I haven't played much of RuneScape, either the modern or the old-school version, other than a bit in an Internet cafe in the early 2000s. This is because old-school RuneScape continues to produce tales of triumph, tragedy, fantasy cop bewilderment, and astonishing good fortune.

Take, for example, the player who became only the second person in history (after someone named enneUni) to get the game's rarest drop: as confirmed by GamesRadar, a player named Coti got a bag full of OSRS gems that were He managed to get an uncut onyx from one of the OSRS bags full of gems.

Opening the bag yields one of six rare gemstones; according to the OSRS Wiki, five of the gems available from the bag (uncut sapphire, diamond, ruby, emerald, and dragonstone) have a reasonable chance of dropping.

The probability of the last type, uncut onyx, dropping is 1 in 100 million, making Coti's find more than twice as likely as winning the British lottery jackpot (although there are 40 chances to find one per bag, so realistic odds are 2.5 million to 1). Even better," the onyx gemstone itself is actually not that special.

Don't get me wrong, it can be transformed into powerful jewelry or sold for big bucks, but it's not the mind-boggling, world-changing special thing that drops at a 1 in 100 million chance in other games. That's because (as GamesRadar points out) there are plenty of other ways to get uncut onyx in OSRS without relying on eight-leaf clover-like luck. For example, the odds of getting one from a boss named Skotizo are 1 in 1,000.

In other words, what is really eye-opening here is the drop itself rather than its contents, and the OSRS community on Reddit has responded accordingly." 1/100,000,000 chance?" A commenter named DewDropDreamer3 wrote! But then again, who needs real wealth when you have a shiny black gem in a 2001 medieval click simulator?"

They have a point. Other players are just afraid that Coti will run out of luck all at once, as a Reddit user named BoulderFalcon predicted, "This guy will have a heart attack on his way to work tomorrow, followed by a plane crashing on him, followed by a meteor hitting him in the head and ending his job." He did. On the other hand, it was a shiny virtual stone, so maybe it still had value.