2010 Hallowe'en event



The 2010 halloween event, also called Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow was released on 18 October 2010 and features a bone brooch for the reward. The event can be started by talking to Pumpkin Pete north of Port Sarim or by entering the portal (it will automatically let you talk with Pumpkin Pete). Hint: If you have Explorer's Ring 3 the Cabbage-port is close to Pumpkin Pete

Autograph
First talk to Grim, who is upstairs, to the east. He will explain that he is very anxious because his favourite musician, Zabeth Corvid, is performing at the party. The player will offer to get Zabeth's autograph for Grim, but Grim will warn the player that because Zabeth was drunk when he died, he accidentally stumbled a few seconds into the future, which can make conversations with him difficult.

Head downstairs, to the southeastern room, where you will find Zabeth. Because he is a few seconds into the future, what he says will not seem to make sense, but the player must choose the option that makes sense for Zabeth to have responded to it in the way he did.

Choose the following options:


 * 1) Hello, enjoying the party?
 * So, what do people call you?
 * 1) Sheesh, you're an idiot.
 * 2) Sorry, how about I make it up to you with another drink?
 * 3) Exactly how drunk are you?
 * 4) A vampire and a werewolf walk into a bar...
 * 5) Do you know Grim?
 * 6) Can I have an autograph for Grim?

Zabeth will agree, and give you his autograph. Bring this back to Grim, and he will thank you and hang the autograph in his room.



Spiders
Talk to Minstrel Web, the giant spider in the big room just after the portal room.

Finding the spiders
The spiders are hidden around the house.

Turquoise: Located in the southern room of the second floor of the house. After talking to him, use the "Trick" emote near it to scare it back to the dancefloor.

Pink: Wandering around upstairs.

Orange: Standing on the east side of the first floor in the middle of the house.

Beige: Wandering around upstairs, on the north side of the house.

There is a spider under the bed in the center room upstairs.

There is a spider in the Death Clock south of the bed in the middle of the room upstairs.

North of the center room on upper floor there is a room with a towel rack. Search the Towels in the east.

In the room downstairs with Pumpkin Pete, search the 2 cabinets. There will be a spider in one of them.

Dance Floor puzzle
If you have moved any spiders talk to Allan (The raven next to Minstrel Web) and ask him to reset, then click on the following colours: ''P.S.: This is only one of many ways to solve the puzzle. Shown here is an example of the fastest (5-move) solution.''
 * Turquoise
 * Green
 * Red
 * Orange
 * Purple

Every spider can be thought of as having two states: "binary" spiders in a sense. They can either be "off" the correct tile, or "on" it. Choosing to move a spider may change the state of either one or two spiders, not necessarily the chosen one, as follows:

The blue spider moves the beige and red spider. The pink spider does the same with pink and orange. The purple spiders moves herself (purple) and the pink spider. Red moves oranges and oranges moves Turquoise. Turquoise moves the red spider and the beige spider. The beige spider moves the green spider and the purple spider. The green spider moves herself (green) and the blue spider.

Go back to the spider to complete this task.

Complete the event
Talk again with Pumpkin pete to complete the quest. He will give you the rewards.

Rewards



 * Bone Brooch - "With similar transformative powers to the Easter Ring, this diabolical decoration turns the wearer into a pile of bones on command!". If you attempt to wear the brooch in battle it will say, 'During a battle is rarely the right time for fashion experiments'
 * Puppet Master emote.

The possible item rewards and their descriptions were announced with the poll Guaranteed Content: Halloween 2010 Reward. On 29 June 2010, the bone brooch was announced as the winner, getting 37% of the votes. The bone brooch was once an option for a Guaranteed Content poll for the 2007 Hallowe'en event, when it came in third, with 26% of the votes.

Trivia



 * This is the second time Werewolves have been seen in F2p, the first being Shanty Claws.
 * The other rewards that could have been chosen in the 2010 Halloween Reward poll were:
 * Pumpkin Seeds - "If you think any patch of ground can be greatly improved by the presence of decorative pumpkins, these quick-grow Pumpkin Seeds will be for you. Plant and watch the instant results!"
 * Skeletal Puppy - "Give the dog a bone? Well, not if the dog is made out of them! This skeletal scallywag [sic] could be your new best friend - a bony new pet to play with!"
 * Squeak - "The little-known best buddy of Eek the Spider, Squeak is the bat everyone wants to have in their belfry! Cheeky and squeaky, he'll hang around and make you smile."
 * Mummy Costume - "Not your average cheap knock-off costume made of toilet paper - this is a 100% genuine, highest-quality set of mummy garments. You'll certainly feel like the daddy in these. Erm, so to speak."
 * In addition, a Halloween-themed event will be hosted by player and forum moderators, called A New Mystery.
 * "Partying is such sweet sorrow" is a pun on the line "parting is such sweet sorrow" as said by Juliet in the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene.
 * Even though Party Pete wears sunglasses in the Falador Party Room, he doesn't wear them at the party.
 * Adamantite Damsel is a reference to the band Iron Maiden.
 * Once you finish the event you are brought to the same party room in the Grim Reaper's house; However, you will only see people who have finished the quest there.
 * Dancers on the dance floor are dressed in past Halloween rewards once you finish the event.
 * The line "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz eat the bat zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" could be a reference to when Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of a living bat in one of his concerts.
 * The music track reads "Black Zabeth LIVE!" when a player is inside the Dark Portal compared to just "Black Zabeth" outside of the Dark Portal.
 * Since all the bands in the party are based off of real heavy metal bands, the Puppet Master emote might be a reference to the Metallica album, Master of Puppets
 * If you speak to Grim Reaper after you gave him his autograph he refers to "Star Wars" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure".
 * "Black Zabeth" is a play on the band 'Black Sabbath'.
 * A massive amount of players were confused by the fact that there wasn't a white spider to go with the white tile on the dance floor. This was because the white spider was referred to as the "beige spider" instead. This resulted in many players asking other players constantly for the white spider's location, not knowing that they may had already found it.
 * The ravens Edgar and Allan is a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven, and his examine info is a play on the word "pwn", being "Poe-n".
 * After you get the autograph from Zabeth Corvid he says "give my best to grim. Tell him every rose has a thorn." Which is a reference to a scene from "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" a movie where two rockers are killed and win a game against the grim reaper who then has to do as they wish, he later ends up quoting the Poison song 'Every Rose has a Thorn' at the gates of heaven.
 * If you wear the Jack Lantern Mask from 2006 Halloween Event, Pumpkin Pete will start every conversation stating how "fabulous" you look.
 * When the Grim Reaper tells you the story about the 'every rose has a thorn' sentence, which is a refrence to a song by Poison, he says it was 'a long time ago, in a dimension far, far away'. This could be a reference to the line of Star Wars: 'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away'.
 * The dancers at the end of the event wear costumes from the 2008 and 2006 Hallowe'en event.
 * If you have not yet unlocked the Scared emote, when finding a spider in one of the cabinets, the emote will unlock, but the message will say that you unlocked the "Terrified" emote.
 * There is a typo in the dialogue with the werewolves; Moira will say "See if you can some ingredients", when it probably is supposed to say can find some.
 * The way that Zabeth answers you before you talk to him may be a reference to Mrs. Cake from Discworld, since she has a similar habit.