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MMORPG by Jagex ltd. It's browser based, and much enough of it to be a hook is free to play. Uncommon in its quests being more elaborate fetch quests held together by some surprisingly good story lines than the usual "Kill X Of Y", which is instead given a separate skill. Often critiqued for its graphics and considered the laughing stock of MMORPGs, but excellent for a more casual player, especially considering the low price (with no added costs for sporadically cancelling and re-instating membership), and the quality of the free content.
As a result of this, the game holds the official Guinness world record for largest free MMOG.
Official site: http://www.runescape.com/
Tropes used by Rune Scape include:
- Abnormal Ammo: The fixed device, which shoots dyed toads. There is also explosive squirrels called Chinchompas, and lizards that can act as flamethrowers.
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Most end game itmes. Rings are one of the best examples, as a +4 range bonus (usually out of 200 or so) will cost you over a million coins.
- Aerith And Bob: Bob the Jagex Cat, Bob's evil twin also named Bob. and Bob of Bob's Fabulous Axes all share a game with people called Zemouregal, Azzanadra and Zaros. Also, player character's names can have this effect.
- Air Guitar: An emote
- Allegedly Free Game: Many skills, quests and runes are only available to those who pay. Actually, "many" would be the understatement of the year. The free part of the game is probably less than 5% of the total game, and free players have severly limited options when it comes to training, bank space and get an update once in a blue moon.
- Anchors Away: The Barrelchest anchor, which can be used as a weapon
- An Interior Designer Is You: Courtesy of the construction skill
- Animated Armor
- Anvilicious: Perils of Ice Mountain, so very much. So bad you may choose not to finish the quest.
- A Plague On Both Your Houses
- Artificial Stupidity: Oh so many examples. Namely, that none of the monsters can seem to figure out to just walk around the table from behind which the player is shooting arrows at them.
- Bad Is Good And Good Is Bad: Subverted by Evil Dave.
- Bald Of Awesome: Saradomin. The Wise Old Man.
- Bank Robbery: The Wise Old Man.
- Batman Gambit: The entire plot of Hunt for Red Raktuber.
- Big Bad: Several quest lines have these emerging. The Mahjarrat seem to be competing for this spot in particular, Lucien, who steals not one, but TWO artifacts of the gods, with the intent of becoming a god himself. and Zemouregal, who's tried to attack Arrav for a second time using an army of zombies.. One quest line has you defeat Bandos, an actual GOD, albeit indirectly and another haspenguins.
- Bilingual Bonus: The Burthorpe Soldiers, who speak in Latin.
- Blessed With Suck: Zanik.
- Boss Banter: Nomad.
- Broken Base: Jagex made the bold move of eliminating all means of large scale private wealth transfer in an effort to combat bots and gold farmers. Among other things, this meant no more trading items worth more then 3k and no more unconstrained pvp combat in the wilderness. This led quite a few people to quit "Ruined Scape".
- Broken Bridge: See Missing Secret below.
- Capital City: Many, such as Varrock, Falador, and Ardougne. Not to mention Lumbridge, capital of newbies.
- Capture The Flag: Castle Wars
- Chained To A Railway: Zanik in Another Slice of H.A.M.. Also justified by the fact that trains are a relatively new invention in Rune Scape and so Sigmund isn't aware that it's a cliche, and theres a good storyline reason for it.
- Chain Of Deals: "One small favour", and a shorter version in the Fremmenik Trials.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: With enough skill in combat, you can punch through armor with your fists, kill people unarmed, and block weapons with your bare hands.
- Christmas Mode: Special events happen every Halloween, Christmas, and Easter and all give out appropriately-themed costumes, emotes, and items.
- Circling Birdies: Used when anyone is stunned.
- Commonplace Rare: Many examples.
- Continuing Is Painful: Dying will make you lose all you were carrying but your three most valuable items (that is, what's worth most to sell to a store). Certain times will make you lose everything upon dying.
- Control Room Puzzle
- Convection Shmonvection: But actually falling into lava doesn't do much damage either.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: Saradomin is the obvious answer. Stained glass, monks, even church organs.
