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Deerreek
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This is the story of how the Runescape universe, and possibly the universe we live in, came to be.
Contents:
Post 1: Contents
Post 2: Chapter 1 - Humble beginnings
Post 2: Chapter 2 - The Beginning of the End
Post 3: Chapter 3 - The Unforeseen Epidemic
Post 4: Chapter 4 - Unleashing the Beast
Post 5: Chapter 5 - The Aftermath of the Release
Post 6: Chapter 6 - The Advanced Society and Divine Intervention
Post 7: Conclusions

Added spaces to the "walls" of text for ease of reading on January 7th, 2011.

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Chapter 1: Humble Begginings
In the early 2000s, Runescape, a loosely based life simulation game, was launched. It was to be a game for older children as well as adults, controlling a character with whom they were free to do whatever they wish.
In the beginning, the environment had few options, the characters few abilities, a very simple form of life. The human behind the character had to do everything for it, nearly nothing was done by the game itself. At this time, the human element of the game was the strongest. However, things would soon change.

Chapter 2: The Beginning of the End
The environment would become more lifelike. The characters, more human. Slowly but surely, the characters would become more intelligent. By the mid 2000's, characters were able to do things that require more advanced intelligence with a smaller input from the human behind the character. Sure, the ability to continuously fish fishing spots, or your character able to add strings to multiple unfinished bows may not seem like much at first.
The "human" continuously became less of a factor in this life simulation game. The environment that the characters lived in became more real. The ways that the characters could interact with their environment were plucked straight out of the real world. This game was becoming more of a reality, and less of a simulation.

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Chapter 3: The Unforeseen Epidemic
By the year 2015, stories on the news were heard of people playing Runescape and becoming so enveloped in the reality that was Runescape that they forgot all about their embodiment on Earth, and continued to play the game, unaware that the life that they were living was on Earth, and not in the life simulation known as Runescape. Some were lucky and their power went out from lack of bill payments before they starved at the computer. But for some, it was too late.
The reason that some became so enveloped in the game was because the graphics were becoming so real over the years. The computing system was so powerful that the characters on screen were just like humans. Individual characters began to have flaws. This was not intended by Jagex. The characters that Jagex were designing were so complex that they began to have flaws, minuscule differences between characters. The characters and the environment they lived in were far too complex and intelligent to react the exact same way to each individual character.
This may sound like an unfair advantage for some today, but by this time, people were no longer playing Runescape for the competition. The high scores were removed in 2017. The point of playing Runescape was to escape the suffering that was life on Earth, and live a life in cyberspace. But, unbeknownst to them, the life that they lived was transferring to the character living the life for them.

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Chapter 4: Unleashing the Beast
The game of Runescape in the year 2023 is much different than it was in 2010. Jagex increased their staff tenfold in this time period, to make up for the increased popularity. The size of the game itself was so monumental that modern day Edgeville spanned the same amount of area in the 2010 version as the 2010 version does compared to the 2023 version. Everyone played on one server that could support up to one million players.
There were tremendous amounts of updates, making the game more lifelike. The wildlife of Runescape has living, breeding populations of unicorns, bears, raccoons, and many, many more. Animals could move around the map as they chose. In 2013, Runescape was updated with a sky. Players could choose to sail across the water, or swim in the ocean.
Jagex had stated that they would attempt to continue updating the game for 50 more years in 2010. After a mere 13 years, things were getting far too out of control. When Jagex noticed the swarms on Karamja evolving into multiple different insects based on their environment, and new areas on the map being discovered that they had not coded, they knew they had created a monster. Runescape could live and breathe on its own.
Jagex knew they could no longer control Runescape. They had to let it go, allowing characters to continue playing at their own risk. They could do some things to alter the game, but having very little control over it, Jagex decided to mostly leave it on its own. They sent Runescape on its own into cyberspace, and left it to fend for itself. Though after doing this, they felt that if they had created a universe on its own, it would be inhumane to allow it to destroy itself. They decided to keep the code to access it for themselves, if for any reason they ever needed to do what they could to alter it. And thus, the Runescape universe was born.

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Chapter 5: The Aftermath of the Release
After the release, the humans behind the characters were removed from the system, and no longer able to play the game. The characters that were logged in at the time of the release were the only characters remaining. Characters that were not logged in did not follow the game into the realms of cyberspace. The characters were on their own.
Over the years, Jagex made the characters themselves more intelligent. After the release, Jagex realized that their biggest mistake was making the characters able to learn, and have emotions brought on by the environment. The items that the humans behind the characters owned did not follow the characters into cyberspace. The characters had to use the knowledge they learned from their former human counterparts to survive in the harsh world. This was their form of instincts.
The humans were behind the animals, because the animals already had a language and the ability to understand and adapt to their environment. Jagex made the animals this way because they had no human counterpart. Over the years, however, the characters learned. They stuck together and hunted in packs. They used basic knowledge of woodcutting and firemaking to cook their food that they hunted, or fished. They knew how to do this from doing it when they had a human counterpart, though they did not know that they ever had a counterpart.
The non player characters that were in the environment (or NPC's) died off early because they had no system with which to adapt. With Jagex no longer protecting them, they were not safe and could not protect themselves from the dangers. However, they played a vital role before they died off in haphazardly teaching the characters that attempted to communicate with them a new way to communicate, through speaking. With basic language and survival skills, the Characters developed into a more advanced race. They began to explore their world and live in newly discovered territories.

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Chapter 6: The Advanced Society and Divine Intervention
When the characters began exploring and living in new areas, they began to draw lines specifying their territory. These territories would become forms of countries, that needed leaders. The strongest of the characters would become the leaders, but not forever. As the characters no longer had a constant energy source from Jagex, and were living off their own life force, the first generation of characters from the release began to die.
Those characters with especially good memories could remember that they came from Lumbridge. They could not say specify how they came, but they knew they did. They knew they needed a way to produce more characters, as their life was finite. Jagex, looking in on the society, decided to create a system for creating new characters because they would need it. They made infants spawn in Lumbridge with random genetic information, taking the information from everyone who was living. They would spawn at a rate depending on the current population.
The infants were raised from infant to adult in a training center near Lumbridge. Once they reached adulthood, they were assigned to be either an Elite, a Tradesman, or a Worker based on their performance in the training center. Elites would live the life they chose, training what they like, fighting monsters of their choice, living the high life. The Tradesmen would distribute the goods that the Workers collected and offer various services to the Elites. The Workers would simply work at a resource collecting job their whole life.
Because of Jagex's interference, an idea of a higher power, and thus a religion was started when the characters noticed their wishes being answered, and they worshiped the higher power for this. These religions have branched off into different beliefs of what happened, and this is how Runescape exists today.

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Conclusions:
This is obviously a story I have completely made up, but do you think this is a viable way in which a universe could be created? What is the definition of a universe? Is our higher being just a person with an incredibly powerful supercomputer? I don't know, but I posted this story for people to think about it.
Note: please tell me if I contradict myself in the story, or say things that don't fit. I did my best to make it all make sense.

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