RuneScape Forum Archive | The Search for the Partyhats

Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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"NO! Don't do it! Don't doooo iiiiiitttt...." Bob broke down sobbing and fell over Bill, bawling hysterically. "N-no! It can't b-be! D-don't! PLEEEEEEEEAAASSSSEEEEEE!"

Bill patted Bob's back awkwardly and then gently pushed him off. Before either of them had time to say anymore, the same voice they heard earlier boomed across the land of RuneScape, and Andrew spoke to them again.

"Bill and Bob, you have fought valiantly," said Andrew. "But you have allowed your friends to be banned for you rather than face me yourself. Take your friends' loot with dignity, and, Bill... on this night, join me in the Haunted Woods... and confront your fate. If you have not given yourself up, then I shall ban every last man, woman, and child that tries to conceal you from me. You have one hour."

Canifis-December 27, 2011...

Bill and Bob said their tearful goodbyes in Canifis and then Bill made his way east to the Haunted Woods. He was not quite sure what would happen once he was banned, or where he would go, but he was willing to take the risk.

There were no vampires or other monsters in sight in the Haunted Woods, probably due to Andrew's presence in there.

Bill was also not sure where to go. He stood in one spot for at least ten minutes trying to figure out which way to go, only until he had been standing there for twenty minutes, when a sign sprouted from the ground, which read: "NOOB! GO THIS WAY TO CONFRONT YOUR FATE!" and a sign pointed down a long path was next to that.

Bill followed the path until he came to the outskirts of a clearing, where he saw many moderators around the outside, all watching a man in the middle of the clearing intently: Andrew.

"No sign of him, m-my Lord," said one of the moderators in front of Andrew. It was Pauperson.

Andrew sighed. "I thought he would come." He turned to look at the rest of the moderators, glancing at Poppy as he did so, bowing her head low.

Bill decided that it was now or never, and he walked out into the clearing.

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Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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Bill saw Andrew's head twitch and then start to turn. He turned and his whole body faced him, his pale-white face emotionless. Behind him someone was yelling, "Bill?! NO! WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE?!" It was Bob.

"What?! Bob?! What're YOU doing here?!"

"I came to stop Andrew myself but they tied me up--"

"Silence!" spat one of the moderators, and Bob was silent.

"Bill..." Andrew murmured quietly, just barely audible over the low wind. "The one who has managed to single-handedly annihilate my company.... Come to be banned forever...."

Bill closed his eyes slowly at the sight of Andrew's staff being raised. He waited, and he could hear Andrew's voice quiver slightly before screaming, "DELE ISTA MIHI!"

There was a flash of blinding white light and then everything left him.

Somewhere-Date unknown...

Bill woke up face down on the floor. He appeared to be in a building of sorts, and the carpeted floor felt nice against his face. He sat up slowly, rubbing his eyes, trying to adjust to the bright light.

He had been here before... but when had he ever been here? It was a large, empty room with nothing in it but a lone desk in the center, whereupon a "computer" thing sat.

He stood up and looked around. When he looked down, he was alarmed at the sight of what was once underneath him. It was a rock, but it did not seem like any ordinary rock; it was bloodied and charred, and was mysterious pink stuff coating it. When he went to reach for it, a voice spoke to him, "You cannot help it."

Coming out from the shadows was Moderator MMG, alive and un-banned. He was smiling and walking over to Bill.

"Bill... you... you...--"

"But you're banned!" Bill said abruptly.

"I am, sadly. However, that is on the game. We are not in there anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

"Walk with me, Bill," MMG said, and he led Bill over to the desk and sat down in front of the computer, Bill on the opposite side.

"Where are we?"

"JAGeX Headquarters."

"What?! You mean--wait--what?!"

28-Jul-2011 19:18:07 - Last edited on 28-Jul-2011 21:25:29 by Noob Twinz 5

Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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"Yes, we are in JAGeX Headquarters. Have you ever wondered what, or who, JAGeX is exactly?"

"Well, they created RuneScape, right? They created the land that we live on."

"Kind of. But when you and Bob teleported from RuneScape, you came here. Here, to the real world."

