Why RuneScape's First Cartel Collapsed - The Fall of Bluerose13x

[@ColonelloRS]

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[@bearb1asting]

I love RuneScape

[@PunkDogCreations]

Please don't post blasphemous content 0:11 on your channel.

[@stevemyopinion423]

could you trade game gold into real money,

[@elbionleloup]

Fun fact in the french RuneScape community there was a clan called francoscape that used to have the best guide for everything you could think. It was years before rs3 was released. They made good guide for farm and quest like monkey madness. You can still find the clan and some of the wiki online. I can only remember some interaction in 2011 with the clan when i was doing every quest in the game.

[@emillanghorn1367]

who buys this crap . why youtubers even stand for it i dont get it ... ah yess money

[@KingBuilder525]

The story I went in expecting: Player creates in-game item cartel, leading to shady item monopoly and pvp protection racket The story I got: Player with the highest smithing score gets tired of making free items for overbearing, clamoring crowd, everyone looses their minds.

[@BcottStudios]

Dummys making false titles. Dislike! Good video but since the title is misleading, DISLIKE!

[@Nuggette]

@@BcottStudios actually if you really dislike this video then the best thing to do in not interact with it at all. Commenting, likes and even dislikes count as engagement and thus boost the video making the algorithm recommend it more

[@FlantisFroggu]

I suggest getting blocktube to manipulate your recommendations by minimizing your interaction with whatever you dislike that keeps getting recommended

[@jasonthomas1626]

Damn imagine looking at RuneScape today and saying to yourself “I created that games first adamant hatchet… and they. went. wild.”

[@cdub1010]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@CaulkMongler]

“I was a smithing god. Nations moved at the wave of my hand.”

[@bearb1asting]

@@jasonthomas1626 I wonder what they're doing now

[@GrandDukeMushroom]

@@bearb1asting slaving dayjobs probably

[@bearb1asting]

@@GrandDukeMushroom is what it is (not a bot lmao)

[@tragorify]

It's more insane that the the entire system was based on player crafting and then jagex just releases vendors that sell the high craft skill items for lowball prices.

[@SuperChaoticus]

Yeah. Honestly, such a massive change like that is a really d__k move.

[@ThatDudeDeven]

@@SuperChaoticus yep. it kills the economy and the economy *is* the game for a lot of people. I only play WoW at the start of expansions when I can make a lot of gold, then come back at the end spend it on things I couldn't achieve in-game otherwise. I'm not around when the economy is bad.

[@dah_goofster]

@Precursor-b5uisn’t Eve economy just always bad unless you have connections and play huge political games?

[@neoorez5968]

​@@ThatDudeDevenyeah the grand exchange killed the game for me. Stopped playing right around that time which sucks cuz I was 2 quests away from a skill cape and had a handful of 99 skills such as fishing and combat to name a couple

[@niallrussell7184]

was same in SWG. the best was player made, till they made DLC with better than crafted drop from mobs. I was master smuggler on Bria, and used to slice some of the server best weapons - most people had no idea how good some of those were! I had some de-10s that were too valuable to even use.

[@TheJitterbug]

Nick was super awkward and they met IRL but they had no idea what to talk about so they just played RuneScape together. I still find it funny.

[@MagieLamp]

poetic rizz

[@Atylonisus]

South Park also showed off a facet of this trope, where the Sister of the marsh family meets her online "boyfriend" IRL and they have no chemistry

[@Pepesmall]

Like wtf lol

[@miciso666]

sounds like my first gf to. we just where super awkward like. what we even do? so i just booted up my ps2 and then i cooked her dinner :D

[@Despond]

Tragic.

[@odub_]

I remember seeing Bluerose13x mining just north of Al Kharid when I was leveling. She was super friendly and outgoing at the time, and I can recall many months later having another interaction with her where she was pretty short tempered; fully chalked it up to the amount of attention and harassment she got as she powered through her smithing levels, and I remember thinking how sad it was to see that she had gotten to that point. I hope she's doing good and enjoying gaming now, if she's still playing anything. Side note, this video helped me find out that I was the 959th player to create an account - Sucks that someone took my name during the 2017 name release!

[@cloudzack1090]

Yeah my brother had her added, he basically was telling me how alot of people would bug the shit out of her

[@Reaver-One]

I remember when rune was released. I think I was 11 years old. some guy walked up to me at 2 oclock in the morning on a school night. I was so tired, it was like a fever dream. he told me that his buddy found a medium helm that was cyan, from a demon. I thought to myself: "yeah right"

[@matthewcaldwell9305]

did he type that in cyan coloring?

[@ElysetheEevee]

​@@matthewcaldwell9305 Some people use color distinctions, lol. Not everyone is all about the same brainless, "It's this weird neon blue, with the slightest green tint." I don't know why people are so weird about anyone designating colors beyond their basest names. I've been doing it since early grade school. I'm an artist, though. I've met several people who differentiate between shades and whatnot as much as possible, though.

[@KingExtincE]

​@@ElysetheEeveeYour comment makes no sense. In case you're unaware, in RuneScape you could chat in all colors of the rainbow, including Cyan (and actual rainbow text as well but besides the point). Therefore asking if the guy that proclaimed finding a cyan helmet did so in cyan text is a valid, yet unserious question.

[@matthewcaldwell9305]

@@ElysetheEevee You sound like you spend way too much time on reddit cupcake. You could use commands in game @cya and then it would type in cyan coloring rather than the normal yellow coloring. Please stop trying to be rough on a youtube comment.

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

She was such a legendary beast. Great to learn about her history. And unlike most stories, this one wasn't exactly had good or bad ending. She was extremely successful and just faded into obscurity naturally as the game progressed. Now my head-canon is that indeed Runite is cyan blue because of her. Thanks for the insightful video. Quality is awesome as per usual.

