2009 Hallowe'en event



The 2009 Hallowe'en event, also called Web of Shadows, is a currently on-going holiday event that was released on Monday 26 October 2009. The event takes place in the Grim Reaper's house and the Spider Realm. To access the event, the player can enter the black Player-owned house portal located South of Falador and east of Rimmington, at the same location that the portal was two years ago during the 2007 Hallowe'en event. See the holiday event icon on the world map and minimap.

The Grim Reaper's House
Talk to the Grim Reaper in his house in the black portal south-west of Falador. He will tell you he has a spider in his bath, and wants it removed. If you refuse, he will kill you and you will appear outside the portal with all your items. Head to the room north of you with the staircase and go up them. Find the spider in the bathtub where the yellow dot is located on the minimap and talk to her. She will tell you, in one or two word answers, that the Spider Queen has sent her and that she will only move if the spider queen tells her to. Report back to the Grim Reaper with what you found out. He will create a web-like portal for you to teleport to the Spider Realm. Enter it, and you will find yourself on the first floor of a four floor Dungeon.

Spider Realm - First Floor


On the first floor of the dungeon, players will find themselves standing on a small unstable web. Change your player view to see forward to the next Walk-to Web node and click on it to move your player. The player must cross the web strands to reach the ladder at centre of the web, however, only certain web strands can support the player. If the player crosses a wrong strand, they will fall down and be taken back to the beginning of the web. The player must use trial-and-error to find the correct strands and make their way to the centre of the web since the path is different for every player. (This puzzle is similar to the "Where am I?" puzzle of Lunar Diplomacy, or the "Pit and the Grid" puzzle of Underground Pass, albeit in a much more simple form)

Spider Realm - Second Floor
The second floor of the dungeon is an Agility course style level. Players are required to do various stunts such as swing across monkey bars, walk tightropes, hop from stone to stone and do Matrix-esque wall runs. The obstacles can't be failed. The player must make their way to the ladder on the northern-most web at the centre.

Spider Realm - Third Floor
When the player reaches the third level, they can find the Spider Herald. After the player mentions that they are helping the Grim Reaper, the Spider Herald will allow the player to climb the ladder to the level leading to the Queen Spider. There are many other spiders there such as the Royal Fly-Catcher, and Master Web-Spinner, Grand Chamberlain of the Web, Marshal of the Teeming Horde, Knight of the Eight-Fold Seal, Keeper of the Royal Eggs and various spider Courtiers.

Spider Realm - Fourth Floor
The Spider Queen will tell the player that the Grim Reaper offended the spiders by sweeping all webs from his house, upsetting the order of Hallowe'en set by Guthix. The Queen will refuse to move the giant spider from the Grim Reaper's bathroom until his house is again filled with spider webs.

The Queen will instruct the player to talk to the Spider Herald again, who will give the player a companion named Eek. The player is then instructed to return to the Grim Reaper's house and to fill the house with webs with the help of Eek. The ladder going down from the third to second level in the spider realm has the option to 'Return to the Grim Reaper's house,' meaning that the player doesn't have to backtrack through the dungeon.

Webbing The Grim Reaper's House
Talk to the Grim Reaper. After a short conversation with the player and Eek, you will be instructed to place webs all around the Grim Reaper's house. The player will need to hold Eek in their hand, and then left-click any furniture in the house that has the Web option. A total of sixty-four items will need to be webbed in order for the Queen Spider to be satisfied. Eek will also inform the player upon entering any room exactly how many items in that room need to be "webbed". The player can also Talk-to Eek at any time to determine how many items that need to be webbed are remaining in the current room.



It is advised to travel from room-to-room, looking for any object that Eek can web, and then moving on to the next room when Eek has informed you that the room has enough webs in it. Items that the player should look for are candlesticks, chairs, tables, beds, footlockers, Death Clocks, wardrobes, cabinets, bookcases and fireplaces.

Note that in the room with Muncher, the Grim Reaper's dog, the player will not be allowed to spin any webs until Muncher is satisfied - attempting to do so will result in Eek being scared by Muncher and unable to spin the web. You can right-click Muncher (or simply click Interact to open a dialogue box); the player should Entertain him and then let him sniff Eek, so that Muncher can see that Eek is harmless. After Eek states that Muncher likes her, the items in Muncher's room can be webbed by Eek.

