so-called "bot nuke" of October 2011) was responsible for the deletion and banning of [[DepopulationBomb almost 40% of the player base]] over the course of a single weekend.
*** However, this was short-lived; Jagex wouldn't find a permanent solution to the bot plague until the release of Runescape 3.
* ApocalypticLog: You find one in the "Shades of Mort'ton" quest, where the writing gradually devolves into gibberish as the author slips into madness.
* AprilFoolsDay: There have been several.
** 2004 saw the long-awaited introduction of horses to ''RuneScape'' -- toy wooden horses, that is.
** In 2007, there was [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:April_Fools a fake "Behind the Scenes" update]] announcing that every update that month would be heavily cabbage-based. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:Behind_the_Scenes_-_April_Fools! A similar "Behind the Scenes" prank]] was the April Fool in 2011, with a plethora of {Shout Out}}s.
** In 2009, all the cabbages came to life and started bouncing around.
** On other occasions, AprilFoolsDay heralded the fake release of new dragon items, including 2005's Dragon Plate (a toy spinning plate which you could spin and play with) and 2008's Dragon Kite (a toy kite that you can fly)[[note]]The ''real'' anticipated items were the Dragon Plate''body'' and the Dragon Kite''shield''[[/note]].
** In 2010, they announced a ''[=RuneScape=]'' theme park.
** For 2012, they proclaimed that "P-hats" would be dropped all around [=RuneScape=] for players to pick up for free. ("P-hat" traditionally refers to the ultra-rare party hats that are some of the most valuable items in the game.) True to their word, major cities were littered with Pea Hats: green peas that you can wear on your head.
** In 2014 they Trolled players by announcing on the website that due to a technical error, a section of the forum that was not intended for players to see had become viewable and asked that players not look at it. If you actually fell for the prank you would probably think that Runescape was going to JumpTheShark with all the bad ideas they talked about adding to the game. They also changed the animation for throwing logs into a fire to look like you were throwing party hats into the fire.
* ArmCannon: The Barrelchest Mk II is equipped with a literal cannon on its left arm.
* In 2014 the animation for throwing logs into fire was changed to burning party hats and sailing skill (which was rumored to be added to the game in future) was added to skill interface. On the forums mock Jagex employee forums became visible due to "technical glitch"
* ArmorAndMagicDontMix: Wearing armor imposes a damage penalty on spells, to the point where most offensive magics are nearly or completely useless if you're wearing full platemail. However the penalty only applies to HitPoint damage: other spells work fine, and [[ReligionIsMagic prayers]] are completely unaffected.
* ArmorOfInvincibility: Torva, Pernix, and Virtus: the most powerful armor in the game, dropped only by one of the most difficult boss monsters in the game. They're tradable, but they'll set you back [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts hundreds of millions of gold]].
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: 'But am I your enemy?' [[spoiler:When the player character asks a mind controlled Zanik this question, it gives her the conviction she needs to break Bandos' control]].
* ArtificialStupidity:
** None of the monsters can seem to figure out to just walk around the table from behind which the player is casting spells or shooting arrows at them. This was averted in later updates, as monsters from Dungeoneering will attempt to run or move around obstacles when they are attacked from a range. You can still pin an enemy into a corner with a little maneuvering, but at least the token effort is still there.
** This is lampshaded in a rematch with the Tree Spirit, where the text before the fight mentions there are no mushrooms to hide behind.
* AscendedGlitch:
** Certain members-only items of clothing were made available. It was discovered that some of those items ([[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gloves_%28Canifis%29 the gloves]]) were actually usable on freeplay worlds (instead of being displayed as "member's objects" they were still wearable gloves). Because they could not be obtained on free worlds, some members would obtain them for low prices on their worlds and sell them to non-members for higher prices. They became a symbol of wealth on freeplay worlds, eventually forcing Jagex to keep it in.
** An extremely early example (2001 or so) would be the now taken-for-granted feature that makes items only visible to the player who dropped them for about a minute before being visible to everyone else. It was originally a bug, but after it was removed, public demand brought it back.
* AshFace: During the Recipe For Disaster quest, a goblin cook accidentally blows up his own cauldron and gets this.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:
** One quest lets you join the White Knights of Falador and be able to purchase their equipment. For the Master rank, you have to kill hundreds of black knights. And "Ritual of the Mahjarrat" lets you see Sir Tiffy in action, the old man is TOUGH.
** The Void Knights have this system. The better a fighter you are, the higher your rank.
** Ogres like this, the most powerful are the leaders.
** Sometimes justified in clans or minigames when individuals are chosen to be generals or other leaders just because they are the strongest and/or most skilled at the game.
* AsteroidsMonster: Tz-Keks split in two once you kill one.
* AttackReflector: One shield ability, aptly named reflect, does this for a few seconds.
* TheAtoner: Dr. Fenkenstrain after the Great Brain Robbery quest.
* AudienceShift: The demographic grew older with the game, resulting in quest storylines becoming more mature, deaths becoming more graphic, and the profanity filter becoming optional.
* AwesomeButTemporary: At the end of "While Guthix Sleeps", you get to use the Stone of Jas to boost all your stats to insane levels during a boss battle, but Lucien steals the Stone and the boost wears off as soon as the fight ends.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Ancient Combat abilities (except Ice Asylum) summon vaguely {{Eldritch Abomination}} -like tentacles to harm your foe, in a display similar to that once used by Zaros himself to conquer and enslave a lesser god. These have the potential to be among the highest-damaging abilities in the game (up to 500% regular weapon damage)... but also among the lowest (66% regular weapon damage, for the same ability), completely at random. And they do (potentially heavy) damage to their user as well, even if you ''completely miss'' your opponent.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Veldaban in King of the Dwarves.]]
* Awesome Yet Practical: Several things in both RuneScape 3 and the recent beta for Legacy Mode:
** The aforementioned Ice Asylum takes a while to unlock, and needs 91 Constitution just to activate, but allows you to heal yourself AND your allies for up to 40% of your max HP. While it does have a cooldown of 5 minutes between uses, it affects everyone within a certain radius of the placable Ice Asylum, and has no limit to how many players can use it within those 5 mins.
** Overloads and Saradomin Brews. The former raises all your combat stats to their maximum, and keeps them elevated by refreshing the boost over 5 mins. The latter heals you for a set amount of HP per dose, while lowering your offensive power and maximising your defensive power. Apply together, and you get the best healing item (per slot) in the game, with its negative side effects removed.
* AGodAmI: Every so often, one of the deities in RuneScape will make an appearance. It is generally made clear that they are, indeed, a god, or at least very, very, powerful.
** The quest called "Missing, Presumed Death" is made of this trope. After [[spoiler:Sliske]] gathers most of the other gods (along with the player) in [[spoiler:Armadyl's former fortress]], the various gods quibble amongst themselves as to the purpose of the assembly - supposedly it is to announce that [[spoiler:Sliske]] has become a god thanks to his recent activities. [[spoiler:He subverts it, however, by announcing that the real reason he kidnapped Death was to [[LetsYouAndHimFight start a free-for-all]] amongst the gods.]]
* AWizardDidIt:
-->People who have never met him have his image transferred into their minds by those that have by, erm, magic and wizards.
* BabaYaga: She's a major character in several quests and runs a magic shop. She lives on Lunar Isle in her chicken-legged hut.
* BadassBookworm: Lexicus Runewright in Dungeoneering. He summons books that hit you with all kinds of attacks, and some that explode that do an almost guaranteed 500 damage (back when 990 was the max HP a player could have, this was a BIG problem).
* BadBoss: Kal'Ger the Warmonger, who opens every battle with a cutscene in which he kills one of the lower-level Kal'Gerion demons.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Subverted by Evil Dave, who tries to swap "bad" and "good" in his speeches, but ends up getting very confused.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: The Zarosian Mahjarrat, who, while not uniformly good, are generally on the player's side for right now. The Ancient magicks that Zarosians use are quite dark, including spells that freeze opponents solid, steal their health, and drain their prayer. The Zarosian prayers (called "curses") are much more offensive than the other prayer sets, and drain your opponent's strength to enhance your own.
* BadWithTheBone: The Dorgeshuun goblins are pacifists, but when they have to fight, they use weapons made out of bone, including a bone club (which is just a large, heavy bone).
* BagOfHolding:
** It is an adventure game with an inventory, after all. Also doubles as {{Hammerspace}} because you can hold large hammers, anchors, other weapons, and massive amounts of food and fish, all too huge to possibly keep within. At its most extreme, you can carry the components for ''seven full dwarf multicannons'', each of which is twice as big as you are.
** There's bags of holding for rune essence that you can place within the bag of holding, as well as a coal bag and gem bag available as Dungeoneering rewards.
** The toolbelt enables you to store all kinds of tools without taking up inventory or bank space, while the money pouch keeps gold pieces safe even through death (though it becomes impossible to fill in the Wilderness).
* BagOfSpilling:
** All but one (up to five with the required level) of the hard-won items found in the dungeons of Daemonheim will disappear into Saradomin-only-knows-where once the dungeon is completed.
** You drop most of your items when you die.
* BaguetteBeatdown: The Sandwich Lady. Don't make her angry!
* BaldOfAwesome: Saradomin, the Wise Old Man, and Sir Tiffy Cashien. Optional for the player.
* BankRobbery: The Wise Old Man pulled one of these in Draynor Village. [[RefugeInAudacity He lives right across the street from the bank.]]
* BarrierChangeBoss:
** Dagannoth and Gelatinnoth Mothers. They change colors depending on the type of attack you need to use.
** Tormented demons, which change their protection prayer based on what you're hitting them with.
** Astea Frostweb and the Skeletal Trio, who change their protection prayers randomly.
** Some bosses invert this--the player puts up prayers to block attacks, and the bosses change their attacks to hit around them.
* BatmanGambit: The entire plot of "Hunt for Red Raktuber". [[spoiler:Pescaling Pax anticipates your every move, and by the end of the quest, you're teleblocked and left for dead on a deserted island]].
* BatOutOfHell: After a graphical update, now standard Vampires, angry Juvinates and Vyrewatch look like were-bats, the Vyrewatch having [[WingedHumanoid wings on their back]] and the other two having no wings to speak of.
* BeamOWar: Runescape 3 opened with one of these between Saradomin and Zamorak. Players could gather Divine Tears for either one, to help overpower the other (and earn loot).
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In the lore, this is why General Viggora defected from Zaros to Zamorak. After being recruited into Zaros' armies, all the other races mocked him and humans in general, no matter what they accomplished. ''Except'' for Zamorak, who at the time was another general. After he [[CompensatingForSomething overbuilt his fortress]] until [[EpicFail it sank into the swamp he built it on]], he remembered Zamorak's silence while the others mocked him and joined him in his ([[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu successful]]) attempt at usurping Zaros.
* BedsheetGhost: {{Invoked}} in "Ghosts Ahoy", where you try to disguise yourself as a ghost by cutting holes in a bedsheet.
* BigBad: The Dragonkin. In the Ritual of the Mahjarrat quest, they returned out of hiding and [[CurbStompBattle showed their power by killing Lucien]], who, at the time, [[TheWorfEffect was the most powerful Mahjarrat]].
* BigDamnHeroes: Played straight when you are the hero (usually in quests), averted when a group of heroes try to save you from Lucien.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are more than 10 different types of giant spiders, Kalrag from the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade Vine maze on Karamja. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphites, which are like beetle-scorpion hybrids.
* BigNo: When the player is kidnapped to Evil Bob's island. "No... what? Nooooooooooooo!"
* BiggerOnTheInside: [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou Everyone's Player Owned Houses]] and Balthazar Beauregard's Circus are these; the latter can move it's current location in a box, once a week.
* BilingualBonus:
** The Burthorpe Soldiers speak in Latin.
** Latin appears to be the official language of Zaros. The book that teaches you the Ancient Curses is written in Latin, the Zaros area in the God Wars dungeon has Latin inscriptions, and several prominent Zarosian characters and items have Latin names:
*** Torva, Pernix, and Virtus armor are Latin for "fierce", "nimble", and "valor" respectively.
*** Nex, the Zaros boss, is Latin for "violent death".
*** Nex's generals Cruor, Fumus, Glacies, and Umbra are "blood", "smoke", "ice", and "shadow".
** Daemonheim battle themes are also named Glacialis, Desolo, Adorno, Occulo, and Torqueo, translating to Glacial, Desolate, Adorned, Occult, and Twisted respectively.
** The song called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4vksdXXrk&feature=related Norse Code]] includes a high flute. Its first series of notes is actually "RUNESCAPE" in Morse Code.
* BittersweetEnding:
** At the end of the Blood Runs Deep quest, you manage to trap the Dagganoth Mother inside of the cavern and protect Rellekka, at the cost of [[spoiler:losing Prince Brand and Princess Astrid, who died fighting the Dagganoth Kings. It doesn't help that you married the one opposite to your gender only a few moments before.]]
** At the end of Ritual of the Mahjarrat, [[spoiler:Lucien is dead, the Staff of Armadyl has been broken and thus rendered unusable, and the Stone of Jas has been placed somewhere where it won't be abused again.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Jhallan was used for the Ritual, effectively killing him, Idria was murdered by the dragonkin, a friend changed into a Barrows Brother, and the Dragonkin have wrecked Edgeville and intend to do the same to the rest of the world.]]
* BlackComedy: At the end of the 2011 Easter event, you have to carve an ice sculpture to show [[spoiler:the Queen of Snow]] why spring is a just as good a thing as winter. Out of the options of what to carve [[note]]Including a stag, the Easter Bunny bringing eggs and cute baby animals[[/note]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the one that sticks out the most is the last one:]] [[EvilLaugh "Cute baby animals... impaled on swords."]] [[spoiler:Choosing this choice works just as well as the others.]]
* BladderOfSteel: When the Fight Caves minigame was first released, there was no way to save your progress midway through the fight. The only way to beat [=TzTok-Jad=] and earn the fire cape was to buckle up and sit at your computer for over an hour fighting your way through all 60+ waves of enemies. This was later remedied, and you can now save your progress by logging out in between waves.
* BlessedWithSuck: Zanik. Chosen by the gods and raised from the dead to [[spoiler:become a brainwashed slave-general of the war-god Bandos]].
* BlingOfWar: Dragonstone armour: while the armour set is very fashionable and is the best hybrid armour available in free-to-play servers, it is very expensive and its stats aren't that good compared to other armour sets at its level.
* BloodKnight: Bandos is the "Big High War God" who teaches that fighting is the highest calling of all, and his followers are almost universally aggressive and love battle. He has specifically bred entire RACES for war.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: According to Zaros, the Elder Gods do not create conscious life on purpose and barely even perceive it. They would [[spoiler:extinguish it without a second thought and have already done so countless times. Zaros also speculates that the Dragonkin were a race from a previous cycle that survived its destruction by hiding in the Abyss. They tried begging Jas for mercy, but ended up enslaved to her stone instead]].
* BondOneLiner: Mr. Mordaut and his cheese-related puns in the Gielinor Games, when you fail in the Cheese Roll.
* BonsaiForest: The soil quality in Gielinor clearly isn't the best out there. Some graphics updates made the trees more reasonably sized, but many are still pretty small. In some areas, like the swamps south of Lumbridge and in Morytania or otherwise the various high mountain ranges, this is actually justified, of course.
* BoogieKnights: The dancing knights in the Party Room.
* BoozeBasedBuff: Drinking certain types of beers will alter your stats, usually giving you a boost in one area and weakening you in another. Ordinary beer, for example, increases your Strength (attack power), but decreases your Attack (accuracy).
* BorderPatrol: Try to enter a dark area without a light source and little bugs will swarm all over you, draining your health.
* BoringButPractical: Pretty much all of the skills. Training skills usually consists of using it over and over and over again. But once you get it high enough, you'll be able to summon a Pack Yak with an inventory bigger than your own, or make the best healing items in the game, or even cheat death.
* BossBanter:
** [[spoiler:Nomad.]] Among others.
** One of the more humorous examples is found at the end of the "Lunar Diplomacy" quest where players have to fight a copy of themselves (simply called "Me"). "Stop hitting yourself!" indeed.
* BossRush: The Dominion Tower, where you re-fight quest bosses you've already beaten.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The Runescape gods all have different, conflicting worldviews, but all of them are valid.
* BottomlessBladder: Your character can eat all the food he or she wants, but never has to go to the bathroom. In fact, he/she has never seen a bathroom before, as [[LampshadeHanging a discussion with Ali the Barman reveals]].
* BraggingRightsReward: A lot of the rewards, though more so with LevelGrinding and minigame-type stuff than for quests. Typically overlaps with AndYourRewardIsClothes. More recently, quests award titles for those with higher than necessary levels.
* BreakableWeapons: All sorts of flavors:
** Some weapons gradually degrade until they break, and you can repair them back to 100% by paying a fee depending on how degraded they are. Barrows and Chaotic gear are good examples.
** PVP weapons such as Vesta's Longsword and Statius's Warhammer have a set lifespan: after a certain amount of time in combat, they crumble to dust. The same goes for "corrupt Dragon" equipment; it offers the stats of members-only Dragon equipment to non-members, but crumbles to dust after a set amount of time.
** Crystal equipment degrades in a fashion similar to Barrows and Chaotic, but as it degrades, it gradually decreases in power as well. When it's fully degraded, it reverts back to a crystal seed that can be shaped back into its more practical form for a fee.
** The Hand Cannon has a rather annoying variant: it has a random chance of blowing up in your face, dealing you damage and destroying itself completely. Ouch.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** In the Runescape 2011 Easter event, a squirrel named the 'Antipodean Squirrel', is angry about how the Easter event is Northern-Hemisphere-Centric, and about how it is Spring in the northern hemisphere and how it is autumn in the southern hemisphere and it's not fair to have no autumn event. One response is to tell him to stop breaking the fourth wall; he replies, 'Yeah, like you stay in character all the time!'
** Another example occurs when talking to the bartender in the Blue Moon Inn in Varrock. He states that Runescape is a computer game, but your character thinks that he is crazy.
** You break the fourth wall in a way talking to the priest in Lumbridge, when you say that you are not from this world.
* BreathWeapon:
** Dragons have a deadly firebreathing attack that sticks to you like napalm, dealing lots of damage unless you have a special anti-dragon shield. Wyverns, close relatives of dragons, have a powerful ice breath attack that can freeze you for massive damage and requires an elemental shield to defend against.
** "Dragon Breath" is a combat ability for the Magic skill, allowing you to spit out a cone of flame to damage enemies in front of you.