[@Knokos]

What do you mean it doesnt have good or a bad ending, they literally lost absolutely everything they had and fell into deppression?

[@oshi4125]

@@Knokos ?? doesnt seem to be that way lol

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

@@Knokos Where's the depression? Things changed, they continued playing until they felt it was needed. And just disappeared the same way they appeared. There's not a lot of drama here.

[@Knokos]

@@Rafa-Silva-Alt This story just talks of the start of this persons story, it doesnt explain the full story.

[@CyrusChennault]

@@Knokosprojection. Just because YOU are a depressed failure doesnt mean everyone else is.

[@shardinhand1243]

from the story she really didint deserve all the hate, people demanding free shit from her constantly would make me just give up on the game and never show up again, or at the very least abandon the character for a new one and not touch smithing again. people can claim she was being selfish or greedy but at the end of the day its suposed to be a game for fun, not a second job.

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

She obviously got pleasure from whatever this was. And compared to a lot of the actual awful stuff people did, this is just some lady filling a niche

[@shigglezz684]

I would never do free stuff. U pay for what u get

[@shardinhand1243]

@@shigglezz684 thats totaly fair you arint obligated to put yourself to work for other people especialy in a damn video game where its meant to be for fun, people demanding that of you are being dickheads, block em bro

[@sdawg58]

I completely understand. I've played games where I have a skill my friends don't have and they'll be pestering mr constantly to craft an item for them or meet them somewhere with an item or they'll be ungrateful. I'll bend over backwards for them and they wouldn't go slightly out of their way to help me. I couldn't imagine having to deal with strangers and entitled player.I

[@shardinhand1243]

@@sdawg58 remember healthy friendships still have boundaries, your friends using you is as bad as strangers, friends or family should know better

[@Baldilocs]

Bluerose called them "new" runes because all the non-elemental runes were added late May 2001 as a magic rework. Huge expansion to magic skill that also removed "EvilMagic" from the skill tab and merged with GoodMagic

[@ScoobyShotU]

Glad I'm not the only one who remembers this fact

[@IronArtists]

​@@ScoobyShotUyou just had to put that like there isn't thousands and thousands of us who played back then and knew that too? 😅

[@IronArtists]

​@@ScoobyShotUyou probably wasn't born in 2001 😂

[@HP-rc7jh]

Yes 👌👌

[@zippehzuppah9046]

Correct

[@kaioken9054]

Im 37 years old, started runescape shortly after bluerose did, I actually played with her quite abit. Myself(Omega999), bluerose, Alchemond, Puffffin and Whodabest. When there were very limited spawns and only 3 worlds you can imagine how tough it was to obtain rune ore. And she HOARDED it with a passion. I remember when she could finally make rune 2hs. They were selling for 1.2m in 2001....easily 100b or more in todays market. I was lucky enough to get full rune from her from being such a close friend. You were either an elite with rune or a bum with addy back then. Just to give a time frame...Zezima probably hasnt even heard of rune scape at this point.

[@danielpowell7373]

Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Played around the same time as you but was a nobody (although was #60 highest magic user at one brief point). I have a distinct memory of rune kite shields going for 1m at one point. High level players were literal gods with an entourage of beggars following them everywhere lol

[@blaze4lifedog]

Im no 2001 player but I went into the wayback machine site and saw that Zezima did actually play it in 2001. He always hung around #20 - #30 position on the hiscores even..

[@jackiet9141]

Lol i remember it all like no tomorrow, I played during the same time, I started before you could bank items and could only bank money, so people would create mule accounts to hold items because you had to carry your items everywhere. Also before the wildnerness came out and the PK system was map wide. I wasn't BR13x's friend but i ran into her alot, and we did some deals for Rune items for coal. My brother was about the 4th to hit 81 cooking on the boards, being one of the first people to not burn Lobbies

[@boingboingboingboing]

1.2m was most certainly not 100b in todays market lmfao

[@davidbrown1573]

Fun fact. 65535 is the maximum integer of a 16-bit address. Meaning gold stacks were stored in 16-bit address format.

[@doorto6152]

I knew it had to be a video game number. Too specific and odd to boot

[@MegaMinecraftchaos]

..sorta 65535 is the limit of a 16bit unsigned integer.

[@MK-jc6zz]

I remember I used to follow her ascent to 99 smithing when I was in primary school, every day I would write in my school notebook what level she was lol.

[@r32juan]

Thats dedication

[@Eitile]

just curious how old are you? im wondering how old she was then and now.

[@redrepublic5557]

Extreme dedication given the age and the fact highscores or the entire website for that matter wasn’t as user friendly, from what I remember.

[@sigurdtheblue]

This is the personality of a hardcore RuneScape player.

[@HonkHill-ev4hk]

@@Eitile most likely in her 20s at the time, and since you can get a 20 year cape now if your account is that old, in her 40s and most likely doesn't care about the game.

[@AnimationsN1]

2001. Aged 11. I went to my friends house, who introduced me to Runescape (Thank you Simon). Not only did I not have the internet, I had no idea you could also play online with other people. I don't recall how long it took, but it wasn't too long before I some how got a PC and hooked up to dial-up. Ah, the endless complaints my mum got from her friends saying they can never ring the house because it's always engaged. This was so long ago, I was reported daily for being a level 3 in the mining guild, people really couldn't fathom a level 3 mining adamant.

[@IronArtists]

😂😂😂😂 yesssssss literally exact same story almost! Remember that playing habbo hotel back then too, had to come off it so mum could use the phone, good ol dial up racket noise too 😅

[@andrewmeyering7343]

Fuck me, dial up. I always tried to shut it up at night so it didn't wake up my parents. We only had one computer and it was in the dining/living room area. Great times.