Once sixty-four webs have been spun in the house, the player will need to talk to the Grim Reaper to let him know the task is complete, and finally to the Queen Spider (Select Go to spider court to bypass the maze) to remove the giant spider from the Reaper's bathroom and to claim their reward.

Note that even though the quest will be complete, players may converse with the Herald, Death, and the "bathtub spider" for more dialog. The Herald will vow never to forget your deeds, Death will reveal plans to tidy up the place *after* Hallowe'en, and the bathtub spider will continue to be mostly mono-syllabic.

Rewards


The rewards for completing Web of Shadows are (Talk to Spider Queen for rewards):
 * Eek the spider [[File:Eek.png]]
 * A Web Cloak [[File:Spider_Cloak2.PNG]]
 * Trick, Scared and Zombie Hand emotes if you did not have them previous to this event.

Music
Music tracks unlocked:
 * Trick or Treat?
 * Itsy Bitsy....
 * Poison Dreams

Trivia

 * Eek the Spider may be a reference to the cartoon "Eek the cat".
 * Eek the Spider can be put in your menagerie.
 * When talking to Eek the Spider about whether or not you are scared of spiders, saying "Yes, I'm scared of spiders" will result in her in-chat name temporarily changing to "Eek the Eight-Legged Mouse".
 * Within the first couple of minutes on the log-in confirmation screen, Eek the spider could not be seen and the spider was invisible.
 * A reference to Spider-man is made when Eek the Spider mentions being bitten by a "magically irradiated man" and becoming Man-spider although she is a female.
 * Eek the spider can be equipped and can be used as a weapon, without any advantage or disadvantage.
 * When you mention the "walk on two legs" option, she says she will "use the other six to FIGHT CRIME!", another possible reference to "Spider-Man"
 * The name of the Halloween event, "Web of Shadows," may be a reference to the Spider-Man video game of the same name, and also the movie of Bionicle named Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows
 * Around Death's house are grandfather clocks called "death clocks", a possible reference to the fictional death metal band 'Dethklok'.
 * A Death clock may also be a reference to the various forms of predicting the time of someone's death. In an episode of the American cartoon Futurama, a reference is made to a literal "Death Clock" in which you put your finger into the machine and it tells the approximate time of death.
 * It is impossible to fail an obstacle on the second floor of the spider maze.
 * With this quest, Jagex introduced new chat head. It appears when player asks the Spider Queen: "What about me?"
 * If a player blows a raspberry at Muncher, the dog, he will hit the player for the player's remaining hp. For example, if a player has 99 hp left, he will hit a 99, and if the player has 50 he will hit a 50. This will 'kill' the player, who reappears in room containing the portal from the Grim Reaper's house. The player does not lose any items. Muncher can hit through Protect from Melee.
 * If the player dies while in the Grim Reaper's house, they will respawn at the house's entrance.
 * When walking around with Eek, you will appear to have no shield if you are wearing one. When you walk, your shield will appear.
 * Eek the Spider and the Halloween Cape can both be stored in the Toy Box of your Costume Room of your Player-Owned House.
 * The character in the banner is wearing the Agile top and legs.
 * When walking the spider web, it is possible to walk through air. This happened when you clicked diagonally to the web.*If you try to rest while on an obstacle on the second floor, it says "You can't rest in that form."
 * Wielding a Toy Kite while navigating the maze causes it to glitch and appear as if it's floating.
 * Death (Grim Reaper) is rolling a Death rune around the fingers on his left hand.
 * The Spider Queen herself may be a reference to the 2009 Ghostbusters game, which had a Spider Queen level. There are also many similarities to the Spider Queen level of that game and the items and backgrounds in Web of Shadows.
 * When you get close to the Dark Portal, it gets darker. Even with a light source such as a bullseye lantern, it will still get darker.
 * This is the first holiday event to have a specific name.
 * There was a glitch that if you did the "Zombie walk" emote before teleporting, Eek would get her own "teleport cylinder"
 * Muncher was initially at the south point of the room, however moved in a Hidden Update by Jagex he can now move to wherever he likes within the room.
 * Even though one enters Death's house like one does a Player-owned house, when you log out and back in, you will be right where you were, instead of outside the portal.