Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs, also known as the 2009 Easter Event, is located south of Falador, as were many previous Easter events.

This event, as all holiday events, is available to Members and Free players.

"The Easter Bunny seems to have been around forever. Or has he? What makes him seem immortal? This Easter, calamity has once again befallen his factory, and he needs your help to solve the problem. As well as giving you the chance to fix some impressive machinery, and deal with some colourful (but less than helpful) characters, Splitting Heirs will also give our free players a taste of what it’s like to catch implings!

This event revisits the past, so if you’ve played previous Easter events you’ll recognise the incubator from 2008 and the Easter Bird from 2006. Find out what makes the Easter Bunny tick, and you could also earn yourself a new fun weapon. So what are you waiting for? Go seek out the Easter Bunny!"

Starting Off

 * Start by talking to the Easter Bunny south of Falador. He will tell you that he went away on a little vacation and left his son in charge; however while he was away his lazy son did not maintain the factory. It is your job to get things in order.
 * Enter the rabbit hole - the Easter Bunny will cast a spell on you that turns you into a rabbit. You will find yourself in a maze of tunnels that may be familiar from last year's event.
 * Find your way through the tunnels - you will find yourself in the Easter Bunny's egg factory.
 * Head to the north until you find two rooms that adjoin each other - in the furthest room back you will find Easter Bunny Jr, sat on a chair.
 * Speak to him - he will tell you that fixing up the factory isn't his job, and will mention a to do list.
 * Read the noticeboard. It is in the previous room (the Easter Bunny's office) on the north wall.

First Task (Feeding the Easter Bird)

 * Go South to the middle of the cave and you will see the Easter Bird.
 * Talk to him. You will find that he is asleep, and you will be presented with a few options to wake him up - any of them will.
 * Talk to him again. He will tell you what he wants to eat (note that what he wants varies from player to player and can be Poppy seeds, Worm bits, Sunflower seeds, or Cracker bits). To the east of the bird are four sacks of bird food - Pick out what he wants (examining the sack will say what it contains).
 * Use the food on the bird or his feeding tray to fill it.
 * Talk to the bird once more. He will complain of being thirsty. To the north of the incubator is a water supply, click "get water" (a bucket is automatically used).
 * Use the bucket of water on the bird or his water tray to fill it. Speak to the bird one last time.
 * The Easter Bunny Jr will appear next to the bird; speak to him. Tell him about how bird is profitable for him. He will complain of implings scratching in the tunnels.

Second Task (Round up Implings)

 * The Easter Bunny Jr will ask you to round up some implings.
 * Head back to the Easter Bunny's office, on the floor will be some impling jars and an Impling net. Take a net and five jars.
 * Go to the tunnels that are to the east of the main cavern and catch five Easter Implings (make sure you wield your net).
 * Take the Easter impling jars to the egg painting machine toward the south of the cavern. Use one of the jars on the machine. You will have a conversation with the imps, convincing them to work.
 * The Easter Bunny Jr will appear again, speak to him. Convince him that the implings are good by stating that "An impling painting an egg twice his size is pretty cool". The Easter Bunny Jr. will seem to get more interested in running the factory. He will then complain about an impling that complains about the broken incubator often.

Third Task (Fix the Incubator)

 * Head north to the incubator, and speak to the impling worker there.
 * Head into the Easter Bunny Jr's room, on the floor to the north is some Incubator blueprint - take them.
 * Search the boxes strewn around the factory for parts (both the boxes containing eggs and the boxes containing nuts, you may have to search each box more than once). Note that there are no boxes in the southern tunnels, the eastern tunnels or in the Easter Bunny Jr's room or the Easter Bunny's office.
 * Once you have collected the Chimney, the Clean pipe, the Wet pipe, the Sooty pipe, the Pistons and the Big cog, return to the incubator.
 * Use the big cog, the chimney, and the pistons on the main body of the incubator. Then use the clean pipe on the control panel, the sooty pipe on the coal collector, and the wet pipe on the water input.
 * Speak to the impling worker, and the Easter Bunny Jr will appear again.
 * Speak to him, and explain the use of the machine. He will tell you to remove the vermin (the squirrels) from the nut sorting machine.

Fourth Task (Retrain the Squirrels)

 * Walk west to the nut sorting machine, and look at it - select speak to Big Ben.
 * You will negotiate a deal of payment with the squirrels - select 20% of the nuts, and you will haggle and agree on 25%. You will then engage in a short nut-sorting game.
 * When anything other than nuts passes by, click the red button to discard it when the item enters the red area. If you discard a wrong one you will need to restart the minigame . You will complete the minigame after you correctly discard the right things 10 times a row.
 * After this is complete the Easter Bunny Jr will appear once again.
 * Speak to him, and convince him to that the squirrels aren't vermin. he will say that he is ready to step up to the job of running the factory and ask you to meet him in the Easter Bunny's office.
 * Go to the Easter Bunny's office. A short cut-scene will play.
 * Leave the cave, and enter the rabbit hole - you will become a rabbit once again. Navigate through the cave to the rabbit hole at the other end, and exit the warren.
 * Speak to the Easter Bunny. A short cutscene will play and you will receive your reward!

Rewards
For completing the event players were rewarded with an Easter Carrot. The Easter Carrot is a two-handed fun weapon that can be used to whack other players, much like the Rubber chicken from the 2005 Easter event.

Players will also unlock the Around the World in Eggty Days emote, and the Bunny-hop emote if it has not already been unlocked, although the Easter Bunny will not tell the player about either of them.

Music Unlocked

 * Lazy Wabbit
 * Hare-brained Machines

Trivia

 * During the event player says to Easter Bunny Jr "Run, rabbit, run!". Song incuded in Jill Daniels stage show "HITS OF THE BLITZ"


 * If you enter the Rabbit Hole with any items in your inventory and then leave it after completing (or before, and after being a rabbit) all items in your inventory will automatically be banked. This has not been fixed if not intended.
 * Unlike other recent holiday rewards, you are able to drop the Easter Carrot instead of destroying it.
 * When the squirrel, Big Ben, asks for payment, the player will tell him how many coins the player has in his/her bank.
 * Even though the giant carrot is held in one hand, it still counts as a two-handed weapon.
 * Heirs is a homonym for hare, a similar animal to a rabbit, and also hair.
 * While talking to Big Ben, the player makes a different face animation than seen anywhere else.[[Image:New_face_animation.gif|right|thumb|The different face animation.]]
 * While talking to Big Ben, he states "I's knows what I's wants and I's knows how ta get it". this may be a reference to the song "Anarchy in the U.K" by the Sex Pistols.
 * The emote name, Around the World in Eggty Days, is a reference to the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" by the French writer Jules Verne.
 * While training the squirrels, there is a doll that looks like General Graardor
 * on the release of the event the circus got a major update including new shouts from the audience and a new scoring system.
 * When a player examines Easter Bunny Jr. after he slips into the suit, the player will express his or her disbelieve of what he or she just saw (this works twice).