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Austin Wood

"I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction

Old School RuneScape character in blue shirt with brown beard.

An MMO Shawshank Redemption slipped under the radar last month as one dedicated Old School RuneScape player finally escaped a cell he'd constructed for himself after roughly 1,200 hours of dragon slaying. In the end, it all came down to the power of friendship.

YouTuber Josh Isn't Gaming – a blatant lie, as he is clearly gaming – has spent over a year playing an Old School RuneScape account with self-imposed restrictions that warp the game. Using the community's popular "Chunk" ruleset, which divides the game world into randomly unlocked squares that players cannot leave until they complete every goal within each unlocked chunk, Josh additionally leashed his account to the region of Yanille, forcing himself to painstakingly master every facet of the area before adventuring further.

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