On the 22nd of October 2007, Jagex created a new goal for one to achieve. First, one needed to talk to the Grim Reaper. His previous servant had just died and he needed players to complete a series of tasks to get ready for the new servant. The Reaper sent players into his garden to retrieve his previous servant's skull. Then he sent Runescapers on a mission to retrieve items for him such as Grim's robe, scythe sharpener, human bones, last will and testament, hourglass, human eye, and the 'Voice of Doom', then put them in the correct spot using the Diary of Death.

After doing so, one was required to complete an obstacle course including slides, springboards, slime, and pitfalls. Upon doing so, one would be awarded with the Grim Reaper hood and the Zombie hand emote. Unfortunately, the Grim Reaper hood is good for nothing other than looks as it provides no stat bonuses.



Picture Name Examine
Grim Reaper hood Allows me to imitate the harbinger of doom, the stealer of souls, and the eternal end…


Warlock clothes


Jagex released this Halloween event on October 28, 2008. Maggie a visting witch came to spread the word of Halloween north of Rimmington. When spoken to she would ask players to go out and get her specific types of candies: popcorn balls, wrapped candies, and chocolate drops. In order to do that, players would need to go trick-or-treating (with a costume) to the various NPC's around Rimmington, Port Sarim and Draynor Village. These NPCs would either give candy for free based on your costume or they would demand to be tricked. Players learnt the trick emote by looking inside a cooking pot belonging to Maggie.

Jagex temporarily also made the Swept Away quest available to free players over Halloween, with the quest start point being with Maggie north of Rimmington before she was moved to the west of the Legends' Guild after the update.

After supplying Maggie with enough candies, she awarded players with a warlock costume. This costume has no stat bonuses or emotes, but it does provide that good ol' Halloween scare.

Picture Name Examine
Warlock top The height of warlock fashion.
Warlock legs Tattered but trendy.
Warlock cloak Ragged but rugged.

Note: The female version of Warlocks clothes is known as Witch's clothes. The only difference is a skirt instead of leggings.
4.0 - Easter
Easter Eggs
Easter Eggs were dropped on Easter of 2002. The Easter Egg cannot be wielded, but like the pumpkin, it can be eaten. Although again not highly suggested, the egg will heal 12 hit points when eaten. Its rarity is very hard to determine due to its prices always jumping around. I value the Easter Egg just above the pumpkin, due to its colourfulness making it stand out a little more in my bank or inventory. Again, it is suggested that you put the egg in note form if you are going to sell/carry it around.

Picture Name Examine
Easter egg Happy Easter.

Bunny Ears
Bunny Ears were the first of the two un-tradable Holiday Items. They were dropped on Easter of 2003, and brought much anger towards Jagex due to every player only being able to hold one and they were un-tradable. Bunny Ears are worn on your head, and tend to look good with darker clothing due to its bright pink colour making it stand out more on a darker surface. Unfortunately, if you weren't playing/logged in on that day, there is no other way to get one. If you drop your bunny ears, just visit the clothing store in Varrock and speak to the owner to get them back.

Picture Name Examine
Bunny ears A rabbit-like adornment.

Rubber Chicken
For Easter during the 2005 year, Jagex had an Easter Bunny hopping around. Players who spoke to the bunny and helped him pass out Easter eggs would be given a rubber chicken. The rubber chicken has 2 special options on it besides 'wield'. When the chicken is in your inventory you can right click on it and choose to 'dance'. This dance is a chicken dance where you flap your 'wings' and scratch the ground with one foot (Picture). The other option is one when you wield the chicken and right click on a player, is the option to 'whack' the player (Picture). You cannot obtain the chicken unless you helped the Easter Bunny. If you drop your rubber chicken, speak to Diango in Draynor Village to get it back.

Picture Name Examine
Rubber chicken Perhaps not the most powerful weapon in RuneScape.

Easter Rings
The Easter bunny returned in Easter of 2006, bringing a whole host of cute little worker-bunnies to the south-west of Falador and north-west of Varrock! These bunnies were hypnotised into taking Easter eggs to the surface to give out to children. This is where you stepped in.