* BreedingCult: One of the guardians of Guthix, Ocellus, created The Order of Ascension, in an attempt to support Guthix's {{Naytheist}} philosophy. His first experiment was to create a race of highly independent humans, but the results were insolent and destructive. He eventually realized that worship was just a by-product of social order, so instead, he tried to close the gap between humans and the gods, using both breeding and magical augmentation.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Buying Spins on the Squeal of Fortune, which can give cash rewards, valuable items, or EXP lamps, giving you a leg up on other players whichever way. This has since expanded to include:
** Solomon's General Store - cosmetic overrides, pets and auras for real world cash or Loyalty Points.
** Treasure Hunter - an UpdatedRerelease of the Squeal of Fortune, after many complaints that it wasn't worth the time to buy the spins for useless items. In this version, almost every prize is of use; between bonus experience, helpful items, cosmetic outfits, seasonal or promotional items, and the cash prizes, such as Large Cash Bags containing 500k to 1m coins, or the Jackpot of 200m coins.
** Bonds - Items which can be bought off Jagex, sold in-game for in-game cash, or used to credit either Treasure Hunter or Solomon with keys or Rune Coins respectively. These were created as a direct way to combat goldfarmers, and it worked.
* BrickJoke: A pretty grim one. [[spoiler:After Sigmund uses a Ring of Life (an item which teleports the wearer to a spawn point when they're low on health) to escape death numerous times, Zanik finally ''cuts his hand off'' during The Chosen Commander to prevent him from leaving and kills him. After the quest is finished, if you go back to Lumbridge and talk to the Duke, he'll mention Sigmund's severed hand having teleported into the courtyard.]]
* BritishAccents:
** Most of the voice-acted characters have some form or other of British accent, since Jagex is, after all, based in the U.K.
** All imps speak in a thick Cockney PhoneticAccent, complete with rhyming slang like "dragon's belly" (for "smelly").
* UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish: The game being produced in Britain and owned by a British company many terms for things are the British terms and that can and does cause some confusion among American players unfamiliar with both the game and British terminology. Easy examples are a 'Spade' (commonly called a shovel in America) and Treasure Trail 'Biscuits' (what Americans would call cookies). An especially confusing example is in clue scrolls that tell you to search the first floor of a building. What Americans know as the first floor is called the ground floor in Britain, so American players didn't know that the clue was telling them to go upstairs. A stickied thread was made on the forum to clarify this.
* BrokenAesop:
** The "Tower of Life" quest. The moral of the whole story is that meddling with creation is wrong, and life should be treated with respect. Your reward for completing the quest is access to a minigame where you can create new mutant life-forms, kill them, and harvest their organs.
* BrokenBridge: See MissingSecret below.
* BrownNote: The Stalkers' natural language. A quote from an unknown mage:
--> "It calls itself Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz in our language. I regret asking it to say it in its own, for the combination of audible and inaudible sounds from its many lipless mouths caused me a pounding headache and blood to cascade from my nose, [[KickTheDog which Lakhrahnaz then froze]]."
* BubbleGloopSwamp: Morytania, Lumbridge Swamp, Ullek ruins, Poison Waste, etc.
* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: There are four pyramids and one mastaba in the Kharidian desert.
* BulletTime: Seen in the Brimhaven agility dungeon when dodging the poison darts, as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* CallOnMe: The "Path of Glouphrie" quest ends with the PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:stuck in a DeathTrap]]. As [[spoiler:you start to collapse from the poison gas]], you cry out mentally for help. Lo and behold, [[spoiler:the telepathic gnome Hazelmere from earlier in the quest hears you and teleports in to rescue you]] just in time.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Cthonian demons are able to absorb the essence, and by extension, the power and cunning, of those they consume.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The RomeoAndJuliet quest, which has been so thoroughly removed that most of the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] involved in the quest no longer exist in the game. They even deleted letters about it from the old [[AllThereInTheManual Postbag from the Hedge]] archives.
* CaptainObvious: Most item examinations merely state "a(n) [insert item name here]".
* CaptureTheFlag: Castle Wars. Also available as part of the Clan Citadel's battlefield editor.
* CassandraTruth: The terrified Prison Pete rambles about some evil cat that appears out of nowhere and kidnaps people to a room with alive balloon animals with keys in them.
* CastFromHitPoints: The Lunar spell Energy Transfer, which restores a friend's adrenaline at the cost of your HitPoints. There's also a set of EmpathicHealer spells.
* CatchingSomeZs: A side-effect of a dream spell.
* CensoredForComedy: Though changes of late have made this more of a ScunthorpeProblem, since definite "cuss words" are permitted more often, but certain others are not. (Example: "Phone") Of course, this may have been resolved, also.
* CerebusSyndrome: The game has increasingly been said to exhibit this as Jagex has moved away from LighterAndSofter elements like the penguins' quest line and the wacky random events in favour of DarkerAndEdgier quest lines and [[CerebusRetcon remakes of or sequels to existing quests]]. This has proceeded to such an extent that "Bringing Home the Bacon" was specifically advertised by Jagex as being conceived as a more comedic quest -- and even ''it'' had the player aiding a character in all-but-explicitly [[ComedicSociopathy committing murder]] and [[FedToPigs concealing the evidence]].
* CessationOfExistence: Runescape's actual afterlife is [[OffScreenAfterlife vague but existent]], however this is implied to be the ''[[FateWorseThanDeath eventual]]'' fate of those whose souls are devoured by the Spirit Beast or Amascut, Goddess of Destruction. Fortunately, the former has been forced into the physical world where it can no longer do this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the quest revolving around it had you planning to ''destroy it'', as it had been feeding on the energy of the spirits of the deceased for ''years'' in order to build up enough power to claw its way into the physical world. That said, it wasn't a complete failure, because who knows how powerful it would have been if it had made its way over unhindered with ''all'' of the power it had consumed.]]
* ChainedToARailway: Zanik in Another Slice of H.A.M.. [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste Done intentionally]] to complete Sigmund's persona as a DastardlyWhiplash.
* ChainOfDeals: [[BlatantLies One Small Favour]], and a shorter version in The Fremmenik Trials.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In early quests and lore, Saradomin had a much more pleasant characterization and Zamorak and his followers were uniformly evil, effectively being the in-game equivalents to [[Literature/TheBible God and Satan]] respectively. In recent times, Jagex has put forward a ''lot'' of quests and lore that show Saradomin and his followers in a negative light, while [[RootingForTheEmpire playing up the positive aspects of Zamorak and his philosophies]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: With enough skill in combat, you can [[ArmorIsUseless punch through armor with your fists]], kill people unarmed, [[BarehandedBladeBlock and block weapons with your bare hands]]. [[UpToEleven And let's not get started with the Evolution of Combat]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The [[spoiler:clock]] in "One Piercing Note" becomes important at the end.
** There's a particularly insane one in "Dragon Slayer" (released in 2001). Melzar the Mad's notes mention a dream he had about the "great Cabbage of Jas." This was, in fact, the very first hint at the game's MythArc, which paid off ''almost exactly ten '''years''' later'' in "Ritual of the Mahjarrat," and isn't done yet. The Oracle of Ice Mountain, released at the same time as the Quest, also mentions something about Jas and several other things that wouldn't really show up in the game for years to come.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** Baron von Hattenkrapper, whom you first met as [[spoiler:the seagull you fired out of a makeshift bellows]] in "Rocking Out", later becomes a significant character in the sequel, "A Clockwork Syringe", when he [[spoiler:teams up with you to destroy the barrelchest army by air-dropping cannonballs on them]].
** Denath is first seen summoning Delrith along with a few other dark wizards in ''Demon Slayer''. In ''Shadow Of The Storm'', he's revealed to be [[spoiler:Agrith-Naar, a demon roughly five times as powerful as Delrith was, easily 100 times more powerful when the player helped dismiss him back to his home dimension]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Usually enforced in quests where something in a former quest is something you will need to know how to do. Having the skill levels required before a quest is released may also count.
* TheChosenOne: Zanik, a cave goblin chosen by the gods for an unknown purpose. [[spoiler:She was chosen to become the Avatar of Bandos; essentially, a slave-general with no free will]].
* ChurchMilitant:
** Used to peaceful Saradominist priests and monks? Try visiting the God Wars Dungeon, where those priests are armed to the teeth.
** The Temple Knights, who are CombatPragmatist Knights with great magic knick-knacks, a huge information network and no qualms about doing whatever they think is necessary. Be glad they're on your side.
** The Missionary from Player Owned Ports ''tries'' to invoke this image, but his personality and approach to gaining followers in the East ends up backfiring when Zamorakians exploit his bad first impression.
* CirclingBirdies: Used when anyone is stunned.
* CityGuards: Which don't have a very long lifespan.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Runecrafting altars (or at least the Astral one) were created by making dolmens out of Rune Essence, and then by using a lot of focus from a lot of people, convincing ''the stone'' that it was something that it was not.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Aside from combat skill levels, the attack and defense bonuses given by weapons and armor are a major factor in how well a player fares in combat. Some complete sets of armor also give additional increases to attack or defense alongside the normal bonuses.
* CluckingFunny: A random event had you being attacked by the greatest SuperVillain in all of Runescape ... the [[FeatheredFiend Evil Chicken]]. They [[LargeHam milked him for all he was worth]] too, with emotes like "Buk, buk, buk, [[EvilLaugh BWHAHAHAHA!]]" and the like.
* CobwebJungle: {{Enforced}} in the 2009 Halloween event. The rules of Halloween say that the Grim Reaper ''has'' to have cobwebs in his house, so it's the PlayerCharacter's job to negotiate with the Spider Queen (who lives in her own gigantic, over-the-top maze of cobwebs) to decorate Grim's mansion properly.
* CognizantLimbs:
** [[GiantSquid The Swamp Creature]] encountered during the Temple Trekking minigame is this. Poisoning one part effects all its limbs; however, you need to kill all 4 limbs and the head to continue.
** Tolna is the quest boss of A Soul's Bane, who has 3 heads. Poisoning any of his heads poisons the rest; killing all 3 of them transforms him back to normal.
** [[MagmaMan Har'Aken]], the final boss of the Fight Kiln, is submerged in magma and must have its tentacles damaged until it raises its head, giving you an opportunity to strike it before submerging again.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Player-owned port crew members are color-coded based on their stats. Blue clothes mean high seafaring; green, high morale; red, high combat.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Seen in minigames like Trouble Brewing, Castle Wars, Soul Wars, and so on. Red team and blue team are the standard (to correspond with Zamorak and Saradomin), although the Great Orb Project uses yellow and green instead.
* ColorCodedStones: There are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].
* ColossusClimb: Involved in the boss fight against Vorago. Players need to climb onto him to retrieve the pieces of the Maul of Omens, and the final blow is struck by leaping up to his head and embedding it in his face.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Sufficiently advanced players have abilities that include, but are not limited to: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, super stamina, [[MadeOfIron super endurance]], control over [[BlowYouAway air]], [[MakingASplash water]], [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], [[BloodMagic blood]], [[CastingAShadow shadow]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], {{telepathy}}, [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], MassTeleportation, ResurrectiveImmortality, ImprobableAimingSkills, GreenThumb, and more.
* ComedicSociopathy: The player character is an expert.
* CommonplaceRare:
** An ordinary jug of wine is worth a small handful of gold if you're lucky. A ''half-full'' jug of wine is worth many ''millions'' of gp. This is because the ability to drink half a jug of wine was removed and wine jugs are now gulped down in one sip, so half-full wine jugs are no longer obtainable. Those that remain have become valuable collector's items.
** Partyhats are some of the most expensive items in the game. They're little crown-shaped hats made out of paper.
** Easter Eggs and Pumpkins are worth millions, and are still edible.
* ContinuingIsPainful:
** Dying makes you drop your items. Mitigated slightly with gravestones, so you only have to dash madly to where you died to get your stuff back.
** In Daemonheim, each death carries a large xp penalty.
* ControlRoomPuzzle
* ConvectionSchmonvection: But actually falling into lava doesn't do much damage, either. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[HandWave Handwaved]] by a dwarf miner when questioned about it, in [[EternalEngine a huge lava reactor where you have to mine away cooled lava]]--
-->'''Lava Flow Miner Dwarf''': Logically, convection should make the air in this chamber hotter than an oven, and we'd all roast alive. But for some reason that doesn't happen!
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Traditional methods of torture aren't working on the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie pirate]] [[LosingYourHead decapitated head]] in "A Clockwork Syringe". It's time to bust out the dreaded Twiblik Night Special. After much ceremony, you open the box and reveal...[[spoiler:wigs, make-up, and women's clothing. O...kay?]] After being mercilessly [[spoiler:dressed up in wigs, eye shadow, and lipstick]], the distressed zombie finally tells you the location of the villains' secret island hideout.
* CoolChair: Thrones in Construction, such as skeleton thrones and demonic thrones.
* CoolHelmet: The Helm of Neitiznot and The Relic Helm, just to name a few.
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: The Rogue's Den maze had a section like this. There's also one in the "Icthlarin's Little Helper" quest.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: {{Subverted}} in "King of the Dwarves". The Consortium is accused of caring more about profits than the lives of their employees after [[spoiler:several miners die in a collapse while rescue workers are instructed to repair the equipment]]. But it turns out, as the frustrated Consortium members later explain to you, [[spoiler:if the equipment hadn't been repaired swiftly, it would have caused repercussions in the entire city's power supply, leading to even greater casualties]], and the Consortium was only [[spoiler:trying to control the greater damages]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: RuneScape sure seems to be shaping up into one of these, especially after the revelations in "Fate of the Gods". [[spoiler:In short, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s known as the Elder Gods have a Cradle of their young on Gielinor, and whenever it starts to hatch it could easily invoke an ApocalypseHow to turn Gielinor into a DeathWorld much like Freneskae]]. To make matters worse, [[spoiler:the goddess Tuska, a [[GodIsDumb mindless]] and NighInvulnerable force of destruction, will soon be on her way to wreck Gielinor in much the same manner as she and her {{Mooks}}, the Airut, did to Guthix's homeworld of Naragun]]. On top of all that, the returned gods are still using Gielinor as a battleground to obtain the [[MacGuffin Stone of Jas]], the merest usage of which brings down the UnstoppableRage of the borderline-godly Dragonkin on the user and anyone else unfortunate enough to be nearby.
* CowardlyLion: Cyrisus, a fellow adventurer the player meets in Dream Mentor. He has maxed combat stats, despite being terribly afraid of fighting. He achieved his maxed stats by fighting nothing but 300 chickens a day for 30 years.
* CrazyPrepared: If you read the quest guide for "Love Story" and bring all of the required items needed to avoid banking in between parts, the Wise Old Man will note how it was [[LampshadeHanging rather convenient]] you had all the necessary items on you at hand the moment you two needed to create a device for that part of the quest.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The obsidian armour unlocked after the Brink of Extinction quest. It has awesome stats, and reduces damage from creatures in the [=TzHaar=] area. But if you use it anywhere else, you take triple damage.
* CriticalExistenceFailure
* CriticalFailure: There's usually some chance of horribly failing something; for example, you could formerly lose the head of your hatchet or pickaxe by apparently swinging it too hard ...and then losing the valuable head and having to buy it back from someone[[note]]This was a random event that has now been removed[[/note]]. You can also have some pretty silly accidents in Daemonheim:
--> "You have a hilarious accident with the hammer and chisel, destroying the block in the process."
* CrystalDragonJesus: Saradomin -- stained glass, monks, even church organs.
* CrystalPrison: The goal of the "Merlin's Crystal" quest is to rescue {{Merlin}}, who has been [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091029205221/runescape/images/thumb/a/a8/Merlintrapped.png/180px-Merlintrapped.png trapped inside a crystal]] by [[ArthurianLegend Morgan le Faye]].
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Crystal saws, seeds, and bows. [[OurElvesAreBetter Made by elves, of course.]] And an enormous WALL around the (currently inaccessible) elven capital.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Guthix is implied to have [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome curb stomped all other gods]] at the end of the God Wars. Actually, this act ended the God Wars.
** [[spoiler:Lucien versus Hazelmere, Turael, Duradel, Mazchna, Ghommal, Sloane, Harrallak, and Cyrisus]] in "While Guthix Sleeps".
** Properly trained and equipped players can slaughter anything in their path, which can be a little awkward when you accidentally click on a man and crush his torso in one blow in the middle of a city.
** Some players leave very easy quests very late into their game career, ends up having battles like lvl34 Count Draynor vs Lvl128 N00b Destroyer.
** The above becomes very noticable in the [[BossRush Dominion Tower]], where you are given random selections of bosses to fight. If you're prepared to fight [[spoiler:Nomad]], but instead get the aformentioned Draynor, it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be...
* CutsceneDrop
* CutsceneIncompetence: In the updated Wolf Whistle quest, your character runs from a group of trolls carrying a man hostage, and then goes on a FetchQuest to turn the tables. If this quest is done when you are high level, [[CowardlyLion running away makes your character look like]] [[DontExplainTheJoke the new Cyrisus]].
* CuttingTheKnot: In "A Clockwork Syringe", you use all the stealth and cunning available to you to quietly sabotage the barrelchest factory by [[spoiler:smashing equipment with a [[AnchorsAway giant anchor]]]].
* CuttingOffTheBranches: The "Temple of Ikov" quest has you choose whether to protect the Staff of Armadyl or steal it and give it to the bad guy. When the developers made the sequel quest, "While Guthix Sleeps", they realized the plot sort of hinged on the bad guy having the staff, so everyone who chose to protect it received a note from the guardians that it had been stolen by somebody else.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Implied with the Black Knights (or, as they are formally known, the Kinshra), who have been known to perform nefarious deeds, but are also explained to be [[WrittenByTheWinners another political faction]]. Ditto with Red Wizards, who are claimed to be responsible of burning the First Wizard's Tower, even though other factions are just as much to blame.
* DarkerAndEdgier: As time went on, quests and storylines started getting heavier, with characters KilledOffForReal and such. 'One Piercing Note', for example, is a murder mystery where you end up seeing corpses covered in blood, corpses heavily mutilated and maimed, [[spoiler:you end up helplessly watching a woman die]], and the whole thing perpetrated by [[spoiler:an insane woman who would never have done it had she realised what she was doing.]]
** This has continued to the point that "Bringing Home The Bacon" was [[WordOfGod explicitly advertised as a comedic quest]] prior to its release, and even ''it'' was full of BlackComedy as the player [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption does the bidding]] of a full-on VillainProtagonist.