- Cool Chair: Thrones in Construction, such as skeleton thrones and demonic thrones.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: "But We Can Fight".
- Also a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming, considering that this is unlocked when the city of Dogresh-Kaan is convinced to fight against a god. A GOD! Knowing they'd all die, this music seems really deep. Believe me, this sounds a lot less Narmy if you've played this far.
- The true Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming is in the same quest thought, during the cuscene with Zanik in the caverns, and then after you defeated the avatar of said god. The music makes things even more heartwarming
- While Guthix Sleeps. Stone of Jas. Two Tormented Demons. Final Destination.
- How was Temple Desecrated not mentioned yet? Unlocked when you fight the Balance Elemental.
- Crystal Spires And Togas: Crystal saws, seeds and bows. Made by elves, of course.. And an enormous WALL around the (currently unaccessable) Elven capital.
- Desperation Attack: Dharok the Wretched's armor set effect. Many a player have died to a sudden 70 thanks to this.
- Dramatic Wind: While holding a 2-handed weapon
- Dog Stereotype
- Dual Wielding: The defenders, Torag's Hammers.
- Easter Bunny: Played around with. In 2009 Easter event, it turns out that the Easter Bunny is actually a rabbit wearing a rabbit costume.
- Elemental Crafting
- Epic Flail: Verac's and Ivandis flails.
- Epileptic Trees
- Everythings Better With Penguins: Someone at Jagex definitely likes penguins too much.
- Eviler Than Thou: After seeing the horrible acts the demon Agrith-Nar is capable of in Shadow of the Storm, Evil Dave decides this is too evil even for him.
- Fantastic Caste System: Tz Haar who divide into 4 castes; One consists of hunters, one of guardians, third one consists of scholars and mages and the final one consists of workers and architects.
- Fetch Quest: Oh so many! Played with in 2 quests.
- Fifteen Puzzle: Actually a 24 puzzle.
- Fishing For Sole: Boots and gloves can be caught when fishing with a big net.
- Fishing Minigame
- Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle: Recruitment Drive Quest.
- Game Breaker: Been shouted at various points in time. Ice Barrage, Dragon Claws, and Godswords being examples. How much they actually were game breakers depends on the person, but always consider that the magic shortbow was once called this.
- Gameplay And Story Segregation: Often played straight but often subverted to Gameplay And Gameplay Segregation.
- For an example, you have to hunt a few types of creatures instead of killing them which is justified only by a few creatured like chinchompas.
- Gas Mask Mooks: Mourners.
- Genie In A Bottle: A random event.
- Goddamned Bats: Wild dogs in Brimhaven dungeon. And Shadows in the temple of light. Well, there are probably dozens of examples.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: The Gods, And Zaros has been contacted as a result of this.
- Grandpa God: Saradomin.
- Grappling Hook Crossbow
- Grim Up North: "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".
- Harmless Freezing: The God Wars dungeon and combatants inside seem to be perfectly fine after being frozen for thousands of years. Subverted as well, as the Ancient Magic Spellbook's Ice Spells are certainly NOT harmless.
- Hellhound
- He Who Must Not Be Named: Zaros
- High Class Glass: A Tz-haar in a play.
- Homing Boulders: Quite frequently, in fact. Happens to most projectiles.
- Horny Vikings: The Fremennik.
- Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
- Hulkspeak - Goblins, trolls, ogres etc.
- Hyperactive Metabolism
- Idea Bulb: An emote.
- Ignorance Is Bliss
- Impaled With Extreme Prejudice
- Improbable Power Discrepancy: Apparently, giant ants are much more dangerous than barbarians wielding large axes.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Thisa game has so many puns (especially with hands) that it's often ridiculed.
I need to make some furniture, could you lend me a HAND?
Haha. Very funny.
- Indy Ploy
- Infinity Plus One Sword: Several, the Godsword fitting the trope best. Which is 4 swords in 1, so... Infinty Plus Four Sword?
- Instant Death Radius: Tztok-Jad, The Corporeal Beast. Mind you, some people Dharok the former successfully for fun.
- Interspecies Romance: Many players's interpretation of their character's relationship with Zanik.
