In one of the best revenge stories I've ever read, an MMO player kills the raider who scammed them and flaunts their bones for 3 years and counting

Oct. 19, 2023

This Old School RuneScape legend has the bones preserved to this day

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Like the Pirates of the Caribbean Navy displaying pirate corpses as a threat to swashbucklers everywhere, an Old School RuneScape player has held onto the bones of a scammer, who they killed in the MMO’s PvP over three years ago, in an admirable commitment to revenge.

At the time, this would’ve been one of the most valuable items in the entire game, if notthemostvaluable, and the bow is still prized today with a value of over 1.5 billion gold. However, the player who received the drop, Kymberly, broke the LFG code of honor and ran off with the profits, refusing to split it with the rest of the team – even as one member celebrated the payday and the fact they could finally buy their own Twisted Bow.

Understandably aggravated, Shower headed to OSRS PvP that same night, only to run into the scammer once again. Proving that there is some modicum of justice in the world, they managed to kill them. While they didn’t have the bow on them, their corpse did give Shower another trophy: their filthy, scammer bones, which Shower has preserved to this day in the “trophy” tab of their bank.

I reached out to Shower to discuss what happened in more detail. “WDR (We Do Raids) is a Discord server people join to actively look for teams to raid,” they explain. “There is an expectation to split all loot worth over 1m for each player. An example would be a three-person raid, you get something at least 3m or over, you would split. If you got something worth 2m in a three-person raid then the person who got the loot would keep. The Averniiick guy in the screenshots was the guy who originally posted about a raid, and me and Kymberly” (the scammer) joined him. None of us knew each other beforehand."

With a fresh screenshot, Shower confirms that they still have Kymberly’s bones in their OSRS bank to this day, proudly mounted alongside the Long Bone, a rare drop, and under the severed head of an undead dragon, as if to equate the scammer with mere NPC monsters.

The kicker here is that, because duplicate items in your OSRS bank stack up if you deposit more than one, Shower had to hold ontoexactlythis one set of bones this whole time. It would sort of be like putting two identical items into a box, giving the box a shake, then pulling one out at random. You’d never know for sure which one you had, or in this case, whether the bones left in the bank were actually the scammer’s. Granted, normal human bones aren’t a valuable or commonly held item, but you’ve got to respect the dedication.

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They say they only saw the scammer twice after that raid: “A few hours later in PvP, and once more at the Chambers bank.” While Shower isn’t sure if the scammer was ever banned from the We Do Raids Discord, they did get them blacklisted on the community resourceRuneWatch.

They’ve also kept this player, and this playeralone, on their in-game Ignore list, normally used to block out harassers or trolls, just “so I could keep up with the name changes” on their account. Kymberly has since become Virtual xx, and you’ve got to wonder if they know their crimes have been immortalized in a wholly deserved, voodoo-like ritual of vengeance.

Elsewhere, a RuneScape trade gone wrongbarely avoids the “literally murder my cousin” endingas one player reclaims 96 million gold heirloom “to hand down to generations.”

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