In the German MMORPG Tibia, there exists an extremely rare and secret achievement: To achieve it, one must discover that a harmless innkeeper is actually a vampire. For 10 years, no one had managed to earn this rare achievement until a player recently went to great lengths to obtain it.
What kind of achievement is this? The achievement is one of the rarest and most mysterious in the history of the German MMORPG Tibia, which has been developed in Regensburg for over 25 years. The achievement is called “His True Face”.
During a quest, players visit the innkeeper Armenius. At a specific quest step, there is a tiny chance that Armenius will teleport the player to his cellar and reveal himself as a vampire. If a player experiences this, they earn the achievement “His true face”.
As reported by a Polish MMORPG site, no one had been able to obtain this achievement for 10 years (via mmorpg.org).
There is no clear method known for how to obtain the achievement: People visit this innkeeper “every day”, hoping he might finally attack them as a vampire. It is also said that the highest chance of seeing the vampire occurs during a quest step that sends you to Marenius.
In any case, the achievement is highly sought after. Therefore, players experiment with ways to obtain it. One player recently resorted to extreme methods to secure the achievement.
A player kills himself so often that his level is low enough
How did a player manage to obtain it? A wizard named “Ia Goh” set out to obtain the achievement: For this, the player, who was over level 200, let himself be killed more than 300 times starting December 14, as evident from his character log (via tibia).
Because in Tibia you lose experience and can also lose levels when you die, he fell from over level 200 to level 6 during this suicide marathon. Every 30 seconds during that time, he lost additional levels.
As the Polish MMORPG site reports, during this “delevel marathon”, he was ultimately able to return to the starting location 34 times to repeatedly complete the quest chain where he had the chance of being attacked by Armenius.
After 4 days, on December 18 at 12:57 PM, he finally managed to get killed by Aremenius and obtain the coveted, secret achievement.
Tibia comes from a time when MMORPGs still had secrets
What is special about the achievement? Tibia comes from a time before MMORPGs were standardized and decoded: It was developed by students in Regensburg and does not follow any “textbook”: Back then, there was simply nothing, and the creators of the game had to figure things out themselves about how MMORPGs work and function.
Because of this, extremely mysterious and unique things are possible in the MMORPG, which give off a mythical flair.
The developers are still careful today not to reveal too much about such secrets, allowing players to discover them for themselves.
This leads to such “secret achievements” being hunted and deciphered by players on their own, resulting in strange methods and great stories.
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