[@Carnadova]

My mum went back to school when I was around 8-9 and Id sneak on the computer and she would call the house to see if was playing haha She ended up playing with us and made a list of skills I had to get and she would get me members haha I didnt come close but she surprised me one day. I was fishing at barb village and I cut a tree to cook the fish... She told me to try and fletch the log instead. I got all sad and said only members could do that. "Well log into a members world then." She went on my account and even put the knife in my inventory and put me right back... One of my favorite memory's of this game.. She passed away in 2007. and found her account in book a few years later. Still play on that account when I do play.. RIP Carnadova

[@sbp___9865]

@@Carnadova 🥲

[@jacob5115]

@@IronArtistshabbo hotel, oh man. I was young playing that and rs back then. My mom got mad since I already begged for membership on rs, then I used her CC for a shit ton of stuff on habbo hotel. I was decked out though 😂. I had to deny it wasn’t me. She knew though. Great (messed up doing that) times. Great memories though.

[@tbs4ever64420]

I was very new to the game when I met her and she was so helpful. I never realised how famous she was until seeing this video but she gave me some advice for the game and smithed me full set of iron, went out of her way for me to the bank and traded it to me. Bumped into her again smithing north of falador and she forgotten who I was but was still so friendly. She smithed me some adamite gear for the ores.

[@HeroLight-pg7is]

Yes she was so kind I didn't know she was famous either when I first started she did all the same things for me too and at one point I was running ore for her for a while until I wanted to level my own smiting but she was cool about it and still made my arrows for a long time after that honestly she really never asked me for anything other then the materials.

[@Sousabird]

1:57 "Best [girl]friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes."

[@FartShartly]

I like to call people by the wrong name when they get too chummy with me, to let them know I don't actually care about them. "Hi demonik!" "Hi bluetulip"

[@tomiyanki1991]

my mand with that ref, good stuff ron

[@thatguy6789]

Are you dmonik?

[@thatguy6789]

Are you dmonik?

[@SingaporeLyfe]

This is a super deep video, but I might use the word Monopoly instead of Cartel, since technically she wasn't really doing any wrong, but rather had a dominating business plan making use of her available assets and other players' demands to achieve greater wealth... and magic. Really appreciate colonello doing this video, I had seen her name back then but never knew this incredible story

[@wolfy7592]

One and the same

[@bestaround3323]

​@wolfy7592 I mean there technically wasn't anything stopping someone else from trying to farm up smithing themselves

[@wolfy7592]

@@bestaround3323 did you even watch the video? She literally had to offer her services in a way that underpromoted others from getting to her level.

[@MelancholyJoker19]

​@@wolfy7592Then why did others start popping up as the game went on?

[@wolfy7592]

@@MelancholyJoker19 because they made it easier

[@billycross2716]

I forgot all about blue rose. Everyone like hard remembers Zezima but there were a few huge names in rs back in the day

[@IINo1goodII]

Yeah exactly. Fuck Zezima.

[@NecroBanana]

Zezima is a lot more memorable cause he was popular during the Runescape golden era.

[@ggaz683]

@@NecroBanana Yeah no one cares about the blue hog shes a worthless piece of junk

[@theOneTrueCactus]

RIP The Old Nite

[@Tierneil]

I know bluerose first and zezima later. Played when your world options were 1 or 2

[@dionmcneice24]

I remember in high school as a kid in grade 10 hard grinding for 85 mining, then feeling like I hit the jackpot being able to get bluerose to Smith rune items for me. I remember she charged extra rune ore back in the day. It allowed me to sell rune items to kids in high school. Was a wild time.

[@Tasty_Bytes_htx]

That is legendary

[@luckytanuki5449]

As someone who never played runescape, the only thing I learned from this video is that jagex had no idea how to run an mmo in their early days lol.

[@rabrhee]

So true 😁 Jagex had nothing in place to deal with abusers and harassers except one guy (moderator) witnessing it in person and dealing with that name. Then they'd be back 3 minutes later with a new one. No chat records, no IP addresses, it was like it never was intended to have real people playing.

[@MasDouc]

​@@rabrhee yeah but I never really remember coming across that, people were largely really nice back then

[@rabrhee]

@@MasDouc I guess i saw it that way because I was the one moderator :D

[@RaiBread.]

​@@rabrheehey rab, Andrew here. And at the time we weren't a legitimate business. We were a baby start up at best. Nobody forced you to do anything. You couldn't handle being a mod for more then a couple weeks before you started to complain to me about how you can't handle the pressure. We weren't even at 10k players at the time. Well, thankfully you were just temp mod for a children's game. Imagine putting you in charge of anything in the real world only to have you cave under pressure the way you did. You'd last all of 6 minutes on Wallstreet.

[@DeepFriedAlchemy-on4qo]

@@RaiBread. ???

[@noxlunesia]

Blue sounds based AF. A true role model to aspire to, each post shown just shows her as being a pretty reasonable person who just wants some no-bullshit gaming hours. I imagine how difficult that would've been amongst all the middle schoolers throwing around slurs without a moment's hesitation.

[@JIRWINKOGaming]

I don't play RuneScape now, I barely touched RuneScape as a kid way back in the day; so tell me why it's 8am on a Friday and I'm so invested in this community lore for a game I know nothing about!? Great video, very interesting even to someone who doesn't play the game!

[@iVETAnsolini]

Try Sunday night at 8 lol. Never played rs as a kid or now

[@One.Zero.One101]

I never played Runescape but I played another MMO called Ragnarok Online during this time, so I guess that's why I'm interested in Runescape stories.

[@Thesakuraharona]

I know right?

[@pilodrou4213]

What we did back then to see if you had a real two hander was you had to equip a shield, then equip your sword, and then equip your shield. If the swapped in the same tick with no delay you had a real one.

[@netstormuk]

She wasn't hacked, she gave away her items to her close friends. I remember my friend, Silent_UK. He got given rares from her when she quit.

