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SailorScoutX

Mar 7 2006, 03:44 AM | Post #1

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Welcome to the holiday Item guide.

Written by: SailorScoutX

Summary:
On October 31, 2001, RS players were surpised to find a special drop item. And now during the year, Jagex inserts special items in the game that are only obtainable in the game at a certian point in the year. These special items are called "Holiday" items. These items are only a part of three specific holidays that are celebrated on Runescape: Christmas (December), Easter (March or April (Depends on the year)), and Halloween (October). So if your lucky you'll get them. Originally they were drops but now they are NPC given!

Item Timeline:
This is just the run down of the items and the Month and Year they were released

Oct. 2001: Pumpkins
Dec. 2001: Christmas Crackers, Party Hats (6 Colors)
Mar. 2002: Easter Eggs
Oct. 2002: Halloween Masks (3 Colors)
Dec. 2002: Santa Hat
Apr. 2003: Bunny Ears
Oct. 2003: Scythes
Dec. 2004: Yo-yos
Apr. 2005: Rubber Chicken
Oct. 2005: Zombie's Head
Dec. 2005: Winter Hats (4 Versions), Scarves (4 Versions), Marionette (3 Colors)

Dropped Holiday Item Inforamtion:

Oct. 31, 2001: Pumpkins

Pumpkins - On October 31, 2001, Runescape players were shocked when they were fighting to find pumpkins were being dropped by the monsters. The Pumpkins that were dropped healed 14hp (a fair amount), now they aer mostly used as collectors items. Only obtainable by drop on that day!

Dec 25, 2001: Christmas Crackers, Party hats

Christmas crakers - On December 25, 2001, Jagex updated a special drop from monsters called a Christmas Crackers. These Crackers, when used on another player, would give the player one Party Hat and a Rare Item. Only Obtainable by drop on that day, and now other players.
Party Hats - Party hats, mostly used for indication of great wealth today, were prizes from the Christmas crackers. They came in 1 of 6 colors: Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Green, or Purple/Pink (Players have called it both colors). Only obtainable from a Christmas Cracker, and also other players.

Mar. 31, 2002: Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs - Only dropped on that day, these eggs can be eaten and for 12HP. However, today they are mostly for collecting rather than eating. Obtainable from drop on that day or other players.

Oct. 31, 2002: Halloween Masks

Halloween Masks - Only dropped on that day. Players could have ended up in 1 of 3 colors: Red, Blue, or Green. Obtainable from drops on that day or other players.

Dec. 25, 2002: Santa Hats

Santa Hats - The most popular of all the RS Holiday drops, were only dropped on that day. Also these were the final tradable holiday items because Jagex noticed that players were hoarding them and selling them for loads of money. And Jagex did not intend for that to happen.

Apr. 20, 2003: Bunny Ears

Bunny Ears - These were the first non-tradable holiday item. Also for the Bunny Ears you could get more than one drop however, if you already had one, and went to pick up a 2nd one, you would get the message, already got one, I don't need another. Obtainable only on that day.

Oct. 31, 2003: Scythe

Scythes - These were the final holiday items to be dropped. And also a lot of complaints were submitted to Jagex. Since they couldn't figure out how to get them.

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NPC Holiday Items:

After missing three consecutive holidays (Christmas 2003, Easter 2004, Halloween 2004). Jagex brought in a new holiday system of NPCs that would give out the items to players. And the NCPs would be around for 2 weeks. The Dates for these lists will be the dates that they were only obtainable from.

Dec. 21, 2004 - Jan. 3, 2005: Yo-yos

Yo-yo - To obtain a yo-yo, a player had to talk to a Santa which were set up in one of these cities: Ardougne, Falador, Varrock, Catherby, and Yanille. When a player would talk to them. Santa would give them a toy yo-yo. On Jan. 4, 2005, the santas would disappear. However any player who took the time to talk to Santa will get to keep the yo-yo.

Mar. 21, 2005 - Apr. 4, 2005: Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken - Possibly the funniest weapon in the game, was only obtainable if you took the time to help the Easter Bunny. The bunny would give you an easter basket with chocalate eggs, you had to deliver the eggs to other players. The choclate eggs were eatable, but after Apr. 4, melted away, and the players who had the eggs ended up with chocolate dust. Also when you walked or ran with the basket, your character would literally skip, rather than walk or run, and any player who ate teh chocolate eggs also did a chicken dance. When weilded, you can "whack" other players, Wild or Normal areas.

Oct. 31, 2005 - Nov 7, 2005: Zombie heads, Scare Emote

Zombie heads - Could only be obtained by insulting a zombie which were located in the Lumbridge swamp. After the Zombie dropped it's head you could pick it up and keep it. You could use it to scare kids who were "Trick or Treating" in lumbridge.
Scared Emote - Obtainable from getting the zombie head. Little is known if this will be unlockable every halloween or just 2005's.

