ScapeRune
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ScapeRune is an area consisting of an island and prison, either of which players may be taken to by the "Evil Bob" random event. Some speculate that ScapeRune may be a parallel opposite of Gielinor.
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[edit] Getting there
The player is accosted by Evil Bob, the evil twin of Bob the Jagex Cat. With a "meow" from Evil Bob and a "No... what? Noooooooo!" from the player, you will arrive at Evil Bob's island. If you shout "Aaarrrrgh!" instead, you arrive in the prison. After you get teleported to ScapeRune, a message in the chat window will state "Welcome to ScapeRune". When you return, another message appears in the chat window that says "Welcome back to RuneScape."
[edit] Island
A fishing net may be collected from the beach between the fishing areas, but will not be kept on leaving the island. Catch a "fishlike thing" and use the uncooking pot to make it raw. Talk to Bob and he will eat it if it was caught from the correct area.
If the fish was caught from an incorrect area, Bob will eat it, then say it is disgusting. Each time you feed Bob an incorrect fish, it will take one more fish to get him to fall asleep, and you must keep going to the slave and catching fish to uncook and feed to Bob. For example, if you feed Bob one incorrect fish, it will take 2 correct fish to get him to fall asleep. Making 2 mistakes will require 3 fish to lull him to sleep, and so on.
If the player attempts to eat the fish-like thing, your character will say "Ewww!".
When the fish has been consumed, Bob falls asleep and the player must escape through the portal, receiving some fishing experience, or in some cases, magic experience depending on the action being performed.
If you talk to The Slave after Evil Bob has fallen Asleep, and have a male player character, you have the option to say, "But I love You!" To which the Slave replies, "Our love can never be!"
On reaching the portal, the player is now reminded to collect any dropped items before leaving.
When you leave, you make a raspberry emote at the sleeping Evil Bob shouting "Be seeing you!", and then you teleport back to where you were before the random event.
[edit] History
Originally, on getting to the island, the player was only able to speak cat and required an "Amulet of Humanspeak" from a chest in order to talk to the slaves. While this was an example of Jagex humour based on the Amulet of Catspeak, it wasn't obvious to players who knew nothing about cats. Now, if you ask Evil Bob how he can talk to you, he'll tell you that he's wearing an Amulet of Humanspeak, quite contrary to what it was like then, where you had to get it. This also adds in another piece of Jagex humour on the Amulet of Catspeak in RuneScape. In ScapeRune, Evil Bob is wearing an amulet to talk to humans, attempting to teach the human slaves catspeak, while in RuneScape, humans use the Amulet of Catspeak to talk to cats.
Originally four fish (of the correct variety) were required to leave, later two and now only one.
[edit] Island description
In one of the postbags from the hedge, Evil Bob gives some insight into the land of ScapeRune. Instead of goblins fighting and bickering, they constantly agree and compliment each other. (e.g. "Splendid tie!", "You are completely right!"). Also, there is a ScapeRune version of the evil chicken, the cheery old chicken. According to Evil Bob, he makes you "want to swallow a hairball and enjoy it."
 East side of the island |
 South side of the island |
 West side of the island. |
 North side of the island |
[edit] Prison
The "return key" option, the default action for the key, walks directly toward Prison Pete, with no attempt to navigate around obstructions.
There appears to be 21 balloon animals total. Every animal contains a Prison key, but players must pop the correct one in order to open the barrier. If you pop a wrong one, you have to try again. After getting three correct keys, you are free to escape with Prison Pete, and you will be returned to where they were, gaining a small prize which may vary from relatively few coins, to a fair selection of runes, gems or even some herbs.
It should be noted that the prison bears a striking resemblance to the Party Room in Falador. Most noticeably, the floor designs are the same, and both areas involve balloons. Also, they both contain similar-looking NPCs with "Pete" in their name. These similarities have given rise to the speculation that every location in Gielinor (The normal world of RuneScape) also alternately exists in ScapeRune. Also, as you can see in each building there are levers that do something having to do with balloon animals. With the new update Prison Pete is almost exactly the opposite from Party Pete, one having an afro and the other has no hair at all, one with glasses on without glasses,etc.
[edit] The Spirit Realm
The Spirit Realm is discovered during the Spirit of Summer quest. In many ways it is similar to ScapeRune in that many things are opposite of the Wilderness in RuneScape. For example, monsters do not attack save for one Spirit Beast, also, filling a bucket in the real world empties a bucket in the Spirit Realm which is similar in effect to "Uncooking" fish on Evil Bob's Island.