* DarkReprise:
** Shadow Forger Ihlakhizan's theme is that to Born To Do This track.
** Temple of Tribes to the standard Goblin Village theme.
** Creature Cruelty to Magic Magic Magic.
** Demise of the Dorgeshuun to Dorgeshuun City.
** Barb Wire to Barbarianism.
** Return of Lucien to Temple Desecrated.
** Slug Poison to A New Menace, which is itself a dark reprise of The Mollusc Menace.
** Fight of the Dwarves to Land of the Dwarves.
* [[DealWithTheDevil Deal with the Mahjarrat]]: What caused the [[FateWorseThanDeath current state]] of the Barrow Brothers.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In the Pest Control Minigame, death merely results in the player respawning at the entry lander of the Minigame, restoring their Life Points, Adrenaline, and Prayer at the mere cost of a bit of running to get back where they were. Similar things will happen if you die in any other "Safe" minigame, in which you keep all items on death.
* DeathTrap:
** You get caught in one at the end of "Path of Glouphrie". Thick, sticky tar pours out onto the floor to stop you from moving. An enchantment prevents you from teleporting. Then comes the poison gas. And of course, [[FromBadToWorse at this point, the magical laser attacks start firing at you]].
** Most of the Brimhaven Agility Arena has these, including spikes, rocks, poison darts and spinning blades of doom.
* DeathWorld:
** Ape Atoll, if you're a human. The monkeys are ''not'' friendly. If you stick to the tall grass, you can hide from their archers, but that won't save you from the poisonous snakes, spiders, and scorpions lurking in the weeds. You can create a talisman that will turn you into a monkey, but only if you travel through a lengthy, [[SpaceFillingPath spiraling]] cave full of zombies, traps (also poisonous), and falling rocks. It's not a good vacation spot.
** The abyssal plane, where everything is trying to kill you or impede you.
** The Gorak's Plane, which is filled with many (of the same) powerful creatures who just want to kill you.
** Also implied in the Mahjarrat's home plane, Freneskae.
* DegradedBoss: [=TokTz=]-Ket-Dill has it's own eponymous quest; however, you fight a number of them throughout The Elder Kiln as well.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin / AGodAmI:
** Zamorak used to be a Mahjarrat, but gained godly power when he betrayed and defeated Zaros prior to the God Wars.
** Guthix was a mortal Naragi, but gained his power when he slew the god Skargaroth, who had fallen on Guthix's home in the middle of a battle and killed his daughter Aagi.
** Saradomin was formerly human, but the means of his ascension to godhood is unknown.
** Except for [[spoiler:Zaros and Seren]], and the Elder Gods such as Jas and Ful, ''all'' gods were mortal at one point. They are technically just mortals with absurd amounts of power.
* DemBones: There are plenty of animated skeletons in the game.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** From Elemental Workshop III: Body body.
** When you leap onto a stepping stone near Tears of Guthix: "You leap across with a mighty leap!"
* DespairEventHorizon: After Guthix's death, his followers go in different directions. Some are encouraged and form the [[{{Naytheist}} Godless faction]] as per his last request, and some merely continue to follow his teachings the way they had been. But others fall into despair and lose their path, seeking to recreate him.
* DesperationAttack: Dharok the Wretched's armor set effect. Many a player has died with a sudden 700 damage to the face thanks to this.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Aubury, the purveyor of the magic shop in Varrock, hands out freebies of the basic Wind and Mind Runes. The obvious scam is to take the freebies and sell them back to his shop, right?
-->The shopkeeper thanks you for returning the samples.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** In "The Chosen Commander", Zanik and the PlayerCharacter punch out [[spoiler:The avatar of Bandos, god of war, although it helps that you have to disrupt its link with Bandos to be able to actually kill it. It has since been confirmed this boss is on the lowest tier of Godhood]].
** Especially appropriate in "Salt in the Wound", where the mind-controlling horror you defeat was directly inspired by the Creator/HPLovecraft. The [[spoiler:Slug Queen is killed by an average (although exceptionally skilled) woman by [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cutting a huge statue]] and having it fall on said queen.]]
* DisappearedDad: Bolrie, Golrana's father, in The Prisoner of Glouphrie. He's been locked up in a cell in Arposandra for centuries.
* DisconnectedSideArea: The island off the coast of Catherby. It looks like it's so close to the coastline that you could easily just swim to it, or even wade through the water to it. To get there, you have to travel across some mountains and then through a long and difficult underground dungeon. You can get back to Catherby with a [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Crossbow]] -- but you can't get to the island from Catherby.
* DiscontinuityNod: The Romeo & Juliet quest no longer exists, but you can still ask the Apothecary to make the potion used to put Juliet in a coma.
* DivineRanks: There are seven "tiers" of godhood, which approximately measure how much raw power each god has in comparison with the others.
* DogStereotype
* DoppelgangerAttack: Combined with Doppelganger Spin in the fight against Nomad. Each of his clones is just as dangerous as the original...
* DoppelgangerSpin: ...but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
* DownerEnding:
** One Piercing Note. [[spoiler:Anna had gone completely insane, believing herself to be guided by St. Elspeth. The first victim was someone else, mistaken for Anna due to having her face slashed off and being dressed in her robes. In the end, three innocent lives have been lost to her madness, and if you decide to spare her, she throws herself off the tower anyway, believing the Icyene are coming to take her to Saradomin, leaving behind an Abbey on the verge of collapsing.]]
** The Tzhaar series ending starts off [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], but turns into a downer if you take the time to do some talking afterwords. [[spoiler:After finally finding the cause of why the Tzhaar are being born as the weaker, simple minded Ga'al and putting a stop to Tokhaar-hok's plans, you're forced to say goodbye to your friend Ga'al-Xox, as he [[DrivenToSuicide can no longer live with the pain of knowing how it feels to be trapped in tokkul.]] You get to watch a surprisingly poignant cutscene, followed by a ceremony celebrating your triumph over the Tokhaar, and then the quest ends, and you're left to believe that you've saved the Tzhaar. However, if you take the time to go back to Tokhaar-hok, he'll begin to tell you his side of the story, and it isn't a pleasant one. The Tzhaar gradually lose the memories of their past with each generation, and, seeing this, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Tokhaar-hok went out of his way to try to draw their attention to this problem]], and possibly get them to return to the sacred lava as they were destined to in order to save them. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a certain adventurer came along and choose to aid the stubborn Tzhaar instead, foiling his plans.]] Tokhaar-hok flat out tells you that the Tzhaar are now destined for extinction, and that unless they willingly choose to be absorbed into the sacred lava, there isn't much of anything anyone can do about it.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: An alternate home teleport animation available in Solomon's General Store has a fiery pit open beneath the player so that hands can grab them by the ankles and drag them down.
* TheDragon: The leader of the Kal'Gerion demons, Kal'Ger the Warmonger, is this to the Mahjarrat Bilrach.
* DragonHoard: Many dragon lairs are littered with piles of gold.
* DramaticWind: While holding a two-handed weapon.
* DressedToPlunder: All of the stock traits appear on various pirate [=NPCs=]: bandanas, tricorner hats, eyepatches, a hook-hand, a captain's hat with a skull-and-crossbones on it, etc. Most of them are also available as [[VirtualPaperDoll wearable equipment]], and there is a parrot...well, a zombie parrot ("ex-[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus ex-parrot]]") available as a pet as a reward for a pirate-related quest.
* DrivenToSuicide: In one possible ending for the One Piercing Note quest, [[spoiler:Anna throws herself off of the abbey's clock tower to her death. That is, if she isn't kicked off by the player first]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** [[spoiler:Guthix's death at the end of ''The World Wakes'' at the hands of Sliske, a mortal Mahjarrat who just happened to have acquired the Staff of Armadyl (this after it was shattered by the Dragonkin).]]
** [[spoiler:Akrisae's death and enslavement as a Barrows Brother, also via Sliske. Doubles as a SenselessSacrifice in protecting the PlayerCharacter, who ''cannot truly die until destiny says so''.]]
* DropTheHammer: In addition of regular metal warhammers and mauls, there's the Torag's Hammer and the Maul of Omens.
* DualWielding: Most one-handed weapons have offhand equivalents that allow two weapons to be wielded at once. Doing so allows the player to attack with both weapons for increased damage, even mixing and matching combat styles (e.g. dual-wielding a sword and a crossbow), and enables special dual-wield abilities like Havoc and Frenzy.
* DudeWheresMyRespect?: Averted and played straight at different points. Average citizens never say thanks for averting the latest doom on the land, though. This was the Wise Old Man's motivation to ransack the Draynor Bank of its money, snatch up a Blue Partyhat, and attempt an assault on the Wizard's tower.
* DummiedOut: When the ability to poison weapons was removed from the game, poisoned weapons automatically had their poison removed, and weapon poison was turned into a new drinkable potion that applies poison to your attacks for a limited time. However, the old items weren't removed entirely--for some time after the update, poisoned arrows could still be received as drops from certain enemies, and baby trolls named after poisoned items retained the (p) tag at the end of their names.
* DumpStat:
** Agility used to be way more useful, before faster run-recharge rates and [[PortalNetwork the Lodestone Network]] diminished its utility significantly.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]", left at Level 1 while other stats are raised towards the cap. This has been largely thwarted in the post-[=EoC=] era as armour and shields make a huge difference in both defensive capabilities and HitPoint totals, though the developers have capitulated somewhat to pure-enthusiasts in that the effectiveness of armour will be scaled back with the release of Legacy Mode.
* DungeonBypass: The Tarn's Lair dungeon is a convoluted maze filled with traps and aggressive zombies. If you solve the maze and fight your way to the end, you can challenge Tarn for XP and a power-up to your Salve Amulet to make it more effective against the undead. Defeating Tarn allows you to fight his pet Terror Dogs in the final chamber. Of course, you'd have to go through the whole maze again to get there, so, as a convenience to Terror Dog slayers, Jagex released the Slayer Ring, which can teleport you back to the final chamber. However, an unintended consequence of this teleport was that it worked even for players ''who had never completed the maze in the first place'', thus allowing savvy players to simply buy or make a Slayer Ring and waltz straight into the boss chamber, bypassing the entire dungeon.
* DyingCurse: Zaros, in the events described in the Ghostly Robes miniquest.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Runescape Classic'' has many differences. See the trope page for a detailed explanation.
* EasterBunny: Played around with. In the 2009 Easter event, it turned out that the Easter Bunny was actually a rabbit [[ShapedLikeItself wearing a rabbit costume]].
* EldritchAbomination: Many. The Chaos Elemental is a textbook example. Other good examples are the monsters from Dream Mentor, the Muspah [[spoiler:(which are myths made real)]], the Spirit/Corporeal Beast, and the Stalkers (one of them fires an eyeball twice the size of you at your party as an attack).
* EldritchLocation:
** Daemonheim, an immense, random dungeon complex that came into existence out of nowhere, is filled with horrific extradimensional monsters (see EldritchAbomination), and has a 'taint' within that could irreparably damage the world should it escape.
** The Abyssal plane, where everything seems to have eyes or tentacles, or both.
** The Runespan, a maze of [[FloatingContinent floating islands]] filled with nodes and creatures of elemental energy.
* ElementalEmbodiment: There are plenty of elementals in Runescape: the regular fire/water/air/earth found in the Elemental Workshop, ice elementals found in Daemonheim and Chaos Elemental, a high-level boss in the Wilderness. The strongest elemental is however Balance Elemental, a quest boss fought during While Guthix Sleeps.
* ElementalCrafting
* EmoteAnimation
* EndlessGame
* EnemyScan: The monster examine spell.
* EnemySummoner: Quite a few monsters, such as Nechryael.
* EnergyBeings: Light Creatures and Killerwatts.
* EnergyBow: The Crystal and Zaryte bows.
* EnthrallingSiren: The AntiVillain of "Song from the Depths" is a Siren who sings the eponymous song.
* EpicFail: General Viggora wanted to prove to the world that humans could achieve greatness. So he built a massive fortress. That only caused the other races to nickname it "Viggora's Folly", so he kept adding on to it. Eventually, it sank into the swamp he built it on, which convinced him that the nickname was, in fact, accurate.
* EpicFlail:
** Verac's flail is a powerful weapon used by one of the Barrows Brothers. It has an effect when the armour is worn with it that allows it to occasionally ignore enemy defences.
** The Ivandis flail is basically an Ivandis rod with a silver sickle attached with a chain. It is completely impractical and unwieldy, but until you get [[KryptoniteFactor blisterwood weapons]], it's the only thing that can hurt Vyrewatch and Vyrelords.
** One of the signature heroes, The Raptor, wields a massive, heavy, spiked flail.
* EscortMission:
** The Temple Trekking/Burgh de Rott Ramble minigame involves protecting refugees on their journey from Burgh de Rott north to the safety of the temple at Paterdomus and escorting mercenary adventurers on the opposite route to battle evil. Should be noted as being different than other escort missions, as your companions can level up, some of them could probably do the trek themselves with sufficient leveling.
** Blood Runs Deep has the PlayerCharacter escort King Vargas through the Waterbirth Island dungeon. He's wounded and moves slower than walking speed, and the dungeon is filled with high-level aggressive monsters that pummel you with all attack styles, although [[FridgeLogic no explanation is given as to why you can't just teleport out]].
** {{Inverted}} in Within the Light, where Arianwyn escorts ''you'' through the Temple of Light, killing any shadows that attack you.
** PlayedForDrama with Zanik, according to [[http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/postbag_45 this]] [[AllThereInTheManual Postbag from the Hedge]].
---> ''"It's like... all the time we were adventuring together, it was all about you, you know? You were the hero, and I was the sidekick. I kept getting into trouble and you kept rescuing me. Even at the end, when we [[spoiler:defeated Bandos]], I got knocked out and you finished it alone. And in a way, I kind of resent that. I wish I'd done it myself. I don't want my whole life to be like that. I want to prove to myself that I can be an adventurer in my own right, be a hero, not just someone's sidekick, not even yours."''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the Cave Goblin quest series; Sigmund says ScrewThisImOuttaHere to his boss, Johannes, essentially because Johannes has ''too many'' standards.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: The standard bow emote for girl players. Males can also use it by right clicking.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Someone at Jagex definitely likes penguins too much.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: {{Ninja}} monkeys, even.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypus: Pet platypode, even.
* EvilChef: The Culinaromancer from "Recipe for Disaster".
* EvilerThanThou: After seeing the horrible acts the demon Agrith-Naar is capable of in Shadow of the Storm, Evil Dave decides that it's too evil even for him.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Godless faction have shown up at both god battles in the Sixth Age, and have taken enthusiastically to describing the warfare as this.
* EvolvingWeapon:
** The Flail of Ivandis and weapons crafted from the branches of the Blisterwood tree gain power as you cremate Vyrewatch corpses.
** Silverlight: originally an iron sword blessed by Guthix, later becoming Darklight after imbibing the blood of the defeated Agrith Naar in "Shadow of the Storm".
** Excalibur and Ancient Staff can be upgraded to Enhanced versions with the completion of Hard Seers' Village Tasks and Elite Desert Tasks, respectively.
** Multiple weapons from the Squeal of Fortune, such as Starfury weapons and Shark Fists can be upgraded to a higher tier once you have the levels to wield the upgraded version.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** If you hold you mouse cursor over the achievements at the end of a Dungeoneering run, a small tooltip pops up, telling you what you need to do in order to get that achievement. The tooltip for "Most Deaths" reads, "Exactly what it says on the tin."
** One quest's MacGuffin is the "Idol of Many Heads". Examining the idol gives this text: "An idol. It has many heads."
** A lot of examine texts end up as this.
* ExactWords: In "Thok Your Block Off", Thok decides to spare "Boney Face" and mentions he'd kill him if he saw him again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Boney, that included going into a dead-end room and coming out again to see him walking about]].
* ExperienceBooster: Lots. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Experience#Boosts The Runescape Wiki has a list]].
* {{Expy}}: Jagex says Zanik is essentially [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Starbuck]], and her voice is that of ReginaSpektor.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Trolls, who are usually even named after the first thing they tried to eat (or the sound that thing makes, in case they don't know what it is). Can be amusing as 'My Arm' to as foreboding as 'Cliff'.
* TheExtremistWasRight: During the [=TzHaar=] quest series, you find out that the reason the Ga'al are being born instead of proper [=TzHaar=] is because the [[spoiler:[=TokHaar=] have cut off the flow of sacred lava to the city, thus dooming the [=TzHaar=] to extinction]]. What a bunch of jerks, right? Well, it turns out [[spoiler:this would have happened anyway. When [=TzHaar=] are born, they don't inherit ''all'' of their memories, as you discover during the quest. What the [=TokHaar=] did was speed up the process of extinction in the [=TzHaar=], thus spurring them to take action. The [=TokHaar=] also wanted their former bretheren to return to the Elder Kiln as [=TokHaar=]]].
* EyeOfNewt
* FaceDesignShield: Dragonfire shield.
* FakeDifficulty: Mourning's End Part II is considered one of the hardest quests, involving a huge LightAndMirrorsPuzzle and multiple floors, and it's full of hard-hitting monsters. But even with all of this, someone at Jagex apparently thought that it still wasn't enough and decided to throw in an agility obstacle that is entirely based on luck with a high failure rate. Every time it's failed, the player falls down to the lower level and takes even more damage.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Dungeoneering's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Hard Mode"]] setting, which is a reward for completing the Daemonheim Elite task set. To wit:
*** Soloing a Dungeon automatically causes the first floor spawned to be large-sized. All subsequent floors are forced to medium-sized.
*** All doors, whether they are puzzle doors or skill doors, act as [[BeefGate Guardian Doors]].
*** All monster spawns do so at maximum possible combat level.
*** All skill doors have a base level requirement of 90. Out of a possible 99. [[note]]It is possible to boost skills to 99 and beyond via potions and portents of passage...[[/note]]
*** Teleportation out of the boss fight is disabled.
*** Food is harder to come by.
* FallingInLoveMontage: "Love Story" has one between Zenevivia and the Wise Old Man. Then they proceed to invade the Wizard's Tower and fail.
* FanFiction: The [[http://runescapefanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Runescape Fanfiction Wiki]], consisting of mostly {{Crossover}}s. Runescape's own Stories forum also contains a lot of fanfiction.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The [=TzHaar=], who divide into four castes: one consists of hunters, one of guardians, one of scholars and mages, and one of workers and architects.
* FantasticRacism: H.A.M., oh so much. Humans are also considered little more than food to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyres]].