- Item Crafting
- Joke Item: Several, specially the Holiday items. Ironically, some of these are now the most valuable items in the game.
- Justified Tutorial
- Karma Meter: At least two quests let you choose which god to side with. Subverted in that whatever you choose has no real impact outside of those quests.
- Killed Off For Real: Duradel, Turael, Cyrisus, Sloane, Harrallak and Hazelmere. Players are currently waiting for their Roaring Rampage Of Revenge. Also Sigmund in 'The Chosen Commander'.
- Kill It With Fire: Without the proper protection, dragonbreath REALLY FRICKEN HURTS.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: So much that there's even a thieving skill for it.
- Krem Quay: Morytania, Lumbridge Swamp, Ullek ruins, Poison Waste etc.
- Last Of His Kind: Thurgo though you do find another one., General Graardor
- Leitmotif: Goblins have one, H.A.M menbers have one, and many others have one too.
- Lethal Lava Land: Inside Karamja Volcano, parts of Wilderness etc.
- Level Grinding: The game is full of ways to do it, and is the only way to really reach the higher levels.
- Light And Mirrors Puzzle: One of the hardest quests has quite a sadistic version of this. COLOURED lights and mirrors, which is much worse than it sounds, all the while being attacked by shadow monsters.
- Load Bearing Boss: Bork.
- Lord British Postulate
- Lost Marbles Quest: Trope Namer.
- Magick
- Milestone Celebration: "Recipe for disaster".
- Missing Secret: Acts as a form of Gameplay And Story Segregation in that many more cities and civilizations exist in the background than have actually been coded into the game. As a result, an absurd number of major cities and entire nations (Most prominently Prifddidas, Menaphos, and Arposandra) are in isolation, be it mythic or overtly enforced by snooty border guards who will tell you that the place is 'closed to outsiders'. If an update eventually rolls around that lets you in (as with Keldagrim or Meiyerditch) this becomes an example of Broken Bridge: you'll still have to do a quest to get in and the people inside will be fearful or distrustful of outsiders. And the city will still be full of places you can't access.
- Mithril
- Mobile Shrubbery: The Penguin's disguises in Penguin Hide and Seek.
- The Mole: Many: King Lathas and one elf faction. More obviously Sigmund and Stranger in Canifis.
- Money Sink: The entire Construction and Summoning skills. Long overdue because of the billions high alchemy was bringing into the game.
- Monster Is A Mommy: Rocs and dagannoths. In quests.
- Multi Armed And Dangerous: Some TzHaar.
- Nice Hat: The party hats. Their rare status makes them Serious Business.
- Nice Job Breaking It Hero: The ends of 'Spirit of Summer' and 'Enakhra's Lament'. Certain parts of various other quests involve the player inadvertantly causing things to get worse before having to make them better. Some, unfortunately, are a result of stupidity being the only option.
- No Fourth Wall: The barkeeper in the Blue Moon Inn in Varrock is aware that Runescape is only a computer game and says as much if the player asks him for advice.
- Noodle Incident: Marion the bartender said that she lost her skill in Archery after an incident involving a Chinchompa named Fluffy and a butter churn.
- No Pronunciation Guide: While there are official pronunciations for some words, there are weirder ones like "Mahjarrat".
- Nothing But Skulls
- Obvious Rule Patch: The restrictions on where you can place a cannon. This is lampshaded in a Postbag from the Hedge by Nulodion, claiming that he just felt as if he wasn't permitted to set up a cannon in dangerous areas.
- Older Than They Think
- One Steve Limit: Parodied in some cases and simply averted in other cases.
- Oracular Head: Postie pete.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Wildly. Created by a race known as dragonkin, which happen to look like Skeksis. Also, as well as various types of coloured dragons, theres dragons made entirely of metal.
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Our Ghouls Are Different
- Our Goblins Are Different
- Our Homunculi Are Different
- Orcus On His Throne: Many villains.
- All Trolls Are Different
- Paper Thin Disguise: Both averted and played straight.
