The Old School Runescape community has come together to celebrate the achievement of a local legend 208 days in the making – except for one player who lost a bet and instead had to "pour hot coffee on [his] butthole."
Technically, this saga started on October 5, 2022 when OSRS player heytomsmyname began a grind (opens in new tab) to obtain the giant squirrel Agility pet by running 100 laps of the penguin Agility course every day, all while sharing a new penguin fact each day to stay in character. This pet has a drop rate of 1 in 9,779 from the Penguin course, and that's actually the best rate of any Agility course, so obviously it took a while. Tom wasn't able to get the squirrel drop and "leave the icy prison" until yesterday, May 2, with just over 25,000 laps of the course completed (he "had some days with facts saved in advance").
Tom's regular posts about running 100 penguin laps daily had become a cornerstone of the OSRS Reddit community. His last post explained the foraging habits of the yellow-eyed penguin, for example. So when he finally got the squirrel, the celebration was bittersweet – a mix of congratulations and farewells for a community hero. Tom's big post even made it to r/all through sheer enthusiasm, no doubt leaving many Redditors to wonder what this penguin man is on about.
Needless to say, it was especially bitter for Reddit user TessaHolly, who replied to Tom's 208th post betting that: "If you get it tomorrow I will have my fiancé pour hot coffee on my butthole."
Folks, he got it tomorrow.
After a barrage of reminders from the peerlessly good-natured OSRS Reddit community, which simply would not let this butthole escape unscathed, TessaHolly actually went through with it. Obviously, the
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