"R-real world? What?! RuneScape is the real world!"

"'RuneScape' is only a computer game, Bill. Surely you must wonder what people mean when they say, 'content', or 'updates', or 'unreleased items'."

"No, because JAGeX is, like, the god of RuneScape. You guys release the stuff!"

"No, we just own the game. 'RuneScape' is a game on a computer, that children and adults can play worldwide."

"What do you mean?"

"Have a look at this," said MMG, and Bill walked around the desk to stand over the computer, watching as MMG opened something up that said "RuneScape" over the top. He opened something else and then two boxes came up, one asking for a username and the other asking for a pass-word.

"See, you can log on to your 'RuneScape' character, customize it, and do all sorts of stuff.

"Well, then, who controls me?"

"No one. You have become too powerful to be controlled by anyone. You can control yourself, as can Bob control himself."

"Well, what about Andrew?! He won!"

"Hmm, well I think you better take a look at this." MMG made letters appear on the screen that said "Bill" by clicking the keys on the board underneath the computer. He pressed "Login" and then they saw a character laying on the ground, motionless, as Andrew screamed in triumph.

"We've won!" he yelled to his moderators, and they all spammed the screen with random messages. "Wait!" Andrew said suddenly, and they all quieted. He pointed to Moderator Poppy, "You, go and check if he is banned!"

Bill watched as Poppy walked over to his character and lean over. She said, "*whispers* Are you at JAGeX?"

MMG typed back, "*whispers* Yes, I am at JAGeX."

"He is dead!" Poppy called to Andrew, and the moderators roared even louder.

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Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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"Then let us all log off and go to the pub down the street! In celebration! My treat!" Andrew yelled, causing the moderators to spam once more.

"How do we stop him?" Bill asked, in the real world.

"You must both log on to your 'RuneScape' characters and face off once and for all. Only you can do this, Bill."

"But I don't even know how to use one of these computer things!"

"Do not worry, Bill. I shall teach you while Andrew and the moderators get drunk. If Andrew is intoxicated, it will make it easier for you to defeat him."

And so MMG taught Bill the ways of the computer, while Andrew and his moderators were getting drunk at the local pub.

Bill, only after about twenty minutes of being lectured, all but mastered the computer. He was feeling extremely confident and ready to finish this, though he was still a little slow at typing on the keyboard.

"To the victory of JAGeX!" Andrew said meanwhile, raising his glass. The moderators roared with triumph and they all downed their ales.

As Andrew was starting his sixth mug of beer, the door to the pub was slammed open: Bill had arrived. Andrew sobered immediately and stared at Bill disbelievingly, mouth agape.

"Ice Barrage!" Bill shouted, swiping a stick through the air.

"No, no," MMG whispered to him, "you're supposed to do that in-game, not here."

"Oh, right."

Bill turned and ran from the pub, sprinting back to the Headquarters, knowing Andrew would be right behind. Andrew rose from his barstool and called for his moderators, and they charged from the pub, chasing after Bill.

"MODERATORS!" he screamed. "GET TO YOUR COMPUTERS! NOW! MEET IN VARROCK CENTER IMMEDIATELY!"

They flooded the building, the man at the front desk of the lobby shouting at them to stop running. Bill ran down the secret passage to the main control room in the basement, back to his computer. When he got there, MMG with him, he quickly logged onto his account and made his way to Varrock.

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Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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Varrock center-December 27, 2011...

It was just barely breaking dawn by the time Andrew and the rest of his moderators had made it to the center of Varrock. Bill was there, waiting, and he had his full set of Ahrim's robes on, with an ancient staff.

Andrew blew up the fountain so they had a clear view of each other and they began to circle around where the fountain once was.

"Moderators, away!" Andrew called, and the moderators did not hesitate to back well away from the ascending duel.

"You're now truly vulnerable, Andrew."

"HA! You think you've destroyed all of my partyhats?!"

"I have, and you, yourself, even destroyed the last container of your building!"

"YOU LIE!"

