Create a character in Old School Runescape, and set out on an adventure across a fantastical world battling powerful creatures with other players or alone.
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During the Fremennik Trials, there's a way to dodge the combat challenge entirely — a bloke called Thorvald will let you skip it if you bring him five sardines. There's even dedicated dialogue for using the sardines on him directly, except it turns out he was just messing with you the whole time.
Scattered through the game's config files there's a bunch of scenery objects with genuinely funny, unique examine text written for them — the only problem is nobody ever actually gave those objects an 'Examine' option, so the jokes just sit there in the code forever, unseen.
The level-1 citizens of Miscellania actually have unique overhead dialogue for when they fight back against attackers, but almost nobody's ever seen it. They've only got 1 HP, and killing one costs you 6% of your Miscellania favour, so there's basically no reason anyone would bother provoking them.
The steepest bit of walkable ground in the entire game is the hill between the waterfall and the Grand Tree — the height value jumps from the absolute lowest possible number straight to the highest in the space of a single tile.
There's a completely inaccessible ladder tucked two floors up in a dark corner of the Smoke Dungeon. The going theory among players is that it's a leftover from an earlier, scrapped version of the Desert Treasure quest, jokingly attributed to a mysterious 'intern' who supposedly worked on it.
There's a single cave goblin miner in the Dorgeshuun mine still using the old, janky pre-2007 goblin chathead model that everyone else moved on from years ago. You have to do something slightly obscure to actually trigger it and see it for yourself.
There used to be an NPC called 'Docky' who ran a boat between Port Khazard and Brimhaven for a small fee. When RuneScape moved from Classic to RS2, Docky himself never made the transition — but strangely, his actual boat did, and it's still sitting there in the game to this day.
The Fremennik NPC who ferries you to Waterbirth Island has a hidden line of dialogue that only fires if your character happens to share the exact same randomly generated Fremennik name as him. The odds of that happening are roughly 1 in 256, so most players will never once trigger it.
When skillcapes launched in 2006, Jagex just needed to find an existing NPC in the right spot to sell each one. That worked fine for 21 of the 22 skills — but one skill was so underused that the devs couldn't find a single fitting character anywhere in the game, and had to invent a brand new NPC purely to sell that cape.
