2009 Christmas event





The 2009 Christmas event is a holiday event released by Jagex on 21 December 2009.

The Event
You can start A Christmas Warble in either Draynor, Falador or Varrock.

To start the event, enter a wardrobe in any of these locations.

The Draynor cupboard is situated just outside Aggie's house. The Varrock cupboard is located in Varrock Square. The Falador cupboard is located just outside the north entrance. You can start the event by talking to the Queen of Snow. She is located in north, west of Jack Frost . After talking to her, have a talk with the snow imp north of her. Head to the snow imp near the ice sculptures and Jack Frost in the northeastern area. Talk to the imp near Jack Frost, he will inform you to talk to an imp inside the Snow Queen's tent. Talk to the imp, and the Snow Queen.

Go East into Ebenezer Scourge's house. Talk to him in the western room, he might be hiding under an imp or near the couch (or some players may be standing on him, making him hard to find).

Search the cupboard for Bedsheets, head to the dining room in the eastern section of the house and find in another cupboard a needle and some thread. You will find chains in a barrel in the skullery in the northern section of the house. Next, use the needle, thread, and the chains on the bed sheet and you will have a set of Christmas ghost Armour. Leave Ebenezer Scourge's house and talk to the Queen of Snow, who resides in the small tent by her reindeers. Then, you will be able to head upstairs in Scourge's house.

'''Note: The area may be crowded and you may not be able to see the Queen of Snow. Right-click in front of the Queen's throne and you will be able to select "talk" to the Queen.'''

Walk up the stairs to scare Scourge. He will not be pleased and will curse the guests with a magical fire. Before you leave, search around some of the cupboards or barrels for a few buckets. When you get back, fill the buckets at the large fountain to the South and use one on any guest. Unless you free the guests in the right order, the curse reestablishes itself. To find the order, pay attention to the cutscene after you unlock in the wrong order. The fires will flash red momentarily. The order that the fires flash is the OPPOSITE order in which you must unlock the guests. The order of the guests to free is different for every player.

Go back to Scourge, have a little chat and you'll end up failing.

Have a chat with your snow imp; and then go back upstairs. Say nothing, then do the Angry emote, then the Scare emote, and lastly, the Dramatic Point emote. After you lie about his future, Scourge will release Santa Claus. Talk with Santa at the feast to recieve a present from the Christmas tree at the southeast.

'''Congratulations, you've finished the event! '''





Reward

 * Christmas ghost hood
 * Christmas ghost top
 * [http:// Christmas ghost bottoms ]
 * Candy cane, which when wielded has the option to "Spin". When spun, your character will throw it into the air, it will rotate 360 degrees and then be caught.
 * You also get the Dramatic Point emote.
 * You can get food of the table: Turkey drumstick, Roast potatoes, Yule log and Mulled Wine. You can't take the food out of the land of snow, but you can fight guards and quickly go into the Land of Snow to use it as a healing method.
 * If you have not already, you will unlock the freeze emote and snowman dance emote.



Music
Music tracks unlocked:
 * Silent Knight
 * Ghost of Christmas Presents
 * Smorgasbord

Development
The event was developed mainly in September and October of 2009 and is the first project developed by Mod Edam. Mod Ajd has said that the Christmas event will be better than last year's, but Jagex will "leave the players to decide that one." A new particles graphics effect will be added with the event in the form of snow. It will be the first time that players will see this in RuneScape.

Many users on the RuneScape Forums have commented on the delay of the release of the event. The 2006, 2007, and 2008 Christmas events were all released on either the 16th or the 18th of December, but the 2009 Christmas event was released on 21 December.

History
The 2009 Christmas event was first announced in the news item "Christmas Cards and Blog". It linked to a developer blog written by the developer of the event, Mod Edam. In the developer blog, titled "Holiday Event: A Christmas Warble", Mod Edam gave a few details about what the event would be like.

Mod Edam wanted the graphics of the event to have a "Christmassy" atmosphere, and said that he was "really pleased with what was produced." To add to the "Christmassy" atmosphere, Jagex will be releasing a new particle system in RuneScape that will include a more realistic look of snow. Players will see it coming out of a wardrobe, a possible reference to the novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. At least some of the event will take place in the Land of Snow, where a "surprise" will be seen. This year, the entrance to the Land of Snow will be in the wardrobe mentioned above.

New characters will be released with the event, but Jack Frost and snow imps, characters seen in a previous Christmas event, will have small cameos. Santa Claus will presumably appear, based on Christmas cards that represent the event. The event's plot will be based on a traditional Christmas story, but will have some changes.

Mod Edam has confirmed that the rewards of the event will not be the same as the rewards from previous events, and they will not be tradeable. He has also said that the new rewards of the event will not give any player any notable advantage over another, but will still be fun and somewhat useful.

Some players have speculated that the traditional Christmas story that Mod Edam is basing the event on will be Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but this has not been confirmed. The title of the first blog by Edam is "A Christmas Warble", "warble" being a variation of the word carol (i.e. A Christmas Carol). The caption for one of the pictures posted on Edam's blog stated, "Beware of the Humbug", "humbug" being a well-known word that Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol's main character, often says in the book. One of the Christmas cards released at the same time as the "Christmas Cards and Blog" news post is titled "A Christmas Warble" and captioned, "Santa brings a Hint of Christmas Future in this festive card." The picture is of Santa Claus, an old man (speculated to be Scrooge) and a young boy (speculated to be Tiny Tim, hinted by the crutch under his right arm). Furthermore, "Christmas Cards and Blog" makes a reference to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who is one of the four ghosts that visits Scrooge in the novel: "Like the Ghost of Christmas Future we're here to offer a hint of what's to come this Christmas, in the form of a new Christmas card and developer blog."

Based on a screenshot from the event, it may also involve Jack Frost freezing living things into what look like ice sculptures like he did last year. This idea is also supported by the fact that if you summon your snow imp after the event, it talks about Jack still creating ice sculptures, but this time, he is making the real ones instead of freezing them.

Trivia

 * Tiny Thom and Ebenezer Scourge are also in the Land of Snow. Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge were characters in the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which most of the event is based on.
 * You say "I'm the Ghost of the past.", "I'm Ghost of Christmas Present" when you wake him, also a reference from the carol. Also Ebenezer guesses you are the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. You say nothing, like the carol.
 * The idea of going through a wardrobe to the Land of Snow is similar to the concept from The Chronicles of Narnia.
 * When you log in the queen of snow tells the feast is a Yuletide feast. Yuletide is similar to the swedish word "Juletid" which means "Chrismas time".
 * You can talk to the camel with a camulet for humorous conversations throughout the event and after.

Glitches

 * A player can spin any item using the Candy cane if the player right clicks it while wielding it, presses the F1 key, and clicks "Spin" and quickly switches to another weapon.