2008 Hallowe'en event





The 2008 Hallowe’en event was released on 28 October, at the same time as the Swept Away quest.

To start the Hallowe'en event, players have to travel to Maggie's encampment, north of Rimmington and south of Falador. She asks the player to collect treats for her.

During the event, players have to bring her six clusters of delicious popcorn balls, four tempting chocolate drops and five blissful wrapped candies by going around Rimmington, Port Sarim and Draynor Village doing trick-or-treating. Each non-player character in those areas can be trick-or-treated multiple times if enough time has passed between two consecutive trick-or-treats. Both shopkeepers and their assistants can both be done. Any character that is killable cannot be trick-or-treated.

Before players can obtain any treats they have to dress appropriately. If the costume is good enough, the trick-or-treat victims will let the player know. Players must wear at least two pieces of the above costumes to qualify as a costume.

Wendy, Maggie's apprentice, will give fashion tips, and suggest places to get costume pieces.

Trogs, Maggie's purple cat, will tell you how many pieces of costume you're wearing - if you are wearing the Catspeak amulet.

Trick emote is required when you trick-or-treat an NPC and they choose trick. Players who look in Maggie's Cauldron will learn the Trick emote. If player has not received them already, the Scared and Zombie hand emotes can also be unlocked.

Costumes
The following items will work as part of your costume:
 * Halloween masks
 * Camo top
 * Zombie mask
 * Ghostly robes
 * Skeleton Set
 * Chicken Set
 * Priest robes
 * Mime clothing
 * Grim reaper hood
 * Ringmaster costume
 * Bunny ears
 * Frog mask
 * Brown apron
 * Giant's hand
 * Animal masks
 * Splitbark armour
 * Pirate clothing
 * Jester Costume
 * Prince outfit
 * Tribal mask
 * Lumberjack clothing
 * Mourner gear
 * Lunar equipment
 * Builder's costume
 * Infinity Robes
 * Full Wizard outfit

The following items will NOT work as part of your costume:
 * Hunting Camouflage (Looks very much like a costume, but won't work)
 * Fake beak and Eagle cape from Eagle's Peak Quest do not work
 * Canifis Robes

Trick or treating
After donning your costume you can now Trick or treat, which is done by right-clicking on an NPC and clicking "Trick or Treat".If you'r going to trick or treat for Maggie, make sure you talk to Wendy first and look into the cauldrenj first before you go off to get the candy. Note that killable NPCs, such as men and women cannot be trick or treated. There are 26 NPCs in all that give candy.

There are 9 in Draynor Village: Olivia, Fortunato, Diango, Miss Schism, Ned, Aggie, Morgan, the Farmer and Leela.

There are 13 in Port Sarim: Ahab, Jack Seagull, Longbow Ben, Redbeard Frank, Brian, Betty, Grum, Gerrant, Seaman Lorris, Seaman Thresnor, Captain Tobias, Wydin, and Klarense

There are 5 in Rimmington: Hetty, Brian, Rommik, Shopkeeper, and Shop assistant.

Rewards
Once all the items have been collected, players return to Maggie for their reward. Players will get a Warlock top, Warlock legs and a Warlock cloak if their character is male, and a Witch top, Witch bottom, and Witch cloak if their character is female. Equipping Warlock items on a female character will make them turn into Witch items, and vice versa.

Trivia

 * The Wise Old Man will not give players any candy. You say "Trick-or-tr" and then he says "Don't even think about it."
 * Penguins have taken this opportunity to spy on humans using a Jack-o-lantern as a disguise, they are usually seen in the jail east of Draynor.
 * Players who had have not started the event and received the emote will say "Boo!" when attempting to trick-or-treat. Not only will the player not receive candy, but will also be made fun of by the NPC.
 * Players who have not obtained the Grim Reaper Hood from last year's Halloween event will find that it has been put into their toy box (if they have one) in their POH.

Purple Cat

 * First, you need to complete the Gertrude's cat and Swept Away quest.If you did, then talk to Wendy near Maggie and ask her about how to get a purple cat. She will tell you to go back to Betty's basement and talk to her friend Lottie. This time you will have to rearrange the animals again but it's a little more complicated than during the quest and for anyone who doesn't know how to do these puzzles. FYI: They're very similar to those of treasure trails. I'm assuming that everyone will have the same pattern to start with. Starting with 3 columns, 1st column is bat and spider, second is bird and snail, and third is reptile and rat. If that's what we all get then here's the correct sequence:


 * Move bird up to the empty cage
 * Snail up
 * Rat left
 * Lizard down
 * Snail right
 * Rat up
 * Spider right
 * Bat down
 * Rat left
 * Snail left
 * Lizard up
 * Spider right
 * Snail down
 * Rat right
 * Bat up
 * Snail left
 * Spider left
 * Lizard down
 * Rat right
 * Raven down from the empty cage

Now go back and open the chest and take the potion along with a cat to Wendy and receive your unique purple cat.