"I think not! On that night when you tried to ban me, Mark Gerhard was there, watching, and he saw as the brick shard was forced from your hand and inserted into me!"

"MMG was probably just waiting for the show! I, myself, was ready for a good laugh!"

"But you're wrong, Gower. MMG was never yours. He was always loyal to his players, never you!"

Andrew stumbled slightly over his robes at Bill's words but continued to circle the latter, the tension building.

"He left me a potion and I watched as he was inducted into the role of CEO, and I even watched as he tried to remake you after you banned yourself!"

"Now why would MMG be leaving you a potion?"

"I just told you! And Mod Poppy was there, and she told him all about how I was the final container! That you mistakenly placed a shard of JAGeX inside me!"

"That never happened!"

"Then what happened to the brick that you were holding?! I knew you went back there, to my house, but you couldn't find it, because I had it, in me! There's a reason why Bob and I could see what you were doing at JAGeX every time we destroyed a partyhat!"

"MMG left you that potion by mistake! It was my mistake to tell him where I was, because I knew you would come to. If he had known you two were eavesdropping, he would never have dropped it!"

28-Jul-2011 21:24:59 - Last edited on 28-Jul-2011 22:13:06 by Noob Twinz 5

Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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"The point is, Gower, JAGeX is vulnerable once more! Like it was back in 2001! So now I can defeat you, and then I'll destroy the main computer with your profile on it, so you can never come back! And if you leave your own computer for even a second, I will kill you any way, and wreck the computer afterwards! You can't win!"

"That is what you think, noob."

"That's what everyone thinks! You've had no one! No one has trusted you, no one has been on your side! It's always been the players' sides that their on!"

"You dare--?"

"Yes, I dare. And I dare you to ban me now. Because if you do, you will be destroyed, because I am invincible, I have the power to defeat you, Andrew Gower!"

"NO!"

And before either of them had time to properly react, Andrew had yelled, "DELE ISTA MIHI!" while Bill screamed, "MIASMIC BARRAGE!"

Andrew was weakened. His Banning Curse was now going slower than it had ever gone, and the moderators behind him were hit and their lifepoints drained drastically.

Bill had time to cast Shadow Barrage, and then when he ran over to Andrew, the latter had no time to retaliate. Bill grabbed Andrew's staff and turned it on him, and the Banning Curse struck Andrew square in the chest. The co-creator of RuneScape bubbled and began to fade, all at once imploding into thin air. Andrew was destroyed.

Instantly, each and every one of the moderators began to disappear, log out, for their master was now banned.

Bob appeared out of nowhere and ran to Bill, embracing him in a rib-cracking bear hug.

"O-o-yeah, o-okay, Bob. You've made your point," Bill managed to squeeze out.

"Oh, sorry, Bill," Bob responded, wiping tears from his eyes. Bill laughed.

"It's over now! We can get all that we want!"

"Wait a minute! Shouldn't you be destroying that computer thing?"

"Oh yeah!"

Bill disappeared from the scene and logged out. He quickly grabbed the tower from under the desk and threw it across the room, random pieces and parts flying everywhere.

28-Jul-2011 21:38:16 - Last edited on 28-Jul-2011 22:00:41 by Noob Twinz 5

Feb

2012

Noob Twinz 5

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Andrew had appeared in the doorway and charged at Bill, but Bill threw the monitor at the floor as well, and Andrew broke down in tears at the sight of his broken computer.

Bill laughed. Even though it took them seven years to destroy all of Andrew's partyhats, and even though he had to be banned in the process, it was well worth it because now he and the rest of the RuneScape players could get all of the new content they could handle.

~Noob Twinz 5

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Please tell me what you thought of it!

Random thing I feel I should point out - I put little thingies around the word "RuneScape" to symbolize it being a game, however I put no apostrophe things around RuneScape when it was used as a location, not a game. For example, "I wanna go play 'RuneScape'." And, "My home world is RuneScape. WTF is 'earth'?" Bad examples, but I hope it clears up why I put them like that.

28-Jul-2011 22:03:02 - Last edited on 01-Aug-2011 01:11:22 by Noob Twinz 5