"There's always time to bone": Old School RuneScape players give a big vtuber so many dragon bones that she's nearly maxed one of the MMO's most expensive skills

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The fascinating intersection of MMOs and vtubers continues as countless Old School RuneScape players crowd around hololive streamer Nerissa Ravencroft to quite literally throw her a bone.

Nerissa has been playing Old School RuneScape for a few months, and her most recent stream, titled "I'm sick but there's always time to bone," gave a particular subsection of her audience more of what they love: Prayer training. Yes, all this boning was ironically done in service of the lord.

There are other ways to gain Prayer experience, but the typical way to train Prayer in Old School RuneScape is to collect or purchase a whole bunch of bones, normally dragon bones of some kind, and then offer them at altars since it gets you more XP than just burying them. There's a popular altar in the Wilderness that gives you a chance to save on bones, but good old-fashioned gilded altars in player-owned houses work just fine. They're also easier and safer to access, especially when you have dozens of devoted fans following you around.

"I was gonna go straight to boning, but everybody told me not to do that because apparently there's a Christmas event," Nerissa said at the start of her stream. "So instead of boning we're going to do that." Not even an hour later, she declared "It's boning time. Now I just await the bone donations."

As of her latest stream, Nerissa has burned enough dragon bones – donated en masse by her posse of fans, dubbed "Jailbirds" – to reach 96 Prayer, putting her over halfway to the max level of 99. (The actual halfway point is 92.) Prayer is a notoriously expensive and time-consuming skill to train, and comes with pretty minimal benefits at higher levels once you've actually unlocked all of the buff-giving prayers, so it's usually a significant and late-game hurdle for players to clear.

It turns out, however, that this goes a lot faster when you never have to leave the altar because people are constantly giving you free dragon bones, not to mention the pricey