The Easter bunny gave out Easter Rings to those humans who assisted him, by giving out ten Easter eggs to the children. To firstly collect Easter eggs, players needed to grab a spade, and dig up some closed rabbit holes just near the Crafters' guild. After collecting at least eleven Easter eggs (two being 'magic' Easter eggs, noticeable by their blue colour and gold shapes), players were to give out ten to the children, making sure they didn't give out the magical egg. Once they had done so, players had to eat their magic eggs over the top of the open rabbit holes. Here they'd be transformed into a rabbit, and sucked into the rabbit tunnels. Each player had to find their way to the center of the tunnels, and go up the chute to see the Easter Bunny. After speaking to it for a while, it gave each player an Easter Ring.




Reward Picture Use
Easter ring The Easter ring, when worn, morphs you into an Easter egg; the type of Easter egg (chocolate, caramel, nougat, orange, toffee, magic) is random (Picture). Unlike the Easter eggs which melted and turned into chocolate dust on April 24th, the Easter Ring stuck around. While this is utterly and completely useless, it does make a fairly neat party trick: especially if the entire party transforms into eggs. As with most items if you speak to Diango in Draynor village he will give you a new ring if you have lost it.

Chicken Suit

Easter 2007 brought back the Easter Bunny with a new problem! Diango delivered him chocolate kebbits instead of bunnies! Players had to help him catch the kebbits and get the supplies to turn them into bunnies.

To begin, players had to head towards the crafting guild, south-west of Falador and they would bump into the bunny. He would first ask players to catch ten chocolate kebbits in the rabbit warren, place them into a special containment room where they would then bowl easter eggs into the caught kebbits to make chocolate chunks. Players then had to pick up ten chocolate chunks and return them to the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny would then reward each player chicken legs and chicken feet, before asking them to find a bunny mould in a cabbage patch whilst they dodged an angry farmer. After collection of the rabbit mould and return of it to the Easter Bunny, players were rewarded with the chicken head and chicken wings.

In addition to the chicken suit, when players ate the magic egg to allow them to turn into a rabbit - small enough to go to the cabbage patch - they were awarded the bunny hop emote. When players now wear their chicken suits, if they have accessed the flap emote from the Stronghold of Security, they will have an enhanced flap emote where they will float off the ground a little.



Picture Name Examine Picture Name Examine
Chicken head Cock-a-doodle-do! Chicken wings I look fowl in this.
Chicken legs What's the matter, are you chicken? Chicken feet Perfect for crossing the road.

Chocatrice Cape

In 2008, Jagex gave us another fabulous treat to add to our holiday items collection, it was the Chocatrice Cape! Players would help out the Easter Bunny once again to find eggs around the RuneScape map, and bring them back to him, but of course like every year, it wasn't as simple as that. During the expansion of the warren, some rodents had got in and stolen the chocolate and the eggs! It would be your make a new race of creatures known as the Chocatrice, not to be confused with Cockatrices. These devious little creatures would be used (combined with the summoning skill) to kill the rodents, and turn them into chocolate. Once you had collected enough chocolate you would return to the Easter bunny for your reward!

If you were brave enough you could also return and collect a fabulous egg from the Easter Bunny for an extra 8 chocolate pieces.

Reward Picture Use
Chocatrice cape Whilst wearing the cape players can operate it perform an emote, forming an egg around the player. If you lose or destroy your cape it can be replaced by Diango in Draynor village. Only people who took part in the event can gain access to this item, as it is not tradable.


5.0 - Miscellaneous Events & Items
April Fools - Toy Horseys
On April 2004, a new set of toys were available for sale at Diango's, a new Toy seller who appeared mysteriously in Draynor Village. As an April Fools joke, Jagex released Toy Horseys, which comes in four different colours: Tan, White, Black and Grey. When playing with your Horsey, you can say random things like "Neaahhhyyy! Giddy-up horsey!"; "Hi-ho Silver, and away!"; "Come-on Dobbin, we can win the race!" (Picture). The reason for its release is due to the large amount of players suggesting horses as a means of transportation.