* FantasticSlurs: The Bandosian epithet for Armadylians is "Bird Lover".
* FantasyPantheon: Saradomin, Guthix, and Zamorak are the main gods. Armadyl, Bandos, and Zaros are more obscure. There's also the Menaphite pantheon of desert gods, the elves' crystal nature god Seren, and the monkeys of Ape Atoll worship a monkey god named Marimbo. As a joke, there's also a God of Cabbage named Brassica Prime.
* FateWorseThanDeath:
** Summer and her family, who were busy having their souls devoured by the Spirit Beast up until the point the player killed it.
** [[spoiler:Arrav]], who is now Zemouregal's undead slave and who has almost no control over himself, forced to slaughter the people he once protected. [[spoiler:Eventually does get some peace, but his wounds are too severe and when he has no more magic to sustain him, he dies.]]
** Becoming a Barrows Brother is also rather unpleasant, the originals becoming deathly ill, then dying, then having their spirits wrenched from wherever they were to fight again for their new master. Now you just get hit with an incorporeal maroon skull and die in horrible agony.
* FeatheredFiend: The Evil Chicken. There's also a giant Roc that attacks you in the "My Arm's Big Adventure" quest.
* FeatherFingers: Notably averted with the penguins. Ping and Pong are looking for musical instruments, but since they have no fingers, they can't play most instruments--you have to find them bongos and cowbells.
* FetchQuest: Occasionally PlayedWith:
** {{Exaggerated}} in [[ChainOfDeals One Small Favour]], in which you are asked something of the typical fetch quest, to get logs from a forester... who then asks you to get his axe sharpened at an axe store, and the owner asks you to ask a favor from a witch, who in turn asks something else of you, and so on. The quest ends up having you traverse almost the entire continent that the game takes place on.
** {{Lampshaded}} in Rune Mechanics, where the characters make disdainful remarks about fetch quests.
* FifteenPuzzle: Actually a twenty-four puzzle.
* FinalBossNewDimension: Several:
** The Culinaromancer can only be fought in his private dimension.
** The Spirit Beast in "Summer's End" is fought in its Spirit Realm.
** "Dream Mentor" has you enter the dream world to battle Cyrisus's inner demons.
* {{Fireballs}}: Several versions, ranging from little fire spits to huge inferno blasts.
** Dragons, at least the higher levelled ones, use these to attack the player on occasion. [[HesDeadJim It doesn't typically end well if said player isn't using some form of protection from them]].
** Demons, when they respawn, have a [[BuffySpeak fiery-explosion-y]] animation announcing their return from the dead.
** Also, the various fire-based Magic spells available to the player for combat take on this form.
* FirewoodResources
* FisherKing: The Fisher King from "Holy Grail".
* FishingForSole: Boots and gloves can be caught while fishing with a big net.
* FishingMinigame: In addition to fishing as a skill, there's also the Fish Flingers minigame, where you use trial and error to determine the correct hook, bait, and weight to catch different types of fish.
* FlunkyBoss: Quite a few instances:
** [=TzTok-Jad=] summons four healers when he reaches half his life. If you don't kill or distract the healers, they [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin heal him]].
** The pest queen from "The Void Stares Back" summons healers to restore her health and defilers to attack you and your NPC allies.
** Eruni from "Do No Evil" summons demons to attack you and draws on their power to make herself invincible.
** In Dungeoneering, [[AnIcePerson Astea Frostweb]] summons ice spiders. [[BadassBookworm Lexicus Runewright]] summons animated books.
** Bork summons Ork Legions.
* FloatingContinent: Clan Citadels. Avalani mentions that they're "bastions of Armadylian power from an era long lost to us".
* FlyingBooks: Found in Daemonheim as minions of the wizard [[MeaningfulName Lexicus Runewright.]]
* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: In the Recruitment Drive quest.
* {{Freemium}}: Many skills, quests, and runes are only available to those who pay; actually, "many" would be the [[CaptainObvious understatement of the year]]. The free part of the game is probably less than 5% of the total game, and free players have severely limited options when it comes to training and bank space, and they get an update once in a blue moon. [[TropesAreNotBad On the upside]], Jagex is a lot better than most games. There's still a fair bit to do in the free game, and they've started doing a lot more free content than they used to. They also advertise free-to-play content as an entire free game, with the pay-to-play content as a [[ExpansionPack super expansion pack]].
* FrictionlessIce: "Myths of the White Lands" uses it for puzzles. It's also a stage hazard when fighting the Dungeoneering boss Plane-Freezer Lakhrahnaz and as a random room puzzle on Frozen floors.
* FriendlyWar: The king and queen of the neigboring island nations of Miscellania and Etceteria amuse themselves by constantly declaring war on each other. It's also a case of BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler:they eventually get married in "Blood Runs Deep"]].
* FunWithAcronyms: A few, including:
** The '''H'''umans '''A'''gainst '''M'''onsters association. (Their logo is a ham.)
** The Livid Vine, or "Lokar's Infernal Vine of Incredible Death"
** Ladies Of Lumbridge
** New Order Occult Bookists
* GameBreakingBug: Quite a few, although they're generally fixed within a day at most, and intentionally exploiting a bug usually earns you a permanent ban:
** One infamous bug allowed some players to kill other players outside of normal PvP zones. This led to the Falador Massacre, wherein hundreds of players were killed; many of them lost millions of coins' worth of items.
** When the Hand Cannon was first introduced, it was possible for multiple people to attack the same person in one-on-one PvP areas, resulting in instant death for that player.
** An update to the game engine made it possible to attack monsters without being attacked back, allowing lots of players to solo the Corporeal Beast (strongest monster in the game, had never been killed by a single person before up to that point) and other normally NintendoHard boss monsters.
** An update to the Dungeoneering skill briefly caused runecrafting to give 1,000 times as much experience as intended.
* GameOverMan: During the Halloween season, Death will make personal appearances to collect your soul whenever you die.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Often played straight.
* GargleBlaster: Anything labeled 'Rum'. Drinking it can have your character exclaim "My liver is melting!" and then [[NoodleIncident mysteriously wind up on Mos Le'Harmless]]. Normal 'Rum' just gets you a message in the game log stating "You try very hard not to die"
* GasMaskMooks: Mourners.
* GemstoneAssault: Crossbow bolts can be tipped with gems and then enchanted for varying special effects.
* GenderBender: The Makeover Mage magically changes his/her gender every minute or so. He/she will offer the same service to you for free. This gets lampshaded if you made the change between finishing "Throne of Miscellania" and starting "Royal Trouble."
* GenieInABottle: A random event. Seen also as a villain in the "Spirits of the Elid" quest.
* GeniusDitz: How much of each varies between quests, but overall this is how the PlayerCharacter is presented.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Jubbly" is British slang for "breast".
** During the quest Carnillean Rising, you tie up a teenage girl so an NPC can "rescue" her as part of his "quest." If you attempt to use a feather or abyssal whip on her while tied up, you get the message "Runescape isn't that sort of fantasy game."
* GetBackHereBoss: The giant mole. Fortunately, it has been altered to still target you after it burrows. This still doesn't make it simple to find, though.
* GetOnTheBoat: Want to visit Daemonheim? Take a boat from Al-Kharid or Taverley. Want to visit Karamja, the Void Knight Outpost, or Entrana? Take a boat from Port Sarim. (And to actually participate in the Void Knight activity you have to get on another boat.) Want to visit Braindeath Island, Dragontooth Island, or Mos Le'Harmless? Take a boat from Port Phasmatys. And so on.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Some of the boss fights are rather unexpected. For example, at the end of the "My Arm's Big Adventure" quest (where you have to teach agriculture to a troll), you're attacked out of nowhere by a giant roc who randomly happens to be nearby.
* GiantSpider: Several variations of giant spiders appear, the largest one being Kalgar in Underground Pass.
* GlobalCurrencyException: Tokkul in the Tz-haar caves, Trading sticks in Tai Bwo Wannai village, etc.
* GodMode: After [[spoiler:touching the Stone of Jas]] in "While Guthix Sleeps", all your stats are boosted to 255.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: It was once stated that depending on their domain, most of the gods gained strength from the prayers of their followers. This seems to have been {{Retcon}}ed with the revelation of the [[AncientArtifact Elder Artifacts]], which [[TouchedByVorlons bestow godhood on those who linger near them for long enough]].
* {{Golem}}: Clay golems, rock golems and golems made of rune essence called 'rune guardians' exist, but the knowledge to make clay and rock golems has been lost, while the ways of constructing Rune Guardians are rediscovered during the quest Rune Mechanics. There are also obsidian golem familiars and multiple types of golems that can be hired as crewmembers in Player-Owned Ports.
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Gilded armor is rune armor, but golden. You can also upgrade your dwarven multicannon to a golden version, which is functionally identical, but is definitely shinier.
** Averted due to an update, the golden multicannon now doubles its cannonball capacity.
* GottaKillEmAll:
** The "cute critters" in "The Eyes of Glouphrie". It turns out [[spoiler:they're secretly evil, and you have to find and kill them all]].
** A side quest involves killing many various creatures and getting their bones for an old man.
* GradualRegeneration: You have ordinary RegeneratingHealth (approximately 1 life points per 1000 max life points every six seconds). Additionaly, there are also items and prayers that can increase your health regeneration rate.
* [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Crossbow]]
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: [[spoiler:In one possible ending to the One Piercing Note quest, Anna jumps off of the abbey's clock tower, believing that she has been redeemed and can fly with the Icyene. Unsurprisingly, she dies.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: There's several, but by far the most prominent is the God Wars.
* GreenAesop: "Perils Of Ice Mountain"
* GreenEyedMonster: The ''Do No Evil'' boss Ayuni is a literal example. What this implies of [[spoiler:Amascut]] is unclear.
* GrimUpNorth: "The North" is referenced in several quests. Not to mention the Wilderness, formerly the most dangerous area in the game, and still pretty frightening. In the days when Runescape was ''entirely'' free, the instructions to reach the Wilderness were simply "go north".
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: This is acknowledged during a cut-scene in the "Garden of Tranquillity" Quest, where a "veteran" guard explains to a new recruit that the life expectancy for a Falador guard is about 30 seconds. Right on cue, a high-levelled "player" comes and slaughters both of them.
* GuideDangIt: In order to read a bookcase near the Fight Cauldron, players must find a Ga'al known as [=TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot=], which requires them to donate [=TokKul=] to a coffer outside the Fight Cauldron, and then use a Ring of Visibility on a Ring of Stone while wearing an uncharged Tokkul-Zo with a seemingly arbitrary amount of obsidian shards in their inventory[[note]]The current [=RuneDate=] (shown in the Player-Owned Ports logbook) divided by 10.[[/note]]. None of this is even hinted at in game, and he was only found after 5 months thanks to hints from a Jagex Moderator.
* GunsAkimbo: Achieved by dual-wielding two crossbows. Wielding ranged weapons in both hands enables the "Unload" ability, which can deal massive damage against an unwary opponent.
* GunsInChurch: Averted with Entrana, where weapons and armour are banned. Played straight everywhere else.
** The fixed device, which shoots dyed toads.
** There are explosive squirrels called Chinchompas.
** Salamanders that act as flamethrowers can be used, which use swamp tar mixed with herbs as fuel.
** The Oddball Aura lets your Dwarven Multicannon shoot things like beer, squid, and brains.
** During the Rocking Out quest, part of your plan to escape the island prison you get sent to involves firing a seagull from an accordion that you've improvised into a makeshift air cannon.
* AbsoluteCleavage: Magic robes like the batwing display this when a female avatar wears them. [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120724054552/runescape/images/f/fb/Batwing_robes_equipped_female.png]]
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Under several cities, such as Varrock, Ardougne and Draynor village.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: The character TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot accidentally renders himself invisible with a miscast spell. The player can ask him what runes are used for the spell, only for him to comment that he doesn't use runes because he doesn't have pockets in which to store them. The player then calls him out on the impossibility of using magic without runes, at which point Kot states 'No one told TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot that.'
** During a quest, an old man named Oziach sends you to kill the legendary dragon Elvarg in exchange for the secrets of smithing Rune Platebodies. The player is successful, and learns the secret, but later finds out in dialogue with a different character that Oziach never expected you to succeed - he just gave you what he thought was an impossible task so you would go away.
* AcidTripDimension: The Cosmic Plane where starflowers grow, accessible through fairy rings. It looks like [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101102061038/runescape/images/thumb/5/53/TheCosmicPlane.png/800px-TheCosmicPlane.png this.]]
* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Most endgame items are thousands of times more expensive than their lower-level counterparts. Rings are a good example: a 2.7% range critical bonus will cost you [[http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Archers%27_ring/viewitem.ws?obj=6733 around a million coins]]. And if you think that's tough, wait until you see the price tag on a [[http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Divine_spirit_shield/viewitem.ws?obj=13740 spirit shield]]. On the other hand, the game has a real living, breathing, player-run, capitalist economy... so it's the community which isn't letting go of those rare items for a low price. And it's the result of that combioned with the continual influx of additional coins and low-grade items at an exponentially faster rate than the high-grade equivalents, so over a decade of alarmingly rapid inflation has contributed.
* AddressingThePlayer
* AdventurersClub: The Quest guilds: Champions' Guild, Heroes' Guild, and Legends' Guild.
* AerithAndBob: [[TeamPet Bob the Jagex Cat]], Bob's evil twin [[spoiler:also named Bob]], and Bob of Bob's Fabulous Axes all share a game with people called Zemouregal, Azzanadra and Zaros, although weirder names like those tend to pop up more with non-humans. Player characters' names can also have this effect.
* AirGuitar: An emote.
* AlasPoorVillain: At the end of "Song from the Depths", [[spoiler:you find the Siren who's been causing the trouble...and she turns out to be trapped inside the belly of the Queen Black Dragon, subject to a powerful illusion that's making her believe she's back home on her island. When you break the illusion, she's horrified. She's killed shortly after, and the player character has a brief moment of mourning]].
* AlcoholHic: Found in the dialogue of many an inebriated character.
* AllDesertsHaveCacti: The Kharidian Desert is indeed full of cacti.
* AllInARow: There's an option to "Follow" another player. A group of players can follow each other in a chain, resulting in this.
* AllNaturalGemPolish: Notably {{averted}}. You can find gems while mining, and if you do, they have to be cut with a chisel using the Crafting skill before they can be added to jewelry. Some gems can even be destroyed accidentally when you try to cut them.
* AllSwordsAreTheSame: In ''Classic'', all melee weapons have the exact same fighting animation: you just bash your opponent with it and that's that. The modern game has a wider variety of stances for different types of weapon, but there are still a limited number of animations for slashing, stabbing, or bludgeoning -- the stabbing animations for a bronze dagger are the same as the ones for a pair of gardening secateurs.
* AllTrollsAreDifferent:
** They're violent and warlike by nature, with thick, rocklike skin and low intelligence, and they're named after the first thing they try to eat (or, if they don't know what it's called, the sound it made), which leads to some unusual names like "My Arm".
*** "Dad"
*** ''"Cliff"''
** Mountain Trolls are able to change their bodies to [[AdaptiveAbility adapt to their surroundings]]. In Troll Invasion, they've shown the ability to [[SummonMagic summon monsters]] and cast magic by [[CannibalismSuperpower consuming the flesh]] of Summoners (druids) and Mages, respectively.
** Other than the most common mountain trolls, there are aquatic varieties of troll that sports fins and gills, as well as extra vicious ice trolls with thick fur.
* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs appear both as a low-level enemy and as different summoning familiars.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: The [[spoiler:dragonkin]] to [[spoiler:Lucien]] in "Ritual of the Mahjarrat".
* AmnesiaLoop: A major plot point in the "Rise of the Red Axe" quest series. At the end of "Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf"[[note]]The name of the quest is a StealthPun[[/note]], [[spoiler:the PlayerCharacter stumbles upon the secret base of the Red Axe and learns about their plan to create an army of Chaos Dwarves to invade Keldagrim]]. However, thanks to [[spoiler:an ogre shaman working for the Red Axe]], instead of [[spoiler:making it back to Keldagrim to warn the Consortium]], [[spoiler:all your memory of the event is scrambled and you're left with an irresistible craving for beer and kebabs. After the resulting drinking party, the vital information has become slurred, drunken ramblings.]] In between quests, the same thing happens to Commander Veldaban, and the subsequent "Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf" quest revolves around re-discovering everything that was forgotten.
* AnAxeToGrind: In addition to regular battleaxes, hatchets and throwing axes, there's Dharok's Greataxe and Balmung.
* AncientArtifact: Recent quests have revealed that there are 12 Elder Artifacts, from which the gods [[TouchedByVorlons draw their power]] and will be a major plot element of future quests. Each artifact is a source of power, and has a certain function. Unfortunately, they also have a downside to using them. The known artifacts are:
** [[CoolSword The Elder Sword]]: capable of opening portals at whim. Currently broken in Guthix's resting place.
** [[MagicStaff The Staff]]: associated with the god Armadyl; Zamorak used it to kill Zaros and ascend to godhood, and now [[spoiler: Sliske has used it to kill Guthix]]. Armadyl stated that he could use it to create life from nonliving material.
** The Kiln: used to create the physical shell of the world. Since it utilizes the [[RockMonster Tok Haar]] to achieve this, it can defend itself with ease.
** [[ArtifactOfDoom The Stone of Jas]]: The source of all runes and a PhlebotinumBattery for the energy of the Elder Gods. Guthix used it to shape Gielenor and seed it with life. Using it if you are anyone other than Jas invokes a curse on the Dragonkin, enraging them and making them attack you. If you draw power from the stone as opposed to knowledge, they will gain an equivalent amount. Guthix, Sliske, V, and the player used it for knowledge, and so they aren't in immediate danger from the Dragonkin.
** [[CoolCrown The Crown]]: this has been in the possession of [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradomin]] for as long as anyone remembers. It can locate all artifacts, but any gods can also locate the wearer.
** The Horn: Guthix found it on Gielenor with the Staff and Stone. Quin, a seasinger from the Wushanko Isles, took over the Eastern Lands with its power, but was killed before she actually became a god. The monkey god Marimbo implies that she may have used this artifact to ascend.
** The Measure: The weakest of the artefacts and currently in the possession of the PlayerCharacter. It has the ability to measure [[LifeEnergy Anima]].
* AnchorsAway: The Barrelchest Anchor, which can be used as a weapon.
