Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Two words of mock politeness for the worst thing that can happen to your gear. The cheery British "Oh dear" is the joke: a game about grinding for months greets your loss with the tone of a vicar dropping a teacup. Players type it as a reaction to any disaster, and veterans can hear it in their heads when something goes wrong.
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In context
Spoilers for RuneScapeShow the scene
RuneScape, the browser MMORPG Jagex launched on 4 January 2001, tells you the moment your character falls: when a player's hitpoints reach zero, the chat box prints "Oh dear, you are dead!" The player then wakes either at the nearest respawn point or, if any wealth was at risk, in Death's office, where the dropped items can be reclaimed for a fee. The line is a system message, not a character's speech, and it is the game's standard death notice on the current wiki pages. The older RuneScape Classic used different wording, promising a new life and warning the player to be more careful.
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- Old School RuneScape Wiki: Deathlead paragraphReference checked
- RuneScape Wiki: Death (mechanic)lead and TriviaReference checked
- Wikipedia: RuneScapeinfoboxReference checked
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