[@noha112]

Sick brag! Congrats on the friend and the totally true story!

[@midasvijfwinkel6116]

​@@noha112 at least these are harmless lies, let it go

[@SuperHovik]

​@@noha112 how can you prove hes lying though?

[@netstormuk]

@@noha112 Why would I lie, literally nothing to gain. Just stating facts.

[@mackelson-vm2ms]

@@noha112 Best part about it, it actually is true, she ended up giving her entire account away, after giving the items out. Typed the password out in chat and logged out letting everyone around scramble to try and log into her account.

[@Eskii_NZL]

Seeing these old school gamers and their ingame fame makes you wonder if they know there is still videos being made about their 2 decade old gaming experience

[@brbhave2p00p4]

As a 2005 veteran, it’s interesting to find out the history before RuneScape 2. Keep up the videos

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

its two diff worlds within the same game, I know about rs2 people we knew, but nothing about rsc

[@redrepublic5557]

Since 2002

[@tonykirks57]

I played RSC before banks were a thing and when there was PK vs NPK. Times were wild.

[@Cooe.]

RuneScape Classic was best RuneScape. 🤷

[@ItUnidentified]

Yeah man i played may 02 until dec 04

[@LimitedState]

You never explained how she was running a "cartel" or "controlling everyone" in the slightest.

[@EggsBenedict-te4nj]

Yeah if anything he makes her seem like the good guy

[@TerminatedAccount.]

Turn on your monitor

[@danielmizrahi9629]

He did, you just assumed it would be 100% evil and malicious.

[@LimitedState]

@@danielmizrahi9629 Oh I get it, you are referring to the cartels that aren't evil and those people who control others non maliciously.... right... MAN WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!??? GTFOH with that bullshit. lmao.

[@LimitedState]

@@danielmizrahi9629 oh you must be referring to those Cartels that aren't evil and control people unmaliciously... Right I forgot about those.. MAN GTFOH with that BS What are you even saying? LMAO xD

[@itsicearmour]

Shoutout Colonello for the quality videos. I don't even know how you find all these things to even make videos about, I long forgot about most of these people/events.

[@Sevarrius]

Oh man this brings back memories. I started playing Runescape not long after release but I was a completely solo player, I didn't frequent any forums and had a total of two people in my friends list. I had no idea who Bluerose was but I remember her name always being near the top of the leaderboards. I was actually fairly high smithing and mining myself at the time, able to mine Runite ore and smith the lowest req rune items around the time dragon items were released. I never progressed further because I mined everything myself and pretty much never went into the wilderness. I certainly wasn't leaderboard material but I no lifed Runescape enough to be combat level 92 at a time when there wasn't a huge amount of people with a higher level whilst levelling every other skill I could as much as possible. I genuinely had ambitions of getting on the leaderboard but ultimately quit about a month or two after the release of the dragon items because I got a girlfriend haha. Haven't touched Runescape since.

[@MeidoInHebun]

I played for a few months around the time the rune items were released and remember hearing her name a lot but I was never close to getting more that adamantite so I never even knew about any of the drama.

[@iseabeck9488]

I was a little lemming of LadyKillJoy. So many big bones collected for her.

[@jolly1559]

this takes me back to running food to gregechidna6 in the lava maze

[@noroom4commies086]

Was friends with her for a bit, i think her introduction to RS was she was in a bad accident and recovering (years) so she had alot of free time.

[@HacksignKT]

who?

[@jayzillawashere]

LKJ rune drop party early in my career. I still remember it

[@NOTAGOVTAGENT]

I asked her to kill me in the wild just to say I did lol

[@zoomingboomer]

I bought a rune 2h back in the day from bluerose. I remember it was in the bank in falador, east bank. Price was 1 million gp. That's all, nothing special, no personal connection! A family member who also played the game actually told me to go to bluerose to get a rune 2h after I asked where he'd gotten one from. It took a lot of farming to get 1 million on classic!

[@KindaLeon]

People used to wear rune longs without a shield and pretend it was a 2h

[@KindaLeon]

Lol I just got to the part where you said so

[@JakeyGhost]

Rune daggers also looked identical 😂

[@tronza87]

it was all fun and games until you met someone with actual r2h in wildy, it was worth the money

[@HonkHill-ev4hk]

@@tronza87 r2h still blew compared to magic in wildy, best way to go when running through wildy was ranged because if they were magic users you could dom them, if they were melee you just had to switch over to mage while running away then start hitting them with spells and watch them run in fear.

[@NoName-vy8vu]

What does this mean in non nerd language

[@Hespus]

I just love blue Rose's signature line "If you act like a dog don't be suprised to get a bitch in return" 😂❤ fkin badass

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Blue: *strongarms the community by demanding absurd amounts of wealth* Community: *funds other miners* Blue: surprised pikachu face

[@Coilzz]

You ga?

[@npviking]

The power of the people!!

[@grandcanyon2]

i Played during the beta in summer of 2000, and in 2001 this bluerose basically controlled the rs classics economy. Was insane for the first year rune 2hands were 1.5mill to 500k by the end of the year a crazy insane amount when you compare it the other rune items the 2hand should have been like 300k starting. The first r2hands were like 5-7mil gp. musahi,zezmia and the others hit 99 smithigng like months later, with musashi hitting 99 smithing 5 weeks later. Basically 4 other smithers hit 99 months after the next close player had only 87 smithing. These other smithers traded and sold r2hands for more reasonable price. Lucky thing with the grand exchange a situation like that will never happen. As you can see in oldschool runescape players can now max and get high totals by buying their supplies in bulk off the ge and selling and trading items much faster.

