2009 Easter event

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! The Easter Bunny is back, however, he is now too old for the family "egg" business. He has left the business to his son, and his hare, Easter Bunny Jr. However, EBJ is the most lazy bunny you will ever meet and it is your duty to help him with the eggs!

The event is officially called Splitting Heirs.





Where To Start
South of Falador, East of the crafting guild. Talk to the Easter bunny and he will ask you to enter the rabbit hole just west of where he's standing. You must have an empty inventory and no followers are allowed.

Starting
Start by talking to the Easter Bunny who can be found south of Falador. He will say that when he was on holiday, his son made a mess of the egg factory. Ask "Can I help?" he will then offer to store your items in the bank. Enter the bunny hole to the south. You will turn into a bunny.Walk slightly north, then west, then north. You will come to another Rabbit Hole. On the mini-map it will be the northernmost part of the cave you are in. it is lit like there is a light behind it. Climb through this. Walk north into the second part of the cave. You will be in a cave where there are two impling jar spawns and a butterfly net spawn. Pick up 5 Impling Jars and a Net for use in the near future. Walk west into a messy cave where Easter Bunny Jr is sitting at a desk. Talk to him, and he will ask you to complete his father's to-do list. To the north of his cave you will see an Incubator Blueprint. Pick this up for future use. Walk east into the next cave. Right previous to the entrance to Easter Bunny Jr's cave is a Noticeboard. Read this. It will show you what you have to do.

Feeding the Easter Bird
Next up, walk back into the main cave and talk to the Easter Bird in the centre of the cave. Wake it up by clapping or by blowing a raspberry. Talk to it, and it will tell you to feed it. It will also say what it wants. To the east of it, there are four sacks. Search each one, and you will find you have whichever type of seed it asked for. Walk back to the Easter Bird and use the food it wants with it. Now, walk north and you will see a place where you can get Water. Get yourself a Bucket of Water. Walk back to the bird and use the bucket of water with it. Now, talk to it. It should now be able to lay eggs. Talk to Easter Bunny Jr, who appears.

Catching Implings
Next you are asked to catch some Easter Implings. You will need the 5 impling jars and the butterfly net that you grabbed previously as mentioned earlier. Now, walk to the cave section to the east of the main workshop (not the tunnels where you turn into a rabbit). You will find 5 implings scattered in the corners of the tunnels. Catch them all in your jars. And then use them with the Egg-painting machine at the south of the main cave to get them back to work. Next, talk to Easter Bunny Jr, who will appear by the Egg-painting machine.


 * On the day of the release, people were tricking each other by saying that there were 6 imps. Do not fall for this.
 * Dont Drop the jar you will have to catch another impling!

Fixing the Incubator
Next you are asked to fix the incubator. But first you have to get the blueprints which is in Easter Bunny Jr`s room. Talk to the impling worker who is next to the incubator.You must find the parts of the incubator which are in different boxes. The boxes can be found all over the room, there are 3 groups of multiple boxes, and 2 single boxes. Look for boxes with the search option. Use the Cog, Piston, and Chimney on the main section (in that order). Use the sooty pipe on the Coal supply, the wet pipe on the Water tank, and the normal pipe on the Incubator controls. The Easter Bunny Jr will be next to the water tank on the incubator.

Retraining the Squirrels
He will then ask you to remove the vermin sleeping on the machinery, so walk to the south west of the incubator. Click "Look-at Nut machine," then click talk to Big Ben. Choose the option "20%" and you will both agree on 25%. Say you will train the squirrels now. Simply click the button on all the Bandos Monsters, Bolts, and broken nuts, and you will finish as soon as you get to 10 correct in a row. Speak to easter bunny's son next to the nut machine. He will tell you to meet him in the office.

Finishing Up
After you speak to Easter Bunny Jr., he will step into his fathers' shoes. To finish the event, speak to the Easter Bunny.

Reward

 * Easter Carrot, which is a fun weapon that can be wielded,and can be used to whack other players by right clicking them then select option whack
 * Around the World in Eggty Days, a new emote.
 * Bunny-hop, an emote.

Music

 * Lazy Wabbit - Unlocked upon entering the Rabbit burrow
 * Hare-brained Machines - Unlocked after convincing the Squirrels to return to work.

Trivia

 * For the first time, the Easter bunny's appearance changed.
 * If players do not have any bank space to store their items and do not wish to drop their items, they will be unable to complete the event.
 * The Easter bunny only teleports your items to the bank the first time you talk to him.
 * The player will state the total amount of coins that he/she has when talking to Big Ben after finish some parts of the event.[[Image:Easter_09.png|thumb]]
 * If you talk to the impling manager while you have one impling caught you will say: "Well, I've already caught a few." while you have only have caught one.
 * The line "Run, rabbit, run!" is possibly a reference to the song written about World War II in the 1940's "Run, Rabbit, Run!" It could also be a pun on Forrest Gump's "Run, Forrest, run!"
 * The name of the reward emote is based on the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne.
 * The Easter carrot you receive is allowed in the Soul Wars lobby, which also means you can take it in to the mini game and use it.
 * If you try to go into the rabbit hole on a PvP World, the bunny will stop you. Saying "I don't want any fighting going on in there!"
 * If you examine the Easter Bunny it says, "He's lucky its not rabbit season." This is a reference to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Also the tune 'Lazy Wabbit' may be a pun to Elmer's accent.
 * Once you finished the event quest, there is no way you could go back down into the rabbit hole.
 * You can't enter the rabbit hole if you're wearing a 10th squad sigil.
 * You will not lose items upon death in the rabbit hole.
 * If you hit a player too many times you will get the message "You drop your carrot on the floor!"
 * If you are wearing a Team cape while in the rabbit hole, others players that were wearing the same one still show up as a blue dot even though the rabbit is not wearing the cape.
 * After you are done feeding the Easter Bird, it says "Shiver me Squirrels" a pun on the pirate phrase "Shiver me Timbers".
 * When talking to the son about the Easter Bird, the option " It is a golden egg laying goose!" is a reference to one of Aesop's fables.