Festival of the Dead



Festival of the Dead is a temporary Holiday event released on 02 October 2012 (not to be confused with the 2012 Halloween event). The event is centered around celebrating the lives of deceased NPCs, and bringing them back to life for the celebration. ​(This event is only available for members.)

In this event you can have a choice of different people to pray for.

Participating in this event will earn your character a Skull mask and up to a total of 251K double Prayer XP (depending on how many of the tasks are completed) which are awarded while training Prayer. Bonus XP awarded from this event will remain available until used (only) in the following actvities (per Jagex):
 * Using Ectofunctus (the bonus stacks with the Ecto multiplier).
 * Using PoH altars (the bonus stacks with the Altar multiplier).
 * Killing ghasts.
 * Burying bones, including when using a bonercrusher.
 * Scattering ashes, including teleporting completed prayer urns.
 * Cremating shades and/or vyrewatch.

Players can participate in this event by speaking to Father Joakim, who is located south of the Lumbridge Cemetery and north-east of Burthrope next to a large coffin.

This event is made up of five celebrations, each requiring a higher prayer level and the completion of more quests than the last.

Tasks
If you choose to complete multiple tasks, you may do them in any order desired. However, you may only have one task active at a time, and while that task is active, the items for other tasks will not be available (although you may make all the Clay skulls at once and have them in your inventory). Tasks already completed are marked with a green checkmark. You may also repeat tasks, but no additional XP awards are earned. If you attempt to be assigned a task which you have already completed, Father Joakim will give you the opportunity to either proceed or cancel the duplicate task.

There are four steps for each task:


 * 1) Speak to Father Joakim, who will asign an item relating to the dead person whose life is being celebrated. You must go to the location of the item and return with it.
 * 2) You must retrieve a set of decorative "Flowers of the Dead" from the crate next to the coffin.
 * 3) You must create 3 Clay Skulls from soft clay (if asked, Father Joakim will give you the first 3 soft clay, but you must supply any further for additional tasks). Creating skulls gives 10 Crafting experience.
 * 4) Click on the coffin or speak to Father Joakim with the above items in your inventory, and a dialog and cutscene will follow, eventually awarding you with the bonus Prayer XP. Dialog choices given do not make a difference in the final outcome of the cutscene(s).

Also a Festival of the Dead Mask is received after any task is done, and if you don't have one already.