Daredevil Elden Ring challenge run ends in tragicomedy as player spends days farming 10 million runes 'for no specific reason' before losing them to cruel gravity
Before we get into it, let's clarify the moral of this story right up top: When another human being approaches you with a terrible idea, one that is certain to bring them suffering and regret, encourage them. It'll probably be really funny.
That's all there is to take from the tale of DementedEnjoyer (spotted by GamesRadar), an Elden Ring challenge runner who amassed a fortune of 10 million runes over many days before losing it all to cruel fate (and fall damage). Why? Why not?
The player had originally spent «nearly an entire day» grinding 4 million runes at level 8 «for no specific reason» before asking the Elden Ring subreddit what they should do with their loot. The website had plenty of recommendations—including blowing it all on borderline-worthless glass shards from Patches—but DementedEnjoyer eventually settled on a combo of the two top-voted recommendations: A bow-only build and beating the rest of the game «without spending those runes or losing any».
«Fuck it, bow only run and I'm not allowed to level until I beat Elden Beast. Run's over if I lose my runes. I'm recording the whole thing and posting the highlights when I'm finished. See you on the other side fuckers,» wrote our hero as they embarked on their quest. Oh, and by the time they'd settled on this decision, they'd spent at least two days of their life grinding all the way up to 10 million runes.
«I kinda have to [beat the game at level 8 without losing runes],» said DementedEnjoyer, «Every other option is just too sane».
The result was what I can only describe as a kind of anti-Brewster's Millions scenario: DementedEnjoyer was forced—by themself—to wonder The Lands Between with bulging pockets, completely unable to spend a cent (or whatever the rune
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