[@megaconda07]

I feel like it's pretty fair. Sounds like people were getting really greedy about her time and gear. So by asking crazy prices. She could do what she wanted, and since people were still paying these crazy prices, not have to worry about meeting crazy amounts of demands.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

@@megaconda07 yeah but i think it's also fair that people were dissatisfied with it and decided to put that exact same money that would've cost the same as 1 rune kiteshield into funding 10 others who will do it for free instead

[@NatePrawdzik]

I ordered a Factor meal, but all I got were the components and a note that said, "Bring it to Bluerose13x for crafting."

[@SK8Enjoii]

Kids yelling at each other over pixels looks at osrs looks at grown men yelling at each other over pixels lol

[@lbanepa]

And in real life we have football huligans blaa blaa

[@Goosewitdajuice317]

​@@lbanepa football dweebs are just osrs fans if they ever congregated 😂

[@Bonovasitch]

Those are the same kids just older now lmao

[@AuriWolf]

ive watched these videos out of curiosity and ive played a bit of it, i was actually curious where the flat pixel look came from. is it actually a different look or is it presentation? I wasnt really into the game back in the day

[@RSAgility]

@@AuriWolf2000, to like 2005, RuneScape was hybrid 2D-3D graphics. Then after 2005 they went 3D which is the "Old School" most known while "RuneScape Classic" is the 2D original and first version Crazy good times

[@JustinHampton-l5j]

I was there when the game launched, when fletching and membership became available. The rumor was bluerose would smith you a shield for 1m gp, but i was nowhere near that rich. Rune kite as well was monopolized Rune med and lg were what everyone wanted, and there was no scimitar meta since all weapons had the same speed (thus 2h being viable/bis)

[@slayermusiq1]

The crazy thing is that the entire video takes place in F2P RSC. Imagine you achieving 99 Smithing or Mining by manually casting or smithing every single item one by one. According to the archive of tip it there is a comment made on the release date of the Smithing rework, 8 May 2001, that says that Scimitars now require 2 bars. So I think to compensate for the lower required Smithing levels, the items now require multiple bars to make as their price sold to the general store is kept the same. On the release of banks on 26 July 2001 she preferred to use isolated smithing locations? There were only 3 furnaces (Lumbridge, Al Kharid, Falador) and 3 anvils (Doric's and 2 in Varrock, right next to a bank). Since Doric's anvil is the best for walking between the mine-furnace-anvil, I should be best location until the update that you can store items in banks. Maybe because the entire mining-smelting-smithing was completely thrown out the window with banks that made her continue in her ways? Who knows. No link to rsc vet? What is you username on it :D I've only played on 01Scape so far for comparisons and footage for my chronological series :p

[@duandle1358]

Holy shit its him

[@redrepublic5557]

Yo legend

[@I_hunt_lolis]

Hello and welcome to my guide

[@euphoricnostalgia8834]

my rsn was iron wing, started 2001

[@JustinHampton-l5j]

Bluerose probably would've had most ore traded to her, superheated and smithed. Think of it like modern rune essence running - huge community effort

[@MissJenniJinx]

I only had a very vague idea/memory of bluerose as a child playing runescape around the 2005-2006 timeframe but I remember being super inspired hearing about the notion of a famous player who was a girl as a young girl myself and feeling all motivated to try and get super high level in a skill to show I could do it too lmao

[@Earthboundmike]

I love hearing about these things. It's a weird history, Runescape has.

[@ItsJustKaya]

Its like hearing reallife history but with your interests. Literally

[@youtubeaddict487]

so interesting

[@jameswilkes451]

Master Yoda?

[@JarrodsTech]

As someone who joined the "miners and smithers of runescape" (masors) clan in classic, this was some fun history. I remember getting some stuff smithed by whitemagem, never bluerose though. I remember buying my rune longsword for 32k from the guild lol, took me ages to get that cash stack. And then trading 1000 coal certs that I mined and converted for my first rune2h.. Good times.

[@URSTEPDAN]

At 9:33 How did that like button highlight??

[@Saphirx193]

Right!? I've never seen that before

[@vtubersubs3803]

"They didn't know what to talk about, so they just quietly played Runescape together instead" Relatable

[@zundeesteed]

I saw Bluerose13x twice in classic. One being swarmed in Varrock and another time when i was doing dragon slayer she was in the room outside the dragons telling some dude pestering her to screw off rofl.

[@Towelgravy]

14:01 It was actually this practice that made me burn-out from runescape. When the 20th anniversary came around and I realized I could flex by walking around with a 20-year-cape, I returned to runescape of course, so I could randomly do the emote while skilling lol but I was randomly fishing in the guild when someone said "Ah, hold on, I'm currently mining on another account" and I said "Wait.. isn't that against the rules?" and they said "Nope. They changed it" and I didn't believe them until I looked it up, and yep it said there was nothing wrong with playing multiple characters at once. Oh god. So while I was now fishing with my main character, I was also leveling up mining on 3 different characters (and maybe smithing? It's been a while) to make extra money or train smithing on the main guy. I just.. it was too much. Playing like 5 characters at once was too productive NOT to do, but also too much mental energy. After a week I just didn't want to play anymore lol

[@jolly1559]

I was around in this era and have many memories, you could have done a whole segment on the rune battleaxe. It was the smithing exclusive BIS for quite some time. I pked my first rune 2h a few weeks after it came out and later lost it and ended up buying my 2nd rune 2h for 3000 nature runes+materials. nats were 2k each at the time meaning that weapon cost me around 91 max cash stacks

[@CyanUK]

Eyyy another Jolly, wassup!

[@jolly1559]

@@CyanUK Have a Jolly good day

[@gameworkerty]

Runite drops ruining Bluerose's monopoly must have been the worst thing to happen in September, 2001

[@dah_goofster]

I like how her account was “hacked” as if some insider didn’t have the scoop that her account was just an unused treasure trove.

[@SerathDarklands]

I remember when Runescape first came out, I was in middle school and I had a friend that was completely obsessed with it, he'd play on the library computers after school, and he kept begging me to get into it. I finally relented , made an account, and logged in, and after about... Maybe 20 minutes? I decided that it really wasn't for me.

