One MMO player spent 3 years building a collection of legendary treasures just to burn it all in one go: “When I click ‘Play Time,’ the game just tells me to touch the grass.”
Nearly three years ago, Old School RuneScape player, Twitch streamer, and YouTube content creator Pen Sir decided to collect unopened reward caskets acquired by completing scavenger hunt-style mini-games called clue scrolls. With over 10,000 boxes of clues amassed, like a dragon savoring his pile of gold, he finally decided to open them, distilling years of work into a delicious shot of dopamine.
The announcement that Pen Sir is “finally going to open this tomorrow [January 3]” immediately made waves in the OSRS Reddit community. It’s a big deal; the screenshot, showing unthinkable piles of coffins, is turning heads. The equivalent would be watching a man arrange lines of dominoes for years and threaten to finally topple the first one.
2007scape from r/2007scape/comments/1q21kor/finally_going_to_be_opening_this_up_tomorrow
Speaking to GamesRadar+ ahead of the big uncork, Pen Sir said that at this point: “When I click ‘Game Time,’ the game just tells me to touch the grass…”
Pen Sir started this coffin drive years ago in hopes of winning an in-game event his clan was hosting. That event never happened, he says, but the coffins continued to pile up. He says he’s only opened one accidentally in all that time, although he once lost 80 due to a PvP madness. “Don’t search the wasteland,” he warns, tipping his hat to Old School RuneScape’s unforgiving PvP zone.
“Really, it’s been years since I discovered any clues, I’m really excited about it,” he says. “The last two nights I’ve slept maybe 1-2 hours, I’m really excited to finally be able to open them.”
Completing clue scrolls, especially on an Iron Man account like Pen Sir’s that can’t be traded with other players, takes a little time and hard-to-find items, but it’s a reliable way to rack up collection log points – the purest way to test your completion of an MMO that isn’t designed to be conventional. beaten. By his calculations, he hopes that around 500 new items will be added to the collection log – including, hopefully, a specific piece of much-loved 3rd Age armor.
“I know most people hate this article, but I would love to have senior forearms,” he says. “Just carrying a super rare item without people noticing is the weirdest flex for me, but it looks fun. Besides the clues, I’m hoping to get some cool mystical twilight coins, dragonstone armor, and the evil chicken outfit!”
Look on it
Finally, opening these things feels “surreal,” he says. “The temptation was crazy, and strangely enough, the simulations helped me,” says Pen Sir. “But I was a little obsessed with it. I would create a new spreadsheet every week with updated numbers on how many items I could expect. Then there was a site (oldschool.gg) that had a simulator and I would try to compare my spreadsheets to the simulation.”
This sounds like a monumental achievement, and it certainly is, but as Pen Sir says, “I guess everything in OSRS is a long-term job.” It’s just the game, and it’s exactly the way he chose to play it, which is its true beauty. These hint rewards were largely acquired passively through more typical achievements and loot collection, but they eventually snowballed into a shower of historical loot. Just another day in the OSRS subreddit.
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