* AndIMustScream:
** Poor [[spoiler:Arrav]]; he was raised as a zombie by the very person he fought against. Said person also decided to keep him conscious, effectively forcing him to watch as his body fought his own people. [[spoiler:the Void Pest]] in A Void Dance, and [[spoiler:Akthanakos]] could be said to fit this role, since [[spoiler:he was betrayed and turned into a guardian of his own imprisonment]].
** Pentyn in Enakhra's Temple has been trapped there for thousands of years in solitary isolation and was constantly tortured by Enakhra. To make it worse, he's been immortalized and can't move anything below the shoulder, meaning he can never leave the place.
** [[spoiler:Apmeken had her voice, sight, and hearing taken away,]] and she was forced to sit back and wait as her monkeys slowly died off and the people of the desert turned against one another and killed each other without her guidance.
** The [=TzHaar=], whose bodies are composed of rock and magma/lava, apparently remain fully self-aware as they harden into solid obsidian upon "death." Obsidian which is then ''[[HumanResources broken up and made into TokKul, their currency]]''. In The Elder Kiln, [[spoiler:Ga'al-Xox is infused with the [=TokKul=] of a dead [=TzHaar=] champion, giving him all the memories of the dead champion. He reveals that turning into [=TokKul=] is crushing agony, unable to even think coherently through the pressure and the pain; Xox was nearly driven insane from being exposed to a few minutes of 'death']].
** Skaldrun: his identity and all memory of who he was was destroyed to make him a human library. He was then made immortal and frozen in a block of ice for several hundred years, fully aware of his surroundings.
** [[spoiler:Mother Mallum's host, Lucy]], in "Salt in the Wound". Stated to have been only a child when [[spoiler:the slug queen possessed her]] and forced to spend '''decades''' in a semi-conscious, waking nightmare of an existence [[spoiler:before finally being granted a proper death at the end of the quest]].
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Reach level 99 in a skill? You get a cape. It has reasonable combat stats, yes, but still a fancy cape with a special emoticon. Finishing achievement diaries and quests, as well as many minigames/activities gets you pieces of clothing and armor. Much of it is unique or otherwise useful, but most of it is strictly cosmetic.
* AnimatedArmor:
** The best example is the Warriors' Guild, where you can have your suit of armor brought to life as part of a minigame. Animated suits of armor appear in other places, as well.
** Animated floating ''axes'' inhabit part of the dungeon just south of Taverley. In addition, the old Druidic Ritual quest involved going to the Cauldron of Thunder therein, which was guarded by a pair of suits of armour which came to life and attacked the player when they tried to pass by.
** Animated spades and pickaxes are also found in several dungeons. The pickaxes pack a surprising punch.
* AnotherDimension: Lots, but notably:
** Zanaris, a realm ruled by [[LandOfFaerie Fairies]]. The entire [[PortalNetwork Fairy Ring infrastructure]] uses faint energy that was left from Guthix closing the Portal of Life for the purpose of transport to other realms.
*** Zanaris has since been [[RetCon retconned]] into being Gielinor's moon.
** [[ApocalypseHow Yu'biusk]], the ancestral home of the goblin races, destroyed by Bandos long ago.
** The Spirit Realm, a series of [[PocketDimension smaller pocket dimensions]], with its only inhabitants terrorized by the Spirit Beast. The realm itself is a cross between DarkWorld, MirrorWorld, and SpiritWorld; doing one thing in this world affects the real world in the opposite way.
** [[BloodyBowelsOfHell The Abyss]], discovered when the ZMI had a teleportation accident and tried to replicate the effect, is used for fast Runecrafting altar travel. It is the dimension that connects all other dimensions.
** Then there is the Void, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a complete absense of anything]], which connects the ''abyss'' [[MindScrew to other planes, and parts of the Void is also created by a spirit beast tearing its way from the Spirit Realm to the real world]].
** Kethsi, a plane that was once a paradise but now a godforsaken wasteland after the residents [[spoiler:unwittingly enraged the Dragonkin]].
** The Runespan.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** To avert FetchQuest, quests will often provide some required items like spades or pickaxes or gems in the nearby vicinity, saving you the trouble of trekking away to find one yourself.
** The Toolbelt provides you with pretty much every basic tool you'll need to do any skilling or quest task in the game, unless it is a very specific item needed for a quest. This saves players long treks or teleports back to the bank for a chisel. Even better, it holds everything without taking up an additional inventory space, which is a huge bonus in a game with only 28 spaces for non-equipment.
** Quest items for newer quests have been made more clear with a small icon next to the name of the item. Prior to this point, it was hard to tell what was actually a quest item, especially once the quest was over.
** Having trouble with the SlidingPuzzle in "Monkey Madness"? You can skip it by paying Glough a bribe.
** Sometimes if a puzzle is annoying there's usually a way to just bludgeon your way through.
** In player-owned ports, if you take too long locating the assassins in the Black Marketeer's random event, a hint arrow appears to point you in the right direction.
* AntiGrinding: To ensure that all clan members participate in the upkeep of the Clan Citadel there's a {{Cap}}; each individual player can only grind away at the resources until they hit the cap, after which it's impossible for them to continue.
* AntiVillain:
** The [[spoiler:Balance Elemental]], whom you must kill to access the [[spoiler:Stone of Jas]]. Which turns out to be a [[NiceJobBreakingItHero biiiig mistake]].
** The Easter 2011 event gave [[spoiler:The Queen Of Snow]] just a touch of this. After you help cut down an evil holly tree to obtain the Year, it quickly became apparent that what you've fetched for The Queen Of Sunshine wasn't real. [[spoiler:Turns out Snowie, one of the most endearing holiday characters in the game, stole the real one because spring is so foreign to her that she literally can't see anything beautiful in it; despite knowing spring has to come to maintain order, she wanted winter to go on a little longer because she's perfectly in tune with it -- but still felt mighty guilty about it.]]
** The Mahjarrat may be this, particularly the Zarosian variety. They were stolen from their home dimension and enslaved by a Jackal god, then freed by the Empty Lord (Zaros). They're generally nice. [[spoiler:Sliske still tries to turn you into a Barrows Brother, and kills one of your friends. The others seem to not mind if you kill him, but he is rather powerful, so they like having him as an ally.]]
** "Some Like It Cold" reveals that [[spoiler:the penguins in the Motherland are slaves and food to both the seals and polar bears, and the penguins on the iceberg were originally a group of penguins who just wanted to escape, even if Pescaling is now bent on taking over the world.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonifications:
** The Queen of Snow and Queen of Sunrise are personifications of winter and spring respectively. The former once tried to make the world stay in winter because she cannot comprehend the beauty of spring.
** The 2011 Halloween event the simply packed with these. Death apparently joined up with Pestilence, War and Famine to form a clan, and held the event involving Beauty and Fame, and Peace was mentioned during the event as well.
* AnythingThatMoves: Ozan, who when quizzing Owen about his encounter with a supposed Icyene (essentially a gigantic, angelic human) asks "Was she hot?!". When told that not all Icyene are female, he replies "Well, was he hot?!"
* ApocalypseHow:
** There are many instances of it, including Class 0, Class 1 (sometime during the Fourth Age), and Class 2 (after the God Wars). Classes 3, 4 and 5 can be found in some of the realms, and X4 is subverted at the end of the Temple of Senntisten and Recipe for Disaster quests.
** Meta example: [=ClusterFlutterer=] (the so-called "bot nuke" of October 2011) was responsible for the deletion and banning of [[DepopulationBomb almost 40% of the player base]] over the course of a single weekend.
*** However, this was short-lived; Jagex wouldn't find a permanent solution to the bot plague until the release of Runescape 3.
* ApocalypticLog: You find one in the "Shades of Mort'ton" quest, where the writing gradually devolves into gibberish as the author slips into madness.
* AprilFoolsDay: There have been several.
** 2004 saw the long-awaited introduction of horses to ''RuneScape'' -- toy wooden horses, that is.
** In 2007, there was [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:April_Fools a fake "Behind the Scenes" update]] announcing that every update that month would be heavily cabbage-based. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:Behind_the_Scenes_-_April_Fools! A similar "Behind the Scenes" prank]] was the April Fool in 2011, with a plethora of {Shout Out}}s.
** In 2009, all the cabbages came to life and started bouncing around.
** On other occasions, AprilFoolsDay heralded the fake release of new dragon items, including 2005's Dragon Plate (a toy spinning plate which you could spin and play with) and 2008's Dragon Kite (a toy kite that you can fly)[[note]]The ''real'' anticipated items were the Dragon Plate''body'' and the Dragon Kite''shield''[[/note]].
** In 2010, they announced a ''[=RuneScape=]'' theme park.
** For 2012, they proclaimed that "P-hats" would be dropped all around [=RuneScape=] for players to pick up for free. ("P-hat" traditionally refers to the ultra-rare party hats that are some of the most valuable items in the game.) True to their word, major cities were littered with Pea Hats: green peas that you can wear on your head.
** In 2014 they Trolled players by announcing on the website that due to a technical error, a section of the forum that was not intended for players to see had become viewable and asked that players not look at it. If you actually fell for the prank you would probably think that Runescape was going to JumpTheShark with all the bad ideas they talked about adding to the game. They also changed the animation for throwing logs into a fire to look like you were throwing party hats into the fire.
* ArmCannon: The Barrelchest Mk II is equipped with a literal cannon on its left arm.
* In 2014 the animation for throwing logs into fire was changed to burning party hats and sailing skill (which was rumored to be added to the game in future) was added to skill interface. On the forums mock Jagex employee forums became visible due to "technical glitch"
* ArmorAndMagicDontMix: Wearing armor imposes a damage penalty on spells, to the point where most offensive magics are nearly or completely useless if you're wearing full platemail. However the penalty only applies to HitPoint damage: other spells work fine, and [[ReligionIsMagic prayers]] are completely unaffected.
* ArmorOfInvincibility: Torva, Pernix, and Virtus: the most powerful armor in the game, dropped only by one of the most difficult boss monsters in the game. They're tradable, but they'll set you back [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts hundreds of millions of gold]].
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: 'But am I your enemy?' [[spoiler:When the player character asks a mind controlled Zanik this question, it gives her the conviction she needs to break Bandos' control]].
* ArtificialStupidity:
** None of the monsters can seem to figure out to just walk around the table from behind which the player is casting spells or shooting arrows at them. This was averted in later updates, as monsters from Dungeoneering will attempt to run or move around obstacles when they are attacked from a range. You can still pin an enemy into a corner with a little maneuvering, but at least the token effort is still there.
** This is lampshaded in a rematch with the Tree Spirit, where the text before the fight mentions there are no mushrooms to hide behind.
* AscendedGlitch:
** Certain members-only items of clothing were made available. It was discovered that some of those items ([[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Gloves_%28Canifis%29 the gloves]]) were actually usable on freeplay worlds (instead of being displayed as "member's objects" they were still wearable gloves). Because they could not be obtained on free worlds, some members would obtain them for low prices on their worlds and sell them to non-members for higher prices. They became a symbol of wealth on freeplay worlds, eventually forcing Jagex to keep it in.
** An extremely early example (2001 or so) would be the now taken-for-granted feature that makes items only visible to the player who dropped them for about a minute before being visible to everyone else. It was originally a bug, but after it was removed, public demand brought it back.
* AshFace: During the Recipe For Disaster quest, a goblin cook accidentally blows up his own cauldron and gets this.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:
** One quest lets you join the White Knights of Falador and be able to purchase their equipment. For the Master rank, you have to kill hundreds of black knights. And "Ritual of the Mahjarrat" lets you see Sir Tiffy in action, the old man is TOUGH.
** The Void Knights have this system. The better a fighter you are, the higher your rank.
** Ogres like this, the most powerful are the leaders.
** Sometimes justified in clans or minigames when individuals are chosen to be generals or other leaders just because they are the strongest and/or most skilled at the game.
* AsteroidsMonster: Tz-Keks split in two once you kill one.
* AttackReflector: One shield ability, aptly named reflect, does this for a few seconds.
* TheAtoner: Dr. Fenkenstrain after the Great Brain Robbery quest.
* AudienceShift: The demographic grew older with the game, resulting in quest storylines becoming more mature, deaths becoming more graphic, and the profanity filter becoming optional.
* AwesomeButTemporary: At the end of "While Guthix Sleeps", you get to use the Stone of Jas to boost all your stats to insane levels during a boss battle, but Lucien steals the Stone and the boost wears off as soon as the fight ends.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Ancient Combat abilities (except Ice Asylum) summon vaguely {{Eldritch Abomination}} -like tentacles to harm your foe, in a display similar to that once used by Zaros himself to conquer and enslave a lesser god. These have the potential to be among the highest-damaging abilities in the game (up to 500% regular weapon damage)... but also among the lowest (66% regular weapon damage, for the same ability), completely at random. And they do (potentially heavy) damage to their user as well, even if you ''completely miss'' your opponent.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Veldaban in King of the Dwarves.]]
* Awesome Yet Practical: Several things in both RuneScape 3 and the recent beta for Legacy Mode:
** The aforementioned Ice Asylum takes a while to unlock, and needs 91 Constitution just to activate, but allows you to heal yourself AND your allies for up to 40% of your max HP. While it does have a cooldown of 5 minutes between uses, it affects everyone within a certain radius of the placable Ice Asylum, and has no limit to how many players can use it within those 5 mins.
** Overloads and Saradomin Brews. The former raises all your combat stats to their maximum, and keeps them elevated by refreshing the boost over 5 mins. The latter heals you for a set amount of HP per dose, while lowering your offensive power and maximising your defensive power. Apply together, and you get the best healing item (per slot) in the game, with its negative side effects removed.
* AGodAmI: Every so often, one of the deities in RuneScape will make an appearance. It is generally made clear that they are, indeed, a god, or at least very, very, powerful.
** The quest called "Missing, Presumed Death" is made of this trope. After [[spoiler:Sliske]] gathers most of the other gods (along with the player) in [[spoiler:Armadyl's former fortress]], the various gods quibble amongst themselves as to the purpose of the assembly - supposedly it is to announce that [[spoiler:Sliske]] has become a god thanks to his recent activities. [[spoiler:He subverts it, however, by announcing that the real reason he kidnapped Death was to [[LetsYouAndHimFight start a free-for-all]] amongst the gods.]]
* AWizardDidIt:
-->People who have never met him have his image transferred into their minds by those that have by, erm, magic and wizards.
* BabaYaga: She's a major character in several quests and runs a magic shop. She lives on Lunar Isle in her chicken-legged hut.
* BadassBookworm: Lexicus Runewright in Dungeoneering. He summons books that hit you with all kinds of attacks, and some that explode that do an almost guaranteed 500 damage (back when 990 was the max HP a player could have, this was a BIG problem).
* BadBoss: Kal'Ger the Warmonger, who opens every battle with a cutscene in which he kills one of the lower-level Kal'Gerion demons.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Subverted by Evil Dave, who tries to swap "bad" and "good" in his speeches, but ends up getting very confused.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: The Zarosian Mahjarrat, who, while not uniformly good, are generally on the player's side for right now. The Ancient magicks that Zarosians use are quite dark, including spells that freeze opponents solid, steal their health, and drain their prayer. The Zarosian prayers (called "curses") are much more offensive than the other prayer sets, and drain your opponent's strength to enhance your own.
* BadWithTheBone: The Dorgeshuun goblins are pacifists, but when they have to fight, they use weapons made out of bone, including a bone club (which is just a large, heavy bone).
* BagOfHolding:
** It is an adventure game with an inventory, after all. Also doubles as {{Hammerspace}} because you can hold large hammers, anchors, other weapons, and massive amounts of food and fish, all too huge to possibly keep within. At its most extreme, you can carry the components for ''seven full dwarf multicannons'', each of which is twice as big as you are.
** There's bags of holding for rune essence that you can place within the bag of holding, as well as a coal bag and gem bag available as Dungeoneering rewards.
** The toolbelt enables you to store all kinds of tools without taking up inventory or bank space, while the money pouch keeps gold pieces safe even through death (though it becomes impossible to fill in the Wilderness).
* BagOfSpilling:
** All but one (up to five with the required level) of the hard-won items found in the dungeons of Daemonheim will disappear into Saradomin-only-knows-where once the dungeon is completed.
** You drop most of your items when you die.
* BaguetteBeatdown: The Sandwich Lady. Don't make her angry!
* BaldOfAwesome: Saradomin, the Wise Old Man, and Sir Tiffy Cashien. Optional for the player.
* BankRobbery: The Wise Old Man pulled one of these in Draynor Village. [[RefugeInAudacity He lives right across the street from the bank.]]
* BarrierChangeBoss:
** Dagannoth and Gelatinnoth Mothers. They change colors depending on the type of attack you need to use.
** Tormented demons, which change their protection prayer based on what you're hitting them with.
** Astea Frostweb and the Skeletal Trio, who change their protection prayers randomly.
** Some bosses invert this--the player puts up prayers to block attacks, and the bosses change their attacks to hit around them.
* BatmanGambit: The entire plot of "Hunt for Red Raktuber". [[spoiler:Pescaling Pax anticipates your every move, and by the end of the quest, you're teleblocked and left for dead on a deserted island]].
* BatOutOfHell: After a graphical update, now standard Vampires, angry Juvinates and Vyrewatch look like were-bats, the Vyrewatch having [[WingedHumanoid wings on their back]] and the other two having no wings to speak of.
* BeamOWar: Runescape 3 opened with one of these between Saradomin and Zamorak. Players could gather Divine Tears for either one, to help overpower the other (and earn loot).
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In the lore, this is why General Viggora defected from Zaros to Zamorak. After being recruited into Zaros' armies, all the other races mocked him and humans in general, no matter what they accomplished. ''Except'' for Zamorak, who at the time was another general. After he [[CompensatingForSomething overbuilt his fortress]] until [[EpicFail it sank into the swamp he built it on]], he remembered Zamorak's silence while the others mocked him and joined him in his ([[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu successful]]) attempt at usurping Zaros.
* BedsheetGhost: {{Invoked}} in "Ghosts Ahoy", where you try to disguise yourself as a ghost by cutting holes in a bedsheet.
* BigBad: The Dragonkin. In the Ritual of the Mahjarrat quest, they returned out of hiding and [[CurbStompBattle showed their power by killing Lucien]], who, at the time, [[TheWorfEffect was the most powerful Mahjarrat]].
* BigDamnHeroes: Played straight when you are the hero (usually in quests), averted when a group of heroes try to save you from Lucien.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are more than 10 different types of giant spiders, Kalrag from the Underground Pass is the biggest attackable one. The Stronghold of Safety is packed with Giant Roaches. Giant Ants and Giant Wasps can be found in the Jade Vine maze on Karamja. There are Cave Bugs and Cave Crawlers underground. The largest insects however, are the Kalphites, which are like beetle-scorpion hybrids.
