Runescape - It All Starts In Lumbridge

Lumbridge or Lumby, as what most players call this place, is the place where it all begins. Technically anyway. A new player always starts at the Training Island and when they are ready to join the game world, this is where they will show up. A word of caution for new players, try to be patient and utilize all the training experience you can get while on the Training Island. It's safer over there. Try to build your experience points to at least a combat level 7 before you leave. That would be enough to at least defend yourself from level 5 goblins or muggers.

Lumby is also where those who died in Runescape go back to. Dying in Runescape comes in different flavors. A player can die in two categories - a. fighting other players in the wilderness or wildy and b. fighting game characters. One thing to note is that if a player attacks another player first in the wildy, the said player gets a skull on top of their heads to mark that they are people killers. This mark will stay for some time and will just go away after awhile. If a player gets this mark and dies, that said player will lose everything they have on their inventory excluding banked items. And they show up in Lumbridge with nothing on except their basic clothes they started the game with.

If a player dies in the game without the skull, they retain the three highest value items they have on their inventory outside of the already banked items. They also show up in Lumby wearing their basic clothes. It's always a good practice to bank items as one plays and try not to carry unnecessary items in your current inventory. That will give the player some fall back plan in case they lose things.

It's also wise not to attack another player first in the Wildy if you are not prepared to lose your current inventory. Unless the said player is only defending himself. A player that gets attacked first in the Wilderness and fights back on the player that attacked will not get the skull mark. That means the player will retain the 3 highest valued items in his current inventory if he dies.

Play safe.