[@EugeneYus]

Oh my god. Hell of a nostalgia trip.

[@Aceace1991]

I remember RuneScape 2 first launched, everyone hated it and didn’t want to covert there accounts over.

[@LucianDevine]

I'm surprised that it took people that long to try and make their own smiths, fueled by the army of miners, to rival Blue the second she said that she was making stuff for her friends only.

[@LPcrazy_88]

This is absolutely wild to hear all this drama. Back when I played RSC I remember going through a long process of getting my hands on my Rune 2H. Took quite a while to get the rune ore, get someone to smelt it, then actually get in contact with BlueRose. I don't remember exactly when I got my 2h but I know at the time there was only 3 names that could make it and BlueRose only asked me for the bars to do it, and I met her at Doric's anvil. I don't remember her being mean at all, just a little stand-offish as if she was super busy.

[@Sassy_Witch]

2:;30 kinda insane. A skill that actually provided money that wasnt slayer. Man I miss those times

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Needs to be a Netflix series for this - "Bluerose" - The First MRPG Cartel.

[@Cthulthu]

I remember her smithing me some rune. This was when Varrock was the main marketplace - where the fountain in the middle is where we all gathered to spam our buys and sells. I would stand there for hours, trading, and eventually I was able to trade in rune ores, and at that point, any rune you smithed was profitable so I would buy the rune ores and get her to smith something for me. She would smith on east side of Varrock which was unusual because it's not as close to a bank as on the west side, but I guess she never needed to bank!

[@nyororin]

All these pictures are unlocking some old memories thank you. Something about fishing for lobsters and swordfish on an island that you could fight lesser demons. I do now remember seeing her name on leaderboards.

[@georgehelyar]

The real challenge was trying to get runite ore from that one node in the wilderness when if you died you died almost all your items. We used to do whole guild raids into the wilderness just to stay there long enough to mine one ore. You couldn't even see if the rock had ore in it, you just had to spam click it for hours.

[@GaldenX]

Thought this was gonna be a grim story but it's actually pretty chill and nostalgic. I remember my days in my old MMO where people and entire guilds made names for themselves where just the mere mention of them got people's attention.

[@LiquidusSnakeX]

Last time I saw her was in 2004 AlKharid bank. Real smart arse that one.

[@HP-rc7jh]

Thought she was a script back in the day never attempted to talk to her. Would just stand there in bank or be running bars

[@MourningDove-bn4dk]

She logged in last year in w1 ge. I had to google her to see that she was one of the original players. Her bio said something about getting 99 magic first.

[@Liam-ci8bx]

​@@MourningDove-bn4dk her bio?

[@mikemarks6136]

​@Liam-ci8bx do you really not understand what bio means? How old are you? Bio is basically a page in the forums that explains what someone is about my lord how have you made it this far on the internet

[@theletterk]

@@mikemarks6136alright mate chill out

[@andrewlacerenza667]

Never played RuneScape before, played very few video games in general, but I find videos and stories like this very entertaining to watch

[@happydaze1721]

"85% of players only want me for what i can provide" Well nooooooooo duhhhhhhh

[@floofzykitty5072]

That's literally what providing a service entail. Imagine if the cashier at the grocer said that to you while you were checking out your items. Like what do you want? A personal relationship with each and every one of your customers?

[@Tomzin20]

@@floofzykitty5072…she meant people only ever act nice to her when they want to cash in favors later. its not the same thing.

[@swedichboy1000]

This is why i am enamored by older MMOS, the player driven stories that emerge from it. The blood plague, the battle of the demon Obelisk, and so on. There is something i like about the early years of MMOs, when games were less refined and alot was left to the players imagination.

[@Sean.Vosler]

Fun random fact... I was the last person to get 99 smithing on RSC. The day it shut down I finally hit the 99 smithing. Sad that it's gone

[@EvanElectron]

🧢

[@tassiasmith]

Oh man, this brings back memories. I started playing RS two weeks before Falador released and was big into mining. I knew Bluerose a little bit; we weren't close, but I'd traded or sold ores to her a number of times. I was never the top miner in the game, but I was in the top ten for awhile, and I met Paul briefly when the mining guild was released. Maybe I'm misremembering, this is over twenty years ago, but I vaguely remember rune items were going to be orange, then it got changed to purple, and when it was finally actually released they landed on cyan. I've got zero clue if it was influenced by Bluerose, but I was really hyped for the change because blue is my favourite colour. I was also an early runite miner, and the highs and lows of mining those rocks in the wilderness were crazy. I had a lot of chases from the depths out to edgeville; also died plenty of times with an inventory full of runite ore in the middle, which was just so beyond frustrating. But if you wanted to make money mining, runite was where it was at.

[@tonykirks57]

I actually have seen her in game multiple times. This is the first time ive ever seen media about her.

[@toddlindemann2933]

Brings back alot of memories watching this. I was Stud690 and was very close to blue back in the day, I along with Lightning [whom i marrued in the game lol] formed the wanderers and was very close with blue as she would always make us the best stuff she was able too - I played the game heavily and stayed up near the top for a long time - but I went to college in 2002 and stopped playing and started playing World of warcraft for the next decade raiding in top 5 us guilds for a long time. But runescape was my first love for gaming and I will never forget it - I was close with Rab [tester] and had chats with Andrew and Paul in the early days of the game. Blue was always really nice to me in game, always called me *sweety* lol

[@jasonlasick4396]

I’m thinking of getting into WOW is it worth it?