Dec. 19, 2005 - Jan. 3, 2006: Winter Hats, Winter Scarves, and Marionettes

Winter Hats - To obtain these you had to help Diango at his toy workshop. You had to assemble marionettes (2 of each color for each box). Then you were to deliver them to an NPC that was hanging out at the gate to Taverly which near Doric's workshop. After players delivered to boxes to the NPC, players were then to go back to Diango to recieve their hats.
Winter Scarves - Players had to paint baubles for Rosie. Each box had to contain one bauble for each of the 5 colors (Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow, and Green). When a box was filled, players were then to return the boxes to Rosie. If a player had filled all 8, like the marionettes, and handed them to Rosie players would recieve scarves in the colors of the winter hats.
Marionettes - If you were in varrock, you'd notice that the tree this year wasn't decorated, and that's because you needed to decorate it for yourself. You had to fill 5 boxes this time. The same way you filled them for the scarves. After you used all 5 on the tree, a small cut scene was shown. You and any other player that was in the shot at the time would be ooh and ahhing at the decorated tree. After you decorated the tree, presents appeared from santa and you receive a marionette of either red, blue, or green!

???, ??, 2006 - ???, ??, 2006: TBA

TBA - Data will be determined when available.NPCs involved:
Christmas 2004: Santa Claus (Varrock, Catherby, Ardougne, Yanille, or Falador)
Easter 2005: Easter Bunny (South of Varrock)
Halloween 2005: Zombies (Lumbridge Swamp), Trick or Treaters (Lumbridge)
Christmas 2005: Diango (Draynor), Rosie (Fairy Workshop), Mysterious Man/Santa/Sara (Taverly Gate)
Easter 2006: TBD.

If you should lose any of the following items talk to the in game NPC:

Thesilla (Varrock Clothing Store)

Bunny Ears
Scythes

Diango (Draynor Market Place)

Yo-yos
Rubber Chicken
Zombie's Head
Winter Hats
Winter Scarves

If you should lose your Marionette, just go to the big box next to the entrance to the Fairy Workshop, and get a new one.

Note: You can only get new ones, if you took the time to get them the first time around.

This post has been edited by SailorScoutX: Mar 8 2006, 05:01 AM

crayoneater

Mar 7 2006, 04:20 AM | Post #2

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nice guide man thx for the info

SailorScoutX

Mar 7 2006, 04:47 AM | Post #3

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Oh no prob, this was posted on the Easter 2006, post in Treasures but I moved it here. When the easter 2006 event comes around i'll post a guide to help you guys get through it. What's gunna happen is, I'll go through it with my 2ndary DoggieCruger and use the info from that for the guide, and then i'll go through with SailorScoutX my main, and take the pics.

This post has been edited by SailorScoutX: Mar 7 2006, 04:57 AM

crayoneater

Mar 7 2006, 05:02 AM | Post #4

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ok sounds good

wats your rs name add crayoneater

This post has been edited by crayoneater: Mar 7 2006, 05:03 AM

firenimmo

Mar 7 2006, 08:44 AM | Post #5

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Nice guide, this and your other will be introduced to the site in the (hopefully near) future.

SailorScoutX

Mar 7 2006, 09:22 AM | Post #6

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Well, that's gunna have to wait until the Easter Event is added into the game for that short time.

Deathbyape

Mar 7 2006, 11:49 PM | Post #7

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Few errors I found:
Pumpkins were not droped by monsters, they were droped by moderators(jagex mods, player mods didn't exist).
Christmas Crackers again droped by moderators.
Easter egg heals 14 I'm pretty sure. Not going to eat mine to verify though lol.
Bunny ears, you couldn't get more than one. After you had one you got a message that said something like "You don't need another set, you only have one head." This was the first time that the items were not "drops" aswell. What happened was every hour or so you would get a system message that popped up in a black box that said "Happy Easter" and tons of bunny ears would pop up everywhere.
Scythes appeared the same way bunny ears did. I don't remember the message that popped up if you tried to get more than one. Also, the complaints to Jagex were not because they couldn't figure out how to get them, it was because Jagex only made the Scythes appear during the European day, which was when the majority of North Americans were at work/school so by the time they got home it was all over with.
For yoyo, dates are not consistant.
Zombie heads could be used to scare kids for candy of X different colors.
Easter Bunny in 2005 could be located anywhere south of Falador.

Anyways, as was stated before, touch up on the grammar and it should be a nice guide.

FireballX301

Mar 7 2006, 11:53 PM | Post #8

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When we upload this it'll undergo some editing.

8o8thekiller

Mar 8 2006, 12:24 AM | Post #9

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nice guide. good job

SailorScoutX

Mar 8 2006, 02:12 AM | Post #10

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Thnx, but also the, I hope about the Scared Emote information doesn't get edited until after halloween because we don't really know if it'll be give each year since it's on the emote, and locked for most players.

Luckk13

Mar 8 2006, 04:34 AM | Post #11

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here is a picture of tradeable holiday rares if you needed one. sorry i had to drop the ones of those you can reobtain because of bank space problems so lack those currently, and dont have bunny ears in anycase for a full set of holiday items.

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