A player laughing at his name
My Arm is a troll farmer at the Troll Stronghold. He is the main focus of My Arm's Big Adventure quest as well as Burntmeat's assistant.
His name "My Arm" derived from when he was just a baby. Trolls are named after the first thing they tried to (or successfully) eat. Since he first tried to eat his dad's arm, his dad decided to name him "My Arm".
My Arm is introduced to the player at the very beginning of the quest. Burntmeat learnt that Goutweed could be grown again as it was previously thought to have been botanically extinct after the Trolls had picked it all for use as a cooking ingredient. Burntmeat discovered that it was possible to regrow the weed when he was interrogating a captured adventurer who he was preparing to boil into a stew, after he learnt about this he cooked him anyway. Burntmeat encourages the player to speak with My Arm to begin to process of regrowing the herb.
My Arm is a keen farmer but unfortunately he has little knowledge of how farming actually works, he has planted several objects on the Troll Strongholds roof including dead goats and crates, however none of these grew. My Arm enthusiastically accompanies the player to Karamja where Goutweed can supposedly be grown as learnt from the late adventurer.
However My Arm is a little too enthusiastic and causes much havoc when the player attempts to cultivate the herb.
After completion of My Arm's Big Adventure, My Arm will watch over an herb patch that a player can use for free. My Arm will ensure that the patch will not become diseased.
In the battle against the Giant Roc, My Arm helps the player in defeating it, even though he only hits 10-30.
The patches My Arm tried growing stuff in.
Trivia
- My Arm was subject of a rumour going on in the Official Forums. Players claimed that when they walk past the fruit tree patch in Brimhaven, they have caught glimpses of a big, greenish, humanoid creature with a loincloth running past it. Some people think that this was My Arm, as the description of the creature matches him. In My Arm's Big Adventure, My Arm does run past the patch in a cutscene, which made people think this rumour might have been true. It was confirmed by Jagex that this "glitch" has been fixed.
- If a player attempts to pick a Goutweed from My Arm's herb patch when its fully grown, the player will say 'That's My Arm's problem now'.
- When using goutweed on My Arm, he will say "Stop it - you make My Arm hungry".
- While you are doing My Arm's Big Adventure quest after the cut scene in Tai Bwo Wannai (when you get the hardy gout tuber), you say " If you ever come to <house location>, I'm not letting you into my house."
- Logically, My Arm has at least Level 30 Farming, as you require 29 Farming to grow Goutweed and he gains a Farming level during the quest.
- When My Arm is planting the seeds and harvesting his Goutweed, his examine text changes to "He's poking his farming patch with my dibber." Also, when he is raking the patch, his examine text is "My rake is in the hand of My Arm."
- In the beginning of the quest My Arm's Big Adventure, when joking about My Arm's name, he tells you about how he sees players with numbers and weird names. This is claimed a joke by Jagex considering how many players have numbers in their usernames.
- My Arm seems to have levelled to 29 Farming on crates and other stuff.
- He tried farming before the quest. He tried growing a Trolley*, crate, rocks, tree branch**, fishes and goat.
- *The trolley he tried growing might be a joke by jagex, as My Arm is a troll too.
- **The tree branch could have grown, even though it were chopped off, as this could happen in real world too, under good conditions. As the top of Trollheim might not be the best place for trees to grow(that is why/because it's so rocky there)
- Whenever My Arm's goutweed herb is "All grown up", theres a graphics glitch in which his neck sticks out a distance from his body.
- My Arm has been graphically updated with the release of the "King of the Dwarves" quest.