ScapeRune

ScapeRune is a realm parallel to Gielinor, which formerly housed the Evil Bob's and Prison Pete's random events. Evil Bob's Island can currently be accessed using the fairy ring code CIS. It is ruled by Evil Bob, and in this world cats keep humans as pets. Evil Bob suggests that there is a counterpart to RuneScape's Evil Chicken in ScapeRune named "Cheery Old Chicken".

Getting there

Players may visit and leave the island anytime through fairy ring code CIS.

Before the random events were removed, players were accosted by Evil Bob, the evil twin of Bob the Jagex Cat. With a "meow" from Evil Bob and a "No... what? Nooooooooooooo!" from the player, they would arrive at Evil Bob's island. If the player shouted "Aaaarrrrgh!" instead, you arrived in a prison.

Island

Main article: Evil Bob (random event)

During the random event, the players had to catch the correct fish-like thing as told by the servant and use the uncooking pot to make it raw. They then had to talk to Bob and he would eat it if it was caught from the correct area. If the fish was caught from an incorrect area, Bob would eat it, then say it is disgusting. Each time the player fed Bob an incorrect fish, it would increase the number fish required to get him asleep by one. When the fish had been consumed, Bob fell asleep and the player could escape through the portal.

Currently the island can be accessed via fairy ring, and the players are free to feed Evil Bob as many fish-like things as they please, and leave at any time.

Prison

Evil Bob could also teleport players to a prison, where they had to speak to Prison Pete in order to discover how to escape. To escape, players had to pull a lever that would tell them which type of balloon animal to pop in order to find a key. The animals were randomly selected, and the same one could be picked twice.

There appeared to be a total of 21 balloon animals. Every animal contained a prison key, but the players had to pop the correct one in order to open the barrier. If they popped a wrong one, they would have to try again, and they restarted with needing three keys. After getting three correct keys, they were free to escape with Prison Pete, and they would be returned to where they were and rewarded a random event gift.

The prison was designed to resemble the Party Room in Falador. The floor designs are the same, the map layout of the immediate areas are similar, both areas involve bursting balloons and pulling levers, and they both contain a NPC named Pete. When the Party Room was located in Seers' Village, the architecture of the prison also resembled Seers' Village, changing to look like Falador when it was moved.

Update history[edit | edit source]

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• PATCH 2 November 2020 (Update):
  • Fish caught in ScapeRune are now raw when using the Bait and Switch Relic.

• UPDATE 12 February 2013 (Update):
  • Evil Bob's Island was made accessible again through fairy rings.

• UPDATE 24 October 2012 (Update):
  • Random events were removed from the game and ScapeRune became inaccessible.

• PATCH 10 January 2006 (Update):
  • Prison random event was added to the game.
    • Rumours have been heard of a malignant cat dragging innocent people off to a strange mirror world and locking them in jail! If this happens to you, you'll meet an experienced convict known as Prison Pete who'll help you escape.

• PATCH 9 August 2005 (Update):
  • Evil Bob's random event was added to the game along with his island.
    • Watch out for yet more new random events as you travel the world, including wandering pirates, the return of Niles, Miles & Giles and the chance to be kidnapped by an evil cat!

Trivia

• After teleporting to ScapeRune, a message in the chat window states "Welcome to ScapeRune". On returning, a second message used to appear in the chat window that said "Welcome back to RuneScape."
• Originally, on getting to the island, the player was only able to speak cat and required a manspeak amulet from a chest in order to talk to the slaves. This was a reference to the catspeak amulet, however it was not obvious to players not aware of that item and its function. After the amulet was removed in order to streamline the event, if the player asks Evil Bob how he can talk to them, he'll say that he is wearing an amulet of humanspeak.
• Originally four fish (of the correct variety) were required to leave, which was later reduced to two.
• Using a cooked fish on the uncooking pot results in a message "Your Uncooking skill must be at least level <random level> before you can do that." and then "Wait, you don't even have an uncooking skill!" Using a raw fish on the pot will result in "This is already raw".
• If a player attempts to uncook a burnt fish, they will get a message that it cannot be unburned in the uncooking pot. The player character will also say, "It was worth a shot, right?"
• After Evil Bob fell asleep, if a player talked to the slave the player had the option to say, "But I love you!" - to which the slave replied, "Our love can never be, sweet Player." This was a reference to the Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet. However, only male characters have this option.
• The player's lines to Evil Bob "I'm not a prisoner, I'm a free man" and "Be seeing you!" were references to the 1960s British TV drama, The Prisoner, where the hero was held by unknown powers and had a catch phrase "I am not a number, I am a free man". Additionally, other references to this TV show could be found when asking Evil Bob, "What's it all about?" A player would also say, "I will not make any deals with you. I'm a human. I will not be pushed, numbered, meowed at, teleported or enslaved. My life is my own." In the beginning of the TV series, the Prisoner said, "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
• King Awowogei of Ape Atoll references ScapeRune in a Postbag from the Hedge, proclaiming, "Curse you all, curse you all to ScapeRune!" This is in reference to the line "Damn you! Damn you all to hell!" from the film Planet of the Apes.