- Phantasy Spelling: Vampires and Vampyres both exist, but the two are fairly different. To be more specific, Vampires are feral monsters, while Vampyres are more civilized. But that wouldn't stop either of them from chowing down on your neck, given the chance.
- Physical God: The Mahjarrat, especially Lucien after he acquired TWO artefacts of the God's, both with immense power.
- Pirate Parrot
- Planet Of Steves: Pollnivneach, where everybody's name is Ali.
- Player Punch: Players who have become fond of Hazelmere the ancient gnome mage, Cyrisius the fighter, Ghommal the giant door man, Sloane the Strength master, and the Slayer Masters Duradel and Turael may feel like they've been punched in the gut when all of those people die confronting Lucien during While Guthix Sleeps.
- Plot Induced Stupidity: Several quests involve you being quite gullible. Of course, you can not be gullible, but you can't finish the quest by not being gullible.
- Plotline Death: Quest NP Cs seem to suffer from these. Others, including players, will be perfectly fine. Except during the quests which need you to die. Still fine afterwards though.
- Poisoned Weapons: Daggers, spears and ammo for ranged weapons.
- Port Town: Several of them: Phasmatys, Sarim, Rellekka etc.
- Power Trio: Saradomin, god of order (superego), Zamorak, god of chaos (id), and Guthix, god of balance. (ego)
- Public Domain Character: King Arthur, Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood, etc...
- Punny Name: White knights, some druids, etc.
- Rage Against The Heavens: The cave goblins' questline runs on this trope. Justified somewhat in that the cave goblins' former god falls somewhere between Blood Knight and God Of Evil, although all of the other gods take a PR drubbing as well.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: You can equip any combination of clothes you want. ANY. Keep in mind that the equipment in this game ranges from blue armor to magenta robes to mime costumes and everything in between.
- Recurring Traveller: Bob the cat, Elfinlocks.
- Relax O Vision: Parodied
- Reset Button: Unless you want the entire world to be rebuilt from scratch, do not break the Edicts of Guthix.
- Ret Irony: Turael mentions during While Guthix Sleeps that he may retire soon. He dies during the quest.
- Reverse Grip: The Dragon dagger and the Keris.
- Rodents Of Unusual Size: Giant rats.
- Ruined FOREVER!!!: Fans were screaming this every update, especially around the Real World Trrading Updates. Jagex has begun Lampshading this with T-Shirts declaring it.
- Running Gag: There are several references to the short lifespan of guards.
- Sacrificial Lamb: In In Search of the Myreque, you're introduced to several of the resistance group against Morytania's vampires, and all of them are given backstories and motivations for joining the resistance. And then two of them are killed when the villain of the quest shows up.
- Sacrificial Lion: In While Guthix Sleeps, NP Cs that the player has probably spent a lot of time with during previous quests, Slayer tasks, and so forth are killed by the Big Bad to let the player know just how serious this situation is.
- Screw Destiny: Happens in the Chosen Commander quest.
- Scrub: Lots of them. Use anything to keep yourself from dying easily and you will, at some point, be called a "defense noob," "prayer noob," "food noob," etc.
- Sealed Evil In A Can: Mother Mallum, mahjarrats.
- Selective Condemnation: So prevalent that even Lampshade Hanging is done to that.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Many characters in While Guthix Sleeps quest.
- Shape Shifting: Mahjarrats can change their forms to whatever they want, which ends badly for Jhallan in 'The Tale of the Muspah'- he has a nightmare while he hibernates and transforms into a Muspah, a mythical beast in Mahjarrat culture, which takes most of his strength.
- Shifting Sand Land: Kharidian desert.
- Shout Out: Plenty:
- Star Sprites look suspiciously like Teletubbies. The terminology for when a star is mined through completely is 'tubbied'.
- There's also a few dozen Monty Python references, although not usually in the form of a character.
- Sinister Scythe: A holiday item.
- Slippy Slidey Ice World: "Myths of the White Lands", and Trollweiss.