* BigNo: When the player is kidnapped to Evil Bob's island. "No... what? Nooooooooooooo!"
* BiggerOnTheInside: [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou Everyone's Player Owned Houses]] and Balthazar Beauregard's Circus are these; the latter can move it's current location in a box, once a week.
* BilingualBonus:
** The Burthorpe Soldiers speak in Latin.
** Latin appears to be the official language of Zaros. The book that teaches you the Ancient Curses is written in Latin, the Zaros area in the God Wars dungeon has Latin inscriptions, and several prominent Zarosian characters and items have Latin names:
*** Torva, Pernix, and Virtus armor are Latin for "fierce", "nimble", and "valor" respectively.
*** Nex, the Zaros boss, is Latin for "violent death".
*** Nex's generals Cruor, Fumus, Glacies, and Umbra are "blood", "smoke", "ice", and "shadow".
** Daemonheim battle themes are also named Glacialis, Desolo, Adorno, Occulo, and Torqueo, translating to Glacial, Desolate, Adorned, Occult, and Twisted respectively.
** The song called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4vksdXXrk&feature=related Norse Code]] includes a high flute. Its first series of notes is actually "RUNESCAPE" in Morse Code.
* BittersweetEnding:
** At the end of the Blood Runs Deep quest, you manage to trap the Dagganoth Mother inside of the cavern and protect Rellekka, at the cost of [[spoiler:losing Prince Brand and Princess Astrid, who died fighting the Dagganoth Kings. It doesn't help that you married the one opposite to your gender only a few moments before.]]
** At the end of Ritual of the Mahjarrat, [[spoiler:Lucien is dead, the Staff of Armadyl has been broken and thus rendered unusable, and the Stone of Jas has been placed somewhere where it won't be abused again.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Jhallan was used for the Ritual, effectively killing him, Idria was murdered by the dragonkin, a friend changed into a Barrows Brother, and the Dragonkin have wrecked Edgeville and intend to do the same to the rest of the world.]]
* BlackComedy: At the end of the 2011 Easter event, you have to carve an ice sculpture to show [[spoiler:the Queen of Snow]] why spring is a just as good a thing as winter. Out of the options of what to carve [[note]]Including a stag, the Easter Bunny bringing eggs and cute baby animals[[/note]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the one that sticks out the most is the last one:]] [[EvilLaugh "Cute baby animals... impaled on swords."]] [[spoiler:Choosing this choice works just as well as the others.]]
* BladderOfSteel: When the Fight Caves minigame was first released, there was no way to save your progress midway through the fight. The only way to beat [=TzTok-Jad=] and earn the fire cape was to buckle up and sit at your computer for over an hour fighting your way through all 60+ waves of enemies. This was later remedied, and you can now save your progress by logging out in between waves.
* BlessedWithSuck: Zanik. Chosen by the gods and raised from the dead to [[spoiler:become a brainwashed slave-general of the war-god Bandos]].
* BlingOfWar: Dragonstone armour: while the armour set is very fashionable and is the best hybrid armour available in free-to-play servers, it is very expensive and its stats aren't that good compared to other armour sets at its level.
* BloodKnight: Bandos is the "Big High War God" who teaches that fighting is the highest calling of all, and his followers are almost universally aggressive and love battle. He has specifically bred entire RACES for war.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: According to Zaros, the Elder Gods do not create conscious life on purpose and barely even perceive it. They would [[spoiler:extinguish it without a second thought and have already done so countless times. Zaros also speculates that the Dragonkin were a race from a previous cycle that survived its destruction by hiding in the Abyss. They tried begging Jas for mercy, but ended up enslaved to her stone instead]].
* BondOneLiner: Mr. Mordaut and his cheese-related puns in the Gielinor Games, when you fail in the Cheese Roll.
* BonsaiForest: The soil quality in Gielinor clearly isn't the best out there. Some graphics updates made the trees more reasonably sized, but many are still pretty small. In some areas, like the swamps south of Lumbridge and in Morytania or otherwise the various high mountain ranges, this is actually justified, of course.
* BoogieKnights: The dancing knights in the Party Room.
* BoozeBasedBuff: Drinking certain types of beers will alter your stats, usually giving you a boost in one area and weakening you in another. Ordinary beer, for example, increases your Strength (attack power), but decreases your Attack (accuracy).
* BorderPatrol: Try to enter a dark area without a light source and little bugs will swarm all over you, draining your health.
* BoringButPractical: Pretty much all of the skills. Training skills usually consists of using it over and over and over again. But once you get it high enough, you'll be able to summon a Pack Yak with an inventory bigger than your own, or make the best healing items in the game, or even cheat death.
* BossBanter:
** [[spoiler:Nomad.]] Among others.
** One of the more humorous examples is found at the end of the "Lunar Diplomacy" quest where players have to fight a copy of themselves (simply called "Me"). "Stop hitting yourself!" indeed.
* BossRush: The Dominion Tower, where you re-fight quest bosses you've already beaten.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The Runescape gods all have different, conflicting worldviews, but all of them are valid.
* BottomlessBladder: Your character can eat all the food he or she wants, but never has to go to the bathroom. In fact, he/she has never seen a bathroom before, as [[LampshadeHanging a discussion with Ali the Barman reveals]].
* BraggingRightsReward: A lot of the rewards, though more so with LevelGrinding and minigame-type stuff than for quests. Typically overlaps with AndYourRewardIsClothes. More recently, quests award titles for those with higher than necessary levels.
* BreakableWeapons: All sorts of flavors:
** Some weapons gradually degrade until they break, and you can repair them back to 100% by paying a fee depending on how degraded they are. Barrows and Chaotic gear are good examples.
** PVP weapons such as Vesta's Longsword and Statius's Warhammer have a set lifespan: after a certain amount of time in combat, they crumble to dust. The same goes for "corrupt Dragon" equipment; it offers the stats of members-only Dragon equipment to non-members, but crumbles to dust after a set amount of time.
** Crystal equipment degrades in a fashion similar to Barrows and Chaotic, but as it degrades, it gradually decreases in power as well. When it's fully degraded, it reverts back to a crystal seed that can be shaped back into its more practical form for a fee.
** The Hand Cannon has a rather annoying variant: it has a random chance of blowing up in your face, dealing you damage and destroying itself completely. Ouch.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** In the Runescape 2011 Easter event, a squirrel named the 'Antipodean Squirrel', is angry about how the Easter event is Northern-Hemisphere-Centric, and about how it is Spring in the northern hemisphere and how it is autumn in the southern hemisphere and it's not fair to have no autumn event. One response is to tell him to stop breaking the fourth wall; he replies, 'Yeah, like you stay in character all the time!'
** Another example occurs when talking to the bartender in the Blue Moon Inn in Varrock. He states that Runescape is a computer game, but your character thinks that he is crazy.
** You break the fourth wall in a way talking to the priest in Lumbridge, when you say that you are not from this world.
* BreathWeapon:
** Dragons have a deadly firebreathing attack that sticks to you like napalm, dealing lots of damage unless you have a special anti-dragon shield. Wyverns, close relatives of dragons, have a powerful ice breath attack that can freeze you for massive damage and requires an elemental shield to defend against.
** "Dragon Breath" is a combat ability for the Magic skill, allowing you to spit out a cone of flame to damage enemies in front of you.
* BreedingCult: One of the guardians of Guthix, Ocellus, created The Order of Ascension, in an attempt to support Guthix's {{Naytheist}} philosophy. His first experiment was to create a race of highly independent humans, but the results were insolent and destructive. He eventually realized that worship was just a by-product of social order, so instead, he tried to close the gap between humans and the gods, using both breeding and magical augmentation.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Buying Spins on the Squeal of Fortune, which can give cash rewards, valuable items, or EXP lamps, giving you a leg up on other players whichever way. This has since expanded to include:
** Solomon's General Store - cosmetic overrides, pets and auras for real world cash or Loyalty Points.
** Treasure Hunter - an UpdatedRerelease of the Squeal of Fortune, after many complaints that it wasn't worth the time to buy the spins for useless items. In this version, almost every prize is of use; between bonus experience, helpful items, cosmetic outfits, seasonal or promotional items, and the cash prizes, such as Large Cash Bags containing 500k to 1m coins, or the Jackpot of 200m coins.
** Bonds - Items which can be bought off Jagex, sold in-game for in-game cash, or used to credit either Treasure Hunter or Solomon with keys or Rune Coins respectively. These were created as a direct way to combat goldfarmers, and it worked.
* BrickJoke: A pretty grim one. [[spoiler:After Sigmund uses a Ring of Life (an item which teleports the wearer to a spawn point when they're low on health) to escape death numerous times, Zanik finally ''cuts his hand off'' during The Chosen Commander to prevent him from leaving and kills him. After the quest is finished, if you go back to Lumbridge and talk to the Duke, he'll mention Sigmund's severed hand having teleported into the courtyard.]]
* BritishAccents:
** Most of the voice-acted characters have some form or other of British accent, since Jagex is, after all, based in the U.K.
** All imps speak in a thick Cockney PhoneticAccent, complete with rhyming slang like "dragon's belly" (for "smelly").
* UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish: The game being produced in Britain and owned by a British company many terms for things are the British terms and that can and does cause some confusion among American players unfamiliar with both the game and British terminology. Easy examples are a 'Spade' (commonly called a shovel in America) and Treasure Trail 'Biscuits' (what Americans would call cookies). An especially confusing example is in clue scrolls that tell you to search the first floor of a building. What Americans know as the first floor is called the ground floor in Britain, so American players didn't know that the clue was telling them to go upstairs. A stickied thread was made on the forum to clarify this.
* BrokenAesop:
** The "Tower of Life" quest. The moral of the whole story is that meddling with creation is wrong, and life should be treated with respect. Your reward for completing the quest is access to a minigame where you can create new mutant life-forms, kill them, and harvest their organs.
* BrokenBridge: See MissingSecret below.
* BrownNote: The Stalkers' natural language. A quote from an unknown mage:
--> "It calls itself Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz in our language. I regret asking it to say it in its own, for the combination of audible and inaudible sounds from its many lipless mouths caused me a pounding headache and blood to cascade from my nose, [[KickTheDog which Lakhrahnaz then froze]]."
* BubbleGloopSwamp: Morytania, Lumbridge Swamp, Ullek ruins, Poison Waste, etc.
* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: There are four pyramids and one mastaba in the Kharidian desert.
* BulletTime: Seen in the Brimhaven agility dungeon when dodging the poison darts, as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* CallOnMe: The "Path of Glouphrie" quest ends with the PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:stuck in a DeathTrap]]. As [[spoiler:you start to collapse from the poison gas]], you cry out mentally for help. Lo and behold, [[spoiler:the telepathic gnome Hazelmere from earlier in the quest hears you and teleports in to rescue you]] just in time.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Cthonian demons are able to absorb the essence, and by extension, the power and cunning, of those they consume.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The RomeoAndJuliet quest, which has been so thoroughly removed that most of the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] involved in the quest no longer exist in the game. They even deleted letters about it from the old [[AllThereInTheManual Postbag from the Hedge]] archives.
* CaptainObvious: Most item examinations merely state "a(n) [insert item name here]".
* CaptureTheFlag: Castle Wars. Also available as part of the Clan Citadel's battlefield editor.
* CassandraTruth: The terrified Prison Pete rambles about some evil cat that appears out of nowhere and kidnaps people to a room with alive balloon animals with keys in them.
* CastFromHitPoints: The Lunar spell Energy Transfer, which restores a friend's adrenaline at the cost of your HitPoints. There's also a set of EmpathicHealer spells.
* CatchingSomeZs: A side-effect of a dream spell.
* CensoredForComedy: Though changes of late have made this more of a ScunthorpeProblem, since definite "cuss words" are permitted more often, but certain others are not. (Example: "Phone") Of course, this may have been resolved, also.
* CerebusSyndrome: The game has increasingly been said to exhibit this as Jagex has moved away from LighterAndSofter elements like the penguins' quest line and the wacky random events in favour of DarkerAndEdgier quest lines and [[CerebusRetcon remakes of or sequels to existing quests]]. This has proceeded to such an extent that "Bringing Home the Bacon" was specifically advertised by Jagex as being conceived as a more comedic quest -- and even ''it'' had the player aiding a character in all-but-explicitly [[ComedicSociopathy committing murder]] and [[FedToPigs concealing the evidence]].
* CessationOfExistence: Runescape's actual afterlife is [[OffScreenAfterlife vague but existent]], however this is implied to be the ''[[FateWorseThanDeath eventual]]'' fate of those whose souls are devoured by the Spirit Beast or Amascut, Goddess of Destruction. Fortunately, the former has been forced into the physical world where it can no longer do this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the quest revolving around it had you planning to ''destroy it'', as it had been feeding on the energy of the spirits of the deceased for ''years'' in order to build up enough power to claw its way into the physical world. That said, it wasn't a complete failure, because who knows how powerful it would have been if it had made its way over unhindered with ''all'' of the power it had consumed.]]
* ChainedToARailway: Zanik in Another Slice of H.A.M.. [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste Done intentionally]] to complete Sigmund's persona as a DastardlyWhiplash.
* ChainOfDeals: [[BlatantLies One Small Favour]], and a shorter version in The Fremmenik Trials.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In early quests and lore, Saradomin had a much more pleasant characterization and Zamorak and his followers were uniformly evil, effectively being the in-game equivalents to [[Literature/TheBible God and Satan]] respectively. In recent times, Jagex has put forward a ''lot'' of quests and lore that show Saradomin and his followers in a negative light, while [[RootingForTheEmpire playing up the positive aspects of Zamorak and his philosophies]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: With enough skill in combat, you can [[ArmorIsUseless punch through armor with your fists]], kill people unarmed, [[BarehandedBladeBlock and block weapons with your bare hands]]. [[UpToEleven And let's not get started with the Evolution of Combat]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The [[spoiler:clock]] in "One Piercing Note" becomes important at the end.
** There's a particularly insane one in "Dragon Slayer" (released in 2001). Melzar the Mad's notes mention a dream he had about the "great Cabbage of Jas." This was, in fact, the very first hint at the game's MythArc, which paid off ''almost exactly ten '''years''' later'' in "Ritual of the Mahjarrat," and isn't done yet. The Oracle of Ice Mountain, released at the same time as the Quest, also mentions something about Jas and several other things that wouldn't really show up in the game for years to come.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** Baron von Hattenkrapper, whom you first met as [[spoiler:the seagull you fired out of a makeshift bellows]] in "Rocking Out", later becomes a significant character in the sequel, "A Clockwork Syringe", when he [[spoiler:teams up with you to destroy the barrelchest army by air-dropping cannonballs on them]].
** Denath is first seen summoning Delrith along with a few other dark wizards in ''Demon Slayer''. In ''Shadow Of The Storm'', he's revealed to be [[spoiler:Agrith-Naar, a demon roughly five times as powerful as Delrith was, easily 100 times more powerful when the player helped dismiss him back to his home dimension]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Usually enforced in quests where something in a former quest is something you will need to know how to do. Having the skill levels required before a quest is released may also count.
* TheChosenOne: Zanik, a cave goblin chosen by the gods for an unknown purpose. [[spoiler:She was chosen to become the Avatar of Bandos; essentially, a slave-general with no free will]].
* ChurchMilitant:
** Used to peaceful Saradominist priests and monks? Try visiting the God Wars Dungeon, where those priests are armed to the teeth.
** The Temple Knights, who are CombatPragmatist Knights with great magic knick-knacks, a huge information network and no qualms about doing whatever they think is necessary. Be glad they're on your side.
** The Missionary from Player Owned Ports ''tries'' to invoke this image, but his personality and approach to gaining followers in the East ends up backfiring when Zamorakians exploit his bad first impression.
* CirclingBirdies: Used when anyone is stunned.
* CityGuards: Which don't have a very long lifespan.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Runecrafting altars (or at least the Astral one) were created by making dolmens out of Rune Essence, and then by using a lot of focus from a lot of people, convincing ''the stone'' that it was something that it was not.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Aside from combat skill levels, the attack and defense bonuses given by weapons and armor are a major factor in how well a player fares in combat. Some complete sets of armor also give additional increases to attack or defense alongside the normal bonuses.
* CluckingFunny: A random event had you being attacked by the greatest SuperVillain in all of Runescape ... the [[FeatheredFiend Evil Chicken]]. They [[LargeHam milked him for all he was worth]] too, with emotes like "Buk, buk, buk, [[EvilLaugh BWHAHAHAHA!]]" and the like.
* CobwebJungle: {{Enforced}} in the 2009 Halloween event. The rules of Halloween say that the Grim Reaper ''has'' to have cobwebs in his house, so it's the PlayerCharacter's job to negotiate with the Spider Queen (who lives in her own gigantic, over-the-top maze of cobwebs) to decorate Grim's mansion properly.
* CognizantLimbs:
** [[GiantSquid The Swamp Creature]] encountered during the Temple Trekking minigame is this. Poisoning one part effects all its limbs; however, you need to kill all 4 limbs and the head to continue.
** Tolna is the quest boss of A Soul's Bane, who has 3 heads. Poisoning any of his heads poisons the rest; killing all 3 of them transforms him back to normal.
** [[MagmaMan Har'Aken]], the final boss of the Fight Kiln, is submerged in magma and must have its tentacles damaged until it raises its head, giving you an opportunity to strike it before submerging again.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Player-owned port crew members are color-coded based on their stats. Blue clothes mean high seafaring; green, high morale; red, high combat.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Seen in minigames like Trouble Brewing, Castle Wars, Soul Wars, and so on. Red team and blue team are the standard (to correspond with Zamorak and Saradomin), although the Great Orb Project uses yellow and green instead.
* ColorCodedStones: There are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].
* ColossusClimb: Involved in the boss fight against Vorago. Players need to climb onto him to retrieve the pieces of the Maul of Omens, and the final blow is struck by leaping up to his head and embedding it in his face.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Sufficiently advanced players have abilities that include, but are not limited to: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, super stamina, [[MadeOfIron super endurance]], control over [[BlowYouAway air]], [[MakingASplash water]], [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], [[BloodMagic blood]], [[CastingAShadow shadow]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], {{telepathy}}, [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], MassTeleportation, ResurrectiveImmortality, ImprobableAimingSkills, GreenThumb, and more.
