ScapeRune

ScapeRune is an area consisting of an island and prison, either of which players may be taken to by the "Evil Bob" random event. Some speculate that ScapeRune may be a parallel opposite of Gielinor.



The Nature of ScapeRune
Although little is known of ScapeRune, many believe it to be the opposite of Gielinor, thus making everything "backwards". For instance, the prison appears to be a twisted version of the Party Room, and the area outside appears to be similar to Falador (formerly Camelot). Also, instead of an Evil Chicken, ScapeRune is the home of a "Cheery Old Chicken".

As of yet, only two parts of ScapeRune are reachable, and only during random events. It may be that in the future more areas are accessable.

On Evil Bob's island it also mentions that there might be another person in ScapeRune that matches your own player. So who knows, Where this opposite world might end up as.

Getting there
The player is accosted by Evil Bob, the evil twin of Bob the Jagex Cat. With a "meow" from Evil Bob and a "No... what? Noooooooo!" from the player, you will arrive at Evil Bob's island. If you shout "Aaarrrrgh!" instead, you arrive in the prison. After you get teleported to ScapeRune, a message in the chat window will state "Welcome to ScapeRune". When you return, another message appears in the chat window that says "Welcome back to RuneScape."

Island


After declaring you to be his slave, Bob will demand fish. Talk to his other slaves to be shown a cut scene zooming to the required fishing area. There is one at each compass point, marked by different statues.

A fishing net may be collected from the beach between the fishing areas, but will not be kept on leaving the island. Catch a "fishlike thing" and use the uncooking pot to make it raw. Talk to Bob and he will eat it if it was caught from the correct area.



If the fish was caught from an incorrect area, Bob will eat it, then say it is disgusting. Each time you feed Bob an incorrect fish, it will take one more fish to get him to fall asleep, and you must keep going to the slave and catching fish to uncook and feed to Bob. For example, if you feed Bob one incorrect fish, it will take 2 correct fish to get him to fall asleep. Making 2 mistakes will require 3 fish to lull him to sleep, and so on.

When the fish has been consumed, Bob falls asleep and the player must escape through the portal, receiving some fishing experience, or in some cases, magic experience depending on the action being performed.

On reaching the portal, the player is now reminded to collect any dropped items before leaving.

When you leave, you make a raspberry emote at the sleeping Evil Bob shouting "Be seeing you!", and then you teleport back to where you were before the random event.



As it used to be
Originally, on getting to the island, the player was only able to speak cat and required an "Amulet of Humanspeak" from a chest in order to talk to the slaves. While this was an example of Jagex humour based on the Amulet of Catspeak, it wasn't obvious to players who knew nothing about cats. Now, if you ask Evil Bob how he can talk to you, he'll tell you that he's wearing an Amulet of Humanspeak, quite contrary to what it was like then, where you had to get it. This also adds in another piece of Jagex humour on the Amulet of Catspeak in RuneScape. In ScapeRune, Evil Bob is wearing an amulet to talk to humans, attempting to teach the human slaves catspeak, while in RuneScape, humans use the Amulet of Catspeak to talk to cats.

Originally four fish (of the correct variety) were required to leave, later two and now only one.

Island description
In one of the postbags from the hedge, Evil Bob gives some insight into the land of ScapeRune. Instead of goblins fighting and bickering, they constantly agree and compliment each other. (e.g. "Splendid tie!", "You are completely right!"). Also, there is a ScapeRune version of the evil chicken, the cheery old chicken. According to Evil Bob, he makes you "want to swallow a hairball and enjoy it."

Prison


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

The "return key" option, the default action for the key, walks directly toward Prison Pete, with no attempt to navigate around obstructions.

There appears to be 21 balloon animals total.

Every animal contains a Prison key, but players must pop the right one in order to open the barrier. The way to pop a balloon animal is, you have to preview each one until you find the right one. If you pop a wrong one, you have to try again. After getting three correct keys, they are free to escape with Prison Pete, and they will be returned to where they were, gaining a small prize (which can be 10 law runes), some coins, or any assortment of gems.

It should be noted that the prison bears a striking resemblance to the Party Room in Falador (it has now changed to look like it's in Falador's opposite), perhaps implying that every location in RuneScape also exists in ScapeRune.

The Spirit Realm
The Spirit Realm is discovered during the Spirit of Summer quest. In many ways it is similar to ScapeRune in that many things are opposite of the Wilderness in RuneScape. For example, monsters do not attack save for one Spirit Beast, also, filling a bucket in the real world empties a bucket in the Spirit Realm which is simliar in effect to "Uncooking" fish on Evil Bob's Island.

The People

 * Evil Bob
 * Prison Pete
 * Slaves
 * Balloon Animals

Music Unlocked

 * Evil Bob's Island
 * In the Clink

Trivia

 * The player's lines to Evil Bob, "I'm not a prisoner, I'm a free man" and "Be seeing you!" are probably a reference to the 1960's British TV Drama The Prisoner, where the hero was held on a small island by unknown powers and had a catch phrase "I am not a number, I am a free man". This phrase was also used on an episode of The Simpsons when Homer Simpson was abducted and taken to a mysterious island after discovering a secret consortium's evil plans. It may also refer to  Iron Maiden's The Prisoner song.
 * At one point there were two people on the island, however; due to an update by Jagex the male slave was removed from the island.
 * When logging out and back in on while in ScapeRune, the welcome message changes to "Welcome to ScapeRune.", instead of the usual "Welcome to RuneScape.".
 * If a player happens to have a cooked fish in their inventory and attempts to uncook it they will find that they are unable to do so due to a lack of an Uncooking skill.