- Space Compression: Cities, towns and other settlements take almost as much space as forests, even though largest cities have the size of a medium-sized village. It takes only less than half an hour for a player to walk from one end of the mainland to another. Yet the manual, NPC stories and historic tales might leave the impression of large cities and vast lands. Very notable example is Burgh De Rott. Vampyres think that town is deserted, but it's less than 100 meters from the capital of Morytania where town should clearly be seen, especially for the fact that flying vyrewatch approaches very close to the settlement.
- Stalked By The Bell
- The Starscream: Zamorak is a successful version of this to Zaros. Lucien also serves as Zamorak's Starscream.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Why won't friendly NP Cs send players to investigate things first since players come back to life all the time?!
- The quests's plotlines never involve you dying. You can die in them, but it's not meant to be a part of the story. And in the Blood Runs Deep quest, in which you DO die as part of the quest, twice, you don't come back like you normally do, you come back in a different way.
- Summoning Ritual: Some of the quests include this.
- Summon Magic: Subverted since summoning is not part of the magic skill.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: During Nomad's Requiem, when you fight Nomad he screams 'You can't hide from my wrath!' when he shoots of an attack which always does 75 damage. Guess what? You CAN DODGE IT!!!. Hide behind one of the pillars. Being Genre Savvy has never been so helpful in a video game.
- Swiss Army Tears: Any adventurer that drinks from the Tears of Guthix will improve in the area that he/she is weakest in, because Guthix is the god of balance.
- Tactical Rock Paper Scissors: Melee->Ranged->Magic->Melee. In theory.
- Take Your Time
- Tap On The Head: Citizens of Pollnivneach can be easily knocked out with blackjacks. Bizarrely, attempting to knock someone out with your bare fist gives the same message as trying to use any weapon besides a blackjack: "You need to find a different weapon. You want to knock him out, not kill him." Apparently, bare fists are deadlier than wooden clubs.
- That One Boss: Several, although Nomad has taken up this mantle as the game's champion of this trope. Possibly justified in the fact that several hints point to him being a Mahjarrat.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: Guthix is the most powerful being in the universe, perfectly capable of solving every problem in the world in two minutes, but instead of doing so, he chooses to take several-thousand-year-long naps.
- They Changed It Now It Sucks: The 12-10-07 updates.
- This Page Will Self Destruct
- This Trope Is Bleep: Though changes of late have made this more of a Scunthorpe Problem, since definite "cuss words" are permitted more often, but certain others are not. (Example: "Phone") Of course, this may have been resolved, also.
- Title Drop: Quite commonly in quests.
- Too Much Information
- Training Dummy
- Trial And Error Gameplay: Underground Pass has a rather sadistic version of this, where you have to guess which panels are safe for you to walk on, and which aren't. You take 15 damage for each wrong guess, and the path is different for each person. Lucky for This Troper, his path was the most natural one - go straight...
- Turns Red: Some of the quest bosses.
- Urban Segregation: Varrock, Ardougne and Keldagrim.
- Vader Breath: Mi-Gor, who coughs when he speaks.
- Vendor Trash: Lots of items. In fact, some minigames and aspects of the game have items specially designed for them.
- Video Game Stealing: The Thieving skill.
- Vigilante Execution: Zanik in "The Chosen Commander".
- Visible Silence: Parodied in one quest.
- War For Fun And Profit: Most of 'Royal Trouble'.
- Walk It Off: But you'll be doing that for a long while, directly proportionate to your max Hit Points.
- Wall Master: Wall beasts.
- Who You Gonna Call: "Big High War God!"
- Winged Humanoid: The Icyene, Vyrewatch, and Aviantese
- Whatevermancy: The Culinaromancer, a mage who draws his power from food.
- Wham Episode: While Guthix Sleeps
- What Measure Is A Non Human:
- When Trees Attack: Ents, undead trees and the Jade Vine if left too long untrimmed. Ironically, the latter were almost driven to extinction because of the amount of slayer experience they give upon death.
- Whip It Good: The Abyssal whip.
- Whoring
- Why Did It Have To Be Snakes: Anyone scared of spiders, stay the hell away from the 2009 Halloween Event. Seriously.
- Wizard Needs Food Badly
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Trolls discard some valuable stuff.
- Your Money Is No Good Here: The Tz-haar caves, Tai Bwo Wannai village.
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