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This all started late last month with OSRS poll 82, which focused on changes to minigames.

One of those minigames is Temple Trekking, a swampy gauntlet of miscellaneous combat and puzzle challenges.

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They are inexplicably, distractingly loud compared to normal game sounds, as the below clip fromYouTubeuser TheIvyX demonstrates.

No, players decided, we should not.

“Help us understand,” developer Jagex said in atweetannouncing the poll results.

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“Do you want the Nail Beasts to be louder?

Maybe a small chance to play the sound at full volume whenever you get an XP drop?”

it’s possible for you to probably imagine the replies.

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“Make them louder c’mon,” requests one user.

“AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE,” shouts another.

There’s an entire culture around the in-joke of minor changes making the game unplayable.

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Jagex has (likely quite knowingly) embedded Nail Beasts in OSRS canon now.

May they scream forever.

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