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RuneScape

I started playing Runescape when I was in the middle of high school, around age 15. I saw the boys in my class playing a game and I asked what it was. They told me it was Runescape, so I made an account to check it out when I got home. It was the start of a full on addiction, until I was about 19!

There was a brief period that I met a noob in game and offered my account to him. He gratefully accepted it. Some time later, maybe a year or 2, I decided I wanted to play again. I tried to log into my account with my original username and password, and to my surprise, it worked! I could see he had actually leveled up some skills. I felt kind of bad for doing this, but I changed my password and locked him out. I then saw I had received a warning and he had tried to sell my account in game lol, so I no longer felt bad locking him out.

I kept playing until I made a semi decent mid level account. I thought I was wise, but I still got lured into the wildy and lost my Bandos armour, worth 40 mil at the time. It was my pride and joy and took me so long to get, so I quit. I remember being lured in the morning and then having to pull myself together to go into work all day.

Then I learned about botting, and I would go to work and keep a fishing bot running to make back my gp (and get 99 fishing!). 99 fishing came, so then I botted 99 thieving. Eventually I got bored of the game, and cheating on it, so I just stopped playing.

Every few years, I'd log back on to check my account was still okay, and that's when I saw that Runescape wasn't Runescape anymore! It looked like I was logged into WOW after their big update, and I never properly played the game again.

OSRS

Somehow I heard that the team at Runescape decided to recreate Runescape as it was in 2007. I was pumped about this and joined around 2017 on a brand new account. I put 3 years of a lot of effort into that account, and long surpassed where I was originally on Runescape. I accomplished lvl 99 cooking, firemaking, woodcutting, farming, and runecrafting too! I have always loved farming and I hated RC until I learned how to do blood runes. It's pretty chill and afk, so getting 99 RC was easy enough while I was studying.

Before quitting part way through 2020 due to boredom and burnout, I finished most quests and most requirments for the diaries. I got 3 pets too, and was even "awarded" the farming pet twice.

2004scape

A week ago, I watched an Autumn Elegy video where he talks about a new fan project called Lost City/2004scape, where they have made Runescape as if it's 2004, and are slowly releasing updates. I was intrigued, and made my own account on 2004scape. I played for about 5-6 hours, training my melee skills, with a bit of cooking, firemaking, and woodcutting. I ran through white wolf mountain and reminisced on when I first became a member, and ran through there just for the wolves to kill me before I even got to Catherby, haha! I decided that if I'm going to play around on RS, I'd rather just play actual RS, which leads me to today...

Today

It's the 3rd of Feb 2026, and yesterday I decided to renew my membership for 14 days and check the game out. I've already chompy hunted, done herb runs, birdhouse runs, some sailing, and now I am eel fishing. I love this game so much although it feels very complicated to get back into. I am going to forget about trying to know everything, and being efficient. I just want to do whatever I want to do, when I want it. If I stick to it, I will have goals to work towards, because it's the nature of the game and part of the fun, but I want to approach it differently so I can just have fun ultimately.

I like to play games to unwind and relax, so bossing and combat has never been something I really enjoy. I much prefer skilling, and I like to train my combat/ranged/magic through slayer tasks. I honestly wish I could say I liked bossing, but it feels like too much risk for me and too stressful on my heart haha.

Goals

Have fun!
Learn sailing [x] and train it up to lvl 50
Finish all quests
Finish all Elite diaries
99 fishing
Train agility more and find a method I like that is a good balance of afk and fun!

Resources

OSRS Wiki