* ComedicSociopathy: The player character is an expert.
* CommonplaceRare:
** An ordinary jug of wine is worth a small handful of gold if you're lucky. A ''half-full'' jug of wine is worth many ''millions'' of gp. This is because the ability to drink half a jug of wine was removed and wine jugs are now gulped down in one sip, so half-full wine jugs are no longer obtainable. Those that remain have become valuable collector's items.
** Partyhats are some of the most expensive items in the game. They're little crown-shaped hats made out of paper.
** Easter Eggs and Pumpkins are worth millions, and are still edible.
* ContinuingIsPainful:
** Dying makes you drop your items. Mitigated slightly with gravestones, so you only have to dash madly to where you died to get your stuff back.
** In Daemonheim, each death carries a large xp penalty.
* ControlRoomPuzzle
* ConvectionSchmonvection: But actually falling into lava doesn't do much damage, either. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[HandWave Handwaved]] by a dwarf miner when questioned about it, in [[EternalEngine a huge lava reactor where you have to mine away cooled lava]]--
-->'''Lava Flow Miner Dwarf''': Logically, convection should make the air in this chamber hotter than an oven, and we'd all roast alive. But for some reason that doesn't happen!
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Traditional methods of torture aren't working on the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie pirate]] [[LosingYourHead decapitated head]] in "A Clockwork Syringe". It's time to bust out the dreaded Twiblik Night Special. After much ceremony, you open the box and reveal...[[spoiler:wigs, make-up, and women's clothing. O...kay?]] After being mercilessly [[spoiler:dressed up in wigs, eye shadow, and lipstick]], the distressed zombie finally tells you the location of the villains' secret island hideout.
* CoolChair: Thrones in Construction, such as skeleton thrones and demonic thrones.
* CoolHelmet: The Helm of Neitiznot and The Relic Helm, just to name a few.
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: The Rogue's Den maze had a section like this. There's also one in the "Icthlarin's Little Helper" quest.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: {{Subverted}} in "King of the Dwarves". The Consortium is accused of caring more about profits than the lives of their employees after [[spoiler:several miners die in a collapse while rescue workers are instructed to repair the equipment]]. But it turns out, as the frustrated Consortium members later explain to you, [[spoiler:if the equipment hadn't been repaired swiftly, it would have caused repercussions in the entire city's power supply, leading to even greater casualties]], and the Consortium was only [[spoiler:trying to control the greater damages]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: RuneScape sure seems to be shaping up into one of these, especially after the revelations in "Fate of the Gods". [[spoiler:In short, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s known as the Elder Gods have a Cradle of their young on Gielinor, and whenever it starts to hatch it could easily invoke an ApocalypseHow to turn Gielinor into a DeathWorld much like Freneskae]]. To make matters worse, [[spoiler:the goddess Tuska, a [[GodIsDumb mindless]] and NighInvulnerable force of destruction, will soon be on her way to wreck Gielinor in much the same manner as she and her {{Mooks}}, the Airut, did to Guthix's homeworld of Naragun]]. On top of all that, the returned gods are still using Gielinor as a battleground to obtain the [[MacGuffin Stone of Jas]], the merest usage of which brings down the UnstoppableRage of the borderline-godly Dragonkin on the user and anyone else unfortunate enough to be nearby.
* CowardlyLion: Cyrisus, a fellow adventurer the player meets in Dream Mentor. He has maxed combat stats, despite being terribly afraid of fighting. He achieved his maxed stats by fighting nothing but 300 chickens a day for 30 years.
* CrazyPrepared: If you read the quest guide for "Love Story" and bring all of the required items needed to avoid banking in between parts, the Wise Old Man will note how it was [[LampshadeHanging rather convenient]] you had all the necessary items on you at hand the moment you two needed to create a device for that part of the quest.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The obsidian armour unlocked after the Brink of Extinction quest. It has awesome stats, and reduces damage from creatures in the [=TzHaar=] area. But if you use it anywhere else, you take triple damage.
* CriticalExistenceFailure
* CriticalFailure: There's usually some chance of horribly failing something; for example, you could formerly lose the head of your hatchet or pickaxe by apparently swinging it too hard ...and then losing the valuable head and having to buy it back from someone[[note]]This was a random event that has now been removed[[/note]]. You can also have some pretty silly accidents in Daemonheim:
--> "You have a hilarious accident with the hammer and chisel, destroying the block in the process."
* CrystalDragonJesus: Saradomin -- stained glass, monks, even church organs.
* CrystalPrison: The goal of the "Merlin's Crystal" quest is to rescue {{Merlin}}, who has been [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091029205221/runescape/images/thumb/a/a8/Merlintrapped.png/180px-Merlintrapped.png trapped inside a crystal]] by [[ArthurianLegend Morgan le Faye]].
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Crystal saws, seeds, and bows. [[OurElvesAreBetter Made by elves, of course.]] And an enormous WALL around the (currently inaccessible) elven capital.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Guthix is implied to have [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome curb stomped all other gods]] at the end of the God Wars. Actually, this act ended the God Wars.
** [[spoiler:Lucien versus Hazelmere, Turael, Duradel, Mazchna, Ghommal, Sloane, Harrallak, and Cyrisus]] in "While Guthix Sleeps".
** Properly trained and equipped players can slaughter anything in their path, which can be a little awkward when you accidentally click on a man and crush his torso in one blow in the middle of a city.
** Some players leave very easy quests very late into their game career, ends up having battles like lvl34 Count Draynor vs Lvl128 N00b Destroyer.
** The above becomes very noticable in the [[BossRush Dominion Tower]], where you are given random selections of bosses to fight. If you're prepared to fight [[spoiler:Nomad]], but instead get the aformentioned Draynor, it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be...
* CutsceneDrop
* CutsceneIncompetence: In the updated Wolf Whistle quest, your character runs from a group of trolls carrying a man hostage, and then goes on a FetchQuest to turn the tables. If this quest is done when you are high level, [[CowardlyLion running away makes your character look like]] [[DontExplainTheJoke the new Cyrisus]].
* CuttingTheKnot: In "A Clockwork Syringe", you use all the stealth and cunning available to you to quietly sabotage the barrelchest factory by [[spoiler:smashing equipment with a [[AnchorsAway giant anchor]]]].
* CuttingOffTheBranches: The "Temple of Ikov" quest has you choose whether to protect the Staff of Armadyl or steal it and give it to the bad guy. When the developers made the sequel quest, "While Guthix Sleeps", they realized the plot sort of hinged on the bad guy having the staff, so everyone who chose to protect it received a note from the guardians that it had been stolen by somebody else.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Implied with the Black Knights (or, as they are formally known, the Kinshra), who have been known to perform nefarious deeds, but are also explained to be [[WrittenByTheWinners another political faction]]. Ditto with Red Wizards, who are claimed to be responsible of burning the First Wizard's Tower, even though other factions are just as much to blame.
* DarkerAndEdgier: As time went on, quests and storylines started getting heavier, with characters KilledOffForReal and such. 'One Piercing Note', for example, is a murder mystery where you end up seeing corpses covered in blood, corpses heavily mutilated and maimed, [[spoiler:you end up helplessly watching a woman die]], and the whole thing perpetrated by [[spoiler:an insane woman who would never have done it had she realised what she was doing.]]
** This has continued to the point that "Bringing Home The Bacon" was [[WordOfGod explicitly advertised as a comedic quest]] prior to its release, and even ''it'' was full of BlackComedy as the player [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption does the bidding]] of a full-on VillainProtagonist.
* DarkReprise:
** Shadow Forger Ihlakhizan's theme is that to Born To Do This track.
** Temple of Tribes to the standard Goblin Village theme.
** Creature Cruelty to Magic Magic Magic.
** Demise of the Dorgeshuun to Dorgeshuun City.
** Barb Wire to Barbarianism.
** Return of Lucien to Temple Desecrated.
** Slug Poison to A New Menace, which is itself a dark reprise of The Mollusc Menace.
** Fight of the Dwarves to Land of the Dwarves.
* [[DealWithTheDevil Deal with the Mahjarrat]]: What caused the [[FateWorseThanDeath current state]] of the Barrow Brothers.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In the Pest Control Minigame, death merely results in the player respawning at the entry lander of the Minigame, restoring their Life Points, Adrenaline, and Prayer at the mere cost of a bit of running to get back where they were. Similar things will happen if you die in any other "Safe" minigame, in which you keep all items on death.
* DeathTrap:
** You get caught in one at the end of "Path of Glouphrie". Thick, sticky tar pours out onto the floor to stop you from moving. An enchantment prevents you from teleporting. Then comes the poison gas. And of course, [[FromBadToWorse at this point, the magical laser attacks start firing at you]].
** Most of the Brimhaven Agility Arena has these, including spikes, rocks, poison darts and spinning blades of doom.
* DeathWorld:
** Ape Atoll, if you're a human. The monkeys are ''not'' friendly. If you stick to the tall grass, you can hide from their archers, but that won't save you from the poisonous snakes, spiders, and scorpions lurking in the weeds. You can create a talisman that will turn you into a monkey, but only if you travel through a lengthy, [[SpaceFillingPath spiraling]] cave full of zombies, traps (also poisonous), and falling rocks. It's not a good vacation spot.
** The abyssal plane, where everything is trying to kill you or impede you.
** The Gorak's Plane, which is filled with many (of the same) powerful creatures who just want to kill you.
** Also implied in the Mahjarrat's home plane, Freneskae.
* DegradedBoss: [=TokTz=]-Ket-Dill has it's own eponymous quest; however, you fight a number of them throughout The Elder Kiln as well.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin / AGodAmI:
** Zamorak used to be a Mahjarrat, but gained godly power when he betrayed and defeated Zaros prior to the God Wars.
** Guthix was a mortal Naragi, but gained his power when he slew the god Skargaroth, who had fallen on Guthix's home in the middle of a battle and killed his daughter Aagi.
** Saradomin was formerly human, but the means of his ascension to godhood is unknown.
** Except for [[spoiler:Zaros and Seren]], and the Elder Gods such as Jas and Ful, ''all'' gods were mortal at one point. They are technically just mortals with absurd amounts of power.
* DemBones: There are plenty of animated skeletons in the game.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** From Elemental Workshop III: Body body.
** When you leap onto a stepping stone near Tears of Guthix: "You leap across with a mighty leap!"
* DespairEventHorizon: After Guthix's death, his followers go in different directions. Some are encouraged and form the [[{{Naytheist}} Godless faction]] as per his last request, and some merely continue to follow his teachings the way they had been. But others fall into despair and lose their path, seeking to recreate him.
* DesperationAttack: Dharok the Wretched's armor set effect. Many a player has died with a sudden 700 damage to the face thanks to this.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Aubury, the purveyor of the magic shop in Varrock, hands out freebies of the basic Wind and Mind Runes. The obvious scam is to take the freebies and sell them back to his shop, right?
-->The shopkeeper thanks you for returning the samples.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** In "The Chosen Commander", Zanik and the PlayerCharacter punch out [[spoiler:The avatar of Bandos, god of war, although it helps that you have to disrupt its link with Bandos to be able to actually kill it. It has since been confirmed this boss is on the lowest tier of Godhood]].
** Especially appropriate in "Salt in the Wound", where the mind-controlling horror you defeat was directly inspired by the Creator/HPLovecraft. The [[spoiler:Slug Queen is killed by an average (although exceptionally skilled) woman by [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cutting a huge statue]] and having it fall on said queen.]]
* DisappearedDad: Bolrie, Golrana's father, in The Prisoner of Glouphrie. He's been locked up in a cell in Arposandra for centuries.
* DisconnectedSideArea: The island off the coast of Catherby. It looks like it's so close to the coastline that you could easily just swim to it, or even wade through the water to it. To get there, you have to travel across some mountains and then through a long and difficult underground dungeon. You can get back to Catherby with a [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Crossbow]] -- but you can't get to the island from Catherby.
* DiscontinuityNod: The Romeo & Juliet quest no longer exists, but you can still ask the Apothecary to make the potion used to put Juliet in a coma.
* DivineRanks: There are seven "tiers" of godhood, which approximately measure how much raw power each god has in comparison with the others.
* DogStereotype
* DoppelgangerAttack: Combined with Doppelganger Spin in the fight against Nomad. Each of his clones is just as dangerous as the original...
* DoppelgangerSpin: ...but damaging a copy makes Nomad lose focus and forces him to dismiss it, and damaging the real one breaks the spell completely.
* DownerEnding:
** One Piercing Note. [[spoiler:Anna had gone completely insane, believing herself to be guided by St. Elspeth. The first victim was someone else, mistaken for Anna due to having her face slashed off and being dressed in her robes. In the end, three innocent lives have been lost to her madness, and if you decide to spare her, she throws herself off the tower anyway, believing the Icyene are coming to take her to Saradomin, leaving behind an Abbey on the verge of collapsing.]]
** The Tzhaar series ending starts off [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], but turns into a downer if you take the time to do some talking afterwords. [[spoiler:After finally finding the cause of why the Tzhaar are being born as the weaker, simple minded Ga'al and putting a stop to Tokhaar-hok's plans, you're forced to say goodbye to your friend Ga'al-Xox, as he [[DrivenToSuicide can no longer live with the pain of knowing how it feels to be trapped in tokkul.]] You get to watch a surprisingly poignant cutscene, followed by a ceremony celebrating your triumph over the Tokhaar, and then the quest ends, and you're left to believe that you've saved the Tzhaar. However, if you take the time to go back to Tokhaar-hok, he'll begin to tell you his side of the story, and it isn't a pleasant one. The Tzhaar gradually lose the memories of their past with each generation, and, seeing this, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Tokhaar-hok went out of his way to try to draw their attention to this problem]], and possibly get them to return to the sacred lava as they were destined to in order to save them. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a certain adventurer came along and choose to aid the stubborn Tzhaar instead, foiling his plans.]] Tokhaar-hok flat out tells you that the Tzhaar are now destined for extinction, and that unless they willingly choose to be absorbed into the sacred lava, there isn't much of anything anyone can do about it.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: An alternate home teleport animation available in Solomon's General Store has a fiery pit open beneath the player so that hands can grab them by the ankles and drag them down.
* TheDragon: The leader of the Kal'Gerion demons, Kal'Ger the Warmonger, is this to the Mahjarrat Bilrach.
* DragonHoard: Many dragon lairs are littered with piles of gold.
* DramaticWind: While holding a two-handed weapon.
* DressedToPlunder: All of the stock traits appear on various pirate [=NPCs=]: bandanas, tricorner hats, eyepatches, a hook-hand, a captain's hat with a skull-and-crossbones on it, etc. Most of them are also available as [[VirtualPaperDoll wearable equipment]], and there is a parrot...well, a zombie parrot ("ex-[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus ex-parrot]]") available as a pet as a reward for a pirate-related quest.
* DrivenToSuicide: In one possible ending for the One Piercing Note quest, [[spoiler:Anna throws herself off of the abbey's clock tower to her death. That is, if she isn't kicked off by the player first]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** [[spoiler:Guthix's death at the end of ''The World Wakes'' at the hands of Sliske, a mortal Mahjarrat who just happened to have acquired the Staff of Armadyl (this after it was shattered by the Dragonkin).]]
** [[spoiler:Akrisae's death and enslavement as a Barrows Brother, also via Sliske. Doubles as a SenselessSacrifice in protecting the PlayerCharacter, who ''cannot truly die until destiny says so''.]]
* DropTheHammer: In addition of regular metal warhammers and mauls, there's the Torag's Hammer and the Maul of Omens.
* DualWielding: Most one-handed weapons have offhand equivalents that allow two weapons to be wielded at once. Doing so allows the player to attack with both weapons for increased damage, even mixing and matching combat styles (e.g. dual-wielding a sword and a crossbow), and enables special dual-wield abilities like Havoc and Frenzy.
* DudeWheresMyRespect?: Averted and played straight at different points. Average citizens never say thanks for averting the latest doom on the land, though. This was the Wise Old Man's motivation to ransack the Draynor Bank of its money, snatch up a Blue Partyhat, and attempt an assault on the Wizard's tower.
* DummiedOut: When the ability to poison weapons was removed from the game, poisoned weapons automatically had their poison removed, and weapon poison was turned into a new drinkable potion that applies poison to your attacks for a limited time. However, the old items weren't removed entirely--for some time after the update, poisoned arrows could still be received as drops from certain enemies, and baby trolls named after poisoned items retained the (p) tag at the end of their names.
* DumpStat:
** Agility used to be way more useful, before faster run-recharge rates and [[PortalNetwork the Lodestone Network]] diminished its utility significantly.
** Defence is treated as this by "[[MinMaxing combat pures]]", left at Level 1 while other stats are raised towards the cap. This has been largely thwarted in the post-[=EoC=] era as armour and shields make a huge difference in both defensive capabilities and HitPoint totals, though the developers have capitulated somewhat to pure-enthusiasts in that the effectiveness of armour will be scaled back with the release of Legacy Mode.
* DungeonBypass: The Tarn's Lair dungeon is a convoluted maze filled with traps and aggressive zombies. If you solve the maze and fight your way to the end, you can challenge Tarn for XP and a power-up to your Salve Amulet to make it more effective against the undead. Defeating Tarn allows you to fight his pet Terror Dogs in the final chamber. Of course, you'd have to go through the whole maze again to get there, so, as a convenience to Terror Dog slayers, Jagex released the Slayer Ring, which can teleport you back to the final chamber. However, an unintended consequence of this teleport was that it worked even for players ''who had never completed the maze in the first place'', thus allowing savvy players to simply buy or make a Slayer Ring and waltz straight into the boss chamber, bypassing the entire dungeon.
* DyingCurse: Zaros, in the events described in the Ghostly Robes miniquest.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Runescape Classic'' has many differences. See the trope page for a detailed explanation.
* EasterBunny: Played around with. In the 2009 Easter event, it turned out that the Easter Bunny was actually a rabbit [[ShapedLikeItself wearing a rabbit costume]].
* EldritchAbomination: Many. The Chaos Elemental is a textbook example. Other good examples are the monsters from Dream Mentor, the Muspah [[spoiler:(which are myths made real)]], the Spirit/Corporeal Beast, and the Stalkers (one of them fires an eyeball twice the size of you at your party as an attack).
* EldritchLocation:
** Daemonheim, an immense, random dungeon complex that came into existence out of nowhere, is filled with horrific extradimensional monsters (see EldritchAbomination), and has a 'taint' within that could irreparably damage the world should it escape.