[@tylerberman7527]

"me enjoying a video" "randomly does an annoying ad mid video that distrupts the flow of the entire video" "stops watching video" how youtube seems to be these days

[@gamin9wizard945]

And that's when one decides to switch to grayjay (to watch the remainder of the vid). It's ad-free and got it's own uncensored comment section. It allows you to watch YT, Odyssey, BiliBili and even Spotify as well as Twitch without ads, all in one App It's 10USD but it doesn't have any DRM, so you could pull a WinRAR to use it if desired

[@MasDouc]

If you're still getting ads and don't know how to stop them, that's on you.

[@gamin9wizard945]

@@MasDouc Not everybody knows what GrayJay is my dude You don't need to shame them for it

[@MasDouc]

@@gamin9wizard945 revanced personally

[@gamin9wizard945]

@@MasDouc Revanced is gonna die once KZbin updates their API too much Also, grayjay allows you to watch YT, Twitch, Odyssey and Spotify, BiliBili and SoundCloud adless in a single app

[@mistahkrazy805]

Dude this took me back over a decade! I used to play the hell out of RS back in 2001-2004. I remember the massive groups of people in Varrok trying to get their addy gear, and eventually rune gesr made. Guarding miners way out at the back of the Wilderness to getting ore, farming tons of coal on my own. You end up with someone who could make whatever you wanted. By the time i left, I was a bit more self-sufficient, having most skills 75+, except newer stuff at the time. I think Slayer was new when I left. Early RS was wild. I probably still have my original red and pink party hats I kept after selling the rest. If my guy even still exists...

[@iamLODD]

I think it does but all that stuff is on Rs3 now, old school runescape was remade in like 2013 with community petitions so everything on that was a clean slate

[@Joheidi]

Always great quality! It's cool to hear the more in depth version of her story as I remember hearing about bluerose back in like 2006 but never knew the full story!

[@baronzeegmot3801]

My god your channel is a time capsule, lmao. Do you still play?

[@sinmonk7351]

I played back in the RuneScape classic days. I remember when the rune 2h came out and I knew someone who could smith them a while after they came out. He quickly became one of the richest players in the game.

[@liamb135]

I really wish Jagex would hire the OpenRSC devs, and re-release Classic officially.

[@MyNameIsSalo]

they had classic servers at one point. I imagine it was shut down as theres not enough players to justify the server and maintaince costs. Theyre not going to hire new staff to maintain a project they already shut down as it wasn't profitable, it still won't be profitable. And why would they hire someone who is doing it for free already?

[@liamb135]

@@MyNameIsSalo I played the classic servers until the end. They were shut down because of lack of maintenance, and no devs to fix the major bugs. Not because it wasn't profitable. You still required an active membership to log in. Private servers are against ToS and run the risk of being shut down, although extremely unlikely. It would be nice to have an official place to play again.

[@scrung]

@@liamb135there were like 30 people playing at any given time on the official rsc servers like a week after every time they reopened. doesnt sound like it’ll pay the salary for one developer

[@shawnruby7011]

Yeah ir the official response being game breaking bugs ​@liamb135

[@BlotterWizard]

Nostalgia lies to you

[@lucassatie]

I actually played, as a much lower level, during the run up to Bluerose hitting 99 Smithing. The whole event actually became a sort of community-driven thing as everyone just wanted to see her hit 99. I, along with tons of other people, would donate coal and other ores for her progress. She had a system set up where you could donate to designated people because she didn't handle it directly. Memory is hazy now, but I thought there was a bit of a race going on between her and another player on who would get there first. I also remember believing that she was a game moderator at the time, though I'm not sure if it was just a rumor or if she was a moderator of some unrelated forum and was confused. Fun times... or something.

[@AndroidFerret]

I'm imagining these two meeting.. "Hey...." "Hey...." "So....?" "Yeah?" "I ....ehhh...." "....." "Hey ...you know what? Let's play a round RuneScape!" "Ok..."

[@Ismoketaintss707]

A round?

[@The_Haruspex]

@@Ismoketaintss707 Lol they probably don't play video games and just watch YT videos on them for the interest factor.

[@siilnr1250]

I don't play for many-many years anymore but always great to watch such detailed chronological RSC videos. :) Good job.

[@Pomodorosan]

Something similar happened recently in WoW SoD. One person in particular got a new powerful recipe and demanded an extremely high amount of gold to craft the items. Made a huge amount of money from it in the last week or so.

[@Ryakashi]

Autismo

[@Pomodorosan]

@@jfx5054 each phase was its own amazingly fun thing, but now we're 60 so it's basically back to the endgame we've known for 20 years

[@josiahclarke3535]

@@PomodorosanExcept incursions

[@JustinHampton-l5j]

Same thing with the lariat necklace from dragonflight launch. My guildie got the recipe week 1 and made 4x max cash Guy didn't even bother raiding

[@Meilk27]

Sounds to me like you are talking about the crafted fire resistance stuff and crusader strike server.

[@CaliKid1098]

My new favorite thing lately is watching classic RuneScape videos like this learning about all the RuneScape celebrities and just how things where in the very beginning it’s so interesting. I was born in ‘99 started playing RuneScape in ‘07 when I was when I was 8 stopped playing it when I was about 13 or 14. I remember the first famous person I knew about my time on RuneScape we Zezima(not sure if it was really them) added them on my friends list and everyday they would always go on and offline never staying on for a minute it was really weird.

[@OldQueer]

The biggest issue here is she had such a large choice of usernames and ended up choosing Bluerose13x.

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

Legit

[@Arbiter710]

Nobody thought about OGs like that back then

[@shakebackj95]

The name doesn’t make the player, the player makes the name.

[@D0OMZ4]

@@shakebackj95 Exactly, look at Durial321, really generic name yet recognized by anyone that plays Runescape because of what the guy achieved by exploiting the game engine lmao.

