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| 1s | sailing is one of the oldest insider |
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| 3s | jokes in the runescape community from a |
| 5s | prank skill in old school to a gag in |
| 7s | the gut request sailing has left its |
| 9s | mark on the game despite never actually |
| 11s | being released but did you know this |
| 13s | skill originated as a hoax all the way |
| 16s | back in july 2008 let me explain |
| 19s | jagex releasing leaks wasn't an unknown |
| 22s | concept during the game's golden era |
| 24s | either it was a teaser or an honest |
| 26s | mistake the leaks did without a doubt |
| 28s | stir up discussion in the runescape |
| 30s | community in late 2006 hunter was leaked |
| 33s | through the about report system where |
| 35s | the name hunting was listed as an option |
| 37s | of skills in 2007 an undefined skill was |
| 40s | added to the high scores where the right |
| 42s | click inspect of the invisible skill |
| 44s | image would say summoning dot gif so |
| 46s | when the player corey sumo messaged his |
| 48s | friend fangallo in july of 2008 right |
| 51s | after the release of runescape hd that |
| 53s | he had found a new leak there was no |
| 56s | reason to doubt its legitimacy the |
| 58s | supposed leak showed a new skill on the |
| 60s | runescape high scores |
| 62s | sailing |
| 63s | following puerto sumo the skill had only |
| 65s | been visible for a few minutes before |
| 67s | disappearing but qwerty had been lucky |
| 69s | enough to catch a screenshot fangallo |
| 72s | uploaded the evidence to youtube a video |
| 74s | that quickly gained attraction from the |
| 76s | community not because the evidence was |
| 78s | so good that it couldn't be faked but |
| 80s | because the evidence to support it was |
| 83s | overwhelming |
| 84s | just days prior community manager mod |
| 87s | mark h had made a post on the runescape |
| 89s | forums turning attention towards the new |
| 91s | banner on the runescape homepage with a |
| 93s | cryptic message about the banner's |
| 95s | contents in it you could see a man on a |
| 98s | boat watching elvarg destroy krandor |
| 100s | what's more the man wore a cape not |
| 103s | unlike the skill cape one that was blue |
| 105s | with a white trim and a faint symbol |
| 107s | that kind of looked like a boat this was |
| 110s | more than enough incentive for the |
| 111s | community to keep searching for |
| 113s | additional evidence and boy did they |
| 115s | find some players could see the edge of |
| 118s | a room which appeared to have an unknown |
| 120s | boat in it hidden away in this |
| 121s | stronghold of security though this was |
| 123s | likely just a quest room too close to |
| 125s | the stronghold that still counted as |
| 127s | evidence for the players sailing |
| 129s | confirmed through quick chat players |
| 131s | discovered unreleased items that could |
| 134s | tie back into sailing such as different |
| 136s | tier cannonballs sailing confirmed these |
| 139s | were actually never released in the game |
| 141s | with runescape hd the world map had been |
| 143s | made accessible in-game and tied it up |
| 145s | slightly as a result before jagex would |
| 148s | just leave the edges of the map as |
| 150s | inaccessible black squares but now vast |
| 153s | oceans surrounded the land why would |
| 156s | jagex add so much water if we weren't |
| 158s | going to explore it sailing confirmed |
| 160s | pirate implants dropping pirate outfits |
| 162s | that had been released a month prior |
| 164s | together with a pirate quest rocking out |
| 166s | sailing confirmed a boat was being built |
| 169s | for fossil island later anachronia |
| 171s | sailing confirmed in an attempt to calm |
| 173s | the masses mod dave stepped in on july |
| 176s | 11th telling players the new skill |
| 178s | wasn't going to be sailing this didn't |
| 181s | work jagex wasn't able to put a stop to |
| 183s | the theories but they were able to adapt |
| 185s | them and make the jokes their own making |
| 187s | a large number of references to the |
| 189s | skill over the years from small easter |
| 191s | eggs in chat dialogue or bank presets to |
| 194s | entire skilled proposals in 2015 player |
| 197s | owned ports was also released in the |
| 199s | main game inspired by sailing this skill |
| 201s | isn't entirely fantasy though in 2018 |
| 204s | when planning on a new skill release for |
| 206s | runescape sailing came in second behind |
| 209s | archaeology both having playable demos |
| 211s | internally at jegix so it's not unlikely |
| 214s | that the skill might be released |
| 215s | sometime in the future curtis sumo the |
| 217s | hoax maker left the game shortly after |
| 219s | his image went viral though he admitted |
| 222s | the image was fake before he left it's |
| 224s | not certain if he knows what legacy he |
| 226s | left behind causing not only runescape's |
| 229s | largest hoax but also a meme that lives |
| 232s | on 14 years later |