Falador Massacre

So I told you all that to tell you this:

Now-banned Durial321 with a handful of other players discovered a bug in Runescape World 111, and caused chaos when he used it to his advantage. Contrary to Rule #4.

RS has been a very busy place since a new skill, Construction, was introduced on May 31. With this skill you can build a house and furnish it. Your house can be up to 20 rooms, each one serving a different purpose. You can even hire a servant. Due to the cost of the raw materials as well as the addition of rooms, it is widely speculated this skill was released to remove gp (money) from the game to counter a possible deflation of prices.

In any event, by June 5 Cursed You was the first to reach level 99 Construction (99 being the highest level of any skill, although you can still grow experience). So Cursed You held a party at his house to celebrate. A well-attended affair indeed. At some point, I guess someone stole the stereo, cause Cursed You started to evict people from his house.

After being kicked out, Durial321 (a formidable player himself with a combat of 115) discovered he had the ability to attack other players, although he was not in the Wilderness (the place players go to try to kill each other). It is important to note that whenever a player dies, he loses most of items he's holding, and the killer has first dibs at the loot.

So Durial, and others, started killing players in and around Falador....and the players, not being in the Wild, had no way of fighting back. Durial admits to killing for rare items (such as a party hat, which was available only during Christmas 2001. Depending on the colour, it sells for between 100 and 300 million gp).

Chaos insued, for the laws of nature were broken. Literally hundreds of players showed up to watch the spectacle. Dozens were killed. Hundreds of millions worth of items were lost. Player and RS Mods showed up on the scene, pleading with people to deposit their items in the nearby banks, to disperse, to be quiet and to go to another World.

Rune Tips has more information on this legendary day, including an exlusive interview here.

...and you thought Atari games were complex.

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