[edit] Celestial Position
Some people believe this large orrery shows that ScapeRune is actually a planet in the Runescape Solar System. Most believe the larger planet to be Runescape due to its slower revolution around the sun, singular moon, and distance from the Sun. The other planet is much smaller, has two moons, is closer to the Sun, and has an opposite revolution direction and speed. This opposite speed and direction could suggest that this planet has opposite features of the opposing planet.
Also it is known a player much like your RuneScape player exists somewhere in ScapeRune. This is also suggested proof that ScapeRune is its own fairly large planet: a "parallel universe" if you will.
Due to these theories, some people believe the small planet to be ScapeRune.
[edit] Music Unlocked
- Evil Bob's Island
- In the Clink
[edit] Trivia
- After Evil Bob falls asleep, if you try to fish again the slave will tell you she didn't show the location on where to fish.
- After Evil Bob falls asleep, if you talk to the slave you have the option to say "But I love you!" To which they reply, "Our love can never be, sweet {Player Name}." This is possibly a reference to the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Only male characters have this option..
- The player's lines to Evil Bob, "I'm not a prisoner, I'm a free man" and "Be seeing you!" are probably a reference to the 1960s British TV Drama The Prisoner, where the hero was held by unknown powers and had a catch phrase "I am not a number, I am a free man". This phrase was also used on an episode of The Simpsons when Homer Simpson was abducted and taken to a mysterious island after telling lies to get attention on his new website, but it turned out they were true. It may also refer to Iron Maiden's song, The Prisoner.
- At one point there were two people on the island, however; due to an update by Jagex the male slave was removed from the island.
- When logging out and back in on while in ScapeRune, the welcome message changes to "Welcome to ScapeRune.", instead of the usual "Welcome to RuneScape.".
- Upon returning to RuneScape, you receive the message: "Welcome back to RuneScape."
- If a player happens to have a cooked fish in their inventory and attempts to uncook it they will find that they are unable to do so due to a lack of an Uncooking skill.
- If a player attempts to feed Evil Bob a raw fish obtained outside of ScapeRune, Evil Bob asks "What's that? I don't know what kind of fish you eat in your world, but that smells absolutely vile."
- You will be rewarded 700 fishing experience when its says "Fishing level gets better".
- A message comes up when you attempt to magically teleport back to RuneScape, whether it be with simply a Home Teleport, an Explorer's Ring, or any other method of teleportation, with a message showing up saying: "The teleport spell seems to fizzle out before you can cast it. Apparently you can't use these to get from ScapeRune to RuneScape."
- Though you can still manually access Prayers, and the golden circle will still be marked upon the Prayers you select, they have no effect on ScapeRune's plane of reality, and no Prayer points are deducted despite how long the prayers are activated. For example, you can still click Protect from Melee, but no icon will appear and your Prayer points will not be drained. However, immediately after being returned to Gielinor, the prayers selected will automatically take effect and begin to drain your Prayer points. This apparently indicates that either the player cannot properly summon their deity's power in such a world, or the transfer of divine power has been blocked.
- Emotes, from pre-set ones to Holiday ones, can all be performed any number of times on ScapeRune.
- When you fish for a cooked fish, the fishing areas will look pre-High Detail.
- For a joke, after being teleported to Evil Bob's Island, some people stand on the same square as Evil Bob and perform the Stomp emote, as though they are stomping on Evil Bob.
- Jagex eventually noticed that players did not enjoy being teleported to ScapeRune, so the player makes an 'Aaaarrrrggggghhhh!!!!' chat line upon starting the random event.
- ScapeRune might be a reference to the Mirror Universe in Star Trek.
- If you try to eat the fish your player says "Ewww!" in the chatbox.
- Players can use the bank deposit box on the island to send both raw and cooked fish, but they will not be in the bank upon returning to RuneScape.
- Even though you pick up a small fishing net to fish the 'Fish Like Thing', its graphic apears to be the same as the large fishing net mainly used in Catherby.
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Beekeeper • Certers • Drill Demon • Evil Bob's Island • Freaky Forester • Kiss the frog • Grab the Evil Twin • Leo the Gravedigger • Lost & Found office • Maze • Mime • Pillory • Pirate's Combination Lock • Pinball • Prison Pete • Quiz Master • Sandwich Lady • Surprise Exam! |
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Big fish • Candlelight • Dr. Ford • Drunken Dwarf • Ent • Evil Chicken • Exploding rock • Jekyll and Hyde • Lost Pirate • Poison Gas • Rick Turpentine • Rock Golem • Security Guard • Shade • Strange plant • Swarm • Tangle Vine • Tree spirit • Watchman • Whirlpool • Zombie |
