Old School RuneScape players upend a 16-year-old minigame when they realise the cops can't possibly arrest all of them
«Organisation,» wrote Vladimir Lenin, «is the strength of the working class. Without mass organisation, the proletariat is nothing. Organised, it is everything. Organisation means the unity of action, the unity of practical activity.»
Lenin wrote those words in 1907, about 106 years too early to apply them to Old School RuneScape, but I'm delighted to report that players have now independently rediscovered the principles therein. As reported by GamesRadar, OSRS players have made the world-historic discovery that they can totally bamboozle one of the MMO's 16-year-old minigames if they all band together, using their collective power to overwhelm the shaky guard AI and ensuring everyone—not just a talented and lucky few—receives the rewards.
The minigame in question is called the Sorceress' Garden, first added to RuneScape (before it was «old-school») in 2007, which tasks players with stealthing their way through a leafy labyrinth on a quest to steal sq'irks (a kind of fruit). Ordinarily, players would do this on their own, sneaking past the garden's guards and laboriously accumulating fruit. Ordinarily. But now, OSRS players have figured out that none of us is as powerful as all of us. 16 years in, the entire sq'irking structure has been upended by the realisation that they can't arrest all of us.
That's right. Put enough boots on the ground in the Sorceress' Garden and the guards quickly become overwhelmed. As you can see in Reddit user Mookie_Merkk's video above, the elemental cops that inhabit the garden just don't know what to do when the doors give way to the hammer blows of a hundred calloused hands. There are, by my reckoning, six guards in that maze versus some double-digit number of players. I like to imagine
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