Old meets new as classic MMO players worship a famous Vtuber via gifts of bones so she can max out the Prayer skill

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Every time an Old School RuneScape story crops up, there's a period of acclimatisation where I struggle to work out exactly what the players are doing and why. I'm not unfamiliar with the game, having played it way back in the day, but RuneScape at the extremes can be a pretty wild place, a world where players suddenly break the dam on a 16 year-old minigame by overwhelming guards en masse, or some thrillseeker risks a 370-hour no-hit account to get a fancy cape (to be fair, it does have flames).

But even by RuneScape standards this one is bonkers. OSRS players have been ganging up to shower dragon bones on a famous Vtuber, seemingly to help her max out one of the game's grindiest stats: Prayer.

Let's unpack this. Nerissa Ravencroft is a hololive streamer, presumably straight from the mean cobblestones of Hogwarts, who in recent months picked up OSRS and has attracted a bunch of the game's players to her streams (thanks, GamesRadar+). RuneScape being RuneScape, the adventuring soon went by the wayside in favour of more esoteric pursuits, and recently Nerissa found herself focused on Prayer Training.

Prayer training is done by gaining (wait for it) Prayer experience, and the quickest way to do this is to acquire or just straight-up buy a whole load of bones and then offer them at an altar. This maximises the XP gain from the bones, and if you've got dragon bones then, relatively speaking, it's an XP bonanza.

A recent Nerissa stream was entitled, ahem, «I'm sick but there's always time to bone.» And in some sort of meta-shift for RuneScape, a whole load of players queued up to genuflect and gift Nerissa as many dragon bones and even superior dragon bones (la-di-da) as they could. «It's boning time,» declared the Vtuber. «Now I just await the bone donations.»

And the bone-ations did flow. Nerissa's fans, who for reasons I don't understand call themselves «Jailbirds», absolutely drowned her in bones. The max level for the Prayer skill is 99 and Nerissa currently rests