MMO player meets flight attendant who's a fellow grinder, leaves the plane with a big bag of free booze: "When I opened it, it felt like Christmas!"

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The Pirate's Treasure quest in Old School RuneScape sees you smuggle a bottle of rum via ship by hiding it in a crate of bananas. One of the MMO's players recently found themselves in a relatively similar situation in real life: meeting a flight attendant who also plays OSRS and gifted them a big bag of free airline booze because that's how MMO camaraderie works. 

Reddit user *checks notes* Thunder_shart shared their chance encounter with the OSRS subreddit last week. They noticed a flight attendant playing OSRS on the MMO's mobile client, and mentioned the game in passing as they returned to their seat, "thinking nothing much of it."

"However, as he was grabbing people's drink orders, he briefly stopped by me and struck up a conversation about RS," they said in their post. "We then chatted about his time in the game, the [level 99 skills] he's obtained over the years, the Infernal Cape he's strived for, and even of my recent endeavor of jumping back into this game.

"Now honestly, I was touched at such a genuine conversation, especially with it being in the least expected of places. However, he truly left me dumbfounded as we were landing. During the final cabin check, he swung back around and handed me a full waste bag of booze, simply telling me to enjoy."

In total, they received six bottles of whiskey and two bottles of bourbon – no rum, sadly, but quite a haul nevertheless. "It's moments like this, outside of the game, in chance interaction, that I find that this community really shines," they said. "I can seldom think of another game that would drive someone to do such random acts of kindness." 

Immensely amused, I reached out to talk through this chance encounter a bit more. (I also tried to connect with the flight