[@WaltonGFilm]

You had to be there... Shih, my Runescape name ended with an "x", 13 was a "cool" bad luck number, etc. etc. Makes sense to me as an OG name. Was the fad of the time. "Romanticized Edginess"

[@Elzzaw]

Wow, the dates of all these updates being released so close together, practically all in a year, is wild to me. Young me felt like he'd been playing the game forever between these updates,

[@ironxYT]

god, I remember seeing the og 2D runescape years ago at a local county fair in the tent ran by the local cable company, and a kid I went to school with was there playing it. it seemed so cool. I played it a bit eventually myself but just never got into it. still a fond memory.

[@noroom4commies086]

If i remember correctly, logging into multiple accounts at the same time was against the rules. Nobody prominent would get banned for it. But i knew a person or two who did. The other rule she broke that was account sharing. I knew a few people who got banned for account sharing. In dealing with her a few times in pretty sure I dealt with atleast one other person on her account. Again, not everyone got banned for it, but there was some high profile bans for account sharing.

[@danielrussey9579]

Rune 2 hands were well over 1 mil gp. I remember having a drop party with items I got bluerose to smith, including a rune 2 hands and the prices had just dropped below 1 mil i think. Also, if I remember correctly bluerose was above the mithril smithing levels when adamantium was released and she had a huge head start because everyone else thought smithing past 60 or whatever mithril plate was was useless.

[@onedayiwillbegone2366]

1:00 Impressed by Blue's account? What reasoning is that? More like he is simping for her lmao

[@kirbyjoe7484]

She set that price in part to simply keep random people from constantly pestering her. She was pretty chill and if you were chill she often would make you stuff for a simple favor or even for free. I got my rune battle axe from her for the ore and a set of dyes which were pretty much worthless. This was back when that was the best weapon in the game. Also, rune two handers were NOT 1 mill when they first came out or rather when she could first make them. They were like 7 or 8 mill. The 1 mill price is where they settled a while after and they actually stayed there for a while.

[@StyxIris]

I've never played Runescape but been watching OSRS content since 2015, it's really fun. Great video, Colonello.

[@ProjectRemedy16]

9:31 since when did youtube like button glow when it's mentioned in the video??

[@tonyr6180]

Imagine she's a 50+ year old woman now with kids telling them how back in her day she ran things and they think shes crazy 🤣🤣

[@BlotterWizard]

Or shes already gone

[@AlanRedgown]

"She could now smith every item in the game." Wow, I didn't even know every item could be made through Smithing! Amazing!

[@joryferrell7244]

Well...no empire lasts forever. She should just be proud that she made history in a game that millions love.

[@tronza87]

I remember at one time Bluerose13x sold rune battleaxe for 500k AND 3 rune bars. That was next to impossible to get back then. Only good money maker bit later was selling holiday rares. Halloween masks, pumpkins etc. went for like 100k each and they were quite common.

[@shannonmcstormy5021]

My partner introduced me to Ultima Online some 25 years ago. She would recount playing Runescape over dial up. I don't understand how this worked back then, but she said she had to write a program to get the dial up to work the way she wanted for some of the games she wanted to play. In any event, we would play MMORPG's as they came out, or received a huge update. We played Ultima Online, UO 3D, Everquest, EQ2, Lineage 2, WoW. Fun times. While in-game incidents and situations can be interesting, the human drama in real life around these games is fascinating. - Great Video -

[@Arkatox]

I swear, the title made me think you'd be introducing me to a villain. By the end you just made me a fan!

[@King_Kristof]

I seen that spinach roll at 24:30. Very nice 😊

[@FartShartly]

hahaha, the swamp toad, lobster and spinach roll actually all go together. I try to add lots of little easter eggs when I record clips and that one is a very subtle nod to my wife and I.

[@Grayald]

It's amazing how interesting gaming history and culture is to make me watch a bunch of videos about a game I've never even seen being played outside of brief KZbin videos. I was a UO kid.

[@IfonlyIwassmaller]

They didn’t know what to talk about, so just quietly played RuneScape together instead. 😅🤣 Oh my god. Why is this so funny to me? 😂

[@Aleebi]

dude, i dont know how i ended up here. i am not a runescape goon at all, but this was so interesting i watched the whole thing. please make more runescape history videos 🙏

[@MizZzChAvVvOzZz]

The thing that made Runescape absolutely bogus was how long it took to level up. Like -- we've ALL legitimately got better things to do than sit and mine ore all day. Now that the old players are majority adults -- this is even MORE legitimately apparent, because of Bills, and Kids. Who would have loved runescape just as much, or especially, EVEN MORE if you could have leveled up 10x as fast?

[@2070paradigmshift]

You would get bored of the game in a week.

[@MizZzChAvVvOzZz]

@@2070paradigmshift you think so? It's about respect. Respecting your players time.

[@zachf2612]

Its still that way tbh. I go back occasionally to play the spreadsheet and grind. But every time i get to this point where im like... I need to do this thousands of times to get anywhere.... and curse the game and quit. But the nostalgia and lack of good similar games tends to bring me back. Kinda toxic cycle. lmao X_X

[@etahhcumosevahi]

Back then I was a manager of a group of consultants. I found out one of the consultants would be in his cubicle playing RS all day. Luckily I was a WoW player back then, and so instead of disciplining him, I’d sit in his cubicle and watch him play. I then had another consultant sit at a cubicle near the front door, and he would call us whenever the director was coming. It was good times 😂

[@reptilez13]

I found out I was in the first 1000 players. Found my name on the list lol. (I still have the character now on my Jagex acct, tho i dont play RS3, just OSRS, and the name changed) I was young, about 11 years old, so couldnt be on as much as I wanted. But I remember so much of this as faint stories and things I read on message boards lol. Super fun watching stuff about the pre-RS2 version of the game for sure. Heck i remember when Asgarnia was released. I think I or a friend got members and it blew my tiny mind haha

[@nicholaslogan6840]

This was a snapshot of an era just before I started playing, I appreciate it.