** The Abyssal plane, where everything seems to have eyes or tentacles, or both.
** The Runespan, a maze of [[FloatingContinent floating islands]] filled with nodes and creatures of elemental energy.
* ElementalEmbodiment: There are plenty of elementals in Runescape: the regular fire/water/air/earth found in the Elemental Workshop, ice elementals found in Daemonheim and Chaos Elemental, a high-level boss in the Wilderness. The strongest elemental is however Balance Elemental, a quest boss fought during While Guthix Sleeps.
* ElementalCrafting
* EmoteAnimation
* EndlessGame
* EnemyScan: The monster examine spell.
* EnemySummoner: Quite a few monsters, such as Nechryael.
* EnergyBeings: Light Creatures and Killerwatts.
* EnergyBow: The Crystal and Zaryte bows.
* EnthrallingSiren: The AntiVillain of "Song from the Depths" is a Siren who sings the eponymous song.
* EpicFail: General Viggora wanted to prove to the world that humans could achieve greatness. So he built a massive fortress. That only caused the other races to nickname it "Viggora's Folly", so he kept adding on to it. Eventually, it sank into the swamp he built it on, which convinced him that the nickname was, in fact, accurate.
* EpicFlail:
** Verac's flail is a powerful weapon used by one of the Barrows Brothers. It has an effect when the armour is worn with it that allows it to occasionally ignore enemy defences.
** The Ivandis flail is basically an Ivandis rod with a silver sickle attached with a chain. It is completely impractical and unwieldy, but until you get [[KryptoniteFactor blisterwood weapons]], it's the only thing that can hurt Vyrewatch and Vyrelords.
** One of the signature heroes, The Raptor, wields a massive, heavy, spiked flail.
* EscortMission:
** The Temple Trekking/Burgh de Rott Ramble minigame involves protecting refugees on their journey from Burgh de Rott north to the safety of the temple at Paterdomus and escorting mercenary adventurers on the opposite route to battle evil. Should be noted as being different than other escort missions, as your companions can level up, some of them could probably do the trek themselves with sufficient leveling.
** Blood Runs Deep has the PlayerCharacter escort King Vargas through the Waterbirth Island dungeon. He's wounded and moves slower than walking speed, and the dungeon is filled with high-level aggressive monsters that pummel you with all attack styles, although [[FridgeLogic no explanation is given as to why you can't just teleport out]].
** {{Inverted}} in Within the Light, where Arianwyn escorts ''you'' through the Temple of Light, killing any shadows that attack you.
** PlayedForDrama with Zanik, according to [[http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/postbag_45 this]] [[AllThereInTheManual Postbag from the Hedge]].
---> ''"It's like... all the time we were adventuring together, it was all about you, you know? You were the hero, and I was the sidekick. I kept getting into trouble and you kept rescuing me. Even at the end, when we [[spoiler:defeated Bandos]], I got knocked out and you finished it alone. And in a way, I kind of resent that. I wish I'd done it myself. I don't want my whole life to be like that. I want to prove to myself that I can be an adventurer in my own right, be a hero, not just someone's sidekick, not even yours."''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the Cave Goblin quest series; Sigmund says ScrewThisImOuttaHere to his boss, Johannes, essentially because Johannes has ''too many'' standards.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: The standard bow emote for girl players. Males can also use it by right clicking.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Someone at Jagex definitely likes penguins too much.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: {{Ninja}} monkeys, even.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypus: Pet platypode, even.
* EvilChef: The Culinaromancer from "Recipe for Disaster".
* EvilerThanThou: After seeing the horrible acts the demon Agrith-Naar is capable of in Shadow of the Storm, Evil Dave decides that it's too evil even for him.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Godless faction have shown up at both god battles in the Sixth Age, and have taken enthusiastically to describing the warfare as this.
* EvolvingWeapon:
** The Flail of Ivandis and weapons crafted from the branches of the Blisterwood tree gain power as you cremate Vyrewatch corpses.
** Silverlight: originally an iron sword blessed by Guthix, later becoming Darklight after imbibing the blood of the defeated Agrith Naar in "Shadow of the Storm".
** Excalibur and Ancient Staff can be upgraded to Enhanced versions with the completion of Hard Seers' Village Tasks and Elite Desert Tasks, respectively.
** Multiple weapons from the Squeal of Fortune, such as Starfury weapons and Shark Fists can be upgraded to a higher tier once you have the levels to wield the upgraded version.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** If you hold you mouse cursor over the achievements at the end of a Dungeoneering run, a small tooltip pops up, telling you what you need to do in order to get that achievement. The tooltip for "Most Deaths" reads, "Exactly what it says on the tin."
** One quest's MacGuffin is the "Idol of Many Heads". Examining the idol gives this text: "An idol. It has many heads."
** A lot of examine texts end up as this.
* ExactWords: In "Thok Your Block Off", Thok decides to spare "Boney Face" and mentions he'd kill him if he saw him again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Boney, that included going into a dead-end room and coming out again to see him walking about]].
* ExperienceBooster: Lots. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Experience#Boosts The Runescape Wiki has a list]].
* {{Expy}}: Jagex says Zanik is essentially [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Starbuck]], and her voice is that of ReginaSpektor.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Trolls, who are usually even named after the first thing they tried to eat (or the sound that thing makes, in case they don't know what it is). Can be amusing as 'My Arm' to as foreboding as 'Cliff'.
* TheExtremistWasRight: During the [=TzHaar=] quest series, you find out that the reason the Ga'al are being born instead of proper [=TzHaar=] is because the [[spoiler:[=TokHaar=] have cut off the flow of sacred lava to the city, thus dooming the [=TzHaar=] to extinction]]. What a bunch of jerks, right? Well, it turns out [[spoiler:this would have happened anyway. When [=TzHaar=] are born, they don't inherit ''all'' of their memories, as you discover during the quest. What the [=TokHaar=] did was speed up the process of extinction in the [=TzHaar=], thus spurring them to take action. The [=TokHaar=] also wanted their former bretheren to return to the Elder Kiln as [=TokHaar=]]].
* EyeOfNewt
* FaceDesignShield: Dragonfire shield.
* FakeDifficulty: Mourning's End Part II is considered one of the hardest quests, involving a huge LightAndMirrorsPuzzle and multiple floors, and it's full of hard-hitting monsters. But even with all of this, someone at Jagex apparently thought that it still wasn't enough and decided to throw in an agility obstacle that is entirely based on luck with a high failure rate. Every time it's failed, the player falls down to the lower level and takes even more damage.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Dungeoneering's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Hard Mode"]] setting, which is a reward for completing the Daemonheim Elite task set. To wit:
*** Soloing a Dungeon automatically causes the first floor spawned to be large-sized. All subsequent floors are forced to medium-sized.
*** All doors, whether they are puzzle doors or skill doors, act as [[BeefGate Guardian Doors]].
*** All monster spawns do so at maximum possible combat level.
*** All skill doors have a base level requirement of 90. Out of a possible 99. [[note]]It is possible to boost skills to 99 and beyond via potions and portents of passage...[[/note]]
*** Teleportation out of the boss fight is disabled.
*** Food is harder to come by.
* FallingInLoveMontage: "Love Story" has one between Zenevivia and the Wise Old Man. Then they proceed to invade the Wizard's Tower and fail.
* FanFiction: The [[http://runescapefanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Runescape Fanfiction Wiki]], consisting of mostly {{Crossover}}s. Runescape's own Stories forum also contains a lot of fanfiction.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The [=TzHaar=], who divide into four castes: one consists of hunters, one of guardians, one of scholars and mages, and one of workers and architects.
* FantasticRacism: H.A.M., oh so much. Humans are also considered little more than food to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyres]].
* FantasticSlurs: The Bandosian epithet for Armadylians is "Bird Lover".
* FantasyPantheon: Saradomin, Guthix, and Zamorak are the main gods. Armadyl, Bandos, and Zaros are more obscure. There's also the Menaphite pantheon of desert gods, the elves' crystal nature god Seren, and the monkeys of Ape Atoll worship a monkey god named Marimbo. As a joke, there's also a God of Cabbage named Brassica Prime.
* FateWorseThanDeath:
** Summer and her family, who were busy having their souls devoured by the Spirit Beast up until the point the player killed it.
** [[spoiler:Arrav]], who is now Zemouregal's undead slave and who has almost no control over himself, forced to slaughter the people he once protected. [[spoiler:Eventually does get some peace, but his wounds are too severe and when he has no more magic to sustain him, he dies.]]
** Becoming a Barrows Brother is also rather unpleasant, the originals becoming deathly ill, then dying, then having their spirits wrenched from wherever they were to fight again for their new master. Now you just get hit with an incorporeal maroon skull and die in horrible agony.
* FeatheredFiend: The Evil Chicken. There's also a giant Roc that attacks you in the "My Arm's Big Adventure" quest.
* FeatherFingers: Notably averted with the penguins. Ping and Pong are looking for musical instruments, but since they have no fingers, they can't play most instruments--you have to find them bongos and cowbells.
* FetchQuest: Occasionally PlayedWith:
** {{Exaggerated}} in [[ChainOfDeals One Small Favour]], in which you are asked something of the typical fetch quest, to get logs from a forester... who then asks you to get his axe sharpened at an axe store, and the owner asks you to ask a favor from a witch, who in turn asks something else of you, and so on. The quest ends up having you traverse almost the entire continent that the game takes place on.
** {{Lampshaded}} in Rune Mechanics, where the characters make disdainful remarks about fetch quests.
* FifteenPuzzle: Actually a twenty-four puzzle.
* FinalBossNewDimension: Several:
** The Culinaromancer can only be fought in his private dimension.
** The Spirit Beast in "Summer's End" is fought in its Spirit Realm.
** "Dream Mentor" has you enter the dream world to battle Cyrisus's inner demons.
* {{Fireballs}}: Several versions, ranging from little fire spits to huge inferno blasts.
** Dragons, at least the higher levelled ones, use these to attack the player on occasion. [[HesDeadJim It doesn't typically end well if said player isn't using some form of protection from them]].
** Demons, when they respawn, have a [[BuffySpeak fiery-explosion-y]] animation announcing their return from the dead.
** Also, the various fire-based Magic spells available to the player for combat take on this form.
* FirewoodResources
* FisherKing: The Fisher King from "Holy Grail".
* FishingForSole: Boots and gloves can be caught while fishing with a big net.
* FishingMinigame: In addition to fishing as a skill, there's also the Fish Flingers minigame, where you use trial and error to determine the correct hook, bait, and weight to catch different types of fish.
* FlunkyBoss: Quite a few instances:
** [=TzTok-Jad=] summons four healers when he reaches half his life. If you don't kill or distract the healers, they [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin heal him]].
** The pest queen from "The Void Stares Back" summons healers to restore her health and defilers to attack you and your NPC allies.
** Eruni from "Do No Evil" summons demons to attack you and draws on their power to make herself invincible.
** In Dungeoneering, [[AnIcePerson Astea Frostweb]] summons ice spiders. [[BadassBookworm Lexicus Runewright]] summons animated books.
** Bork summons Ork Legions.
* FloatingContinent: Clan Citadels. Avalani mentions that they're "bastions of Armadylian power from an era long lost to us".
* FlyingBooks: Found in Daemonheim as minions of the wizard [[MeaningfulName Lexicus Runewright.]]
* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: In the Recruitment Drive quest.
* {{Freemium}}: Many skills, quests, and runes are only available to those who pay; actually, "many" would be the [[CaptainObvious understatement of the year]]. The free part of the game is probably less than 5% of the total game, and free players have severely limited options when it comes to training and bank space, and they get an update once in a blue moon. [[TropesAreNotBad On the upside]], Jagex is a lot better than most games. There's still a fair bit to do in the free game, and they've started doing a lot more free content than they used to. They also advertise free-to-play content as an entire free game, with the pay-to-play content as a [[ExpansionPack super expansion pack]].
* FrictionlessIce: "Myths of the White Lands" uses it for puzzles. It's also a stage hazard when fighting the Dungeoneering boss Plane-Freezer Lakhrahnaz and as a random room puzzle on Frozen floors.
* FriendlyWar: The king and queen of the neigboring island nations of Miscellania and Etceteria amuse themselves by constantly declaring war on each other. It's also a case of BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler:they eventually get married in "Blood Runs Deep"]].
* FunWithAcronyms: A few, including:
** The '''H'''umans '''A'''gainst '''M'''onsters association. (Their logo is a ham.)
** The Livid Vine, or "Lokar's Infernal Vine of Incredible Death"
** Ladies Of Lumbridge
** New Order Occult Bookists
* GameBreakingBug: Quite a few, although they're generally fixed within a day at most, and intentionally exploiting a bug usually earns you a permanent ban:
** One infamous bug allowed some players to kill other players outside of normal PvP zones. This led to the Falador Massacre, wherein hundreds of players were killed; many of them lost millions of coins' worth of items.
** When the Hand Cannon was first introduced, it was possible for multiple people to attack the same person in one-on-one PvP areas, resulting in instant death for that player.
** An update to the game engine made it possible to attack monsters without being attacked back, allowing lots of players to solo the Corporeal Beast (strongest monster in the game, had never been killed by a single person before up to that point) and other normally NintendoHard boss monsters.
** An update to the Dungeoneering skill briefly caused runecrafting to give 1,000 times as much experience as intended.
* GameOverMan: During the Halloween season, Death will make personal appearances to collect your soul whenever you die.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Often played straight.
* GargleBlaster: Anything labeled 'Rum'. Drinking it can have your character exclaim "My liver is melting!" and then [[NoodleIncident mysteriously wind up on Mos Le'Harmless]]. Normal 'Rum' just gets you a message in the game log stating "You try very hard not to die"
* GasMaskMooks: Mourners.
* GemstoneAssault: Crossbow bolts can be tipped with gems and then enchanted for varying special effects.
* GenderBender: The Makeover Mage magically changes his/her gender every minute or so. He/she will offer the same service to you for free. This gets lampshaded if you made the change between finishing "Throne of Miscellania" and starting "Royal Trouble."
* GenieInABottle: A random event. Seen also as a villain in the "Spirits of the Elid" quest.
* GeniusDitz: How much of each varies between quests, but overall this is how the PlayerCharacter is presented.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Jubbly" is British slang for "breast".
** During the quest Carnillean Rising, you tie up a teenage girl so an NPC can "rescue" her as part of his "quest." If you attempt to use a feather or abyssal whip on her while tied up, you get the message "Runescape isn't that sort of fantasy game."
* GetBackHereBoss: The giant mole. Fortunately, it has been altered to still target you after it burrows. This still doesn't make it simple to find, though.
* GetOnTheBoat: Want to visit Daemonheim? Take a boat from Al-Kharid or Taverley. Want to visit Karamja, the Void Knight Outpost, or Entrana? Take a boat from Port Sarim. (And to actually participate in the Void Knight activity you have to get on another boat.) Want to visit Braindeath Island, Dragontooth Island, or Mos Le'Harmless? Take a boat from Port Phasmatys. And so on.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Some of the boss fights are rather unexpected. For example, at the end of the "My Arm's Big Adventure" quest (where you have to teach agriculture to a troll), you're attacked out of nowhere by a giant roc who randomly happens to be nearby.
* GiantSpider: Several variations of giant spiders appear, the largest one being Kalgar in Underground Pass.
* GlobalCurrencyException: Tokkul in the Tz-haar caves, Trading sticks in Tai Bwo Wannai village, etc.
* GodMode: After [[spoiler:touching the Stone of Jas]] in "While Guthix Sleeps", all your stats are boosted to 255.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: It was once stated that depending on their domain, most of the gods gained strength from the prayers of their followers. This seems to have been {{Retcon}}ed with the revelation of the [[AncientArtifact Elder Artifacts]], which [[TouchedByVorlons bestow godhood on those who linger near them for long enough]].
* {{Golem}}: Clay golems, rock golems and golems made of rune essence called 'rune guardians' exist, but the knowledge to make clay and rock golems has been lost, while the ways of constructing Rune Guardians are rediscovered during the quest Rune Mechanics. There are also obsidian golem familiars and multiple types of golems that can be hired as crewmembers in Player-Owned Ports.
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Gilded armor is rune armor, but golden. You can also upgrade your dwarven multicannon to a golden version, which is functionally identical, but is definitely shinier.
** Averted due to an update, the golden multicannon now doubles its cannonball capacity.
* GottaKillEmAll:
** The "cute critters" in "The Eyes of Glouphrie". It turns out [[spoiler:they're secretly evil, and you have to find and kill them all]].
** A side quest involves killing many various creatures and getting their bones for an old man.
* GradualRegeneration: You have ordinary RegeneratingHealth (approximately 1 life points per 1000 max life points every six seconds). Additionaly, there are also items and prayers that can increase your health regeneration rate.
* [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Crossbow]]
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: [[spoiler:In one possible ending to the One Piercing Note quest, Anna jumps off of the abbey's clock tower, believing that she has been redeemed and can fly with the Icyene. Unsurprisingly, she dies.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: There's several, but by far the most prominent is the God Wars.
* GreenAesop: "Perils Of Ice Mountain"
* GreenEyedMonster: The ''Do No Evil'' boss Ayuni is a literal example. What this implies of [[spoiler:Amascut]] is unclear.
* GrimUpNorth: "The North" is referenced in several quests. Not to mention the Wilderness, formerly the most dangerous area in the game, and still pretty frightening. In the days when Runescape was ''entirely'' free, the instructions to reach the Wilderness were simply "go north".
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: This is acknowledged during a cut-scene in the "Garden of Tranquillity" Quest, where a "veteran" guard explains to a new recruit that the life expectancy for a Falador guard is about 30 seconds. Right on cue, a high-levelled "player" comes and slaughters both of them.
* GuideDangIt: In order to read a bookcase near the Fight Cauldron, players must find a Ga'al known as [=TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot=], which requires them to donate [=TokKul=] to a coffer outside the Fight Cauldron, and then use a Ring of Visibility on a Ring of Stone while wearing an uncharged Tokkul-Zo with a seemingly arbitrary amount of obsidian shards in their inventory[[note]]The current [=RuneDate=] (shown in the Player-Owned Ports logbook) divided by 10.[[/note]]. None of this is even hinted at in game, and he was only found after 5 months thanks to hints from a Jagex Moderator.
* GunsAkimbo: Achieved by dual-wielding two crossbows. Wielding ranged weapons in both hands enables the "Unload" ability, which can deal massive damage against an unwary opponent.
* GunsInChurch: Averted with Entrana, where weapons and armour are banned. Played straight everywhere else.