Picture Name Examine Picture Name Examine
Toy Horsey A brown toy horse. Toy Horsey A black toy horse.
Toy Horsey A white toy horse. Toy Horsey A grey toy horse.

April Fools - Spinning Plate
On April 4th 2005, a new toy was available for sale at Diango's. There is nothing special about the Spinning plate, except that you could have countless seconds of fun spinning it (Picture). Although not rare, this item is considered a holiday item as it was released three days after a fairly well known day, April Fools. The reason for its release is due to the large amount of player suggestions of implementing Dragon platebody's into the game, to add to the dragon armour set.

Picture Name Examine
Spinning plate It has a picture of a dragon on it.

April Fools - Dragon Kite
After a few years break from April Fools Diango began to sell Dragon kites in 2008 for 100gp. Dragon kites were once again an item highly suggested by players so that the Dragon set could be further completed. The kites can be wielded, allowing them to flap in the wind above a player (Picture), and when the option "Fly" is used a player pulls the kite down in the air so that the front faces forward (Picture). Other than the nice appearance of the item it has little value, drawn on the kite is a dragon similar in design to the emblem on the Dragon square shield.

Picture Name Examine
Dragon kite A Kite with a dragon on it.


Thanksgiving

In 2008, Jagex, for the first time started a Thanksgiving Holiday Event. They also gave us another fabulous treat to add to our holiday items collection, the Cornucopia! Players had two ways of getting the item and emote. They could either kill turkeys that were roaming around various areas near, Lumbridge, Draynor Village, Falador, and Varrock or they can find the 10 turkey spies. If you chose to kill turkeys, you would normally have received the drop after killing around twenty turkeys. That was the recommended way to get the item and emote especially since they were only level 5 and is much faster than finding the "fake" turkeys.



However, some chose to find the ten "fake" turkeys roaming around RuneScape. These 10 turkeys can be found here.
1) At the scorpian mine north of Al-Kharid, near the entrance.
2) At the Al-Kharid General Store
3) Inside the Lumbridge Furnace
4) Swamps outside of Lumbridge, near the Water Rune Entrance
5) Behind of Draynor Manor
6) East of the Mining Guild in Falador, east of the homes
7) At the Yews south of Edgeville Bank
West of the VarrockWest bank around the guards and the wall
9) Southern tip of the Mudskipper Point
10) West of the Monastery

Reward Picture Use
Cornucopia The Cornucopia allows food to be stacked so that you can use a few pieces of low healing food to add upto 14 hitpoints saving you some inventory space.


6.0 - Discontinued Items
Rare Items are items that originally had a function but are now completely useless and impossible to find from any non-player resource, thus there are a limited amount of them.

Half-Wines
Originally in RuneScape, you drank a jug of wine in two doses. If you drank one dose, the wine changed to a "Half Jug of Wine." Jagex decided later that wine should be 1 dose, but after removing the ability to drink it in 2 doses they realized their error in leaving the Half-Wine in the game still. By the time they figured it out, players had already incorporated it in the economy. It is possible to drink the Half-Wine, so it's only use isn't just to look at. Its price jumps around all over the place, depending on the seller.

Picture Name Examine
Half full wine jug An optimist would say it's half full.

Disk of Returning
After RuneScape had been around for about a year, Jagex released the "Thordur's Black Hole." The general idea of it was that when Jagex punished a player (not IP banned mind you) the player was sent to the black hole, where he would serve out his punishment. If players wished to visit their friend who was punished, they would talk to a NPC who would sell them a disk of returning and teleport them to the black hole. If the player wished to return to the regular lands, they would spin the disk of returning.

Jagex however decided it was better to just ban the player, so they removed the black hole but accidentally left the disk. Another reason Jagex removed the black hole was scammers would encourage players to drop the disk thus trapping them there, then selling them a new disk at an outrageous price. The Disk's price, like the Half-Wines, jumps around at a very rapid pace.

Picture Name Examine
Disk of returning Used to get out of Thordur's blackhole.

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