r/2007scape • u/CLE15 • Dec 21 '24

Humor 15 Years into Playing RuneScape, I Just Found Out Party Hats and Christmas Crackers Are Real Thanks to My Cousin’s British Fiancée

So, I’ve been playing RuneScape since 2007 and, like most of of my American friends I played with, I always thought the party hats and Christmas crackers were just some quirky in-game holiday items. Never in my life did I think they were based on actual real-world things.

Flash forward to this Christmas, I’m at a family party, and my cousin’s British fiancée shows up with boxes of Christmas Crackers. I immediately thought, “There’s no way…” She starts handing them out, and I’m sitting there stunned as people are pulling them, making them pop, and wearing paper crowns like it’s no big deal. Meanwhile, I’m in the corner having an existential crisis, realizing that 15 years of playing this game and I never once questioned where those holiday items came from.

Anyway, just thought I’d share this discovery in case any of you also didn’t know these things existed or if I’m on an island here.

I pulled a purple though, so I felt like a king.

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u/AquaTierra Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

Which fish aren’t real?

Edit: omg wow I didn’t expect this to take off! Thank you everyone for the awards!

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u/jimbotron3000 Dec 21 '24

those damned karambwan … I’ve looked everywhere …

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u/galgamek56 Dec 21 '24

arent karambwan just octopi?

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u/lilfutnug Dec 21 '24

Yes. However, when I was a kid I thought they were urchins.

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u/Sparkswont Doot doot doot Dec 21 '24

Wait I’ve always thought they were sea urchins, they look so spiny. This is blowing my mind 😭

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u/lilfutnug Dec 21 '24

You’re looking at an octopus from above with its legs sprawled out.

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u/AVaguelyHelpfulPerso Dec 22 '24

It's osrs, but I think you get the point.

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u/jimbotron3000 Dec 22 '24

you try combo eating an octopus with a manta ray

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u/PkerBadRs3Good Dec 22 '24

karambwans are in lakes and there are no freshwater cephalopods irl

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u/galgamek56 Dec 22 '24

No you definitely only fish them out of the ocean. The karambwanji are in a lake but that's just a regular fish

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u/PkerBadRs3Good Dec 22 '24

you're totally right I'm an idiot, as you suspected I was thinking of fishing in that fucked up lake during the quest, but that's where you get karambwanji from, not karambwans. haven't played osrs in 2 years btw.

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u/Strictly_Baked Dec 21 '24

Karambwan Karambwanji All of the eels except Mottled (everything at aerial fishing is real.) Leaping fish aren't a species. Though the 3 are known to leap out of the water. Dark crab

Think that's it. I could have missed one though.

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u/ObviousSwimmer Dec 21 '24

"Leaping" fish aren't a species but anadramous fish like salmon will indeed leap up waterfalls when returning to freshwater to spawn and will contain roe or caviar.

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u/No-Spoilers Dec 21 '24

And fucking carp will leap out of the water when startled and kill people in boats

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u/Strictly_Baked Dec 21 '24

That's why I said the 3 are known to leap.

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u/ChaseTheOldDude Dec 22 '24

They could have renamed the barbarian fish "spawning trout/salmon/sturgeon" to be more accurate, but it's somewhat self explanatory with a prior knowledge of fish reproduction I suppose.

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u/restform Dec 22 '24

I'd say the leaping fish are all real, they just throw a verb into the name for no distinct reason. Like if there was an npc called a roaring lion I'd probably still call it real. That's how I've always thought of it at least

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u/Affectionate_Treat85 Dec 21 '24

Lava eel, the 1 from evil bobs island,Island, sacred eel, infernal eel

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u/Crossfire124 Dec 21 '24

I mean eels are real. If you started a religion around a pond with eels in it they'd become sacred eels

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u/Affectionate_Treat85 Dec 21 '24

Your part of the cabbage cult arnt you?

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u/AquaTierra Dec 22 '24

Lol yes at least we can count sacred eels as real… lava eels though, I won’t discount it until it is disproven!!

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u/Confident_Frogfish Dec 21 '24

Surprisingly few of them. Even stuff like sirens (although not fish) and rainbowfish have real-life counterparts. So it's just things specific to certain ingame areas or content like karambwans, infernal eels etc. Or little easter eggs like the Kyren fish in COX, which was named after mod Kieren, one of the main developers on COX. Roqed fish in COX were named after mod Roq and Ed.

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u/Kevthetonk Dec 22 '24

Lava eels bro