2014 Hallowe'en event

Death's Door is the 2014 Hallowe'en event. Players hunt spooky ghosts in Death's mansion and get a variety of rewards, including Ghost hunter equipment, a new Firemaking and Prayer ability, along with titles, emotes and experience.

Starting the event
Start the event by heading to the Burthorpe lodestone and speaking to Muncher, Death's pet skeleton hellhound. After briefly attempting to understand his barks, you will discover that Death's house has been invaded by ghosts. Ask him to take you there, and upon arrival you will see Death.

Talk to him, and he will explain that Melzar the Mad has attacked his house in order to try and control his domain and resurrect the dead of Crandor. Melzar is attacking the mansion using an army of Crandorian ghosts, which Death would like you to remove using the Proto pack; a powerful ghost-busting weapon developed by a friend of his.

Ghosts
Climb over the chain and equip the proto pack. The aim of the event is to collect points by dismissing ghosts via the pack, which can then be spent on rewards. Killing stronger ghosts awards more points than killing weaker ones, although they also take longer to dismiss. Beastial, Weak, Spooky and Wailing ghosts are unable to heal themselves, while Tough, Terrifying, Vile and Demonic ghosts heal. The stronger the ghost is, they heal slightly more then their weaker ones.

To find ghosts, you may either search furniture, or you can aid other players and dismiss their ghosts. Searching moving furniture will generally release stronger ghosts than stationary furniture. Ghosts can be found both on the ground and upper floor of the mansion, although only three ghosts can be active in a room at once. When ghosts are not in combat, they will gradually heal.

There are eight different types of ghosts, which can be viewed in the Ghostpedia (accessible via the HUD).

When dismissed, ghosts can drop demonic trace, active ectoplasm, or an ectoplasmator. Additionally, a trophy is given to players who help defeat demonic ghosts, but only one can be obtained per day. Demonic ghosts can only be summoned by using five pieces of demonic trace, which can be obtained from dismissing ghosts or looting chests.

When dismissing a ghost, there is a chance of obtaining two versions of the ectoplasmator - one being a normal drop, which can be picked up - and another 'ghostly' version, which can only be obtained by casting telekinetic grab. A player can differentiate between the two versions due to a message that displays when attempting to pick up a 'ghostly' version - ""

Fear


While in the presence of ghosts (excluding bestial), and also while fighting them, you will gain fear. If you reach 100% fear, you will be scared to death and reappear next to Death, losing 20 reward points, and being reduced to 30% fear. The more powerful ghosts are capable of increasing your fear much faster, some possessing special attacks that increase it significantly. To reduce your fear, you can stand in the moonlight next to windows, which will reduce your fear by 3-5% every tick. Note that you can not dismiss ghosts while standing in moonlight. Moonlight moves around the mansion from window to window. You can also reduce fear by hugging a Teddy, shining Night lights, or eating chocolates&mdash;items which can all be obtained from chests within the mansion.

Chests
Every 10 minutes, a chest will spawn in a random location inside the house. The chest will only appear for two minutes, and can give bones, big bones, dragon bones, sugar skulls, Toffee apples, chocolates, teddies, night lights, demonic trace and active ectoplasm, which can be used to supercharge your proto pack and do more damage to ghosts. A very lucky player can also end up finding an Ectoplasmator (if they don't have one already) or ghostly essence from a chest. Whenever a chest is spawned, a yellow message will appear in the chatbox stating which floor of the mansion it's on:

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Downstair locations:
 * Near the broken range in the central eastern area of the house.
 * In the northwest room.
 * In the parlour in the south-eastern area of the house.
 * Near the staircases in the upper central area of the house.

Upstair locations:
 * In the bottom central area of the house.
 * In the upper central area of the house.
 * In the south-eastern room.
 * In the north-eastern room.

Rewards

 * Large XP lamp - 5000 points or 3 trophies, up to 5 per day (Cannot be Purchased by Ironman Characters)
 * Ghost hunter goggles - 5000 points
 * Ghost hunter body and Ghost hunter backpack - 8000 points
 * Ghost hunter legs - 6000 points
 * Cremation ability (comes with a large XP lamp) - 10000 points
 * Ghost Hunter title (comes with a large XP lamp) - 3 trophies
 * Proto Pack emote (comes with a large XP lamp) - 3 trophies
 * Proto pack cosmetic override - Kill 50 ghosts
 * Ectoplasmator - Randomly dropped by ghosts for members that do not already have one.

Up to 2,000 of the first reward points earned each day are doubled. The "Daily Bonus Points" counter displays how many reward points have been doubled.

15,000 Points is the maximum a player can hold at one time. When you reach 15,000 points the following message will be displayed in game. "You have hit 15000 points. You cannot gain any more points but you can still help other people to dismiss ghosts."

Music tracks

 * The Reaper's House

Trivia

 * The unofficial world for ghost hunting is World 2. The dining room there is often so packed that demonic ghosts spawn constantly, making for very fast xp.
 * The conversation with Muncher seems to reference Skippy the bush Kangaroo TV series made in Australia
 * When trying to dismiss ghosts that are already at 0 health the player receives this message: "That ghost is already dying. Or dead. Whatever. The point is that you can't dismiss it." A pun towards ghosts being undead creatures.
 * The event's name, Death's Door, is a play on the saying "Knocking on Death's Door", meaning doing something that could likely get you killed.
 * The player's interactions with Muncher contain a number of references:
 * "What's that, Muncher? The Goblin Village will host the next Gielinor Games ?
 * "What's that, Muncher? Death's fallen down a well?" is a reference to.
 * "What's that, Muncher? Someone opened that trapdoor? And there was something down there?" is a reference to.
 * "What's that, Muncher? Marimbo is climbing a huge tower with Holstein under her arm, while his friends shoot arrows at her from the backs of giant eagles?" is a reference to.
 * Protopacks are based on the Proton Packs from the Ghostbusters franchise.
 * In the first 2-3 hours of the event, there was no limit to the number of large XP lamps that can be bought per day.
 * Even though ironman characters cannot purchase the Large XP lamp, they will still receive one when unlocking the other rewards.